Platforms keep breaking promises and builders keep noticing

Google broke its promise of 10 years of updates for Chromebooks. A separate thread says the US government can search your phone without a warrant when you return from vacation, and commenters immediately asked whether that includes cloud content the phone can reach. Older threads in the mix repeat the same lesson: Docker pulls failing in Spain because Cloudflare blocks R2 during La Liga matches, an AWS billing glitch that showed hobby accounts owing hundreds of millions, Google Cloud suspending production projects at 1am on a Saturday, and Stripe killing a whole business.

The through-line is concentration. A handful of providers sit between you and your customers, and their policy, legal or software mistakes become your outage. Commenters keep repeating the same advice: spread production across more than one provider, keep your own copies, and don't trust a vendor's multi-year promise.

There is also a state-power thread. The spy satellite story drew comments that Facebook's Spyglasses is the more pertinent privacy worry today.