||         Phlog 23 - 2024 & Stuff          ||
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A grab bag of things while looking forward to 2024

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|_| Continuing AI hype - I know AI won't actually take my job, but I'm incredibly worried that my boss thinks AI can take my job.
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|_| *.cloud- Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, etc. will continue to dazzle executives everywhere and many of us will be putting square pegs into cloud-shaped holes (e.g. legacy workloads, whole VMs, things that can't be containerized, Oracle & IBM big iron, etc.)
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|_| I'm hopeful with the advent of ChatGPT & Automation tools along with the increasing 'cloudification' of the data center, we 
don't see an erosion of skillset and critical thinking. At the risk of sounding like an old man yelling at cloud (heh), ideally  things like: checking logs, making sure you're logged into what you think you're logged into, knowing and verifying what the tool you're using actually tests/does, etc. won't go by the wayside.
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|_| Security - I await the day we get a panic email from a team who have left permissions wide open on a storage bucket on some  cloud provider asking how to get their data back and if there are backups or snapshots.  The growing pains will continue until   cloud skillsets improve. 
As above with the skills rant, it appears security is getting to be a lost art as the security team(tm) seems lost without a very expensive 'security suite' to tell them not to allow traffic from "svchostX.exe" to cryptoransomwarebros.ru
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|_| X as a Service - More and more 'live service' offerings make me nervous.  I find myself striving to find physical copies of  games, music and movies as streaming services continually shift offerings or just pull things altogether.  The various studios   and networks starting their own streaming services (thus just reinventing cable/satellite service) is even more annoying.
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|_| More and more federation and decentralization - I'm insanely happy that things like Mastodon, Lemmy & Pixelfed have taken    root and become fairly populated.  It's really encouraging and I hope it only grows and grows with more users and more instances.  Do I think it will replace the stupid bird site or instagram or reddit?  Probably not - it's very much the same 'year of the Linux Desktop' vibes.