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[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why does local mean local? I'm not sure I understand your question.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

If they had said “locally hosted in our datacenter” would you be confused why they didn’t move a rack into your house?

My question is why are you projecting your limited interpretation as a global truth?

[–] mr_satan@monyet.cc 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In IT context local is a well establised term. It's either hosted locally, i. e. on machine running the browser or not. A datacenter or cloud are remote machines also by the same well established definition.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, now do your own datacenter vs cloud.

[–] mr_satan@monyet.cc 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Huh? What is there to do? Datacenter, cloud computing?

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

And what term might be used to describe the location of the datacenter down the hall, that is not used to describe the one across the country? It’s pretty standard in IT, but also used outside of IT by normal people for things such as describing a pub.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If they had said “locally hosted in our datacenter”

Then that would also be an oxymoron.

Local is the opposite of remote. This is a remote server. Remote servers are not local. This is not a matter of interpretation.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It is, actually. It is local to them, it is remote to you. They are differentiating from a remote server in someone else’s datacenter. It is not that confusing.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This is a FAQ for end users, about a feature in software running on end users' computers.

It is absolutely doublespeak to call it "local". Are we supposed to invent an entirely new term now to distinguish between remote and local? Please do not accept this usage. It will make meaningful communication much harder.

Edit: I mean seriously, by this token OpenAI, Google, Facebook, etc. could call their servers "locally hosted". It is an utterly meaningless term if you accept this usage.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That’s a given. Google Cloud Platform is managed through the same Google Cloud Console as everything else, which is in Google’s datacenter, even when it it’s running locally - unless you opt for an air-gapped option. It’s how companies can make data locality claims while using the same tools and one of the selling points pushed by cloud services.