 Let's talk about the cloud shall we you know it Something you know like Richard Stallman makes a big deal about is like the way you word stuff And he really doesn't like terms like cloud cloud computing and at first you know when he said I'm like well That's just kind of silly. I mean everyone knows the cloud is just just means it's on the internet But really people don't and I've had arguments people like no a cloud computer means it's something more I'm like no no cloud just means you're using the internet. It's it's not nothing you the term Cloud computing is somewhat new but same as using the internet back in the 90s And the thing is a lot of people who are somewhat educated on computers still get confused And there's this big thing or no cloud computing is bad because of the privacy blah blah blah blah And the thing is cloud computing again just means you're using the internet You know you get a piece of paper you want to draw like how things flow through a network and you're drawing You know this is the computer this is a switch it goes to the router it goes to the moment they get to the internet How you draw the internet you can't draw the internet so people would draw a cloud and that's that's the internet is the cloud It just means you're using the internet, which is how computers work back in the 70s You would log into a server now computers can do a lot themselves locally but just cloud computing means that you're using the internet and That's not necessarily a bad thing people think when the people think cloud computing They think oh, I've got to use a service through Google or Apple or Amazon or whatever But no you can run things as far as I'm concerned when you're ssh-ing into your computer from home From work to home or the other way around your cloud computing because you're going through the computer and a lot of people think so the reason That prompted this video today was a couple days ago. I posted a video talking about Voice to text and how there's really no good voice to text software that's free and open source It's easy to use and I talked about how you know it be grazed just a shell command And then I can put it on a server or run it locally And you know there were a few comments talking about oh, well no You know there we we don't want to have it in the cloud. It's like it's the same thing The program is running locally somewhere So whether you call it cloud computing every cloud computing program is running locally somewhere And you can run it locally on your machine or you can set up a server and I pursue Personally like I have my films at Chris server and I also have a server running at my house And it's great because I don't have to worry about synchronizing all my devices if I run everything off those servers And I can back up those servers easily because my files are small and like for my wife I've created different programs that I share with her like a shopping list application that I use where we can type in you know the Store or a list of things and all I'm actually gets sent there And I use a web interface but I can also use a tech space in her face And I'm using the cloud but it's going to my web server my films like Chris servers actually what we use In some some private directories there And it's not a bad thing and and thing is I can log into that server and Access those databases right there I'm still using the cloud because I don't let that machines on a virtual private server that I have somewhere that I back up images to regularly But I could also run that on my Pogo plug or a Raspberry Pi here at home And it would be cloud computing a lot of people think cloud computing means that it's necessary through the web browser Well, that would be a web application, which I also don't think is bad because it's just a front end for your back end The program is still running on my server or even locally a lot of your applications on your phone are running on your device But using a socket on your network to to access it check your open sockets It's true and I do that a lot too, and I don't think it's a bad thing Just because I find as I mentioned is something people are doing about I like using HTML as my GUI GUI's for my applications HTML is not a programming language. It's just an interface that is plain text So whatever program you're using you can be using Windows batch files Windows PowerShell scripts you can be using server-side JavaScript or even you know client-side JavaScript. You can be using bash or PHP or Perl or or any language C C plus plus as long if you can do a hello world to a shell You can output HTML that you just need to render then and you can use a shell-based renderer Or you could be using a web browser And that's one of the things I like about it because everyone already has a web browser and you can choose how you interface it and It just makes things easier cloud computing is not a bad thing. Yes, depending on somebody else Relying on them such as Google now for me that means that I'm dependent on them And I don't like that. I've lost my freedom because I need them But you're writing things on your own server. It's running locally on your server and then outputting to your devices elsewhere That's cloud computing. That is not a bad thing and that's exactly what I was saying with the voice text thing be great if there was just a shell command that I can either point at a wave file or Redirect and stream audio in using socks or something like that and just piping it into the application and it spits out stuff And I wouldn't have to have that on every device. I could have it on my own personal server and And then use my devices to send through now There are disadvantages that in that you need an internet connection If you're using a remote server, but you actually have that same exact setup run locally on your device as well Without using the cloud and it'll be the same exact thing So my point here is don't poo poo on on cloud computing If you don't like the term cloud computing, which I understand now because it does confuse people Again cloud computing just means that you're using the internet. So whether you're SSHing You're telling your FTPing your SFTPing or you're using a web server or you're just networking a game together. You're using the cloud That's cloud computing. Don't get mixed up with with web applications, which still again aren't a bad thing It's just a front end for Your back end which again your back end is running locally on your machine. Hopefully cloud computing is bad When it's someone else's machine that you're dependent on and so for example like my films like Christopher I don't run that server out of my house. I have a virtual private server through a company that It only cost me $2 and 50 cents a month And it's great because I don't have to worry about oh if my internet connection goes down or I lose power You know they handle that stuff that does automatic backups And you know I have access but they're all all the files are on there is running a Debian system I back up everything at any point I can just go flip a switch on another service or throw it up on my own server and you know Within a couple minutes I could have my own server running. So I'm not dependent on them That's just an ease of use of using their servers You have your own views on that whether that's a good thing or a bad thing as far as I'm concerned if I have my data And I can easily throw up my own server and move away from them Within a reasonable amount of time with me if I can do it in a day But something like that should be able to get the majority of done in a couple of minutes and then you know do the tweaking on my own Server it's not a bad thing You can have different views but cloud computing is not a bad thing your cloud computing right now If you're watching this video because you got it from the cloud somewhere because I didn't put it on a floppy disc And mail it to you this video on a floppyus put it on CD and mail it to you or flash drive and mail it to you You used the cloud and whether you used You know YouTube DL or MPV with them with YouTube DL or you used a different web browser You were using the cloud because you pulled this from somewhere and if you didn't if someone gave it to you on a CD, which is fine They still use the cloud to get it the cloud is not a bad thing the term the cloud You might consider a bad thing just because it misleads people because of the hype around it and what companies want you to think It is it just means you're using the internet. Don't overthink it. I thank you for watching Please visit films by Chris calm. That's Chris the cave. There's a link in the description to my website It's up on the cloud, and I hope that you have a great day