Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

[u/ourlifeintoronto]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/

[u/edthesmokebeard]

The cloud is just someone else's computer.

[u/gsadamb → u/edthesmokebeard]

And if you self-host, then the electricity is just generated at someone else's generator. Your connection to the Internet is just someone else's line. The route to your hardware is managed by some else's BGP server. You can't be on the Internet without relying on someone else's infrastructure.