Posts by hx 39 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Dec 2023
They canceled datacenter builds because when they're looking at spending billions on this crap, they know it's not going to be worth it. The AI bubble is popping. Microsoft is going to snatch up whatever tech is left behind on the cheap and try to pass that off as their vision for CoPilot all along.
Seriously, Microsoft, get rid of copilot and stop asking me every three days to do something that is never going to happen you impotent twerps that have no concept of obeying the will and consent of other humans.
With Oracle's recent issues, we have yet another shot across the bow leading up to The Great Oops. That's where one of the big cloud providers is going to have an "everything's gone and we can't get it back" incident for all of their customer data. It's inevitable and it terrifies me to know how many organizations that are fully migrated to the cloud don't really have backups any more.
But you will have an idiot do something that will get a bunch of people killed because the "godlike knowledge" of AI trained on the worst reddit comments told them to do something no reasonable person would ever consider.
All these companies are just fighting for a slice of the trillion dollar pie. Reality doesn't matter, just hitting it big and then they're off to the next grift, which will be repairing the damage caused by """AI""".
Google is a failed company falling in slow motion. Whatever they proclaim in any sort of announcement is probably just being said to try and get you to buy ads or click on ads, or accidentally activate the AI popup when you were trying to dial emergency services on your phone. They had to try AI code generation because they laid off all the other employees. Doesn't matter, they were canceling those products anyways.
My only fear is that all the ex-Googlers there are now will carry the Google-style dysfunction into their new endeavors.
All partner programs are cults that make Scientology look like book club. Unfortunately, the vendors have gotten so big it's not a partner program. Partners are more or less equal. There was a time back in the 1980s and 1990s where pissing off you partners would end your company. Now the big players are too big to need partners, customers, or employees.
Well clearly big business is dumping a trillion dollars into it so they can helpfully get rid of those useless employees. Also, hopefully they can replace their customers with AI, since these days customers are more of a liability than a source of revenue. Without the burden of employees or customers their numbers can only go up, so shareholders win for at least one quarter, which is what's really important.
One would think that a data center run by Musk would be fully powered by solar and batteries, but I guess reality doesn't work like that. They keep building things like this were power is cheap, except it won't be cheap for long. Not looking forward to having my power bill triple thanks to AI.
Broadcom only saw the balance sheet and didn't understand the business. At the end of the day, their products are centered on running applications on x86 operating systems, and that's nothing special. Outside of the first few years when they were pretty much the only game in town for x86 virtualization, vmware's products have never been their competitive advantage. It was everything around it... from their own sales and support teams, brand recognition, the ease of purchasing their products, consultants, third-party backup tools, service providers that didn't mind paying the vmware tax, storage vendors that knew they could sell a hundred thousand units because their products were vmware-certified because hundreds of thousands of businesses ran vmware. Broadcom killed all that day one. The world that was built around vmware can't be sustained on those 500 customers Broadcom wanted to plunder and pillage.
The winner in all of this will be determined by the companies that make backup software.
Please clap for Microsoft and their AI strategy, which seems to be be diarrhea the words "copilot" over everything while at the same time exfiltrating all your data to the cloud for their Recall product. I don't know what they're up to, but it seems like a hostile intelligence service's wet dream.
You know, as much as I hate marketing people, perhaps a marketing person could have helped here by telling bosses "you friggin morons these customers you're trying to exploit through lockin are the ones that are actually most able to leave because they have the manpower and they were already moving everything to the cloud because the only thing they want to own are their employees"
I mean, would you rather have an image file format that serves the needs of photographers and visual artists, or would you rather have an image file format that serves the storage and processing needs of Google without any outside consultation, who was only able to force people to use WebP through coercion thanks to their global monopoly on both search and browser tech via the Giant Carrot that is better search rankings? Can you even trust Google to do the right thing, or even care about WebP tomorrow? They have proven to be unreliable, and there you are, using their image format? If that's the case, I hope you follow the most efficient route on Google Maps.
Google? Integrating humans into a process? Surely you must be joking.
But seriously, most problems at Google can be tracked down to the fact they eliminate the human element even when they shouldn't.
They also cancel products and projects all the time because they couldn't make enough ad revenue, or more commonly, someone got bored and nobody wanted to take up the work. Kind of makes you wonder why anyone would trust any google-related project. This is why WebP is deprecated.
When a software company switches to a scammy subscription model, they raise rates every year or two. Eventually they lose most customers, but it doesn't matter. They have one or two locked-in victims who can't leave and are willing to be a trillion euros a month for the privilege of not having to replace their legacy platform. Just look at the mainframe for guidance.
I mean, they're not great, and I have no hope for vmware products and I hope they rot in hell for the change to a pay-more-for-less rental license scam, but at the end of the day Broadcom at least wants to sell the products they acquire. Much easier to deal with them than Micro Focus which was then bought by OpenText. OpenText is especially eggregious for renaming their products every year or two so nobody knows what anything is. I guess I want the Omnichannel Character Cell Display Experience Manager or whatever they're calling one of their ten different terminal emulators this week.
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