Dead in the water.
Posts by alcachofas
15 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jan 2024
To kill memory safety bugs in C code, try the TrapC fork
Tech support world record? 8.5 seconds from seeing to fixing
Yes, your network is down – you annoyed us so much we crashed it
Automotive AI player Cerence appoints ex-Intel boss Brian Krzanich as its CEO
MongoDB rebuts claims it's not ready for business critical workloads
SAP CTO bows out over 'incident' at company shindig
DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder
Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software
As someone who worked in this space for years and years… I’m not surprised. A lot of these orgs just aren’t talking to each other and/or not listening.
We spent a lot of time pushing back against half thought through plans around data sharing and control and were frequently accused of simply being “opposed to joining up healthcare” rather than flagging up concerns that proposals were unworkable.
I am not sad that I do not work in this domain any more.
Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'
Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for 'uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure'
Search chatbots? Pah, this startup's trying on Yahoo's old outfit of web directories
Interesting piece.
I’m not at all sure that this guy’s approach is going to be a sustainable and widely used one but it’s good to see people attacking the problem from a different angle. There’s way too much groupthink right now - we get bursts of innovation and then just a truckload of people all doing the same thing.