Posts by mili

Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

Next stage of the war

It is obvious that Rust has the higher ground in terms of memory safety and Ted is putting it bluntly, he is still not ready to surrender and learn Rust. In essence this means, that there will be blood until either somebody changes the coordinates or one side wins over. But just from my perspective. Rust, as it appears today, is too difficult to master for a big number of people. Given the complexity of the kernel and the language this will become a playing field for very few and will die for something more approachable to the masses.

'Uncertainty' drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux

it's not uncertainty

there are alternatives - viable alternatives - if you look at SUSE's Liberty Linux. BUT the interesting part is that Microsoft considers its internal Linux as a strategic investment otherwise they would gladly buy all they need. Plus it is a constant source of how LinkedIn engineering can fight off attempts of Microsoft to impose its procedures and standards on the LinkedIn tech realm ;-)

Software innovation just isn't what it used to be, and Moxie Marlinspike blames Agile

Agile is not a mantra it is a tool

Those who do not understand the difference between a mantra and a tool will never understand why their agile development did not work out.

Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS

Elon wants to follow Kamala

Biden has done it, so why not Trump? Wouldn't that be epic if not only Biden steps down for Kamala, but Trump would do it for Elon, too?

Intel's processor failures: A cautionary tale of business vs engineering

once there is success there will be leecher

Isn't this a common pattern? Once there are successful products the cash leeching finance business shenanigans come buy to suck out as much cash as possible. Of course the host will loose his ability to produce the same amount of cash as before since vital investments into the foundations of the success are drained.

EVs continue to grow but private buyers are steering clear, say motor trade figures

HEVs are an abomination

According to recent statistics most HEV driver do not charge their batteries. Mostly, because it is inconvenient or would require more planning and effort to use available charging infrastructure and since they make sure that fuel is in the tank there are no consequences. Instead people simply drive heavier cars than necessary, which adds more to the carbon footprint than if they simply had bought a pure combustion engine. What a world! We definitely have conflicting goals here: it's the earth against humans - I wonder who is going to win ...

CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence

Microsoft is for the dumb office mass

For all the things you do with Microsoft products there is software which is more to the point of the task, costs less and is just the better option. But most people in the office operate a suite of office software which has been designed to appeal their fashion instincts and not usefulness. In essence the whole CrowdStrike episode will be forgotten, soon and everybody will stay calm and move on.

Sam Altman's basic income experiment finds that money can indeed buy happiness

there is no Star Trek

How wonderful a world could be where all the necessities of people are just met and everybody can focus on improving their karma instead. But, if you look close, as soon as people get their basic necessities addressed, just other 'necessities' pop up right after these. There is always a necessity after the necessity - no society is ever wealthy enough to get everybody satisfied (it's a feature not a bug ...)

I'm sure the world changing power of AI is the thing Altman wants us to invest into, whether it can deliver what is promised or not doesn't matter, as long as Sam's necessities are getting satisfied

Experimental Mir-based tiling WM is winning acceptance outside Ubuntopia

tmux rules

Really? Tiling window managers are a thing? Your screen is soooo big that you need management to break it up it into smaller pieces - pathetic

When it comes to multiple terminal windows tmux is the way to go and if you need to copy things from one application to another your work is unnecessary - find a more fulfilling job

SCNR it's Friday

Privacy features lose their way in latest Firefox update

time to cash in

The Firefox development is largely funded by the kickbacks from search engines. But there might come a time where this steady income shifts and a fox needs to eat ...

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's new startup aims to create 'safe superintelligence'

now everything else can be considered 'unsafe'

I'm ready to start the 'benevolent' super-intelligence in the end that's how our overlord should be - we shall name it Augusta and not Caligula

Microsoft's Recall should be celebrated as the savior of SMEs and scourge of CEOs

jhuman value add is dispensable

the number of employees a company amasses is directly linked to its economic power not necessarily its need for human labour. Once we have left the fields to work in an office we have become less of a production factor but more a political factor. Right at this moment billions of office worker are pondering on how to climb the hierarchy rather than to provide more value to the company. Microsoft products are perfect to let people mimic productive work. Endless hours are spent operating MS products without any actual value. Microsoft's recall will learn to perfectly mimic these useless interactions and will provide ample opportunities for companies to burn money even better as computer can burn money faster and 24/7 :D

Fragile Agile development model is a symptom, not a source, of project failure

Agile methodologies are a poor replacement for leadership

It all sounds so nice: just follow the principles by the book and success will follow - alas it simply not true.

All groups of people need leadership and if it is a proper leadership the group will be successful and if not - well, there's the failure people were responding to.

And yes leadership does not suffice in telling people what to do ...

At Apple, AI stands for 'Apple Intelligence' – and it's coming to everything

what we see ist the beginning of the end

Apple is actually climbing the throne. The area of the late republic is over and there it is the one thing that shall rule peoples' life: Apple Intelligence, nothing short of that and nothing as plebeian as Artificial Intelligence which is for the Microsoft masses. The Apple ecosystem is going for ultimate power - sure - one day this will end ...

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

Smart move from Microsoft

Say goodbye to privacy, but that is exactly what Microsoft offers to companies and parents - total control over what was done with that operating system on this computer. Apparently the threat of people not buying from Microsoft is weak or other pastures appear to be more lucrative. In any case Microsoft offers an Orwellian world on a silver plate and I think the workplace culture at many companies is already just on step close. Of course "Animal Farm" will be the reality and Microsoft is handing over the keys.

VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use

the first trip is always free

isn't it?