Posts by Brl4n

‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec

more AI nonsense

How many more years of this AI FUD/nonsense/fraud/BS must we endure?

Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges

Santa Claus also real

Nope

In related, actual news, in case you missed it, read this:

https://open.substack.com/pub/groundbreakerre/p/the-second-derivative-why-no-one

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

It was me

I AM SPARTACUS!

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling

yes!!

Can't wait to never use it!

Yes, I know, "At my own peril"

*pats head*

Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions

bravo!!

Thinkers & Luddites rejoice.

T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out

tangent; as a customer this isn't surprising

I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile about 5 years ago and to the present day it takes approximately 30 seconds (over 1 minute during peak times) to login to pay my bill. As in press login button, watch the spinner spin, and then able to navigate my account waiting 10 seconds for the subsection to load.

First thing i noticed was how slow and incoherent their back office infrastructure behaved via web customer portal. They tried to push everyone to their app, Life, but that seems to have its own issues. I don't think they've invested in any IT anything in a very long time.

The actual cellular service is stellar! Great coverage and blazing fast speeds that rival my fiber home connection. Everything else is bottom tier horrible. I get emails and texts 3 days after my bill due date telling me to add money to my balance. This has been occurring for about 2 years now. It's a good barometer of their internal struggles. 2FA only allows Google Authenticator or SMS. Neither are ideal. The whole website seems stuck in 2010.

Long story short I think they need a complete overhaul of their internal systems. The spent all their money on 5G build-out to beat rivals but neglected their internal systems.

UK government wants 'trusted' news sources promoted above the social media noise

...as if this hasn't been thought of before. There's a reason this never works. Grrrrrrr where do these people come!?!?! Books exist!!

I'm done.

Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators

great speeds in small cities

East coast usa here. I get better speeds on my phone than my home 1g fiber. But it does vary greatly and who else is also connected to the same antenna. 800mbps isn't unusual. It's sweet when it works well.

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

clueless ceo as usual

Another one who doesn't understand their own customers. *yawn*, he'll be gone in a few years when this strategy surely fails.

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

it is fun to watch the "experts" dig their own grave though. The naysayers are always blasted for being Luddites and doomers but we're just wise. we've seen this all before because we read books about our past. It'll be interesting to see all the new businesses created that produce actual value for their customers instead of forcing anti-productive spy products onto customers that they don't need and never requested. Future is very bullish

Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now

Is that the reason all of Google's products seem half-baked & why fundamental bugs remain for years?

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC

bbc has lost most of its credibility. propaganda has been in overdrive for the last 10 years

ServiceNow boss warns AI could push grad unemployment past 30%

can't wait for these companies to die. You can only defraud so much before the game is up.

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

horrible decision. USA is officially gone pure evil if that's possible.

Rogue devs of sideloaded Android apps beg for freedom from Google’s verification regime

every single day is worse than the last. Does no one read history?

Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work

talk about an anti-hiring campaign. Accenture is another zombie corp that shouldn't exist.

Palantir spent $25M on CEO flights so Alex Karp could do all the talking

He has severe mental illness. He really shouldn't be CEO of anything let alone a surveillance company.

UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

Governments don't have a good record when it comes to decision making. UK government especially.

Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read

Negatives far out weigh the positives. Everyone is on crazy pills

Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown

hopefully

If it ends the constant barrage AI articles I'm all for it!

Anyone have a favorite non-AI obsessed tech news or is that just all there is presently? No one is working on meaningful tech anymore?

Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users

bankrupt them all

The only positive I see re: AI is for it to bankrupt all of big tech. But our corrupted officials will most likely remain on trend and socialize the loses/bankruptcies as recent history has shown for the sake of the insane argument of economic and national security. This is a bizarre campaign of forcing terrible products on to the majority of paying customers that don't want it...repeatedly, year after year. Customers have to start voting with their pocket books because they don't seem to be listening.

But I guess I'm the crazy one...

Ex-Googler nailed for stealing AI secrets for Chinese startups

was the secret fraud and marketing?

If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this

Re: Universal Basic Income

UBI would make everything, yes everything, magnitudes worse. I'd rather not live like a peasant from the 11th century but there are communities that you could join if you're into that kind of thing.

Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings

Slow news day

Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration

he's a vomit

good article:

asiatimes.com/2025/05/the-most-dangerous-man-in-america-isnt-trump-its-alex-karp/

Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers

remember

I remember ~20 years ago when Google made great products. now they release feces.

There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications

shocking

Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows

They are far worse and far more casualties.

Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off

Re: Extraordinary

you have much to learn :\

The execs have SFB. I'm non surprised and yet surprised they suck this much when they were such a ray of sunshine 20 years ago.

Need to get completely off Google. They've been a liability for years and I've been putting it off but this is just simply wrong. Android is getting worse every year as well. It's so sad and derepressing how low these companies have fallen along with the rest of corporations. It's simply mad.

Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory

Majority of citizens are anti-Maduro so I would bet they just paid a mid level employee to cut the power.

Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results

tired yet?

Tired of all the productive things AI is doing yet? This has become a circus within a circus.

Safe CEO: AI is an assistant, not a replacement

people love cheap garbage so i see AI being successful

ServiceNow lays out possible co-CEO structure, but says no change imminent

dumpster fire

When their website loads after 4 seconds of showing a blank page I'm presented with a dumpster fire of MBA-buzzword-salad "products and solutions" all ending or prefixed with "AI." Not an entity I'd want handling business information.

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

lol. yeah that's the problem. blind leading the dumb leading the dumber blind. how are they still a company and who pays their hard earned money for anything they make?

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

Re: I'm not lazy,

must be you

mine still going strong after ~8 years

One of the few products that has delivered as promised. Seemed expensive but it has paid for itself many times over.

US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains

how vapid do you have to be to engage with a chatbot, whatever that means?

Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?

"This is a popular right-wing talking point." then stopped reading.

Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report

The apologized

They apologized so there's that. All done!

Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption

Finally! A problem for worthy of AI!

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

that would make sense wouldn't it?

You must not work in government or for a large corporation where such logic is passé.

GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance

Governments acting like governments. Provably incompetent but constantly need more money and more information.

Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons

They're currently ensuring Android is enshittified to the max!!!

Re: AI rules thé world...,..

I hope there is a surge of anti-AI/anti-cloud products. Small to medium sized businesses need working products that perform as intended and within a clear budget.

Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans

Re: so the music has stopped ?

"deaths of despair" is tragic statistic. Federal Reserve is main culprit but tomorrow's another day, right?

Superintelligence probably not happening, but AI will still reshape society, expert panel says

reshape

Reshape and enshitification must be synonyms then

International Criminal Court kicks Microsoft Office to the curb

Not a fan of ICC but kudos.

China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world's biggest bit burglar

if China wasn't up to its usual shenanigans you could work that angle. maybe it's funny in an alternate universe?