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9 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Mar 2025

Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

Seattle-Jeff

Sh*t happens in large/complex systems

My wife is an engineer at AWS for 10 years. She still has problems, grasping the enormity of what is the AWS cloud when systems get dis large in this complex problems will happen and yes, the industry will forgive them and move on lessons will be learned as they are in every outage, but the insinuation that all the experts have left AWS is absolutely absurd.

UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle

Seattle-Jeff

Come invest in the UK! Give us your keys too.

The ineptitude is mind boggling. As someone not living in the UK, how do such imbeciles get put in charge?

VirtualBox 7.2 fixes flaky 3D guests and adds Arm-on-Arm support

Seattle-Jeff

VMware fusion is free

Broadcom kindly made Fusion and Workstation free for personal use.

Anyone who has dealt with the Oracle licensing goons will stay far away from virtual box.

Intel to throw networking biz over the side of its rapidly shrinking ship

Seattle-Jeff

Intel is still relevant

I know it’s cool to bash Intel these days, and certainly they need it. They missed AMD creeping on them, GPU market, AI, etc. just assumed retaining x86 dominance was enough, which is why it was strange alarm bells didn’t go off with AMD.

I really hope they get some large 14a customers.

Anyway, the biggest factor Intel has going for it is the geopolitical factor. The US simply needs a pure US owned fabrication company. Intel will never disappear.

I just can’t imagine their stock stays tanked in 2026.

Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open

Seattle-Jeff

Canceling my Visionary subscription

This will take me a bit of time to do, but I am going to cancel my subscription to proton. I am baffled by company whose soul existence is based on privacy is suing Apple, who also is using the App Store for privacy and security no matter what anyone else says. I can only surmise that proton is simply wanting to get a larger revenue grab from their apps. It has nothing to do with privacy, so disappointed from proton.

Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again'

Seattle-Jeff

Your comment makes no sense. Everyone who wants fast travel is strictly doing it for an in-person meeting?

Admission impossible: NSA, CISA brass absent from RSA Conf

Seattle-Jeff

No one remembers?

I guess no one remembers the backdoor rsa put in for the government?

OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue more VMware customers

Seattle-Jeff

Re: Thank you Broadcom

In fact most will not. The functionality of the VCF stack has yet to be duplicated for large enterprise.

VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software

Seattle-Jeff

The token is for automated updates

The token is designed for Lifecycle and VAMI automated updates.

It is not a big deal. It is fair for any company to verify you are entitled to support patches.

It takes minutes to do a one time configuration.