Posts by streaky 1767 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jul 2010
It's been broken for decades.
The US has known it has been broken for decades. The US government has held many hearings on it being broken for decades.
The US likes that it has been broken for decades - else they'd have done something about it. As would many other countries.
Hoisted by your own r'tard and whatnot.
(Also something something China's grip on the ITU).
What, you mean the executive branch of the US can't just legislate?
IDK why somebody would write an article like this stating something so plainly obvious.
GOOD NEWS! Trump controls the other two branches of the US govt - whilst I wouldn't expect him to always get everything he wants, I'd imagine he'll get a lot of it.
In all fairness I don't think that's valid - operational C-levels in my experience tend to be the up at the crack of dawn, if not first in the office something close to it types. Which is fine - but they also do a completely different job and don't tend to get called at 11pm or worse to fix problems.
"We've observed that it's easier for our teammates to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture; collaborating, brainstorming, and inventing are simpler and more effective"
Your culture is bull, give me an interesting problem, pay me a fair wage and - most importantly - leave me alone.
By the way, citations to Atlassian: you'd think they'd know a thing or two about this sort of thing.
Our company hasn't yet, but I have a long-standing contract that says I'm WFH from before covid so boohoohoo if my employer ever pulls a dumb stunt like this, won't affect me. They're (rightly) terrified of doing it with software folk though.
Meme quotes aside.. It would be cool if we could look at CPU arches again given how x86 is even more absurd than it was when AMD bent humanity over that one time.. The number of (major/security) bugs that have happened since that simply wouldn't have happened on Itanium is nuts.
I'm no expert, but it seems like defrauding a US federal law enforcement agency with criminal enforcement powers seems like a bad idea.
I mean if you do the thing they're supposed to be law enforcing against you're going to get a speeding fine and nothing even close to what they're supposed to be doing - but actually directly defrauding *them* so they are the direct victim as opposed to, y'know, people who own stock in things, pension funds etc, it won't end well for you.
This is the same CMA that allowed MS to acquire Activision Blizzard?
.. really?
Horse has bolted on ever keeping MS under control ever again. Might as well train your sights on something else, we're all gonna be working for MS in a few years, one way or another.. Maybe US regulators can do it but they don't seem very interested in trying.
"stopped individuals from running their own SMTP server, due to classifying them all as SPAMMERS"
If you don't know why, you shouldn't be running your own mail server. Also not really, no - my mail server isn't, never had an issue with SORBS - but then I know how to run a mail server which is circular to see first point.
As a Brit, who owns bits of lots of companies, ignoring the utter nonsense above - I'd strongly advise against an IPO on the FTSE given neither FTSE nor either of the two major political parties are willing to fix the FTSE, go NYSE instead.
Take the advice of CEOs who have floated on the FTSE and have learned hard lessons. There's plenty of them around.
I thought everybody had figured out that you can just use kvm/qemu at this point, with a side bonus of it even runs under WSL2 if you're a Windows user..
As for topic, isn't the entire business world running away screaming?
Basically there's no reason for vmware to exist at this point, last one out please turn off the lights.
If normies knew how easy lock picking is, people wouldn't bother using locks. I use ABS ultimate at the back of my house because I know I can get in without keys if I lose them and a BS-rated electronic lock at the front because I know that even if Yale's servers are run by a spotty teenager who (unofficially) works for Mi5 and it all runs on Windows 98 and an era-appropriate Perl install and none of it has been maintained since then it'll still be more secure than the absolute best physical lock money can buy.
Much like how they liked to demonstrate how much contempt they had at Microsoft for gamers a couple of launches back, are they still going to be demonstrating how much contempt they have for power users?
If you're a normie and really don't care you're using Apple products, if you're a nerd you're already on Linux - power users are all MS have left; when we go MS's desktop business model is completely shot, so why they keep trying to drive us away is beyond me.
Or put another way: I have a super-ultrawide, please stop turning my task bar into mystery meat (and other legitimate gripes).
But YT refuses to pay content creators I like. The ones they do pay are on a knife-edge, even the tame, run-of-the-mill, milk toast creators can't say anything or do anything for fear of a completely arbitrary and capricious monetisation system. This is just YT being greedy and wondering why nobody is on their side - nobody likes you, we're just stuck with you - there's a difference. We're not always going to be stuck with you. Remind me, why shouldn't I use an adblocker again? The commercial failure of youtube will be a boom time for the internet and we'll all be dancing on your grave.
Using the AGPL and silly licences like it are a guaranteed way for nobody to use your code and miss out on the financial and development support that useful Open Source projects receive. At our business we're banned from using it. There are always other projects, you're not that good, get over yourself.
How have we gotten so far from the principles of open source?
As an owner of Prusa 3d printers, there's only one thing to say about that: oh no, how will Prusa survive with cheap, low quality Chinese clones?
Firstly, Klipper is better and more flexible than Prusa's firmware. Second people buy Prusa's hardware for the quality - the answer to this is blatantly obvious. Thirdly they need to stop being greedy - every time they release new hardware it takes them like 18 months to get catch up with production (they never actually do it just falls off to the point that they no longer have a huge backlog). If Prusa are even talking about this whatsoever somebody there needs to get a grip, it won't make a blind bit of difference to their business but will make them pariahs - the fact they've been forced down the XL path by other companies making product they don't and they're now choosing to copy underlines the problem: delusion and hypocrisy.
Per my comment above, loser pays is a natural immune response against exactly that sort of thing - if you make the case more expensive by dragging it out and adding other legal costs that aren't necessary when you have no hope of winning it goes on top of any payout you will have to make when you lose - it also stops lawyers walking off with all the money *and* is a natural immune defence against frivolous lawsuits. There's a reason the US is the lawyer capital of the world, and not having the loser pays rule is a big part of it. Whole thing is a bit of a scam really.
Speaking as somebody who is 42 and is the only one who knows what they're doing in my work peer group, I honestly don't know why you'd want to do this. Burn the institutional memory, throw away the experience - and, yes, it's illegal anyway. When you're offloading people, if the problem is "you're over 40" surely it would be easy to articulate why every individual in that class was no use to the business in a way that doesn't involve their age - implying they didn't have an articulable reason and they were all a benefit to the business. Makes no sense.
Sucks to not have a long-standing WFH contract that predates covid.
It works fine if business doesn't fight it every step of the way - some people like working in an office and all the nonsense that comes with it, and good for them, but many people, especially self-motivators (who I'd argue a rational business would want to employ) don't.
Cat's out the bag, and there's massive opportunities where it's viable and embraced.
Open source doesn't mean "uses OSI licence" and only somebody very stupid would think it does. It's like Apple saying "it can only be a computer if it has an Apple logo from the factory". It's a very arbitrary and more importantly very *incorrect* line in the sand that makes all sorts of false assertions.
Also if nothing else 'Open Source' versus 'open source' - note which one they use.
FWIW though people are going to use what they can get and judge for themselves and play these models off against each other and (rightly) completely ignore the Responsible Use Guide.
Oh and not for nothing but the OSI model is failing because people be getting greedy - both megacorps and individuals (and maybe rightly so - but it is all falling apart).
US hiring and firing practices in the best and worst of times are literally the worst.
Grossly over-hire in the good times so you hammer your margins, then at the first sight of financial downturn make massive sweeping staffing cuts grossly overcompensating causing massive morale drops and general business malaise then when the economy picks up again you have to go on a hiring binge to play catch up. The worst of it is, it makes a downturn a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is why I'd never work for a US business.
Most of the world should have figured this all out after 2008 - the fact the US is considered an investment safe haven in times like this is objectively nuts.
"There is something wrong with a price model that doesn't cover electricity and cooling costs"
Was my thought too, but bare metal servers also don't bill power and you don't see providers mass-banning crypto. Okay it's harder to police, for one of the many reasons why bare metal is just better, but you could write it in your ToS anyway just to cover your rear, if this was a thing. End of the day price appropriately, if you're that thin on margin that those costs matter, which is possible, maybe you should be looking at your business model or figuring a way to charge for wall power usage.
But yeah it probably is that despite the above, plus it could be argued about life-shortening various components.
It's a different deal when you're calling out your boss about the business, in public.
Not for nothing but yes, turnabout sucks, maybe certain political classes should have stopped and thought when they were cheering it on and being warned about consequences.
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