Posts by untrained_eye_of_newt

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

Re: AI behaves like humans

AI collapse sounds like my marriage... took 30 years but yeah, it turned to mush. In the beginning I was heaven-sent, apart from a few fatal flaws :)

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way

Re: This old VMware consultant is ...

it wasn't fixation on shareholders, I thought it was private equity that came for it... broadcom is currently buying up shares with all its cash.

Broadcom starts beta for VMware Cloud Foundation 9, the release it reckons will douse user anger

I know a CTO whose wheelhouse is serverless migration who cannot afford his own serverless bill, if we can't go that way I guess it's back to bare metal.

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

uh wasn't USENET where Linus started it all...

Sort of the main Social Media at the time? Linux is the emblematic of remote asynchronous collaboration over social media. Certainly wasn't accomplished in-person over little "agile" standup meetings under the watchful surveillance of some top-down fascist corporate order...

Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust

relax it's for reducing compute costs of serverless

Just attended a Rust track, it's being positioned for serverless functions as far as I could see. 'C' wasn't in the conversation.

For readability and 10x lower cost of production deployment of functions. (versus js or java).

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate

What about OCaml? Different enough (not a giant leap to about the same place) and managed to implement a two (or multi-) way file sync.

Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else

Re: OS on UV EPROMS

What you describe was a Symbolics. The memory was tagged with the object ID down to the hardware word level. Had the privilege of working with those machines in the late 80s, now I just Bash rocks together. It's a long way from the top but remember the worse-is-better principle.

Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

Kinda like Nim if I had to pick one of these new fangled languages.

Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion

This should resolve simply in the unborn principle of Bankei "worse is better"

Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5 million bank transactions

In the old days when I worked graveyard on tymnet betore the internet I was rotating packs every other night from various errors. A pair running and spare on the shelf. I loved that job, still remember all those people, and had I kept that job I would've dodged being sucked into relationships because I wouldn't have had any money and so not suitable to bear a lot of responsibility for other bloke's children to then be kicked to the curb later after being used up just like the other bloke.

Atlassian users complain of cloud migration dead ends, especially in UK

3 Billion dollar company that sells to-do lists

Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama

"we dont need no more stinking kernel developers"

Is what the Linux Foundation was saying in 2017... they actively discouraged the development of more linux kernel talent, yes they did, word was going around, at the conferences, such as their OSSNA conference.

Doesn't this play right into the hands of the vendors?

Remember when "it was/is fun working on it"?

Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge

Best things in life are free

Reading this article to August 1991 All Mighty Senators bootleg from archive.org.

Red Hat's desperation has been evident for a while, OpenShift is just not pulling in the revenue required to float these corporate beasts IBM/RH. Too many employees vs revenue, that ratio is out of whack for them. See exxon or apple for a decent ratio. Oracle's is ok for now. Ubuntu is lean and mean, decent ratio. SuSE and Rancher have problems, too many employees, sorry...

Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000

ssfffffffffftt

see this ugly yellow stain? imagine what smoking a pack a day, every day, could do to your teeth!

But look, here's T***, the smoker's tooth polish, helps remove all kinds of superficial tobacco stains...

er bzzzt beep beep beep

this is not an emergency, the broadcasters in your area in cooperation with the ftc have

designed this test to keep you informed in the event of an emergency.

had this been an actual emergency you would have been provided with information

on what the hell to do.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming..

...ust use T89pl week after week and watch your teeth get brighter AND BRIGHTER!!

Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island

landed nobility

I guess he doesn't tax the inabitants but rather collects all the rent... that's just like the cloud, feudal man

Carmack quits Meta, brands it inefficient and unprepared for competition

I hustled to get here...

But the last time I worked in a resource-constrained IT organization was.. NEVER.

I've only seen that those actual collaborations with far fewer resources and shoestring budget have the most and best content (in the web space).

Those with no resource constraints and funded-out-the-arse have tons of engineering discipline and code and Agile practices applied, and formal design process with expensive third parties, and literally ZERO content. It's all about design, the design of NOTHING.

After eleven-year wait, Atlassian customers promised custom domains in 2023

Agile Failure

What happens is a commitment is made, so that means a position is held, in this case for 11 years, in an attempt to do it in the right way according to ideology. Whereas what is required is freedom and availability, not commitment. Agile contains its own contradictions, "agility" implies neutrality and availability for movement, whereas the "sprinting" implies commitment and surveillance of performance. We don't need transparency, we need murkiness, we need a place to hide, like a crocodile, transparency causes stress and disease in developers.

I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well

linux saves us from environmental catastrophe by recycling old computers

I just installed Ubuntu 18 on a 10 year old HQ touchscreen pavilion missing a battery. Installed pulse secure, microsoft teams and zoom. Shined it up with a microfiber cloth. I intend to get value out of it this coming monday when I will work from my second home before I jet off to california to fulfill a travel obligation.

Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won't ante up

Open source is exploitative

Take a look at this -- exploitation has happened before in history more than once...

The real viral GPL could solve this but we've subverted it (so we can now have GPL software deployed and connected to non-GPL software, somehow, maybe we got a waiver) (it is enforceable after all, there is careful legal language).

My perhaps flawed understanding of GPL is that you can't have a billion dollar success story connected to software with that license. If nobody with several homes and a yacht owns all that value then there is no problem of contributors not getting a cut of royalties.

It does seem really exploitative when you think about it. For profit companies really should form a value mesh and license each other's stuff, and provide employment.