Posts by wwestislander

Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive

accelerated creeping featurism

A few advantages, mostly for the provider.

Lots of less visible drawbacks, mostly for the end user.

Hypeable+++

Model training data source+++

Product features++

C-suite salaries+

Cost-

Complexity--

Confidentiality---

Energy efficiency---

Security---

Reliability???

(Not to worry, it's Microsoft!)

Enterprise IT finds itself in a war zone – with no script

Russia itself did do some work for a project of their own to have an "independent" internet that could continue to function if it was cut off from the west, all-out cyber-war style. What is not so easy is replicating equivalents to the entire very sophisticated ecosystem of the current internet. Databases, APIs, software, services. Is it possible to maintain rewritten-from-scratch equivalents of google, AWS, azure? I doubt it. Can they maintain a parallel software ecosystem IOS, Windows, Office, databases? (NO). But given motivation and resources, workarounds will be developed. We already live in the era of the malware arms race. Throw Sanctions into the mix and there will certainly be sanctions arms races to deal with.

I am all in favor of cutting of people and organizations that contribute to or benefit from the war crimes and state terrorism currently being carried out. Some of these entities are outside of Russia itself of course. An important and non-trivial task is identifying reliably who exactly they are. Some are obvious, some not at all.

Public pressure on on our Internet carriers, providers, standards bodies, infrastructure managers, investors, managers, customers, directors and the like is what is most important at this time. A million and one re configurations, disconnections, redirections will be necessary.

There are apparently a number of high-powered legal firms offering advice to their customers on what to do. Part of this advice will undoubtedly revolve around how to keep things working while "technically" conforming to sanctions. So I predict a lot of "shadow" operations will be developed which are tuned to continue to operate - sanctions or not-.

It would be very helpful to hold a few discussion conferences just to orient technical folks to this new and potentially very complex world of Internet in the era of war sanctions. Maybe there are some already out there formal or otherwise.