The thing about being a big organization is that you need to have slack capacity most of the time in order to be able to go quickly in a different direction at certain times. If you don’t have excess capacity sitting idle, an unforeseen event can paralyze you

Maybe it’s a way to launder dirty money or take bribes, the way solid booking a floor at the Trump Tower for a few months is a way to launder money.

It’s 2050. The sea levels have risen 3 metres. Hurricane season lasts 9 months of the year.

Eric Schmidt: ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite, how do we solve global warming?

ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite: I don’t know, but I drew you as a minor being abused unprompted.

I’m off Twitter and on Mastodon since November 2022. Mastodon is such a chill place once you’ve found people to follow and made sure the trolls are blocked. Staying off Reddit has been harder, but it’s also a shadow of its former self. Lemmy isn’t quite what Reddit used to be, but neither is Reddit these days. Too much noise, not enough signal

The TreeStyleTab extension for Firefox has added vertical tabs for a decade

Jazz musicians have a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: scat

We have to stop ignoring AI’s scat problem

Gen Alpha has a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: skibidi toilet

We have to stop ignoring AI’s skibidi toilet problem

The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect

We’ll soon be hearing that only Luddites care about continuity errors

Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented

AI can’t count the number of letters in a word

If they had spun off Windows and Office into independent companies, Windows would have made a competing office suite and Office would have made a competing OS

List of companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands: https://capedge.com/company/by/incState/E9/active/true?sort=latestQuote.marketCap

Mostly obscure to me, but I looked up GlobalFoundries. Originally divested from AMD, bought IBM’s chip business, got a contract from US Department of Defense in 2023 for manufacturing military chips

I imagine you wouldn’t object to GlobalFoundries suing the US government

If France passes a law requiring Google to sell Google France to a French company, would Google pulling out instead of selling mean their core drive in France wasn’t money?

Why don’t they just sell TikTok to a US Citizen who happens to believe TikTok should remain the same?

They already did that. TikTok is incorporated in the Cayman Islands with headquarters in Los Angeles. The bill of attainder is post-that

If I were to rank HashiCorp’s products by importance, Nomad would not be at the top

Of course, if I had ranked Red Hat’s products by importance at the time of acquisition, OpenShift would not have been at the top, so I am not a reliable ranker

IBM owns Red Hat

Instead of dealing with proprietary rest APIs to manage every third party service you use, you can use a declarative, idempotent format to define infrastructure that’s compatible with all of them

Signal has better defaults and a less compromised origin

“Mommy, they are going to take my thumbs. Please pay the ransom. It’s $10k in Amazon giftcards. Mommy, please!”

Why, OpenAI? Why are you trying to destroy the world? We have no defences against voice impersonation

People who have Wikipedia articles have less of an expectation of privacy than normal people