The heartfelt apology is less convincing now.

He started Nvidia post nuptial.

I expect nothing to come of this. These companies are massive, and they’re x-opolies. iOS and Android (Google). Cisco and Palo Alto and Juniper. AWS and azure. Which of those companies didn’t slobber trumps dick the last 2 years?

NASA will give up SpaceX? I doubt it.

Face absolutely - and the location, and nearby devices, some of which are running the Meta apps. Then they try to link it all to an identity on Facebook. Which links back to the advertisers who upload their customer lists and purchase history for advertising purposes. Facebook knows you’re not at Starbucks today, because you only go there with your coworkers.

No, the billionaires will continue to hoard.

Lighter is helpful. The bigger screen models are great until you slip it in a bag and it morphs into lead.

Lit Apple logo is back to basics.

Touch screen - I guess enough degrees of separation between this team and Steve Jobs; I heard he was the reason it never happened. I have a touch laptop for work and never use it. It just gets manky with fingerprints. I’m sorta moderate on the greasy fingers scale, but I’ve see what happens if the user is a hand lotion type of person. Eww

It’s not because the bots scrape stuff they shouldn’t, because that’s the point.

It’s because these companies are responsible for an enormous increase in in the amount of linkfarming slop content that is garbage data to them.

Exactly! And they held her up as some kind of symbol of women’s liberation.

I remember that she was getting a lot of positive press because she was public about pregnancy or something but returned to full time work like 5 days after she gave birth which is dystopian as hell.

A real “girl boss” in a position of power and wealth and public visibility needs to use that platform to take a year or two of maternity leave and spend that time caring for the child and fighting to get those rights to everyone.

That’s not enshittification; enshittification is (to simplify) making a product worse to increase profitability.

In this case the CEO is conducting loyalty tests. It’s more of an HR issue. Groupthink.

The number of AI datacenters that are actually datacenters and not just fields of gravel is low.

I’m not a coder, but I do a bit on the side. I’ve done some vibe coding “give me a script that does the thing” but it’s scary because I have absolutely no idea what it does. Reading code at least for me takes a really long time and with ADHD it just doesn’t sink in. Writing it, I know what it’s doing. When the code breaks, I don’t just ask the model to fix it. It goes off the rails if I do. I need to understand why it broke before I can ask for a proper fix.

So - I agree with your assessment. I don’t think the alll in on AI vibe coding people had the kind of coder mindset in the first place.

My landlord told me it would be expensive to buy my house too and yet

I think that’s exactly right.

Paul Kedrosky was on Zitron’s podcast some time ago and said that he’s not sure that the return on the datacentres will be enough to pay for interest on the debt issued to build them - and it’ll never pay back the original capital. That should scare everyone. He also talks about how the bond markets - including USA bonds - are affected by the sheer size of AI debt. It’s quite worrying.

Disabling 8.3 filename creation has been a recommendation in the Best Practices Analyser since Server 2008. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/ff633453(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

I had a GPO to disable it corp wide back then and didn’t have any reports of issues.

The companies who sell these bypass devices spend time on graphene too, don’t worry.

The price of iOS exploits would suggest Apple’s doing a pretty good job in this area.

Back to the devices (Apple with some local AI), but that’s not exactly revolutionary.

That is very true in my experience as well. But it is an anchor, at least.

Too many businesses are forgoing the (fairly trivial) cost of a domain and website and setting up Facebook instead.

One bad decision and you’ve lost the customer facing presence.

I see it as an extension of the PC combined with the Internet and hardware advances. It certainly changed the Internet and our society. But I’ll leave it to historians to fight over!