HEIC is worthless because it's illegal to implement unless you get permission. Maybe in 20 years it'll be usable.

Don't like that fact? Then we need to find and support (oh no, and be?) political candidates who oppose software patents.

You shouldn't need anyone's permission to write a computer program. It's infuriating.

You're full of hindsight bias.

It's like saying we CHOSE Linux and calling us dumb because we weren't doing hybrid Linux/FreeBSD the whole time when a good 25 year run ends, and not even ends, gets more expensive. Nothing you can say makes that 20+ year run a bad bet. It was the right decision then, it still was right up until Broadcom's uncertainty.

Why are you even talking about business continuity, nothing is shutting down, business is uninterrupted. Migrating from VMware NOW looks just like migrating from VMware ten years ago. A lot of time and effort to move to an inferior product (no hard feelings proxmox). The higher cost makes the inferior product more palatable, so we'll switch. That doesn't rewrite history and make running two OS, two switch vendors, two fabric vendors, two storage vendors, two server vendors, two virtualization vendors, two database vendors, two full suites of automation and monitoring tools make any sense. That's a lot of overhead you have to pay continuously that doesn't pay itself off unless one of the vendors is a bully. Now we know Broadcom is a bully, and that's the treatment they should get.

Vintage VMware from the early 2000s is still a better product than the alternatives today, but if you've only ever used Fisher-Price IT in the cloud rentals I guess you wouldn't know what to even do with a server.

Please explain what locked in to VMware means. They're just VMs. Exporting disk images and VM definitions is easy. What makes switching hard is all the other platforms are absolutely terrible.

There's nothing anybody wants to migrate to. We would have already done it already. Or other people would have, and there would be a comfortable split in the market. VMware had the lion's share of local virtualization because it was the only platform that didn't suck ass. That is the tragedy.

Go use one of the alternatives guys, now blow it out from your lab to thousands of VMs and many teams of people that just need to get their job done. They suck, don't lie. We export VMs back and forth from VMware to virtual box to AWS AMIs alllllll day, this is routine. Moving a vm or installing a new one and migrating applications to another OS is work, but it's not the barrier, and there's nothing particular to VMware preventing any of that. We just don't want to. AWS costs waaaaay too much for what we get out of our own hardware, so we have to decompose everything and look at it all sideways squinting to make the math make sense where before we'd just give it a little extra ram and not think twice. All the clouds suck like that, just running VMs on them is expensive. All the VMware alternatives for your own hardware ssssssuuuuuuuucks.

The guy says it's good, implied culling the herd, then explained that as the process where you kill your best bull. I'm not waiting around to hear the explanation of that crazy =)

How does that begin to make sense. If you kill the fittest animal because you could squeeze more money out of its steaks the fastest, you are left with a less fit herd. You repeat that and you have a herd of undesirable animals. Even your cattle analogy shows the bulls are not interchangeable, because you're filtering for fitness in a way that by definition leads to a worse group. The company you can squeeze the hardest fastest had the most viable product and reliable customers. Repeat that and it doesn't matter where the engineers go or which bulls fuck which cows, you're by definition filtering the best outcomes out, because that's the easiest most efficient juice to squeeze.

It's "good" for capitalism as in it's squeezing the most money the fastest, but if you always cut the healthiest trees, it's not good for the forest, which means it's not a benefit to a healthy market, which means that behavior is not good capitalism. Sorry there's just thousands of analogies that make this plainly obvious, including your own.

Don't pay for nice things. Great lesson.

Stupid and inflexible?

20 something years of ESX dominating, 20 years for anyone else to catch up, and the alternatives are still ass.

Stupid and inflexible because people preferred an affordable product that can migrate running processes seamlessly between servers, with native storage clustering and enterprise grade capabilities all _push button simple_ enough for one person to manage the whole operation out to an absolutely ridiculous scale, and was perfectly fine for over two fucking decades. I regret _none_ of that. Who wants to go back in time and double down hard on Xen virtualization, seriously? It's not even a funny joke, nobody wants that.

What do you have to show for that time, what virtualization platform would you put your name on and market if you could. Could you compete what you have today with ESX 2.0 and Virtual Center 1.0 from 2003 at an affordable price. You could not. 2003 VMware is literally a better product than every virtualization product available today, with the exception of hardware virtualization features that didn't exist yet, OK, so let's just say 2005 then. 20+ year old software has better functionality and usability than alternatives today, and frankly it's sad.

Your honor, my script was a "rogue," so therefore it is responsible and I am not.

If the cops receive an anonymous tip that CowboyNeal is an insensitive clod, and then decide to arrest him without checking out any of the evidence, I blame the cops. There's plenty to bitch about with Flock but "the cops don't care about doing their job" isn't one of them. That's a cop problem.

Don't treat any stupid robots as somehow "better" than an anonymous tip called in from a payphone. It's just, like, something's opinion, man.

Popular with Linux demographics... you mean Steam Decks right.

That sounds like malarkey. What people love to do more is dump on other people, and what they can't help doing is trying to rationalize. They also on average don't spend much time thinking. So if you give them some missing blanks, they will fill them in whichever way makes them feel good.

Simple experiment. Put a garage sale sign out when the forecast shows some rain. The largest group of people think haha fucking idiot. Followed by people think maybe it's just in case or things might look better on Sunday. Then you have people thinking it's all just to fuck with them personally. In the last and smallest bucket you have the correct answer, the forecast was not even looked at; they were too busy planning a garage sale.

The reason dumb things like Hanlon's Razor and Buy Low Sell High work and need to be repeated is because of human nature. It's not because they're particularly brilliant axioms.

We now live in a fully connected world where most users are connected through web browsers and are the intended victims.

This particular story is an exception to that. Remote software, accessed through a web browser, normally does not have read/write access to your local filesystem. But people are granting local filesystem access to proprietary AI services.

I think that granting such access is .. wow. I wouldn't do it, though I can see how if you use a specialized account for it, and if you're confident that your OS has no local user priv escalation bugs, it might be ok. In your sandbox you trust.

But GP's comment is about whose decision that is. If you use Linux, then it's your decision. If you use iOS, then it's Apple's decision. And MacOS is becoming less Linuxy and more iOSy every year. I think it makes plenty of sense for stories like this to result in people dumping MacOS for Linux. (But daaamn, their values surprise me. You wanna make your computer less secure instead of more? Oh well, like Rumsfeld said, freedom is untidy!)

No, if the state were renamed, it would be to Old America. NM might not be the true original, but if you look at it through the eyes of European colonization and continuous governance, then New Mexico has the best claim of the fifty. (Though if you take a less racist view, then I guess Alaska had the real OGs.)

Randi McGinn, a lawyer for New Mexico, said applying the full $5,000 penalty to the number of violations would create too large of a penalty under the US Constitution's protections on due process.

I ass/u/me this refers to the Eighth Amendment, but I don't remember seeing any monetary constants encoded within that text.

Google's telling me Meta is worth about $1.8 trillion so how would a mere $40B be "excessive?" It's only about 2% of their worth! Civil penalties in excess of 2% of someone's worth are routinely accepted as constitutional, aren't they? If this case were about me driving drunk and killing a whole family, I bet no one would flinch at the 8A implications of taking 2% (!?!) of my assets, and everyone would laugh at my lawyer if he brought up 8A for such an insignificant fine.

I understand why we have 8A, and everyone deserves mercy, but I don't see why Meta deserves exceptional mercy as a singular special case that we would be horrified to see applied anywhere else. Bringing up 8A for such a tiny fine would be giving Meta a very unique carve-out that we normally would not apply.

It may be that $5k is too much to charge criminals per act, in that each crime didn't really cause that much loss, but bringing up due process concerns seems like bullshit when the fine is already so small. NM and Meta had been trying to negotiate the cost of illegal business for years before negotiations failed and it went to trial. Meta decided to let a jury decide, and the jury's come up with a fairly tiny fraction of their assets.

If Meta thinks the price of illegal business is still too high, then they can lower the number of willful violations they commit per year, to optimize the advantage they gain from illegal actions at an affordable rate.

Geez, Zuck, just do less of it. If $40B seems like a lot, then maybe try only $10B worth of crime next time. What's the big deal? Live and learn. After this little fine you still have 98% of the company left to go on and incur the next wave of liabilities.