Get off my lawn, Poettering!

I was wondering what kind of tone deaf executive pitches ideas like this, ignoring focus group feedback that users will not like it and that it will cause a nightmare for their PR group. Now we have a name. Thanks for stepping forward, Mr. Siminoff!

The most simple AI agent ever. Responds to all requests with "Hello IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

I was going to say.. what moron gave the CEO low-level systems access?

You gave a decent argument to record traffic on your property, and held that up as a reason for Ring to not only record traffic on your property, but traffic on the public street and your neighbors' yards, and a reason for them to share it broadly and to process the images with AI.

This is what happens when a strong technical CEO retires and puts their COO in charge. Soon after Ballmer came in and changed the focus from technical functionality to operational profitability, the decline started. It happens over and over again, and every time, they think they can avoid the mistakes others have made in the past.

I'm looking at you, Cook...

I think you mean 120Hz. Twice every cycle, not once every two cycles.

OP, you are making a broad assumption in saying we all do something that you may not think twice about doing yourself. Marginalizing those who stick to ASCII for official communications is not being a good ally. Please make a choice to be mindful of personal preferences and avoid generalizations like that. You want to be inclusive, right?

(said in my sweetest gentle-parenting voice)

IMO, Rust's biggest defect is already known: The language is heavy on non-text tokens and compound statements leading to long, dense code that is difficult for humans to parse.

Many people I know that grew up coding in C say Rust takes the joy out of programming. That same group tends to favor Zig as a safer alternative to C that is still a pleasure to use.

I've also heard that the moment an AI generates code, it should be considered legacy code. I realize most of MS Windows code is already legacy, but if you think it has issues now, just wait... it can be difficult to get an AI to generate legible code that is easy to understand. MS is essentially committing their entire code-base to be something only an AI can work on. That's a big gamble.

I was just in Target and looking at a kiosk full of apple gift cards. I was thinking I need to print out a bunch of self-adhesive labels with "DO NOT BUY" and a QR code linking to this saga, and put them on the back of a few of the cards.

Until companies operating at scale guarantee some right to good-faith arbitration or... what's the word I'm looking for... oh, yes. Service. Until they guarantee some level of friendly customer service, we must treat them as hostile entities not deserving of our trust. Perhaps a necessary evil, since they provide services we might need, but trusting them to act in any interest other than their own is a mistake.

This will always be a problem for customers of companies operating "at scale." Individuals mean nothing to them.

Customer support is a cost to be minimized because dealing with individuals does not scale. Losing a small percentage of users because they fell through the cracks is an acceptable loss.

These companies watch the forest and forget it's made up of individual trees. Only when entire sections of the forest topple do they notice. You have to be an extraordinarily tall tree, like Paris it seems, to get them to realize felling it would harm the forest.

That and the headline reads as if the components were designed by AI. Ordering of prepositional phrases matter, people.

Sounds like there are still EMEA customers who missed the first exit sign and continued down the Broadcom highway. Execs, look up from your spreadsheets. There's a massive pileup a bit further down the road.. take the side streets while you still have the choice!

You mean overhead cable TV plant? I suppose more people use coax for DOCSIS than CATV now...

How soon will Lennart Poettering be leaving?

(For those new to Linux, he's the biggest proponent of systemd, the init system that is the antithesis of Unix's storied tradition of "do one thing and do it well.")