Read Paul Krugman's Substack column: he says something to that effect on a regular basis.

I will always remember where I was and what I was doing when I learned about such momentous news. The world will never be the same after such a tour de force in the high-tech industry. Not even the development of the microprocessor, or of the incomparably useful quantum computer can even hope to rival this.

I ditched Plex long ago: Jellyfin does what I want.

The fiduciary duty of those running a for-profit company is to maximize profits for their shareholders, not to keep employees in the company's payroll. If the shareholders are, to a large extent, foreign investors then, so be it.

Your employer is not your friend; don't forget that the next time they bring up the condescending and populist "we are a big family" nonsense. The conclusion is that if you can (metaphorically) stab your employer in the back, that is what you should do.

Can one trust e.g. that Microsoft's office software will not share data with the US government? Trust them at your own peril.

Thank the orange orangutan for that: that's his achievement in this ridiculous war that he launched.

Not even blurry photos nor videos this time around - remarkable in a world in which practically everybody walks around with a camera in their pockets of such a quality that would have made a professional photographer twenty years ago cry with envy.

Much of the current AI push in for-profit companies is aimed toward carrying on doing exactly what they have been doing along, but with far fewer employees. There are almost no attempts to use AI to do new stuff.

MS and security have been an oxymoronic textbook example for decades now.

It is not like it has not been obvious for quite a while what a lowlife he is.

Its goal is not to do something effective to solve the problem addressed, but to pretend to do something to solve that problem. Pretty much like airport security. If they were to do something really effective to address the problems, in the case that occupies us here accessing many sites would become so difficult and inconvenient that most people would just stop doing so, with the concomitant revenue loss for those sites. In the airport security case passenger throughput would grind down to a treacle, which would come in with lots of negative knock-on effects, including many people just foregoing flying.

What to do then? Pretend that you are doing something so you cannot be blamed for doing nothing, while at the same time you keep revenue flowing.

Yes, humans are the stupidest animal on the planet.

This is a product owned and managed by Microsoft. How stupid could you be to expect otherwise? Get into bed with Microsoft and be aware of the fact that, sooner or later, Microsoft will stab you in the back.

Everybody knows that Samsung is a company on fire that comes up with the most explosive products.

Well, duh. That's what capitalism is all about. What I find irritating is that most companies go out of their way to claim that they have far more noble goals in mind when the lay off thousands of people, and that doing so was a 'tough decision'.

It's Xitter - credit where it is due.