One more example to throw on the pile where a manager saw dollar signs and said, "Fk them customers." I think it's reasonable to assume companies will act in the worst possible way - even if they make claims to the contrary - until proven otherwise.

Trump will use an EO to create a new government department: Dept of AI Compliance. It'll decree that all public AIs comply with Dear Leader's propaganda, and show particular reverence to the Office of Benevolent Dictator for Life Trump.

I'm waiting for the plan's to implement Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I've been saying for at least 30 years that if we got rid of the darned users, we wouldn't have nearly as many problems on the system.

The DOJ will drop the suit as soon as Cloudera ponies up a bribe - er, donation to the president's "library."

It's been done, already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Skip ahead to 3:03.

It's not surprising that people change their minds about data centers as we learn more about the damage caused by them. If we knew then what we know now, we might not have built any at all. "Might" is the key word, there.

Probably not even 13. When hardware failed at our co-los around the country, we had people drive in from wherever to replace it. They weren't on-site. As far as I know, only the security guys were on-site.

A lot of those centers come with tax abatements, to persuade the developers to come there in the first place. So, in fact, the centers get subsidized by the local community. And corporate income taxes are a joke. I paid more taxes, for 2025, than the top 10 companies combined.

I never got the hate, because I never used it; for a couple of reasons. A. I'd heard rumors it was awful. B. Google maps was proven better. C. I generally knew where I was going, so didn't need a map app in the first place. and D. I grew up in the era of paper maps, and can still read a flat map without being told step-by-step. I always have a compass, so if the basic map is accurate, I'll find where I need to go.

So, for me, it was a "best effort" that wasn't good enough, but never rose to the level of hate because I didn't depend on it.

Why would it be awkward? I get my PCBs from a Germany company, and quite a lot of my discrete components come from China. It's not awkward; if anything, it's annoying because of the time lag.

It's more a love / bromance / fealty to Putin. Except Trump can only go so far directly doing what Putin wants, before it's too obvious. Of course, it's already obvious to anyone who doesn't suffer from TDS, but we don't matter.

Vintage is what got us to where we are. Every plateau in technology lead to newer and - hopefully - better. It doesn't hurt to look back and see where you've been.

You could, but if you used them on a *NIX box, you had to be sure to "umount" first, or you could wreck the medium. Ask me how I know.

To be fair, I was a new sysad, and had not been trained on filesystems - this was before the UNIX System Administrator's Handbook was published - or much of anything about the system, really, so I kinda learned most of what I know the hard way.

Yeah, just like those adults who raped them kids, and were sent to jail to serve their lengthy sentences. Oh, wait - they went on to live lives of wealthy, untouchable elites; and one of them actually became president of a first world country.