If it's a toss-up between a de-facto Chinese takeover or a de-facto Israeli takeover, then the question is not what the resignation is trying to distract from, the question is why a vital strategic manufacturer is being taken over by a foreign power at all.

(Obviously, there's good reasons for a foreign power to want to have absolute leverage over how US businesses work. Whether those foreign powers are "hostile" or "benign" is irrelevant there and so of absolutely no consequence to the discussion. What matters is that the US should not place critical industries, on which essentially all other parts of their economy have become utterly dependent, in the hands of anyone not subject to US scrutiny or US law. As it stands, I dislike how corporations work, boards have accountability to nobody outside themselves and majority shareholders - which are also usually themselves. That's not an effective system.)

I'd certainly investigate the entire corporation. If the guy is abusing his position of authority (which means that any "consent" given is a fiction) and the employees actively support this, then there's a good chance that the behaviour is rampant in the company.

There is, however, a flip-side. He's undoubtedly led the company to produce some superb products and has pushed them in a well-identified direction. Far more so than virtually any other US corporation. There's very obviously something about his personality and mindset that is actually wanted to have a successful business, and this something is lacking within much of the western business community.

Basically, much of the western world is stuck in Harvard MBA Land, and companies operating under such principles invariably collapse from complete incompetence. They're popular because those with MBAs are usually brash, arrogant, controlling, dominant, and abusive - typical sociopathic traits - and sociopaths in the boardroom tend to be very good at producing stable management structures and very high stock returns. Just not successful busineses. But who cares, if you get rich?

This does not mean we need more sex offenders or Chinese spies running US megacorps. It means we need to find out exactly what in his attitude allowed him to identify successful patterns, we have no reason to want or desire any other aspects of the guy.

Should we email Microsoft and advise them on how to install Linux and FreeBSD on their servers?

But at least China has pledged to address the problem.

China pledges and promises all sorts of stuff....

They are basically one of the worlds greatest and most prolific liars too.....

Go over there and try to start a business (with them by force)....and see just how far promises made go for you.

Mail all the rotting meat to them.

Nah....just all the PORK, and associated liquids and blood.

And maybe air drop it rather than mail it....that'll get them where it hurts.

To me, that is basically an acoustic Stockholm syndrome. Motorcycles with their open engines are necessarily very loud to the rider. Like the hostages start to love their captor, motorcycle riders start to love the sound to cope with the fact that they can't flee it.

From that,I'm guessing you are not a biker.

And as the old saying goes..."..if I have to explain it to you....you wouldn't understand.."

That's now throwing shade at you, mind you.....it's just if you aren't of the biker mind, you likely won't "get it".

What about motorcycles?

Ugh....I dread the day when all you can get is a silent electric motorcycle....

Half the fun of one is the sounds and smells and vibrations it gives you....a visceral experience.

Oh wait, second hand EV prices have gone Up as people try to avoid paying high petrol prices

Must be a EU thing.

In the US, the used EV prices are still tanking (no pun intended)....you drive an EV off the lot here in the US, you are pretty much guaranteed to be close to upside down in it immediately.

Then walk - When people being up "I can't charge, I live in an apartment" as some sort of reason to not make EV's, I have to chuckle. I don't have space to put in a Dump truck, that doesn't mean they shouldn't exist.

I know you jest....as that "walking" for most folks isnt' a viable option at all.

I think the main thing is....while there are significant number of folks that can NOT charge at home for various reasons, people should not be penalized for sticking with ICE vehicles which still server them quite well.

The only thing worse than not having metrics... ... is having metrics.

Big companies are almost always stupid.

Organizations measure what is easy for them to measure, not what actually matters. The drift between what matters and what gets measured always produces dumb behaviors.

Measuring token usage is perhaps a proxy for "is this person trying to use AI?". That question is only interesting if you are quite confident that at some point, your staff will be able to grow the business value they produce as a result of using AI.

What you actually should measure is business value delivered. Companies are bad at that (Because its difficult), So instead they Measure what is easy to measure, and they don't test the assumption that AI helps staff deliver more BV.

At my small software company, having developers use Claude is delivering tremendous BV. We are getting higher quality PRs, code reviews, and built software, and we are getting it faster. We are getting MUCH faster bug investigations. Overall time to fix is down. We are shipping faster and we are paying down technical debt.

(we may be accumulating new technical debt we don't see yet. time will tell)

The cheap way to get into graphene is to get a used Pixel 7a off of Ebay or Backmarket.

Make sure you don't get the verizon specific mmWave SKU. You need one that advertises itself as OEM Unlockable / Bootloader Unlockable. Verizon SKUs aren't.

(Some Ebay sellers give you the model # and some even show the specific phone with the OEM unlocking flag available. Backmarket doesn't let you specify you don't want the broken garbage verizon sku, so be prepared to return a few until you get one that isn't defective)

GrapheneOS is fantastic. I've been running it for over a year, and it's what I've mandated that my teens have on their phones also.

You should read up on what GrapheneOS actually does. Most google apps will work on it, if you want them to.

My daily driver user profile has no google apps installed nor google services enabled. I have an alternate user profile with sandboxed google play enabled, where I can run google maps or a handful of other dumb apps, when/if I want to. Even then, sandboxed google play (GrapheneOS exclusive feature) is a much better implementation than running the same app on a vanilla google phone. And, when you don't need that specific app, and are logged out of the "worse privacy" profile, the app and the google services are 100% inert.

I take a different view towards things: if the _only_ way I can use a service is to use their shitty mobile app, then I try very hard not to do business with that company at all.

Waymo, for instance, absolutely refuses to run on Graphene because they want strong integrity/attestation. Note that in the case of GrapheneOS, a GOS device is _more secure_ and _more trustworthy_ than any other consumer android advice. So app developers using the Google integrity APIs in such a way that Graphene is blocked are not interested in security, they are either stupid or are are interested in exfiltrating your data, so much so that if they cannot have their data harvesting rootkit on your phone, they refuse to let you use their service. So idiots, evil, or evil idiots. Inany of those cases, why would you run those apps? Why would you do business with those entities?

In my daily driver profile, I use almost exclusively FOSS apps.

GrapheneOS + immich + NextCloud does a pretty good job of completely replacing the google stack for someone who is privacy concious and into self-hosting.

When talking to nosy people or organizations, I just tell them I don't have a smartphone. We should all vigorously resist the idea that having a smartphone running corporate spyware is a requirement for modern life. In government, and also in our consumer choices.

There are two different traditions at work here. One is the European tradition starting with the French Revolution in which the Jacobins chose red as a symbol. The other is a 19th century South American tradition of distinguishing different political factions with the colors red and blue. They are entirely separate traditions.

Regardless of whether you can afford it, how are you going to pay for your new phone when your bank card is on the old, broken/lost phone?

Well, I rarely buy anything as big/expensive as a smartphone with cash....I'd likely buy a new phone like I did with the one I lost...using a credit card.

While I think the phone only ATM card is stupid....we "do" still have credit cards in our wallets, no?

It counts because ICE officers are not supposed to have any authority over citizens unless they are interfering with legitimate operations

And...that is exaclty what has been happening with ICE...especially in the states up north where protesters switched from peaceful protest to interfering with officers trying to perform their duties....