Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Okay Techcrunch. Nobody cares.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are-having-a-fight-that-could-shape-the-next-generation-of-social-media/

We get to find out next week exactly how much Broadcom are going to stiff us for fees. In other news, my boss - without prompting - has asked me to investigate open source alternatives.

Been enjoying these vlogs by a lad that drives for Amazon. The distribution centre with scores of Prime vans parked in it looks like something from a dystopian film.
https://youtu.be/9ik5063tuyk

The Fediverse doesn't have to worry about Meta or any other big tech company starting an activity pub project. It has to worry about Taylor Swift starting an activity pub project.

The contrast in timelines at the fedi and the elonverse is so striking; here it's people talking about tech trends and open source, perhaps the odd bit of furry art. Meanwhile on X: HEY WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH MEGAN FOX'S FACE

Flipped Bit Could Mark The End Of Voyager 1‘s Interstellar Mission | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/flipped-bit-could-mark-the-end-of-voyager-1s-interstellar-mission/

Wildly amused they went to the trouble of a livery #f1

I thought this efficiency breakdown of the CyberTruck genuinely very interesting.
https://youtu.be/TeqE1kOO3dE

Train enthusiasts tend to have very deep photo archives, which they then scan and produce images that have a present-day feel; this is from 52 years ago #photography https://flic.kr/p/2pxf8FA

"You tell me how many zeroes you want to spend and I'll put together a cloud proposal"

Sadly, the client has only a single zero in mind.

A colleague came up with a neat turn of phrase describing non-tech people's belief in how complex IT projects simply happen by magic, without consideration for work, time, and most of all, cost. The wish compiler takes wishes as an input and turns them into scaled-out projects with absolutely zero effort, in no time.

Of course, no such miracle exists. And yet the myth persists.

Friday! We made it. Once again I am in a house of plague as one child brought something back from school earlier in the week, and now we all enjoy the sickness.

Pleased that the Fedi has now endured several eternal Septembers (I arrived during one of them back in 2017) and is still, when the dust settles, a really good place to be.

My wife pointed out the Ross Google thing with the couch. It's sort of funny how Friends - a show that was funny if bland when it was still new - has thrived with a completely new audience. I'm middle-aged now, so it's so weird to me because all that feels like yesterday.

At the risk of angering the faithful the experience is very close to a modernised X201. I'd recommend it if you're curious.

It's interesting to go back to a 3:2 having been so used to wide displays; some apps including masto web look a bit confined because they have less space on the right, so do one or two work consoles. It is less a complaint but an observation of how these things change and you don't really notice after a while.