Young pirate: steals VMware Adult pirate: buys VMware

another consequence of AWS deciding that scoring vanity points on the GenAI board was more important than building things customers cared about

Twitter is still up because Elmo is too cheap to buy Crowdstrike.

I’m burned out; turns out I haven’t taken a vacation in ~a decade. Back in September; be good to each other—and yourselves.

Bethany: “NIMBYs exist everywhere.” Me: “Well, not in my backyard…”

Genius license plate for a Miata: HTTP 507 (“Insufficient Storage”).

“What kind of restaurant is it?” “Yes.”

IT WAS SUCH A GREAT DEAL!

I’m declaring DM / email / Slack bankruptcy. If it’s important, please resend it. If it’s not important, why did you send it?

Y'know, I was really hoping the industry would have found a new obsession during my time away, but nope; it's still moronic statements about AI everywhere I turn. Perhaps it's time for some natural intelligence?

Corey Quinn 🫡

SELinux is a great security feature that hates its users so much that most people immediately disable it straight away.

Using Claude to troubleshoot a Kubernetes networking issue. It hasn't yet given the correct answer ("kill yourself"), but its troubleshooting flow makes a lot of sense.

she said “take me somewhere expensive”

So AWS has just silently updated their old blog post to reflect that they're deprecating / googling IoT Analytics. How... transparent, of them. This has apparently been quite the summer for sunsetting AWS services.

I wonder if JD Vance was the VC that was always trying to fuck Couchbase?

Short term customers don’t have a choice but to pay the massive hikes. Let’s see what it looks like in a year or two.

Hey, AWS launched a one-click opt-out for training AI on your data. This is a great change. docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/…