The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been

Someone from HR just asked if I can "quickly" transfer all their files from their old laptop to their new one. I said sure. Told them it'll take about 4 hours because of the data transfer speed and verification process. Reality? It takes 45 minutes. I run a script, it copies

The Streisand Effect - when a big tech CEO tells us not to "talk badly about AI" - millions more of us look into exactly what is bad about AI & we share what we discover. These CEOs don't understand the human desire to stand up against those who try to control what we do and say

At a time when newspaper strips was downgrading, Scott Adams changed comedy forever and was one of the funniest of all. His work resonated with every tech employee and was so spot-on that there were futile attempts by management to ban his comics from cubicle and office walls.

I wrote Task Unmanager: keeps killing processes Russian Roulette style, until your machine crashes

I completely agree with this

Sea of Thieves

For context: ‘Enshittification’ is a term coined by Cory Doctorow to describe the process by which a platform gradually degrades the service it offers as it shifts from prioritising user experience to extracting financial value for owners/shareholders. Very apt and useful!

MicroSoft buying Valve, and thus Steam, would be catastrophic for gaming. I worked for MicroSoft for years. I know Gabe Newell & many of his people. This would be a devilish bargain that would bring about an actual Hell on earth. Cities burning. Mass suicides. Coyotes

With your permission Gemini can now connect to all of your data.

More people need to understand that “AI” is an unprecedented exercise in economic suicide. 40% of the market is in 8 companies. 90% of their current spending is AI. The vast majority of that is infrastructure for LLMs—chatbots. Chatbots are a dead-end technology with no revenue

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Everyone’s reading this as “AI failed at customer service.” That misses the real story. Salesforce cut 4,000 support jobs in 2025 betting on Agentforce. Nine months later, executives admitted they were “more confident about large language models a year ago.” The failure modes

Great Times 😄