How long till it switches over to a ‘sissy hypno’ mode based on further responses / profiling?
Oh lord, gotta love that the entire tech industry, snd many other industries, are putting all their proverbial chips on investing into an actual SCP, Euclid class cognitohazard machine.
So, to all the people freaking out and saying this is as bad as Musk and Neuralink:
There is here zero mention of things like ‘being able to take a phone call’ or ‘bluetooth your brain directly into a keyboard or mouse or other people’s brains’ as Musk was saying.
This seems very much intended to be aimed at legitimate medical conditions.
They didn’t steal the PhD work of an actual pioneer in the development of medical brain implants via poaching a number of grad students who worked with him (which is what happened with Neuralink, btw), they are instead partnering with basically a nonprofit cooperative of the world’s foremost experts on nanoelectronics development, who have an established track record of developing various medical devices.
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If news comes out about GabeN electrocuting monkeys and pigs to either death, or insanity/brain damage so extreme it causes them to kill themselves to escape the pain (again, this literally happened at Neuralink), then I will absolutely do a 180 heel pivot and condemn the fuck out of that.
Just to be clear here, a BCI is probably the very last thing I would ever be an early adopter of as some kind of commercial, general use product. Seems absolutely insane given the rampant cybersecurity problems just basically everywhere all the time, not to mention I just don’t like the idea of an actual chip in my actual brain, permanent holes in my skull.
Valve and GabeN are not some paragons of virtue, they basically invented (and still widely use and encourage) half of the monetization and dark pattern bullshit that is now everywhere in the entire games industry.
… But to me at least, this seems nowhere near as openly, comically, real world supervillain levels of evil as Elon and Neuralink.
… No no no it all wasn’t.
The DOGE goons made up multiple logins to multiple US Gov databases that are not open to the public… inucluding the DoD’s SIPRNet…
… and we know at least some of these logins were also used from utterly unsecure personal devices, remotely, not onsite, and that they’ve been getting used by IP addresses from all over the place, all over the world, meaning said login creds have either outright been given away, or been compromised by other nation state’s hackers, or just total rando hackers.
I potentially agree, but as a possible competitor, I submit:
Everything DOGE has done in the last 3 months.
So this is:
'Uh guys, Discord chats leaked…"
For… what, just literally everyone who used Discord between 2015 and 2017, everyone who was an early adopter?
Dear fucking god.
I used to say ‘someday, people will learn’, but fucking no obviously not, no they won’t, almost everyone is an idiot and/or truly doesn’t care.
… I guess this’ll be fodder for a whole bunch of dramatubers / pedohunters for the next year or so…
Ah!
I totally skipped over that revenue figure, that is much more of a precise way to nail it down.
I submit my 5% or 10% loss chance to you, whoops!
90% it is SpaceX.
Major NASA contractor, history of malfeasance, lawsuits, fake promises, and the head of it ran (untill quite recently) a government task force that illegally broke a whole bunch of IT shit, caused the largest series of cybersecurity breaches in history, committed a whole slew of brazenly illegal crimes… oh and the guy who runs it is notoriously incompetent at software development and managing software development.
Maybe 95%.
I struggle to think of a more ‘semi-governmental’ aerospace contractor, that also matches so well with all the described patterns.
Boeing or ULA or Lockheed are of course large aerospace contractors, but they’re not run by a guy who literally directly bought the last election, and they are usually a bit more formal with their corporate/management/negotiation bs.
Linux is a standard they have Embraced.
As a for-profit tech monopolist, they will, very predictably, Extinguish the ability of people who use WSL instead of just actually Linux… to be easily able to… fully transition to a competitor (Linux).
The Extend part just looks different, because the scope of software competition offered by Linux is much more vast than just a particular standard for a particular kind of software.
… Potato, potato.
I used to work for Microsoft.
The ethos is absolutely still there: Create vendor lock in, create ecosystem dependence in every way possible, as well as in ways that 99% of people would not even think are possible.
EEE is just the term they came up with to describe their own, overarching, monopolist general strategy, and if you wanna quibble over the precise technicalities of an internal corporate slogan, well then you’d be the kind of person MSFT is filled with that made me no longer want to work for them.
literally just make the development experience on Windows less painful so people don’t switch to another OS.
You said it right there yourself and don’t seem to realize it.
Why have a laptop or a dual boot with Linux when you can now more easily stay on the proprietary OS ?
This is called market retention.
Preventing migration to another OS, another software ecosystem.
The ‘Embrace’ and ‘Extend’ parts of EEE.
And if it works, then in a few years, MSFT will figure out how to further monetize some other part of its software ecosystem that is either reliant on, or much much easier for an average user of WSL to use than switching their whole setup or stack all the way over to Linux.
Call that EEM for ‘monetization’ if you want, or ‘enshittify’ for another E…
…the commonly used term to describe software or services or platforms that suddenly jump over to making previously free stuff cost money, put ads everywhere, break the previously free features and put the ‘new’ working versions behind some kind of paywall…
… All after you’ve captured your market and dominated as many competitors as possible.
Standard monopolist strategy throughout the entite history of capitalism, same general concept goes back even further.
Ah, the Linux Subsystem for Windows (MSFT has never been great at naming things) is finally open source, hooray…
Now do it with rest of the operating system, and I may, possibly have a reason to care.
Yep.
MSFT will continue to enshittify, people who point out this will happen will be poo-poo’d because switching would be complicated and costly…
… But, having to panic switch sometime down the road, because an entire class of software features or pricing models drastically alter with little warning…
… Well then, in the long run, it would have been less costly to start the migration strategy earlier.
I have seen this play out at every single company or non profit I have ever worked at, and I have learned to leave about 6 months after a planned migration/mitigation strategy gets canned as too costly and unnecessary… because usually, 6 months or so after that, every one is now in panic mode, and my workload would triple.
Including literally at MSFT itself.
The managers and corporate don’t know anything other than maximize short term profits, and have astounding levels of normalcy bias; even if you can present a well resesrched, realistic scenario with detailed costs over time for different strategies… they basically always assume things will just be fine, untill its far too late.
Yet again, I laugh, and remark ‘People still use Windows? People still use MSFT products?’
Fedi-Overflow?
Stackiverse?
My head canon is that Satoshi Nakamoto…
… is Hideo Kojima.
Anyway, Satoshi is the pseudonym used on the original… white paper, design doc, whatever it was, for Bitcoin. There’s no doubt about that, I was there back before even Mt. Gox became a bitcoin exchange, on the forums discussing it.
I thought it was a neat idea, at the time… and then I realized 95% of the discussions on that forum were about ‘the ethics of fully informed ponzi schemes’ and such, very little devoted to actual technical development… realized this was probably a bad omen.
How is a legacoin different from … just being a fancy NFT?
An all inuclusive, total body mind soul detox cleanse, vacation get-away trip.
Lol, as long as you properly plan in advance and coordinate such a thing, not the way that uh… Dead Matter tried to do it.
Dear god what a fustercluck.
So, I initially wanted to just kneejerk respond yes, it is absurd to suggest this ruling against Apple… would have any kind of generally noticable effect on inflation.
But I wanted to check the actual numbers.
Ok, so, total US consumer spending in 2024 is about $64 Trillion.
… The Apple App Store generated $105 Billion in revenue in 2024.
Ok, napkin math: 30% off of lets just say literally all App Store payments… , ok, we’ve cut costs by about $32 Billion… shave that off the $64 Trillion…
And voila!
A rough general price reduction of… 0.05%
Call a median US yearly income $60K, and they’ve saved $30 bucks. Maybe the cost of either one or two DoorDash meals, depending on where you live… probably much closer to just one.
We’re saved from inflation rofl!
This is where the magic of near meaningless corpo-babble comes in.
The layoffs are part of a plan to aspirationally acheive the goal of $10b revenue by EoY 2025.
What they are actually doing is a significant restructuring of the company, refocusing by outside hiring some amount of new people to lead or be a part of departments or positions that haven’t existed before, or are being refocused to other priorities…
… But this process also involves laying off 500 of the ‘least productive’ or ‘least mission critical’ employees.
So, technically, they can, and are, arguing that their new organizational paradigm will be so succesful that it actually will result in increased revenue, not just lower expenses.
Generally corpos call this something like ‘right-sizing’ or ‘refocusing’ or something like that.
…
But of course… anyone with any actual experience with working at a place that does this… will tell you roughly this is what happens:
Turns out all those ‘grunts’ you let go of, well they actually do a lot more work in a bunch of weird, esoteric, bandaid solutions to keep everything going, than upper management was aware of… because middle management doesn’t acknowledge or often even understand that that work was being done, because they are generally self-aggrandizing narcissist petty tyrants who spend more time in meetings fluffing themselves up than actually doing any useful management.
Then, also, you are now bringing on new, outside people who look great on paper, to lead new or modified departments… but they of course also do not have any institutional knowledge, as they are new.
So now, you have a whole bunch of undocumented work that was being done, processes which were being followed… which is no longer being done, which is not documented… and the new guys, even if they have the best intentions, now have to spend a quarter or two or three figuring out just exactly how much pre-existing middle management has been bullshitting about, figuring out just how much things do not actually function as they ssid it did…
So now your efficiency improving restructuring is actually a chaotic mess.
… Now, this ‘right sizing’ is not always apocalyptically extremely bad, but it is also essentially never totally free from hiccups… and it increases stress, workload, and tensions between basically everyone at the company, to some extent…and decreased morale, increased stress basically always reduces efficiency, to some extent.
Here’s Forbes explanation of this phenomenon, if you prefer an explanation of right sizing in corpospeak:
lol, google it
(or well, you know, use a less shitty search engine if possible)