Notices by Ian Betteridge (ianb@mastodon.well.com), page 2

Ah. This explains why my dual boot broke then.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24225108/microsoft-security-update-windows-linux-dual-boot-errors

What irritates me quite a lot about Apple's increasing rent-seeker techno feudalist approach to their business is that they continue to make great products, which I would happily pay a premium for. But "make great products and sell them to people" no longer seems to be enough. It's "make great products, sell them to people, and force everyone on that platform to pay us a tithe, whether they want to or not".

I've been talking for quite a while about the existential threat to publishers represented by Google's move into AI, and this is one of the reasons why: no publisher can actually opt out of having their data scraped, which, as Joe Raggazzo says, represents a choice: "You drop out and you die immediately, or you partner with them and you probably just die slowly"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-15/google-s-search-dominance-leaves-sites-little-choice-on-ai-scraping

I just don’t know how we’ve ended up in this situation

I don't know who originally made this, but they are a genius.

Expect this line to be swallowed up as “proof" by the usual suspects that closed platforms are good and government regulation is bad.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/microsoft-tech-outage-role-crowdstrike-50917b90?st=pkas1bzrhcoj0os&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

The 2009 deal, by the way, was nothing to do with security software: it was the final settlement of the long-running antitrust case which focused on browser choice and interoperability. The proposals on interop – which are probably the ones MS is referring to here – were made by MS and accepted by the commission.

Details here:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2009/12/18/interoperability-the-other-side-of-our-settlement-with-the-european-commission/

The full details on Microsoft's interoperability deal appears to have vanished into their servers – maybe they got hit by CrowdStrike – but you can still get them from the Internet Archive, thankfully.

Not that any of the people currently racing to Threads to denounce the EU as a security risk will bother.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100116043503/https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/dec09/12-16statement.mspx

If I was a betting man, I would put money on Biden withdrawing on Monday.

Wait, this was THREE WEEKS AGO?

https://www.thestack.technology/crowdstrike-bug-maxes-out-100-of-cpu-requires-windows-reboots/

No idea who made this, but whoever it was – I salute you

Great thread (as always) from Joan. One of the most obvious flaws in this generation of Rich Tech Guys is their hopeless overconfidence in their own knowledge and ability, and absolute reluctance to admit that they know nothing much about anything other than term sheets and multipliers. Plus of course, they *never* have to think macro simply because their aim isn't to create longterm successful businesses – it's to sell out at a good multiplier asap. https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/112812829826680674

Can you imagine if the code which bricked all those PCs turns out to have been generated by GitHub Copilot or another LLM coding tool?

Joe is an early contender for the "Understatement of the Year" award

Siri, show me what happens when you let billionaires own social media platforms. https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3dg/post/C9lI3wkJqNA

Summary of how social media is performing over the CrowdStrike BSOD:

Bluesky: Crickets, because not enough people are on

Mastodon: Deep tech analysis from people currently doing front line support

Twitter: Fake screenshots from Cryptobros

Threads: Three day old content

Facebook: Look at my cat!

The dumbest timeline

What do we think Musk can fail at next?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-07-12/musk-s-x-falls-short-on-promises-of-new-video-shows

What's the odds that this will recommend quite a large number of Amazon-brand products?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/amazon-ai-chatbot-rufus-is-now-live-for-all-u-s-customers/?guccounter=1

It seems strange to say “I wish I could have my time again” when I haven’t finished having my time yet.