A moment on the lips, 1x10¹⁸ seconds on the hips.

I think it has a lot of potential outside of those two things, but the problem as with all modern technology is that the companies making it always do so in the most abusive, hostile way possible so everyone rejects it immediately as another Big Tech trap.

Think about how useful AR could have been for all manner of different tasks and professions, and what we have instead is pervert-glasses with built in surveillance, connected to the giant propaganda machine in the sky.

Apple’s “Apple Vision Pro” vision was actually a reasonable assortment of reasonable ideas when you watch their announcement marketing, and then what we got was an overpriced, underdeveloped toy as we’ve come to expect from them.

VR/AR is going to be a casualty of this era of tech, an era which will be remembered as taking the forward-looking, human focussed applied-science field that we love it for and turning it into a tool of extractive capitalism, an enormous vehicle for investment fraud, and an enabler of fascist authoritarianism.

Hopefully one day we will recover. In the mean-time, I still have hopes for the Steam Frame which is what it should be: a dumb, unopinionated peripheral.

Maybe stop locking up protestors who are trying to bring awareness to genocide and the literal destruction of the planet.

Be the change you want to see.

If you’re trying to be cost-effective, renting a VPS for a fixed term instead of using a IaaS platform that provides all these things just by clicking a checkbox, then caring about your firewall is a necessary part of building the system image that you deploy. You can of course set up your own private networking between systems and build the same type of architecture that a IaaS would provide, but to do that you’re going to need to understand everything about linux networking and netfilter already.

Netflix, where the medium of storytelling goes to die.

Are you unable to differentiate between Russia the state that is waging an illegal war in Ukraine, and the Russian people?

Do you think that Russia is not the enemy of the EU?

I see what you mean, but I’m still not sure I would describe that as a “market.”

Usually a market has both buyers and sellers.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes the truth is amplified unnaturally by foreign intelligence services to divide and destabilise western democracies.

It’s not so much about what’s true, but more about the agenda of the person who is speaking it.

Let us have our own discussion of what matters in our societies, instead of letting our enemy dictate the agenda of our public discourse.

Clap your hands! Throw a chair! Peel a parsnip! Iron your trousers! Sieve the greens! Strangle a fox! Pipe the buttercream! Stub your toe! Cancel your Netflix! Andy Burnham!

Are you in favour of all adults having to provide ID to access the internet? Because that’s the policy that you’re supporting.

when there is a literal $T market for it.

Is there really?

GTA came out a mere 29 years ago

The word “despite” in the headline betrays a complete lack of understanding of basic statistics and economics on the part of the author.

When you think about it, every photo we have is a photo of the Milky Way.

What exactly is it that you’re trying to achieve?

Primarily, they make the Oracle database which they license at extortionate rates to businesses for building literally anything that requires a database. It’s arguably the industry standard for relational databases, although it has lost market share over recent decades to open source relational databases like MySQL and Postgres and also, since the 2010s, to the NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB etc. Still, Oracle is a titan, and it’s likely that you interact half a dozen times a day with an Oracle database in various businesses and companies without knowing it.

Like all the other big tech companies though, Oracle has been pouring cash into the AI bubble in the form of contracts to build datacentres. They’ve taken on so much debt to fund their FOMO that they are in real danger of bankrupting themselves. That’s where we are today. Compare also to how Microsoft has destroyed any remaining good-will for Windows, and Google has mutilated its golden goose: search. The tech industry players in 5 years time might look quite different to the ones we’ve had for the last 25.

Fingers crossed.

If their main export is gas then how long until they run out of money?

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