davidham

I an Jack’s complete lack of sympathy.

I’m team old folks on this, youngun

Looks like it always has, to me.

I used kustomize to build an ArgoCD install at a previous company, and I was impressed at how powerful it was. Our setup was pretty involved, and kustomize was able to handle all the per-environment differences easily, and the code was easy to work with.

I work at Grafana, and Jsonnet powers our whole k8s infrastructure. It can get a little baroque sometimes but overall it’s tremendously powerful, and it’s fun to work with.

Apple Watch was and is a huge hit.

Musk is different from the other people in Trump’s orbit. Trump can’t afford to throw Musk aside or turn him into an enemy. Not yet anyway.

This is not to say that there won’t be a breakup, there may yet be. But it seems like Musk was able to parlay his Twitter investment into tremendous direct influence over the government, a pearl without price. I don’t know that he ever cared whether Twitter made money or not.

Are you sure? He used it to help get Donald Trump elected, and now Musk has an unassailable position in government and tremendous power to steer government spending to his businesses, and to cripple the agencies that regulate them.

I'm with you! I kind of love GitHub Actions, and as long as I keep it to tools and actions I understand, I think it works great. It's super flexible and has many event hooks. It's reasonably easy to get it to do the things I want. And my current company has a pretty robust CI suite that catches most problems before they get merged in. It's my favorite of the CI platforms I have used.

Yes, as an end-user I didn't really care about Apple Intelligence, and had to disable it because it kept suggesting dumb responses in Messages, which I use many times a day. As an observer of and investor in Apple, it's very concerning. Announcing and hyping products that don't exist is a serious breach of their brand promise, and as Gruber rightly observes, signs of serious rot in their culture.

Yes, that's my point: it's the X model because Musk bought the platform so he can amplify himself and censor whomever he likes.

This is the X model. Nobody moderates Musk!

In America, the First Amendment guarantee of 'freedom of speech' only protects you from the government restricting your speech. It doesn't oblige any other entity to provide you with a platform, and it doesn't free you from the consequences of your speech. You can (and should!) host your own servers, but unless you buy ads on a search platform they are not obliged to prioritize, or even index, your content.

The platforms don't decide what is legal, but they do have the right, and in many cases the obligation, to moderate their platforms. They can be held liable for allowing CSAM for example. And these platforms have business goals that can be in conflict with, say, allowing anti-LGBTQ or Nazi content.

I have a copy of this from the original Kickstarter, and it’s a gorgeous book. Very high quality, very well done.