nrmitchi

I didn’t say competitors; I said customers.

If none of your customers are up to call your service, it does not matter if your service is up or down.

This is especially true if the majority of your customers are also on Microsoft/AWS/etc.

Literally 0 of your customers will notice that you are down if their own systems are also not working.

This is perfectly valid for many businesses, up to a (shockingly high) level.

A (very) key difference is that this behaviour is mandated by the FAA, and consistent across all providers. There isn't a (legal) option of just not-doing-it because it's "cheaper".

Modern companies generally do not have the same incentive to keep their SRE (or engineers in general) upskilled. Cutting SRE because "we don't really have incidents, why do we keep paying them? If we need to do layoffs I would rather keep a product engineer" will always* (okay, _generally_) be the direction that organizations go without external influence or requirements.

Now I am sure there are some companies or industries where this is required (for example, I would not be surprised if certain military software/services contracts had requirements for support staff with X hours or training/etc), but that is not consistent everywhere.

If we want something that is "money-losing" in the short/medium term to be consistently applied, it unfortunately needs to be (uniformly) regulated.

> Apple never drops prices, never.

The first gen apple TVs were $300.

The second gen was $99.

The first and second 4k gen were $179.

The third gen was $129.

They might not drop prices on existing models, but they have definitely dropped prices on new versions of product lines.

Those are completely disjointed things though, and one of them (price of RAM) is currently very-much outside Apple's control.

IF memory prices drop, apple product prices will likely drop. And it will stay lighter.

Fwiw I agree that SpaceX is generally completely detached from reality and I am as-close-as-I-can-be to sure that Elon is doing some heavy manipulation behind the scenes, but this has changed recently as lockups expired. IIRC the current float is ~30%, compared to it's initial IPO when it was comically low at ~4-5%.

30% is much higher than 4-5%, but it's still much lower than most public companies (~80%)

As others said, the market is generally unhinged currently, with enough extremely wealthy people needing somewhere to put money that doesn't really matter to them, and I suspect some level of "investing in SpaceX public stock" is done to appease/appeal-to Elon.

Bullshit plea deals are offered in bullshit cases like this only so that the "officers" involved can save face and claim "yupp, conviction!! we're the good guys!" because there is no additional downside or risk to them.

It really would be great if judges could (and would) issue sanctions and/or personal fines against people who are so clearly operating in bad faith.

I don’t know if this is a real question, but for most credentials a stolen key is worse than downtime on a product.

> It’s funny that every security breach disclosure now has a mandatory “the attacker used AI!”

This isn't in the article? They do not at all claim "the attacked used AI!".

The only mention of "AI" is "We believe this is part of a series of attacks recently targeting platform companies with the aim of compromising AI inference providers." This is the same (apparently) end-goal as the Opencode breach last week, and is not blaming or finger-point at AI. It is stating (rightfully) that AI inference is very easy to resell and turn stolen credentials into cash.

> Github seems to have degraded measurably after they got acquired. As is tradition.

I'm not disagreeing with you that it has degraded, however it was acquired almost 8 years ago at this point, and the software world has been turned on it's head in the last... 3?

Software generally degrades post-acquisition, I'm not denying that. Github has definitely degraded. I'm not sure I would agree that the core reason in this case is "the acquisition" and not "AI making software and free-CI-load demand 3-5 orders-of-magnitude higher than it was 3 years ago"

> The current president has managed to obtain several proxy votes of rental property owners and the current board members use these to overrule any objections to them reseating themselves

If they are using "proxy votes", then there is in fact a vote. If your objection is that they ran unopposed because no one else bothered to give a damn, then... you should try giving a damn. Apparently you can be the person able to "gain tremendous power and authority" just by showing up, and then you can do something about it.

> that typically allows people to gain tremendous power and authority without anyone voting for them

Come on, at least try. HOAs (typically, your word) have elections. Someone doesn't just walk in and declare themselves the association president.

I was on a COA board for... close to 5 years. And definitely not because I wanted to be.

It's not a competition, but I'm pretty sure my "wow this is totally fucked up" stories beat yours ;)

You can very easily run to be part of your HOA leadership, and it is significantly easier to do than kicking an elected professional-politician out of office. The biggest issue with most HOA/COAs is that basically no one (especially the people who might have some qualifications) want to participate. This leaves only the people who want to be, frankly, petty little shits. It is not hard to exert influence over a group of 20-30 despondent neighbors.