This isn’t leaving tech… it’s leaving corporate employment.

Still great options, but I was expecting something more like: pivot to a different role in your existing company and then find another non-corporate use for those skills, or get your apprenticeship in the trades, or become a bus driver.

I wonder how much of that can be traced back to Broadcom acquiring VMWare?

Exactly. People see “AI” and think LLMs and diffusion models. Those are both probabilistic translation engines. They’re no more intelligent than an AC/DC converter, just a lot more complex.

However, there are neural networks and sense arrays in the field of AI, and those are designed to replicate the process of thought.

The real route to a thinking AI is likely a combination of the two, where a neural network can call on expert systems including translation engines to do the heavy lifting and then run a more nuanced decision tree over the results.

Thing is, modern LLMs and diffusion models are already more complex than a single human mind can fully comprehend, so we default to internally labelling them as either “like us” or “magic”, even when we theoretically know them to be nothing but really deep predictive models.

Do they give 72 hours notice before THEY show up?

This is why I run my own NextCloud instance that backs up locally and via offsite rotation.

Sure, I could still lose it all, but it would be 100% my own fault if I did.

LibreOffice is offline; each person can run the software in their own device to create and edit documents.

It’s features are equivalent to 2010 Office. That’s not necessarily bad, but it’s not how people usually work today.

Collabora lets you host documents on a central server and have multiple people edit at once, dynamically tracking changes and allowing full revision management. Or, you can keep your documents local and not host them if you don’t want to.

Yes it is… but it actually allows for collab features that LibreOffice doesn’t have.

I wonder why they chose LibreOffice instead of Collabora?

What exactly does “spun off” mean here? Doesn’t Comcast still have a stake in the new org? Isn’t this just changing the lipstick color on the pig?

I’ve got an ancient laser printer. Toner is cheap and it just works. Anything more complex? I send it to a print shop and let THEM deal with the suffering. I just get the results I’m expecting when I expect them, without wasting time and money on printers and ink and all the things that can go wrong with them. Works for me….

Can a dead person be deported or go to jail? Can they commit a crime?

Or, more precisely, judge says they’re not allowed to do it. There’s no actual blocking going on here.

Sounds like Trump v2

I figured it out: tariffs are leeches. Trump is a lecher.

Don’t give Trump any more ideas….

He’s been doing that since he started his first term.

I didn’t see that one coming. Anyone know what it was she actually did with the EU funds?

Trying to figure out if this was at all political, or if it’s just a case of a far right person acting as if they’re above the law and they actually got to the “find out” stage.

Exactly.

About time. Can they do it retroactively, or does this just mean no more security updates?

Indeed. And that goes for various social media apps too.