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Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7
Richi Jennings | | 802.11be, Alphabet, Apple, ARM, data centers, facebook, google, Green data center, hiring, Intel, Meta Platforms, microsoft, Netflix, Oracle, recession, RISC-V, Salesforce, Tesla, The Long View, There’s no point in questioning authority if you aren’t going to listen to the answers, twitter, Wi-Fi 7In this week’s The Long View: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive ...
VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI/ML, autonomous vehicles, careers, CI/CD, continuous deployment, driverless cars, fiber, google, Herbert Diess, LaMDA, ml, Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, The Long View, VolkswagenIn this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient ...
3 New WFH and Hybrid Work Trends That YOU Need to Grok
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, facebook, freestyle friday, Hybrid Work environment, Many a true word hath been spoken in jest, Meta, relocation, Remote work, The Long View, Tulsa, WFHIn this week’s The Long View, a remote/hybrid work special: Bribes to relocate you, Fridays are forgotten, and big tech firms stop building offices ...
Cloudflare Outage Outrage | Yet More FAA 5G Stupidity
Richi Jennings | | 5G, BGP, Cloudflare, FAA, FCC, IATA, incident management, Look like the innocent flower—but be the serpent under it, outage, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Cloudflare suffers another huge outage while the FAA and FCC still disagree over 5G/NR near airports ...
Cloud Giants Shun Wind Power? | LaMDA not Sentient? | MS IE RIP?
Richi Jennings | | ai, Berkshire Hathaway, Brevity is the soul of wit, facebook, google, Green data center, Internet Explorer, LaMDA, microsoft, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Warren Buffett asks too much for wind energy, it’s “completely ridiculous” to say Google’s chatbot LaMDA is sentient, and Microsoft finally kills Internet Explorer ...
Verizon’s Legionella Bugs | Bolt’s Dot-Bomb Echo | Yandex’s Russian CEO Quits
Richi Jennings | | A tale told by an idiot—full of sound and fury signifying nothing, Arkady Yuryevich Volozh, Bolt, Russia, The Long View, Ukraine, Verizon, YandexIn this week’s The Long View: Verizon fined for spreading disease, Bolt Financial repeats the mistakes of the past, and the founder of Yandex resigns ...
Go Language is Popular? | VMware Sells to Broadcom? | Unlimited PTO?
Richi Jennings | | Broadcom, Go, Go language, Golang, Great Resignation, I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it, mergers and acquisitions, The Long View, UPTO, vacation, vmwareIn this week’s The Long View: Golang goes from zero to hero, Broadcom buys VMware, and limitless vacation is still a Thing ...
Apple Allows 50% Fee Rise | @ElonMusk Fans: 70% Fake | Microsoft Salaries up by 100%?
Richi Jennings | | ai, Amazon, Apple, devops salary, Elon Musk, fakers, machine learning, microsoft, recurring revenue, The Long View, twitterIn this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double ...
Twitter/Bluesky ADX Algorithm | Cloud Energy Use ‘Tripled’ | Apple Staff are Revolting
Richi Jennings | | ADX, Apple, Bluesky, energy, federalism, Great Resignation, Hybrid Work environment, Ireland, May the Fifth be with you, social networks, The Long View, twitter, WFHIn this week’s The Long View: Bluesky—Twitter’s research spinout—opens its ADX algorithm, Irish data-center electricity worries grow, and Apple employees are the latest to rise up against hybrid working ...
Wi-Fi 7 Chips Ahoy | Google ‘Gone Downhill Fast’ | Real-World ‘Severance’
Richi Jennings | | 802.11be, agile, Apple TV+, Broadcom, DataOps, devops, google, Great Resignation, Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise, SEO, Severance, The Long View, WFH, Wi-Fi 7In this week’s The Long View: The first silicon for Wi-Fi 7, Google’s search quality is failing, and what “Severance” tells us about The Great Resignation ...
Lapsus$ Shames Okta/Sitel | Bitcoin Nukes Climate | EU DMA E2EE FAIL
Richi Jennings | | bitcoin, cryptocurrency, Digital Markets Act, encryption, Europe, LAPSUS$, Okta, Sitel, The Long View, Uneasy lies the head that wears the crownIn this week’s The Long View: Okta and Sitel under fire over Lapsus$ hack, Greenpeace and others call for bitcoin change, and Europe still hates encryption ...
Apple Outage Outrage | Linux Random Redo | Okta Hacked (or Not)
Richi Jennings | | Akamai, Apple, authentication, DNS, Identity, insider threats, LAPSUS$, linux, NIST, Okta, outage, random number generator, The Long View, This above all—to thine own self be trueIn this week’s The Long View: Why Apple services were down, Linux gets a huge RNG overhaul, and we wonder if Okta was hacked again ...
