Why don’t humans have subtitles?

Here’s what a monopoly is. If your corporation is a monopoly (or part of a duopoly, or a triopoly, or whatever), you can fire all your best staff, let your services degrade to hell, and you’ll still keep all your customers (and all their money) because there’s nowhere else to go. I don’t really care that all the big cloud providers are corporations beholden to the USA. I care that there’s 3–4 of them. It wouldn’t matter where they were based if there were 100.

Isn’t it fun how “DNS failure” means “we put the wrong value in DNS”? I shall refer to all screw-ups as “Kubernetes failures” henceforth, as this seems to be the protocol.

Did you know that there are more grains of sand on Bondi Beach than there are atoms in the universe?

I wrote a bit on responsibility and authority, and how they go hand in hand.

samir : coffee → nonsense

Responsibility and Authority

I really must thank the writers of Soda Pop. Unlike every other children’s song, it is completely forgettable.

Those who don’t ask stupid questions give stupid answers.

I see an otherwise-reasonable USAian is once again pretending that GDPR enforces cookie notices because they have a profit incentive. How boring.