Yeah, I’m not panicking, but I agree with everything you said.
I want to believe that someone at IBM realizes what they lost if they fuck up Red Hat, but I’m sure we all know better than to count on it.
It’s just a bummer we have to have this conversation at all. Even when a corporation tries to start out on the right foot, odds are stacked in favor of enshittifying.
Yeah, I agree. The big picture is concerning, though this latest instance just happens to not be a red flag. We’re not enshittified yet, but it’s a short jump depending on IBM’s next decisions.
Considering Red Hat’s core is development, it’s not necessarily a bad thing to merge things like legal, HR, finance, and accounting with IBM’s own departments.
The trouble is, once the parent company starts merging some departments, shareholders often push to merge more departments.
If the right people hold sway at IBM, Red Hat won’t continue that route to the point of fucking up the OS. But that’s a big “if.”
Probably no need to rush into anything. It sounds like the reorg is moving a data security team into Red Hat, and isn’t necessarily enshittifying anything.
A backup plan is always good, but this could wind up being a nothingburger.
Who cares? He’s dead now.
All I’ll say is, I’m happy my 1994 Honda still basically works well.
That has nothing to do with the question of being a bad person.
If you happen to be Latino, perhaps “Angel” pronounced like “ahn-hel”?
It’s only weird until you realize (a) car companies are working hard to software-limit owners’ and independent shops’ ability to perform maintenance, and (b) car companies are not exactly known for high-quality computer code.
How you treat each other is what makes you good or bad.
Time is a human construct. Numbers are just for measuring things. And the older you get, the less important many numbers are.
Be a good person and you won’t be bad.
“Treaded tires are more dangerous to drive with than bald ones.”
No, it was just a low-quality hand-me-down that started to bend and lost part of one of ita claws.
I recently replaced my hammer because it wore out.
Real Japanese knives are all BIFL. Japanese bladesmiths take pride in quality above all else.
My MAC knives are older than I am.
We throw out massive amounts of food every year, often because it sits too long and rots.
We have the technology to fix this. Corporations just don’t.
Or… It underestimated him.
Never. I’m never going to do it.
Paul Thorn - Bull Mountain Bridge
Jonathan Coulton - Shop-Vac®
Fresh, hot pizza from Ray’s.
Not fresh at the time of the apocalypse. Fresh at the time I seek it.
Of course that would mean I would also get a steady supply of clean water and of all the ingredients required to make the pizza. But that is simply a secondary side effect of having made my choice for the one, single thing.
Na naaaaa
Nana nana na na na
Nana na nana na
The Long Dark