That I slept through the Rapture.

Again.

For a second I thought this was about forcing people to AI interact with the Start Menu.

Oracle came out when most databases were on mainframes and usually came from IBM. For the longest time, they were the only production-ready option if you had a server from the likes of DEC, Sun, or HP. That was, until MSFT came up with SQLServer, and MySQL and Postgres showed up as open-source options.

Then Oracle went into application verticals, like manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, government, etc. These were all complex applications with lots of knobs and levers to tweak, making for long contracts and a lot of professional services. To this day, a lot of their money comes from these sticky apps and long-term contracts.

Whether they were funded by CIA or not, many early software vendors needed government subsidies and contracts to survive. Oracle was also pretty late to the cloud market. They didn’t really jump in until AWS started offering Oracle license “lift and shift” along with migration support to RDS. Before that, all Oracle DBs had to be self-hosted.

This article implies the connection to CIA gives the government access to customer data. In reality, until their cloud offering, all Oracle instances were inside corporate firewalls, with no external access. I’m not a big fan of their software, but this article smells like guilt by early association.

Not only is it doable, you can have a script download the job listing, feed it your resume, and have it rewrite your resume and cover letter to match everything they list in the posting, then submit it.

Exercise left to the reader.

And !bang searches all the bangs.

They write some of the best post-mortems out there. No “mistakes were made” nonsense.

We done f-ed up. Here’s how and why, and what we’re doing about it.

Was talking to a journalism student at a CSU. He mentioned they were pushing ChatGPT on students and faculty right as they were also talking about academic integrity and plagiarism. And in journalism class they were teaching about proving sources and truth vs propaganda.

The disconnect is amazing.

I smell an AI lurking somewhere in the shadows.

On the AI coding IDE side, VSCode has pretty much hoovered up everyone, mainly because JetBrains offered their own AI option, which kept competitors away. On the server side, though, integrating with AI is still wide open.

You eventually have to hit Python because of all the ML libraries. But you can run that as a separate microservice or process. Here’s a chance to do something whacky, like let JS invoke Python-ML inline, or port the main ML libraries to JS, or cross-compile JS to CUDA (just spit-balling here). It’ll be a lot easier to try these experiments than trying to push it upstream into Node.

Plus, Bun is used by a bunch of cross-platform CLI tools, including Claude Code, so they can make sure there are no breaking changes.

TBH, I’m surprised nobody’s snapped up Mojo (and Chris Lattner). They have a lot more advanced, AI-relevant, cross-platform tech.

It’s not a bad outcome. Bun is cool but has $0 revenue and some hand-wavy thing about future paid cloud services. This way, larger companies will give them a more serious shot than they would a small startup.

It still doesn’t have a revenue story, but it’s now strapped onto the side of one of the few AI companies with a decent chance of surviving the next AI Winter. And if Anthropic goes sideways, the Bun engineers can fork the code and keep going.

Cygnus will remain attached to the orbiting laboratory until no earlier than March 2026, when it is scheduled to safely depart and dispose of up to 11,000 pounds of trash and unneeded cargo when it harmlessly burns up in Earth’s atmosphere.

Literally:

Just saw a new outdoor Wyze camera with a motorized head, small solar panel, SD-card, and wifi for around $80. If you figure out the server side, it might be a good hardware foundation.

Other option is a Pi-based camera.The server side would be easier to set up, but you would have to figure out power, enclosure, and weatherproofing.

Edit: this might allow access to the video stream: https://github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge

Solving a non-existent problem. Excellent!

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So, Gerbils.

I challenged my family not to say WHAT! when reading that headline. So far, everyone’s failed (including myself).

That is pretty evil.

Without signing attestation (both developer and code) there will be no way to find out who was responsible and stop the propagation. This will happen again.

Edit: there have been attempts like https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers, but that hasn’t fixed the problem.

Wonder if this is going to turn into people cutting out catalytic converters, or stripping out copper wiring.

It’s way more beautiful when you go there during cool season. In hot season, you want to get away as fast as you can.

Judging by Costco displays, this happened in August.