Whaaa? The web service provider?

Microsoft: “first time?”

Sony: “god hates idiots.”

No trackball? Tsk ram :)

Great pic

why is youtube the vehicle for this message?

don’t be daft

https://lemmy.ml/comment/3885368

100% + you can already see it on the fringes. The need for a server to stream content evaporates w/advancement in client-side compute. Why plex or jellyfin when you can do it all in the rendering layer?

Our interconnected network layers function because of open standards, with layers decoupling complexity up & down (sep of concerns) as well as left & right (standards that facilitate novel capabilities).

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/unity-and-ironsources-4-4b-merger-is-now-complete/

Unity‘s proposed merger with ironSource has formally concluded, with the two companies coming together to create an end-to-end platform for developers to build and monetize games.

AOL.com ruined the internet!

old man screams at cloud

The 90s were worse imo when it came to quarterly returns

Funny I said the same thing in 1995.

The internet is what you make of it. Meaning, you don’t need the entire wide area network, you just need what you don’t want in your local area network.

In terms of an interconnected network, you need only what you need!

This is an amazing time. Lemmy, self hosting, docker, cloud hosting, $100 consumer devices that rival $10k servers from ten years ago, AI, LLM, global gaming, etc….

People are reacting to the feeling of a lack of choice & nothing in it for them.

I have mixed feelings about upvoting you because point 2 is a wall of text and hard to read /s ;)

You are correct however.

The real key is realizing that any subscription based platform has the potential of jerking you around.

However given the sheer volume of impacted developers and the easily calculated uh class action Value, I am sure there is a predatory pricing lawsuit in there somewhere.

Another approach might be to form a publisher coop who can negotiate a better price on behalf of its members. That too likely will sour at some point.

Or just pay the license fee while determining how to exit the platform if it isn’t generating revenue … or stick with it if it works.

Unity isn’t that great, that’s why their stock price is in the shitter.

Nah, Unity is a monetization company pretending to be a game platform.

even their enterprise pricing model is fucked:

100k = $12.5k 300k = $18k 500k = $10k 1M = $10k

Dozens I tell you.

Tweets are stupid as f. I can’t say it is wrong to kill the word tweet (barf) BUT the whole world knows wtf a tweet is.

Elon is going full on gen-x, this is generational battle royale to the max.

I liked chrome because it was quick and had useful features. Past tense. C-ya.

Swedish House Mafia got that gang game brrr brrr brrr

Org change vs vertical integration, which is worse and why in 500 words or less ;)

Pay now or pay later…the organization is going to get kicked in the nuts.

For industries that have the option, companies who got kicked in the nuts ten yrs ago are doing better today than those who are still waiting.

IBM should shoulder a lot of the blame, there really is no reason why COBOL couldn’t be phased out in place except it would hurt IBM market share so it is not exactly a “thing”. In place transition to RUST should just be another section of the zOS manual.

Rust - absolutely.

First, odds are only half the code is used, and in that half, 20% has bugs that the system design obscures. It’s that 20% that tends to take the lionshare of modernization effort.

It wasn’t a bug then, though it was there, but it is a bug now.

Trusting IBM engineers, perhaps…sales/marketing? Oooh now I am skeptical.

Java is a POS and that’s before log4j.

No. Because IBM sells WebSphere, so java it is so they can up sell you for more contract labor.

Ooh good point

What if IBM had a product that did the COBOL->Java conversion (no what if tbh, believe it exists), then just changed the marketing material to make it seem flashy?

So like, you think it’s Ai but really it’s the same grammar translation functions that have been around for ever.

What

Java is a POS and mainframes run faster emulated on a rasberry pi vs the actual hw.

The real answer is you want a typed language with financial transactions. But even python would be better than Java.

It actually is pretty quick. Dont sleep on JavaScript capabilities. However, it is untyped. You wouldn’t want the date you wrote your check to become the amount of your check, for example.

TypeScript does a nice job there but all in all at that point might as well go all in on a typed language.

Java is an Oracle honey pot, a royal sustainment PIA, massive security liability, clutters up systems with its nonsense and slow as shit.

“dear diary, despite running on a system with 1TB of RAM, a routine security patch reset the Java max memory quota and now every Java process stops after 256MB of object allocation. All four threads ran out of memory with 999GB RAM free. Thank you for this wonderful and blessed gift of computational ineptitude, amen.”

Yes. Leave it to IBM to take a terrible idea and make it worse.

Nah, dump it all.

COBOL programs don’t handle utf8 and other modern things like truly variable length strings.

Best thing to do is refactor and periodically test by turning off the mainframe system to see what breaks. Why something was done is lost to the sands of time at this point.

What.

Most cobol systems have more code that doesn’t do anything vs code that actually does something.

The grammar of COBOL + shit UI of mainframes means there is a shit ton of tribal anti pattern with each program. It is a pia to add fields and variables, so lazy programmers would just reuse something that wasn’t being used at that instant. Less work and more job security.

What values do variables ROBERT1, ROBERT2 and ROBERT3 hold? Whatever ROBERT wanted.

The reason why these things still exist is business laziness. They don’t know and don’t care what cobol is or isn’t doing.

I am struck by … conversion to … Java? Really??? lol.

the debate is could vs should

Sir/Madam, your iphone has been selected for a completely random verification by the customs agent, please provide and we will return it in 1 - 2 hrs. Thaaaannk you for your cooperation.

That would be great. But Apple has fused all these things together on the motherboard so that … well … they can only be replace outright vs repaired.

I don’t mind cpu / mobo fusing but storage and ram is just a kick in the ass. It really is a shame.

What about battery, ram and storage in laptops?

Right to repair doesn’t mean you can.

That is cool. However, for a few bucks a month, one can get an email that is 100% private & fast. Email is worth outsourcing.

Bruh — virtual where you are. What sites you are a member of (remember they know your clicks too), what sites you have cancelled, what ads worked and what ads don’t. They are reading your mail and make no bones about it.

Your profile and demographic is racked and stacked. Even if you block ads they are selling you & your abstract content themes to people who want to market to you.

Marketing campaigns and targeted messaging may include some corny sites that are intended to pitch a message to you as a category of person—gone are the days where some banner is all it is, I am talking about SEO to entice you to click.

Have you ever read some whack article on a site that didn’t quite make sense? Somebody else paid for that site to try and legitimize a messsge that is too easily blocked by ad blockers.

I am not saying you should feel bad, and despite all this metadata, when is the last time a targeted ad actually interested you? Prolly like never.

Just be aware—look at googles stock price…that is based on you using their services.

well…with that, google knows where you are, so it can sell you to where you aren’t!

Most email providers have decent to great aliasing & filters / rules.

Email is something where it can be worth a few currency units per yr for a fast / privacy focused email account that doesn’t contribute to your metadata profile.