What is on Your Mind?

The rise of complexity is in many places:

Here in DNS: Growth of RFC Pages count for DNS is about 2 pages/week:
“The DNS Camel”, or, the rise in DNS complexity | PowerDNS Blog

Quote: The speed we are surrounding us with uncontrolled and uncontrollable technologies is from my point a view a precursor of the apocalypse.

Another one is Google's QUIC aka HTTP/3:

Very Complex. And since we are on the way to full dominance of google-chrome in the webbrowsers(microsoft gave up fully own developed browser not long ago and using chromium(=chrome-based) open source instead. So they are dependant to whatever google delivers), google just implements it in chrome and then it's there. Probably webserver projects will follow.

What I dislike about vendors is how the relationship defaults to dishonesty and imaginary money.

"Okay, you need more RAM? That's $XXX per month"
"And what if I bought 2 perfectly good sticks of RAM for $XX and gave them to you?"
"Then we'd thank you and rent them to someone else for $XXX per month."

I don't see point in the "rants" about issues with vendors related to computer parts and components. Vendors are vendors and they have always been vendors and will always behave like vendors. Selling is selling and is a professional as old as old can be.

What hardware and software vendors are doing, the same thing all sellers do everywhere, pales in comparison to what the information-based companies and networks like Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and more are doing to pollute the very information-space and human conscious which rips at the core of human civilization's social fabric.

The major issue we all face is not how venders sell or market their goods and services (that's always been an issue, from the beginning of time), but the fact that high-tech, high-flying information-based companies and networks like Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and more are building machine-based systems with the sole goal of world-domination (read number of users, profit margins, influence etc) with machine-based AI in all aspects of our information-based lives, disrupting countries, societies, seeding hate and social mistrust, partitioning humans into groups and pitting them against one another.

AI in the commercial space means "targeting" and "classification" and it is this "targeting" and "classification" of every aspect of our lives and using this information without our express permissions, selling our most intimate details to anyone willing to pay, and using machines to process this information in order to exploit all of us on the planet. Witness the rise of hate, populism, supremacy, and more which is getting worse, not better, year-over-year.

That is something to be worried about and to "rant" about, in my view.

Everything else is "noise" compared to what is happening to the very fabric of human society and is getting worse and worse because of the push by all major big tech players ..... their answer is always: "AI will solve all these problems", when in-fact it is "AI" (and these high tech companies goals and objectives) causing these problems (well, it's the companies pushing AI causing the problems).

It's evil. Pure evil. Really. Believe me.

Profit, greed, influence.... it's the cause. The cat is out of the bag and there is no going back. The future is not very bright because of this certain dystopian world we have created.

What the world really is in need of are ...

Software supported, self-tying Shoes!

Owners of the newly released $350 Nike app-connected Adapt BB self-tying shoes have taken to the Google Play store to complain that an update left their fancy kicks bricked.

Nike's new app-connected shoes reportedly fail after faulty update

Maybe you have to become an engineer and a systems administrator to get your shoes tied in future?

Perhaps Nike's engineers actually needed self-tying shoes.