TLDR: A former Azure Core engineer details how Microsoft risked losing OpenAI and government trust due to complacent decisions, including a plan to port half of Windows to a tiny chip, which the engineer deemed impossible. This mismanagement, among other issues, potentially cost Microsoft a trillion dollars in market capitalization and led to wasted engineering efforts.

Political rage bait completely unrelated to technology.

Until minors can buy alcohol online.

Paying for good software should be normalized again. One way or the other you’ll always pay. If you don’t pay with your money, you pay with your data.

Should kids be allowed to buy alkohol in stores?

We’ve seen parents fail over and over again. Some parents definitely need a helping hand.

AI has been used in wars and weapons for decades. I don’t understand why people think it’s anything new. Also, recent conflics (as you mention them) would have happened with or without advanced AI weaponry. In some instances they are started by actors that don’t have access to AI.

You don’t want to use it.

This isn’t about objective facts. Obviously, there is no sides about that. This is about “sides” aka arguments in discussions.

Ok so what? Somebody is showing off great tech. There are like a billion Youtubers that do that every day for a living.

In principle nothing bad about presenting both sides. But he definitely needs to be more specific on what that means exactly.

Na man. It’s being used extensively in many jobs. Software development especially. You’re misinformed or have a biased view on it based on your personal experience with it.

Not in Europe AFAIK.

Every CEO should do that. There’s so much bureaucracy and unnecessary bloat in companies that can be reduced if the leadership is a little more riguous. This is especially important in the current market.

Why?

What makes you think that? You can’t just go around and insult people personally without elaborating on the reason.

If it reaches me, so be it. That’s life. Survival of the fittest. It’s my own responsibility to do the best in the environment I live in.

Telegram was banned in Russia for a short time and for some inexplicable reason unbanned. Russia has made no attempt since then to ban them. The founder of Durov explained that they managed to force Russia to unban them because they kept buying and changing IPv4 addresses to evade the ban. But everyone who knows the technology knows this is a stupid reason and completely unbelievable. IP addresses are very expensive and the connections in the app need to change to the new IP. At the rate that Russia and everyone else is able to block IPs (thousands per second) you simply cannot implement such a strategy. What Telegram is saying is dumb propaganda for the gullible.

Telegram insists on not having end-to-end encryption for default chats and group chats and profile and contact data. They use E2EE for Secret Chats but they use MTProto, which is a custom key exchange and encryption algorithm that is doing some fairly questionable stuff according to leading experts in the field. Telegram being insecure is no problem in itself. But they explicitly advertise it as being secure and private and mislead the users to believe no government can spy on them.

They are based in the UAE with their main office being empty and essentially only a mailbox. Nobody actually knows where they are.

Their servers (with unencrypted chat data) are hosted in questionable authoritarian countries all over the world. They do not have any servers in Europe or the US. This is a huge problem since nobody knows what server software they are running and your chats are not encrypted.

Somehow they have infinite funding for infinite fast cloud storage. They don’t disclose any financial data. The founder always says it comes from his liquidated assets of VKontact. But that’s impossible as he would have run out of money years ago already. Hosting cloud storage like they do is very very expensive.

If you want to be sure that nobody gets and uses your data use an end-to-end encrypted messenger like Signal. If it’s end-to-end encrypted and open-source then no other questions need to be asked.

Telegram was subordinate to the Kremlin the whole time. You have to be stupid to not realize that.

People can have smartphones and tech the past didn’t have, but be increasingly worse off financially and unable to afford housing.

You really have no idea what life was like just two or three generations ago. At least you now have toilet paper, water, can shower, and don’t need to starve to death when the pig in your backyard dies of some illness. Life was FUCKING HARD man. Affording a house is your problem? Really?

And you aren’t a space explorer.

The smoke detector, the microwave and birth control pills were invented around the time when we landed on the moon.