Very glad to see that the enshitification of nearly everything is automated now.

After construction, almost no one works in these things. There's a (small) staff for power, cooling, and security needs, but otherwise these things are managed remotely, often by people in different countries. In the meantime these structures use all the local power and water they can get their hands on, while the money earned from running all these servers goes somewhere else.

Just like Foxconn in Wisconsin?

These are the same kind of people that thought blockchain was the answer to all their data storage problems. They latch on to the latest buzzwords and run with them. Good luck with that.

Is he still a major contributor to Go?

... if the CEO of the leading manufacturer of EVs in the USA wasn't a total douchebag.

This is just about the worst food you could possibly eat. Surge pricing or not - no thanks.

Seriously, it there was ever a failing company, IBM is it. I've had exactly three interactions with IBM over the years - first time was around 1990-ish, tried to sell me (us) a 3090 with a "vector facility" to our small geophysical company who said up front our budget was US$1M. They were 3x over our budget and could not understand why we didn't buy their "solution". Second interaction was as a vendor in the mid '90s (I had started my own software company by then) and I get a call from one of their sales guys, all in a huff, need something yesterday (that i could provide) and no problems with payment on net 10. Took me nine months to get paid, because guess what - IBM had outsourced their accounts payables! Last interaction was with a backup dedup applicance that some bonehead VP bought in 2013 and the thing flat-out didn't work worth a shit - IBM was "take a class", our lads took the class and it was a disaster, instructor never taught it before, none of the labs worked, etc. These guys suck. They bought Redhad and now Redhad is beginning to suck. No shit.

Exactly. I agree with this 100%.

/s

I haven't used Dropbox in years now, and this article made me wonder how secure is the product/service these days?

Inspector Clouseau: "Does your dog bite?" Desk reception person: "No" Inspector Clouseau: "You said your dog did not bite!" Desk reception person: "That is not my dog".

Following in the great Trump business footsteps of 3 bankrupt casinos, a bogus "university", a failed airline, and current business debt of almost $1B. I doubt Rupert Murdoch is too worried.

This is quite literally the first good thing to happen in 2020.

Seems like a couple of nice guys with plenty to talk about.