Notes for Week 29, 2024

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  • Well, I made the call. Next year I'll get a new car. And for the first time in my life, I'll do it with (part) financing. Because I've wound up buying a new car every 3 years for a decade, I figure I should just get in line and do it the normal way. But it's more special than ever before. I still regularly get jitters getting into my Tesla. You see, I'm a massive car weirdo. My kids are too (apples don't fall too far from trees, etc.). And next year I'm replacing the best family car I can even imagine with an even better one, though it may have compromises on features in exchange for luxury and experience. A Porsche Macan. Because Porsche are going all-in on the EV infrastructure they've been developing and releasing the new Macan as an electric-only vehicle. The jitters have returned.
  • Speaking of, Musk has been increasingly irritating of-late. Which is kind of amazing to begin with. He's never not been irritating, but he's really ratcheting it up. I saw him be interviewed at Cannes Lions (an advertising conference and awards festival) where he attempted to court favour with the world's biggest marketing and ad agencies. But then he really quickly left that spotlight and decided advertisers who left his platform should be sued. Because a free market only works when it's beneficial to Musk, apparently. He's even cozied up to Trump (again) to court favours. Which is funny given what Trump said about him before.
  • A seemingly irresponsible software push by Crowdstrike knocked out an enormous number of critical systems and computers globally last week. It was kind of what we all expected Y2K to be, if mitigation efforts weren't taken. This graphic shows how badly impacted airliners were in the US alone. What's shocking to me isn't that the buggy software was pushed, nor that they apparently ship on a Friday. It's more that so many critical systems rely on Windows of all things. Objectively, Windows is the least favourable operating system to run anything critical. It's a heap of shit built on frameworks and tech that's long past it's peak. Get rid of it, for the love of god. The other one is the number of CIO's who are happy to have software auto-update without being checked first.

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Published on: 20th July, 2024

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