#IT operations

[icqmuseum24]

🇺🇲 The summer of 2008 marked a turning point for AOL. Time Warner was in discussions to sell its internet division to either Microsoft or Yahoo, a move that would significantly impact the online advertising market.

➡️ Beyond its search engine and e-mail service, AOL's most notable brands included the instant messengers ICQ and AIM, the iconic web browser Netscape Navigator (which dominated the '90s and was a key player in the browser wars with Microsoft), and Winamp (the legendary media player from Nullsoft, acquired by AOL in 1999).

💵 In January 2001, AOL merged with Time Warner in a $165 billion deal, the largest merger in U.S. history. This merger was intended to create a media powerhouse, but instead, it led to a slow decline. The dot-com bubble burst, and AOL's dial-up internet service quickly became outdated. The anticipated synergies never materialized, leading to massive losses and internal conflicts.

💻 By 2008, AOL was a shadow of its former self. The potential deals with Microsoft or Yahoo underscored the intense battle for dominance in the tech world. Yahoo, under pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn, was in a proxy fight to avoid a takeover by Microsoft, which had its sights set on both Yahoo and AOL.

📈 Analysts predicted that acquiring AOL would significantly enhance the buyer's online advertising power, reshaping the digital landscape. Despite AOL's eventual spin-off from Time Warner in 2009, the company could not reclaim its former glory. However, the legacy of its pioneering services like ICQ, Netscape Navigator, AIM, and Winamp continues to be fondly remembered by many.

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[chetungwan]

I've been real busy lately because it's December and I work at the post office, so of course I am

But that doesn't mean I can't show up with an unprompted PSA

Hey! Have you ever mailed a letter to Santa Claus? Have you ever wondered what exactly happened to that letter? Well wonder no longer! If it had a stamp and a return address, then odds are that it ended up on the USPS's Operation Santa page!

Every year, the USPS collects letters to Santa Claus, and processes them to black out any identifying information. Last names, addresses, things like that. Then, the letters are posted on the Operation Santa webpage and people can adopt the letters.

Once you adopt a letter, you can buy gifts for them, wrap them up, and package them. Then you get a barcode from the website, and bring them to a post office. The clerk there will scan the barcode, which prints out a label with the address on it, and sends out the gift.

It's anonymous on both ends, and is generally just. A really nice thing to do.

I highly recommend it if you have some money to spare this year and want to give a kid a moment of magic this year

It's one of those things that the post office just happened to be positioned to do, and ended up knocking it out of the park. Unfortunately, I don't think they advertise this nearly well enough, and most letters end up going unanswered

Hopefully, a few more will be answered this year

[jcmarchi]

Virtual leaders roundtable: Accelerate IT maturity in 2025 with AI

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[usaii]

Transforming IT Operations with AI | USAII®

Manual OS patching and upgrades are outdated. AI-driven automation ensures zero downtime, enhanced security, and continuous compliance across multi-cloud environments.

Discover how AI is reshaping IT operations in this insightful piece by Daniel Jones, Director – Cloud Service Delivery, Dell Technologies.

Read more: https://shorturl.at/U6sz4

[miametropolis]

last chance to evacuate

as you may know, israel has begun its ground operation in rafah. they dropped leaflets last night ordering people to evacuate, and bombing in east rafah has already begun.

The border is about to become unreachable.

Rafah is trapped.

We have literal hours until no-one, all the GoFundMe's you've scrolled past, all the people desperately begging on TikTok, will be able to escape.

Give now. Give whatever you can.

I am fundraising for the Odeh family, which is only 3k away from meeting its goal.

you will not get another chance.

GIVE HERE

[theenterprisemac]

Confidential Computing

This is an interesting look at what 1Password is doing with confidential computing–the age old quest to provide the same security assurances in the cloud as you'd get if you ran the code locally on your own machine.

I haven't fully looked through this yet, but I wanted to post it for reference and for anyone who is curious.

This is a trend I am happy to see getting traction with many companies trying to do it: AMD, ARM, IBM, Intel, and NVIDIA. Various cloud provides such as AWS, Google and IBM etc have offerings in this range.

I would also put Apple's Private Cloud Compute in this range as spiritually similar just not directly identifiable as confidential compute.

I will post more detailed thoughts in the future. As you'd expect these efforts are all likely to be fraught with issues and challenges.

[venkatmohan]

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[k12academics]

The Technology Management Group (TMG) was built by experts and propelled by service. Founded in 1989 by certified cybersecurity, enterprise IT governance, and data privacy solutions engineering expert Chris Moschovitis in New York City, our pioneering tech firm was built on one simple idea. That mid-market companies can neither afford nor keep the expertise necessary to leverage information technologies to maximize their value, optimize operations, and keep their business-critical data safe and sound--especially without breaking the bank or creating more problems.

From the beginning of our history, we've prioritized not only value creation but value protection. And we've been doing cybersecurity since before cybersecurity was a thing! From those first clunky websites to an interconnected planet, artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data--we've been there, done that through it all and we're still here today shaping the future together with you.

Our goal has always been to enable you to enable your business to be smart, be objective and pick the right tech to outpace your competition and deliver the greatest value for your dollar. And we're honored to be known in the business as the people that will go to the end of the world for the clients, clients that are still with us all these decades later.

[vastedge330]

Cloud Automation is crucial for optimizing IT operations in multi-cloud environments. Tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS CloudFormation enable businesses to streamline workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance infrastructure management. These solutions provide efficiency and scalability, making them indispensable for modern cloud management.

[auckie]

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1765391777580912958?s=20

PLEASE GD IF YOU LOVE AND WANT TRAINS

[neverreallythoughtaboutthefuture]

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Speed Ratliff as the Boom Operator for SAW (2004)

[rooniearts]

nothing makes me laugh harder than the idea of Shadow constantly stopping everyone in the middle of a mission because he saw a cool photo op and can't move on until someone takes a good enough pic of him to put on his instagram (so he can prove to everyone how cool he is)