At the start of the information age people sat around and babysat huge systems because, while the results were sound, the hardware was unreliable.
At the end of the information age [you are here] people sit around babysitting large systems because, while the hardware is reliable, the results are not always sound.
May 20, 2026, 4:06 PM@tankgrrl this post makes me appreciate that I got into tech right in the middle. The 1990s and 2000s really were special. There was that brief moment where the tech itself was really pretty good and the corpos didn't understand it enough to exploit us through it.
@dave *nod nod*
Back when Google said "don't be evil" and seemed to believe in it.
I worked for Intel for a chunk of this period and, while Intel is its own kind of pain and embraced 'evil' a long time ago, it was a special time.
@tankgrrl well THIS sucks major wang.
@octothorpe
"Would you like me to summarize your wang ?"
@tankgrrl @octothorpe tell me…
