nathans Mar 25, 2024

Enshittification at work folks

#Tech #HP #Enshittification

Show threadBelakor

@nathans It's amazing to me how HP went from the leader in printers to absolute dumpster tier.

Then again, it amazes me how HP went from a name synonymous with quality engineering to just another name in the mix of manufacturers pushing out absolute tat.

Mar 25, 2024 at 3:11amWeb
Show threadThe Long TailMar 25, 2024
@nurglerider @nathans I suspect it was a similar story to Boing.
Show threadDec [{()}]Mar 28, 2024

@nurglerider @nathans
HP managed to sell off the dec .com domain name (one of the oldest .com domains) without informing HP Labs (formerly Digital Equipment's Systems Research Center, Palo Alto) of the domain auction.
HP Labs were still running widely-used servers that depended on the dec .com domain, such as uucp-gw-1.pa.dec .com

I know this because I was the first to tell anyone in HP Labs about the loss of DNS service.

Show threadBelakorMar 28, 2024
@dec23k @nathans Sounds about right. There was similar nonsense done when I was at HP for year (contract). The sad thing was the guys I worked with were all top notch engineers but mgmt wasn't interested in top notch engineering, just the bare minimum to scrape as much cash from the consumer as possible.