Roger Ertesvåg

@RogerE
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I want to scream.
Email from VPS provider: "...the global memory shortage has been driving up hardware costs across the entire hosting industry. RAM and SSDs are more expensive than ever, as AI corporations are consuming a large portion of production capacity... we must pass on parts of these increased costs."
That's bad enough, but they've paid for literally the world's supply of memory and disk with money that does not actually exist, while we have to pay for what we already have with money that does exist.

A few months ago, after years of not accepting venture capital funding, @Gargron stepped down as CEO of Mastodon as part of Mastodon's becoming a not-for-profit.

A few days ago, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepped down and a few days later Bluesky announced that - surprise - we got a hundred milliion dollars in venture capital investment from a cryptocurrency company and that happened a full year ago but we were just too busy to mention it.

These two things are not the same at all.

Når du blir pålagt å bruke AI

BlueSky wants you to trust them, but they raised $100 million from a crypto fund almost a YEAR AGO and didn't tell anyone.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch

The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.

TechCrunch
Excellent.

See normally when an algorithm requires The Entire Global Supply Of Ram, a software engineer would consider that not a good algorithm, and would try and make a better one instead of optimising the entire planet for paperclip manufacturing.

Unfortunately we accidentally gave a bad software engineer too much money

The Supreme Court is finding out that bullies are never satisfied. Crying about how Trump is mean to you after ignoring your responsibilities as the checks and balances of this great nation warrants zero sympathy.