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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116074874092696186
I think this cultural shift actually started around 2008–2010, with the advent of crypto and the metastasizing of complex web frameworks that started to replace native apps.

CLR Podcast 469 -- The Advent
#TechnoTuesday

PE firm Advent, FedEx, A&R, and PPF agree to acquire Polish automated parcel delivery company InPost for €7.8B; the company has 61K automated parcel lockers (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)
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Podcast recommendation: Have you ever heard of OMNIX, LSX, or CROMIX? Those were early – and quite exotic – Unix distributions, long before Linux. Enjoy: https://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=5b2cf3fa-0f86-4750-b302-3fb6e362d1a9

Advent of Computing
Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.

Smutna wiadomość. InPost już od dawna nie był "polski", ale teraz już nie ma o czym dyskutować.
Rafał Brzoska w serwisie X: „Konsorcjum Inwestorów wesprze dalszy rozwój InPost Group! Konsorcjum złożone z firm: Advent Investment, A&R Investments Ltd., @FedEx Corporation oraz PPF Group zawarły porozumienie w sprawie oferty nabycia wszystkich akcji InPost S.A. po cenie 15,60 EUR za akcję   Transakcja

Bengaluru-based KreditBee, a digital lending service for personal and business loans and more, raised a $280M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation (Harsh Upadhyay/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/kreditbee-enters-unicorn-club-with-280-mn-ser…

KreditBee enters unicorn club with $280 Mn Series E round
The round was led by Motilal Oswal Alternates, Hornbill Capital, and MUFG-backed Dragon Funds. WhiteOak Capital, A.P. Moller Holding, Premji Invest, and Advent International also participated.

Ignore the video's clickbait title. It's a nice story about the resolution of film before and after the advent of "Digital Intermediate" (I didn't know that editing in Avid was originally in something like 320x200 pixels or that Oh Brother Where Art Thou" was the first production to scan a whole movie at high resolution for digital color grading).

Even at an extraordinarily smart event as #FOSSBackstage , people keep asking "Yeah but couldn't we do this [task that requires care, understanding and commitment] with generative AI?" and I am f*ing sick of it. If the task could not have been automated before the advent of "AI", then it should not be automated now. Just be a decent person put in the human work alrea…

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Advent to form a JV that would distribute its enterprise tools to their portfolio companies (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-courts-private-e…

Even at an extraordinarily smart event as #FOSSBackstage , people keep asking "Yeah but couldn't we do this [task that requires care, understanding and commitment] with generative AI?" and I am f*ing sick of it. If the task could not have been automated before the advent of "AI", then it should not be automated now. Just be a decent person put in the human work alrea…