This mini brownie was tasty, and its resemblance to the poop emoji made it even more delicious. #enshittification
I’m here at the Extreme Connect conference in Orlando, where the company unveiled its full-stack vision for AI networking, a new Wi-Fi 7 lineup, and more. My latest on Fierce Network.
AI inference strains enterprise infrastructure—F5 says telcos can help. F5 research finds 78% of enterprises run AI inference, creating distributed system complexity. My latest on Fierce Network.
Extreme bets on simplifying networks. CEO Ed Meyercord says simplicity and supply-chain savvy are driving share gains as Extreme posts its fifth straight double-digit revenue quarter, on the eve of the big annual Extreme Connect conference this week. My latest on Fierce Network.
I am having a grande Starbucks cappuccino and it is 5:15 PM and I am three hours east of my normal time zone and I need to be awake at 6 am. I see no potential problem here.
Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only:
Deadwood
Star Trek:TOS
The Odd Couple
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
MASH
Hill Street Blues
ER
The Pitt
Doctor Who
Bob Newhart Show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Firefly
The Sopranos
Mad Men
This list is biased toward shows I loved when I was a child, teen and early 20s because shows hit harder then.
It sucks about Joss doesn’t it?
Normalize paywalled websites offering day passes for $1, payable easily through services such as Apple Pay and Google Pay. The day passes would not automatically renew by default. This would be the online equivalent of going into a newsstand and buying a single issue of a magazine because the cover looks interesting. It would be great for readers, a great source of revenue for publishers and help push back misinformation (because journalism costs money to produce, but bullshit’s free).
What’s your favorite “I’m alone so I can finally be weird” activity?. A gratifying Reddit thread.
Writer Stuart Heritage at The Guardian rounds up American movies that had better titles in foreign languages. In China, “Pretty Woman” was “I Will Marry a Prostitute to Save Money” and “The Full Monty” was “Six Naked Pigs.”
I went for a medium-length walk downtown, starting in the Gaslamp, up through Little Italy and back down the Embarcadero, during which I found myself passing through an art street fair in Little Italy. I pushed through, because the agenda of the day was walking rather than browsing. But I couldn’t resist stopping at this one booth of outstanding scrap sculptures. The artist is Adam Homan.