so responsibility part was skipped.

The article mentions that the datacenter is run by a 3rd party. I’m not arguing to absolve Meta here, but I think this is a classic case of diffusion of responsibility. The more contractors and subcontractors that get involved in stuff like this, the more these kinds of problems crop up.

I got this a lot when I was an actual boss. It was always done in a brotherly, jokingly left-handed, kind of way. This fits perfectly with my management style. It was nice.

because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit.

Oh, it’s worse than that. The grant money was the wrong party color, so it had to be disposed of rather than lead to a positive outcome.

Of course the real problem is when someone in the change swaps out from a benevolent manager to dick :)

Had this happen with a VP seat. The resignations that followed made the office look like ground-zero for an extinction-level event.

Most companies are politically fiefdoms of a sort. This is by design. You’re completely dependent on the benevolence of the management chain above you. This also explains why decadent or malicious management is nearly impossible to overcome without resorting to involving lawyers.

If it’s satire, it’s really close to the line. So close, that I wouldn’t be surprised if right-wing propagandists ran with it, just to prove a point. After all, if a big enough group of crazies rally behind something like this, they’d be stupid not to.

Ya’ll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?

I’ve seen, firsthand, how Icelanders group up and solve problems together as a unit. They have a cultural tradition of outdoing other cultures, because of this.

Oh bother.

Or just a t-shirt and flip-flops.

That’s not a server rack, that’s an SCP.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Relevant: When your house is haunted but the rent is cheap.

Not only is this a solid horror send-up of a sort, but it also speaks to everyone that has ever rented/bought a crappy house and developed a skill-set around making that work.

Further failure domain segmentaion.

If we add unstable governments or government interference to that list of possible disasters, it starts to make a little sense.

Maybe? Probably? For all I know, a solar-sail effect might help it stay in orbit.

Those only solve for gravity, or not having to pay for fuel to keep things in orbit. Other heavenly bodies are further away, so latency becomes a big problem, followed by exponentially more power to transmit (radio) in order to maintain the same bandwidth. That and cooling: the possible candidates range from as bad as orbit to worse and much worse, all with increasing latency and power needs to boot.

Overall, even the in-orbit version is a bad idea.

What’s sad is that Stanley did a remarkable job of putting a vacuum flask in the literal hands of millions of Americans. It shouldn’t be hard at all for everyone to figure out why this is the case, but here we are.

That or they read Neuromancer and came away with all the wrong lessons in their head.

that’s not going to be enough to justify a definitely-$1k+ PS6

I’m inclined to agree. They might be able to sweeten that with a one year PSN voucher or something. Otherwise, you’re just paying for access to exclusive content, access to PSN, and the ability to say “I have a Sony.”

This is the way to go. Make sure to get the drive serviced so it doesn’t crap out prematurely. There are so many PS2s out there, you can probably still get one cheap.

This is kind of a big deal for other parts of Sony. This was partly propping up Sony’s disc manufacturing arm. All they have left is whatever DVD and CDs are still in production, assuming that’s still a thing.