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How the Sun Microsystems acquisition made Oracle the cloud company it is today

If your deal is nostalgia for another time (imagined on real), your customers are likely conservative regarding modernizing. They want things to stay the same, the job to be done, brand wise, is a nostalgia experience. Hopefully the food has good price/performance too. // Cracker Barrel halts remodels after logo backlash, lackluster test

“Today the only full time employees besides him are Horvitz and two full time editors. The rest of the staff – a book keeper and the remaining 23 editors – are part time working remotely in enough different time zones to supply Techmeme and Mediagazer with near 24×7 coverage.” // Gabe Rivera’s 20-year-old headline site, Techmeme, has never been hotter.

Looks like great additions for MCP. Spring AI 1.1.0-M1 Available Now

“won’t be available if both the user is physically in the EU and their Apple Account region is in the EU.” www.macrumors.com/2025/09/1…

That screaming guy

SCREAMC.BMF

A stark white and black silkscreen-style print of a man screaming. The man has obviously spent too much time online.

Recently in Greece

CARA.BMF

An illustration of a two-door sedan. Any identifying make or model features have been stripped away. There’s no license plate. The image is grayscale, so even the paint color is indeterminate. Yet as soon as Matt saw the clipart he immediately identified the car as the same vehicle issued to his father as the “company car” in 1984. Not merely the same make, model, and year, but the exact vehicle. This is the car. All those years ago and it shows up here like a revenant, a manifestation of pistons, gears, metal, and glass returned from the grave.

Private Cloud

Somewhere between 40% and 60% of apps run on private cloud, you just never hear about it.

I consolidated my two Mastodon accounts into one, moving/merging @cote@social.lol to @cote@cote.io. It’ll be the same stuff, more or less. I’m not sure how replies will work.

@cote@cote.io, @cote@cote.io @cote, @cote.io https://proven.lol/a60da7,