shish_mish to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months agoBillionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1476arrow-down13cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.senews@hexbear.netaboringdystopia@lemmy.world
arrow-up1473arrow-down1external-linkBillionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'www.businessinsider.comshish_mish to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square75fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.senews@hexbear.netaboringdystopia@lemmy.world
minus-squareMadrigallinkfedilinkEnglish18•7 months agoAnd that’s their only “good” product. The rest is utter garbageware, designed for one purpose: to check boxes on RFPs.
minus-square@4z01235@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish14•edit-27 months agoMySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems, which was also the original developer of Java. Oracle acquired Sun. So I’d say any niceness there is in spite of, not because of, Oracle. Also… Java’s still pretty nice :-)
minus-square@Cosmicomical@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoYeah I heard it runs on 3 billion devices lol
And that’s their only “good” product.
The rest is utter garbageware, designed for one purpose: to check boxes on RFPs.
Java was nice for the time. Same with MySQL.
MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems, which was also the original developer of Java. Oracle acquired Sun. So I’d say any niceness there is in spite of, not because of, Oracle.
Also… Java’s still pretty nice :-)
Yeah I heard it runs on 3 billion devices lol