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- on Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
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on OpenAI ends contract: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX. After Musk acquired Twitter, now part of SpaceX, the company brokethe terms of our contract (alongside many others). in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
IMHO, if you have that many enterprise clients, you can’t just nuke product support without a press release that explains the rationale. It’s safer to explain the reasoning and as the last few sentences indicated, help them transition to a new IDE that works with your product.
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on OpenAI ends contract: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX. After Musk acquired Twitter, now part of SpaceX, the company brokethe terms of our contract (alongside many others). in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
That blog post struck me as something pretty boring. It has the stink of a legal and PR team. What was the pissy / self-indulgent part?
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on OpenAI ends contract: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX. After Musk acquired Twitter, now part of SpaceX, the company brokethe terms of our contract (alongside many others). in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
I think anyone running Open AI would make that call.
Anyone in that role would be worried about Musk using end users as a way to acquire model distillation data to feed Grok with GTP.
Musk is a direct competitor, has been feuding with Open AI for years, and he has shown that he’s totally ok with acquiring data in aggressively shady ways.
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on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
This is PBS St Louis. So get ready to store hundreds of hours of this:
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on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
And IT staff is often a lot of young folks who are building their resume and make really dumb rookie decisions. I was once that rookie.
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on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
Agreed. Although sometimes these smaller affiliates don’t have super-seasoned IT talent. The jobs for the department heads at these organizations often make what an intern or college grad would make in the private sector at an unremarkable mid-size tech company.
You often get people making questionable decisions simply because they don’t have seasoned IT people in the building.
All in all, this was dumb, but it also feels like a story I’ve seen before. The nonprofit media isn’t funded, and the cracks are showing.
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on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
This looks like this is isolated to KETC’s locally produced shows for Missouri. They appear to be a smaller affiliate and they don’t make a ton of stuff that contributes to national and international broadcasts.
Since they have a smaller audience I imagine it’s going to be harder for KETC to find community-created backups of their stuff.
I also imagine that if Missouri gave more of a shit about public broadcasting, this affiliate would be operating with better funded / more experienced IT staff. These little affiliates really rely on a lot of volunteers and green IT folks who do the work for the experience.
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on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
Does the local St. Louis affiliate produce anything that lots of people would want to seed? They look like a smaller affiliate compared to the WGBH and WNETs out there.
I imagine KETC is a really small shop that mostly broadcasts stuff others have made, plus hyper-local content that isn’t expensive to make.
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on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
More specifically, this PBS affiliate (Nine PBS St Louis). It wasn’t PBS proper. This only impacted local programming archives. But that’s still a loss for the local community.
PBS likely does much better than this. Heck, a lot of their stuff is backed up in the Library of Congress.
And this is why IT teams often lock accounts after they’ve terminated someone. Too many crazies post a screed to the general channel to shit on their peers on the way out.
I imagine he posed this right after the board meeting, before the new CEO could tell IT to lock him out.