TIL Geohot pretty much want the exact same thing in a laptop. Basically a Macbook Pro running Linux.

What a wonderful resource The Computer Chronicles has been. One of the core pieces of entertainment I use to fall asleep to when I am on the road and trying to sleep in hotels. Rest in peace, Stewart.

I think there is a difference between mere us vs them political sports-fanning and having incredible skepticism towards a particular administration.

Agreed-- I despise being continuously antagonized by corporate-speak.

“With the acquisition of Confluent, IBM will provide the smart data platform for enterprise IT, purpose-built for AI.”

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-ibm-to-acquire-confluent...

I don't understand how this acquisition is relevant for AI.

Every time an executive says AI the number goes up.

Always Increasing

Event-driven AI decision making is the C-suite wet dream. A large % of major orgs run Kafka for their eventing systems.

So the idea is sorta watching the wire of streaming data with autonomous agents or something like that?

Exactly. An agent may be acting on the contents of individual events, but also spotting trends and patterns in events, and intervening where needed/instructed.

Cybersyn for capitalists.

not for much longer

As I read the release, it just sounded like "something something something data, something something something AI."

AI is just the lastest buzzword. Everyone has it, because they have to. Don't look behind the curtain.

Anything today has to contain the word "AI" otherwise it simply won't be considered.

Streaming, EDA can solve lot of data challenges for enterprise AI use cases

It's depressing how IBM always uses the same language with every single acquisition. They don't care about the actual tech, only the patents and the ability to resell it.

You can double your company's value by saying it's an AI company. Easiest, simplest way to create value.

Everything in IT is AI now. We should just change the industry initialism to AIT.

They probably have cursor licenses

AI Agent for Kafka Consumer group

/s

I re-downloaded from the link in the blog for macos and reinstalled and I get the same issue.

Nah I have the same error.

Interesting. Bit of a bite out of Azure AI Foundry and their claim to be the only public cloud provider to host some of OpenAI's more prestigious models.

Right, and I seem to remember this sort of point in Wittgenstein as well in his rule-following argument where, to make an adjustment to his question, what would it mean for a computer to be miscomputing other than bucking our expectations for what a system should produce; all computers clearly are performing exactly as our physics describe them, even if they produce 2 * 2 = 5 on a screen.

Augmenting/replacing search seems to be one of the truly useful benefits of Copilot. Not sure if that's because it's good or because Teams/Sharepoint search is so bad.