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Greg Knieriemen
@knieriemen.bsky.social
Hitachi boomerang, cheerleader and cloud / hybrid-cloud / multi-cloud technology advocate. All things #tech #cloud #data

Live in The Land, work in The Valley. x-NetApp
I always wondered why so many movies are made in the UK - now I know:

"The leading Hollywood studios shoot in the U.K. because its government reimburses up to 25.5% of the money they spend on filming there."

I guess we should be thanking UK tax payers for Star Wars?

www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
Disney Reveals $645 Million Spending On Star Wars Show ‘Andor’
Disney has revealed that the cost of making Star Wars show Andor has surged to $645 million after it spent a record $290.9 million last year on filming its second season.
www.forbes.com
December 23, 2024 at 4:29 PM
If you watch just one thing today, this is well worth it…

youtu.be/o4OlL0OpbW8
Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video) (Directors' Cut)
YouTube video by Coldplay
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Congratulations to my friends at Veeam, hopefully you all benefit!

techcrunch.com/2024/12/04/d...
Data resilience firm Veeam scores $15B valuation in $2B secondary sale | TechCrunch
Veeam brought on strategic investors including TPG and Temasek to bolster its cap table with sites set on an eventual IPO.
techcrunch.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:10 PM
“Migration wasn't easy. Beeks runs proprietary software that it had tied to VMware APIs, and that had to be rebuilt to interface with OpenNebula.”

Yes, VMware is sticky… but where there is a will, there is a way.

www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/b...
UK financial services cloud Beeks Group mostly quits VMware
A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficient
www.theregister.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Reposted by Greg Knieriemen
Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.
Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky
The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.
www.theverge.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:30 PM
@awfulannouncing.bsky.social Doing their best to make Bluesky political… what an awful take.
Mina Kimes on the migration from X to Bluesky: "We are conflating egregious racism and misogyny with diversity of thought, or with reasonable opinion and disagreements.”

http://dlvr.it/TGM3pm
Mina Kimes denies claims Bluesky is a liberal echo chamber amid 'Xodus'
ESPN NFL analyst Mina Kimes explained her decision to leave X for Bluesky and why it's more than just a political choice.
dlvr.it
November 24, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Seems like this was inevitable… “DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly”

www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...
MSN
www.msn.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Reposted by Greg Knieriemen
Underrated work hack: Be easy to work with
November 18, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Hey… @edsai.bsky.social joined the party!

Follow him as I’m sure he will be a wealth of knowledge and wit.

Or don’t.
November 15, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Am I the only one struggling to follow people back with empty profiles?
November 14, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Just FYI… mortgage and credit card rates are going to stay high for awhile.

From WSJ: apple.news/ASHb4yMrrS2i...
If the Fed Is Cutting Rates, Why Aren’t Mortgage Rates Falling? — The Wall Street Journal
Consumer borrowing costs haven’t tracked the Fed since it cut rates by half a percentage point in September
apple.news
November 13, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Reposted by Greg Knieriemen
OK, now that the stampede to BlueSky has died down for a moment, and systems are a bit more stable, let's try sharing this again - our starter pack. Thanks for joining us!

go.bsky.app/EsDR7M7
November 13, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Reposted by Greg Knieriemen
Hey, VMware Fusion & Workstation users. So, it's free now. Are you still using it, or have you moved on, because Broadcom?

If you've moved on, what are you using instead, and what's your use case?

blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...
VMware Fusion and Workstation are Now Free for All Users
These powerful desktop hypervisor products are free to all users - commercial, educational, & personal users alike!
blogs.vmware.com
November 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Things I pulled from a drawer today…

#tech
November 12, 2024 at 7:16 PM
“Tesla’s computer vision-only approach is never going to work,” says Mary Cummings, a professor of computer science at George Mason University and director of its autonomy and robotics center. 

www.wsj.com/business/aut...
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Shocked… not shocked. The only real question… when will he finally admit that FSD isn’t possible with vision only sensors?

electrek.co/2024/10/23/e...
Elon Musk finally admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving
Elon Musk finally admits Tesla’s HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn’t actually know what it will...
electrek.co
October 28, 2024 at 5:57 PM
December 2023 US Jobless Claims:
187K vs 208K estimated.

The massive tech layoffs in December and January won’t hit for a couple of months due to garden leave, but they will hit. Watch the March and April numbers.
January 18, 2024 at 4:48 PM
January 11, 2024 at 3:10 AM
I’m out… #whamageddon
December 13, 2023 at 4:32 PM
The last thing Brutus said to Caesar…
November 21, 2023 at 2:26 AM
Happy Mean Girls Day to all who celebrate!
October 3, 2023 at 10:00 PM
Current status… at Poás Volcano National Park in Costa Rica.
September 2, 2023 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Greg Knieriemen
Your regular reminder that compared to pre-pandemic, average wages have increased *faster* than average prices. This is also true if we look at the most recent 12 months
August 28, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Probably an unpopular opinion if you live in the Bay Area… but I’m thinking more money should be invested in supporting people who want to relocate. “Build more affordable housing” has been the mantra for years and it’s just not happening.

theweek.com/in-depth/102...
From boomtown to bust, the story of San Francisco
A variety of social problems have cast a shadow over the once-gleaming City by the Bay
theweek.com
August 27, 2023 at 1:29 PM