Buh-bye Anthropic...

Nah. Short term dip in value, that's all, but I expect it to recover and improve.

When you realise the the US in not the only customer in the world, and other countries will be prioritising AI/LLMs that aren't embedded and ultimately controlled by the unstable and fascist government there. Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Canada - all places that have good reasons not to want the US Government being fed their data.

There's also Elon Musk's strange relationship with that government, and he would likely get access to Anthropic's codebase and IP through them too.

Also, non analytically, well done for standing up to bullies.

Somewhat de-values real supply-chain risk alerts, when they're used for political ends.

Anthropic would have been less secure if they had give the access required to the US Government, so it's actually more secure today than if it had bent over.

(Breathes in...)

Having spent a large part of today wrestling with a selfhosted mattermost upgrade, it would be nice if they spent a bit of time focusing on making this better, like many other things do. Nothing else, at least since we dropped Atlassian selfhosted apps, has been as consistently poor at this.

Changes to supported databases (not once, but twice), forced migrations, breaking change after breaking change (especially of things that could easily be handled automatically but instead block until you've found the log error and researched it), and so on. Support, even for commercial customers, is very poor and sometimes extremely rude (at least one senior dev is very opinionated). And things like arbitratrily restricting how many historical messages you can read without a commercial licence shows a deep disrespect for users, plus random feature creep like adding telephony, who actually uses that?

Compare to Teamcity where you click one link in the ui and are pretty confident stuff will work afterwards, and most other selfhosted apps where major distro specific packages are provided, and add a very rapid release cycle, it's a lot of work to maintain.

Overall, I'm not convinced that Mattermost is a well run project, foss or not. Major changes in direction smack of poor roadmapping and leadership. It would not surprise me at all if the licence issues in the post turned out to be accidental rather than deliberate.

Seriously, if you're in the market for a chat app - whether it's free or a thousands-seat enterprise, pick something else. Almost anything else.

Inevitable but stupid.

Nice map, very clear.

For anyone wondering, one of the biggest reasons for changing fertility is the education of women. There's a provable trend that better educated women have fewer babies.

Globally observed data is that: Women with little or no formal education tend to have more children. Women with secondary education have fewer. Women with university level education have the fewest children on average. So if you compared this map with one of women's education, I suspect there'd be a fairly close match.

That education also comes at a general trend of improved living standards for the whole population, so improving countries have an overall lessening fertility and the improved education is a product of that.

(I'm not an expert by any means - I'm just someone who fell down a rabbithole some time ago and spent an evening trying to understand this correlation. )

Frankly, it's a bloody weird thing to do unless medically required. Leave him be.