I work in a primarily Juniper environment, and I'm not that familiar with HPE (Did they previously have anything in the networking space?). It's sounding pretty doom-and-gloom in here, what should my level of concern be?
I would be pretty bummed to change vendor. Junos is probably my favorite networking OS. The CLI is comfortable, BSD is never too far away, and the config structure is gorgeous. IOS (and similar) can really be a pain to read by comparison.
HP had their own ProCurve networking and they also bought Aruba.
We don't know what HPE is going to do to Juniper specifically, but in general many acquisitions either raise prices or simplify the product line by canceling some products. In this case HPE may cancel some Aruba products and replace them with Mist equivalents.
They also inherited 3Com from HP and the range of H3C switches were far superior to ProCurve for many years. I think they only offloaded their stake last year.
I work at a network VAR partnered with both of these companies, but these thoughts are my own assumptions. HPE didn't immediately implode Aruba, I don't think they'll immediately implode Juniper either. That said, I don't think it's a good move as a fan of Juniper myself. I think Mist/AI led the desire for the acquisition, particularly with their performance in the lower end market last year vs HPE Aruba type products which usually win for higher end enterprise. I'm cautious about how they'll handle the other product lines, particularly on how much the care about them. Obviously nothing is disappearing overnight though, this will be something that shakes out over years.
Anybody else noticing how much of a fever dream this website is?
There are no usernames, only unnerving AI-generated portraits?
I can upvote things by using a currency I earn by listening to music that randomly starts playing backwards?
> Two digital people can mate and produce a child inside of Celody.
> This process occurs through music - where the parents' data is compared and generates an infinite stream.
> If the humans listening to this stream like the music, they can have the digital people reproduce.
> The digital child then inherits a mix of data of their parents.
Honestly I love it. It seems like some kind of surreal cyberpunk art project. The only thing a little disappointing is the blasé rounded rectangle web design
I think this misses the "punk" aspect of cyberpunk tho. The point of cyberpunk isn't the dystopia it is set in but the rejection of that dystopia from within it.
The OP's first submission was a "Show HN" for Celody, and since then they've submitted a bunch of these. I'm just trying to figure out if the "author" of this post has had any digital music babies yet.
e: Wow, stumbled on this:
> Once a post has been staked and is live, it is open to judgment. Every post has a binary agree/disagree (or like/dislike) set of buttons. If you agree with the post, you send tokens with the "agree" button. If you disagree, you send tokens after pressing the "disagree" button. Critically, the quantity of tokens sent matters. The more tokens, the more impact it has on the Stakedy algorithm. These tokens also act as a reward to the poster.
Sounds like web3 will be algorithmically provoking outrage even more effectively than web2!
I think I'm gonna just take a pause on the discussion side of the internet for a long long time now. This website was just too uncanny, and now I can't help but imagine there isn't anything actually genuine left on the web that I'd be able to discover at least. Why rely on actual users when you can just generate posts that cater to whatever product you intend to market? Eventually its going to just make too much sense to cut the users out and remove the possibilities of edge cases of them posting disagreeable stuff that undermines your business in some way. The race to the bottom is here. We have arrived. Back to real life I go.
