▲ 1404 ▼ Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have (sopuli.xyz) submitted 3 years ago by salarua@sopuli.xyz to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world 227 comments fedilink hide all child comments Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren't straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children) There's a company called Hashicorp that's been in the news recently. Literally perfect permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 years ago (1 child) Heh, people from 50 years ago hearing that my job is terraforming using Hashicorp equipment would be very disappointed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago Terraform it all. Pave the moon. Dairy Queens on Mars. Uber in the skies of Jupiter. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Hashicorp’s been around for years; since 2012 actually. Used to be a pretty cool company, looked up by many, like a shining beacon in the darkness. It’s unfortunate where they’ve gone to now. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) I wondered what Badland was talking about, but I nodded along like I knew. Maybe the next words out of his mouth would be an explanation of what he’s just said. It could happen. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] rolaulten@startrek.website 5 points 3 years ago I don't know what part your unaware of - so let me do the ELI5. They (HashiCorp) created a tool called teraform which is used for defining what servers/other infrastructure you use in places like AWS. Up until recently this was open source under the Mozilla license to something that's not quite open, but not fully closed source (yet). permalink fedilink source parent [–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I intended to give an explanation, but since this community is pretty general, i.e. we have people from basically all walks of life here, many with little to no involvement or understanding of the tech industry, so I decided to leave it out cause it would be too much to explain. rolauten@startrek.website has given us a pretty brief explanation, but I think it can be further simplified, though would require a lot more knowledge build up (i.e. more words). If anyone’s interested, I can try to write a fireplace story, though I can’t say I’m the most qualified person to do so, or give an absolutely accurate story. permalink fedilink source parent [–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child) I don't get how the name is dystopian. Is it from a book or movie or something? Search only turns up the company you're talking about. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) Could be that it mixes what sounds like a Japanese name with an English word, which makes it seem like a company from Japan operating in an English speaking place. In the 1980s people expected that Japan was going to take over more and more American business. Japan was a major player and so sci fi written then — including that which was cyberpunk dystopian — assumed there’d be companies like “Ford” but named after Japanese guys. Also it’s not “Hashi Corporation” it’s “HashiCorp” which implies a sort of pop-cultureification, like the company has sort of compacted over the years, and gotten less Japanese (known) and more hybrid Japanese-American-Corporate-Marketing (unknown, megacorps have shady cultures, they’re new things). If HashiCorp were to show up in a movie, it would be in a holographic ad someone flies past. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] neutron 1 point 3 years ago And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 years ago (1 child) Heh, people from 50 years ago hearing that my job is terraforming using Hashicorp equipment would be very disappointed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago Terraform it all. Pave the moon. Dairy Queens on Mars. Uber in the skies of Jupiter. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago Terraform it all. Pave the moon. Dairy Queens on Mars. Uber in the skies of Jupiter. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Hashicorp’s been around for years; since 2012 actually. Used to be a pretty cool company, looked up by many, like a shining beacon in the darkness. It’s unfortunate where they’ve gone to now. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) I wondered what Badland was talking about, but I nodded along like I knew. Maybe the next words out of his mouth would be an explanation of what he’s just said. It could happen. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] rolaulten@startrek.website 5 points 3 years ago I don't know what part your unaware of - so let me do the ELI5. They (HashiCorp) created a tool called teraform which is used for defining what servers/other infrastructure you use in places like AWS. Up until recently this was open source under the Mozilla license to something that's not quite open, but not fully closed source (yet). permalink fedilink source parent [–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I intended to give an explanation, but since this community is pretty general, i.e. we have people from basically all walks of life here, many with little to no involvement or understanding of the tech industry, so I decided to leave it out cause it would be too much to explain. rolauten@startrek.website has given us a pretty brief explanation, but I think it can be further simplified, though would require a lot more knowledge build up (i.e. more words). If anyone’s interested, I can try to write a fireplace story, though I can’t say I’m the most qualified person to do so, or give an absolutely accurate story. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) I wondered what Badland was talking about, but I nodded along like I knew. Maybe the next words out of his mouth would be an explanation of what he’s just said. It could happen. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] rolaulten@startrek.website 5 points 3 years ago I don't know what part your unaware of - so let me do the ELI5. They (HashiCorp) created a tool called teraform which is used for defining what servers/other infrastructure you use in places like AWS. Up until recently this was open source under the Mozilla license to something that's not quite open, but not fully closed source (yet). permalink fedilink source parent [–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I intended to give an explanation, but since this community is pretty general, i.e. we have people from basically all walks of life here, many with little to no involvement or understanding of the tech industry, so I decided to leave it out cause it would be too much to explain. rolauten@startrek.website has given us a pretty brief explanation, but I think it can be further simplified, though would require a lot more knowledge build up (i.e. more words). If anyone’s interested, I can try to write a fireplace story, though I can’t say I’m the most qualified person to do so, or give an absolutely accurate story. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rolaulten@startrek.website 5 points 3 years ago I don't know what part your unaware of - so let me do the ELI5. They (HashiCorp) created a tool called teraform which is used for defining what servers/other infrastructure you use in places like AWS. Up until recently this was open source under the Mozilla license to something that's not quite open, but not fully closed source (yet). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I intended to give an explanation, but since this community is pretty general, i.e. we have people from basically all walks of life here, many with little to no involvement or understanding of the tech industry, so I decided to leave it out cause it would be too much to explain. rolauten@startrek.website has given us a pretty brief explanation, but I think it can be further simplified, though would require a lot more knowledge build up (i.e. more words). If anyone’s interested, I can try to write a fireplace story, though I can’t say I’m the most qualified person to do so, or give an absolutely accurate story. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child) I don't get how the name is dystopian. Is it from a book or movie or something? Search only turns up the company you're talking about. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) Could be that it mixes what sounds like a Japanese name with an English word, which makes it seem like a company from Japan operating in an English speaking place. In the 1980s people expected that Japan was going to take over more and more American business. Japan was a major player and so sci fi written then — including that which was cyberpunk dystopian — assumed there’d be companies like “Ford” but named after Japanese guys. Also it’s not “Hashi Corporation” it’s “HashiCorp” which implies a sort of pop-cultureification, like the company has sort of compacted over the years, and gotten less Japanese (known) and more hybrid Japanese-American-Corporate-Marketing (unknown, megacorps have shady cultures, they’re new things). If HashiCorp were to show up in a movie, it would be in a holographic ad someone flies past. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] neutron 1 point 3 years ago And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) Could be that it mixes what sounds like a Japanese name with an English word, which makes it seem like a company from Japan operating in an English speaking place. In the 1980s people expected that Japan was going to take over more and more American business. Japan was a major player and so sci fi written then — including that which was cyberpunk dystopian — assumed there’d be companies like “Ford” but named after Japanese guys. Also it’s not “Hashi Corporation” it’s “HashiCorp” which implies a sort of pop-cultureification, like the company has sort of compacted over the years, and gotten less Japanese (known) and more hybrid Japanese-American-Corporate-Marketing (unknown, megacorps have shady cultures, they’re new things). If HashiCorp were to show up in a movie, it would be in a holographic ad someone flies past. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] neutron 1 point 3 years ago And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] neutron 1 point 3 years ago And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin. permalink fedilink source parent