Comment Re: I mostly skipped these (Score 2) 23
I used to be such an asshole. I mean, I'm still an asshole. But I used to be one too.
Enjoy your 320x200 streams.
It might be too soon but the Exodus Technologies third-order Coulomb devices (IIRC) are built for this kind of very low impulse long duration lifiting.
Getting a rig up there to clamp on to the Hubble is probably the hard part of the project.
High-impulse propulsion is more likely to damage it than low and slow.
This was during the "NJ Drone Flap".
Trump was on TV saying he'd been briefed on them and the drones were "tracked back to their garage".
Last thing he said about it before his FAA said "they were authorized, we're not explaining, stop asking".
Matthew Livelsberger said they were of Chinese origin.
Robert Hastings wrote an entire book on unidentified craft over nuclear facilities covering four decades of documented incursions.
The FoIA request sounds like good data but nothing new.
From what I can tell most middle managers hate their employees - especially those who are smarter and more skilled - and can't wait to replace them.
They all probably think they'll be one of the last humans at the company.
It'll be funny when AI supplants middle management.
The right way is for a manager to be the advocate and ally of his subordinates. It can work really well but there's little place for ego and envy.
It's just used an excuse for censorship is the main problem.
Like every single South Park episode has its own page but several public intellectuals who spoke out against lockdowns suddenly became "not notable".
"Trust the Experts" / "You're no longer an expert"
Abuse is inherent in the system as currently defined.
They could use some proxy like view counts, but that would be objective, not subjective.
Yet every once in a while I look up some obscure biological molecule or plant that hardly anybody cares about, mostly for the external references because the articles are so short, and I'd hate to see those get purged. I've found some odd and rare flora growing in my forest and appreciate the information.
Say what you want about LLM's but they could probably be tasked with policing for defacement.
> that old computer or phone that has had a factory wipe
Don't trust old phones with too much value.
There are hardware bugs on Bluetooth, WiFi, and SS7 that are fairly easy to hack with the right setup and SS7 especially is built into the same baseband controller so main memory can be exfiltrated over cellular even without an active SIM.
Keeping it turned off most of the time reduces the attack surface, of course.
A few phones do better - switchable modems, etc. but very few and even some phones that meet GrapheneOS specs are imperfect.
An old ThinkPad with LibreBoot is probably OK if you want to get really nerdy. Yet 0.00001% of the population can handle that.
Hot/warm/cold is of course another layer of protection. But again, very few people can manage this.
Still, if you are transferring $200 to your dedicated phone to go out shopping, it's not very tragic if it gets lost.
We really don't have a good solution for the 99% yet. So companies like Binance step in and make a profit (as long as they can assume liability and responsibility for losses).
It sounds like that devops laptop had
It seems more likely that what they're looking at is 'nobody' who reads Reddit posts without logging in will ever need to visit Reddit.com because they can just get all the answers they want from a Gemini query.
I can see their conundrum while noticing that it will suck for humans more than AI and that AI - as currently [not] enforced by law - is the primary culprit in this round of enshittification.
The current economic situation is that all profit from the current web will accrue to the Mag7 while their datasources will foot the bill for making it possible.
If somebody doesn't invent a better economic model soon there won't be much content left for AI to scrape and injest.
Verify that you're human [ ].
Proton used to let you buy an account with Bitcoin. Then they started requiring a credit card number or an outside email/phone.
It was clear to me that the perception of security replaced privacy.
I'm not sure what I need Proton for that needs my banking information tied to it.
The article is actually reassuring that I didn't misperceive what was going on.
This immediately came to mind:
I've only been paying attention since 1990 but every single time a feature they don't offer "is stupid" until they offer it.
Even when I liked the company this Cluster B behavior always bothered me.
If there's an example of "that's a really nice feature our competitor has but we don't offer it yet" I haven't seen it.
The closest I can think of was offering WebObjects for Solaris. Not sure if that ever shipped or we just had a beta. I bailed from that Healthcare IT team when the CIO pulled funding for two-phase commit among disparate patient medication systems with the rationale "even if medication errors kill someone it'll be cheaper to settle the lawsuits than pay for the license." Enough people left that they outsourced and everybody still hates that replacement system.
I learned too late that MBA's don't care about quality.
> everything you do has fucked the consumers
Say more
Let them do their thing.
I remember in High School the Camaro guys couldn't stop talking about how their Camaros were better than Mustangs but the Mustang guys never felt the need to denigrate the Camaros.
It's a matter of nature.
unrelated: Tailscale is so fooked today:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...
Some people here may need to panic right about now.
The right way to do this is to hire a group of developers and have test volunteers report workflow problems - then FIX them - then iterate. That's the point of choosing an open source solution.
Eventually there would be no problems remaining.
But so many possible scenarios exist that it's impossible to guess what happened here.
PS _NSA_KEY
Mater artium necessitas. [Necessity is the mother of invention].