This proposed large HVDC line (Texas to Southeast via Southern Spirit ) is designed specifically to preserve ERCOT independence. FERC approved it without triggering full federal jurisdiction over ERCOT operations because HVDC keeps the grids asynchronous (controlled, scheduled flows via converters). It's not "leeching"; it's bilateral trade that benefits reliability and markets. Texas exports power often (cheap renewables/gas); imports during peaks. Other regions do the same and none of it's free or some kind of enforced exchange outside of the market.

You're also ignoring that during the 2021 ERCOT outage, many of the neighboring states had severe outages and problems of their own. Some limited tie capacity and the scale of failures mean it likely wouldn't have eliminated rolling blackouts. In other words, you're arguement against the parent post is insufficiently backed with any facts and poorly reasoned. Interconnection helps margins but doesn't fix frozen wells, un-winterized plants, or fuel delivery.

One fundamental problem for your anti-texas rant is that they are net exporter of energy and that includes electricity. That kinda calls bullshit on just about every point you tried rather weakly to make.

Citation needed. Nobody actually thinks that but it seems you're making it up to make your anti-Texas hopes seem more realistic.

There isn't that much interconnection because Texas (mostly ERCOT) runs its own grid to avoid federal regulation (FERC oversight) since lines don't cross state borders much. This dates to the 1930s. It gives more local control, faster renewable buildout (Texas leads in wind, big in solar), and a competitive market.

What I'm seeing is someone who is always lefty-style-hateful and probably also jealous of Texas's success while hoping they'll have problems they probably won't have (recent changes improved weatherization and other grid countermeasures) in order to feel morally smug or vindicated while simultaneously offering no real evidence for a flaw-filled thesis.

While that's technically true, what I'm asserting is that it's being used by other API's (various game and GL libraries) across platforms in a way that actually works.

There are only a handful of ways to implement something like Vulkan across so many different display strategies. Frankly, I think they've adopted the most sane and straightforward solution: do first class support for all of them as best you can and abstract those behind your API. If Khronos were selling Wayland or X11, they'd be stuck in the same divide as all the 'next gen' solutions that are busy failing or building a walled garden.

Vulkan is friendly to both X11 (x11vk) and Wayland (waylandvk). It works on Linux (with Mesa or proprietary drivers), Windows, and elsewhere, regardless of the underlying display protocol. Thank you, Khronos for side stepping that quagmire.

Correct. Yes, I'm bitter. I'm not directly accusing you or anyone else in the thread of being a Communist. I don't really recognize you and most of the others besides dfghjk are ACs.

Now, dfghjk is a TDS guy who posts standard anti-Trump rhetoric 9-out-of-10 times. I don't know if he's a Communist or a different brand of far-Left person. I do know that as son as he gets any pushback whatsoever he simply reaches straight for ad hominem and never wins any debates that I've seen on Slashdot.

I would never eat something given to me by a random stranger. Yet, folks are perfectly sanguine to run code given to them by folks who hate them. It blows my mind.

Nope. It's factual and based on the extreme left-leaning politics shown by both the operators and their pet mods on Slashdot. If you choose to be in denial about that let's just leave the adjudication to the readers, eh?

Alas that nobody every says "Enough. No." and if they do, they either get thrown in jail forever or exiled to another country. I kinda wonder if it's as bad in Poland or Hungary. I know there are still a lot of very pro-western white folks there. Maybe they it figured out? It's all gone to hell here in the USA. I'm glad we nominally still have the First Amendment, which is still better than the weak-sauce in the EU of "free speech until we get annoyed then you go to jail". However, it's nowhere near strong enough for my tastes. Freedom and freedom of speech is definitely what the country was founded on. However, we've drifted VERY far from those days.

I completely agree with you. I'm also SMH because you posted as Anonymous Coward. It's a statement about the environment/culture at Slashdot where it's now just too much trouble to try and debate some communist-loving far left idiot because they, their buddies, and their sock puppets will simply downmod you into oblivion. I cannot say I don't understand, though. It's tiresome.

It just sucks to be a Slashdot old-timer (lost my less than 4-digit ID when usa.net died suddenly and I couldn't recover the account). It used to be freedom lovers and hackers said "information wants to be free!" as a battle cry. Now, it's "censor me harder daddy" government sycophants fighting a partisan culture war, not debating issues or philosophical merits.

Do you rights include poisoning ancestral farms in Myanmar where they pour tons of sulfuric acid at the top of a hill then collect the leeched lithium from now-toxic streams (for your precious EV batteries)? Do they include poisoning water supplies in DRC with the runoff from Cobalt mining that kills their fish and causes birth defects (limb abnormalities, spina bifida), respiratory issues, skin diseases, and reproductive health problems in nearby communities? Did those folks happen to have any rights or do we just ignore that because it doesn't fit your narrative? Are you squeemish about the PFAS, Lead, and Cadnium used in making solar panels that poisons both the areas around manufacturing as well as the landfills they end up in? Did you forgo using any of those? Did you turn off your lights because they used wind turbines that create huge non-biodegradable waste piles of epoxy resin, plastics, and carbon fiber?

Essentially, unless you are Amish posting from the back of a covered wagon from a borrowed laptop: you're a total hypocrite.

Let's look at what's been released, CVE-wise. Something fewer than 10 LPEs mostly for Linux. They've released about 15 checksums for "future CVEs" they want to claim. One FreeBSD RCE. Zero OpenSSH or OpenSSL RCEs or LPEs. Something like 200-300 bugs claimed to be fixed by Mozilla using Mythos.

I don't doubt that they've found some bugs, but they keep claiming thousands. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and they simply haven't produced every 1/10th of the evidence they need to substantiate their claims.

Show your cards or SHUT THE FUCK UP, Anthropic. You guys are annoying and I suspect you are giant liars, too. You sure as fuck lied about the C compiler. It was broke as fuck with no assembler and a useless non-working linker.

Translation: "You caught me in an authoritarian slip and I'm going to weasel out of fully answering by using ad hominem and backing away from my strident statement about requirements for FOSS."

It's okay. If I was an authoritarian, I wouldn't want everyone to know, either. You still wearing a mask outside?

That's not unheard of, but just rarely the case. It happens, but generally it's apparent that it's a LPE that could become an RCE. I don't think it's anything to hyperventilate about.

People screw up badly all the time. So, these types of attacks will happen probably regardless of AI making it that much easier to pull off. I'm curious when you say "but some insight into software security and supply chain security will also be required from people doing FOSS. That is unfortunate, bit the only way." Since you always come across as a big-government communist type, what's your solution, a big prison term for any FOSS author who doesn't fix vulnerabilities? Gulags for volunteers? "Comrade we've found a terrorist compiler suite with your personal files. You're going to have to disappear, now."

I think the truth of either thesis will be determined by how many RCE's they find in things like IP/TCP stacks and always-on-can't-block-them services like OpenSSH. So far, given the size of the attack surface, the OpenBSD team is beating the living dogshit out of AI. That might change, but they haven't even found any RCE's in *any* OS that are that fundamental. So, if being secure means just turning off old services you don't need anyway, and maybe moving toward something like port-knocking to expose your OpenSSH service, even old systems can be made to be VERY secure. Of course, I've always said that if you have untrusted users you are fucked. LPEs are a dime a dozen and can break anything, even VMware tenant separation.