Mitch knows when to say nothing, has a filter, and doesn't spend every minute on the toilet sending xeets on Xitter.

Trump's spiral into madness will be something else.

I'm calling bullshit on companies laying off staff and replacing them with anything. Prove it. It's bullshit. It plays on AI hype, it is not even the AI hype.

Vibe coding is AI hype, for example

Laying people off because of AI is some meta hype bullshit. It's being spread equally by companies doing desperate layoffs and anti-AI bozos building the same strawman together, that AI is so good it can be used in exactly the irresponsible ways you imagine.

Go back to the past ten layoff announcements in your news feeds, try to find one thing they actually DO with AI that plausibly sounds like a reason to reduce headcount. I'll guarantee any rehiring stories have nothing to do with trying vibe coding and finding out, it'll be because their cuts to human capital were too deep and they found out. There's been a whole lot of that going around lately.. it's nothing to do with AI - *ahem*DOGE*cough*Xitter

I'm fucking tired of battling AI hype on one hand and the stupid as fuck anti-AI-hype-strawmen on the other. It's not replacing people, they're 99% lying. Also, the inability to actually lay people off because of AI has fuck-all to do with the dumb money being invested in it, so don't hold your breath for that to affect the other thing. Well... if you build one more stupid AI strawman, like your local grocer laid people off because the AIs, please do me a solid and hold your breath for the duration of the AI hype bubble. Thank you.

You're confusing two different things? The AI investment bubble is one thing, but companies with no pokers in that fire reducing headcount because of lower profits and blaming/crediting *wink *wink AI efficiency, that's a whole other thing riding on the coat tails of AI hype.

It's like ... datacenter to cloud migrations. To "save money". Yes that requires stupid levels of cloud hype, but now that it's called out as unrealistic and an excuse to cut a bunch of shit that could have been cut in place, it doesn't dent the cloud hype. One was following the other, cloud is still good for some stuff, it will do its own thing. Company is still going to make up reasons to cut datacenter costs, it was just easier to say cloud migration than... fire the enterprise storage guys and downgrade everything to shit-tier white box NAS for example, even if the results and savings are the same.

I'm very much pro-AI, but not investing a dime in it. I see it like the internet in 1999, not going away, but the money thrown at it is too stupid. I can tell you, it can continue to be the target of a whole lot more dumb money, well after we all sit down and agree that "AI layoffs" are complete and total bullshit for everything but niche stuff like maybe Duolingo's contracted out translation work, and we all fucking knew it the whole time.

As we did "saving money" with cloud migrations. Or the feasibility of bitcoin as a transactional network. Etc. Not saying these are all equally stupid, just that their hype bubbles don't depend on one particular line of follow on bullshit.

Eeeeesh, your talking points haven't aged well.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...

https://people.com/laura-loome...

And I'm not even going to get into the YRC or Nick Fuentes stuff.

Anyone denying the neo-nazi problem at this point is being disingenuous. Do you want a New York Post article too? Man up dude, it ain't going to fix itself.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/...

So first of all, welcome back to the surface. You dodged all the COVID-19 drama, lucky duck, but some stuff happened to the global economy while you were gone. Quantitative easing, central bank rate cuts, off the charts dumb money, global supply chain disruptions, war on free trade, anti-globalism, taco tariffs, etc.

It might be prudent to use an inflation adjustment if you're pointing to prices on both sides of all that, just sayin.

In my town, federal troops from neighboring states were deployed against the will of the people, the mayor, county commissioners, the governor, because "emergency", people the Trump admin have dehumanized live here.

But but but stew of freedom there was an infectious disease going around and municipal elections were delayed111!!

You have absolutely no credibility. There isn't a "it's different" shovel big enough for you to hope to try digging out of this.

Extrajudicial censorship, are you serious. Can we say Charlie Kirk was a bigot without endangering our careers, or mergers/acquisitions pending government review or broadcast licenses? Or would we piss someone off on Truth Social and next there's a tweet from a government official literally threatening an investigation into, whatever, I've lived in my vacation home 91 days, not the 90 it says on some paper.

But but but your tweet about horse paste wasn't amplified because someone said it was a bad idea and unsafe, it's totally the same as the government literally extorting every organization that Trump dislikes.

What the fuck does globalism have to do with arresting people in the U.S. for things they said online, or US states going papers please to access social media?

I've seen every obscure European origin weapon system from the past several decades fielded in Ukraine, all on YouTube, Reddit, etc. The fuck are you talking about.

I can't even name half of them, modern British tanks, polish Cold War era anti tank arial munitions that float down and fire shaped charges, German tanks, french .. tanks? Jets, British umm what are their anti tank things.. those Turkish drones!

Then you get into the drones and electronics and shit and it's coming from all over the world, without naming names. China.

It's literally been a world expo of past and present weapons. Suck it.

Charlie Kirk was a reprehensible piece of shit.

You're going to have to explain that.

"Trump and his administration are backwards bigoted bloviating blowhards" and
"Don't vote for backwards bigoted bloviating blowhards"

Both protected free speech in the U.S., just to be crystal fucking clear. Are we talking about advocating for violence or something like that? No? Abusing some authority? No? So try explaining why "American Viewpoints" is the deciding factor in your theory here, because that's what the article is talking about.

Both siding Linux and Windows does absolutely nothing for Linux. Burying our heads in the sand while chanting "proprietary software has problems too" is how we got to this point. Where Microsoft makes the best IDE for Linux, but being open source and cross platform, why use it on a Linux system?

The point where most "Linux" systems don't actually have Linux, they're OSS utilities in a WSL terminal on a Windows desktop. Or Cygwin before that, or Brew on a Mac, or even Brew inside a WSL terminal. The useful bits of a Linux OS transplanted to a better desktop OS.

And actual Linux systems are chromebooks, android phones, steam machines, or kubernetes nodes... because Linux software distribution not being "desktop scale" is the understatement of the decade. None of these are recognizable as a Linux OS. The whole idea of a Linux OS, as in a unix-like OS built with Linux and free software, it's a fantasy on desktop, and its best days were behind it on server.

They're talking about the algorithm that decides what cipher to use for key exchange, and AES has been supported for a while already. I know efforts to migrate from RC4 have been ongoing for a long time. It's a little late and pointless to be salty about cipher choices back in the early 2000s.. the web was barely even using https back then, asymmetric encryption was still "expensive".

For example, user accounts in windows will use AES by default, but if you create a service account you have to manually set the msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes attribute to allow AES, else the key exchange falls back to RC4. I'm sure this was done because changing the default for service accounts broke some partners integrations somewhere sometime.

So you can have an AES keytab for your service, do everything right as far as you know, and the session key the app gets will be RC4, if you didn't set that attribute to let the KDC know your app supports AES session encryption. That's one of the main problems I can think of that they could fix by making RC4 opt-in instead of AES.

I barely get Kerberos, it's pretty backwards at first glance because PKI made it obsolete, but I can say if anyone doesn't understand Kerberos, you'd probably want to slowly back away from this conversation. It's not worth the lost brain cells to learn how this old symmetric key exchange system works. All you need to know if when someone says "hey let's use Kerberos instead of ssl", punch them right in the dick or vag. Also, big fuck you to the Kafka devs.

And here's a recent example.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Uncritically celebrating this administration's reverse-racism judo move to call any attempt to measure unintentional discrimination, harmful discrimination in itself.

Which, if everything was in a vacuum, leads to interesting thought experiments, but in reality, the same administration is persistently and openly pursuing "unintentional" race or sex or religious discrimination, in many of its policies. From gerrymandering congressional districts, to travel bans, to sports, to naturalization policy, to federal ... religious? policy. Seriously, https://www.justice.gov/religi...
Ah.. look who is and isn't represented here. Shocker. And you can't protect women's sports without discrim... ah.. oops. Let's go back to "unintentionally", girls play softball and boys play baseball. That's... their whole agenda, not eliminating discrimination, enabling and DOING it, as an unfortunate side effect, of course.

What would it mean to cry reverse-discrimination, how dare you say we're men only, while simultaneously chartering an "unintentionally" all-men's club, scrotum required, new members report for in-processing behind the old tool shed. There's no intellectual debate to be had there, it's purely disingenuous and only an unserious hack could pick sides on something like disparate impact without looking at real world examples of its impact. Shame on WaPo's editorial board, and fuck Bezos with a rusty spoon. If the goal is to make WaPo appeal to a broader audience it can be done without being so unserious and dumb.

... yet you'd easily take a coworker that screwed up 38% less often.

I'm not sure what the point of comparing to a parachute is, when you don't have a reason to control a parachute with a computer in the first place.