It's been long proven that outrage gets more traction on the internet than positivity...really, it predates the internet; nightly news stories have led with rage bait for decades.

The existing social media platforms have gotten to the point where everyone is outraged about something - whether it's The Orange Man or The Illegals or The Guns or The Abortions or The Terrible Men or The Terrible Women...and even if we somehow managed to make a new social media platform, tomorrow, that was 100% bot/AI free and exclusively human-made content with no import of content from existing social networks, all the Chronically Online humans would bring their rage about those issues with them to the platform.

The solution, then, is highly restrictive moderation to keep the outrage out of the space. Many vBulletin-style bulletin boards did exactly that to keep users on topic throughout the 2000s and 2010s...but such a heavy-handed moderation system requires dedicated moderators and a group of people who generally agree with the moderation for the sake of group cohesion on the topic. A general-purpose social network would find the required amount of moderation prohibitive. Reddit's moderation requirements basically meant that anyone who was successful at being a moderator, was commonly a Chronically Online person who isn't great at separating disagreement from justified moderation.

So, yes, any new social network, save for maybe a Mastodon server of known friends or an extension of an in-real-life social club, is going to speedrun itself into the flame wars and spam that made Usenet fall out of favor. Personally, I think that it's a result of the removal of the online/offline paradigm of dial-up internet - when there were limits on time and connectivity, it helped keep some distance between our Internet Selves and our Real Selves. Once the internet was always online and in our pocket all the time, there was no stop-and-think, it was just an outlet for every impulse. Any new social network will inherit that problem.

Thankfully, there are a finite number of old bugs. Unless new bugs are introduced at least as fast as old ones are found and fixed, the bug-pocalypse should ebb.

Even without the silly "$minimum wage to $million dollar" game, you can still advertise a very-low-end-of-industry-standard actual day-1 salary range with a clear statement along the lines of "opportunity for very large increase after 30 days" or something like that, and get the word out that you really mean it.

So, if you are advertising for a job that you are willing to pay 100K-150K/year for depending on qualifications, but the industry range is 80K-150K and you want to avoid posting your real salary, post "80K starting salary" on the job board but post ads in trade publications and online that say "ignore our starting salary, that's just for the first 30 days."

Then wait to see if the government will change the law or not.

This is no surprise. When a new bug-hunting technique comes along, it's bound to find lots of things that weren't easy to find with existing techniques but are easy to find with the new technique.

In a few months the "very easy to find" bugs will be found, and a few months later the "easy to find" ones will be identified, and the thousands-of-new-bugs-every-month that you are seeing in the kernel and from Microsoft will get back down to more reasonable levels.

I know of some offices where the staff-only network is for corporate-owned machines, staff are only allowed to connect their personal devices to the guest network.

Those personal devices, which won't have any government info on them, may be to blame.

Until someone says that this isn't the case here, we can't rule it out.

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Even if this is the case, it's still a problem that government employees are allowing personal devices to be infected. It could potentially leave them open to geographic and other types of profiling that could endanger them and the country they work for.

Corruption involving government officials and their friends and families? Say it isn't so.

For all we know this could be the guest WiFi network intended for visitors to use.

Not quite a manual, but I bought a Packt book that's supposed to help me learn Azure. Specifically, it claimed to have a number of sample projects to help me better understand Azure and use it more effectively.

In its chapter regarding configuring a site-to-site VPN, it glosses over the part where one is supposed to configure the local side, and its sole metric of success is whether either side has a connectivity indicator. In its chapter regarding storage options and tiers, there's no project at all. In its hybrid EntraID section, it says to just download Entra Connect to my domain controller - y'know, the one I just have lying around.

Claude was able to hold my hand through creating different resources, and took its time explaining the concept of a "resource group" multiple times until I understood the concept. Stack Overflow doesn't have that sort of instant gratification, but it does have enough of a group of people who can usually answer a question well-enough.

Written documentation has its place, but it requires a VERY good writer to express an idea in a way that will make sense to readers who, almost by definition, don't understand what the author is trying to convey. It's a skill that isn't at all easy to do, so quality of manuals vary greatly.

Vogon or Klingon? Asking for a friend.

Requiring students to appear on-campus or requiring them to fill out a sworn affidavit in front of a notary public who will check their ID will deter money mules.

Exceptions for students unable to access a notary public (think people living in very rural areas) would need to be handled on a case-by-case basis.

"the world's limited supply of DRAM"

The world's constrained supply of DRAM should ease in 2-5 years, at which point his argument, such as it is, will be much weaker.

That said, from an economy-of-scale and efficient-use-of-resources perspective, centralization makes sense. But form a privacy, autonomy, actual-ownership, and personal freedom perspective, it's a disaster waiting to happen.

doesn't have a Wikipedia article either.

Tivo came after the analog VCR. Affordable VCRs made time-shifting a thing.

But with a sufficient number of fiber-seeking backhoes* censorship will always be possible.

*"fiber-seeking backhoes" being a stand-in for whatever disrupts the physical layer of the network stack. Substitute radio jammers, power disruptions, etc. as appropriate for your target's network.