RealID is so important to security, it can't be used to prove you are a U.S. citizen. So says DHS, the people administering the RealID program.

There were people in the loop of that entire process and she was illegally detained for 6 months for a crime they had zero probable cause for. Humans don't mean shit if they outsource their brains.

It has to be on-site for that amount. Mixer trucks can't be on the road for too long. They get filled up and have to immediately be dumped out. If one gets stuck in traffic for too long, the entire concrete drum might have to be removed, and they're often buried at the destination site.

That's what happened to the "Killdozer" guy. He was using a buried cement mixer drum as a septic tank and the city was like "you gotta hook up to the sewer, shit is literally flowing into everyone else's land from your place." Then the guy went on and on about how the town was against him or some shit because he was fucking insane. Then he built his armored Kotomasu and rampaged through the town. The evacuation order was the only reason people didn't die. He drove through a library full of children!

The 2019 documentary Tred goes into a lot of the details. That guy is held up as some kind of libertarian hero when he really was a mentally disturbed psycho.

The elected officials in these places are absolutely shitty beyond any measure. Someone needs to audit them and see how much they're getting in kickbacks. In this particular case, thousands of locals were protesting and the elected representative tried to tell people the protestors were shipped in from other places:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The guy is also bitching about people protesting at his house. Bitch you were elected and you're ignoring the will of the majority of your electorate for a colossal center company nobody fucking wants! If we went back a century and a half, you would be dragged from your house, and your family would be tied up and made to watch it burn to the ground.... and then you would have been voted out.

America has a dark history. The data centers are for the surveillance needed to stop the will of the people.

I'm...curious...if Nadella's assessment of the board had to do with some deficiency in keeping minutes; or if he's just shocked into incomprehension by the idea that the board would fire you for anything aside from failing to make line go up or some really sordid sex thing that is going to reach public knowledge real soon.

For basically any employee "is lying snake who none of us can trust about anything he says" would seem like it does the job, especially with the fairly limited US requirements for firing people; so it's hard for me to see that as an obviously amateur move unless they were either chaotic in some visibly horrifying way about it; or he is just applying his own theory of what the board should and shouldn't fire you for (and to what, at least theoretically, is a nonprofit board that was supposed to be keeping the c-suite on-mission; not just appeasing the shareholders).

It benefits huge surveillance companies that want to invest in pre-crime and automating the criminal justice process .. like the girl from Tennessee who was extradited to North Dakota, a state she had never visited in her life, because an AI/computer-vision camera matched her via facial recognition to a crime she did not commit. She was detained for six months, and when her lawyer finally got her out, she was left outside the jail, with the clothing she came in with, no jacket, no winter clothing, no money and no airplane ticket back home. I hope she finds a more competent lawyer and clears out that fucking state for $12 million or more after legal fees and taxes! Fuck this AI bullshit.

When they first splurged this bullshit, I immediately though, "It's named 'Mythos'? Really?" Literally "Mythical"

I've read some post that show GPT-5 could find some of the same vulnerabilities if pointed to the same code, and the Mythos version that found some of these issues spent $2k or more worth of tokens on them.

I recently broke out Opus and Sonnet again on my personal projects (try to restrict LLMs to work where I don't care so much) and I found myself rewriting over a 1/3 of the output, even after trying to get the agent to fix issues. It's really a big quantity over quality issue still, with the latest and greatest models. Sure they can build things fast if you need unpredictable spaghetti code shit. Maybe great for one time migration scripts.

One of my managers showed me some MCP servers he setup and how he got Claude to connect to Grafana, examine his Pods, create a full dashboard and even automate alerts. It was kinda cool, but I was like "You used your read-only API keys for AWS/Grafana/etc, right?" ... He used full access, said you had to.

I worry about this level of dependence. I also have a feeling if I dug into those graphs, half of them would have bad queries or not be gathering the information they claim.

> quantum computers

These are such BS marketing fluff. It's been decades and IBM shut down their fun little Cloud Quantum experiment where regular people could run simple little sets of gates.

The record for quantum computer size seems to be 6,000 qbits right now, but they can only be held together for a few seconds at most. I don't think quantum computers will become a reality any time soon, and there is still a considerable debate on if some of these more advanced quantum gate based algorithms can really break older encryption in a reasonable amount of time.

I suspect that it depends on how strongly or weakly the 'bloat' is connected to other things; and what supporting them involves.

Something like not having TSC (which itself comes in several variants depending on whether it's from the era where you actually had 'a' CPU that just ran at a speed, or if it's one of the ones that tries to compensate for the complications of variable clocks and multiple cores) presumably comes up in a variety of nasty places related to the bad things that happen when things are not done in the expected order.

Just some random PCI device that nobody developing actually owns anymore is presumably at risk of unnoticed regressions; but (especially with the amount of PCI DNA that got carried over into PCIe or was used for the software-visible interface of some system on chip that skipped the cost of actually implementing a 32 bit parallel multidrop bus out to the PCB but either specifically sought compatibility or couldn't justify cooking up something custom when the peripherals they were integrating were all derivatives of PCI designs) it's not necessarily much maintenance overhead for it to just exist on a 'cool if it works for you' basis as a module that you probably don't need.

There's also the secondary matter of the fact that 'the kernel' has a limited number of people directly focused on its interests in the abstract; rather than some hardware vendor, distro, enthusiast, or hyperscaler's interests. If preserving hardware compatibility is directly contrary to the interests of supporting the major contemporary use case of fairly large 64 bit x86 servers and embedded ARM widgets (as 486 and pre-TSC 685-ish likely was) it's going to have relatively few friends among the people actually doing the work. If someone wants to maintain some weirdo HAM radio interface card that merely assumes the existence of PCI it's not clear anyone will go out of their way to help if they need to update something to cope with a change elsewhere; but it's not like the Ministry of Kernel is going to order them to go find bugs in the implementation of CXL memory because that's where the money is.

If these guys are actually treating a user agent string as an authentication mechanism I'm honestly surprised that being on the public internet hasn't already eaten them alive purely because of the supply of malicious opportunists; and I'll be even more surprised if it continues to work out for them now that they've drawn a fair amount of attention to it.

This is about getting wholesalers to pay them to take the data about where they source their stuff and who they sell it to at what rates so Amazon can replace their step in the chain as well.

If the 'AI' guys are anything to go by; probably get increasingly elaborate with their attempts to bypass whatever rate limiting is put in place. It's honestly sort of wild seeing the hottest, most heavily capitalized, elements of 'tech' wrap around so rapidly and with so little concern toward the sort of traffic patterns you normally associate with criminals as soon as it's in their interests. At one time I would have been surprised.

There is an intermediate situation that that case arguably illustrated:

Using violence against harder targets is more of an organizational problem; and solving that problem potentially skews your candidate pool; but what's very curious(particularly for a society whose overall violence numbers are very much on the high side by developed world standards) is how safe it apparently is to be widely notorious and a fairly soft target. Thompson was just walking down the sidewalk alone at a predictable time and location. Zero precautions. Something like the Sacklers were a household name for over a decade, with strong cases for culpability in at least low 6 figures worth of deaths sprinkled across a variety of walks of life; even the ones you suspect might be risky like deer hunters with dead kids and members of criminal organizations where internecine homicide is routine, and what came of it? Nothing. Not even any 'foiled at a late stage'/'shot and missed' level stuff.

That's the genuinely puzzling bit to me: not that there's nobody going after people who take the sort of precautions that would probably require one of the old-school 80s red army faction types to deal with; but that it's apparently really safe to be widely loathed and not do much about it in a country where 20k firearms homicides a year isn't considers terribly exceptional. If the people who can actually afford guard labor were having to make the onerous lifestyle commitments to living like someone's out to get them it would be relatively unsurprising that being able to afford competent professionals puts you ahead of angry amateurs much of the time. What is surprising is how often there's apparently no downside to not even bothering. We even have to import the lurid stories of 'crypto kidnapping' by purely financial opportunists from overseas to obtain them in any quantity.

It's essentially impossible to make a good argument for some uncached CI lunacy that has you outperforming the overtly malicious as a source of traffic; but if there's one thing that reliably upsets people it's getting called on convenient behavior that they can't readily justify; so I'm genuinely curious what the ratio of sensible adjustment to unhinged freakout by bro whose subsidy is not in fact a law of nature they'll see.

Obviously trump doesn't care; if anything the grifts that you can totally phone in are probably even funnier than the ones where you have to try; but I'm puzzled by why this sort of thing doesn't bother some of his enthusiasts more. Not the nihilistic edgelords and ethnic nationalists so much; but if you are actually enthusiastic about 'greatness' shouldn't it worry you that Dear Leader, who you trust to deliver national renewal, apparently can't puke up the sort of zero-effort ODM rebadge job that any garbage tier prepaid carrier does anywhere from multiple times a year to at least annually, depending on market conditions?

Obviously the phone itself is basically irrelevant; but it seems like the sort of project that would cause anyone not wholly immune to feel some degree of at least secondhand embarrassment about.