Trump said, in an interview this evening, that he will accept the results.

https://www.seattletimes.com/n...

That doesn't mean he won't say something different tomorrow... but I gotta say this piece of news shocked me.

The current US Secretary of Education considers her primary task to be dismantling the Department of Education, so it seems unlikely she'd intervene.

I like DuckDuckGo's approach to this. They let you choose how integrated the AI should be in their responses, and also give you a "No AI" launch page if you prefer:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

It's certainly more plausible than some cuts we've seen; but it's hard not to still see it as the usual "described as fat-trimming; inevitably ends up reaching bone" exercise just because of how software usually ships. Not everything ships in full abject brokenness; but at least for commercial-grade software (specialty formally verified stuff and projects that have been laser focused on solving a specific problem that bothered an academic computer scientist in 1980 since 1980 can be a different story) you don't generally see software that makes you think "Nope, it's finished, any additional resources allocated would be wasted or actively spoil the product. There are no edge cases that could have used a little more love, nothing interesting but currently too rough or subject-to-change to use".

Even if you go with a fairly optimistic view of productivity effects, 10%-ish gain and no serious side effects, just axing 10% of the employees so you can status-quo the product with lower payroll costs absolutely seems like a chop-shopping move when the status quo for software is so mediocre. As PE cuts go they don't seem to be speedrunning the hollowing-out and immediately going to a skeleton crew of junior vibe coders and a 'support' chatbot; but precious little software ships in a state where "efficiency is up 10%" means that you've already maxed out possible product quality and just need to start cutting people since you no longer have anything for them to do. If the optimistic projections pan out they might be able to approximately maintain their existing level of polish with fewer people; but that level was always a compromise.

It's good to know that this is purely a matter of technological change; no need to look at the classic "get picked up be PE chop shop"/"gradually get stripped for parts" hypothesis. Seems very credible.

That's pretty much current-day Apple in a nutshell.

Nah, the first time it just fires a warning shot.

Oh man, I remember that. Over several months, Microsoft issued something like 60 consecutive patches ahead of the change... and everyone's Outlook calendar meeting entries were still off by an hour.

It matters not. Murphy is merely a puppet of Thanos, who has a sinister plan for Lumentum.

Allegedly the same known-vulnerable Danfoss controllers as in the prior french incident; just chilling out on the internet for easy access. I assume we'll have breathless reports crediting agentic hack swarms by midday along with security vendors assuring us that faith in their next generation machine-speed solutions will save us; but apparently the bar is in hell in terms of low-hanging targets.

It also serves a lot of very low budget/someone-involved-in-game-development-did-a-game-jam-thing type purposes. Unfortunately, that's exactly the sort of niche that makes anti-slop work particularly hard.

If it were just about pearl-clutching standards that'd be one thing(roughly the same slop problem for both; but not easier or harder); but if you want to serve the "I did this game jam thing, pay what you want if you think it's neat" you've got a lot of your desired and legitimate activity that would be immediately destroyed if you tried to throw some sort of flat economic floor under the slop guys; and you are...not exactly...dealing in the margins on units sold that pay for tons of human mod effort.

It's not like Steam doesn't have an asset flips and shovelware section as well; but they aren't, and don't pretend to be, in the business of caring all that much about things that fall below the threshold of potential commercial relevance. They do turn a blind eye to a certain number of steam keys going to kickstarter backers; and are significantly less hardass than someone like Apple about how many 'review' copies go out, so it's not like they are actively hostile to stuff that is not yet commercially viable but is trying to get there; but they basically don't touch some of the little test pieces and rough cuts and concept demos and things that itch actively seeks to.

For a guy who is legally barred from involvement in the company under the terms of a prior money laundering conviction our man CZ sure tweets like more than the mere humble shareholder he insists he is.

It's possible TFS is over-simplifying the design of the new system, but - why no ssh and no package manager? Why not make the underlying OS signed and immutable, but still allow stuff to be added / saved / deleted in userland? I'd think that would make for a significantly more user-friendly system with arguably only small security tradeoffs.

Sort of a cross between SELinux and macOS' security model, I suppose (and really Leonnart's ideas always seem to be riffs off macOS anyway).

Super Intelligence II Turbo Pro Max (Apple Edition)

I agree with you. Unfortunately, the same can be said for the current government of my own United States.