The games industry is dealing with a saturation problem. There are so many games, especially from indie developers, because the tools have lowered the barriers to entry so much.

Most of those games barely get noticed because there are dozens more being released every day.

It will happen to TV and movies too. I've already seen AI generated TV shows gaining traction on TikTok. People pooh-pooh it as slop, and it is, but like indie games that rely on a lot of off-the-shelf assets what matters is that people watch/play them.

Eh, HDD failure and ransomware are not the same things. If you have two HDDs in a mirror configuration, and one of them dies, you lose nothing. If you get ransomware, both are encrypted.

If one machine suffers an SSD failure, you lose one machine and inconvenience one user. If your network is hit with ransomware, potentially it spreads to every machine and through file servers, affects all users.

Obviously you should have a 321 backup system, but management tends to resist anything too robust. And even with that, there are the competing needs of getting machines back up and running, forensics to figure out what happened and stop the same thing happening again, and the insurance company audit to see if they feel like paying out or not.

6 weeks of shutdown for a manufacturing company is not something that is easily survivable. Customers will be looking for alternative suppliers, and many won't switch back. Contracts may have delay and non-fulfilment clauses. Few places are going to have 6 weeks of stock to cover such an event.

What seems unforgivable is that it took 6 weeks to fix.

Aren't the ISPs motivated to fix their shit anyway? If their customers become part of a botnet, there is a good chance that their network will get blacklisted.

Microsoft is panicking because Linux market share is increasing rapidly. Now that you can play a lot of games on Linux, AI bypasses the toxic community, and a lot of major media outlets are promoting switching to Linux as a way to de-shittify your computer, they need to take action or lose their dominant position.

Worse case scenario would be that people start buying computers with Linux pre-installed in large numbers, and their bread-and-butter OEM Windows licence revenue starts to decline. AI taking all the RAM and SSDs isn't helping sales of new computers either.

So I think they are at least somewhat sincere about making Windows less of a pain in the arse. Microsoft tends to go in cycles. Enshittify, fix it, enshittify, fix it... Windows 7 was decent, 8 was a disaster, 10 was decent, 11 is a disaster... Hopefully they fix 11, and we don't have to switch to 12.

As someone who is dealing with this problem, it's not that simple.

The problem with your assessment, is that there is no "the LLM".
LLMs come in a fucking vast spectrum of capabilities.
Put pretty simply, very expensive models do very good.
After very expensive, you get a spectrum from "pretty damn alright", to "outright terrible."

There is no "the LLM."
I can tell from your comment that you're talking out of your ass, and not actually dealing with this problem.

But I don't know what you do with people who can't get past the 12-year-old level of thinking of "if you make me pay taxes that's slavery and if you take away Elon musk's hundreds of billions of dollars then my shitty little income and retirement savings are next.."

Automation is so cheap now that even Chinese labor can't compete. But the government has been forcing businesses to hold off on automation in order to prevent the inevitable economic and social turmoil from laying off that many people. Although it is absolutely hilarious that "communist" China has to worry about keeping full employment...

There are signs that it's changing because their ruling class has consolidated enough power they can afford to start blowing off the public. But I don't think they're quite ready to do it 100%.

It shouldn't take 10 seconds for my right click menu to show up unless I hold down the shift key. And yeah there is a registry hack I can do but on my work PC it's a huge pain in the ass to have it put it in every freaking time I get an update because of course every time Windows 11 updates they clear the key...

I swear Windows 11 is the most user hostile piece of software I have ever used in my life and I have programmed on IBM mainframes...

It would run on any modern browser that runs javascript because it's just a JavaScript script that monitors everything you're doing. It's also nothing new browser fingerprinting has been around for ages and is used by basically any website of any size to try and catch bots.

I'm actually a little surprised they didn't already have a fingerprinting product.

The article talked about the cost of customer confidence lost too. In other words even if they came back online the 6-week pause would have caused them to lose a bunch of customers. And they don't have the capital to get them back through advertising campaigns and discounts and such.

It's actually terrifying how many businesses run at the absolute edge of margins and are perpetually on the verge of collapse. Like how any given city is 3 days away from chaos...

We focus on the tech companies that are making so much money that they literally cannot spend it fast enough. And that also like to keep a ton of cash around for stock BuyBacks. But it really doesn't take much for most companies to start cutting staff and even shutting all the way down.

This is both how and why increasing interest rates "fights" inflation. Businesses lose access to credit because it costs more to loan so any little problem in their business immediately becomes a major disaster because of credit crunch and they go under putting a whole bunch of people out of work. Those out of work people spend less reducing demand which slows inflation. If the business doesn't collapse outright it's at least going to do layoffs and pay cuts which achieves the same goal.

For the 20 or 30 employees there...

Modern factories don't need a lot of people. China and India have them because labor it horribly cheap there. With access to slaves in many places.

Trump's own commerce Secretary admitted that even in the factories come back the jobs won't

I'm sorry to hear that. It's a common story, unfortunately. People complain that Gen Z "don't want to work", but it's more accurate to say that they don't have opportunities to work, and when they do get a McJob they have zero loyalty because it's not like working hard there will allow them to progress some sort of career.

There are a few places trying catapults and planes, but they can't carry a lot of weight.

The Soviet Buran spaceplane is probably the model to follow. Unlike NASA's Space Shuttle, it didn't have its own main engines. It only has orbital manoeuvring thrusters, and possible some jet engines for use in the atmosphere when returning to Earth. Instead the whole thing was lifted by a rocket and boosters.

Well, now we can recover the boosters, so you can see where this is going. The rocket was needed for steering, but the boosters can do that now, so maybe it could just be a disposable frame that straps a bunch of boosters to the spaceplane.

These guys are imbeciles. They got rich manipulating a system and being the king rat who managed to do win by survival bias.

This is like we have the world ruled by stiltman and big wheel.