The media are correct. Trump was talked into it, by Israel, off the back off how easy it was to take over Venezuela. The thinking was simple:
- Take out the top leaders. Which was done in the first hours.
- Hit a ton of military targets and show overwhelming strength. Which they did in the first few days. Some weren't military due to no one bothering to verify what the AI recommended.
- Make declarations and broadcast over radio to the Iranian bureaucracy. Which was done to little effect. Israel also tried to influence the public to create discontent against the regime.

The expectation was Iran would cave like Venezuela did. All over in a couple of weeks.

But, because Trump had sacked the knowledgeable analysts and diplomats, Trump didn't want to hear that Iran had been ready for this very scenario for the last 15 years. After Bush invaded Iraq.

Trump was visibly shocked at not only the insolence of the Iranian bureaucracy and its ability to replace leadership, but also the ability to hit back even while being pummelled. He pulled back ranting and raging that the Straight had been cut off and he couldn't do a thing about it.

Every US military base in close range of Iran has been smashed up. And utterly drained of interceptor missiles. So much so that Ukraine wasn't able to buy any,, even at full price.

Which leads to why Trump isn't doing any attacks at all. Not even a "love tap". It takes time to recoup the loss of that many interceptor missiles. Especially since Ukraine will need them all for a while.

As for pressure on the economy. It's just more of the same for Iran. It's not like they aren't use to it. Israel has made sure Iran never gets a fair hearing.

Also, future increases is what the concerns were always about. Backward looking studies, that are already two years behind, isn't telling us shit.

I had to look that up ... ah, without Systemd. Understood.
Shows my lack of engagement too. :)

ya, by "not cool" he means the money has gone elsewhere, rather than the traditional fun sense.

Never mind. Wikipedia says no. I should have looked there first. :)

... by someone at least.

A Linux without secure boot engaged?

Is predicated execution still used?

I suspect the Epic Launcher itself also won't run without a fully "secured" OS. There won't be a security distinction from that game.

Yep. What's more, the hack was probably not hard at all. No reason to need state actors at all.

The important part is they've eliminated the Omelas security processor.

Contrary to Anthropic's own assertions, researchers find that newest Anthropic models exhibit greater levels subterfuge than earlier models.

The vast quantities of water ice that float in space, the further out you look the more of it there is, tells us that early planet formation will occur with lots of water right at their centres. Only with time does it get expelled to the surface.

We were actually heading back into a new ice-age before humans intervened and reversed the direction from cooling to heating.

Or maybe we could opt for some restraint and civility. We don't have to choose conquest and destruction every time.