I've found a small percentage, maybe 5%, of the hundreds of devices I've had to pull up Bitlocker keys for are glitched. Microsoft's site will list the device, but when you click the button to display the key, you only get an empty box.

I'm not sure whether to blame Microsoft or my employer, but I'm guessing Microsoft manages all the backend for their own web site, and we have no more on-prem Windows servers, it's all in the MS cloud.

I have a personal policy now of always keeping a paper copy of the key, because Microsoft's web portal is unreliable at keeping them.

Everything they have that isn't a halo car just seems to be mush. People shat on their Geo low-end badge in the 90s, but if they offered a basic commuter EV for cheap today I might be interested. So of course they cancelled anything remotely like that.

Soon, those laid off IT workers will be in new roles. Combat roles, once the draft returns.

There's one thing H1Bs won't do.

The idea seems to be that nobody will train more AI, ensuring the entrenched players with already-trained AIs maintain exclusive control over those domains.

What America "prefers" doesn't matter so much as what America "got" last year, which is Iron Curtain, not free markets.

What I would suggest, and what it sounds like they're doing, is to use EU data centers.

You seem to conflate or confuse the "effort" of the individual doing his job with the "effort" of the government ordering him to do so. You seem to believe they don't have any less-useful endeavors to allocate man-hours from, and that training more sysadmins is not possible or desired.

I was always told that running random code that you don't know what it does is a bad idea. What I'm hearing with these AI models is that "what you don't know" has become "what you can't know". Normal code would require a thorough audit to integrate. The AI stuff is unauditable.

It sounds like Cisco is trying to alleviate these unknowns. It sounds insufficient. Am I missing anything?

That's fine when you're interacting with informational websites where it doesn't really matter if the site works as intended. I've found that half the storefronts and interactive sites don't. For something like an insurance enrollment, I would not expect it to function without disabling Ublock or Noscript.

It was about getting a government contract, to which could have been added stipulations about data collection, but they weren't.

After a few decades of that, the tech companies get to thinking the government is their bitch, and then we get into the situation we have now.

I do think people subconsciously recognize this. They want to get the bitches that fold, out of government. They saw Trump as "not anyone's bitch" (incorrect, btw) and that was a big plus. Hillary and Kamala were perceived as - if I may use the word - bitches.

It sounds like those smarter minds have already given you the solution. Didn't you see when Melania walked down the red carpet with that teaching robot last week? Obviously a missive from the future. No further discussion needed.

30, 40 years ago "Get computers in the schools" was a valid project. The computers sat in a lab, and the kids would interact with them a couple times a week in a structured (instructed) setting. The late push for tablets and laptops seems more about "hand the kids something to occupy them" combined with the cargo-cult duplication of what worked in the past.

It sounds like they're using Server 2003 as their target for compatibility. That means they are squarely in "legacy computing" territory, and everyone developing ReactOS knows it.

If they wanted to work on something current they would have moved already. Likely they already have, and only circle back to ReactOS once a year, when their "institutional knowledge" of what's now a niche historical project is needed. Because no one else works on it.

Then it just weighs down your computer.

You don't know whether there's anything to investigate. The purpose of not-investigating is to keep it that way. Wilful ignorance.

That said, the government does "know" plenty of things, which they refuse to act upon. Some of it's a matter of prioritization. Fighting white-collar crime is what the FBI deprioritized last year. They don't have the capacity to investigate it. The need is very much growing, and these government programs are no less in need of policing than private contracts.