Fair enough - I should probably have taken a more "congrats, you're one of today's lucky 10,000" approach.

It's the guy on the left.

You did check the link I provided, right?

Nobody's physically relocating servers beyond the mom-n-pop scale; well, at least not until the much later "rebuild" phase, if that's what you meant. I work for nobody special, for example, and the most important servers little ol' me controls are replicated across three geographically-distributed data centers with an RPO of 20 seconds (more like 2-3 in practice).

The per-site problem with drone strikes is no different than any other DR scenario; where it gets ugly is correlation. We tend to assume disasters will be independent and localized, in exactly the way an intentional attack on infrastructure very much is not. But there's simply no realistic way to plan for every alternative site being simultaneously compromised - That's a matter for underwriters, not geeks. Or rather, the "solution" is trivial, but ridiculously expensive and wasteful... "Oh the fools, if only they built it with 6001 hulls! When will they learn?"

Can we please not do that shit?

It was almost certainly Dave Philipps and Matthew Cole's 20250905 NYT article about a failed 2019 attempt by SEAL Team 6 to bug Best Leader when they unwisely chose to blow a random fishing vessel out of the water. Unsurprisingly, that wasn't a great way to stay hidden during what was supposed to be the most covert of ops.

It tells us an awfully lot of us hate this world so much we're willing to burn our precious little PTO to indulge our escapist fantasies. Not crime specifically, just anything other than the soul-killing 9-to-5 we get to grind for 40+ years or until we're too broken to keep feeding the machine.

To your secondary point - At least until things get bad enough we're willing to take the "torches and pitchforks" approach, the idea of changing society is a joke. The government absolutely does not represent us or care about our interests (I'm American, but it really doesn't matter which government we're talking about). The oligarchy considers us nothing more than livestock to be managed, and the delusion of "peaceful" protest is the greatest trick they ever pulled on us.

Even here, where we theoretically have voices with global reach - Let's not delude ourselves, we're merely shouting into the void and occasionally one or two fellow void-dwellers will shout back, but that's as far as any of this really matters.

It's not "just a game", it's the closest to they'll ever get to living in a world where they don't piss away half their waking adult lives to enrich some asshole who doesn't even need that third solid gold limo. Bread and circuses indeed!

This is the third thread I've seen today where people claimed not to know what "GTA" stands for.

Please tell us about your last 20 years living under a rock, star? My ancient gran knows what GTA is and has never played a game more hardcore than Candy Crush. Hell, even the mainstream media makes a point of blaming some random social dysfunction on GTA every couple of years. What's your secret? I want in!

The secret is to phrase questions in a way the fanboys can't interpret as disloyalty to the mothership. If you ask "How do I disable this utterly insane default setting/feature", you're getting tarred and feathered. If you instead ask "boo hoo, $feature isn't working, how do I reenable it", you'll get a dozen responses telling you the exact settings you want, and 95% of the time you can just reverse the "enable" logic to disable it.

Oddly enough, the same trick works against pretty much any fandom, though there aren't many use cases for it in non-technical fandoms.

That's an argument for better moderation, not shutting down folks doing free tech support for one of the largest companies on the planet. A company literally can't buy that kind of grass-roots support; failing to even recognize its value is a sign that better days are not ahead.

As for Apple itself - Any time a real support call starts with "let's do a factory reset", I won't be replacing the reason I need support with a replacement from the same company. Their community forum is - was - the one palliating factor making iDevices viable in the real world.

I agree with you in spirit, but we need to live in this world - Why tear down a bunch of fossil fuel power plants still in their prime just to replace them with a technology that's still rapidly getting better?

Climate change won't be fixed by a revolution, more like a critical mass. If, when the current gen comes up for closure/retrofitting/replacement, the same capacity can be replaced (including baseload) with renewables for less money... It will be. What we can do in the meantime is make sure there's sufficient demand for continued improvement of renewable technology and reducing the cost of manufacturing. And if we "accidentally" move to a decentralized grid in the process because we've all paved our roofs with enough solar to meet our needs, aww, won't be crying for NextEra / Duke/ Xcel / ConEd / etc.

Large-scale emissions can be measured from orbit. Whether or not they're lying about the details, they can't lie about the overall total.

There's a bigger problem here, though - The US will never, regardless of whether the evil or useless side of the aisle is in charge, accept China's lead on any matter of real significance. If China becomes the world's (political) leader in renewables, you can bet the farm the US will double-down on fossil fuels.

We have ODD at a global scale.

There is, but we're the hos.

"Quick, go burn a quarter terabyte preloading this... Then do it again when we issue a critical day-1 patch because you prebuying idiots just keep falling for the same trick over and over and over."

The core idea is a strong point Reddit has been known for, even among people who don't directly use it - Real humans have real discussions about products.

Problem, is, advertisers do not want real humans having real discussions, they want 100% astroturf - Which is exactly what Reddit is not known for. I therefore see this going three possible ways - One, they intentionally bias the AI toward only positive reviews; two, this quietly dies a few months from now; or three, Reddit starts aggressively banning the few human users remaining for being advertiser-hostile. All of which make this service useless at best, or more likely this will be just one more minor degradation of everything that once made Reddit great.

tl;dr: I actually don't hate the idea, but I'm completely confident the implementation will be a disaster from every possible angle.

Dear Spez - Clearly Reddit is no longer "cool" enough for you to waste your efforts on. Please kindly fuck right off and let those of us who basically just want a 90's style forum have it back.

As for the bot problem - NGL, it's pretty bad, but Reddit allows it to continue. Any mod of more than one sub could trivially provide a long list of bots, yet is that ever acted on outside their own subs? No, because data collection is the entire purpose of Reddit-The-Company. Every single "improvement" they've made this year had nothing to do with user preference or reducing bots, they just want to make sure the right bots (the ones paying them) win.

So yeah, Spez can retire now, thanks. He's managed to destroy one of the top 10 sites on the internet just in the past six months.

"Dude... She... She totally used me. Awesome!!!"

He had an affair, nothing more and nothing less. I'm not defending his actions, but he didn't knowingly have an affair with a Chinese spy.

Powerful dude thinks with his dick, film at 11. This is only noteworthy because he happens to be the CEO of a particularly important company at the moment. If we really cared about his core offense, how many boardrooms around the globe do you suppose would be ghost towns?

Hey, I have no particular interest in interrupting the torch-and-pitchfork fest; but you're all hypocrites if turning the Earth to sand wasn't already committing a sufficient crime to get your attention.