I'm pretty sure that whoever at Microsoft wrote that response won't have a job too much longer.

I'm sure that every Citrix and Terminal Server admin running multiple users on their server will sleep well at night knowing that there's absolutely no way Karen from HR will open an resume attachment that uses a PDF exploit to further exploit a windows privilege escalation vulnerability that opens the door to steal half of your 5000+ employees' stored browser passwords hours before they perfectly time their ransomware payload drop so can sneak in and steal all of your companies money from their bank's website (as well as some of the employee's bank accounts as well because who doesn't do banking at work amirite) while you're too busy panicking from the ransomware chaos to notice.

I guess on the bright side it wouldn't be as bad if you were running VDI and disabled browser password storage like you should.

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

Musk aside, the #1 change that absolutely destroyed X as a platform was by default sorting a users feed by likes rather than by post date.

The entire point of Twitter was to see what that account is doing right now and not what the most popular thing that account ever did was.

And no. I don't want to login to sort by date and then be tracked by some algorithm so it screws up my random feed like YouTube does when all I want to do is look at a tweet from a news article. Especially when I didn't have to do that before the X changeover. I also don't want it to be a walled garden like Facebook where I have to login to see anything.

To be fair this is the correct play.

Most of those communities are used to the noise from a steel mill and would welcome any tax revenue even if it's low. Electric grid is either already in place or worse case needs to be refurbished rather than completely built and rezoned for large line runs, Truck and Rail lines are usually available for large scale shipping if necessary and most brownfields are close to a water source such as a river or municipal plant which can be further filtered if necessary.

The Youngstown/Warren and Akron/Canton areas alone could provide miles of usable brownfield for data center space.

My college professor in a user interface design class back in the 90's said it best after telling us a story about the NASA space program and it's UI design for Apollo:
If you can't train a monkey to use it, you can't train a human to use it.

I'm sick of apps that look good. I want Apps that WORK GOOD!

I'm sick and tired of having to relearn an app or report endless bugs because some just out of college app designer wants to vibe code some fancy app remake so he can say "I DID THIS MOMMY!!" to his parents like he's a fucking kindergartner holding up a finger painting.

Worse, I'm sick and tired of having to retrain other users and clean up bug mess because of said app designer.

I want a program that works. That is all.
I don't care that a program that works looks like something out of Windows XP. I don't care about bullshit features and UI elements that never work. I especially don't need a fucking box popping up every fucking five minutes to tutorial me about your bullshit feature or design that no one wants or cares about with a "GOT IT" button like a stripped down text based new age Clippy.

Firefox has (or at least used to have) skinning. How about working on that so that the kindergartners can play with their crayons and the adults can get work done instead of babysitting your slopcode for the umpteenth time. It's bad enough I had to create a theme so I can easily see what tab was active without having to waste time thinking about it because some idiot in your UI Dept thought white on white for the tab UI was a good Idea because some idiot at Google though it was a good idea instead of white on black or at least offsetting colors so you can easily differentiate like a good functional UI should be. I don't have time to retrain employees or submit endless bug reports and feedback loops because your "My First Sony" obsessed VTech Leapfrog Toddler app team is trying to justify it's existence again by reinventing the wheel for the 15th fucking time.

This is way I miss cutthroat managers like Steve Jobs. I hate Apple products but I have to admit that Jobs kept this bullshit in check at Apple when he was alive. If it didn't make sense, broke things, confused people or wasted time he would shoot it down and if the designer kept insisting, he was fired which kept the other app designers in line. The split second his body was cold you started seeing Apple UI's redesign themselves to the point you have a UI that's more art than function and then you wonder why your customers are bitching because they can't understand or even see your glass looking UI.

And if you happen to work as a manager in a App development studio. Print this post on wallpaper and hang it on the wall in your break room instead of some bullshit motivational speech or word cloud to coddle the kindergartner's safe space feelings. You'll probably be facing a harassment charge from your HR dept afterwards but It will be more valuable to your team and your customer's overall heath than any motivational new age crap you were going to put there anyway.

It's the computer.

More accurately, it's the power of the computer. It's too capable and it encourages students to doomscroll AI slop more then learn.

If I designed a school for education, it would literally be a better built Brother Geobook: Dirt cheap. Vastly under powered. black and white screen with optional backlight (preferably e-ink if the price was right to purposely keep screen refresh low to discourage videos) with a huge battery to get battery life measured in days instead of hours, and can only browse basic internet sites and email. It would have cloud connectivity for storage backup and the like, but just use a basic word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and notebook software. It would also have built in programming using either python or basic.

When I was in high school. I had a Ti-92 and later in college I had a Palm IIIc. I took all my notes on it did spreadsheets on it and programmed anything else I needed that it couldn't do on it. Saved a ton of paper and was easier to sort notes once I got home at my computer. Anything more powerful than that is basically overkill for learning and is all but guaranteed to suck kids focus from learning to playing.

All this does is contribute to Textile Mountain
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The best option would be to not overproduce at all, but that makes people unemployed so...

I'm not seeing a paywall on the site. uBlock Origin must be doing something.

The UHF app on our Apple TVs & iOS devices and the UHF Server in Docker to act as a PVR gives us everything for a few $ a month paid in crypto.
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.

One of our guys said something to the effect of "Copilot is Corporate Chat. It knows all the useless filler of management-speak, but lacks the competence of the people in the trenches.

Ouch.

I've used Claude at home for ages. Work was wanting to get some AI stuff for us and the only 'blessed' one is CoPilot. Everything else it blocked. All senior management seems to know about AI is "Hurrr... Copilot and ChatGPT."

Out team of ~8 (pentestesting & VA) were unanimous about Copilot being crap and Claude being the top dog. So some higher ups OK'd a Claude Teams package for work. To bypass the CorpSec tards, we use it from our lab environment that has its own unmonitored link and IP range.

Anthropic/Claude is just so far ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and MS/Copilot it's not funny.

For the Longest time, I thought the future was either going to be the Demolition Man Future or the Robocop Future. I'm now convinced that the Idiocracy future is the most likely future of mankind.

And this is why you give out cash instead of gift cards. It doesn't tie the receiver to a particular product and some scammer from halfway across the world won't rip them off.