>"In researching this, the main choices were basically Nutanix or Proxmox. Since Proxmox was free/open source, I went to try that out."

XCP-ng/Xen Orchestra. It is also free/open source, has a large install base, has been around longer than Proxmox, has optional commercial support, and does have some distinct advantages. Both it and Proxmox are great platforms for many use cases. IMHO, any exploration of FOSS virtualization that doesn't include both Proxmox and XCP-ng/Xen Orchestra is flawed.

>"The most warped thing is that, with ideologues doing jobs that ought to be in the hands of pragmatists, when hits like this keep coming, they will employ their belief system to rationalize doubling down, rather than recognizing a disastrous policy and reversing course."

So your "solution" is to just throw open the borders and let people flood in illegally or with 99.9% bogus "asylum" claims? Mostly those who can't speak the language, have few skills or resources, and sometimes might not be compatible with American values?

No thanks. I would rather increase the numbers and speed of legal immigration and only as a selective process based on merit. While also fostering programs that encourage and support child-rendering.

It might still be inevitable that population declines. I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing, as long as it is not rapid and we stop having entitlement ponzi/pyramid schemes that fall apart when we can't continue to pile unsustainable debt on the next generations.

>"Due in no small part to the fact that anytime someone proposes even the most milquetoast of gun control proposals, the right-wing shoots it down"

That's because most of the "gun control" (euphemistically phrased as "gun safety") proposals do not address the actual problems. They restrict, erode, or destroy the Constitutional rights of the law-abiding usually without actually improving anything, and sometimes making the problems worse.

I have, multiple times! And some sagging power/telephone lines, blinking streetlights, a sewer leak, three downed and leaning road signs, and a walk signal that never lit up, even if you pressed the button. It always took more than a day, though in some cases it was because the utilities were arguing about whose responsibility it was. Eventually the potholes get fixed, usually after multiple months. The utility lines get fixed about a week after someone takes responsibility for them. Nothing ever happens to the leaning signs. The downed signs mostly just disappear, like they decided nothing needed to be said there after all. The sewer leak still stinks. The walk signal still did nothing a year later.

Our spendthrift would-be oligarchs are now fighting over which one of them gets to push the Blow Up Everything button, which may be entirely imaginary.

So Anthropic demos Mythos and OpenAI has to say put out a press release.

Altman's house of cards is collapsing...

Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead..

I don't think it is a team. That would be even more people with 130 some odd billion reasons to show their cards.

I don't even think one of there letters could sit on something like this effectively. Hell even the airman rescue mission leaked, and there was little or no financial incentive to leak that.

It's true that nobody believes he was doing a sieg heil, because he did two.

Sure, but the ACLU didn't start printing all their court documents on swastika-watermarked stationery that David Duke got to sell ads on, either.

I am not the one here that doesn't know what I am talking about.

Availability is a leg of the CIA triangle bro.. If the authorized user CANT get access and its not fixable. That is a security failure, and likely as serious as a total confidentiality failure.

You getting root does not make you the evil made, you getting root means you SE'd the owner into running something, found a nice heap spray in the browser followed by a local privesc etc. Realistically these are all going to be drive-bys of some kind, where the victim stumbles onto your watering hole, runs whatever code you the attacker react when the listener calls home. Go in plunder and leave if you identify the box as being someones home PC. You're not going worry about persistence or dwell time..

Two sieg heils from the owner on national TV? No big.

Engagement down 97%? We have our principles, sir!

I wonder. Certainly in suburbia yes. Cities though.

People have to be able to park, vehicles have to be able to get by in the opposite lane if you cone off an area being patched. I am not sure you can necessarily fix every hole in a give couple blocks at the same time without creating a significant traffic problem.

Who the fuck is "they"? "NGOs"? You mean the Red Fucking Cross?

The only reason there's not a 100% chance you are a racist is that you might be a bot.

Right, because the reason municipalities are slow to fix potholes is that nobody is complaining about them.

Hi! American here. You appear to have committed a small typographical error. In actuality, the organizations using violence to enact the cultural destruction of the Western world are in fact fully governmental, and they are using immigrants as scapegoats and victims to satisfy the atavistic bloodlust of their pig-ignorant supporters. Don't fret, easy mistake to make!