Wow. I had to stop reading this one. Long on words, poor on writing and spelling and neither circling a theme so much as just edgelording on everything social, I’m not sure whether it was ever getting somewhere.

But life’s too short for 6000 word on The Things That Suck With Stuff I Don’t Use.

minimal acceptable set of politics.

I like how you said “minimal”, like it’s a floor and not a flavour.

No-no, it’s perfect like that. Don’t dare change it.

insurances

I think mass nouns do not work like that.

Those of us around for the days when off-shoring was some kind of magic pill will remember how it wasn’t. Outsourcing to some guy in Delhi, Ohio, doesn’t seem so different; apart from time zone, maybe.

Ai isn’t the cause for this but it certainly was the enabler.

Slopping.

What is the cause of the outrage? You’re being recorded from his glasses, yes, but you’re also being recorded from like 8 other camera angles with or without him

You seriously see no difference between store cameras recording for liability and some rando recording for lul$? The night-and-day difference between what a person agrees to with a store while shopping inside it and what is thrust on them by a rando with no regs on retention and security, is the absolute same to you? Really?

Really?

America: Thoughts and prayers; too soon to address the issue.

Canada: bulldoze the site in shame and sadness.

And they are missing Jaime Pressly

She’s breathtaking. I miss her too. I think I miss her when I glance away.

Nah. Having worked in the industry - we built (the) Unix and a Linux distro, and I helped secure it - I can absolutely confirm older OSes are being used for very crucial stuff in an ironic mix of risk and safety that is bizarre.

Hint: Big grey-blue boats with numbers and famous names on the side.

• zero-k
• wow, still

Supply chain attacks are what scare me.

As a former OS security pro, this is the right answer. Not because of the exploit itself, but because young (unmentored) coders readily trust some really bad patterns of pulling in random junk from the web and running it. THIS is how the LPE becomes essentially an RCE-level problem.

OEM’s

Or just OEMs, even.

You see hot that’s tangential to what you’re replying to?

Ai is evil

LOCAL AI is not all evil

Computers are expensive

Your point is completely valid, but in another discussion.

I’m totally okay with them receiving money from bad companies. It’s like vandals ordered to pick up highway trash - yo momma - as punishment.

Receiving Merge Requests from sloppers, though? That’s not cool.

Prefer a cache since the reddit content could be removed or blocked on a whim?

Everytime

Still not a word.

Guys brought a large pizza each on a newark-austin flight in 2001. The rest of us on the packed flight were Sooo jealous.

Whoa whoa. If you saw how bad both Canadian international carriers were, you’d understand Delta striving for shitty service is actually cultural appropriation. That’s apparently our thing.

Say no more, say no more.

I shudder to imagine what they’d think of a car with a clutch and a left-toe switch for the high-beams.