Why not, it’s doing its damndest to detect everything else

I cry for the world that could have been, if Tor and Monero gained widespread adoption

This Week in Virology has been shocked aghast and brutal about how mind-numbingly stupid RFKJr is and surrounds himself with the same. They talk about Thimerosal what what insane policy is going down here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvjItbi_6sQ&t=450s

How shitty would you feel, as a hotshot AI researcher who just delivered a model architecture getting way better scores than Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI in all kinds of industry-standard benchmarks …

… and then learn Musk was high some night and just fucked with the system prompt, not knowing really what he’s doing, ham-fistedly trying to make his egostistical conspiracy-deluded self the arbiter of truth and ethics for Humanity

Those other labs are offering pay packages just as attractive as Musk’s

I don’t mind that Trump is kicking the USA in the nuts; the MAGAs love it.

I mind that, because USA is so massive, the whole of humanity is also impeded by these science-denying Christofascists

‘twould be much better if only Crooks’ finger had crooked a quarter second quicker

Well… it means I was (and fyi still am) the kind of rube that is on fixed salary but works way more than 9-5 M-F

But at least I do it in my PJ’s at home

I delete all my social media periodically for similar reasons.

Even communities of people who are really level headed and supportive, like academics and engineers. Eventually there is groupthink, tribalism, and generally people who I am over (and I’m sure it’s mutual)

Worse than Slack…

Now that is saying something

I had the opposite experience. Some in house devs are extremely talented and have (middle) management support.

(Upper management fires those groups and uses the savings to buy Atlassian)

Remember open source wikis? Twiki?

They were much better. More functional, faster, intuitive.

Corporates got rid of those and Atlassian got rich

As a person who has designed several enterprise data models, I would like to personally congratulate the entire middle school class that belched up Atlassian’s

Having used quite a few others: hard disagree

Several companies I’ve worked at had bespoke internal systems that were less general but extremely efficient to use.

It kills me to think some bean counters probably gutted them and gave the money to Atlassian

IMO it’s a nice middle ground between a typical Linux system where every app you run has access to everything else you run, vs a system like Qubes where every app is locked down in its own VM

I bought one of those release CDs. I used it to be able to use ppp + my 486’s modem to connect to my employer’s network which let me WFH on an 80x24 tty.

check this dope URL I picked up, I have an idea and it’s totally going to be viral

LibreWolf saved the spirit of firefox. Screw the Mozilla Board of Grifters. They could have just provided hosting for open source solutions/VPNs and sell lots of swag maybe host an actually good podcast … but no, they leaned into selling user data WTF

And modern high tech parts are actually pretty traceable. Everything has a serial number and a digital trail.

People compare sanctions to the War on (some) Drugs but really nobody grows custom CMOS chips in their basement

Interesting, that dynamic is in line with the ‘radiator’ theory of human brain evolution.

From a more recent article:

the shift to an aerobic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle in early Homo, including long-distance running, exerted selection pressures that favored both increased endurance and enhanced brain growth

Edit: … so, we’re not batteries. We’re cooling fins.

Questions are piling up about whether a region nicknamed “Flash Flood Alley” should have done more to prepare for Friday’s deluge […] “It’s very tough to make those calls,” Rice said.

Quite the mic drop. But wait:

Texas officials have suggested that the National Weather Service (NWS) didn’t adequately warn them

hampered by the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce, which cost the NWS nearly 600 workers earlier this year

I do vaguely wonder how this stuff is spun by the Pravda-level propaganda that MAGA consumes.