Hopefully the recent flurry of Linux vulnerabilities will remind people that monocultures are bad for security. Replacing a Windows monoculture with a Linux monoculture may be a small improvement but does not fix the problem. Both systems are well past the complexity level where you can guarantee no security vulnerabilities.

A local privilege elevation bug combined with a sandboxed arbitrary-code execution bug in some widely deployed userspace software lets an attacker take complete control of all of your infrastructure if you have a single OS. If you have a mix of different systems, it is much harder to build exploits that will work on all of them.

This is part of the reason I strongly encourage digital sovereignty movements to focus on small, composable systems rather than huge monoliths. If every company and government service is running a different mix of modular systems, it’s much harder to create a portable attack that works on all of them.

We really, really tried to warn you about Anthropic and Claude. All the absurd public displays of Claude subscriptions during the #quitGPT thing were a bad sign no one seems to actually understand the fundamental problem here.

Well, congrats folks. Now, Anthropic has announced it will use xAI's ultra-polluting fully fossil-fuelled, air-polluting community-choking Colossus data centre to power the computation needed for you to maintain your toxic dependency on its sycophantic sentence generator

i hate discord and i will move from it because they add age gating and other bullshit

nobody moved

Edit: well i did but not completely