Jason Petersen (he)

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I see so many people making a huge deal out of linux stuff adding support for the california age thing, and I'm like. you know basically every online service has been required to ask for your age since 1998? this is literally just "at account creation, the device owner can set an age field. to whatever they want. and then apps can query that instead of asking themselves."
you can set it to the unix epoch if you want

people think favorites are supposed to do something other than notify the poster you liked their work (without cluttering up the interface with replies)???

that's some facebook/modern twitter-brained shit right there

An unexpected side-effect of AI is seeing so many right-wing chuds admitting to having no interiority.

They're falling over themselves boasting about being NPCs.

Lenin failed to predict that the West would one day become too stupid to do imperialism

As someone who worked in Azure during the time they were vying for the JEDI contracts, this feels absolutely true.

Compared to AWS it was absolute garbage.

Hell, compared to almost anything. Just unusable without a ton of babysitting and checks and hacks.

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.

A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.

ProPublica
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God the liberal is strong on my timeline today. If I hold strong I can avoid unfollowing people I otherwise like.

The exact moment software went downhill was when #mozilla changed away from this.

#retrocomputing

Remember, AI use is an individual problem, solvable by shaming people online. If you complain enough, they will stand up to immense economic and social forces in order to risk everything for the chance to gain nothing.

Every employer is loudly proclaiming “while you may not be replaced by AI, you’ll be replaced by someone better at using it than you are”, and what’s a little food and shelter for your family anyways? Tell them to fuck off long enough that the gap makes you unemployable forever.