Nobody knows git. We all just run the few basic commands, then again with the -f switch just in case. Then if that doesn’t work, reclone.

And disregarding those expectations can carry personal liability for anyone in a position to do it, because the executive leadership of the company has a legal responsibility to act in the interest of the shareholders above all else.

Cub scouts camped in the infield at Daytona this past weekend, and I can assure you that winter was in full swing. It was crazy cold overnight.

Is it “don’t use them and just keep track of your stuff”? Because that seems like the most right answer here.

Why would a union help at all? Organized workers won’t change the financial and legal obligations at the top. It won’t drive the focus away from quarterly earnings. Unions protect the workers, they don’t drive company culture.

There is no saving Google. The only way out of the hole they’re in is to have the integrity not to fall in in the first place.

Can’t wait to patch that out, should be as fun as that dumbshit auto-shutoff they have now.

An overreaction by members of the board that wanted to keep AI development slow and “safe”. Sudden news that there was a major advancement toward AGI (which they believe will destroy humanity, there’s a seriously a whole cult around this in AI research circles right now) that they hadn’t been told about sent them off the deep end. Those board members thought they could fire Altman and throw the brakes on, not anticipating that 700 employees would side against them and potentially migrate to Microsoft where the “AI ethics” would have no influence at all.

They shot their shot and lost massively, for themselves and their fellow believers. That attitude toward AI is now being labeled a business liability in the minds of every decision maker in the whole AI world.

It’s nice to celebrate the wins this year, but I think there were just as many warning bells.

UAW, WGA, and SAG got thrown their bones, sure, but we also watched those huge multinational companies gleefully ignore them for huge spans of time. These massive companies can just fall back on their international components, knowing the company can go on indefinitely without them, and wait for the union to run out of money. Then when the union members are desperate, the company finally comes to the table with a fraction of what the union wanted at the start.

This years events showed pretty clearly that strikes are not (always) the existential threat to the business that made organized labor so powerful in the past. I hope the movement is hearing that warning bell.

Same, I view the whole internet through uBlock and a pihole, so my value as an “impression” is virtually zero.

I’m not against for-profit websites making some money (and I run my own website, which generates a whopping $0), but Google has jumped the shark with their sketchy malware bullshit, and I’m starting to root for that organization to die.

These shenanigans have me rapidly transitioning from “I don’t want to see your annoying ads” to “I don’t want you to make any money at all”.

Well that puts the “Ethical Altruism” board members’ willingness to risk it all on such a wild dice roll in more context.

It’s probably lost their entire movement any influence on the future of AI research, but them’s the breaks.

Lots and lots (thousands) of government security requirements covering every aspect of the enclave and everyone who’s allowed to touch it.

GovCloud isn’t just some marketing label Microsoft made up to cash in. It’s a US federal system that operates in commercial clouds (AWS and Azure, thus far). And the federal government doesn’t trust cloud at all, so they’ve made earning the GovCloud designation about as painful as they possibly can.

Amazon has a good description of the standards they have to meet here, and it’s the same for Microsoft:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-compliance.html

Quite a bit more to it than that, but yes definitely upcharging like crazy.

There are no big tech companies that have ever not been a part of it.

So many classrooms depend on cloud-hosted teaching aids that I doubt this would be feasible. They’re far past the old days of passing around printouts, everything is online now.

This problem isn’t limited to schools. State IT infrastructure is a shambles pretty much everywhere, and there’s no relief in sight. Awful salaries, impossibly low budgets, and a total lack of planning or strategy for decades now, and they’re getting exactly what they’ve paid for.

It’s been awhile and I haven’t tried to latest hardware, but I’m sure it’s still doable. The process wasn’t terrible, just a few extra steps to add compatibility for some of the devices.

I mostly just used the guidance here:

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

I put Ubuntu on a handful of Surface Pros a couple years ago for work, and while the process wasn’t horrible, I was wishing for something with more native support the whole time. Nice to see I wasn’t the only one.

This is how you say “wait, shit, we fucked up” in Board of Directors.

Be interesting to see how many of them still have seats by Christmas.

Someone needs to read up on hydrostatic shock.

I love guns and oppose all bans, but let’s not pretend that rifle rounds are less deadly because they’re smaller caliber. 9mm Luger wasn’t designed to drop a deer at 100 yards.

Yeah, that happens when you’ve got JP-8 running through the tap water lines.