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In 99.9% of cases the fantasy of the engineers, sysadmins, SREs, etc getting up and leaving, or being axed, leading to the complete destruction of a corporation is just that: a fantasy.

What happens instead is things get very very painful, and corporations roll that pain to their individual employees and, if they have to, their customers. Reality doesn't stand in the way of managerial demands and there's an infinite supply of people who are in a position where they need to take even a painful job to keep food on the table.

You cycle through enough grist and burn enough people out and eventually the pain of a burning down infrastructure is bandaided enough to just be normal day to day operations pain again, and there's plenty of people jumping to show off how culture fit they are by throwing themselves on the altar of pager and overtime.

Perhaps if we could all as a unit say no, no one is gonna do the the shitty work of cleaning up after you exploded your team of talent by being capitalistic fucks; but in the position we're in now that's not likely.

This is where I start on my "We need a union" speech again.

> #Microsoft confirms that #Windows 11 Recall #AI is not optional — a glitch made it appear so in the Windows 11 24H2 KB5041865 update
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-confirms-that-windows-11-recall-ai-is-not-optional-a-glitch-made-it-appear-so-in-the-windows-11-24h2-kb5041865-update

But don't worry, the company that is unable to correctly implement a toggle switch assures us that they definitely implemented this new immensely complex piece of technology nobody asked for directly in the operating system in a way that is secure and under no circumstances puts anyone in danger in ways security researchers said it will.

The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.

Dynamicland's new website, documenting ten years of work, will be released tomorrow at dynamicland.org

In the meantime, this video about Dynamicland's precursor gives some backstory and motivations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI7J3II59lc

i think one of the coolest sci-fi world building window dressings we ever saw was a standard issue cybernetic augment that made hair prehensile

not enough to like, be a useful tool, but enough that it could untangle itself, or work itself into braids, without intervention

computer news is like:
a new unfixable flaw has been found that will leak everything on your computer and that you've ever thought ever

<10 lines down>

but only if they have access to you, your computer, mars, alpha centauri, and can prove riemann's hypothesis

Fun fact about my programming career:

My first program ever written was around age 10 and it was a port of a game from one language to another.

Not first "completed game" or even "first serious program": the very first code I ever wrote was me reading a BASIC game out of a book, then reading the DOS 5 manual enough to figure out how to port the game to a DOS batch file.

@NanoRaptor I guess another way to think about it is that a term gets coined, is subject to rapid semantic drift, but then later its movement slows down as it gets closer to a fixed point of the "semantic drift function".

Semantic drift annealing? Linguistic gradient descent?

Years ago, I created a bot that posted Sun Tzu quotes, if Sun Tzu had written about cyber war. When X closed up API access that bot broke, and it never was high on my list of priorities to bring here. Well, I just fixed that. May I introduce you to @SunTzuCyber, which posts hourly. The posts are set up as unlisted/quiet public, so they won't show up in timelines unless you follow it.

Seriously, WTAF, NYT and WaPo.

Let me be clear: extreme heat kills. Do not try to tough out a heat wave. If your home or apt. is very hot, find a place with air conditioning.

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/how-extreme-heat-kills-you

Our actual climate policy

go into software, easiest field in the world, get paid to go on the computer

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