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Steve Jobs Remembered by Larry Ellison and Pixar's Ed Catmull (2012) [video]
As a previous IT Manager (SRE last decade), honestly, most IT Admins I know literally do nothing beyond click Auto Update checkboxes and let things churn until they break. I hate to put that career down but I worked at all levels of it starting from tech support in a call center. It's a very easy job to get either get complacent with your skill set, comfortable, and really just half ass things. I have a lot of friends that are on IT teams and most of them don't have any interest in what I do, like learning to write golang, rust, python, learn kubernetes, docker, etc.. I tell them all the time about how much money they can make if you really buckle down and learn to program or just learn a cloud and terraform. They all bitch about how much they hate their jobs because they're doing basically line tech support but are fine where they're at. I had horrible IT jobs so I'm super sympathetic to it and always try to hire them when I can. I hired one last year, not a nepotism hire I didn't know him, but he was an IT guy wanting to move into SRE.

They just use Windows and let it do its thing. Its their day job and they don't work on improving so their skillset is super subpar. To them it's all they need to do their job, I don't have that personality, I'm obsessively min-maxing things.

I even worked at MSPs (Managed Service Providers) so I did IT/Network admin work for tons of companies around different cities and every single MSP just either puts everything on auto update or has a strict rule of NOTHING on auto update which just means nothing ever gets updated until a customer calls in for $$ hourly support. You throw the updating in because you get more hours. Or you have a scheduled update ticket every month/etc.

I also saw a comment or a meme about Crowdstrike being able to update whenever wherever, no idea if that's true or not.

I wrote this post from my point of view which is that of being a Windows SysEng at 4-5 big webhosts over a decade. I had to write a TON of my own security and backup and whatever services because Windows was so barebones and at the fleet (tens of thousands) server level I was managing, with the revenue webhosting makes, we definitely couldn't buy expensive software. Most of my customers paid $10/mo and we were cramming thousands of them on one server the licensing was a huge pain for any software.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41007824
Incapacitation should be the highest priority, not second to last.
This. Coupled with the fact that all their promotional material looks like renders and there isn’t a single photo/video of someone actually using it, makes the whole thing feel sketchy.
The problem space kind of dictates that this couldn't be a solution, cause malware could load an arbitrary feature/config and mark it as 0, then the AV would be disabled on next boot, right?
That appears reasonably good. It's a shame ARM SBCs main Achilles heel has always been storage ( and networking a bit, and definitely bootloaders and OS support., )

Word of caution: These things never get acquired for that price. When everything is said and done, the real total price is closer to double. I'm talking about supporting knick-knacks, import fees, shipping fees.

I recently ordered a ODROID-H4 PLUS ( N97, not N100 ) and it's looking good, but it's more upmarket than this SBC.
>It was literally as wholesome as you could get, and yet it was flagged for drug crime.

This isn't surprising in the least. The act of flagging shouldn't be construed to imply criminal content. That determination should be made at the time of review.
For the first question, see https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/uyaogu/comment/....
Root access is a separate issue, but user space access to sys level functions is something Apple has been slowly (or quickly on the IOS platform, where they are trying to stop apps snooping on each other) clamping down on for years.
I just visited the Johnson Space Center, and boy, was there a lot of PR for SLS and Mars on exhibit. I shouldn't have felt weird about it given the artists' depictions of planetary probes and spacecraft concepts I grew up with, but I've read too much about the reality of the program to get into a Mars expedition in a decade.

Meanwhile the miracle that was the asteroid hunter probe got an easily-overlooked station with an actual sample it brought back from Bennu in an inadequate magnifying display case.
Email clients and servers have not evolved
> It's pretty much always email > standard user > administrator

What does this mean?
This is why for decades the official Soviet Union policy on disrupting the United States internally was to leave the country alone and let its citizens destroy it from its inside. No need for outside agitators, the United States citizens will destroy the country itself.
> Even then the "blast radius" was only the BitLocker team with about 8 devs, since local changes were qualified at the team level before they were merged up the chain.

Up the chain to automated test machines, right?
> And god I hate their forced updates,

My windows machine notified me of the update, asked me to restart. I was busy, so I didn't. Then the news broke, then the update was rolled back.
Amazing! Thank you for the deatiled answer, I've added all these to my Google Maps list for when I'm back in the city. I've walked by Minca a bunch of times, next time I'm going in for sure.
The latter can't be true since the input never leaves your computer, it's private information. The comments you're writing right now on the other hand are public information and can and will be used to train an LLM.
Billions of Google goo.gl URLs will no longer work
This would be a fantastic time sink.
Triplex – OSS LLM that can build knowledge graphs from your laptop
The corporate tax structure was different back then as well. Much higher tax rates and it was far more difficult to simply ship your profits off to another more tax-advantaged nation. If the choice is spend the money hoping to find the next great innovation or hand it to your government and hope they do something productive with it, companies are usually going to choose the former.

Today, you can license your profits to Ireland or some other off-shore holding company and never have to choose.
Who is responsible for this billion dollar mistake?
Computers hit by ransomware are also inoperable, and ransomware is wildly prevalent.
Yes, I already heard one manager at my company today say they're getting a mac for their next computer. That's great, the whole management team shouldn't be on Windows. The engineering team is already pretty diversified between mac, windows, and linux. The next one might take down all 3 but at least we tried to diversify the risk.
I don't see what this has to much do with MS. A bad proprietary kernel module can crash any OS.
Not OP, but some (most? many?) machines receiving the update crashed with a BSOD. So that's how they could enter the boot loop.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

"Perhaps the worst thing about being a systems person is that
other, non-systems people think that they understand the daily
tragedies that compose your life. For example, a few weeks ago,
I was debugging a new network file system that my research
group created. The bug was inside a kernel-mode component,
so my machines were crashing in spectacular and vindic-
tive ways. After a few days of manually rebooting servers, I
had transformed into a shambling, broken man, kind of like a
computer scientist version of Saddam Hussein when he was
pulled from his bunker, all scraggly beard and dead eyes and
florid, nonsensical ramblings about semi-imagined enemies.
As I paced the hallways, muttering Nixonian rants about my
code, one of my colleagues from the HCI group asked me what
my problem was. I described the bug, which involved concur-
rent threads and corrupted state and asynchronous message
delivery across multiple machines, and my coworker said,
“Yeah, that sounds bad. Have you checked the log files for
errors?” I said, “Indeed, I would do that if I hadn’t broken every
component that a logging system needs to log data. I have a
network file system, and I have broken the network, and I have
broken the file system, and my machines crash when I make
eye contact with them. I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I’VE
DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS. My only logging
option is to hire monks to transcribe the subjective experience
of watching my machines die as I weep tears of blood.”
> If we go over 98,000 feet, we are a spaceship. Outside the capsule, it’s essentially a vacuum.

This CEO of a balloon company doesn’t seem to understand how balloons work.
The system crashed while my coworker was running a code (aka doing CPR) in the ER last night. Healthcare IT is so bad at baseline that we are somewhat prepared for an outage while resuscitating a critical patient.
It's a travesty. Even Marriotts don't take more than 50% when someone cancels their reservation.
The prevalence of clickbait contributes to the brain rot.
Arguably, all you need to do is look at GDP. Even looking at Germany, the east/west split is evident - and that was 45 years of soviet regime.

Furthermore are you saying that behavior in Thailand is acceptable? What is the point of mentioning it otherwise? Before I found out these allegations I unfortunately watched videos of him in South America as well as India. He walks around like a Belgian in 19th century colonial Congo.
This made me actually laugh out loud.
> E.g. bags of rice are an easy way to store a ton of calories but aren't very palatable and require you to boil water. On the other hand, survival meals are easy to prepare but expensive.

This is the basis of how my family does things these days.

Post-COVID, we keep about 200# of rice and another 200# of dried beans on hand. We also have corresponding dry seasonings and such on hand. It's cheap, and stores well.

We eat quite a bit of both, but the above stay untouched. Once a year we donate it all to our local food pantry (i.e., "soup kitchen") and replace it. We know that it's useful for them because we work a shift at least once a month; we're not just pawning it off blindly. The donation is a tax write-off, and replacing the whole thing is less than $500.

Before COVID, we did the same but with small quantities. Our experience there showed us that it was in fact valuable to have food and essentials on hand just in case, and it felt justified to spend a bit more money on it in order to have more.
Yeah, I've always thought it was a bad name. I see them during Formula 1 advertisements because they sponsor the Mercedes team.

They might as well have named themselves "cluster bomb" as they have done a huge amount of damage today and for the next few days.
> I'd be fired if I caused enough loss in revenue to pay my own salary for a year.

I'm not so sure.

I know of a major company that had a glitch, multiple times, that caused them to lose about ~15 million dollars at least once (a non-prod test hit prod because of a poorly designed too).

I was told the decision-makers decided not to fix the problem (the risk of losing more money again) because the "money had already been lost."
Is your argument that we must obey all laws at all times, because a definition of "justice" cannot be given with the rigor of a mathematical proof? How then can law itself exist, without a means of objective interpretation? And why obey laws at all if no test exists by which any law can be determined to be either just or unjust?

You can find thousands of years of scholarship, philosophy, religion and legal doctrine on the matter, and most people seem capable of coming to at least a subjective conclusion on what is and isn't just, apart from what is and isn't legal.
NBC to use AI version of announcer Al Michaels' voice
You dont have to win every game. I'm fine not winning a Darwin award.
I like that future too, but to play devil's advocate:

Write me software that coordinates all flights to and from airports, capturing all edge-cases, that's bug free. Then tell me the number you estimate and the number of years to roll this out.
For most corporations, security and robustness are -- and for a long time have been -- an afterthought.

Making systems hard to hack and robust to rare events:

* is really hard,

* costs a lot of money, and

* reduces earnings in the short term.

Faced with these inconvenient facts, many executives who want to see stock prices go up prioritize... other things.
I just realised I had read that, but 4 minutes later and it's too late to delete my comment now; Thanks, yes it makes sense.
I immediately wonder how this affected the EOL conditions of those mice.
The container and packaging may have failed by now. Few plastics can remain viable for so long. Best to test it.
You can skip paperwork but what if the patient is allergic to a medicine and you need to check medical records? Or you need to call for a surgeon but VoIP is down? Etc…
Anything that has root/kernel access is a risk. It always has been. When will we learn. Probably never. Because money runs this world. So sad. Time to open a bakery and move on from this world.
'Catastrophic event': A global pandemic-level threat has just emerged
Nice overall. But I hate with all my heart:

Those funky looking people in the stock photos (looksmaxxers).

The new logo. The letter weights is way off. The L looks anemic.

The logo can be saved with few tweaks. Those people in the photos need to go back to the Abercrombie website. (what should you use instead? Tux, obviously.)
Data for A.I. Training Is Disappearing Fast, Study Shows
In the schematic on Radxas site[1] there is no connection between the RP2040 and the power circuit, I would love to be able to shutdown the Intel chip from the Raspberry Pi microchip. Seems far fetched that it would be hackable if this is not a feature, I'm guessing the power chips are a lot more complicated and undocumented than a RP2040.

[1] page 22
https://dl.radxa.com/x/x4/radxa_x4_v1.11_schematic.pdf
Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible
You may be right but they do market it as "Next-Generation Antivirus (NGAV)"/"Antivirus with Threat Intelligence" probably because it's a word people are familiar with

[CrowdStrike Falcon® Pro: Antivirus with Threat Intelligence](https://www.crowdstrike.com/products/bundles/falcon-pro/)
Can somebody summarize what CrowdStrike actually is/does? I can't figure it out from their web page (they're an "enterprise" "security" "provider", apparently). Is this just some virus scanning software? Or is it some bossware/spyware thing?
There are different meanings or measures of what nutritious and taste mean, which I feel like is contributing to miscommunications here.

Nutrition as you define it seems to be purely calories. Another definition would be complete micronutrient profile.

Taste as you define it seems to be fat, sugar, salt. Another definition would be complexity of taste.

Big food currently optimizes for the first definitions of above which is bad for long term health. Second definitions of above would be better for long term health.
Amazing project, by the way!
Crowdstrike brought linux machines down earlier this year in April. There* are several posts in this thread about it.
Tolkien Towers Above the Genre Be Created, Original, Aspiring, Different
The do have some crappy products, but those crappy products make the world move, because nobody really makes better drop in replacement products, same as SAP, Canonical, Android, etc, none of them are fault tolerant, they all have issues and will fail if you fuzz them with enough edge cases, and according to this article CroudStrike caused the issue, not Windows which is what I was pointing at.

Do you think MacOS can't fail if you fuck with it long enough? Sometimes you don't even have to, it just fails by itself. My Ubuntu 22.04 LTS at my previous job gave me more issues than Windows ever did. Thanks Snaps, Wayland and APT. No workstation OS is perfect.

If you want a fault tolerant OS you're gonna have to roll out your own Linux/BSD build based on your requirements and do your own dev and testing. Which company has money for that? So of course they're gonna pick an off-the-shelf solution that best fits their needs on the budget. How is this Microsoft's fault what their customers choose to do with it? Did they guarantee anywhere their desktop OS os fault tolerant should be used in high availability systems and emergency services, especially with crappy endpoint solutions hooked at kernel level?
Trump installed the major prison phone system's ex-lawyer as the head of the FCC last time he got in, just before the prison call price drop was about to be implemented under an Obama-era decision:

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/in-the-news/2017/hrdc-says-f...
> There's no societal benefit in retribution

It quells vigilantism.
What happens when a computer gets rebooted as part of daily practice or because of the update, and then it becomes unusable, and then the treatment team needs to use it hours later?
Put on yer “re-bootin’” boots !
The real financial problem is that cybersecurity is mostly box checking. It's an industry that is open to commoditization, as startups in lower-cost global regions manage to check the box as well as the next-most-expensive region, and cost conscious companies keep migrating. But the power of the box checking is strong.

I do not invest in cybersecurity companies, it is very risky IMO
Microsoft shops gonna be running Hyper-V. Probably also got hosed.
YellowAfterlife's Ergonomic Keyboard List
As a non-native English speaker, I agree.

I always say English is what Esperanto wanted to be.
Looks like something anyone, who uses Linux will hate, but the general public would probably prefer.
Don't do automatic updates....roll updates manually. That would be a nice thing for the beginning.
FWIW, my interactions have been with the federal system over 10+ years. I never heard of any blocking of google voice numbers there. It appears to be common knowledge among the inmates as a way to avoid the long distance charges.
I'd caveat this by saying eating less industrially raised and processed meat would help. The same goes for industrial produce though, they cause a ton of damage that few people ever see or think about.

If we want realistic solutions, they'll all be incremental like using less plastic or Turing lights off when you aren't home. If we want recommendations that would actually help, we would need to completely reorganize societies and our daily lives.

We don't need cars, air travel, grocery stores, or even air conditioning to survive. Those are all modern inventions on the order of decades old. People aren't going to do that willingly though, including me. I live a very different, and more simple, life than the average American but the idea of throwing out so many things that we have today only because we've enslaved natural fuel sources is scary as hell.
This is a very useful thing, I will definitely test it
I would like to have the power to press the button that deploys this update
There seems to be little basis for this assumption, as current models don’t exhibit understanding. Understanding would allow to apply it to situations that don’t match existing patterns in the training data.
Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons [pdf]
I'll do it as soon um off my old unsupporting github phone... in summer camp
Beyond the BSOD that happened in this case, in general this is not true with Windows:

> And if they were on and you were using them, they wouldn't be rebooting, and it would be fine.

Windows has been notorious for forcing updates down your throat, and rebooting at the least appropriate moments (like during time-sensitive presentations, because that's when you stepped away from the keyboard for 5 minutes to set up the projector). And that's in private setting. Corporate setting, the IT department is likely setting up even more aggressive and less workaround-able reboot schedule.

Things like this is exactly why people hate auto-updates.
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast."
I can’t explain enough how much I dislike Microsoft the corporation, but this wasn’t their fault - a 3rd party kernel driver crashed the system.
Kerensky in Hindsight
I think there is a lot of confusion around private prisons in the US. I can't understand why this is such a talking point for people who want prison reform.

For-profit companies operating carceral facilities is just not the main reason things are so bad.

There is an easy way to see this: lots of public, government run jails & prisons are also brutally awful and evil places. For example, Rikers Island is not a private prison. On top of this, private facilities incarcerate only a small percentage.

You could turn all the private prisons over to be operated by government employees and not much would improve.

On the other hand, it is true that many problems in the carceral system are created by profit-seeking companies. Mainly they look like what we see here: contractors operating a single service possibly winning the contract through kickbacks, and then providing a bad service. You see this in food and healthcare too not just telecom.

I guess it is true that private prison operators will want to do the same thing. But it's a problem for all facilities, not just the small number of private facilities. And even if you could solve these issues via regulation or competition, it wouldn't change the many other evils that are inflicted on incarcerated people.

So I can't understand why "the US has private prisons" appears to be everybody's primary talking point about why the US carceral system is so awful.
Whatever the solutions are, let's not push burden on the individual. Resources are like highway lanes: even if you don't drive your car, someone will use it just.
Another app integrating short-span video feed inside an app...I am really tired to see all the apps going this direction.

Attention is all you need.
It's one of the most egregious vestiges of the patronage system. The lack of political accountability has allowed the problem to fester.
Here's a visual representation of flight cancellations and delays at major US airports
https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/
Wow, didn’t like the old logo but this new one is particularly upsetting.

Color is not bad.
> Myanmar is ranked 179 out of 230 countries ranked by gun ownership rate

IIRC, the only guns that were legal there for civilian ownership there were single-shot hunting rifles. If you read the reports, the resistance to the junta had a lot of problems until they could acquire more semiautomatic rifles of the kind many people in the US claim would be useless against a professional military, which is obviously not true due to this counterexample.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Defence_Force_(Myan...

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/2/3/myanmars-rebels-...:

> Under Phoe’s command are about 70 men and four women of mixed ethnicities. Many are from the cities. Wielding a mix of rifles and semiautomatic guns, they form a line and salute every time a car enters the camp.
there is a natural phenomenon known as wetland. these things reclaim, and redistributex raw materials that are like rocket fuel for microbes.
these wetlands are inconvienient for [growth] as they take up a lot of area, andget in the way of housing developments, parking lots, and sewage treatment plants.

the solution is attempted dilution,thus:

>>It's literally what it sounds like: dumping untreated sewage into waterways and oceans.<<