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It's clear to me given the description of the protagonists involved on this topic.

Your logic posits that the good guys lost i.e Russia & Iran, supposedly fighting terrorists in Syria.

Nothing ever happens. In this case other than maybe an advancement of a greater Isreal in the middle east.

To the contrary the M2 supply [0] indicates that the Fed's QT policy has barely taken any money out of circulation.

[0]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Those pile of scripts are the solutions on which Kubernetes was built on. And the fact that they never break is why greybeards still use them over the complexity of shiny new things.

Aside from that the website also has a guide to install it with postcss, a tool I've never heard of before (forgive my intentional ignorance).

I think most people will be served with a simple IDS that checks the entrypoints (ssh etc.), a software update routine and hardening of world accessible services to mitigate any potential damage.

Anything else is probably going to be immeasurable security theatre.

Judges get decisions wrong all the time.

A far worse monopoly than Google is going to solve your monopoly problem?

What do you call the Apple store then if it's not a monopolization of the iOS ecosystem?

This article accurately captures all tech monopolies, Apple included.

https://ia.net/topics/monopolies-apple-and-epic

Who is going to provide a competitive browser for the price of $0 other than Google?

Everything here you accuse Google of doing, Apple is running circles on. Ultimately, if this case goes through Google are right about one thing. The UX on Chrome is going to take a steep nose dive.

This farce we call capitalism works really well.

DOGE, the idea, exists today because in their 100+ year history GAO has nothing to show for responsible government spending. It's that simple.

GAO claims to have saved a paltry $70B [0] in taxpayer dollars last year.

Here's them in 2022 saying $247B [1] got lost in that year due to "payment errors".

Looks like their job is to only make recommendations on spending and nothing more.

[0] https://www.gao.gov/blog/gaos-scorecard-how-we-saved-federal...

[1] https://www.gao.gov/blog/federal-payment-errors-known-improp...

> Politics is hard. Government spending is death by a thousand cuts ...

If the solution is not to cut excessive and unchecked spending, you tell us your solution for the dealing with the problem?

> remove whole departments (remove all of the education, veterans, and defence, that will net you 1.5T)

AFAIK DOGE or rather Elon hasn't specified how they are going to cut $2T from the annual budget so all this is speculation and we don't actually know which sectors might receive the cuts. For all we know it could be a goal setting figure. Even if they don't reach this target, the endeavour is still worthwhile. They have 4 years to sell their plans to Congress after all.

In summary you fail to make a good case for why DOGE is a bad idea other than Elon bad. I challenge you to remove this bias from your thinking, it alone just may help you avoid missing the forest for the trees on the issue of government overspend and the relation to uncontrollable public debt.

Key word here being employees. There is no historical precedent for what DOGE has set out to accomplish assuming DJT was actually being serious. Though I would be curious to know where you see them grabbing those said quick wins.

a) Accounting is not that hard. Also you can't be seriously making the argument that one of the richest man in this world does not know how federal funds are spent...

b) I don't think that's true. And even if were to suppose that it were true then your accounting problem would be so easy to solve.

c) Agreed. That outcome is more likely.

Once operationalized DOGE should start their prune exercise with the Pentagon.

You are correct to state over-reliance on AI as a data source will probably lead to society's intellectual atrophy. One could argue we have been on this path with other things but the whole thing more and more to me looks like eating your own vomit and forcing a smile on your face.

AI will always have a specific narrow focus and will never ever be creative, the best AI proponents can hope for is that the hallucinations will drop to a more unnoticable level.

Direct quote from the article: "The companies are facing several challenges. It’s become increasingly difficult to find new, untapped sources of high-quality, human-made training data that can be used to build more advanced AI systems."

The irony here is astounding.

Docker is simply a packaging format with docker compose being a wrapper for docker run. Author seems to confuse general application issues with docker's.

Article wasn't convincing enough about docker compose's shortcomings. The linked github's README even less convincing. But to each his own.

Doesn't offer much utility IMO as most distributions come with secure defaults ootb these days. Unfortunately it's checklist is not thorough enough to keep you ahead of the security curve.

It's never been easier to invest in "Bitcoin" thanks to the ETFs which have been greenlight by the SEC since early this year.

My experience is the opposite. Have used their forever free tier for 3 years now with no issue, no downtime, no drama.

DNS filtering is good enough these days. I have very few ad-thirsty apps that I need. On my Android VPN + Cromite browser does the job, on my PC uBlock Lite will do it.

Am always using gluetun VPN hosted on a VPS with these two options: BLOCK_ADS=on BLOCK_SURVEILLANCE=on and I don't see any ads anywhere, even on the Twitter site!

All this talk means nothing until Google gives AI permissions to push to prod.

Freetube is terribly unoptimized. Even though it supports hw video playback, I decided to skip it as it had too much CPU overhead.

Had the same issue with restic taking up a lock in the event of an unsuccessful operation. I have a very simple workaround for it.

ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/restic unlock

ExecStart=/usr/bin/restic backup

My initial reaction reading the thread was just to shake my head. What's the point of open source?