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Nothing about this bubble makes sense. Why should this?

You could exhaust Windows networking or filesystem features in an afternoon. Linux could give you a career.

I spent 20 years supporting Windows server and server applications like Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, etc, etc, and when I left that industry and got back to Linux, I was absolutely floored about what I had been missing. No wonder Windows had it's lunch eaten in virtually every facet by Linux server applications.

I've gotten to the point that if you're trying to show me something and I see you're using Windows, I just assume you're an unserious person and it's worthless.

All the major tools for advanced work are Linux-based, and there's maybe a Windows version, but it's probably a kludge like Docker Desktop.

dead-pigeon.jpg

Eek, that doesn't have pleasant past.

>Businesses don’t operate based on revenue

Well, you have that right. But apparently they IPO based on even less.

Maybe it does make you a better engineer because when you look back on a commit that you were rushed on, you don't see a commit message of "Fixed it".

It astonishes me how aggressive people are on this issue that have never turned a wrench on a Deere machine.

In the last decade, on a fleet of almost 30 Deere machines from lawnmowers to high-clearance sprayers and combines, I could count on one hand the number of times I've needed the Deere laptop to diagnose a problem to fix it.

Man, I remember doing this in the late 90s with ipchains as the only way to get a router that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Eventually consumer/prosumer routers came out.

What's old is new again.

It would still be wiser to tie your own router into the hotel system as a gateway, and keep your own PAN behind that.

Worked well enough for the Catholic church that the cops decided to adopt it.

As long as corn and soybeans are subsidized via crop insurance, and propped up by biofuel mandates, oats will not be a popular crop in the US.

Canada doesn't do any such subsidies so oats make a lot of sense. In fact, some years it's our most profitable crop, even outstripping canola.

Wouldn't that just immediately get it thrown out as non-cleanroom invention considering the source of the weights is extremely public-domain heavy?

I waver between "I'm not going to convince anyone anyway, and they'll retreat to their echo chamber and be right back where they were" and "The world would be better if we fight for what's right, and speech is the only ethical way to do that".

I'm tired, Boss...

Good lord, if how they were managing Proxmox with an agent was essentially using Playwright, no wonder they thought there was a problem.

I don't even do that, I go into a shell and run qm commands for more complicated things. And for anything I ask an agent to do, it goes straight to qm and other CLI tools as well.

Weird.

If they keep persecuting Anthropic as they have, I wouldn't be surprised to see them move offshore. If there's ever been an industry that is mobile, it would be AI.

Seems like a poor place to invest if you have to worry about a corrupt government pulling the rug out from under you at every opportunity if you don't play along. Sounds quite third world, actually.

The thing is, and the article said it, I'm not going to click your ad. Period. That's why I have an ad blocker. So there's no lost revenue, because you'll never, ever get a clickthrough from me.

Especially since the only explanation for why this exists is as a backdoor.

The bug this guy brings up is very obviously a Bitlocker backdoor and raises very serious questions about what Microsoft is doing with the encryption. Pretty certainly they're able to decode the volumes without the user's key, which is extremely concerning.

Looks like they're trying to make it disappear, but it's in the wild now.

I've known people that think switching to fruit juice from sugar sodas was going to fix them; very much not. Doesn't matter where you get the sugar, sugar is sugar and is not good for you or your arteries or weight loss.

Actually, figuring it on generating tokens 24/7 is the best case scenario. if you figure it at 8 hours a day of actual use, you still have the fixed cost of the hardware being the highest portion of the budget, but now you generate 1/3 the tokens so you triple that cost per token.

I had a company trying to sell me some farm management software, looked good, but every page had a chatbot window that hovered in the bottom middle and could not be dismissed. Took up like 20% of the readable area. Sales guy called me up to see how the trial was going and I said I wasn't going to continue with it because of the chatbot. He tells me I wasn't the first person he'd lost sales to because of it, but the owner was married to having that always visible as it was.

I have no compunctions about using AI, frankly, but when I don't need or want it, it needs to fuck off.

I switched to Hermes Agent and it's been night and day how much more stable and usable it is over OpenClaw. What a mess that's turned into

"Smash that Like button."

I'm sure the company is only doing what's best for the employees. How ungrateful of them.

>thanks administration that drove them out of business with a pointless war, or at least finished them off.

I remember the idea of "swear at the LLM to get better results" and I even think it somewhat worked, at least for a while.

This is probably how we'll end up with a HAL9000 burning the world to the ground.

Man, I wrote a lot of things that used OLE. Microsoft was heavy on building things like that. I wrote a program that would load up patient data and build referral letters for physicians and send them via electronic fax. It freed up like three admin staff that were dealing with that before and hating it.

The funny part was some of them must have been so seldom used that I'd run into problems and uncover bugs that were very quickly apparent, and I'd call MS support and they had never had them reported. I sometimes wondered if I was the only person that used them. WebDAV for Exchange was another on of those things.