outoftacos

You can abstract away the Pi and updates as easily as the cloud abstracts away everything. 90% of AWS users can't even figure or don't care about out how to distribute across multiple availability zones, much less data centers. Two Pis would be fine for 99% of this 90%.

Seems like the future to me, it's just not in any big tech company's best interest right now as they fight over data centers.

I haven't traveled abroad in a couple years, so I'm not sure exactly how this works, but I would be unable to contain my laughter if some CBP cop asked me to unlock my phone or laptop. Is this something that actually happens nowadays? Why on earth would anyone ever consent to this nonsense?

Great read, at first I thought it was just a puff piece but the ending is a great insight into the filter bubble that folks with that amount of money and power live in. He can't handle any criticism or line of questioning that dares to peek behind the curtain, it's something that just never happens in his world.

I'm not sure what level of power he's going to buy next, but everyone should be trying to peek behind the curtain. And deleting their Facebook.

He's also 100% correct, Twitter should be de-listed and treated as a utility. It's too much of a public good to get gobbled up by Google or whoever.

The other angle which I haven't seen much written about yet (hint hint aspiring journalists) is I personally know a good number of the mid and high level employees at these companies, and they are becoming increasingly disillusioned by the day. They just don't want to be a part of this bullshit system anymore. Especially at Google and Facebook, they seem to be more authoritarian than some toppled dictatorships of the past century.

Fortunately it's a great time for radical career shifts, especially if you always wanted to be an artist.

The piece doesn't really articulate a problem, if anything the reverse is true more often than not: management chases short term performance numbers to the detriment of the long term success of the company and long term shareholders.

It's more just like "woah we're hip smart tech bros we need to fix the stock market!" even though none of their claims really have any merit.

IPOs are still stupid for a lot of reasons, but stratifying shareholders (why is the answer to everything from the Valley always more stratification?) is neither here nor there.

You mean like desktops? That are unplugged? How many of those do you think are sitting around? How old is the version of Windows on them do you think?

If your recovery strategy is "drive as fast as you can to the thrift shop" then I don't know how effective "rebuilding" would be. This is fucking terrifying.

Yeah I still think the NYT has the best science coverage out there, but business and tech has become such a joke over the past 20 years it's not even worth checking.

This is par for the course for the NYT, the noble corporations are painted as heroes keeping us safe from the dirty wildlings who are about to topple the wall any day now.

They do the same thing with many (large) companies, the State Department, all military/intelligence branches, etc. It's how you get access, and they seem more willing to play ball and churn out these puff pieces over doing real journalism than anyone. The Times is the most prominent example of this pattern, but it's becoming more and pervasive.

I worry a lot about how these megacorps will treat "collaborators" vs "non collaborators" in the coming years. Obviously you can't just outright buy everyone, but they seem to be increasingly abusive towards technologies and teams that aren't on board with their interests and ideology.

Actually I'm more worried about how Facebook and Amazon treat non compliance, but Google sure seems to be getting shadier every day.

This combined with the W3C evolving into a corrupt entity just makes me want to get out of tech completely. Maybe if I could get some awesome dev job at the EFF?

We have a "Department of Defense" as well as one for "Homeland Security". Cognitive dissonance is a funny thing.

"Solution" wow, just step back a second here, I never signed up for advertisements AT ALL, much less background CPU miners for shady schemes.

Solution is the last word to use, there is no problem first off and malware is not how you would solve this fantasy of a "problem".

This article is terrible, full of opinion and hearsay. Why on earth did it shoot up to #2? I get that if you're invested in all these awful coins you want others to buy in too, because otherwise your coins are worthless, but still.

How many decades of writing representatives and wasting votes will it take before people wise up? Clearly this isn't working, time for a new strategy.

Yeah they tried to throw Struts under the bus but actually just confessed to criminal negligence.

I don't think they are competent enough to realize how damning this press release is. This company is finished.

Oh god, now they're trapped in the endless useless growth demand cycle. Too bad, I enjoy supporting a few artists on there and it's just a matter of time until this hurts them.

Sure, but adding GA to a page is what I meant by copy/paste, this still happens everywhere outside of the build process. Then of course marketing needs to add 10 other things and they can't figure out whatever hip new build tool someone set up and then suddenly things get really messy.

Yes this happened even at whatever company you think is a paragon of engineering best practices and modern development.

Only if you're old enough.

This seems like a very promising idea, especially since every site nowadays loads 12 scripts that were copy/pasted from eight different sources by six different developers all over the page, and each one just blocks everything no matter how fast your network or client is.

I mean, that's if you're lucky and the development team was relatively competent.

It's nearly 2018, I think we're all pretty tired of the "just joking/trolling" line. "But he's not really racist" is even worse. Just stop.

I don't care how deep you are into which edgy internet community. Just fucking stop.

I hope more public security shaming like this happens, consequences and lawsuits be damned. This is getting too tiresome, we've been tolerating incompetence and bad management for too long.

The only viable path forward now is to dissolve these three agencies and reform how we manage identity and credit in the United States. It might take a few years, but shareholders and employees of these three companies should start making other plans if they haven't wisely started to already.

That was so satisfying to read, it's rare that I come across a voice angrier than my own in the New York Times of all places. Makes me think there is hope this world won't fall apart after all.

I've never really worked at a place where we had any spare time for open source project development, nor time to opine on the social issues of the day. Must be nice, but I feel like a very small, privileged few actually live in that world.

The rest of us have work to do.

You should see Denver. It was like The Shining.

Yes I can contrive examples in any language that are nightmarish. Fortunately we manage to muddle through somehow, at least those of us who have work to do in lieu of walking through trivia to prove how smart we are to other hackers.

You cannot be fiscally conservative while constantly demanding unlimited funds for your population. Come up with an intellectually honest term instead.

Ditto with Texas, Alaska.

Maybe "welfare queen states"?

I am still unsure as to how any of the credit bureaus exist legally at all, I never consented to having all my eggs in those three vulnerable baskets. Why is this my problem all of a sudden?

I get that consumer protections in the US are not very strong, but this just seems like a shady cartel in cahoots with the banks/insurance companies. Please tell me I'm grossly misunderstanding something here.

I abandoned chrome two years ago, I had no idea it had gotten that mad. It's worse than the IE6 days, my god.

Hurricanes rotate counter clockwise, so the highest wind speeds and storm surge tend to occur to the "right" or on the east/southeast side of the eye path. Currently Miami looks to be right in the center of this danger zone, so just get out now while you still can.

Yes it's a few days out and they can and usually do veer off, but this one is not worth riding out.