Don’t worry, soon the folks in charge will come to the inevitable conclusion that the government systems are all compromised, so clearly the only solution is to privatise them and have thevNSA run by Palantir.

It’s fun to see the stock market itself reach the ultimate phase of enshitification

I’d guess part of the plan is that it wouldn’t.

Those are not contrary, but complementary things.

Alternatively, if it suddenly starts working, we know they aren’t writing it.

Hell, even with the chip tunes alone, it’s amazing what people managed to squeeze out of two sines, a saw, and a square channel. Bloody Tears comes to mind. Or Willy’s theme from Megaman 2.

It’s to make it easier to port them to cloud, for when win12 makes your PC a thin client.

Unironically, yes

If I were a more paranoid kind, I’d wonder if it has anything to do with Valve getting behind Linux.

win11 is a shitshow coming from win10

Calling it: win12 will have a thin client cloud hosted SaaS edition, for those who can’t afford new ai-priced hardware.

Scratch a liberal…

Not necessarily. It could also be the MEK.

Dunning-Kruger.

And apparently lemmings are all too happy to play Helen Lovejoy, as long as the children are girls.

Well if the choice is between cheap spying hardware and expensive spying hardware…

IDK, the Altman talk a few days ago sounded a lot like bargaining.

If I remember Devereaux, the village itself was set up to minimise that risk first and foremost, at the expense of optimisation for max yields. So, every year was around subsistence, never much above, but also never much lower.

Frankly, “doing the actual work” is much less important than you’d imagine. I have yet to hear someone start with “I’ve been doing this job for…” and not end with something stupid.

Plenty of tredies know a lot, and I’ve met a bunch of tradesmen who did try uni but quit. But also, plenty of them have a need to tear down engineers because they feel threatened, and plenty more think an engineer is an idiot because he wants things done differently than “the right way” which is, of course, “how I’ve always done it”.