Spooky23

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by Spooky23 5mo ago
Totally. In companies that routinely layoff people for lulz, executives collect business units for layoff fodder to protect their key players. It’s the proving ground for the sociopaths who rise up.
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by Spooky23 5mo ago
That’s really only a rather small part of the picture. Hospitals are opex constrained for things that don’t generate revenue. The operations run lean and are focused on operating. There’s no bench in finance or IT or whatever to figure stuf
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by Spooky23 5mo ago
Oh boy. Next you’re gonna tell me the blooming onion isn’t an Australian cultural tradition! (lol)
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by Spooky23 5mo ago
You’re probably a professional with a good wage. The working poor are too poor to have much and too rich to be poor and get benefits. They are cashflow constrained. When I coached little league, we had parents who walked miles to games beca
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by Spooky23 5mo ago
Archivists also love formats close to native. SQLite lets the relational relationships be present in a way that csv cannot.
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by Spooky23 5mo ago
They generally cannot. But they do banish Access.
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by Spooky23 5mo ago
Flattening is a management fad right now. Loser leaders want to be like Elon or whatever. It is pretty stupid and pathetic tbh, but easier than making an effective organization.
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by Spooky23 5mo ago
The press release is missing the key specification — how many Libraries of Congress fit on this thing?
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by Spooky23 5mo ago
Well, the good news for them is that the president’s children are involved in the company. It’ll be very easy to grease the appropriate hands.
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by Spooky23 5mo ago
Chrome also silently installs a powerful relational database engine without warning or consent. All of your history, trivially searchable. Imagine the waste heat generated by the browser bar conducting thousands of non-consensual searches e
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
They sell the data for marketing other products.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Nefarious indeed. Once they know who you are, they match you against insurance industry databases and can infer many health conditions and other stuff. If you’re timely with prenatal care, marketers can predict a woman’s delivery data withi
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
It works, it just doesn’t fully drive by itself.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Sounds like an "active measures" operation.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Totally. I had a colleague who was a pretty awesome programmer and was completely blind. When I first met him, he was working on a braille 3270 terminal. Those IBM terminals were capable of all sorts of stuff.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Oh totally. I’m just saying when this stuff was at its peak, everyone was excited about the future bullshit. I remember my father in law was legit excited about it, until he drove his new car for a few weeks!
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
The people making these decisions are religious fanatics. They don’t care. This is one of the reasons why the purge of the federal government and military has happened. Surveillance state stuff was pretty scary from day 1… doubly so now tha
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
You don’t know what the group was presented and how. Remember you have the stupid stuff that Tesla pushed hard during the peak Elon reality distortion field time. I regularly are in a Toyota, BMW and Honda, and all of these have well though
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
When I turned IPv6 on on my spectrum connection i ended up with like 4 different interfaces I didn’t need and broken local DNS.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
I fly to or through there 2-3 times a year, tiny sample size and I’m only flying through there to go back home in the evening. But it seems to be a consistently good experience. It’s a well run airport. I fly out of JFK and a smaller city a
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
I wonder if Tesla was a grift from day 1. They seemed to be the halo EV company that everyone accepted, until the charismatic leader moved on. You need government support to make EVs a preferred option. Poor folk buy cheap cars, and they mo
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
It depends on what Apple wants and what Google was willing to give. Google is in many ways the weakest player in the individual-user facing space. It's a weird market and these companies want global domination. TBH, i don't have t
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
I'm too cynical to believe the kubuki theatre. The US government in 2026 is openly and cravenly corrupt, and I don't believe anything at face value. The story about the targeting may be real and material, or backwards engineered t
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
It's a system whose implementations don't do anything to prevent or even detect this. It's not licensed by seat, so it doesn't require SSO and when the data was available it was obvious that most departments use shared a
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Most states have a version of it.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Apple is a pretty difficult company to deal with on a B2B basis. If you have terms that conflict with theirs, they aren’t very flexible. Anthropic can be similarly difficult, and their needs from a business perspective probably don’t align
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
EVs and luxury cars tend to have more fancy features that enable these issues than ice or hybrid cars. That’s changing as more advanced tech filters down.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Why do you think people are having a bird over age verification? Or LinkedIn profiling browsers? Tying chain of custody of online actions to identity makes data incredibly valuable information.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Ironically from the perspective of 2026, the actual "conservative" conservatives were the key opponents. The "total information awareness" and national ID efforts were really killed by the conservatives in congress. The
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Environmentalists are full of scammers. Right wing idiots are against solar and wind. Left wing idiots are against nuclear… leaving us with no alternative other than gas and oil! The common denominators are “idiots” and oil.

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