ethbr1

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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> It's a clear signal that the marketing/financial teams have taken over the businesses Or that they're targeting the mass retail market, where people are technically ignorant, and "unlimited" is required to co
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Yahoo? MSN Search?
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> Represent what most people [and capital] want [s] Fixed.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Obligatory 'war is a continuation of politics by other means' Clausewitz -- the act of forcibly compelling others to adopt ones position doesn't have an inherent 'acceptable vs not-acceptable' line in method, other
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Agreed. Anyone who thinks democracy isn't punctuated by economically-redistributive violence hasn't been studying history. Based in the simple fact that humans will not cede power/wealth willingly once they gain it. Ergo, vio
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Monkeys and typewriters. Throw enough character input and "It's not working" into an LLM and it will eventually produce... something. And since it tends to reach for the most web-represented solution, that means infinite redi
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> There are zero reasons to limit yourself to 1GB of RAM. By paying $20 instead of $5 you can get at least 8gb of RAM. In my head, I call this the 'doubling algorithm'. If there's anything that's both relatively che
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> The invented “people start with a k8s cluster for 5 users” doesn’t really exist. Can confirm it exists, especially with founders self-coding with LLMs now.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-sam-altman When one is telling farriers that most of them are going to lose their jobs, one might want to try to at least mimic more compassion.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Yeah, I think if we're wondering why having a convicted child sex offender as your tax evasion specialist is bad... well?
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Credit where credit is due, I think the strong centralization of the EU administration has made for better pan-European requirements and software. Sometimes the perfectness of the product is less important than the fact that there was one o
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
I wasn't curious about those things. I was asking about AD+GPO, because I was interested.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
You likely know better than I, but I've always had a weird intuition that enterprise IT security is bifurcated into "Leaders who understand compliance+details" and "Leaders who confuse compliance for details" with v
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> managing group policy sanely is still a challenge I've found - it's very resistant to configuration as code Imho, this was historically (and continues to be) Microsoft's Achilles heel. Large parts of the company reflex
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Spoken like someone who has never provided computers to non-technical, minimum-wage users.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> Kerberos I remember it almost being a trope at the time that every Kerberos question thread eventually landed on some subtle / niche incompatibility or edge case.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Doesn't the Azure team own Intune/Entra now? Read: less inclined to give a fuck about artificially protecting Windows desktop. I've no idea what current internal Microsoft org divisions are.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Fuse membership and inheritance-based object (in the sense of 'any computing thing or person') ontology with configurability? The insight in AD+GPO wasn't in either thing, but in the +. Each would be far less useful without
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> Most workplaces don't have strict bans on personal mobile devices If you're talking about select work apps on your mobile device, sure, but that's limited attack surface. If you're talking about employers who let
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
What's the Linux version of AD and group policies? (honestly curious; linux sysadmin at scale not my day job)
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> Imagine what can happen if the French and other governments would start pouring all the money into developing that further in the open You'd get a clusterfuck of a consensus spec, then they'd all get pissed off and develop
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
But it boils down to 'can you review code faster than you write it'? To which, yes, everyone does in practice, but that's because we were relying on juniors and peers being human and making only human-style mistakes.
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> The amount you can review before burning out is now the reasonable limit I realized this is the crux of our moment, because a variant of Amdahl's law applies to AI code gen. {time gained} = {time saved via gen AI} - {time spent
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
> The contrasting approach, where one designs a platform that remains secure even if the owner is allowed to run whatever software they like There's a lot that one can gripe about Amazon as a company about, but credit where credit
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by ethbr1 6mo ago
As far as I've read the literature from the 60s and 70s, tactical nukes were eventually eliminated in order to assuage western Europe's concerns that large portions of their countries would be turned into irradiated wastelands for
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
It's a little weird to be scared of random strangers, famous or not. If this happened when Altman was already so well-known so as to make this a problem, maybe he shouldn't have been traveling on his own? Private security is a thi
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Or reducing default reasoning levels?
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Yes and... that's a position of privilege that anyone in the position should ethically take. It's unfair to sweep provision of methods to the military under a "respect the service" catch-all justification. Two things can
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Kagi (assistant.kagi.com) with Kimi K2.5 (their current default) has worked great for me in scenarios where the search result data is more important than the model. I.e. what I used to use Google for and when I don't want an AI to over
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
> It's tragic how mismanaged it is. Is it mismanaged? Sure, they spend a fair amount on administration. Sure, they spend about 10% on Mozilla Foundation stuff. But they still spend ~2/3 of revenue on software development. And

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