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by xyst 2y ago
A real life example of a “chaos monkey”. Folks, doesn’t matter if it’s physical or digital. Test your systems for resiliency
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by xyst 2y ago
What I am concerned about is the increasing number of bean counters and MBA-flunkies filling positions where technical or medical expertise should be required. Just based on his resume he shouldn’t be managing state/federal medical res
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by xyst 2y ago
This guy is a classic example of failing upward. Goes from parasitic consultant at McKinsey. Consulting/devising strategy to market opioids to masses. Then to _medical_ director at MassHealth. Then to director of Medicaid and CHIP. An
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by xyst 2y ago
Wonder if the pitchforks will come out this year or the next? So many programs and jobs have been gutted so the orange man and his kleptocracy cabinet can get their $4.5T in tax cuts for the ultra wealthy [1] I’m not impacted but this shit
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by xyst 2y ago
It’s a bit disgusting that multi-billion dollar corporations are not properly compensating the individuals and groups that their “artificial intelligence” models rely on. Meta/FB/Zuckerfuck was caught with their pants down when th
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by xyst 2y ago
I guess NYSE feels operating 2 exchanges in the same region (Midwest) is unnecessary expense. There’s plenty of confusion on my part as to the exact purpose of a NYSE branch. I thought it was to pre-empt the effort by some shady TX folks fr
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by xyst 2y ago
Probably not much? Scammy companies that cannot meet the standards of NYSE or NASDAQ will list on TSE instead? May as well be buying OTC
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by xyst 2y ago
The "Linux-related drama" is child's play compared to what I have seen occur within corporate governance meetings.
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by xyst 2y ago
Not really and I wasted my time browsing a massive thread of non-sense where people were arguing for and against "Fedora Flatpack is better than Flathub" software and vice-versa.
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by xyst 2y ago
I wasted my time browsing through the drama. The idea behind it is really for corporate uses of Fedora/GNOME. Sysadmins, through Fedora Flatpack, can re-package certain software from Flathub in accordance with their draconian corporate
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by xyst 2y ago
Yup. Forget college or post-graduate degrees. This is no longer a meritocracy. We are in a grinding and grifting mindset. This is a jokers/jesters economy. Forget pricey degrees. Just start streaming, become controversial af, gain an
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by xyst 2y ago
Apple users today are just Windows users with even more entitlement. Wasn’t always like this, I think. Personally have seen the same with other projects and dealing with proprietary Apple APIs and their walled in garden is hard enough.
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by xyst 2y ago
What a shame. Seems like such a bright and articulate person. Working/contributing in FOSS is already slave labor in itself (literally, billion dollar companies depend on FOSS and many do not contribute back to the ecosystem they depen
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by xyst 2y ago
A database of every YT user then x-referencing them with public services (fb/ig/twitter). Build shadow profiles, sell db to highest bidder. Or just plain ole pwning them. Most users still tend to use the same password across diffe
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by xyst 2y ago
Definitely a dead take. WASM has its merits but it’s not a panacea.
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by xyst 2y ago
To me, tariffs from the orange man are political theater and appeal to his base, and subsequently sell it via media. What’s to stop manufacturers of goods from shipping it from a country that is not China, laundering it through a different
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by xyst 2y ago
American companies have been using the excuse of “more technology/screens” to justify the higher price points. Then using vague “inflation”/“pandemic”/“supply chain issues” to justify higher prices. However as we witnessed du
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by xyst 2y ago
While I love hearing TSLA getting undercut and ripped apart by competition. I’m honestly curious as to how this company is able to do so - are they cutting quality of materials elsewhere? Safety concerns? Or just plain ole use of ~~slave~~
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by xyst 2y ago
Nope. I’m more concerned about distracted drivers. “Siri hands free” is far from a hands free experience. Doesn’t matter if it’s ChatGPT powering the queries.
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by xyst 2y ago
I’m more concerned about distracted drivers dealing with shitty connection and not paying attention to the road. Also, not sure where you are located but in the USA the cellular providers are god damn awful out in the sticks and certain seg
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by xyst 2y ago
Tell me you have never used “Siri hands free” without saying it directly… Using Siri and an iPhone for “hands free” driving, whether it’s ChatGPT or w/e, it’s not very user friendly. Ask it for basic shit such as directions to some res
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by xyst 2y ago
Corporate welfare, LIBOR loans, over leveraging.
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by xyst 2y ago
Why would anybody want to “talk to ChatGPT” while _driving_? Tech addicts, fr
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by xyst 2y ago
> Siri on the other hand is embarrassingly bad Always has been (c.2012)
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by xyst 2y ago
This has been an issue for users since the debut of “apple intelligence”. Every single stupid minor or patch version re-enables it after updating. Can’t wait for the next Apple lawsuit where I get $5 in compensation after 2-3 years of stall
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by xyst 2y ago
I was excited to try it out but the necessity of using either GH or Google SSO is a bit of a turn off.
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by xyst 2y ago
Good ‘ole “your best talent leaves and worst talent stays” anti-union/union busting propaganda. Have heard this many times over the years yet have not seen any data confirming this. Plays on your emotions but besides fear it doesn’t ha
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by xyst 2y ago
Great - you provide an anecdotal case of a mid tier manager showing off some metric. What I want to know: is the performance of this team/org worse, better or the same as others? > Nobody raised a concern. Nobody dared to say a sing
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by xyst 2y ago
Why this unvetted person(s) has been allowed to even touch or access critical systems speaks volumes about the state of US government. We are at the neoliberal endgame. Billionaires and multibillion dollar corporations received massive tax
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by xyst 2y ago
> walled gardens Apple tried that and it’s crumbling. Meta/Zuckerfuck is always behind the curve. - AR (failed) - “metaverse” (failed) The only thing that has kept them above water is social media and selling off user data, and that

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