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  • And if you subvert that, you're subverting IT security policy. Doesn't matter if you think it's a good idea or not.

  • But fuck Florida on principle.

  • How about a sandwich shop where you can order a Big Italian?

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  • That it's all cloud based. None of it is stored locally.

    Remember what I said about security around documents? Part of that is that docs are never on local machines. Yes, there are other issues with cloud storage, but nobody gets fired for doing it.

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  • But I do not see how those would keep the knowledgeable people from working in LibreOffice and saving their documents in OOXML

    Because they're not strictly "your" documents. You have to share them with co-workers.

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  • Uhh, no. There are collaborative tools in Office that are used by the sorts of people who don't know what LibreOffice is. There's also certain internal policies that tend to classify information in ways that work with Office.

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  • Or if you use your own machine, you still have to collaborate in ways that require Office for one reason or another.

  • Let me jump in until the mobs show up. "Noooooo, it's just what you're used to lalala. When is dividing by thirds ever useful, anyway?".

    I've also found that if you make this point without any reference to metric vs imperial, people tend to accept it.

  • Yes, it did. Most of the basic research came from there. The first section of the book "Hackers" by Steven Levy is a good intro.

  • Nope, it is. There is no reason anyone should trust the USD as a reserve currency. Even if Trump is impeached, Vance is impeached, and everyone down the line of succession is impeached until you get someone who isn't MAGA, it's still too late. It'd just be highlighting how unstable the US political system has become. Nobody wants to keep their reserve money in a system like that.

  • It's too late for that. Everyone is finding the exit for the USD as the reserve currency. That loss of soft power alone is seismic.

  • I love it when headlines come down to which asshole happens to be right in this situation.

  • The major thing that killed 1960s/70s AI was the Vietnam War. MIT's CSAIL was funded heavily by DARPA. When public opinion turned against Vietnam and Congress started shutting off funding, DARPA wasn't putting money into CSAIL anymore. Congress didn't create an alternative funding path, so the whole thing dried up.

    That lab basically created computing as we know it today. It bore fruit, and many companies owe their success to it. There were plenty of promising lines of research still going on.

  • The issue this time around is infrastructure. The current AI Summer depends on massive datacenters with equally massive electrical needs. If companies can't monetize that enough, they'll pull the plug and none of this will be available to general public anymore.

    This system can go backwards. Yes, the R&D will still be there after the AI Winter cycle hits, but none of the infrastructure.

  • Make it clear to the Democratic Party establishment that progressive candidates will be on the ballot in every congressional district in Nov 2026, and they will be a spoiler candidate if they have to be. Either way, we are done with their shit. There will never be a better time.

  • Neither was Obama. Not long after he put a bow on the nomination, he voted for an expansive security bill. A lot of people were surprised, but not me.

  • A&W now is pretty damn good in the US. As a Wisconsinite, their cheese curds are better than Culvers and it's not even close.

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  • OP is about NFTs failing due to an Instagram account being hacked. No, it is very much not perfect.

    The fact that banks aren't running off with people's life savings is empirical evidence that the system works. They might try to find legal loopholes, like reordering transactions to make overdraft fees come out higher, but they are strongly incentivized to never fuck with the audit system. This stuff gets written down.

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  • The fact that banks generally aren't running off with your money suggests the system works.

    The fact that hacking an Instagram account can let you social engineer yourself into the NFT system shows that system does not work.