DevDave

Giuliani had the NYC emergency management/crisis center relocated to the WTC despite experts warning him that was a bad idea.

I’ve been using some variation of Linux since the mid 90’s but never been able to fully switch over. That said I am on my longest and perhaps permanent switch over with KDE EndevourOS (Arch based). I don’t believe this is what you are hoping for but I do believe it is close so perhaps something to keep an eye on for the future.

I have gotten Teams to run once for a about an hour before it crashed and now I can’t figure out what proton/wine voodoo witch doctor recipe I used.

No idea what luck you will have with RDP or RustDesk.

KDE plasma’s window tiling manager is really damn cool but has no documentation. Still you can do neat stuff with it like having a floating window tile on top of another tile (basically an always on top state but on steroids) with distinct tiling arrangements for each virtual desk space.

Scaling has been good but font support is still at the “almost but still not perfect”. A graphics designer might be in trouble.

Drivers - This is where Arch’s pacman (software package manager) and pkgbuild really shine. If it can compile and is available as a git repo, an rpm, or deb file then there is a good chance you can get it working. That said there are still an unfortunate mountain of unsupported stuff.

Otherwise, with all the improvements to Wine via proton and the other forks, it is getting easier to run a lot more Window’s applications.

Like I said, EndevourOS/Arch with KDE is getting pretty close to being an easy jump from Windows but not 100% perfect.

Even the Nazis, the literal ones from the 30s and 40s, were not as inhumane as we treat our homeless, chronically ill, an disabled.

At least they would outright murder them while here they end up dead behind dumpsters or just outside hospitals. I did a lot of volunteer and community work until I had reached my limit of seeing how fucked up things are at the bottom.

not just democracy but whatever is left of the economy will evaporate.

preemptive response to how invincible the US dollar is, a lot of people said the Titanic was unsinkable.

Unless the CO is compromised, anyone who opts out will likely find themselves constantly “lucking out” and not going on deployments. The USN has some serious idiots in charge of our nuclear subs but they also really know how bad things get with contagions due a couple classified events.

Not too much to research with the blinding lasers needed. Keep in mind I am not any where near an expert but this seems like a sufficient implementation. I am 100% certain someone smarter and or more experienced than me could potentially simplify this further.

A sufficiently high resolution video camera with fast integrated auto focus on a mechanized cradle, a computer with two RTX 4090’s, and of course a class IV (say 100w) laser with dual rotating mirrors should be enough to permanently blind the bulk of a crowd.

I bet there is a free model on hugging face for identifying the pupils for eye tracking and there are facing tracking models to drastically cut down the area for acquiring targets. Really the hardest part could be the camera but if you have enough money, Hollywood has stuff that would work. Other problem would be running the models fast enough to be effective.

Casing could just be a metal box that rotates and has a quartz glass window coated with hydrophobic chemicals.

They can’t make it to obvious this is the bad place.

Ugh, I don’t even want to imagine what it’s like being on a cruise ship full of norovirus.

While I am not a big fan of sailing and such, I am one of those rare assholes that absolutely doesn’t get sea sick. That said, being surrounded by vomit and shit everywhere would probably be enough to overcome that mild superpower.

Well there was that time an aircraft carrier was taken off the line because of rona, so not too hard to imagine how it would go.

Also the whole “man flu” thing is actually real. Testosterone has been shown to weaken parts of the immune system - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5075254/

This is why federated servers are the best. The “man” can’t keep dem der frogs down!

“Alright so this system is called ‘testing’ but you need to get two seniors to sign off plus a good reason to push an update.”

/What about this system?/

“Oh, that’s where we do all are actual testing, just be careful not to break it too much.”

/Alright, what is it called?/

“Uhm, I think its called prod or something like that. The root password is written on a sticky note on the upper right corner of John’s monitor.”

/Who is John, the senior dev or something?/

“What? Hahaha no, John is just the summer intern.”

A really rough way for Americans to understand these prices is to take the liters/$ price and multiply it by 4. So my friend in Greece who pays 2,22 a liter is actually paying close to $8 a gallon.

More accurate would be 3.73 or about, but 4 is good enough.

not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Consider the ages of those involved, they will be long dead of natural causes by the time the true “find out” stages of climate change has really gotten going. Also they’ve got wealth & privilege so will have the easiest time migrating to safer places.

Even now, Phoenix Arizona is still another 3 years, at least, away from when evacuations will need to start while Vegas has maybe another 8 as long as the deeper water lines work as designed. Miami could defy the somewhat impossible odds and survive another decade before a hurricane wipes it out like Andrew did to Homestead. Yes bad things are starting to happen faster now, but we could have had another decade of some semblance of normalcy.

When I was younger, I worked exclusively on a v220 (best of the worst) Unix terminal using vi to write programs in c/c++. Yeah I got a little fancy near the end of that with three separate terminals, but the point was I also had memorized an absolutely ridiculous amount of information starting at the syntax rules for four somewhat related languages (bash, c, c++, and whatever the fuck makefile’s are) plus hundreds if not thousands of functions in c and c++ without needing to consult documentation or rely on autocomplete to fill in the blanks.

30+ years later I have a command palette tool I absolutely depend on along with degraded typing skills that show whenever I have to type something out completely like a peasant.

My friend in Greece sent me a couple pictures of Gerald asking if I knew which one it was. Took me a moment because I was shocked with how bad of a condition she is in, and this was before the fire! Everything about that ship screams fraud, waste ,and abuse of public trust.

I am kind of baffled by the absence of food in the US military, especially the US Navy. That’s like the third item on the logistics checklist with ammunition and fuel being first and second.

This also gives some credence to rumors the fire was deliberately started on Gerald due to moral issues.

A bit more than a year ago this (https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-percent) was discussed quietly with the question “If an llm was trained on stolen source code from say Microsoft and then later regurgitates an exact part of that code, what is the legal status of that output?” Where exactly is the threshold where it becomes theft by proxy? Is it a large c struct with matching names and typed properties? Or does it need to be an entire header/definition file pair like with c++ .h and .cpp?

On a more humorous note, a lot of people are half seriously talking about de-compiling NVIDIA’s drivers, running that through more than a couple LLM’s to clean it up, and then when it can compile and works, publish that as open source. Most want to see what the green machine and leather jacket man will do.

I am partial to “Operation Epstein Fury” or OEF2

I actually don’t mind “AI” with coding but really this is all secretly just a surprise attack from the “We don’t need to do maintenance and tech-debt isn’t a real thing” crowd.

For anyone with any professional/commercial experience knows, the auto-slop factory is a dream come true for management as they just keep pulling the techno slot machine lever over and over until it works and then ship it.

At a bigger picture, everything is or is becoming absolute shit for quality but somehow more expensive. Now software (and hardware) is falling in line and embracing entropy. Wait until that old fogey idiot Linus Torvalds passes on and we’ll get AI slop in Linux the minute after the Dr calls it.