Companies are impressed by developers that only know how to build pretty dashboards by just installing every npm package under the sun, opening all of the ports on everything, and requiring a connection to the cloud to make their front-end work. There may even be someone working for the company that explains the problems, but those people get ignored.
AI is just making this mentality worse.
None of this would have happened if Iran’s fascist government also didn’t need external enemies to blame their economic problems on and didn’t support terrorism throughout the region.
It is indeed assholes on all sides.
They’re using smaller tankers that load up with oil in the gulf, traverse the strait, then transfer ship to ship to tankers in the Indian ocean. Most of the smaller tankers are owned by the Gulf states and are insured by them too.
It’s odd that a supertanker was trying to go through the strait. Of course right now it’s just a claim by the IRGC, so best to wait for confirmation from a reputable source. It’s seems likely it was a smaller tanker (which do get hit from time to time, just doesn’t make the news) and the IRGC is exaggerating.
This is like explaining the world to children who can only think of things only in terms of “good guys” and “bad guys”.
It’s possible that Hamas (who murders children) might not be the noble freedom fighters the social media algorithms have made you believe. It’s possible that Palestinians have some issues with bad leaders just as Israel does. It may even be possible that none of the countries in the Middle East have good leaders.
You may even want to consider the possibility that there are good people throughout the Middle East, the problem is it’s just shitty people that are in power. The reasons for this involve religion, history, grievances because of past conflicts, high concentration of wealth in the hand a a few people, corruption, etc.
If your goal is peace, shit’s complicated there.
Spreading hatred and encouraging more conflict is simple. For those of us that want peace, it’s complicated.
Creating a list makes a lot of sense – the reasons for this include:
Let me know if you need any help in constructing your own three point list!
Yeah it seems the agreement is actually finalized yet. Remember when he announced a trade agreement with Canada and then added a bunch of shit at the last minute and the whole thing fell apart? He wrote (or at least someone wrote) about doing this kind of thing in “Art of the Deal”.
The Greenland thing isn’t a done deal. Even after it’s signed, it isn’t a done deal.
Everything spies on you now LOL.
If you’re reading this on your phone, guess what? Your phone is spying on you. Turn off your phone and watch some TV. Your TV is spying on you.
That’s always true. I just did two searches and got the exact same AI result.
I’m guessing google is caching AI results, it would be insane not to.
I did at one time have a Gemini window open that was explaining how to solve a technical problem. It was pretty adamant the solution it was proposing would work, but it wasn’t working. I gave up on AI, and decided to just google for old fashioned web forums about the issue. Of course the AI result comes up first, and it said what I was trying to do wasn’t going to work and gave the reason why. So yeah one instance of AI will say the opposite thing from the other.
BTW I eventually solved the problem by taking a different approach which involved using some code someone posted to stack overflow a few years ago. So AI was just a complete waste of time on that problem.
The head of my IT department once asked me to send him an AWS root password over email because there was an issue with billing on the account.
Another manager told users to just bypass the certificate errors on a new web service.
Multiple times I’ve had people tell me over teams to do all kinds of weird things to work around security errors.
It’s a weird thing where people in IT think the security rules are for everyone else and not for them. And it’s just laziness. I wind up doing all of the work to set everything up so the user is going to subdomain.[my company’s domain] and the cert is valid and if it’s an internal service, use kerberos to validate the user so they don’t even enter a password.
The goal should always be that the user sees zero red flags when using a service. But a lot of people are too lazy to implement what’s needed so eliminate all of those red flags and instead just send out a message to tell people to ignore them.
The mentality around online security now is to push the responsibility onto someone else instead of investing any real effort into it. So you need to be aware of phishing scams, but the company isn’t going to make any kind of effort towards it. That’s on you, not on us!
Microsoft is really terrible about this. They have at least 20 different domains and many of them ask you to enter your credentials into them. Usually you’re redirected to something like login.microsoft-online.com or something like that and enter in your credentials into that. Always seems like a phishing thing… why wouldn’t it just be login.microsoft.com? I’m guessing within Microsoft, it’s probably was a pain in the ass to get whatever department in MS that controls the microsoft.com domain to set up a subdomain. So instead ever department registers a domain that they can control. The end result is you’re dumping your credentials into random looking domains, then downloading and installing software from other random domains.
They just don’t really care as long as there’s no legal liability. You’re data gets compromised because you didn’t notice that you put your credentials into online.microsoft-login.com instead of login.microsoft-online.com, that’s your mistake and no one can sue microsoft for it. As long their negligence doesn’t meet the legal definition of negligence, they’re not going to put an any kind of effort.
Anti-phishing training could be so much better… “don’t put your credentials into anything other that *.microsoft.com”. But since these companies won’t make any effort, anti-phishing training amounts to “Just be careful or whatever LOL!”
Your post is just more indication why the USA just needs to end. If you’re saying to want to impose your will on other Americans out of hateful spite, you’re part of the problem. Americans practice hating each other every day and sometimes that hatred boils over and impacts other countries. Your culture is built on hate and as you point out, it’s been this way for centuries.
I don’t think a one state solution is viable any more for the USA. You shouldn’t be thinking in terms of getting revenge on other Americans, you should be thinking in terms of breaking up the country.
He’s already said that the Iran war would immediately end if Republicans are elected. Also, gas prices will be >$2 per gallon and everyone gets $5000.
Easiest way to spot an American posing as a Canadian is to just ask what part of Canada they’re from. The only Canadian city Americans know is Toronto, so that’s what they’ll say. If they pronounce it ToronTO, they’re American. Nobody in Canada pronounces the second T in Toronto.
Even more effective given that they’re probably shooting at civilian ships.
If there wasn’t a pre-existng culture of racism and ignorance in the US, Americans wouldn’t be so susceptible to foreign influence campaigns. Sure countries like Russia, China, and Iran are at fault for manipulating Americans towards stupid and hateful politics, but Americans are predisposed towards those politics, and American tech companies have amplified the effectiveness of the firehose of falsehood strategy by targeting the falsehoods at the specific people most susceptible.
Yes a country exhibiting the properties of another country that it’s influenced by is completely silly!
Yeah the US is getting to be as corrupt as Russia now. The EU had a trading relationship Russia for a while under similar conditions. How did that work out again?
I can’t find it now but there was at least one guy in the Trump administration that bought bonds that would pay out when supreme court ruled Trump’s tariffs were illegal.
You have me tagged because you want to avoid anything piercing your bubble.
Current state of things is there is just one state, which is Israel. “Palestine” is a hypothetical because it’s actually occupied territory. That territory is currently shrinking because Israel keeps expanding settlements.
So you’re worried a two state solution would mean Israel would be able to do what it’s already doing? How does that make any sense?
People who are serious about the topic are trying to find a serious long term solution. Defined borders, and an actual Palestinian government that wants peaceful co-existence with Israel. Right now countries are “recognizing” Palestine in the hopes that they can somehow encourage such a thing to come about. But I guess you’re against that because you want an endless cycle of hatred since that’s working out really well for Palestinians.
They need to add an analogy in there…
“The problem is with the folio reference-count operations from a common buffered-read path”
“Of course! It’s just like putting too much air in a balloon!”