sylver_dragon @ sylver_dragon @lemmy.world

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It's a mixed bag. Piped bot is just generally "meh" for me. With all the ad blocking I have turned on, I don't really see ads on Youtube and would rather give what little support my views provide to the creators on the platform. I also subscribe to Nebula to try and support them directly.

Many of the bots, especially the really noisy re-post type bots I tend to block. Sure, I want to see content on Lemmy, but a bot reposting everything from a site has a problem with just creating a lot of noise without any sort of filtering for interesting content. But, since I can block them selectively, I'd rather people had the room to create and I'll just remove the ones I don't like from my feed. Everyone wins.

Building a 3D printer is easy. Getting the details right to build a great 3D printer is hard, as this is where most companies fail. Why?

Because 3d printers are becoming cheap commodities. Those little details cost money and most manufacturers aren't willing to take the profit hit to do anything more than the bare minimum. It's only ever going to get worse at the lower end of the cost spectrum and while higher end printers may get somewhat cheaper, most people won't be able to afford that level of care. The majority of consumer level devices will continue to be just good enough to not get returned but always lacking in fit and finish.

It’s like republicans are actively trying to lose in November.

Um, did you stop reading at the second sentence?

The Debt Collective named Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) as particularly responsible for the language.

I don't have any love for the GOP, but this particular bit of "fuck you" is from neoliberal Democrats. They need replacing. Not with Republicans, but with better Democrats.

Yes, yes it has. And it's directly because Russia engaging in exactly the type of expansionist wars NATO was set up to stop.

Ya, this is the sort of thing which would keep me from buying Tesla. While Musk's antics certainly don't help, everything I hear about Tesla tends to revolve around poor quality control, terrible customer support and long delays in getting problems fixed. Even without Musk, I wouldn't want any part of that.

I'm personally a fan of microtik products. It's nice as they have a lot of built in management features. However, the downside is that there is a learning curve to their products which can feel like a vertical wall some times.

While embarrassing, the environment in which that happened was entirely different. You had Regan and Gorbachev actively working to improve relations. And no one was actively trying to blow up Soviet infrastructure. You'd think the Russian air defenses would be a bit more sensitive to small aircraft coming from Ukraine in this environment.

Are there many accidents that this would have prevented?

We don't know, because the norm has been two-man teams. The question shouldn't be "is this making things safer"? The question needs to be "will reducing crew sizes still be as safe"? The burden of proof needs to be on the rail operators to show how they have mitigating controls in place to prevent failures which may have been caught by that extra human operator. Ultimately, this is about systems failure and avoiding low incidence, high damage failures. While technical controls are fantastic and should be used, they are often inflexible and don't respond in the same way that a human can to prevent or mitigate a disaster. Humans are often a critical layer in the Swiss Cheese Model for preventing these sorts of failures. Fewer humans may well mean fewer chances to stop something getting through.

That all said, if railroads really want to have data driven safety, then we really need an organization, similar to the FAA, which is empowered to enforce safety standards and require companies to comply with safety recommendations. And I doubt the railroads would be happy about that. It might mean actually implementing safety upgrades and maintenance in a timely manner.

The West is perfectly fine supporting genocide so long as you only do it in your own country or in a country The West is not interested in.

This is pretty embarrassing for Russian air defense. Though, I also wonder if they were hesitant to shoot down an unidentified aircraft after multiple cases of friendly fire bringing down VKS aircraft. I'm also amazed that there was seemingly no Electronic Warfare (EW) systems in the area to prevent remote control of drones. Sure, there are EW countermeasures, but this seems like a pretty significant failure that this drone could be flown in from that far away.

This seems like one of those technologies which may be useful as an investigatory tool, but should ultimately not admissible in court. For example, if law enforcement has a grainy video of a crime, and they use AI enhancement to generate leads, that could be ok. Though, it will still have issues with bias and false leads; so, such usage should be tracked and data kept on it to show usefulness and bias. But, anything done to a video by AI should almost universally be considered suspect. AI is really good at making up plausible results which are complete bullshit.

During my time contracting in the FedGov, they went "all in" on Microsoft products. From email to Teams to other products, they were becoming a Microsoft shop top to bottom. This was fine for products which were fully mature. For all the jokes about it, Microsoft email is actually pretty good. Azure AD is fine, as long as you have a team of sysadmins to unfuck permissions issues. Permissions will get fucked, as there is a dearth of tools for mapping them. But, that's been a perennial problem with AD permissions well back to the NT 4.0 days (maybe longer, I was dealing with Novell before that). And there isn't much better for centralized user management than AD, though third party PAM tools do help here, a lot. Their security tools were (and still are) shit on toast from a usage perspective. Seriously, the only reason people choose MS Defender anything is because "no one ever got fired for choosing _IBM Microsoft".

The main problem is that Microsoft is a "for profit" company. This means that there will always be tension between Security and Profit. So, it's unsurprising that they have a lax security culture. Security isn't profitable. The appearance of security is, and I have little doubt Microsoft will be able to roll out all kinds of documentation showing that they were "compliant" with all the required security controls. This means exactly dick, as it's easy to have insecure systems be "fully compliant" and then do exactly fuck all to actually secure the systems. "Compliant" is a baseline and only proves that you're not going to get hacked within the first ten minutes of plugging a network cable in. Actually securing the system means a lot of people, processes and efforts finding and fixing holes not covered by the baselines and watching the network for anomalies. That's really expensive and makes ITs job a pain a lot of times. It also makes no money, as it doesn't do much to enhance the appearance of security, so it tends to get ignored and eventually cut. The end result is exactly what we have here today, a major hack which didn't get picked up on for weeks.

I work in Cybersecurity, Incident Response specifically.
I started off in IT and spent a lot of years as a sysadmin (Windows, mostly). A couple jobs ago, I often worked closely with the security team and when they had an opening, they all but held a gun to my head to get me to apply to move over. Some years and a few internal promotions later, I got a message on LinkedIn which (in part) read:

I came across your LinkedIn and thought you might be a great fit for a Sr. Information Security Analyst role that my team currently has open. It's a fully remote opportunity with one of our top clients. Would you be open to a brief call to discuss further?

I said yes and now I'm a making good money while reading other peoples' email in my pajamas.

The percentage of inconsiderate people meeting the percentage of multi-family housing with basically no soundproofing is a recipe for sleeplessness and rage

This problem is exactly why I will never live in a city again. I'm sure it's possible for multi-family housing to have reasonable sound proofing. I'm also sure it will never actually happen in anything except the most high-end units.. And even that soundproofing does nothing when you try to have the windows open during nice weather and discover that your neighbor's wife screams like an actress in a bad porno at 3am. Ya, no, fuck that noise. Gimme a small home in the forest with trees between me and the next asshole.

That all said, I quite like my current setup. I'm in a rural area with ~25k people in the county, last time I looked into it. The community I live in is more suburban in layout. We don't hear our neighbors unless they are really, really loud. But, we also have BBQ's on the regular with our neighbors and our kids are out and about together constantly. It's pretty darn idyllic.

Well that’s very interesting plot twist, I’m almost concerned about as long as minimum wage grows higher and higher company tend to mass layoff it’s worker & replace the worker with robot equipment

Not really. This same saw about minimum wage increases leading to inflation and unemployment gets pulled out every time the discussion comes up. And while I am sure there is a point of diminishing returns, the doom and gloom has failed to materialize time and again. I'm old enough that I was working through several US Federal Minimum Wage hikes and have heard the same claims every time. And while there will be some marginal rise in prices, it will be nothing like the rise caused by actual inflation and is really just businesses using the opportunity to adjust prices up while having a convenient excuse.

Worker replacement with automation also isn't new. The industrial revolution was devastating for many sectors. Weaving used to be an actual cottage industry, with people renting time on looms or making cloth at home. Now, we all buy mass manufactured textiles made in massive, highly automated factories. Sure, it sucked for people dedicated to weaving at the time, but it's been a long term good for society. People and markets eventually adjusted, and people now benefit from cheaper textiles. It's a cycle we've run through with many products and we'll run through it again with many more. The real test of a society isn't in that society trying to hold back progress, it's in how we protect the dignity and well-being of the affected workers as the shift happens. We'll need strong social services to support workers whose jobs are automated away. Holding down wages doesn't do that, it only enriches the already wealthy by allowing them to capture more profit at the expense of the workers.

If you haven't already done it, now is a good time to freeze your credit.

Windows 10 released in 2015. Windows 11 released in 2021. It's pretty much in line with other release cycles for Windows Desktop OS releases.

• XP -> Vista - was about 6 years
• Vista -> 7 - Was about 2 (But everyone sane basically skipped Vista)
• 7-> 8 - Was 3 years, with a fourth year to get to 8.1.
• 8 -> 10 - Was about 3 years.

If you only look at the releases which mattered, XP -> 7 was 8 years and 7 -> 10 was 6. So, it seems like Microsoft kinda accepted reality this time around and we didn't get some sort of asinine Windows Mojave shenanigans trying to polish a turd. That said, I'm still running 10 on my main system and my experiences with 11 are making me consider an upgrade path to Linux when Win10 goes EoL.

This has to be an AI written article, or maybe AI edited (or both).

Ya, I tend towards the libertarian side of the political compass. That doesn't always play well on Auth-Left dominated Lemmy. But, I never was one to care about imaginary internet points.

While I'm with you on the age restrictions, I suspect it wouldn't have that much of an impact. Kids lie all the time about their age online, and I really hate the ideas of age verification which often gets floated with these things. There's enough problems around tracking people already without laws mandating that tracking. And sadly, may of the kids who are currently enabled to play these games by their parents would still be enabled to play these games by their parents. Not too many 13 years olds are getting credit cards. Those kids' parents are often the ones buying stuff. Though this is another place where "points" and the like are a problem. As kids can circumvent the restrictions by buying points cards with cash and then using them online. Still, no point letting "perfect" be the enemy of "good enough".

Way down at the end of the article, they finally get to the heart of the problem:

And even before 2020, educators nationwide were warning that they lacked the appropriate mental health and social service supports to adequately deal with behavior challenges.

In the late 00's, there was a push to address some of this and school districts were hiring and building out counseling services. Then 2008 hit, the economy cratered and the first thing cut was those same services. An entire generation of students missed out on what could have been much better mental health and social services, because of big banks gambling. But hey, at least we saved those big banks from their own hubris and mistakes, right?