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this is relatively unremarkable for those with an understanding of wage, labor, profit, price and capital.

capitalism will always seek to reduce labor cost. during the epoch of neoliberalism it achieved great strides in this by reducing labor power through union busting by both thatcher and reagan in the UK and US respectively. it has also effectively curtailed any increase in the minimum wage for nearly 20 years as well as reduced protections, regulation and prosecution for wage theft and overtime pay violations which it maintains as exclusively as civil matters while ensuring theft itself from a merchant in turn is always a criminal matter through the primacy of private property.

to learn more i recommend reading Marx's "Das Kapital," albeit its rather academic. Engels "wage labor" is also a good read to understand why housing is so persistently unaffortable but helps to understand why any other good or service slowly becomes so as well.

the effort is being driven by a handful of tech and social media companies who have suddenly realized they cannot close the pandoras box of AI.

without a meaningful headcount of real users, advertisers will begin to push back on cost or even reduce and eliminate spending on social media altogether.

by proactively identifying real humans, you prevent the collapse of major social media outlets. by tracking their age and location directly, you restore that which AI took away from advertisers in the first place.

age verification makes sure surveillance capitalism continues to function.

"hey guys remember that screen technology that came out seven years ago and has had plenty of time to mature? Well our 65 year old CEO just discovered it and has found a way to make it stratospherically more expensive than its ever been before!"

anyone with twenty years of devops experience is likely to abhor Diallo's hot take and for good reason.

AI is being sold as a developer, as it is being sold as the do-everything alternative to traditional processes and methods. it is not being sold as an intern or a junior, but a real developer.

turning the tables and gaslighting devops professionals into believing the issue isnt an emerging technology with overwhelmingly heavy handed marketing and profitless operating strategy thats been shoehorned into seemingly everything and promises anything, but somehow their own oversight, will destroy whatever "vibe code" market you think you have at the cusp of a global recession.

had this AI been a real programmer chances are great they would have (intelligently) foreseen the possibility of damaging a production environment and asked for help.

to play devils advocate: you could hire a junior dev for a fourth of whatever the AI token spend is, and have likely avoided this issue entirely. sure, a greybeard is going to need to pull themselves away from some fierce sorting algorithm challenge for a second to give a wisened nod, but you would have saved yourself an inexorable amount of headache and profit loss in the longer run.

It’s not a fun place for me to be anymore. I want to be there but it doesn't want me to be there. I want to get work done and it doesn't want me to get work done. I want to ship software and it doesn't want me to ship software.

Has anyone else shared this sentiment? If so Redmond needs to lean in hard.

this is an absolute killing blow for Microsoft if it gains real traction. You made developers your cornerstone eight years ago for nearly 8 billion dollars. you spent another 2bn on minecraft to clinch the deal with young developers and the code camp kids.

Youve lost the OS, and the server realm. Lose the developers, and youre on your way to becoming the Xerox of the 21st century.

Pricing oil in Yuan because, I guess, the US is somehow not protecting the UAE doesn't make sense because China won't be there to protect them either.

It is an admission that US protection was always a paper tiger. Perhaps in the 1960s it meant something, but Iran has shattered the illusion that Washington has any credible defense of the country.

The US can just say, well fine you can sell your oil in Yuan. But we'll just blockade the Straight and seize oil priced in Yuan or something.

The UAE primarily sells its oil to China, which is its largest export partner, followed by countries like India and Japan. the United States cannot do this without not only obliterating energy markets for an ally, but strengthening alliances between china and india. It is likely that should the US attempt such a move, China would respond with retaliatory technology tariffs and a reduction of agricultural trade.

Who exactly does the UAE need protection from? Iran? China's ally?

the UAE did not "need protection" from any regional military threat until the United States used regional peace talks as cover to launch a surprise attack against Iran. the UAE would still likely be an OPEC member state had the US not unilaterally chosen to obliterate global energy markets for no consistent or clearly defined reason.

there's just never any follow-up or perhaps imagination that the US could just do something too.

This conflict was well defined as geopolitical suicide for nearly forty years; its what kept the peace. All simulations and tabletop exercises predicted such an incursion would send global energy markets into panic, trade markets into recession, and produce no meaningful advancement of either regional security or regime change. Iran is backed by powerful allies and has shown numerous times it can meet each US escalation with yet more regional attacks. We have tried escalation and failed, burned through a decade of advanced missiles fighting cheap drones, and have no defined objective politically or militarily for this conflict.

Cursed by mighty Redmond to roam the market wasteland until death, one of the seventy some odd beleaguered CoPilot products is now being lashed like a haggard burro to the dying light of a once prominent development platform that, upon itself, were pinned the hopes and dreams of a commercial software juggernaut to capture the hearts and minds of developers all around the world.

exactly. this sounds like a third path where the UAE charts its own course, and that course increasingly looks paved in Yuan.

OPEC cartel membership didnt gain it access to Hormuz, and the US petrodollar promise to protect UAE states from aggression in exchange for trade in USD could not be upheld.

If youve never experienced costco or been a member, this is difficult to understand but there is an undercurrent, nay, a prevailing sentiment of savings value and above all else things like rebate and cash back. Costco has established transparency for the consumer so pocketing the money is an egregious offense for most customers.

- credit cards offered by costco offer generous cashback

- most costco food items include discount pricing thats predictable and visible in the price itself. the decimal value of the price can even determine if the item is being phased out.

- even costco memberships are broken down into savings and the staff will gladly quantify your expenditures and potential cash back should you change or upgrade a membership. unused membership portions are even refunded.

- the refunds. no questions asked, for virtually anything, any time. this is where the costco member expects tariffs to be refunded as well.

unpopular opinion: this can be explained by the social and monetary economics of the gaming ecosystem as a whole.

- Microsoft has worked tirelessly to make the windows compute experience an evermore intrusive and soul crushing experience for the average gamer. artificially outmoded hardware at a time of GPU scarcity means consumers cant comply with redmonds increasingly arbitrary hardware edicts even if they wanted to. at the same time, linux has become ever easier to install and use as an alternative. there is likely an inflection point for a lot of gamers that are just looking to access their library.

- console gaming has become hideously overpriced. madatory tie-ins with playstation network, high costs for all consoles, and the potential for the console stocks to simply not be available at time of release make for a frictional and frustrating experience. Microslop is embracing the same playstation style enshittification that routinely brings sony to its knees. neither juggernaut seems genuinely interested in the end user with the exception of Nintendo, whos quality control issues and pricing as well with switch hardware make it a nonstarter for anyone but the most diehard zelda fan.

- steam + linux offers a largely seamless experience for the casual gamer. steam sales are fun and engaging. the community is generally well rounded. gabe newell is generally well respected by gamers and visibly interested in gaming and the community. Valve has contributed significantly to Linux since their push to obliterate the Windows store and shows no sign of retreat anytime soon. Steam + Linux is free and works with your existing hardware in a time of high prices, inflation, and scarcity in the western world.

Blame it on whatever you like. oracle has been a rudderless leech for nearly 30 years now.

- overpricing the database led to a predictable exodus and new players with often times better performance.

- acquisition of MySQL led to a predictable exodus and new players like maria with often times better performance.

- Oracle cloud arrived late to spectacular skepticism and low user turnout from customers who had been burned by high cost and users burned from decisions like the death of opensolaris. it exists on federal life support these days by the grace of the prevailing administration.

- more than 80 products, with hundreds of thousands of patches and updates, yet no coherent or meaningful reform of the build for more than forty years. DB 19c still ships broken for redhat 9 as a means of driving users to oracle linux, and patching the installer is a 1970s experience in itself. DB 23's greatest improvement has been to tack the letters "AI" onto it to chum what shallow AI waters Oracle deigns to tread outside of an investment portfolio.

- dumping cash into oracle enterprise linux despite it only having around 2500 active corporate users.

this is nearly 20% of the company being laid off.

blech...too much windows. bring me the Linux version and i might care ;)

i live in a small midwest town and had the privilege of watching it slowly atrophy into near nothing over time. the steel mill closing, 2008 market crash, fentanyl crisis, covid, both shopping malls turning into liminal spaces frozen in 1994.

The real nail in the coffin was watching the Sears in the mall turn into a casino about a decade ago. Having failed their people at all other prosperities and futures, politicians turn to the last grift in their arsenal and roll out legalized gambling before packing up and leaving town or retiring.

having failed the digital future, ransacked it for every last penny, politicians again in 2025 turned to the supreme court to legalize online gambling and in doing so obliterate a generation of young adults. in another decade i expect a political movement to "hold these scoundrels to account" similar to Facebook, long after any meaningful reform or regulation could have been made and the industry itself is on the decline. just one last grift for the government that enabled it in the first place.

it is a perfect storm:

- deregulation of airlines in the 1980s led to rampant consolidation of routes and SPOF hubs that only work for revenue purposes and offer no real resilience in traffic planning. over-subscription of flights and lack of any real competition compounds this issue.

- climate change and global warming increasingly exacerbate severe weather conditions that ground aircraft and incur delays or cancellations in an already fragile system

- reagan-era policy hostile toward air traffic control labor unions that once checked the excesses of capital resulted in understaffing issues for more than two decades later. poor regulation of working hours, outmoded systems, and wage stagnation has further stressed the ATC system.

- the partial government shutdown has caused massive delays and cancellations of flights as the artifice of security theater begins to break down under its own political morass.

the solution is reform and regulation through policy change and investment. this is not possible in late stage capitalism (Streeck, 2016.)

one hypothesis for why meta wants this is because AI (including its own push for it) has turned much of the internet and its social media platforms into slopfarms and clickbots that advertisers are increasingly moving away from.

The real driver is as always, ad revenue. This time, advertisers want and need to know a real human is engaging the brand and Meta cannot see any other way in sight to assure this fact save for age verification.

this is just the latest evolution of surveillance capitalism.

Man who remembers when a big Mac was a wholesome and tasty meal option now shocked to find that, under capitalism, the wrapper is actually more nutritious than the meal itself.

This isnt going to be a popular post because the HN crowd is very much a "China bad" crowd but I hypothesize China will likely step in and offer a fork that's compatible with open ecosystems not under the direct control of the us state department. This might be in the form of commits and investment in fdroid and pinephone, or a tiktok like alternative to the wests walled garden.

Edit: this will likely exist "uncensored" in other markets but conform to the PRCs standards and practices domestically, similarly to how tiktok operated prior to selling a version specifically taylored to US censorship and propaganda.

Wild flex from the country that literally bought their own tiktok to control the propaganda.

There used to be a time in history when a system administrator had to know all this shit in order to keep their job. I guess nowadays devops just means dev as we furiously pump tokens into the AI Wurlitzer whenever we dont know how to do something and hope it doesnt gaslight us into deleting prod.

- Freeipa is Linux AD, includes DNS, dogtag, and OpenLDAP.

- SSSD is how linux machines authenticate with a central directory. this includes AD.

- nss is the order of operations in which the system attempts lookups against various directories for services.

- pam is the subsystem of authentication in linux.

- kerberos is a ticket based authentication system started by MIT and popularized by Microsoft.

- ldap is a directory for information and authentication data

- DNS should not need an explanation.

Active Directory is the exact same byzantine architecture, the only reason you dont complain about it is because Microsoft has hidden nearly every meaningful internal from you with fun buttons and dropdowns like a childs toy.

Make no mistake, when it breaks it is much more cataclysmic in its complexity. major multinational corporations can spend weeks with external consultants and even Microsoft themselves trying to debug it. Most failure modes result in rebuilding the entire directory from scratch out of the sheer futility of trying to recover anything. things as simple as an OS update can cause the complete failure of the directory, replication, kerberos key subsystem, or even the ADUC tool you use to interface with any of this. Most of the time your only solution is to wait for MS to release a fix.

FreeIPA isnt complete. it doesnt include things like group policies or account expiration but its infinitely easier to debug. its individual components are well documented and offer standalone debug and trace features. most if its components have existed longer than their competitive Microsoft offerings, or at very least vastly outscale and outperform them.

Kubernetes is just as complex, but cloud providers will happily bill you by the nanosecond for the gentle equivalent of Microsofts buttons and dropdowns. Microsoft will gladly bill you for "cloud" based AD. You can just as easily deploy local users in ansible.

i suppose what he means is that the phones of protestors which have signal chat will be investigated.

Assuming they dont have disappearing messages activated, and assuming any protestors willingly unlock their phones.

"a lot of times my mother asks me if she can come in the room for reasons I won't get into"

You've appeared to engineer your way around an interpersonal relationship that you lack the emotional, social intelligence and maturity to deal with.

Welcome to the front page of HN i guess. you're well on the way to becoming a founder.

"Intel is optimising for common cases inside the most dominant desktop operating system."

- literally the history of Intel for more than 30 years and likely why we see this benefit now. gaming the compiler and hoping they wont get caught bought them a decade against AMD.

"Intel and microsoft worked together when designing the CPU"

- I guess the bitterness of Itanium doesnt last forever.

i tend to find the kerning issues noted by the calibri team are moot. most Times New Roman is perfectly legible with careful observation and maybe a fresh cup of covfefe.

the real news is: "and teases an Nvidia-friendly roadmap"

The sole reason amazon is throwing any money at this is because they think they can do to AI what they did with logistics and shipping in an effort to slash costs leading into a recession (we cant fire anyone else.) The hubris is magnanimous to say the least.

but the total confidence is very low...so "Nvidia friendly" is face saving to ensure no bridges they currently cross for AWS profit get burned.

as a professional diesel mechanic for a small chain of midwest shops, this "telematics" feature is on long-haul trucks as well as tractors (john deer is notorious for using it to send mail marketing about services.)

generally its not hard to disable.

- identify the telematics module in your car - pull the fuse (not always an option, sometimes this disables bluetooth)

- alternatively: identify the 1-2 SMC connectors on the telematics device. this is the LTE and low/alt channel for the cellular communications. disconnect these 1-2 connectors and connect the ports instead to a 50 ohm terminator. the vehicle will simply continue to collect data but never be able to send it anywhere. the system will assume it just cant find a tower.

Kubernetes is powerful, yes. it is also a feckless rats nest of bolt-ons and ride-alongs. its sharepoint levels of byzantine tuning so complex that, like sharepoint, it comes with its own bespoke administrators that often have little or no knowledge of basic networking or operating systems --only kubernetes--.

- Upgrading a kubernetes cluster may as well be an olympic sport. its so draconian most best practice documentation insists you build a second cluster for AB deployment.

- load balancers come in half a dozen flavours, with the default options bolted at the hip to the cloud cartel. MetalLB is an option, but your admin doesnt understand subnets let alone BGP.

- It is infested with the cult of immutability. pod not working? destroy it. network traffic acting up? destroy the node. container not working? time to destroy it. cluster down? rebuilt the entire thing. At no point does the "devops practitioner" stop to consider why or how a thing of kubernetes has betrayed them. it is assumed you have a football field of fresh bare metal to reinitialize everything onto at a moments notice, failure modes be damned.

what your company likely needs is some implementation of libvirtd or proxmox. run your workloads on rootless podman or (god forbid) deploy to a single VM.

of the 193 members of the UN, only 12 (6%) recognize Taiwan as a country.

the Kuomintang lost the war. its effectively the same as if the confederacy retreated to the Florida keys and China maintained a policy of deliberate ambiguity.

it sounds like youre a victim of SAR (suspicious activity report)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_activity_report

in most western countries it is illegal to disclose the nature of the SAR. they will simply end your account with no recourse.

i wonder if we're not conflating xray with terahertz radiation perhaps? the former being used by a company called corrections one that produces a horrifying whole-body X-Ray of a prisoner to detect contraband (certainly not healthy.)

Terahertz radiation is used in airports with (arguable) safety and efficacy. the resolution is sufficient to read protest statements written under a passengers shirt in metallic ink. I wonder if it could read cards should they be specially crafted similarly.

I predict we will see a death of intel similar to the death of Chrysler in the next decade.

Too little too late has been done to save it. it ran rudderless for 30 years under the hand of marketers and grifters who used stock buybacks and deception to ensure it looked strong in the press. It pioneered things like gaming compiler results to achieve benchmark supremacy. it squandered its potential at the helm of a leadership that cared more about profit than innovation.

Perhaps it will sell to Texas Instruments or motorola but these arent the cherished powerhouses of industry our octogenarian congress reminisces they were. Motorola spends its days focused on niche telecom like apco p25 and IoT nannyware like the snitch puck https://infocondb.org/con/def-con/def-con-33/unmasking-the-s.... it develops very little of the SoC or chips it uses.

the government needs intel, but i suspect will in administrations to come grow increasingly weary and frustrated with its morass of managerial bloat, bureaucratic stagnation and inability to evolve the business model.