Read the Jesus parts again. Would Jesus like that?
To be serious a minute, I was certain I would be dead long ago. Save for retirement. If the cyborg revolution starts before retirement, then you might be able to get some cool upgrades. If you are “up against the wall”, you won’t have more than a few minutes to regret saving for retirement before you die. Regret Minimization!
Didn’t the tech companies threaten to leave if they were taxed? Seems easier to tax the tech companies than force people to identify themselves.
1980’s? Yes.
2000’s? No. Full of politics. Government waste, spies, Area 51 coverups, discussions of the deep state and military use in civilian areas. One of the movies referenced wars in the middle east.
Edit: I should explain first that I do not think you can change your employees or manager. A technical solution will never fix a management problem. Perhaps your manager is getting enough heat to be open to better management controls. You should be in “sanity protecting” mode.
Original: While the posts include a lot of fiction, but “overemployed” crowd have some good advice. Start applying elsewhere, downshift your effort at $job_one, and move to collecting a check.
Or ramp up and take your manager’s job or get fired trying. Gather data and allies in the C-suit, and stage a coup. Or unionize (or post pro-union flies in the bathroom).
Things are not normal. It is like a lot of people are waiting for the next shoe to drop.
Resistance is legal, so long as it does not go “too far”. I am near an “ICE” city. When empty cars with cut seat belts started showing up, there was an added level of horror film unease. The kidnapping by random “not ICE” didn’t amount to much, though we have yet to truly know who was kidnapped by “not ICE” (likely few). The murders have on not been good, but are at least fairly public.
No one is arming, as a shooting war on American soil will get everyone killed. There were days I wondered if we would be bombed. So far the “keep calm, and resist.” Crowd is making progress, which helps keep tensions from boiling over.
Elections are coming up, which is providing an outlet for energy. Real voting won’t be until November, and zero changes will happen until January 2027. Expect crazy shit to ramp up.
America is huge though. For any trend in one location, the opposite is happening elsewhere.
This is a very good time for the privileged to take a “mini-vacation”. It both slows production and gives one a chance to enjoy their last days on Earth.
Mostly okay. Slow discussion building on why test scores are dropping and are they still dropping. Is it COVID (immeidate shock), Long COVID (long term health issues), or nearly all course work and books being on tiny laptop screens (money showed up for a wholesale transfer to Chromebooks during COVID. They were actually helpful during lock-downs, but were kept after.).
People have different levels for what they consider that other “people realized the truth”. Many communities are full of people that know the truth and when they act to change things get knocked down.
As the Saint George Carlin once said “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
There are a lot of really, really stupid people out there. Poverty, stress, hunger, etc make people even more dumber.
No OP, but with Snowden, a lot of the general outline was already known by those that pay attention. The specifics were new, but also largely filtered with “the government’s side”.
I want to push back on this part:
Only if Microsoft acquires a major CPU chipmaker.
In the USA, and other parts of the world, a small number of Billionaires are buying up everything. A small number of wealthy people could each own a part of the supply chain and for it on the vast majority.
For extra enforcement, add in a legal or cultural push for reporting or shunning violators through the media companies owned by that same group.
Just adding links for the lazy…
Clipper Chip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/usa/clipper.htm
The computers in the store, yes. I expect all computers in the store to be phones and the cell company will verify.
Open Source computers will be more important. Might need to brush up on wire wrapping… (Implication being that chip supplies might become dedicated to only those manufacturers that lock the product down.)
The old version didn’t and some retailers still sell that.
We have found customers prefer the experience with the app! It is just the the experience without the app, but more modern. iOS only for now, but an Android version is expected soon!
Sure. Please get the aggressors in wars to stop and only generate nudes.
I also live in Florida and love to jet ski. It was great seeing you in person last Saturday. Wow, what a day.
Who else was there? Must have been many of us. Just jet skiing in Florida.
This is a good idea. And a good use for AI.
One can get paid and advance through a career producing slop.
Good engineering is hard, and lots of that no longer happens.
This is all true.
Plus the pointless murdering of humans.
Europe is supporting Ukraine in an existential fight for their lives.
This is far different from wanting to generate a false naked picture of some person.
People have protested the military industrial complex for decades and centuries. Possibly even millennia.
YOU not being aware of it is different from it not happening.
Stop the false equivalency and whataboutism.
Clearly you know of lot about this. Here are some comments for the next human.
Deny all modules seems more possible than a whitelist approach. To deny all, the command is likely “sysctl kernel.modules_disabled=1”.
Whitelisting is harder. One could store a list of all loaded modules on a working system. Store a list of all kernel modules currently installed on the system. Compare the lists and remove from the “all” list the “running” list (grep will do this) and write it to the blacklist file.
The problem with the Whitelisting approach is that it needs to run after every kernel module install (which is doable).
If the above is the case, then someone must have automated this already, but I cannot find it quickly. (I checked Debian’s package repository.)