[–] 6 points 5 months ago

Do you need one though?

I'd bet money we have something like... "OK here's the deal, You pay us 300 billion. of US taxpayer money, we pay you 5 million dollars personally in under the table money. No binding rules otherwise, but we won't draw any extra attention to it when you lie about it.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Well actually that's probably not a great thing to call, I'd say probably about equal to MS on it, but data rights etc... I certainly don't trust amazon strongly. Honestly though the outages make me very nervous on it, as the US east 1 was more or less reported to have to do with the increase in AI usage, and realistically both azure and AWS are leaning in that direction, which is pretty likely to result in a huge security flaw down the line.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Lazy quick explanation targetted at... well someone who would ask this question.

    Basically http is unencrypted, meaning it's transmitted in plain text. Imagine it like mailing a letter, in a clear plastic envelope. Meaning that should they care to, every single postal worker that the letter passes hands to between the destination and source, could read anything they want, and you'd be none the wiser. Hell they even have enough information that if one was actually malicious they could open your letter, change what you wrote, and no one could tell the difference.

    HTTPS, basically does 2 very important things. 1. it basically turns it into a language that only the intended person can read, meaning no one between the source and destination has any potential to read what is being transmitted. 2. it allows both sides to prove who sent everything.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Kind of typical Microsoft, to fail their main service and have to use someone else who's slightly less bad at the same job, but also equally bad on security user rights etc... Kind of like how their browsers run on chrome now.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    I mean I do have to ask, what's the main perk of AI drones. IE finding one guy who can sit on a chair and pilot a remote drone, still seems significantly cheaper and more reliable than hope the AI can differentiate a group of school children from a military opperation. (though with the track records I've seen of most militaries, probably not much).

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    It's a general view, we aren't thinking we need to burn down all the data centers... the fact is they are looking to scale up 5x the current stock in a couple of years. This isn't like saying "we should never cut down a tree" this is like, "we shouldn't clean cut the whole rainforest".

    Everything is about quantity.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Bottom line 18-30% of job postings are "ghost jobs" so obviously putting in work for the wrong job is bad. Then yeah as you mentioned, most applications are going to be reviewed by some form of robot... then if you are lucky then an HR person who knows nothing about the actual work in the environment will look over it, check boxes to see if the right key words they are supposed to look for are there. Bottom line it's like dating and most other parts of life. No matter what you'll miss every job you don't apply for, and 99.99% of the ones you do.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I mean, going to be straight I've never used twitter or bluesky, and made a mastadon account like 5 minutes ago to test. Looks to me like the homepage is just things you follow, but there's trending page to view top posts, hashtags etc... Which to my knowledge is kind of what twitter was supposed to do (minus Elon pushing all his posts onto your home feed no matter how many times you try to stop it).

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    I keep seeing the echo chamber thing but at this point most social media sites are. Bluesky is just a left leaning one, which is the only thing that really sets it apart.

    I mean honestly I think left leaning is basically being neutral and accepting scientific consensus. To me the non federated part of bluesky is kind of what makes me consider it a time bomb. Even if it were good now, we already know one owner switch, hostile takeover, threats from the government etc... can flip a network around faster than you can blink. It's why I literally see federation as the only way forward for the internet, and find it so ridiculous that everyone bolted to bluesky to escape twitters crash instead of mastadon. It's the same key problem. it can go down in moments.

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