As always US wants the data, they just don’t want anyone else to have it for free

I guarantee you that American data is going to Chinese companies. Temu has your data. Alibaba has your data. Bilibili has your data. They’re just getting it by purchasing from American data centers.

Good news for any aspiring commercial web developers interested in filling an underserved niche.

I was spitballing. I did not verify whether the domain name was taken.

The NSA manages something on the order of dozens of Zetabytes of information. I am not particularly worried about them linking my IP address to “FartSnifferFanatic.toot”

However, I am very concerned with FartSnifferFanatic.toot littering my browser history and cookies cache with trackers that Amazon can then use to suggest purchase ideas.

Most people are perfectly content to pay a reasonable price to get access to the things they want. But if you make that impossible, they’ll find other options.

That’s a sliding scale, though. Streaming comes at a fixed price.

Listen, I appreciate the perspective, but this is just an ad.

Circus subscriptions just went up again.

You, a socialist: “Please, I’m begging you, sports should be a municipal amenity not a profit driven cash grab.”

Me, an American Capitalist: “And then they made me pay for parking! And then I had to give Ticketmaster an extra 12% on top of the entrance price! And then half the stadium was just 20’ advertisement billboards! And it’s all going into the pockets of a dozen extremely rich oligarchs, most of whom don’t even live here!!! JUST LIKE COMMUNIST RUSSIA!”

he’ll change his mind if a girl he likes tells him he stinks…

Maybe. Or maybe he’ll get incredibly offended, go into a snit, and start posting incel-tier “Women are trying to steal our manly essenses” memes on 4chan for a few weeks.

t makes me sound old but, kids these days have no idea the kind of hell we went through

I mean, whose motherboard still needs a sound card in this day and age? But then I could tell you about fiddling with the settings of an old dot matrix printer. I don’t think that qualifies me to set up a Kubernetes cluster or administer a data lake.

The “you kids today” rants seen to miss how hyper specialized computer hardware and software has become. No, Gen A is going to magically intuit an Azure DevOps Pipeline from first principles. Setting that up feels like I’m working through a Master’s Thesis on arcane file types. People need to stop pretending that knowing a bit of Regex from middle school entitled them to talk shit to a guy ten years their junior struggling with a customized .yaml file.

Gen Z/A are good at using tech, but they don’t really know anything about how it works.

Millennials don’t, either. A tiny fraction of a fraction had technical literacy 20 years ago and now they think they’re top shit because they can write simple CMD commands.

All this jerking one another off is crazy. I work in the industry and I’m surrounded by people my own age who don’t know what Active Directory is much less Linux.

Imagine a raspberry pi hooked to a cheap LCD for a 100x mark up

My man is going to get a permanent desk at TrashFuture if this keeps up.

He was hotter as a furry.

• Bible

• Protocols of the Elders of Zion

• The latest Jordan B Peterson brainfart

• Anything tagged “Longtermist”

Big Image + Short Blurb is great for getting a quick rise out of people. But if you want to properly pill someone, you need to hit them with the firehose of content. The YouTube rabbit hole rots your brain not with a single six second short but with a thousand five hour reactionary rants.

Everything was somewhere in between https://slashdot.org/, https://ytmnd.com/, and 4chan.

The nostalgia is entirely wasted on anyone who lived through 90s internet. It was cool because I was 12 and getting to drink from the information fire hose was a daily adventure. But it had all the same garbage politics, slop content, and horndog users of the modern internet.

The biggest difference between then and now is that Then Internet was considered a kind of counterculture (which meant 90s Reichwing Radio DJ Rush Limbaugh screeching like a stuck pig every time he heard about a new fad or meme he didn’t like) while Now Internet has your Rush Limbaugh tier content and your Chinese Rednote apps bumping into one another in the same oversized wave pool.

It would be worse. The site got bought out by News Corp (FOX’s parent company) in 2005.

The site would be some kind of TurningPointUSA / DailyWire right-wing trash factory. Every song on there would be Ben Shapiro rapping or Oliver Anthony releasing the “Rich Men North of Richmond” techno remix.

Nevermind how cybersecurity is a niche field that can vary by use case and environment.

At some level, you’ll need to learn the security system of your company (or the lack there of) and the tools used by your department.

There is no class you can take that’s going to give you more than broad theory.

Extra exhausting when you hear some chest beating 2A loving conservative insist that Vietnam/Afghanistan proves police states can’t ever work in America.

There’s simply no conceptualization of what domestic resistance takes or who you need to win in a protracted insurgency.

We’ve just got a bunch of keyboard commanders who think your League of Legends rank would make you a modern day Rambo.

Getting really far out into the woods and seeing the Milky Way in all its glory is a transformative experience, without a doubt.

Maybe we have it backwards. Maybe the light pollution is what causes the Autism and we just got lucky with Pluto before the sky was closed up.