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More info on this is going to come out, but banks are going through hell right now with AI agents accessing user accounts and even firing off transfers and other accounts activity, and their legal teams are losing their minds.

So a bank shutting down a website right now and the "forcing" some Google/Apple "verification" makes a lot of sense in that context.

I think they mean the law that passed. In December, automatic registration starts for the Selective Service.

There are non stimulant ADHD meds like strattera (snri) that seem to work very well for people that issues with the stimulant type.

Identity verification will gate the web due to various political and legal pressures. Anonymity will only be found outside it.

This is a pretty unusual use case though, like I can see it growing, but it's not the same platform you use for long lived running business applications. Vastly different use case. (And a lot will settle for kata containers.)

Spinning up and snapshotting and rolling back agent states, sure.

> imo if you're going to run k8s, have it hosted

Ours is all on-prem all over the country in our own internal small datacenters for regulatory, safety, security, and operational reasons. Provisioned and automated from bare metal. We also use those same images in cloud for something like a quorum situation, or maybe some data locality for a particular pinned workload.

But it's mostly us, in our stuff and at the enterprise edge.

Different problems.

The web is for bots now. Humans are the minority and will get pushed out, or leave in the face of various pending identity verification schemes to get past the bot filters.

Enterprise support contracts, mostly

no disk, network boot, nfs mounting my /home for the lulz

Different goals and motivations.

You chase the dragon by figuring out the problems over potentially a long period of time.

They are figuring out the problems and releasing various levels of POCs in a fraction of the time. It may not all be correct, but with how quick it is, there is plenty of time for refactoring if necessary.

> and I think the agentic industry is moving away from k8s as a deployment platform

Uhhhhhhhhhhh I think you and I live in very different versions of the world :-)

Vmware sent companies moving to nutanix, but it also sent a lot of companies moving to openshift or bare k8s and using kubevirt to handle VMs.

In fact, I haven't heard of an org moving to any other platform, really. Either openshift or k8s.

Developers often do things out of convenience, not thinking about repeatability, deployment reliability, security, or thinking about other people having to manage and patch systems for 30y after their gone.

Docker in 2026 is a perfect example of this (long lasting habits due to familiarity, not best practice).

In addition to the developers not interested in using AI to augment their skills and code.

Do you want to get hacked or audit the patch?

The barbarians are at the gates and they're interested in laundering your compute and network for other attacks, scams, and things like transferring CSAM.

How much time do you need to audit? You might have an hour - for now.

Until it doesn't.

Wild, unexpected failure modes can really kick you in the junk sometimes. Sometimes you just end up doing very bad things very quickly :-)

Signed,

   big automation fan

Sounds like a personal problem with indecision tbf :/

Do you want your shit hacked? Better patch.

> Not to mention the changes it entails to development.

Oh no, guess they'll have to hire developers that can adapt!

Utterly humiliating.

That was a single company, the cert problem hit something like 70% of all websites and devices.

Did you go to sleep in 2015 and then wake up just now in 2026?

Expect a large scale US/Israel attack, maybe this weekend.

Israel elections in 5-6 days, US midterms in ~2 weeks.

Tally, ho!

Fuck, I thought this was about trains

Bioware sent engineers to provide help to Obsidian (SW KOTOR2, I think).

Obsidian and Bioware both had a working relationship with Black Isle Studios.

Love them all, they did some great stuff.

I could only hope...

What if your company doesn't exist anymore, and you have checks billions of devices out there that won't be getting firmware updates?

Oops, claude just cracked your system!

Probably one of the best game studios ever, IMO.

(In no certain order)

- Baldur's Gate

- Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

- Neverwinter Nights

- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

- Star Wars: The Old Republic

- Jade Empire

- Mass Effect

- Mass Effect 2

- Mass Effect 3

- MDK2

- Dragon Age Origins

- Dragon Age II

- Dragon Age: Inquisition

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

When Dragon Age 2 came out, Bioware was still running things day-to-day.

By the time of the next Dragon Age game, EA was deep in making decisions.