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The senior sysadmins neglected to configure osquery’s client performance safeguards and apply properly scoped access (observer mode!) on the server.

Systems administration is the art of protecting everyone with less access from footguns while still and especially enabling their use of effective tools.

First-person testimony.

Deploy your own, stand-alone osquery instance - it’s open source.

Airwatch/Workspace One was a terrible product even before the acquisitions. You may want to try FleetDM, an MDM product that deeply integrates osquery (an intersecting set of people are responsible for the two).

As we are not cooks and git is not a kitchen, one must take issue with your “literally.” Be wary of ever qualifying an idiom that way, as they are so often prepackaged metaphors, as here!

But your point is otherwise an insight. Coordination is a (the?) salient challenge and opportunity in all sorts of scaled industrial production. Git itself is fundamentally a coordination tool. Small optimizations can enable OOM jumps in scale.

That is to say: managers do have a purpose, though perhaps only the platonic, spherical manager fulfills it adequately.

It’s still August there. I’m not telling.

The article suggests that we already have, as all of the found clever dogs are (at least part) a (formerly) working breed. One suspects nurture has a significant role, though, as it also does with human language development. Were we actually to pursue a program like this we’d need also and perhaps more importantly research dog pedagogy (skylogogy? dogagogy?).

Well no WHOEVER they feel culturally inferior. The Belgians, for instance, have yet to be bombed.

The medium doesn't matter: it's metonymy, pars pro toto. Pulp fiction remains pulp fiction despite literal pulp's retirement.

“The modern equivalent of pulp fiction…” is pulp fiction. It isn’t some antique term connoting a dross sui generis (as that’s an oxymoron). Pablum is literacy’s unalterable, insuperable attendant.

> There's something to the US government and their interest in UAP.

It’s a democracy, mostly.

Its demos [δῆμος] is weakly educated, poisoned by the self-regard of an imperial metropole, and, of course, of average intelligence.

That the officers of government and their priorities reflect this might be seen as a proper operation of the democracy. Garbage in, garbage out.

These events are also consistently perceived at the edge of our technological capability - just short of clarity, Bigfoot remains blurry - despite our ever increasing powers of perception, our ever better iPhone cameras. To me this signifies humanity’s familiar flaw: overeager pattern matching applied to liminal data.

It redirected a potentially apocalyptic cold war into the peaceful development of fundamental science and new technologies - and into a project which unified all peoples in newfound understanding of ourselves as a single species, miraculously clinging to single pale blue dot.

Of all outcomes one might imagine, this seems among the better. An alternative reality in which all this wealth is invested solely in the welfare of humans is unrealistic; one in which it is squandered on terrible weapons and endless war is all too plausible.

Cory seems to think LLMs are little better than Markov chains. His anger is exhausting in its ineloquence (“enshittification”), ignorance (“spicy autocomplete”), and general disdain.

Water systems and sewage are luxuries, not an ecology.

The Earth and its ecology is a life support system - it’s the only one that’s ever existed for longer than a human generation or two. Though human maintenance is not required - we are inherent to the system - we’ve nonetheless rapidly figured out a way to break it so grievously our own part in it is endangered.

Entirely in keeping with the presentation style of online tutorials when viewed without an ad blocker.

On the contrary, the casual lies inherent to marketing - to capitalism - are absolutely something which should disgust you. That casual dishonesty is endemic, or that it elides complexity which may escape the average intelligence - these are not reasons to accept it. Marketing is disgusting.

“Spliff,” by the way. “Split” would make heaps of sense, but sense isn’t this word’s milieu.

He is a fastidious and interesting writer. I nonetheless found both these novels disappointing. They seem to be porn for engineers. Like all porn, the lead character is a cardboard cutout with monomaniacal motivation. (It seems revealing that both books place the protagonist in a position of complete social isolation.)

This was a more serious flaw in Project Hailmary, in which first contact - a profound event - is treated as a lone man’s engineering puzzle. The book is a good argument for sending poets, or at least properly thoughtful scientists, to meet our first aliens.

Nah. It’s a midsize forum. Reddit is bigger. Mumsnet tier.

Freedom of association - the right to tell someone to get off your lawn, or your website - is free speech too.

In many ways, we’re the naked mole rat of the Hominidae.

The flavor of Reddit in the humor. “Epic.”

Interesting - but I don’t assume malicious intent when incompetence is a simpler explanation. Wealth does not imply universal competence, though it often gives its beneficiaries such a delusion.

The big deal is the cowardice and ignorance of these parents.

A smart child raised by parents who fear and censor media contrary to their ideology or morality is a child whose future has been stolen. It is a theft from society as well.

Why is the dumbest parent allowed to circumscribe the smartest child?

The FAA prohibits pilots from drinking 8 hours before a flight. They further recommend 24 hours of abstention. It’s not okay, Zircom.

https://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media...

It’s filled with grammatical, typographical, and logical mistakes. It’s disorganized. There are many sentence fragments and few whole thoughts. There is no thesis. One paragraph contains only sophomoric leading questions. The name Grusch - the subject himself - is misspelled.

What’s your metric for quality? Seems merely low-quality sophistry to me.

Yes but that never caught on - your premise is flawed. The polluting, antisocial, and climate effects of the car meant is was no more than a fad, popular for a few generations in the early Anthropocene before dying out. Perhaps if teleportation had not been invented in the early 2100s… IANAH.

Correspondent contends that we’ve failed to spend society’s surplus productivity on an increase of leisure. We’ve rather created makework for vast segments of society who are no longer needed in a productive capacity but can hardly be left to starve.

This is arguably a result of the perverse incentives of growth capitalism. No profit may be made from leisure. Though indeed human psychology - the need to work - seems likely to play a role as well.

It’s not being forced to work - the option to quit remains.

Consider a case in which a majority of society excludes a minority from most commerce. Are ghettos, ‘separate but equal,’ and whites-only fountains not worth preventing?

My most unambiguously successful ancestor was the one who invented fire, or the one who got the hang of oxygen breathing. One expects their lives were brutishly unhappy.

The financing side of things is not trivial. The margins on production value are slim for all but the biggest blockbusters.