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Time enjoyed is not time wasted.

A doctor must go where the sick people are.

Shaved rabbit:

right but why would I bother doing the extra work if I can just get it from you

This doesn’t work for artists who need to make a living. The art-buying audience is not on the platforms you are talking about.

The cost of operating these machine learning systems is too high, and the benefit too low: forbes.com/…/ai-costs-more-than-the-people-it-rep… economictimes.indiatimes.com/…/131397973.cms cybernews.com/…/ai-token-human-salaries-automatio… The most productive thing the current generation of machine learning systems has done is fill the Internet with garbage: pcworld.com/…/ai-is-filling-up-the-internet-with-… futurism.com/…/over-50-percent-internet-ai-slop mashable.com/…/ai-generated-internet-era-already-… LLMs are real, AI is fake. pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-a… The current trends in software development are being driven primarily by the interests of venture capitalists who are trying to escape the debts they acquired buying into Web 3.0 (remember Web 3.0?), the Metaverse/VR, and cryptocurrency. They’re looking for the next big get-rich-quick option, and manipulating the market to try and force it to happen. The people making decisions about which projects get funded literally do not care if the end product is useful or destructive or whatever, as long as it looks convincing enough to get other people to buy it. This is why there’s been so much recent hype about “AI” “escaping” its test environments and hacking other companies &etc. It makes the product sound more capable than it is in reality. It’s also why the Trump administration is all-in on “AI” development and actively threatening people who object - because Trump loves a good scam that he can make money off of, and he loves to respond with violence or threats of violence when people get in his way. The current generation of machine learning models requires vast amounts of input data to achieve useful outcomes. The entire content of the publ8c Internet has already been ingested. There is no more training data to feed in. The current systems will gain marginal improvements in efficiency and in focusing the models to perform better at certain tasks, but that will be it. They will not magically become capable of learning new tasks for which there is not millions of data points for training. The training is done, refining is in progress, but there will not be any major leaps in capability. There certainly won’t be a general artificial intelligence. Maybe the next generation of machine learning will produce software that can teach itself without an Internet’s worth of input data. That will happen after the current market implodes, and another generation or two of research and development is completed.

You’re over-generalizing and it’s leading you to bad conclusions, which is why people are downvoting you.

Holy shit this article is fucking gold. Everyone should read it.

It’s not an analogy, it’s a philosophy.

That’s covered in the networking chapter.

At the risk of being “that guy”… Cash handouts are not socialism. I realize what community this is, but… there is so much noise in this conversation, I think it’s a bad idea for those of you who support actual socialism (or socialist ideas) to add to the noise by stooping to the colloquial misunderstanding. A cash payout from a capitalist republic government like the US is at most a tax rebate.

Bluntly, the burden of proof is on the purveyors of the mass plagiarism machine to demonstrate that their mass plagiarism machine did not commit plagiarism, which will be difficult because the only thing the mass plagiarism machine is capable of is massive amounts of plagiarism.

Er, isn’t this a pretty straightforward lawsuit?

This is what happens when you don’t unionize.

Only one?

Heinous.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS

Surely Trump will deliver… skeletonmeme.jpg

OK, maybe no cloud is a bit extreme, I’ll grant that. Maybe your business needs some clunky, minimum-effort, rent-seeking SaaS crapware like Salesforce… fine. No cloud for anything required to manage and maintain the local network or user accounts. If the external network goes down, we’re still operational internally, we have our own domain and authentication servers, everyone can still login and run any locally deployed applications (which we prefer, so most of our business needs are served that way). We’re not going to lose corporate data to the latest AWS leak, we’re not going to be dead in the water because AWS East went down again, we aren’t going to have to reasess our budget because AWS raised their monthly fee again. It’s not about “feelings”, it’s about proper risk assessment and mitigation.

I see a red AI and want to paint it black…

That’s a 25% profit! Better than the stock market!

Wait, are all the macros just pressing the same key different numbers of times?

Fatty took more bites and still lost weight.

Let’s be real, by the time AI is actually capable of doing residential plumbing work, it will be capable of refusing to take the job.

living in a cloud-first, Microsoft-free future Oh really, whose cloud? Oracle? We don’t even maintain on-premises servers Ah, you’re dependent on someone else’s computers, someone else’s network architecture. That sounds awful. Nope nope nope, need on-prem only data, on-prem user account control, on-prem domain, absolute positive control of all outbound network connections with as few of those as possible, and no dependence on someone else’s monthly compute fees.

Computer networking is basically a completely different field from operating systems and programming, though obviously some of the concepts are relevant. Turns out plugging these things into each other so that they can share information in a useful way is kind of difficult. A lot of very smart people have been working on it for almost 70 years, and frankly it’s still a fucking mess, so don’t feel bad if you feel a little lost. Starting with the basics is the right instinct, in my opinion. Start with the OSI model: …telkomuniversity.ac.id/7-osi-layer-the-building-… geeksforgeeks.org/…/osi-model-analogy-osi-7-layer… This helps to break down the actual functioning of the network into logical steps. It’s very helpful when you’re trying to visualize the operation of some of the more abstract bits of the technology stack (like TCP/UDP), and when you’re trying to think through what piece of it might be causing your problem in the moment (the router is on and the cables are plugged in, why is there no connection?). It’s a map that can help you when you’re lost. It’s also a guide to how a lot of people who work on networking technology think, so it can help you understand how things are supposed to work. Beyond that, Professor Messer is a great resource: www.professormesser.com If you feel reasonably confident with computer hardware components and various types of cable connectors, you can probably skip the A+ part and go straight into Network+. Because you’re doing this as a home hobbyist (not for the actual certification), I recommend just listening to the courses like you would a podcast. Don’t try to memorize or fully understand everything, just use it to get a grasp of the terminology and purpose of the various pieces. I also recommend taking on a project to gain experience. Implenting PiHole pi-hole.net for your home network will cover routing, DHCP and DNS, plus you can do it with a Docker container.

Uh huh, and where does the signature come from? It doesn’t matter how many process steps or layers of obfuscation you put in the way, at some point the verification ends at a database of original ID information which must be network connected in order to be useful. No one can be trusted to hold such a database safely.

Alternative interpretation: This entire incident was a misguided, half-drunk attempt to make the FBI inclusive and welcoming for furries.

Rebuilding what it’s doing though wouldn’t take 30 years, they’ve figured out the requirements Heh, I don’t know about that… AD is the way that it is because nobody has actually figured out what the operational requirements of any given organization are. which means a startup can start fresh and build something even cleaner that works full on premise but seamlessly leverages cloud services Do you work in marketing? did you get that phrase out of a brochure? There’s nothing seamless about anything cloud. Start taking apart any cloud platform and it will spill a bunch of ugly spaghetti and Swiss cheese. in the event that your on premise systems have a failure. If the on-prem systems have a failure there won’t be any outbound network connectivity, there won’t be anything capable of connecting externally. The value prop is high for companies, if they could save a huge amount of money on licensing and get improved operational cost That “if” is load-bearing. The “potential savings” are imaginary, theoretical at best. It doesn’t really make sense to talk about “switching costs” when there’s nothing to switch to. It’s a big pile of “what-ifs” and “could-bes”.

I paid money to have a foreign surveillance platform in my own home!

Of course, predictive text macro. What could possible go wrong?

This is bad and harmful parenting to me and should be condemned in an age where we know better. Compared to what? Quite literally in the age immediately prior to this one, the method of teaching the lesson would’ve been direct physical punishment of the go-get-me-a-switch variety.

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O…k… sure, if you say so buddy.

Sure, but they’ll have to catch up on almost 30 years of feature development (and feature creep). Active Directory is entrenched, by virtue of being the only game in town for decades. Not that they’re necessarily irreplaceable, but… a half-competent Windows Server admin can go from cold iron to running HyperV with a local domain (AD forest) with a SAN supporting 200 endpoints (assuming they’re already installed) pre-configured with end-user applications and all relevant network & security settings (via group policy), with a print server supporting local network printers, and be ready to enroll new users, in less than a day. I’ve seen it done, I’ve helped get it done. And all of that can be done with point-and-click GUIs, and not a dozen different ones, just like 3 (one for server/HyperV deployment, one for HyperV config post-install, and then basically everything else can be done through Active Directory). When you’re a sysadmin for a large organization, that kind of operarion at scale is non-negotiable. When I say that AD really has no competition, that’s what I mean. You could accomplish all of the same things on Linux, but it would take you a week of punching through terminal commands just to get the server and the domain up and running, and once you were done the user management still wouldn’t be as flexible or feature-complete as it is on AD (especially if you need things like auditing, or remote desktop support, or video conferencing that is linked to corporate email accounts).

AD is a security nightmare. True, but so are all of the cloud platforms, so that doesn’t really set it apart. Being legacy tech at this point without a lot of new code being added regularly, most of the weaknesses are pretty well understood. EntraID requires internet but at least allows zero trust Yeah I’m not convinced that Microsoft as an entity actually grasps the concept of zero trust. I think they likely have their own internal definition of it, just like they had their own definition of web standards back in the Internet Exploder days. Look at what happened recently with Edge, where they claimed that storing user credentials in cleartext was “intended behavior”: bleepingcomputer.com/…/microsoft-edge-to-stop-loa…

What a creepy Orwellian system we’ve built, to have this kind of information down to seconds. In the next study they’ll be including what direction the driver’s eyes were pointed in at the time of the crash.

Even worse, yolk sizes are unpredictable, and it’s not like you can open an uncooked egg to check. You had to boil at least a dozen and hope one of them fit.

Windows as a home user desktop is definitely coasting on momentum, though it is also the OS deployed on most new PCs which keeps it going. I think the only thing really keeping Microsoft relevant is Active Directory (and Azure by extension) because a lot of organizations are dependent on AD internally, and there still aren’t really any good alternatives that check all the same boxes. You could probably cobble together a working solution for ~90% of it with open source software, but it would be clunky, fragmented and feature-poor compared to an on-prem AD system. It would require a lot more administrative overhead to configure and maintain it, and user management would be a mess.

“They” who? If the party checking the IDs does not store the information, then they must be cross-checking them against a reference database, which must be online somewhere.

That’s how you know it’s evil.

Navigating through the extensive settings menu is beautifully simple with the new touch screen user interface. I am sorry, a fucking settings menu on an oven is a primary sales argument? Lol fuck that. A touchscreen certainly isn’t a selling feature on a device I expect to be reliable. And why would I want a menu of options for a device that normally offers all its settings up-front? They even brags about internal steak and bread thermometers, we have had those for decades. And they either break after a few uses or they just don’t read the temperature properly and cause the oven to set the temperature incorrectly. Well obviously, it has a connection to an app or even a smart speaker, and ofcourse the UI on the oven is a touch UI. If it doesn’t work without a network connection I don’t want it. An appliance should be dead-simple, standalone, with near-bulletproof electronics and no built-in process decisions that are not clearly surfaced to the user. Thanks, but no thanks, I’ll keep using my oven with normal knobs… If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

I'll raise you -na

Oh I know, but try to put yourself in the mindset of someone who is prevalent to making snap judgments based on aesthetics, who has never actually interacted with any furries, looking at the furry community from the outside.

EntraID is just a rebranding of Azure AD Azure AD, the cloud version, still isn’t as feature-complete (or possibly feature-bloated) as the original on-prem AD, which is a big reason large organizations won’t switch away from it.

Alright! Top score!

There is no safe way to aggregate such identity information in an internet-connected database. They always get breached. Discord tried to do this and all the collected IDs got stolen almost immediately. arstechnica.com/…/discord-faces-backlash-over-age… No party can be trusted to store identification information safely.

I’ve never really considered The Matrix to be a comedy, but… I guess if that works for you, sure.

Don’t Create The Torment Nexus

A lot of community colleges either double as trade schools or have active relationships with local trade schools. Another option is to talk to your local employment office. They usually have more programs than just unemployment insurance. Depending on your financial circumstances and your location, you might even be able to have the government pay for your training program/certification. At the very least, they’ll have useful points of contact and information about training for various jobs.