A university I worked at had a similar policy to the first one.

They wanted a single username and sign on across all IT systems but also had some really old legacy systems that didn’t support long passwords.

So they’d force everyone to use passwords that were exactly as long as the maximum legacy password length.

For me, the worst system is the Microsoft authenticator which locks me out my account for five minutes if my fingerprint doesn’t match the first time I try.

The irony is that if he’d just looked up how to build a fertilizer bomb on YouTube he’d have got much better advice.

I think the easiest way to describe how it feels is it is like having a tooth taken out.

You’ve had it removed because the pain is too much, and now finally that pain is gone, but instead you’re sat there feeling puffy and swollen from the recent trauma, and you’re just constantly aware of this gap where there used to be something present.

Just like going to the dentist, it gets better though. And I’d do it again in a heart beat if I had to make the same decision.

There are things you can manage, but they tend to be about controlling your environment.

JD Vance is the perfect example of someone that benefited from the military. Fit in (and let’s be honest being a straight white male still helps). Find a job that involves sitting behind a desk. Get some experience pulling a 9-5 for a few years, and then go to university for free. Don’t get injured. Don’t get PTSD.

All of this attitude with a capital A is too late. You can’t Attitude yourself out of a missing leg, and you can’t Attitude yourself out of PTSD. You can learn to cope better but coping well with PTSD is still worse than not having it.

Either have a plan to avoid danger or you need to be lucky.

1. Fuck those things.
2. The main problem with them is not just the software, which is awful, but that it means you’re working at Amazon.

Ok, it’s almost empty at the moment.

The best thing you could do is post articles to it at a rate of about 1 a day. This will turn up in people’s feeds and hopefully get up voted and attract comments.

Cross posting etc., can come after this. You can’t promote a community with no content.

It’s about generative AI as it is currently used.

But yeah, the complaints everyone has about Gen AI are mostly driven by speculative venture capital. The only advantage Google and openai can maintain over open source models is a willingness to spend more per token than a hobbyist. So they’re pumping cash in to subsidize their LLMs and it carries with it a stupidly high environmental cost.

There’s no possible end game here. Unlike the normal tech monopolies, you can’t put hobbiest models out of business, by subsidizing your own products. But the market is irrational and expects a general AI, and is encouraging this behavior.

That’s probably more a stalling tactic then anything else.

The longer they can run down the clock, the greater the chance is that Trump dismantles the FCC before the case is over, and even if he doesn’t do that it lets them keep selling data for longer.