Nah. Our stupid ass government only recently started hiring hackers who smoke weed. But even then, there’s too much stupid red tape.

“Both the NSA and the DOD have a ton of talented hackers, yet when it comes to actually performing disruptive cyber operations, for some reason we as a country are just frozen and scared,” Caceres says. “And that needs to change.”

He points to ransomware actors, mostly based in Russia, who extracted more than a billion dollars of extortion fees from victim companies in 2023 while crippling hospitals and government agencies. North Korea–affiliated hackers, meanwhile, stole another $1 billion in cryptocurrency last year, funneling profits into the coffers of the Kim regime. All of that hacking against the West, he argues, has been carried out with relative impunity. “We sit there while they hack us,” Caceres says.

https://www.wired.com/story/p4x-north-korea-internet-hacker-identity-reveal/

And also

It also doesn’t help that the Republican Party have outright praised Russia, which means they’re already inside.

I type my search into the post and then usually some kind person finds me a link and calls me a asshole

I dunno. Steam did it well enough. I was buying cheap games for years. I could get a kick ass GOTY game for like $5 while GameStop was still selling it used on consoles for $20.

Lemmy: why aren’t people using Linux? It’s so easy

Also Lemmy: webp huh?

Lemmy folk forgetting that not every person cares enough to switch OSes.

If you ever work tech support even at a basic level, you’ll see. It’s not even boomers or genZ. I helped a grown ass human who was my age at 40yo how to install a Firefox extension.

That could have been me a few years ago. I was still using teamviewer up until 2020 to connect to my desktop from my laptop. It’s so handy.

Fortunately it was when I started learning about open-source solutions

After the first 100, the other 300 kinda don’t matter.

spanked one 100 times

One 100 times or 1 time, but 100 times?

He has a new book?

I love John Romero and read all the books about Doom/his life.

Can’t wait to check this one out!

My whole company moved out of windows during the pandemic. It was all forced.

And surprisingly, after a year, it was pretty smooth.

Push your IT folks to do the same everybody. The money saved is significant. And the learning curve is annoying, but not as annoying as managing Windows.

Google One was a pretty sweet deal on paper.

But unfortunately, Google’s superpower of making really cool things and then killing it off continues to exist.

Vouching syncthing. Easily synced 2TB files between three computers.

“I’m sorry, can you repeat that?”

“I’m sorry, can you repeat that?”

“I’m sorry, can you repeat that?”

Oh you’ll get McDonald’s AI… You’ll All See! (Clown angrily shakes fist)

You don’t like a stoned teenager going, “Uh what?” And mumbling every few seconds?

(Joking of course)

Touch screen self checkout lines at supermarkets are absolutely abysmal.

Touch screen self ORDERING stations for food… Glorious.

The good machines (uncertain about McDonald’s) let’s you customize everything. Want three pickles? So it. Half mayo? Sure. No top bun? Live your life!b And it gives you ingredient listings.

And whose to say the minwage cashier even knows what’s in the food? Not at all a insult, but in my area, many cashiers have English as their third/fourth language.

I like touchscreens because I can spend more time getting my order right without wasting the cashier’s time.

I don’t want to talk to a cashier and have them explain the difference between a bacon sandwich supreme, and a bacon burger deluxe.

I don’t want to confuse them by asking for extra veggies and watch them put it on the side.

I don’t want to argue that I asked for two packs of ketchup and they gave me BBQ.

Amazons Mechanical turk in a nutshell

I think McDs always planned to roll out remote customer service to really maximize capitalism. And wrapping it under AI because that’s a trendy buzzword!