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Steve Hersey

n1xnx@tilde.zone

<p>Tech wizard. Once a rocket scientist, always a rocket scientist. No f**ks to give for fascists or AI cultists.</p><p>Engineer: Fathoming the unfathomable, scruting the inscrutable, and effing the ineffable.</p><p>NOTE: If you have no profile picture, no bio, and no account history, your follow request will be blocked. (Of course, only those who aren&#39;t bots, and thus don&#39;t fall into that category, will actually read this.)</p>

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    @randahl@mastodon.social The Mad King just keeps sinking deeper into madness.

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    @Endof10 I&#39;m unconvinced that the end of formal Win10 support will turn remaining systems into security risks. On the one hand, any as-yet-unpatched vulnerabilites WILL remain. On the other hand, none of Microsoft&#39;s new Win11 fuckery will be backported to Win10, mitigating the additio0n of new vulnerabilities. Win10 has been under scrutiny for years, while Win11 is still pretty much a V1.0 product, as shown by Redmond&#39;s ongoing blunders.. On the gripping hand, operating a Win10...

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    @scalzi Those damn&#39; AI bots do manage to produce fakes that read sorta like the real thing, though this one is suspiciously detailed. Also, I read Redshirts quite a while ago, and enjoyed it immensely. I expect to read it again when I find it in one of my many stacks of books...

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    @crazyeddie@mastodon.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Sigh. Yes, that makes perfect sense. I remember reading commentary back in the 1980s to the effect that automating a (business) process doesn&#39;t make it BETTER, it just makes its existing failure modes happen FASTER, often with the result that the humans who were able to cope with those failures when they came at a human rate are now overwhelmed by them occurring at the speed of computer processing. It was true then for paper-based...