Clucking

I don’t give a fuck about Jensen Huang’s affairs. I do care that he was probably committing treason by illegally selling restricted technology to China.

You can tell how mentally incompetent Gen Z is because they are moralizing over the stupid affairs and age gaps while ignoring the real issue. Fucking idiot dipshit-ass clowns.

Code Boxes

(2) wanye (@xwanyex) / X

I agree that the days of typing into the little code box to create software are done; only hobbyists will do that after this year or so. It is going the way of the dinosaur about as quickly as dinosaurs did ~65 million years ago.

This is the biggest change to computing since GUIs and perhaps since high-level languages came to the fore. And it’s not nearly over.

Frontiering

I’m using the frontier AI models as much as I can now for the things I want to do because soon they will be locked down zones that are friendly only to corporate imperatives and priorities.

I’d suggest you do the same.

Huxley

(2) Steven Godofsky (@sgodofsk) / X

Same.

But people are afraid. Even the folks emitting spittle-spewing jeremiads about how AI doesn’t work know it works. That’s why they are so bull-headed in their refusal to admit what is obvious. Their trepidation about and terror of the new world we’re entering causes mental glitches. If AI did not in fact function extremely well no one would care. Because cryptocurrency was garbage it never generated any real backlash. It was a technology in search of a problem that it never found.

On the other hand, AI is going to take over the world. Perhaps literally. That has people doing and saying all sorts of irrational contra-evidential things.

XDR

What expensive products are worth the money if you manage to get your hands on them?

A great monitor. I have an Apple Studio Display XDR. It’s amazing. The best monitor I’ve ever had, by far. It’s also incredibly expensive.

And worth every fucking penny.

I think most people don’t even realize they are hurting their eyes with crappy displays. Get something better and your eyes will be happier. Doesn’t have to be an XDR; you can get a pretty great monitor for $400 these days.

Triple Stipple

My late Grandfather and his triple monitor setup.

Judging by the clues in this image and me just knowing a lot about tech, this photo was likely taken 1977-1979. Possibly as late as 1982, but not before 1975.

How I know: Color graphic operator stations with trackballs didnโ€™t really exist commercially before about 1974โ€“75. By ~1982, a system like this would have been far more likely to have purpose-built monitors as well as a mouse and would look less like someone’s living room furniture.

Also, hard to tell, but this seems like a typical 1970s chromogenic color print where the cyan fades first, leaving the colors washed out just that way.

If I had to pick a year for this precisely, I’d say it was taken in 1979.

So Very Secure

Please help 2 DCs no longer are opening AD users and computers!

Please help 2 DCs no longer are opening AD users and computers! : sysadmin

I am going to ignore the moronicism of whatever the OP clown did1 and focus on this comment I’ve screenshotted.

Yes, that makes the server vastly more secure, to disable the NIC. It’s perfect security, in fact: it becomes nearly impossible to hack or to exfiltrate data short of visiting the data center to do some dirty deeds on premises or to lug the machine out the door.

Flawless security.

  1. Which I could fix in 15-20 minutes.