[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

they probably do. I worked for a content-as-a-service company that had a contract to deliver our product, airgapped, to a three-letter agency on a regular schedule, and we were a tiny company. Microsoft's biggest customer is probably the U.S. government; I'd be shocked if they don't provide an in-house airgapped set of full Azure services for the entire intelligence agency system.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

I’m sure they would find some way¹ to ruin it, but it would be fun if we could convince them to pass a law in some vice-signaling US state that bans private equity’s purchase of every vet and general contractor and empty house.

¹ Anti-semitism, probably.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago

Just a conspiracy of cartographers then.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago

One day I’ll read the dissertations that must exist on those reactionaries and ancaps who adored the aesthetic of Occupy but still loved the idea of wealth consolidation, social norms enforced by power, and state violence used to violently suppress protest and disorder.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago

you're not wrong.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago

Death to Chronos!

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago

would benefit from delving (!) deeper in library science/archival science/philosophy and their application to history

Ooh, would you say more about this? I have opinions, but that’s because I’m a programmer now but formerly a librarian & archivist (on the digital side, it’s more common to go back and forth between them; it’s the same degree).

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago

This is a good piece, both on the gap between how gen AI is sold and what it does, and on the reality of what professional programming is.

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