Quite refreshing. Some new sick, scary idea, that I can not directly recall from any dystopian novel, but it would fit nicely into many of them. It's like a preludy to "Being Inc" from Lem's "Perfect Vacuum" (which is a collection of reviews of imaginary books, so it doesn't count). And what an endless opportunity for selling your life to whomever pays more. "Suggestions" like "how about movie X", "new restaurant Y", "buy product Z", etc. Sweet!

The US spent 75 years becoming one of the best, if not the best, scientific countries in the world and now, in just a few short years, it's rapidly undoing much of that.

Yeah, letting China perform tech support for the DoD was probably the most boneheaded move ever. Bravo Microsoft ... Bravo.

This is not exactly uncharted ground here.

Didn't you have to pay a shitload of taxes though? There are usually penalties for extracting money out of a 401k. I didn't think there was a way to move them to something like a money market account without incurring those penalties

It seems to be a question of you not following the conversation, or did you reply to the wrong comment? This particular thread is about security.

This is such a simplistic take. We're living in the age of Anthropic's Mythos LLM, and others like it. Vulnerabilities ate being discovered at an unprecedented rate. Don't kid yourself that Linux will be immune.

The Martin Shkreli business model.

OOP is a way to organize your code.

that OPM hack was a complete shit show... setting back human intel gathering operations by decades and compromising countless people... those OPM records had photos, biometric data, sensitive lie detector and security clearance info... including data that can be used to blackmail the people

Local access, unless you haven't patched apache this week, then it's remote access.

For a healthy business, there are always lots of things they would like to develop but can't due to limits in capacity.