I need VMs. I need NetApp Volumes that interact with my environment. I use Kubernetes. We have some serverless web app stuff, but I can make that work in Azure or AWS or GCP along side the non-severless.

I have a shit ton of legacy stuff in AWS, and finding skilled AWS talent is easy

I want diversity of providers.

the US government is owned by corporate interests and has been in some capacity since inception. special mention to the Russians and Israelis and Saudis who also own a piece.

people can and do confabulate, but generally I trust my intern to tell me "I don't know" and "I think it was X but tbh I have no fuckin clue"

the LLM will just lie to me "Good idea! You're totally right, we should do Y"

active directory and excel runs the world.

what is apple doing that is similar?

How is active directory and excel holding the tech industry back?

Apple is holding the tech industry back by forbidding any browser on iOS except Safari and then refusing to implement any APIs that would allow web applications to compete with their app store. Apple is choosing profit over progress.

sneaking up to someones house and peeping in theier windows is creepy. or just camping out in front of their window from the street legally.

but that person had to put their info into the website, themselves, by choice, and then chose to let their privacy settings be such that others can view them.

if you pin your photo up to a cork board, don't be surprised if people see it

but the reverse is true too. if you look someone up, don't be surprised if they find out. really, i don't see how that would be a big deal.

with more and more illegitimate tracking being done, informing those being tracked seems a benefit, not a drawback.

there is a difference however between one institution tracking who all the people are that i am looking at, vs the person i am looking at finding out for themselves who is looking at them.

show us where this is. give me a google map coordinate.

and then show me where the jobs are.

unless you're an owner and control the means of production anywhere you live will be a slum in ~20 years

most of those issues will be very expensive or insurmountable for most high-rises -- a non-starter

you're basically rebuilding from scratch at that point.

Maybe this is a US perspective, but those are attractive properties.

it is almost certain that Trump never even saw the intelligence.

it is also almost certain that Bannon or Stephen Miller or whoever his Trump's Russian handler -- wildly thought to be Melania until he got elected -- is also telling him what to think.

given that it is reported he literally has off the record calls with Putin, it is entirely possible that his handler is literally Putin himself at this point

fair point. gotta trust that everything is properly hooked up and won't shift.

you'll only know when you find out the hard way