So is CA going to shut down every data center and cloud provider running Linux, because the OS doesn’t provide a feature that is completely irrelevant for their users?

I’m not in the US and work on a moderately high-volume site, also not in the US. We’ve had a lot of attacks, and a couple servers compromised though our security team was able to get the VMs offline before any further exploits could succeed, and in one case was able to trace the attack back to a server (which itself wasn’t particularly secure). The discussion on a chat server on that box was in Chinese. Yeah, sure, maybe someone went to a huge amount of trouble to fake all that chat, but I’m going with the more probable explanation.

Just because the US is fascist doesn’t mean China smells like a rose. Two things can be wrong at once.

As for the purported Google heroics, I’m unconvinced.

The real reason it’s not air-gapped is because it makes the package count lower, and manufacturers don’t give a shit about owners’ privacy or security.

But if you were to have a physical button for every single thing you can adjust in modern cars, you’d literally need over 100 buttons which is absolutely insanely bad design.

How many things are adjustable in modern cars that are actually necessary to adjust? Having that many options is just piss-poor user-interface design. The only things that really need buttons and knobs are the parameters that have to be twiddled with while the car is running. The rest is offline config that could be done just fine with a touchscreen or a mobile app without causing driver distraction and getting people killed. And none of that has anything to do with physically separate data paths for ancillary functions versus critical controls.

I think it long has been illegal to remove the onstar

Oh yeah? What law would that possibly break?

I think I learned that after seeing a sopranos episode

Oh, never mind.

Kashy Google looking for wank fodder?

Also it creates space junk that can damage or destroy other satellites.

Right now, space is an unmanaged commons. That never works out.

Amodei left OpenAI partially because of ethical concerns, so yeah, I’m slightly surprised and even a bit disappointed.

Tech crunch indeed.

Capitalism is a highly efficient system for resource optimization, except that the side effects are environmental destruction and steering disproporitionate rewards to socipaths.

It’s a crap solution in search of a problem.

Meanwhile, my laptops have been running Linux for the past 25 years and I only need to bring up a Windows VM once every year or two because some idiot government agency or corporation is too incompetent to comply with open standards.

So your reasoning is that it’s not enforced now, so it’ll never be enforced?

Okay, no point in bothering then, huh?

I’m a software and systems architect. Architecture won’t save you if the implementation is crap. That’s just marketing jive talk.

Also tax evasion.

Fucking idiots don’t know how operating systems work or what they’re for.

Responsibility is what we make it, and in a just world, it flows up the ownership chain.

Midterm elections coming up in 9 months, that’s why. Gotta scare the feeble-minded geriatrics and low-information mouthbreathers.

“Hurry! Before the bubble bursts!”

Bauer-Kahan is a Democrat, if you wonder.

If the bill is passed, I’d be surprised if Newsom didn’t sign it.

All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed

Yeah, sure, and winged monkeys may fly out of my ass. But I doubt it’ll happen.

“Just because it’s a massively funded design objective with extensively tested results doesn’t make it a thing!!”