Alana Pierce, a games journalist/streamer/writer/etc has a specific responses to this exact question, based on personal experience. Her video on the topic is worth watching.

I think we should still be mad at foreign adversary nations colluding with one of our politcal parties and a not at all impartial “whistleblower” to turn the tide of a presidential election.

The emails themselves were barely relevant at all politically. Out of some 30k of them, 3 were found to be inappropriately controlled. Thats hardly an earth shattering discovery.

The spectacle that Assange, the GOP and Russia manufactured was the issue. It was a coordinated and targeted attack on our democracy, and he deserves to be derided for his outsized part in it.

Those bombshells didn’t end the war.

His leak during the 2016 election changed the course of American history, and was directly coordinated with Russia. That was far more impactful.

Im just messing around man. This does sound like a good case for a basic LLM.

Good point. A really complicated switch statement then.

That wouldn’t even need AI. Thats just a fancy switch statement with a pleasant voice.

This game still an RNG grindfest like it was in early days?

This cures obesity, one of the widest impacting and deadliest diseases in the world.

It is also shown to have had startling positive effects on addiction of various types, from alcohol to hard drugs, etc. It does something to help moderate the reward centers in the brain to reduce the appeal of these addictions. Many people prescribed the drug report losing weight and ending addictions.

This and its analogs may earnestly be the most successful and most impactful disease curing drug in human history, and has the potential to improve billions of lives.

The “did crimes” is on russians word, so worth basically nothing. Even guilty pleas tend to come from torture, not guilt.

The rest seems pretty accurate.

Looks like the recent pictures of emaciated, starving Palestinian children that have been going viral have had an effect.

Here’s hoping this can resolve the horrible famine Israel has imposed on Palestine.

California laying pipe around the world.

From the article:

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western governments froze about $300 billion in Russian assets — including money, securities, gold and bonds — held mainly in banks in Europe.

Leaders of the G7 economies have agreed to use the interest generated by the assets — about $3 billion per year — to help Ukraine.

Ehh. Depending on the industry and issue, thats wholley justified, not only from a “least privilege” sense, but from a regulatory one.

Step over into cybersecurity and you end up spending all day clamping down on usability because the company has legal requirements to meet to continue to exist. Many of the things we are compelled to do are overeager and overly pedantic, but it’s either “do it, pay up, or shut down.” The execs tend to prefer “do it” in my experience, which makes everyone’s day a bit more tiresome.

So its entirely possible that was out of their hands.

https://archive.is/ZL6ln

Fucking monsters.

ROBO licenses are gone. We saw licensing costs for servers at those sites go up 5x.

We have a few years left on our main clusters licensing, but we are already investigating moving off vmware because we expect more of the same.

Nmap is a “hacker tool” and all it does is ask computers what ports they have open, something they are set to advertise to the world.

This is a “hacker tool” in the sense that it is accessing data in an unintended way, in the same contect as nmap using protocols intended to communicate for a set purpose to built a list of possible attack vectors.

Disengaged.

This might be entirely reasonable, depending on circumstance.

Some old shithead GOP house rep was talking about how unreasonable a $15/hr minimum wage was because he used to make $4.50 when he was a teen working at a grocery store.

His $4.50 worked out to be $26/hr after inflation.

South korea should send thousands of balloons with food, books and instructions about how to sabotage industrial machines.

Nah, you have to have actual skills to be an astronaut.