benSaiyen
Once in a while I get bored and need a social media bump and then remember social media is dystopian af (ignore your own eyes/ears and abide the mods! Their final most important command).
Tech bros; helping 2034 be like 1984.
No one is making cool shit for themselves. Everyone is held hostage ensuring Wall Street growth.
The "cross our fingers and hope for the best" position we find ourselves in politically is entirely due to labor capture.
The US benefited from a social network topology of small businesses. No single business being a lynch pin that would implode everything.
Now the economy is a handful of too big to fails eroding links between human nodes by capturing our agency.
I argued as hard as I could against shipping electronics manufacturing overseas so the next generation would learn real engineering skills. But 20 something me had no idea how far up the political tree the decision was made back then. I helped train a bunch of people's replacements before the telecom focused network hardware manufacturer I worked for then shut down.
American tech workers are now primarily cloud configurators and that's being automated away.
This is a decades long play on the part of aging leadership to ensure Americans feel their only choice is capitulate.
What are we going to do, start our own manufacturing business? Muricans are fish in a barrel.
And some pretty well connected people are hinting at similar sense of what's wrong: https://www.barchart.com/story/news/36862423/weve-done-our-c...
Everyone was effectively doxxed yet it was never a security issue.
In the 2010s I always got an AWS support team to help.
Now I get handed off to an external partner of AWS certified contractors.
They are often terrible. They have no backend systems access and just run through the AWS equivalent of "reboot it", "defrag your disk". Basically trying to find an issue in my pipeline. Which they never do because it's the same TF scripts used for years.
Only once we waste time going through the motions do I get passed up to someone who can actually correct the backend issue in the AWS stack itself.
Tbf though I rarely ever have to contact AWS support at this point. The few times I have in the last 2-3 was due to issues after they rolled out an update or with a newer service we wanted to use.
Never have issues with stable services like S3, ECS, EKS, or RDS.
You want EMS looking for a needle in a haystack while you are suffering a heart attack?
Just an insipid social flex?
Oh man; people of the future will sign songs about your account age achievement!
It's nice being the benefactor of slavery not the slave, huh, out-of-touch-first-worlder?
So long as we keep the slavery out of our country it's cool. We earned freedom, material excess, the deference of billions of others cause America ...zero real obligation to ourselves, just a life of paid quick fixes cause we rich beotch
They never said "triangulate" but read phone for information. Your inner monologue swapped what was written with an already understood technical method.
And just because access to GPS has never been confirmed publicly before does not mean they previously only relied on tower triangulation.
Worked for Sprints network team before they bought Nextel. We had access to eeeeverything.
Cops kill almost daily with immunity.
Spouses across world abuse each other and their children.
You rely on slave labor so you can perform useless IT work.
But no one ever acts so uncivil as I have on HN.
Oh look another ...old... account. That explains the Mr Rogers-like-view-of-reality.
Thoughts and prayers.
HN is a bunch of ostriches
Thoughts and prayers!
Not saying I don't care. Am saying it will take actual change in agency of billions to make me believe the rhetoric.
Thoughts and prayers are not cutting it is what I am saying.
You go ahead, sit online repeating the same empty rhetoric and assure me your "thoughts and prayers" being cranked to 11 is meaningful effort.
Hahaha ...hahaha
Just wave off 10s if millions of able bodied people in the US alone, with 3 guns per adult; without an assurance they can stay in their home while things are sorted all those lives are more than "simply" upended
Your literacy, ability to put things into simple terms, to skeletonize in rhetoric, is tricking you into false belief.
Based on the age of your HN account, going to assume you're of an "out of touch generation" who still thinks of language as magic incantation.
"Well I say it's simple so it must be."
Touch grass. Your literacy is a sign of mental illness. It leads you to assume reductive statements like yours are iron clad immutable physics. That you just willed the future to react to major social upheaval "like nbd, bro."
Literate people are capable of being quite fucking stupid.
Noting competition exists seems focused on the outcome of making money. An obligation that exists in an exploitative economy. Where's your concern for the provenance of such obligations?
Yeah. Every expression of concern is probably something like social desirability bias, appearance of concern while sticking with status quo real effort of zero change. Low effort rhetorical "care".
People express concern about global warming and drive off in their SUV. They're just parroting social script.
Real users get won't care so long as it works.
A reasonable scenario right now; rest of the world intentionally collaborates to isolate US, destabilize US, act as a forcing function for US to reassert internal control by swiftly deflating buying power of useless rich[1]. The world is sick of US CEOs who do little but jiggle values in spreadsheets. Sundar and many others have said CEOs are likely a very easy job to automate away; useless pageantry. There is rapidly growing domestic and overseas will to depose those non-contributors.
Fastest way to stem the collapse of reality for 10s of millions of Americans with a lot of guns too.
[1] Americans buying power has been deflated by 300% since 1980... I am sure it is purely coincidence Boomers have run the world for most of it.