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Keeper of several curses, and purveyor of the finest quality cognitive hazards.
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Recent Notes
about -that- far from writing out a fucking RFC for "basic security principles you assholes keep breaking"
A nondeterministic system MUST NOT be given direct access to data.
Any such access MUST be gated by a deterministic system.
Any such access MUST be gated by a deterministic system.
the fun part about this is that it may or may not resolve to this answer, or it may glitch out and offer the article -about- this issue.
which tells me that somehow google has decided that search results are -not cached-
which has me asking some questions about their ops budget.
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just because a job -can- be done by one person does not mean that it -should- be.
this is a common failure mode for conservative-owned small business, btw - they habitually understaff their businesses to try to 'save costs' and go into a death spiral of poor service leading to poorer sales as a result.
and yes, I am specifically calling out conservative-owned small business here - the "used car dealer" class - as being the most likely to publicly state these kinds of systems-illiterate ideals* in public.
this illiteracy, and the class-based bias that @nprofile1q... calls out in the post I'm quoting, tend to go hand-in-hand; they both derive, I suspect, from an underlying "self-reliance" meme, which in turn comes from a whole-ass bunch of early childhood development stuff** that is its own separate-ass rant.
anyway. the ideal in-use time of a resource is -not- 100%, and anyone who thinks otherwise should not be trusted to run anything other than their mouth.
* anyone competent in systems thinking immediately understands the concept of "separation of duties" allowing far greater efficiency and, in turn, cost savings; even elementary school children can, with coaching, be taught to figure this out.
** you know, I wanted to be a parent once upon a time? and researching early childhood development - because it's me, and if I was going to do a job I'd want to do it right, not fuck up monumentally in the way my parents did - convinced me that I was not someone who ought to be one.
the plastic garbage bag is a miracle of modern technology and its utility is severely underrated
https://www.404media.co/cities-are-covering-flock-cameras-with-trash-bags/
https://www.404media.co/cities-are-covering-flock-cameras-with-trash-bags/
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this is sex work.
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q...
It's a breach of contract, which is a different action than 'theft', yes.
Contractural and promissorial breaches are different than removal of an object, yes.
It's a breach of contract, which is a different action than 'theft', yes.
Contractural and promissorial breaches are different than removal of an object, yes.
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Which, again, isn't an intuitively obvious 'theft' - there's no physical object being removed from the prior owner's use, y'know?
Which, again, isn't an intuitively obvious 'theft' - there's no physical object being removed from the prior owner's use, y'know?
I'm not sure why, but there's something about intellectual property that makes folks struggle with legality versus morality. I suspect reasons range from the desire to do piracy without reprisal to ar...
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q...
unlike physical property, an "idea" is not something that is removed from the 'owner' when someone else 'takes' it, so the concept of intellectual property doesn't map to the normative understanding of the concept of 'theft'.
the 'loss' incurred is more systemic and based around potential outcomes instead of being a tangible and obvious first-order damage, which is hardly an intuitive and obvious concept for anyone to wrap their heads around.
I don't think there needs to be any attempt to justify any specific action to see that the concept of IP is one which is difficult to assign 'damages' to.
unlike physical property, an "idea" is not something that is removed from the 'owner' when someone else 'takes' it, so the concept of intellectual property doesn't map to the normative understanding of the concept of 'theft'.
the 'loss' incurred is more systemic and based around potential outcomes instead of being a tangible and obvious first-order damage, which is hardly an intuitive and obvious concept for anyone to wrap their heads around.
I don't think there needs to be any attempt to justify any specific action to see that the concept of IP is one which is difficult to assign 'damages' to.
eat flaming shit, google.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/you-can-no-longer-google-the-word-disregard/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/you-can-no-longer-google-the-word-disregard/
Behavior like this means that Cisco is not a company that is safe to patronize at all.
@nprofile1q...
I feel a deep kinship with the eldritch cryptid that you met, and I hope his researches into the occult depths are fruitful.
I feel a deep kinship with the eldritch cryptid that you met, and I hope his researches into the occult depths are fruitful.