I don't think I've ever had to sign into Teams (PR Outlook, for that matter) in my desktop. Mobile, I have to after changing my password. I assumed all the MS apps signed me in with my domain login on my laptop. On weird issue I have is things like SharePoint and Dynamics 365 asking me to sign in again after its already brought up the site, and clicking the button to do it just brings a blank pop-up that immediately disappears and I'm logged "for real" I guess.

Not in the nose enough. Name them after the companies. Increment them if/when necessary.

“Everyone stay indoors next week as the BP2 heat wave sweeps across the continent.”

Does my 401k count?

While you’re correct that the movie highlights a leader searching for a solution to a problem, you overlook the unspoken criticism of society within the movie: the plainly evident results of generations of stupid Americans who were too complacent, and actively hostile, to reckoning with the long-term consequences of their actions.

And please extend it to file formats! Choosing an open source product while sticking to closed source file formats kind of misses the point. I get that things like docx and xlsx are “de facto standards,” but governments endorsing open standards can help force companies to support open formats.

Yeah, my gut reaction was, “someone just figured this out!?”

Interesting times when (at least) half of all political reporting in the US is simply investigating/reporting what most people already know/assume. Not arguing against its necessity, receipts are important if any of this stuff ever goes in front of judges.

Maybe the government should do something to encourage research and development. Oh, wait…

Not a surprise at all. This was being said as the Patriot Act was being “debated” in congress. Post-9/11 was a massive erosion of civil rights and privacy in the US, and a significant portion of the country cheered it on.

As someone who works in this area, I have some points:

1. More often than not, things like this are dictated by need and budget more than vanity. Sure, if it looks like a cluster might be close, a customer might press a vendor for a few more compute nodes to push them over the edge, but even that’s fairly rare. For the customer, being in the list at all is decent marketing fodder. For the vendor, having the top spot is cool, but having more systems on the list than your competitors could be argued as at least equally as cool.
2. This list covers systems that are publicly known about. It’s long been known that institutions like the US NSA have some impressive computing power whose specs are classified. They aren’t alone. Plenty of similar installations around the world, and not just in government. Financial companies, for example, can be quite secretive about their resources.

“Big Tobacco” moment? You mean when they collectively paid a fine, then went on to continue making billions of dollars selling an incredibly deadly product to this day?

yay. more new democrats.

AI is not a substitute for experience. Too many people assume that it can be.

Hell, I’ll do it for half the price of the ballroom!

If you’re not going the VPS route it’s even easier. Pangolin handles the wireguard tunnel for you with a docket container running newt. Very straightforward.

My goals have been:

1. Avoid opening ports on my home network.
2. Don’t require people using my services to join my Tailnet (or some other VPN).
3. Require 2FA/passkeys (via Authentik for the moment) on anything that’s publicly accessible.

There’s plenty of YT stuff out there for Pangolin, but I haven’t seen a lot for their cloud service. Personally, I prefer it to self-hosting it. Similar to tailscale, the free tier meets my needs, and their security team is (hopefully) more competent and better staffed than… me.

Of course, you get what you pay for, but I see this as a similar position as Tailscale & Cloudflare. With my free account, I’m piggy-backing off the security infrastructure of their enterprise offerings. Obviously I don’t get all the fine-grained controls of those tiers, but like the other two companies, they have a reputation to uphold, and from that perspective a breech is a breech. Even if it only affects free tier users, it makes them look bad.

Holy shit, you’re right! And I was sober, even!

Weird thing is this is the “government takeover” the 2nd amendment nuts have been screaming about for generations. Not at all surprised that they’re mostly silent now. Also not at all surprised it their own political party who’s doing this.

Wow. Didn't see that coming. Not at all. 

“I will tear down your corrupt system, even if it’s the last thing I do in my life. I will go all the way—I am not afraid,” she wrote to the First Lady on X. “Maybe you should be afraid of what I know… of who you are, and who your husband is.”

What.

The fuck.

Are you waiting for?

Actually, the other side mostly wants things to stay the same. Their constituents, on the other hand, would like to see better healthcare, education, unions, and stronger safety nets. But since the other side aren’t fascists, their voters are stuck with them.