it also presumes YOUR device is the most important device around, as opposed to, say, air traffic and flight scheduling systems, train systems, electricity control systems, stoplight control systems (they adjust their 'rush hour' times each switch), cruise and shipping departure and arrival times.

All of those systems need independent testing time to confirm that they have the switch, they can exchange information with other computers and be accurate about the switch, and all handle the fact that there would be no 'extra hour' on Nov 1st that would have already been accounted for in their schedules for that day...and note they'd be dealing with computers in other countries that would likely be even slower in getting the upgrades needed to test on their end.

But that's not what Trump is asking for. He is asking for "effective immediately", just like the British Columbia bill was.

Yeah, you're suggesting Congress could set it for next year (giving next year's Congress a chance to revoke it), but that's not what is being proposed by the Administration nor the bill that already passed the House but the Senate seems to be never picking up.

that is a very naive way of looking at how computers work, especially computers that have to share future scheduling information with other computers. NO computer has what you are talking about that would just magically solve everything - especially in THIS case where the DST would be 365. Yeah, you could tell your computer to 'lie' about its location and say it was in, say, Brazil rather than Chicago in order to stick to whatever TZ you want your device to think it is in...but that is not something that scales up to all of the hundreds of data centers on the east coast with the millions of computers involved. They need to be absolutely and automatically accurate to where they are and 'when' they are, and no 'flip of a switch' will be adequate for that purpose.

Hell, about half the computers and software systems (like databases) in the public right now still aren't ready to hold Americas/Vancouver time on DST-365 (my own macbook didn't get the upgrade until about a month ago) when the flip happens. Not all the upgrades have rolled out or people are still intentionally using older systems because they "just work" (e.g., sticking with Java 8 and not having any time or inclination to try to get to Java 25 which changes so many network related libraries one might as well just rebuild the enter system from scratch).

A calendar-clock change like this needs at least a year of time to prepare it and get all the software systems tested and ready for the change when it happens. Yeah, it is easier to actually code the changes now for some systems than it was when we had the big change in 2005-2006 (in fact, because of dealing with that change), but that doesn't simplify the testing required for something on this scale.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthreadreaderapp.com%2Fth... yeah - the mass-buying started back in June, months before any announce or post was ever made on the matter. And yes, several are now selling for millions.

per a twitter post, someone did some searching and found that .si (Slovenia, yes where Melania's from) domains were being bought at an average of about 400 / month, usually with words in their own language.

But starting in *JUNE* (months before this announcement or any other like it), scalpers started buying up .si domains with common and corporate english words by the thousands...and now those domains are selling for millions.

Somebody knew it was coming, months ago. This was very well planned out to make some people very rich, possibly including Trump O itself, or those who buy his NFTs/Coins. That whole paying to get private access? This is what they're told to do in those back-door meetings.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthreadreaderapp.com%2Fth...

not for me. i still see AI in that first large text content: "America.gov

  uses AI
to get simple answers only
from

  official
government sources."

because i note - you aren't hearing this from Bezos, Ellison, nor Alphabet.

another - "we have enough AI, we shouldn't have more" - a way for the big 3 to try to get Congress or local governments to act...against the other vendors still building out more data centers and developing their own tech (Oracle, Amazon, Google).

"let us keep the monopoly on it all and leave those others behind, and /maybe/ we can control it...but if you let too much competition in, then our fears will happen."

...and since then, the jobs report has been notorious for having corrections weeks later that few notice. I won't even say grain of salt. There's little about this that will hold up.

Many jobs in hospitality were for the World Cup, and they were all temporary, part time, barely above minimum wage, and now done.

Seriously, root is needed for software installation and updates (and not always even that) and that should be IT. Done. finito.

Yeah, individuals may have root access (but in corporate situations, even THAT has some limits to it - e.g., I can't see the that the 'spyware' I know is on my work machine actually exists. I know it does (because, for example, it is blocking me from screen-sharing to my AppleTV even off the firewall)).

But on a shared machine like old-school Unix minicomputers, that stuff is off-limits except to admins. This actually proves why that was the case - individual users can't be trusted with 'root'. And now we know that extends to non-sentient 'users'.

So this may prove that the bots are going to abuse their powers and therefore shouldn't be given any...but it also proves that the admins of these boxes that the bots are running on have about as much concern for real security as they ever did...which is to say, next to none until the exploitation is already out there.

This is a task that only required standard 'user' access - get the original software, get the dev tools needed for the new language, and have the tools for running the original to check parity), and that's it. They needed nothing more. They didn't need root, they didn't need email, they didn't need the ability to write commits to the others' repos. They needed the tools to do the job, nothing more.

Just like real users.

indeed. this is more akin to the more abusive ideas proposed for the PATRIOT act but not implemented. In what we got, they could ask the phone companies and 'cloud' (we didn't call it that at the time) companies for all the info on a specific person without a specific warrant on the person themself. And yeah that was bad enough to be sure, especially because the company that turned over the data didn't have to tell you they did it (all part of trying to catch them without them knowing they're being caught, of course).

This 'dump' is more a case of "we can ask for EVERYTHING on your servers"...without telling anybody that their data was included.

I got a 'cold call' from what was actually a legit AI bot just a week ago (from a financial services company serving the loan for some home improvements).

stupid thing never understood "let me talk to a human" no matter how many times i tried.

it was legit, but i just gave up, hung up, called the same number back, and hitting the '0' operator, got a human who handled the situation in a matter of minutes, no frustration involved.

The key thing is the bot cold-called ME but wouldn't provide ANY verifying information that it was what it claimed to be. They have an account # for me, but they wouldn't tell ME it to confirm they were who they were and my account was what they expected to see. Not even something like "last 4 digits".

I mean, they ask US for last 4 digits of something but they won't do the same for us in return?

THIS IS A DAMN PROBLEM, because yeah, we need to have a way to trust that bot-calls from AI are who they say they are, because it is REALLY F'ING EASY to program a bot to do the psychic equiv of a 'cold read' as part of social engineering a scam.

when hiking/walking, i'd rather it stay northbound and click that compass to keep it that way.

otherwise, the pace i'm walking is so slow that the thing keeps changing up what direction it thinks i'm walking in, spins around 3 times, and throws a whole new side trek onto my route.

when i keep it northbound, it still adds that useless side-trek, but at least it isn't spinning all the time.

5000 feet (or even 1000) is deceptively tough when it is in the other direction. (I know the Rescuer knows this but saying it for the general).

Canyons and mountain routes can be deceptively difficult. Examples include the Grand Canyon, obviously, but also, say, starting a hike from a high point along the Blue Ridge Parkway or (in Shenandoah NP) Skyline drive. You head down, not up, a generally easy descent to see the landmark...and then after having been out for 2-3 hours, you have to climb back up. So the hardest part of the hike is when you're already tired...

Park rangers and most guide books will remind guests of this, but not every app (esp not google maps) will.

For biking, google maps for desktop is reasonably well at giving you a chance to see the elevation changes on the route to figure out where the toughest climbs are going to be...but I think it still presumes a steady pace rather than the "I quit, I'm getting off and walking" pace that my unconditioned 50-something legs force me to do.