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Captainant

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  1. Can we talk about the nationwide effort to criminalize books as enshittification of our education system?

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna161444

    The law enforcement officer spent months methodically gathering evidence. He leafed through thousands of pages and highlighted key passages amid reams and reams of paper. He wore his body camera to record his interactions with witnesses and suspects. And he photographed what he saw as instruments of the alleged crime:

    Books.

     

    The targets of the investigation? Three school librarians in Granbury, Texas. The allegation? They had allowed children to access literature — such as “The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison — that the officer, Scott London, a chief deputy constable, had deemed obscene.

  2. 1 hour ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    jesus... I know Crowdstrike fucked the football here, but how the fuck is Delta still that down 4 full fucking days after the resolution was named and published?

     

    Delta has probably outsourced most of its IT staff so it's probably still in the discovery phase of unfucking things. Laying off all that tribal knowledge exposes your org to significant operational risk of things aren't sufficiently documented. 

     

    And things are never sufficiently documented 

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    2 hours ago, FartingMonk said:

    Yeah.  We get told if you can't finish it before Friday, push it to Monday.  

    Yeah nobody I work with has change windows into Friday - last planned window ends at like 6A on Thursday morning so they'll have 2 working days to fix any prod impact 

  4. 3 hours ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

    Can I say how fucking stupid and contradictory the term "DEI oligarchs" are. An oligarchy is exclusionary by fucking definition, how can you be a diverse and inclusive oligarch? You are a fucking moron.

    These are the same water heads that have called me an "antifa fascist" without a trace of irony

  5. 16 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    By the same token, Barrett actually gave Chutkan something of a roadmap to navigate the official/unofficial conduct thing that won't be immediately reversed by the majority.

    Well the majority has been so consistent sticking to precedent and following the guidance of past rulings, so there's absolutely nothing to worry about right?

  6. 8 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Pretty sure every major IT software provider is now ensuring that this can't happen or won't happen to them. 

    Basic fucking governance and give-a-shit would have prevented this. It's not a hard thing to prevent lol. It's more a function of not letting quality slip in order to meet cost demands, not a matter of technical ability

  7. I hope it continues to be part of the root cause analysis that the CS QA teams were fired just a little bit before they pushed out a config file filled with zeros. A fuck up like that takes time to pull off, you don't just wake up with zero internal governance or quality controls let a null bomb out the door to take airlines and hospitals and 911 offline. 

    It's such a pure expression shareholder capitalism to chase privatized profit while dangling half a planets worth of social risk just to save some money on QA costs. Absolutely incredible work, everyone. You'll get em next quarter

  8. 4 minutes ago, immamac said:

    I think this highlights the problem with undereducated population relying on technology that they have no fucking idea what it is. It's why people think AI is magic or real. 

    This isn't a dig on you, but there needs to be basic computer literacy if we are going to be this dependent on computers as a society. 

    Tfw 40k grimdark was closer to reality than we think lol. Buncha folks today look at IT staff as if they're tech priests with exclusive access to unknowable information. 

    No, dumbass. Just use your fuckin brain and think for a second and Google some shit and then see what works. It's not magic, but sooooo many people exhibit this strange pride in being technically unprofficient

  9. Re: when is a company crossing the line? Probably when they're shifting their business strategy to ensure more outages happen so they can continuously increase rates

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/centerpoint-bill-hurricane-beryl/285-9ae6118f-51f6-40b4-bd75-a9d8894cff11

    "If I spend $1 on prevention, tree maintenance, cutting the trees down, I make two or three cents," Hirs said. "But if I spent $100 on disaster recovery, I'm going to make a significantly much greater profit. Therefore, we (utilities) kind of wait for disaster to strike."

  10. https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/centerpoint-bill-hurricane-beryl/285-9ae6118f-51f6-40b4-bd75-a9d8894cff11

    "As a matter of public policy, we don’t want them going broke. Who’s going to take it over?" Hirs said. "And so we allow them a rate of return."

    Hirs said it’s a profit negotiated with state regulators and historically that rate of return has hovered around 10% on capital investments, such as new wires and poles and other equipment needed for the transmission and distribution of electricity.

    But Hirs said what is not as profitable for electric utilities are the costs of routine maintenance.

    "If I spend $1 on prevention, tree maintenance, cutting the trees down, I make two or three cents," Hirs said. "But if I spent $100 on disaster recovery, I'm going to make a significantly much greater profit. Therefore, we (utilities) kind of wait for disaster to strike."

    After disaster strikes, utilities go through a regulatory process with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to try to recoup storm recovery costs (including a rate of return) by passing them along to customers’ monthly bills.

    In past disasters, such as Hurricane Ike, the monthly increases could go on for years.

    "So the customer may end up paying $1, $2, $3 (per month), it depends on how much CenterPoint decides this cleanup cost will be," said Sandra Haverlah, President of the Texas Consumer Association.

    While CenterPoint has yet to officially tally up the cost for the derecho in May and Hurricane Beryl, the credit rating agency Fitch Ratings estimates it could likely climb north of $1 billion.

    "So every single time a storm comes now, CenterPoint turns around and says, 'OK, customers, here's another $2 on the bill,'" Haverlah said. "And we're starting to question when does that become too much?"

    Haverlah said it’s even more important to question given that CenterPoint, a for-profit, investor-owned utility, is under scrutiny for mishandling the response to Hurricane Beryl.

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