By the same logic the GAO, OIG's, OMB, and GSA are all government employees, presenting an even more immediate and direct conflict of interest.
BTW SpaceX is a fairly tiny government contractor -- big ones like Accenture and other consulting firms have previously audited spending including their own contracts.
I don’t know, maybe not the richest man on earth who also happens to have massive conflicts of interest, calls respected people he disagrees with “retards” and is clearly losing his grip on his sanity. I mean that’s just my dumb take, though. What do you think?
Almost all of it would be related to military contracts and spending
As large as social security is, I'm sure there's some efficiencies to be gained too, but the military industrial complex is THE defacto leader in greed and wastefulness
But these idiots tried to fire people related to the nuclear arsenal and had to go rehire them. You can't tell me they're competent after that big of a screw up.
If you look seriously you will find military contracts and spending usually achieves something and is in many cases very difficult to decrease.
It has become somewhat of a pattern for politicians to yell about defense spending, get elected, look under the covers and do an immediate 180 in favor of defense spending.
On the other hand you can cut around 70% of the civil government immediately with no impact on our country. Social Security would not be my first choice though!
> But these idiots tried to fire people related to the nuclear arsenal and had to go rehire them
They did not -- this is simple malicious compliance. This is a really well documented phenomenon and I am hoping this situation draws more public attention to it! Whenever faced with cuts, our govt bureaucracy reacts by cutting something visible to create a PR disaster and force back cuts -- the common saying is "firemen and teachers first" and this is often referred to as "Washington Monument Syndrome."
Except in this case the victims happened to be essential to maintaining the security of the United States' nuclear weapons stockpile.
Surely their evil, bureaucratic bosses just did it for show to score political points though, right?
>Whenever faced with cuts, our govt bureaucracy reacts by cutting something visible to create a PR disaster and force back cuts
Cite one credible source saying this is in fact what happened recently with NNSA and I might believe you.
The preponderance of evidence recently does not support this, what with it being widely reported that ill-suited unqualified personnel have been presiding over these cuts across all agencies, at a scale and speed which is unprecedented.
Yeah, I know using free software isn’t a panacea. Still it would be a step in the right direction, plus I could not refrain from the cheap shot at M$ Windows.
This isn't your personal computer/homelab where you can get away with using common sense antivirus or even windows defender. Software like crowdstrike are often used in industries where they're mandated to install such software for compliance reasons (eg. PCI-DSS). Even if you were using linux you'd still need to install it, and crowdstrike previously had issues with their linux agent. It was just uncommon enough that it didn't hit the news.
Except that seems like a maintenance nightmare day to day. There's bugs in the linux version but not the windows version, not to mention having to write two sets of software. Imagine having to get your app's prod to work on both windows AND linux.
Agreed. It should be deployed entirely on Linux. Rip and rebuild is much easier on Linux. Using Windows as a server should be seen as a dark pattern in 2024.
For EMS, hospitals, Windows makes sense on the server because they don't know any better. For anyone remotely technologically competent, Windows shouldn't even be considered an option other than as workstations. Linux on the server is the only way and no one can convince me otherwise.
>Using Windows as a server should be seen as a dark pattern in 2024.
>Linux on the server is the only way and no one can convince me otherwise.
Now meet the sysadmin that thinks the same, but for windows for clients. At the risk of overgeneralizing, people are only for "diversity" when it means supporting their preferred underdog platform (eg. linux desktop). When they're the dominant incumbent it's suddenly "dark pattern", "they don't know any better" and "no one can convince me otherwise".
Moving Defender to user space is a requirement to lock down windows from a fair competition perspective.
Microsoft is currently blaming the EU commission for not allowing them locking down Windows, compare https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/22/microsoft-bl...
It's a real effect. I got blocked from following Brian Krebs because someone (on a different server) said someone else couldn't be a Nazi because they were black, I said being black doesn't disqualify someone from being a Nazi, and someone on Brian Krebs's server reported it as racism.
I only got this reversed two months later by making my own account on Brian Krebs's server and calling out the admin in a public toot on that server.
He is, and I was. You cannot follow people who are on a server that has blocked your server. Your follow request will be ignored, and his new toots will not be delivered to your server. If you were already following him, this follow relationship is deleted on his end, his server will deliver an unfollow notification, and then will not deliver his new toots to your server.
You can still view his profile on his server using a web browser, which is not the same as following him.
I'm talking about Mastodon. Yes, I could also just go to his profile page on a web browser. I could also turn my screen off and go outside. I could also ask someone else what he said. Or read his blog. You're obviously missing the point.
‘in the spirit of open innovation, we’re releasing the source code to MS-DOS 4’ — I should not be surprised. M$ long ago eviscerated ‘innovate’ out of any meaning whatsoever.
This is meaningless. There were no economic gains expected, just avoiding a greater disaster. Given that Swedish economy is fairly integrated with its lockdown neighbours, it would be surprising if there were any economic gains; instead, it is probable its neighbours benefitted from Sweden having avoided lockdown.
Also, the higher death rate is normal and acceptable, in a tradeoff against deaths caused by confinement and the unnecessary prolongation of the epidemic. Herd immunity will arrive earlier, and lockdown-caused deaths will perhaps make Swedes survive more and better.
