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herewulf commented on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/waits
tomasphan · 2 days ago
At this point purchasing Google services/products is a real risk for business continuity.
herewulf · a day ago
They sold off Google Domains to Squarespace a year or so ago which was irritating because it was super nice to grant DNS record access using employees' Workspace accounts.
herewulf commented on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/waits
xingped · 2 days ago
Except if you happen to travel for more than 45 days, in which case Google Fi will promptly tell you to get fucked and cut off your service without warning, advanced notice, or spelling out anywhere when you sign up. Not my idea of a carrier I can trust. I deleted my account and service with them to move to a carrier that I can trust and actually respects me as a customer.
herewulf · a day ago
We've exceeded that by months on multiple occasions and fully expected them to cut us off after reading similar dire warnings but they never have.

That said, we keep data usage rather low because we're on the metered plan.

herewulf commented on UUID package coming to Go standard library   github.com/golang/go/issu... · Posted by u/soypat
knorker · 9 days ago
Really? My experience is that of C, C++, Go, Python, and Rust, Go BY FAR breaks code most often. (except the Python 2->3 change)

Sure, most of that is not the compiler or standard library, but dependencies. But I'm not talking random opensource library (I can't blame the core for that), but things like protobuf breaking EVERY TIME. Or x/net, x/crypto, or whatever.

But also yes, from random dependencies. It seems that language-culturally, Go authors are fine with breaking changes. Whereas I don't see that with people making Rust crates. And multiple times I've dug out C++ projects that I have not touched in 25 years, and they just work.

herewulf · 8 days ago
Isn't the x for experimental and therefore breaking API changes are expected?
herewulf commented on Where things stand with the Department of War   anthropic.com/news/where-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
nostromo · 10 days ago
Warfighter is not a new term and has been used in the military since at least the 1990s and was used by Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, and Trump.

Service members are anyone serving in the military.

Warfighter is used to describe combat roles.

If useful to distinguish between the two, warfighter is the correct term.

herewulf · 10 days ago
You're right about the age of the term but it's nothing to do with combat, but rather just a nice sounding umbrella term that makes talking about joint forces easier because every military service has their own special name for their personnel (soldiers, sailors, Marines, etc..).

The POGiest of POGs are "warfighters" and individual organizations within the DoD proudly advertise how they serve runny eggs and chicken to warfighters every day or issue their uniforms/equipment with incredible lethargy or maintain their personnel records in 20+ different systems duct taped together.

"Service member" does get used a lot still. Usually abbreviated to "SM".

Source: Personal experience in both combat arms and non combat arms roles.

herewulf commented on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable   grapheneos.social/@Graphe... · Posted by u/pabs3
627467 · 12 days ago
Motorola Solutions != motorola mobility

Ill leave you to investigate how != they are

herewulf · 12 days ago
This. I know some people who work for the former and they are always having to say "no, I don't work for that Motorola". The shared name is entirely historic.
herewulf commented on Claude dethrones ChatGPT as top U.S. app after Pentagon saga   axios.com/2026/03/01/anth... · Posted by u/doener
weird-eye-issue · 14 days ago
> we can also use LLMs more efficiently: build software composed of small well tested libraries. It is more energy efficient to write and debug little 200 line libraries than soaking up large projects in your context.

So, NPM? In reality AI is making this LESS likely to happen. It's easier to write a small utility function with AI then find and use a library these days

herewulf · 13 days ago
This might be preferable to the ever expanding tangled dependency graph and associated supply chain risk. OTOH, perhaps said graph can be reasonably wrangled with LLMs and enable safe small library re-use?
herewulf commented on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network   twitter.com/sama/status/2... · Posted by u/eoskx
charcircuit · 16 days ago
The president changed it back to its original name with an executive order. The administration did not just start spontaneously using it.
herewulf · 16 days ago
No, the Department of War is the former name of the Department of the Army and nothing else. DoD is a new creation that includes the Army, historic Department of the Navy, and the other, post-WW2, new services.

"Changing it back" is completely ahistoric.

herewulf commented on Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs   store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/Philpax
herewulf · a month ago
> Steam Machine's SSD (NVMe 2230 or 2280) and memory (DDR5 SODIMMs) are both accessible and upgradeable.

So, you're saying you can still ship on time without including these things and we just add them ourselves? Cool.

herewulf commented on SanDisk crushes wallets with up to 2.8X SSD price hikes   tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/vmykyt
herewulf · a month ago
PC enthusiasists won't soon forget this when voting with their wallets. Shame that Micron went away. Where else is there to turn?

Meanwhile, I have a box of hand-me-down spinning rust to fall back on. Sigh.

herewulf commented on EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown   eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01... · Posted by u/8organicbits
reaperducer · 2 months ago
how do you get from no school/work/shopping to no websites/servers?

Servers perform work. For people. My oven (KitchenAid) is a machine, yet has a setting that makes it non-functional during certain religious events that require people not to work.

Similarly, B&H Photo's web site won't take orders on the Sabbath. They'd rather take the revenue hit than violate their principles.

A foreign notion to the tech industry.

herewulf · 2 months ago
Your oven doesn't work on Sundays? That ranks high among the stupidest things I've ever heard.

So, how do you get around that? Constantly messing with the clock?

u/herewulf

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