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The government's response to the security threat of drones has been illogical and negligent at every turn.

For example, the Big Beautiful Bill only appropriated $800M for counter-UAV systems. That's insanely low given the broad threat exposure and the fact that they've literally changed what ground combat looks like. For perspective, we spent $400M on the Qatari 747 retrofit and appropriated $400M on the hope that "naval shipbuilding autonomy and AI" might be a thing.

The price might be more commoditized if OpenAI kept true to the original mission that lives on, albeit vestigially, in their name.

You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. That all but ensures Google will face antitrust action in the US if the administration sours on them.

> The world is so not ready for the impact of LLMs on security issues.

I agree, but it's the people I'm worried about.

I'm hearing anecdotes from all over about devs pushing LLM-generated code changes into production without retaining any knowledge of what it is they're pushing. The changes compound, their understanding of the codebase diminishes, and so the actions become risker.

What's worse is a lot of this behavior is being driven by leaders, whether directly (e.g. unrealistic velocity goals, promoting people based on hand-wavy "use AI" initiatives, etc) or indirectly (e.g. layoffs overloading remaining devs, putting inexperienced devs in senior rolls, etc).

The world's gone mad and large swaths of the industry seem hellbent on rediscovering the security basics the hard way.

I still use AFP on my NAS for a few reasons:

1. When I benchmarked it, AFP was significantly faster than SMB. Both with SMB2 and SMB3. Even when transport encryption was turned off.

2. On SMB2+, symlinks created by the client are not real symlinks. They're "Minshall+French" links which only look like symlinks to other SMB2+ clients. To the server and NFS mounts they look like flat files with the target path encoded in them.

3. It exposes a different precision for certain timestamps. Software that uses this metadata to decide whether a file needs to be updated will see almost every file as needing a resync.

It's been a year or two since I checked the status of these. The situation may have improved since last I looked.

> YouTube added a feature so I can easily skip in-video sponsored sections

That feature benefits YouTube, too. Maybe even more than its value as a Premium feature. It makes it so that viewers can skip the ads the creator was paid to make without YouTube getting a cut of the proceeds, pushing down the value of those ads.

How disappointing it is to see how easily some leaders in our industry abandon their principles, and how cheaply they sell out their fellow man.

The tech industry was never perfect. It was never a charity. But there was a time, several years ago now, when people were more driven to build things that delighted others.

If faith in the fairness and belief in the protection of the rule of law collapses much further, I suspect people will learn.

The question is whether they'll learn in time to do anything about it.

I'm not sure what's more insane: That they're willing to make those claims or that companies are willing to downsize based on them.

"L'enfer, c'est les autres" seems to work on a few levels.

As George Carlin said: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

While knowing that can help you have compassion for them, it doesn't make listening to them any less exhausting.