The supervisors did not have the expertise to know what the foreign workers were doing

If that’s the case, then the work should be in house

Idk, they’ve got my laughing.

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a win for consumers

Price inflation at restaurants continues apace, bro. But sure, they’re back to the Paper Bag Test for assistant manager promotion, so I guess the consumer is winning.

Enjoy your prize.

Trying to figure out what passes for DEI at a place explicitly associated with white nationalism.

U.S. personnel with security clearances supervise foreign engineers, including those in China

Again, working on a codebase doesn’t give you access to the production systems. Neither does being Chinese affect whether you are a reliable third party contractor.

If the workers were supervised and the supervisors were competent, there was no real security risk. Both of those are the big “Ifs” though. And that’s why doing layers of outsourcing creates risks regardless of who you’re outsourcing to.

This is about giving chinese nationals root access

Not how software development works. I don’t have root access to every production system because I can submit pull requests to a Dev instance of the code.

It’s actually terrible opsec

One of the principles of FOSS is that you shouldn’t need security through obscurity. Knowing how a system works won’t compromise its integrity if the security protocols are sound. Having third parties participate in a project shouldn’t compromise the project if the lead developers are doing proper code review and QA. A system that is predicated on being a black box to a hostile government in order to maintain security is rigged for failure.

But, more importantly, the idea that a foreign government can only obtain information on the inner workings of a system when people of that national origin work on the project is severely shortsighted. Do you genuinely believe there aren’t significant numbers of domestic American developers of European ancestry who wouldn’t happily sell access to a foreign government for the right price? Do you genuinely believe there aren’t numbers who could be gulled into exposing the inner workings of their software inadvertently?

Nothing about Hegseth’s complaint improves operational security. He’s hinging his whole worldview on the notion that every other white person at Microsoft is as much of a nationalist as he pretends to be.

The US has long since had a practice of outsourcing labor many times over in pursuit of the lowest labor costs and maximum profit.

Getting your girdle in a twist because you found out the guy on Fiverr debugging your middleware has non-White ancestors maybe misses the root of the problem.

I would 1000% start making that order.

It’s not a practical order to fill, logistically. You won’t have 18k cups, just for starters.

Anybody today can go to any drivethrough and ask for whatever and then simply drive away.

Many drive thrus take payment before processing the order.

I think if you asked most Americans who Netanyahu is and what he is doing you’d get a blank stare.

Idk about that. His name has been in national news for decades. Like, maybe somewhere behind Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un in terms of US visibility.

How any of this gets corrected is beyond me

Say what you will about the Trotskyists, but they looooved making newspapers. I don’t think there’s a shortage of modern Alt-Media, either. Not hard to get an earful of press about the state of the world. What’s much more tricky is coordinating actions, particularly at the local level. There is not, to my knowledge, a Houston-centric news organization that does a good job of organizing and orienting local people on municipal issues. But I’m a white atheist professional worker out in the suburbs, so its very possible I’m just out of touch with what more radical and well-connected folks in churches and labor unions are up to.

The fuck are they gonna do?

Arrest random teenagers and claim their browser history or installed app list marks out as pedophiles

Just tune it out people.

I only ever seem to hear about Taylor Swift via memes that tell me not to care about Taylor Swift.

“We should stop indulging in celebrity and start GIVING A FUCK!”

“Okay, what should we care about?”

<insert list of cataclysmic horrors for which nobody in the audience has any agency>

“Wow, thanks. Now I’m full of helpless anxiety. Anything I can do about any of this?”

“DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING!”

“Well, this has been enervating as fuck. If you don’t mind, I’m going back to hide in my den and watch movies until the world ends.”

Just looks like

to me.

An attempt to commit a crime is a crime. Planning it is not.

There are so many actions that are crimes. Doing X with intent to Y is a crime. Proving intent can be tricky. But that’s up to the DA to argue.

How is talking to a bot a crime now?

Planning to do a crime is criminal misconduct. If you’re talking to a bot with the intent to gather resources to perform a crime, you’re in the process of committing the crime you intended to perform.

However, police won’t do anything.

This is the punchline to the joke of mass surveillance. You can have people doing crimes in clear view of the police and they just stand around. The police aren’t for deterring crime, they’re a jobs program and a human shield against harm to private property.

I gotta say… imagine being the police department on the receiving end of that firehose.

“Hey, man. I’m Korg. We’re gonna get outta here on that big spaceship. Wanna come?”