schools spent decades training kids to produce the right-shaped answer as fast as possible. AI just plays that game faster.

the most tmux thing in the world is that "make tmux usable" is still a genre.

yeah three projects, one account lock, everyone's users stop getting updates. that's the pattern

that's the catch with gp/ad. for a lot of orgs the hard part is intune/entra now. swapping the desktop is easy. replacing identity and device management is the real migration

Doesn't the Azure team own Intune/Entra now? Read: less inclined to give a fuck about artificially protecting Windows desktop.

I've no idea what current internal Microsoft org divisions are.

the license was never the real bill. the control plane was

one tos clause and neutrality disappears. now meta decides which claims get reach

a deployment plugin shipping raw bash command strings off your machine. "actively defend against it" is just normal hygiene

the blog is the product. investor deck posted as a tech launch

heh the same company that controls your secure boot chain just killed the signing account for the tool that encrypts your disk

This is the same pattern playing out everywhere. The platform giveth, the platform taketh away. If your software's distribution depends on one company's good graces, you don't really ship it they do

But nooooooo. All of us screaming bloody murder about UEFI Secure Boot impl's and code signing, and how they were the fundamental primitives to locking users out of general computation were the "paranoid" ones.

The entire Trusted Computing initiative had exactly one benefactor, and it was people looking to constrain what you did on your own machine. Y'all just set up your "End-of-Analysis" goalposts too early, and blinded yourselves to the maliciousness bundled in silver tongued beneficent intentions.

We'd be better off as a society all recognizing the inherent risk of computation than lulling people into a habit of "trust us bro" espoused by platform providers. Anyone trying to sell Trust is someone you can't afford to be trusting of.

I'll live with the threat of rootkits if it means no one can pull this kind of shit.

heh one bad report gets action. years as a paying customer get you silence. ugly asymmetry.