> That is why most of the successes are skewed early like Reddit and a bunch of other companies which defined the internet.

Reddit rode the wave with zero innovation. Really what is Reddit? Message boards predated Reddit, which was predated by Usenet, predated by BBS. Somewhere in there were Yahoo! chat forums.

All they did was colocate message boards in one place, and allowed freewheeling moderation. That's it. They got lucky, made millions with zero new ideas. People connected the same way on AOL 15 years before.

Like most Silicon Valley innovations, you just reuse an existing idea or resell polished turds as new.

and before that, there were literal community message boards. corkboard at the grocery store. people gossiped before there was Facebook. the only real innovation was going from verbal communication to the written word, but now with TikTok, we're back at verbal communication, just with a lot of extra steps. there's no other innovation that's happened in the world since writing, isn't there?

Not strangely, it is regional preference. Go to Lowes or HD and see what housewife in that area prefer; there will be 20 models of one kind and 2 of other kind.

Good luck fixing it when it breaks and thus creating more e-waste.

Electric dryers, especially older models, are very simple appliances, you can easily repair yourself and keep them running forever. Can't say the same about heat pump or gas dryer

Certainly something to consider, but they don't fail that often. I've had 1 issue to fix over around 10 years. The cost of that repair over the whole period is ignorable. Once you factor in the running cost, you're just spending more than the maintenance on the energy instead.

> Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist

How are those 2 offices "DEI architects?"

> middle managers with no direct reports

No actual engineers performing real work were harmed in this exercise.

I find it extremely interesting that tech MAGA doesn't consider science to be important.

Well, getting fucked out of your 401k money 6 months before it vests stings some.

Is that an average time given a 12 month vesting schedule?

edit: Actually curious about the dead comment. What companies have multi year 401(k) vesting?

Every company I have worked at or seen does a match on a 12 month schedule or less.

Are they thinking of stock options?

IIRC Amazon has a 2 years 401k match vesting period.

Interesting.

per this article, Amazon 401k has a cliff vesting on matched funds at 3 years of employment. After reading around, it seems like 3 years is the legal maximum for 401k cliff vesting, with 6 years permitted for incremental vesting.

https://www.consiliowealth.com/insights/breaking-down-amazon...

Two years is more typical.

> If I run `nc -l 31337 | sh` that puts my system into a remotely exploitable state

Quick, before someone posts this to Mastodon and gives presentation at security conference with title:

Living off the Land: the Hidden Threat Within

> In theory, the attacker could then use the undocumented commands to scan, spoof, or otherwise attack any near by bluetooth devices.

So? Device is 0wned. Did you think Bluetooth chip is magic protection device for rest of the network?

How would you stop physical external actor? Do you have "No ESP32 permitted on this property" signs on windows?

I'm not arguing that this is a big f'in deal. Seems like it's not much of a deal at all actually.

After reading it really seems much ado about nothing.

Wait until they learn you can rewrite disk drive firmware from inside OS with root access.

> "Buy this super cheap home automation product” turns into installing an APT in your network.

If that was intention, no need to hide code in the Bluetooth, just write it in the firmware. The device itself it the trojan horse.

Costco abusers.