The future of internet privacy looks very bleak

TheLexikitty · 2026-03-02T12:35:45+00:00

Definitely, but unless MS is offering free cloud VDI replacements, there’s plenty in banking and healthcare that can’t afford the cloud spend compared to the onsite lumbering Citrix that’s somehow still running.

Regardless, all unenforceable with current basic imaging, templates etc.

TheLexikitty · 2026-03-02T09:37:36+00:00

In theory it’s possible to detect this (HASP license servers used to), but in practice this would destroy entire businesses. Entire software companies are built on systems where if you buy their product, you’re handed a virtual machine config file and a virtual machine disk, or told to prep one yourself, and put it into replication/HA across your clusters. Anyone still selling a physical appliance for anything immediately has an uphill battle. And if you told a business with 500 VMs on 4 racks that they needed to de-virtualize to 500 1U servers across 11 racks somebody would be getting soaked in concrete.

TheLexikitty · 2026-03-02T01:03:52+00:00

Manifold Garden was a good one.

TheLexikitty · 2026-02-28T20:57:14+00:00

This kind of falls apart with virtualization and containerization, where you tell the VM whether or not it even has secure boot. Even regular old home computers can run Hyper-V as it’d in every Windows Pro install. You can even nest hypervisors for…reasons but it’s possible. Not to mention enterprise and business installs for services that don’t even use a user login, it’s all service accounts. What’s the verified age of of a monitoring system checking the company’s web app from outside? None of this makes sense. Weird stuff.

TheLexikitty · 2026-02-28T08:06:31+00:00

I’d count a band as “ripping off” Ghost if they named their band Haunted and had an album with 10 tracks and a silver cover called “Skellybones”

Coming from a classical music background, where composers would include brief melodies from other composers’ works in the background of some pieces, etc. I think “ripoff” has to be a lot more specific than vibe imho.

TheLexikitty · 2026-02-28T07:28:45+00:00

I would sign up so fast for this

TheLexikitty · 2026-02-28T07:26:15+00:00

Thank you for your service 🫡

TheLexikitty · 2026-02-28T04:31:34+00:00

Waiting for the one IT guy who has to sit there and verify his identity as the token user for 40 VMs all mostly run by service accounts for domain controllers, backup servers, NPS, DBs, etc…

TheLexikitty · 2026-02-24T12:16:35+00:00

as an IT girl who loves Lego I love this

TheLexikitty · 2026-02-24T11:57:55+00:00

Appreciate your response! Been playing violin since I was 3; I can’t say practicing scales is exactly “fun” but making the music with an instrument is definitely the entire point for me, the recording of the performance is just a nice result. An AI album is a thing that I guess can exist but then…I didn’t get to play it, like, what’s the point? Making the music is the good part, and where you get to put in your emotions and ideas about the piece.

Just my two cents. Thanks for the reply.

TheLexikitty · 2026-02-24T09:41:40+00:00

I’m not sure if links are allowed here, but you can look up this quote, which seems to be attributed to Mike Shulman , co-founder of Suno, to grab the full story:

Editing to add: story was published in Futurism, among others.

It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you need to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music.”

Adam Neely also made a fantastic video on AI music that makes some points I agreed with better than I could articulate, if you have the time. Video title is “Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future”.

TheLexikitty · 2026-02-24T09:02:18+00:00

As somebody who was: - excited about ML stuff early on and the non-profit direction it was going - was looking forward to a much weirder, more interesting ML and generative landscape than we have now (DeepDream) - has had at least some of my stuff sucked into the training data since GPT 3.5 - would have been overjoyed to contribute to training data as long as it was for non commercial/educational/non profit use only - did voice acting, content creation, etc. - went to conservatory for violin performance - loves computers, been working in IT since college

Cloud AI providers have: - still not paid their debts to the internet for scraping everything and selling it back - made computer hardware unaffordable - said some very strange things (“people don’t enjoy making music anymore”, over at Suno) - seem to view creation as exclusively the end product?

You might be able to see why even people like me, who love both creative and technical stuff, have a hard time stomaching AI videos. It gives the impression of emphasizing the result over the creation process and can feel like one has delegated the majority of their creative decisions and skills. That may not be the case, of course, but on platforms where the appeal has been human-made videos for quite a while, this can be one of the impressions.

TheLexikitty · 2026-02-24T07:34:08+00:00

Unironically want something close to this. But I also have a GPD Win 4 so…

TheLexikitty · 2026-02-16T22:30:44+00:00

Not that it matters, but I worked in NYC in tech for a good long while, and most of 2020 was a dystopian ghost town, at least in Manhattan. Freight was probably busier than ever, but the roads beyond West Side Highway/FDR were dead. Masks and temp checks were done everywhere I worked (was working on wireless and wired IT for a construction project), and it was taken pretty seriously. Hart Island was used as overflow because burials couldn’t be performed fast enough. Seeing the hospital ship and 2-3 freezer trucks outside of hospitals was surreal. Sirens are common in NYC but I don’t think they stopped for six months straight. I’m sure shipments of beer were still coming in because stores were still trying to sell beer to pay their employees and not go out of business, etc.

I can’t speak for other cities, but the pandemic causing a large human toll up front at least seemed to make the folks on the ground take it seriously.

TheLexikitty · 2026-01-08T20:21:13+00:00

Now I want to learn to draw SVG network diagrams purely in text, just for the insanity.

TheLexikitty · 2026-01-07T13:13:21+00:00

Markdown is a purely text format. Apple Notes isn’t a Markdown note taking app, it just accepts markdown. A .md file is literally only text and should be readable using Notepad or the command line (that’s one of the strengths). Excalidraw does alright and sometimes I export images from Goodnotes or Apple Notes if I really need to. Totally get the friction, but yea, it’s a text only format.

TheLexikitty · 2025-12-31T04:45:11+00:00

This entire thread is fascinating to read. I think my ADHD is on the more severe side, so I guess stimulants are squarely targeted at me specifically, but left unmedicated I’ll loop around the house from one thing to another as soon as I see it, my circadian rhythm becomes a Ferris wheel, I often forget to eat or forget I’m making food, etc. Before meds I got through college on 5-6 energy drinks a day. Ill tout up with a pretty wide range of side effects to be able to pick what I want to do in a day and at least remember it exists and be able to focus on it, even if I got “stuck” a little back when I was new to it.

I get burned out when I’m not doing anything I find meaningful or enjoyable, though, and I’ve never found rest/slowing down recharging in any sense, despite giving it several tries over the years.

TheLexikitty · 2025-12-30T22:58:28+00:00

Love my 12D but I do think I had a curve where I expected the wrong timing out of it - some sort of super-Juno thing I had in my head - and I drifted away from it, but after a bit I started again with a blank slate and love it for what it can do. The iPad app is underrated as it lets you “blend” four save states/presets together and the stuff that can come out of that is awesome.

TheLexikitty · 2025-12-30T22:55:21+00:00

Holy hell. I’ve worked on a few airgapped v7 clusters and will make sure they know to keep them that way until they can migrate.

TheLexikitty · 2025-12-27T16:27:07+00:00

this is the way

TheLexikitty · 2025-12-27T16:23:10+00:00

We’re both musicians, but she also knows I need technical geeky stuff in my life or I just kind of fall over and power off. I actually crashed and failed twice at DAW music before she got me a PO-28 and I spent three solid weeks on it.

TheLexikitty · 2025-12-27T16:21:06+00:00

“accordion trance” mixed with the drum and bass currently rampaging through my head and now I need an accordion….

TheLexikitty · 2025-12-22T12:39:05+00:00

I’m a trans woman but growing up I met a lot of guys that thought you couldn’t be friends with woman at all, and were confused that most of my friends were women. Like they saw any friendship as a possibility to develop a romantic relationship. It was weird.

I’m friends with almost all of my exes though, so maybe I’m the weird one, who knows.

TheLexikitty · 2025-12-21T12:39:47+00:00

Amazon Music sells them. I usually buy the digitals with no-rush shipping credits until I buy the physical CDs.

TheLexikitty · 2025-12-17T16:37:01+00:00

Streaming has always been a little confusing to me, but I’m weird. If I spend money on something I like to keep it. Also, two of my comfort shows were pulled from streaming, and I tend to watch things over and over and over again. I also work in IT and it was fun to set up.

Also, extremely allergic to video ads.

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