I was once responsible for a student house (we don’t have dorms in the US sense, this is the closest we have) and I have similar experiences but less extreme. My favourite was when I had forgotten to configure DHCP filtering and someone plugged in a router the wrong way so it started offering DHCP (that didn’t work) to everyone in the building, in a race with our upstream ISP.
Wow. Since I’ve met so many of that kind of person online that tonight never crossed my mind.
I needed it for a printer the other day!
Sounds like that should be assholes without cars
I tried to read the linked Twitter thread from Ars and good god it’s terrible. Half of it is people complaining about the demo version without understanding that it’s the demo version. Even though people in the thread keep explaining it to them.
Wow, uh, that’s uncalled for but I guess user name checks out.
It’s extremely sensible to think it’s not great for someone in a position of authority to use that authority to do the things they’re meant to do and not other things.
In this case I think the terrible code really, as they say in fashion, completes the look
My wife talked about how Grok apparently seemed promising in AI benchmarks for a while until everyone realised the way they’re winning is by absolutely blindly outspending everyone on GPUs and brute forcing the fuck out of the problem rather than having good anything.
This seems to match that approach (and, more generally, everything Musk is doing).
and Intel was releasing foxes and shit
I realise this is an autocorrect error, but it’s still funny 🦊
User name checks out
Also, the times rats got into the networking room and ate random cables. I should add the network was built by volunteer students in the ‘90s.