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So while Utah punches above its weight in tech, St. Paul area absolutely dwarfs it in population. Surely they have a robust cybersecurity industry there...

https://lecbyo.files.cmp.optimizely.com/download/fa9be256b74111efa0ca8e42e80f1a8f?sfvrsn=a8aa5246_2

Utah, #1 projected tech sector growth in the next decade, of all 50 states.

Utah, #8 for tech sector % of entire state economy, of all 50 states.

Minnesota?

Doesn't crack top 10 for any metrics.

Utah may not be the biggest or techiest state, but it is way more so than Minnesota.

The National Guard just seems like a desperate move.

Again, this is my argument, but you are only seeing desperation as due to incompetence, not due to... actual severity.

When they're deployed, they take orders from the the federal military,

Not actually true unless the Nat Guard has been given a direct command by the Pentagon.

and at peace, monitoring foreign threats seems like a federal thing.

... which is why the FBI were called in, in addition to the Nat Guard being able to report up the military CoC.

You call in the National Guard to put down a riot or something where you just need bodies, not for anything niche.

I mean, you yourself have explained that the Nat Guard does have a CyberSec ability, and I've explained they also have the ability to potentially summon even greater CyberSec ability.

I guess you would be surprised how involved the military is / can be in defending against national security threatening, critical infrastructure comprimising kinds of domestic threats.

Remember Stuxnet?

Yeah other people can do that to us now, we kinda uncorked the genie bottle on that one.

Otherwise, just call a local cybersecurity firm to trace the attack and assess damage.

It is not everyone's instinct or best practice to immediately hire a contracted firm to do things that government agencies can, and have a responsibility to do.

If this was like, Amazon being comprimised, yeah I can see that being a more likely avenue, though if it was serious, they'd probably call in some or multiple forms of 'the Feds' as well.

But this was a breach/compromise of a municipal network... thats a government thing. Not a private sector thing.

EDIT:

Also, you are acting like either you are unaware of the following, or ... don't think its real?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

Kind of a really big deal in terms of Utah and the tech sector and the Federal government and... things that were totally illegal before the PATRIOT Act.

Exabytes of storage.

Exabytes.

Utah literally is where the NSA is doing their damndest to make a hardcopy of literally all internet traffic and content.

Given how classified this facility is, I wouldn't be surprised if their employees don't exactly show up in standard Utah employment figures.

Doesn't matter, it's collectively, broadly true.

Leftists and liberals generally spent more time arguing amongst themselves online and glomming on to mini personality cults of prominent online influencers, fully engaging in the distractions of gender and culture wars...

... than they did spend their time on any kind of actually effective, in any but the most superficial sense, kind of messaging or actions.

Sure, if you helped run a local homeless shelter, built up some kind of actual union or a a mutual aid network, knocked on doors, rallied people in person or at least phone banked, joined an outfit or did your own actually real and impactful journalism, consistently protested, set up something like an underground railroad, started actually laying a framework for an alternate economy that could be resilient to or function during a collapse of the broader economy...

Something actually tangible?

Then hey, you actually tried.

Basically every one else just whined and complained, ineffectively.

Doing this all with the greatest access to information and ability to coordinate that has ever been present in the history of humanity.

Nope, winning twitter arguments was more important.

They literally don't do anything other than have meetings and injest executive level reports.

CEOs are unironically the prime candidates for replacing employees with AI, from a direct cost to employ the employee perspective.

I don't give LLM AIs much credit, but they are more intelligent than the average CEO.

Also, LLM AIs, when well-manicured... are generally better at corpospeak and not having massive ego trips than most CEOs.

Probably less likely to intentionally commit crimes as well.

gitlab

I refuse to use, or touch, C#, as a matter of principle at this point.

Only 0.43% of the population can write code.

Which doesn't include you.

I will never lose the ability and my services will always be needed.

You are a highly, highly specialized, but also simultaneously low skilled worker who can only work with a very specific set of services, which are all paygated by vendors, who will immediately jack the fuck up out of their pricing as soon as they are able.

You are delusional.

Even in some hyper dystopia where all coding is outsourced to an AI, all you are is a prompt generator.

Do you think an AI that can write inefficient code... cannot write prompts?

You are a loon.

And the vibe coder is also blissfully unaware of all the zero days he/she has also deployed along with his prompted autocomplete output of a program.

Great work! Very efficient!

I'm totally sure said program doesn't also needlessly pull in a gigantic mess of additional libraries, just to use one or two functions from it, I'm sure this is a very compute and memory efficient program.

And I am totally sure this will all work great and be easily reconfigured to keep up with any changing requirements, because we all know software devs always get very concrete, stable, and well defined requirements to work with.

And now we understand why MSFT buying github a some years back was a really big deal actually, and not just some kind of mostly neutral, generic expansionary business move.

Ah, that makes more sense!

I tried to dissuade a strung out guy from crushing it, mixing it with some liquid, and then shooting it up.

He died, despite my best attempts both pre and post OD.

Conservatives are not broadly known for their creativity.

... Miriam is making a come back?

Eustace! Leave that poor dog alone!

And then also... jesus fuck, the right wing 2A crowd is now I guess just naming their kids 4 or 5 different variations of their favorite overpriced 'cool but also tactical' glasses?

I guess it makes sense for a Republican approach to daughters; literally just accessories they own so they can self-actualize via consumerism and performative conformity.

... Also I can only hope male Nico just barely making the list is from people who played GTA 4 and actually realized his entire story is a thorough evisceration of the concept of the American Dream.