Kyle Jacobs

Socialist, software engineer, occasional dev of smutty games with Orcs. he/him. Spouse to @hoggrim 🐷😍

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

Federal workforce downsizing has led to a surge in private sector jobs requiring security clearance on LinkedIn.

Roles once held by government employees are now outsourced to contracting companies 😵‍💫#SecurityClearance #FederalJobs #Contracting

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

Dem political strategists: kill yourselves suicide challenge

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

ROFL

77% of Amazon employees are now considering quitting since they announced 2025 would suck, and increasingly numbers in these *high skill* workforces are having families, relocating or otherwise having PERMANENT LIFE CHANGES precluding them from ever RTO.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

79% of U.S. corporate CEOs predicted that corporate roles that were performed in the office before the pandemic will be back in office full time within the next three years, per KMPG.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

How it started. How it’s going

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

@bzktbear @Hansissuperchub UNTIL you had mobility issues? What about afterwards?

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

Tldr @amazon has always been an incredibly awful company to work for at EVERY LEVEL whether it's retail fulfillment, admin, or even technology and advanced operations (hi AWS) Amazon treats it's people like garbage and deserves their over 100% attrition rates.

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

@johncodes @HackingLZ By "strategic", did you actually mean soulless and devoid of the fulfillment of the practical needs of humans? To say nothing of the absurd carbon burden of *commuting* imposed on these roles that clearly can do the job from home - but waaah my billions

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

Lol the fast food giants are all advertising here again.

There is NOTHING in this world like the cognitive dissonance from watching a video of a man urinating to his camera for sexual enjoyment followed up by a video ad for Jack in the Box 🤣🤣🤣

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

@HackingLZ When it runs someone over and the no human was driving or occupying the vehicle, who's fault was it?

I'm just saying, Autopilot produces some *interesting* reductions of our reality for its driving model... 👨‍🦯😉

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

At Walmart, grocery shopping... Thinking about the store brand Pop Tarts like

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

this entire rant - that the times is The Paper all the clowns in power read about themselves - (and no one else reads) sleeps through what happens during ELECTIONS - an event driven by the REAL actions of the American voting populous - WHO'VE NEVER READ THE DAMN THING 🤣

[Bruce Bartlett @BruceBartlett]

The extreme bias of the New York Times in 2016 toward Hillary Clinton clearly cost her the election and many Democrats are wary that it will do the same to Kamala Harris. But they need to understand why the Times has such outsized influence on American politics.

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

Dude... You are one of the last American geezers reading The Times... You've noticed the resourcing of The Paper Of Record have been slimming - they've been cutting at their own newsroom for almost 20 years.

It ain't because subscribership is up 😘

[Bruce Bartlett @BruceBartlett]

The extreme bias of the New York Times in 2016 toward Hillary Clinton clearly cost her the election and many Democrats are wary that it will do the same to Kamala Harris. But they need to understand why the Times has such outsized influence on American politics.

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

Oh shit @elonmusk is trending on my tech news feed. He likes to fill the airwaves with his BS when he's doing something stupid like being cited as an absolute shit father, or lose a huge court case or something... 😵‍💫

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

@HackingLZ They can't stackrank their way out of this shit show tho 🤣

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

So much this. We can't EVER forget how "mainstream conservative politics" warped from "well, maybe the capital gains tax might be an albatross on overall GDP growth" to "maybe concentration camps and mass deportation of 'latin looking people' is good public policy" 😵‍💫

[Justin Elze @HackingLZ]

Because Apple decided to get out of enterprise land years ago?

https://t.co/uCbnHSp9Yk

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

@B8torpro Because the metrics are bullshit. View metrics drive advertising revenue and subscriber "satisfaction". So Twitter pads your views. The "engagement" stats which require a user (even bots) to *push like* a post really say volumes about how BS their stats really are.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Whether it’s Kamala Harris prosecuting criminals or Donald Trump being convicted of crimes, both candidates have a long relationship with law enforcement

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

Anyways legacy safely and enjoy a coffee. Crowdstrike and it's ilk SHOULDN'T EXIST. Vet your use cases for computing and lock them down. Abandon OS that make this difficult.

And hire a fucking programmer to fix your own shitty old code.

Oh demand Windows do better idc.

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

Microsoft's "point" is also self-serving and as a focus point for future security solutions (Windows should lock down and obfuscate) it should be ignored entirely.

The Windows computing security model is generations old and indulges *corporate* comfort: A 🧵

[Kyle Jacobs @kfj001]

And it sticks around as part of the OS because they promise (mostly Uncle Sam, few others) legacy support without effort

But we have more powerful computers that can virtualize old shit at the expense of an epsilon of efficiency.