wmassingham
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- Comment on ‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded 8 months ago:
Are current laws against harassment insufficient?
- Comment on 8 months ago:
The headline seems to mean 81% of generation and storage capacity. When the article talks about battery storage, it only says storage, not generation.
- Comment on Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor 8 months ago:
Yes. A perpetual license just means no fixed end date, not that it’s irrevocable or interminable.
You can probably get away with continuing to use ESXi free licenses even commercially, you just won’t have support. And at home, nothing is going to stop existing versions from working.
Incidentally, assuming I found the right license agreement: www.vmware.com/content/dam/…/universal_eula.pdf
It doesn’t actually say it’s perpetual. It only says “The term of this EULA begins on Delivery of the Software and continues until this EULA is terminated in accordance with this Section 9”, but that section only covers termination for cause or insolvency, there is no provision for termination at VMware’s discretion. So, while I’m not a lawyer, it definitely sounds like you can continue using ESXi free.
Actually, reading further, I think the applicable license is this one: www.vmware.com/vmware-general-terms.html
But that one has even less language about license term and termination. Although it does define “perpetual license” as “a license to the Software with a perpetual term”, again not irrevocable or interminable.
- Comment on Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click 9 months ago:
That one was posted by a spambot, which a lot of people have blocked.
- Comment on Discord Servers asking for Phone Numbers and 'Verification Levels' 9 months ago:
Increase account creation restrictions (you are here)
- Comment on NASA Astronauts Won't Step Foot on the Moon Until September 2026 at the Earliest - IGN 10 months ago:
Effortlessly? No hiccups? The Apollo program alone cost $178 billion 2022 dollars between 1961 and 1972. And I’m pretty sure that they had at least one hiccup. And that doesn’t even count the other programs like Mercury or Gemini.
- Comment on Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars 11 months ago:
So yeah, you can sue for anything. But even if you know you’d never win the lawsuit, you can tie the other person up in court and waste their time and money.
- Comment on Homes need to be built for better internet 11 months ago:
No. They’re literally a meme for how bad they are on tech content: knowyourmeme.com/…/the-verges-gaming-pc-build-vid…
- Comment on Microsoft readies 'groundbreaking' AI-focused Windows release as new leadership takes the helm 11 months ago:
No, but Windows is so entrenched that they don’t need to actually be competitive in order to keep making profit. Instead, the Windows team has to invent things nobody ever wanted or needed that they can advertise to make it look like they’re still useful. Software UX polish-passes don’t make good marketing. You can’t seriously put “you know that one weird thing that only happened to a fraction of users sporadically? we fixed it” on a marketing campaign.
- Comment on Move over Nvidia: AMD unveils Instinct MI300 AI accelerators and Dell is ready to take orders right now | TechFinitive 11 months ago:
it’d be real cool if the mods of the biggest community on lemmy.world would actually do some moderating
- Comment on Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables 11 months ago:
ISP shittiness aside, ISPs do actually pay for Internet backbone access by the byte. Usually there are peering agreements saying “you take 1tb of traffic from us, and we’ll take 1tb of traffic from you”, whether that traffic is destined for one of their customers (someone on Comcast scrolling Instagram), or they’re just providing the link to the next major node (Comcast being the link between AT&T’s segment of the US backbone and Big Mike’s Internet out in podunk Nebraska).
And normally that works pretty well, until power users start moving huge amounts of data and unbalancing the traffic.
- Comment on Will Microsoft drop the TPM requirement for Win 11 once Win 12 rolls around? 11 months ago:
How? You could certainly temporarily break the boot process, but I can’t see how you’d completely brick it.
- Comment on Will Microsoft drop the TPM requirement for Win 11 once Win 12 rolls around? 11 months ago:
My favorite is when the sssd package maintainers don’t properly update their dependencies, so when some of the packages get updated, they don’t pull in others, and then I’m not able to log in with my external account.
- Comment on Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles 11 months ago:
Also tell the person administering it to do it slowly. In my experience, most of the pain was from them doing it too fast. Something about the fluid stretching the muscle in painful ways before it can spread out, or something.
- Comment on Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says 11 months ago:
If electric bikes were the only thing allowed on back roads, you’d never be able to make enough grocery/dump/Tractor Supply runs to have time for anything else in your life.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
I can’t just run an extention cord out an open window.
This is exactly what my neighbor does in his apartment.
But he has a driveway, so it’s not like he’s running it over the sidewalk or anything.
- Comment on Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company 11 months ago:
I can’t count the number of times I had to do that under ESXi, or do manual vSAN recoveries, so I found myself quite comfortable doing that in proxmox too (especially since proxmox is regular debian).
- Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed 11 months ago:
They don’t have to be stolen. Imagine some clever thief drugging your drink, then when you’re incapacitated they take your phone and press your finger to it or hold it up to your face to unlock it, then transfer all your money out of Venmo or whatever money transfer app you have on your phone.
- Comment on Lenovo sues Asus for patent infringement, seeks US ZenBook ban 11 months ago:
Just now? Not after any of these? Or the fact that it’s controlled by China?
- Comment on OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board 11 months ago:
Okay, so can we shunt all the “tech billionaire celebrity entertainment” posts somewhere else?
- Comment on Microsoft to remove Windows 11 Tips app, following Cortana's demise 1 year ago:
Don’t forget to check your permissions and selinux file contexts.
- Comment on Microsoft to remove Windows 11 Tips app, following Cortana's demise 1 year ago:
There used to be a native tool called Windows Easy Transfer, but it was dropped in Windows 10 in favor of third-party tools like PCmover and transwiz. There is still Microsoft’s USMT, but that’s designed as an enterprise tool and I think it depends on MECM.
- Comment on Microsoft to remove Windows 11 Tips app, following Cortana's demise 1 year ago:
Sure, if you boot a Windows recovery image, you can do that: …microsoft.com/…/use-bootrec-exe-in-the-windows-r…
Similarly, in Linux, I’ve seen issues like a chown/chmod gone wild that fucked the system file permissions enough that reinstalling is the best course of action.
- Comment on Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI? 1 year ago:
They compensate you in the form of providing products like Bing for free. Same way that Facebook pays their bills by running ads.
- Comment on Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI? 1 year ago:
Same thing they’re doing right now: ignoring the license.
- Comment on Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 1 year ago:
Is it just bookmarks, or is it bookmarks and sync? I’d export your bookmarks as JSON or something and look through it, either with a text editor or some tool, and make sure there isn’t some enormously huge string, or one containing unsupported characters, that’s tripping something up somehow.
- Comment on YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world 1 year ago:
They can use the code directly. The license allows “review, compilation and non-commercial distribution”.
It doesn’t explicitly allow modification, but they do define “code” as “the code and any part of it and any derivative of it”, so clearly derivatives are expected.
- Comment on WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says 1 year ago:
It’s in the article:
New York-based WeWork is considering filing a Chapter 11 petition in New Jersey
- Comment on Samsung and Other Manufacturers Disable Phones Bought on Gray Markets: A Consumer Nightmare 1 year ago:
You posting on Lemmy by mail?
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 1 year ago:
Hmm, you’re right. Needs a bit more length.