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- Comment on Microsoft’s more secure Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users 1 month ago:
Yep, Gucci and Louis Vuitton on the prowl.
- Comment on School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety. 2 months ago:
If a school provides a device to a student to take home there’s two possible outcomes.
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They provide a managed device, and with any management tool, there’s a way to invade privacy, intended or not.
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They provide an unmanaged device and get sued by parents for letting their"innocent snowflake" access unwanted content.
In both instances there’s something to legitimately complain about, but I still say the first option is the better one. The problem comes with oversight and auditing on the use of those management tools.
Not to mention that even with the second option of unmanaged devices, invasion of privacy can still occur of students are stupid enough to use the school provided accounts (Google, 365,etc)
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- Comment on This is a painting of Commander Riker fighting Godzilla. 2 months ago:
This is why Starfleet officers use the double hand punch.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
While shit is a renewable resource, only so much shit can exist at any one time.
Shitpost mods need to walk a fine line of laxitives, costives, gas station sushi, big mac meals, and dilators. Sometimes they get it wrong.
- Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"? 2 months ago:
What if I say all trek is both NuTrek and OldTrek because accidental time travel
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 3 months ago:
Yarrrrrr indeed
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 3 months ago:
Companies see that as a mistake. They want you on a subscription for life that they can arbitrarily change at any time.
Profits not increasing enough for this quarter? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads.
Profits increased amazingly this quarter? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads.
Profits down? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads, and start adding extra paywalls to some content
They want you to own nothing. Oh you unsubscribed? Sorry even the content you paid extra to unlock was only available while your subscription continued, you will need to start your subscription again and then pay to unlock the content again.
A show isn’t popular enough? Better write it off, pull it from all distribution so you can claim it as a tax write off
- Comment on Overweight people more likely to take sick leave, European study finds 5 months ago:
People with underlying health issues more likely to run into health problems. Amazing journalism.
- Comment on Asus won’t say if the ROG Ally’s SD card reader will ever be truly fixed 6 months ago:
Sounds like they would need to redesign the system in some way to solve the issue, e.g. move the SD card slot away from heat generating components. Depending on the volume of sales and complexity of the work, they could have decided it would be more viable from a monetary standpoint to not do anything.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 6 months ago:
Microsoft will release a GPO or MEM setting that works 20 percent of the time to turn off the constant AI data mining, only available to enterprise SKUs.
- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 7 months ago:
That is suprisingly good quality. I have never really seen a still shot from laserdisc before, can see why it had a following back in the day.
- Comment on How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT 9 months ago:
It’s a whatever question you ask engine. You can ask for the information directly and/or ask for sources to back it up.
- Comment on vpn on nextcloud? 9 months ago:
In very basic terms, and why you want to do them:
Attack surface is the ports and services you are exposing to the internet. Keep this as small as possible to reduce the ways your setup can be attacked.
Network topology is the layout of your home network. Do you have multiple vlans/subnets, firewalls that restrict traffic between internal networks, a DMZ is probably a simple enough approach that is available on some home grade routers. This is so if your server gets breached it minimises the amount of damage that can be done to other devices in the network.
- Comment on OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare” 9 months ago:
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Massive quarterly profits, uhh
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Massive quarterly profits
Say it again, y’all
War, huh (good God)
What is it good for?
Massive quarterly profits, listen to me, oh
- Comment on China commerce minister frustrated by US 'interfering' in international lithography exports via third countries 9 months ago:
If they are complaining that means it’s working
- Comment on UK government sets out plans for ‘biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years’ 9 months ago:
I misread the title as “biggest nuclear power explosion in 70 years” and thought they had a very dark sense of humour for a moment.
- Comment on VMware customers face uncertain future as Broadcom ends VMware partner programs 9 months ago:
No idea which customers they are specifically, my comment was based on this article, which is basically acting as a summary of some of the Broadcom investors day presentations: theregister.com/…/broadcom_strategy_vmware_custom…
It’s not so much that they don’t want the rest of the customers to stay with VMware, its more so a disregard for them moving forward.
- Comment on VMware customers face uncertain future as Broadcom ends VMware partner programs 10 months ago:
It’s simple. Either you are one of the few enterprise customers they want to keep (of which there are only a handful), or you need to have started a transition away from VMware the moment the purchase was announced.
Which completely sucks for the industry.
- Comment on Dukat is upset they still haven't built a statue of him in the parking lot for pushing a cart into traffic 10 months ago:
Sisko - chance to also perform a warcrime while returning the trolley.
- Comment on The safest way to travel 11 months ago:
No stairs, only ladders, Jeffreys tubes and turbo shafts (you better turbo climb through or you get turned into turbo jam).
If you’re in the far future though, you get the whole TARDIS interior of the turbo shaft network
- Comment on Safe to say peanuts into a US school too? 11 months ago:
That’s awesome if it works. But I had to provide IT support at a school once that had to specifically tell even contractors to please not being anything with peanuts onto the school grounds. They had a kid with a severe peanut allergy and a habit of licking everything (behavioural “quirk” to put in nicely, I had literally been licked on the elbow).
Admittedly that was only once in almost 20 years of doing IT support in schools. But I am more than happy to sacrifice some personal liberty in that kind of situation.
- Comment on Safe to say peanuts into a US school too? 11 months ago:
Some schools will be over zealous and ban them.
Other schools can have kids with such severe allergic reactions that it’s the simplest option to ban them. This is mainly primary schools. I’m not saying if that’s right or wrong, there’s too many variables.
Kids can’t be expected to perfectly manage their health problems, that’s why at most schools yes the kids may have an EpiPen, but the school is also generally required to have one for each kid with a registered allergy.
- Comment on Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity” 1 year ago:
Sadly with all this evil crap now days, they’ll bring it back in a few weeks or months, rename it to the "won’t somebody think of the children API"with a massive ad campaign saying anyone or any website not using the API are r*ping kids…
- Comment on In my language "Janeway" means "death". 1 year ago:
Janeway means death.
Sisko mens warcrimes.
Picard means… Shut up Wesley?
- Comment on Too many products are easier to throw away than fix—consumers deserve a 'right to repair' 1 year ago:
Part of it as already mentioned is a safety thing. Crumple zones and the like are there to purposefully deform so that the people inside the vehicle have a higher chance of surviving a crash.
Part of it is that being hit in the wrong way can also weaken the structural integrity of the frame making it unsafe to use. Makes more sense to strip it for parts at that point. Last thing a repair or insurance company wants is to be found liable for saying “yes the car is repairable/safe to drive”, then the front falls of on a highway.
Part of it also is that insurance companies won’t want to pay for repairs that amount to more than the cost of replacing the entire car if it’s older. Or they know they can make more money by paying out a policy then repairing and refurbishing the vehicle.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Oma Desala told me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
If you immediately know the check engine light is on, the oil was changed too long ago.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
At this point, think of the old “boiling the frog” fable.
For now it’s warnings with an easy skip button. Next they remove the skip button and probably add in more mid-video checks, but if you find a way to work around that the video still plays. Finally if they think you are using ad-blocking, no video at all. Then it’s a cat-and-mouse game between the anti-adblock tech and the anti-anti-adblock tech.
- Comment on yeah, seems like the same thing 1 year ago:
4 legs, big wagging tail, big smile? Close enough.
- Comment on Petite is the new perfect 1 year ago:
FFS. First I am too small, now I’m too big.