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- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 2 weeks ago:
so basically just the hackers to come up with this workaround :D
- Comment on Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate. 2 weeks ago:
aren’t perfect either
You misspelled “are fucking morons” :)
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 2 weeks ago:
When individual copyright violations are considered “theft” by the law (and the RIAA and the MPAA), violating copyrights of billions of private people to generate profit, is absolutely stealing. While the former arguably is arguably often a measure of self defense against extortion by copyright holding for-profit enterprises.
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 3 weeks ago:
But they don’t have to make any OS “office-wide”. All they have to do is
- move from a centralized micro-management of every workstation to a scenario where users can be provided a prepared workstation, but may configure one themselves
- transition to a security policy that assumes every single workstation is insecure, and regulate the network traffic to allow only those protocols that are required for the business, protecting each machine from the next (this would prevent so many major security incidents where a single machine gets compromised and then the whole network is affected)
- provide central infrastructure as open protocols - IMAP (or POP3/SMTP), HTTPS, FTPS + file & printer sharing as desired
- enforce open formats within the enterprise
If necessary (assuming you have really irresponsible users), before authorizing users to set up their own machine, they can do a qualification check - or have the user’s line manager approve the “individual setup”.
This would enable power users productivity and even if you don’t change anything for the vast amount of users, it would pay off rapidly. If you can move regular workstations away from the bloatware that is Windows, you would boost the overall productivity immensely.
Specifically, what I am arguing against is:
- locking users into an eco-system for any kind of service (e.g. MS Exchange servers, MS Active Directory)
- outsourcing your IT competences to Microsoft (because let’s be real, that’s the actual reason IT departments go for Microsoft: corporate IT is outsourced as a service, this means lowest bidder, and the lowest bidder will happily take Microsoft’s offer to take care of any “real” issues and only provide a really, really dumb and helpless first level support)
- having tons of services listening on every workstation that no one ever needs (just open your windows control panel (while it’s still around) and check out all the running services, of which you could disable > 50% if Windows would let you, without impacting the operational state of your machine) and each one presenting a vulnerable interface to the network
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 3 weeks ago:
You have zero reading comprehension. Good job wasting your time on a pointless rant.
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 3 weeks ago:
Do I sense some inner tensions due to frustration with using Microsoft’s sorry excuse for an OS?
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 3 weeks ago:
Gold medal of tautology. At this point, people still using windows voluntarily don’t deserve any better. And IT departments having a choice but forcing windows on users deserve to be burned at the stake.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 3 weeks ago:
which is basically what we do using ublock origin - and then they inject ads directly into the video stream, and a custom UI wouldn’t help.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 3 weeks ago:
While I don’t disagree with Stallman, how would that solve this problem? This is about a major video hosting platform having market shares and injecting ads into their streams / UI. I do not see - even if every line of youtube’s software sources were public - how that would solve the issue that the hosting platform can insert ads anywhere - honestly, as much as I hate ads, I can’t even blame youtube for doing something morally questionable - they are providing a service, they are not a public institution obligated to making information accessible.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 1 month ago:
I meant that thanks to abstract art we’re willing to forgive “image glitches” in art by deep learning models.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 1 month ago:
Generative AI is much better at art than coding.
Mostly because humans invented this convenient thing called abstract art - and since then tolerates pretty much everything that looks “strange” as art. Must have been a deep learning advocate with a time machine who came up with abstract art.
- Comment on Happy Birthday 1 month ago:
2+0-2+2 - checks out.
- Comment on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France 1 month ago:
Clearest difference I can see is:
- people who act more in the interest of society and less in the interest of those in power get arrested
- people who help those in power tighten the leash on society (fuckerberg, muskrat, etc) get courted and don’t ever face consequences
In other words: A high profile person in tech being threatened with arrest / being arrested by western countries is a pretty good sign that they were not cooperating with our totalitarian overlords & providing us with ways to preserve our privacy.
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 1 month ago:
A censor happy mod thinks they are the greatest… How pathetic :D
- Comment on AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose' 1 month ago:
For the purpose of protecting important data, the distinction really doesn’t matter. And the good old xkcd comic has a point - for many people, all relevant data is in the user’s accessible storage area anyways. Hence me running almost all internet applications and steam in a jail.
- Comment on AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose' 1 month ago:
Okay, fair point, let me rephrase: if someone knows what kernel (admin) level execution means, and installs a game that requires this on a computer where they keep important data, they are a dumbass mtherfcker :) Generally speaking though: most people shouldn’t be allowed to use technology - humans are unbelievably stupid for the most part.
- Comment on AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose' 2 months ago:
we just need one pvp game with kernel level anti cheat
Leaving aside that security patches should be done, if you install that kind of game on a system where you have any data worth protecting, you’re a dumb ass mtherfcker. Sorry, but seriously, that’s just how it is.
- Comment on He really wants to kill that platform lol 2 months ago:
well said!
- Comment on Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' . 2 months ago:
what a pathetic weird dumbass
- Comment on What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲) 2 months ago:
I have no mistress, and I know no misters.
- Comment on What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲) 2 months ago:
you lost me at “docker”. The only people using docker are morons and those that trust software by morons.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
There are millions of people devoting huge amounts of time and energy into improving AI capabilities,
millions of students who bought into the marketing bullshit, you mean.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
mwahahah. The people who are working on LLMs right now are the dumbasses and MBAs of the industry. If we ever get anything like an artificial general AI, it will come from a team of serious researchers / engineers who don’t give a shit about marketing.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That’s like seeing a basic electronic calculator in the 60s and saying that computing won’t expand much more. Full-AI isn’t here yet, but it’s coming, and it will far exceed everything that we have right now.
go back to school, hopefully your next statement won’t sound as dumb.
- Comment on German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft 2 months ago:
Microsoft is a bunch of corporate fascist cunts just like the rest of the silicon valley and those fuckers should all die out. Sadly they won’t. Thank you fucking traitor scum Scholz for showing your true shitface once more. Greetings from CumEx
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 2 months ago:
I am slightly worried that there’s only a single option left. That’s only 1 organization’s corruption removed from total loss of control over browsing privacy :/
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 3 months ago:
- if each of those contributors to wrecking our planet points to the other causes as a justification to not limit their own damage, we’re fucked
- it’s not AI. It’s large language models. Glorified statistical text prediction without any originality. It just appears to some naive humans as original because it regurgitates ideas to them that other people have had but they just hadn’t heard before
- despite the misnaming, I agree that there’s a real concern that it makes the majority of users even more stupid than mankind on average already is :/
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 3 months ago:
that’s gonna be mighty useful when we’ve destroyed the planet. Also, you are not working with AI. You are working with a LLM.
- Comment on Toni Kroos: Germany is No Longer The Country It Was 10 Years Ago Thanks to Mass Migration 3 months ago:
Fuck off racist.
- Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore 3 months ago:
I’m sad about the direction of windows, but it generally works pretty well for how it’s designed
That is a bold claim. And absolutely wrong for many configurations.