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- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 19 hours ago:
It’s also happening in areas where education HASN’T been defended or dismantled. It’s happening in areas that aren’t Republican controlled too.
Fuck MAGA with a moldy pine tree but blaming this problem solely on them means it can’t be solved because whatever is happening isn’t being caused by them.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 22 hours ago:
Used to be a video on YouTube showing the whole process.
- Comment on Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media 1 day ago:
Article about the UK, comments immediately start talking about the United States.
Stop it.
- Comment on Is it just me or is there a lot of Spam and abuse on Lemmy lately? 3 days ago:
Nope, that’s a user created account and a user created note. 😊
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 4 days ago:
SMR are for site or temporary power, not grid scale. On paper they’re a good fit for data centers and other localized power needs.
- Comment on Is it just me or is there a lot of Spam and abuse on Lemmy lately? 5 days ago:
What context are you asking for? Seems like Draconic has explained why that account exists and even put in a note explaining.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 5 days ago:
Yachts and mansions are depreciating assets. You aren’t borrowing against those and then passing them along as an inheritance.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 5 days ago:
Getting a half dozen 24tb nas drives this morning was painful. They twice the cost of last fall and most vendors, even big ones, only had one or two available. This is insanity.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 1 week ago:
+1 for Reolink. I have those and UniFi cameras tied to my UniFi system.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 1 week ago:
As near as I can tell the HP PSC 1315 was released in 2004, over two decades ago. I can see how it’s aggravating for you but there can’t a double handful of those clunkers still working anywhere in the world. There’s no way it could be worth it to HP to rewrite drivers for the 10 or so people still using them.
Switch to Linux. :)
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 1 week ago:
Perhaps but the next Windows 11 update is NOT going to “break your printer”. If you already have a printer setup it will keep working even if its driver is an old V3 / V4.
Most of the old drivers are not distributed by vendors since we are talking about the era when CDs were included in the box.
I dunno about that. I just looked up an HP LaserJet P1015. It was a very inexpensive laser printer released back in 2003, over two decades ago, and it has drivers available for download from HP both Windows and Linux. The P2035 was released in '08 and it has available drivers to download.
Granted that is only two printer models from a singly company but I think you may be overstating the impact of this.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 1 week ago:
This article isn’t accurate - techradar.com/…/scared-your-printer-will-stop-wor…
- Comment on Italy says railways hit by 'serious sabotage' as Winter Olympics begin 2 weeks ago:
We really don’t need to drag American politics into every single post.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 2 weeks ago:
This has been predicted and worked towards since the 90s.
- Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended? 2 weeks ago:
You can also install ad guard home as an add on INSIDE Home Assistant. Works great!
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 2 weeks ago:
Combo of ADHD and living through the 2000s with Internet Explorer where ads often installed malware and viruses. If you DIDN’T use an Ad Blocker you were playing a game of Russian Roulette every time you opened a web page.
Popups, pop unders, blaring audio, malware, slow page loads…ads a scourge.
- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 2 weeks ago:
Funny, I’ve been calling Flock the same thing.
- Comment on Estonian state trialing IT system free from US tech giants 2 weeks ago:
Good!
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 2 weeks ago:
I dunno if it’s exciting but I do have and us an Entra joined and InTune managed Linux Mint laptop with a full security stack loaded as described above. It works.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 2 weeks ago:
Yep but…
Here’s Microsoft - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/…/sso-linux?tabs=…
Google has a variety of IDM methods including Ubuntu Authd and Secure Cloud LDAP. There’s also 3rd party tools like JumpCloud, ScaleOrange, etc.
Okta appears to have ASA and OPA although I’m not familiar with either of them. Ping has PingID and Ping Federate, although again I haven’t used either of them.
So depending on your cloud and needs it’s IdM / IAM is either available NOW or it will be very soon. 😀
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 2 weeks ago:
The corporate crowd will stay on Windows because they benefit from propping up other corporations.
I wouldn’t be so sure. An interesting indicator of the shift that many of you wouldn’t see is how many vendors of management and security software have put out Linux versions in the past 12 months. I’m talking about stuff like RMM (Remote Monitoring & Management), EDR / MDR (Endpoint Detection & Response / Managed Detection & Response) client side DNS filtering software, and other things.
This tooling is for managing and securing endpoints used by companies, either by internal IT or by MSPs. These vendors wouldn’t be making and releasing these tools unless they were being asked for them AND there was going to be stead long term demand.
Turns out that once a companies stuff is in the cloud its users really don’t need MS Windows anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It ain’t Ubiquiti selling that gear to them. Better luck next time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This is a narrative being pushed by a capital investment group that’s shorting Ubiquiti stock.
- Comment on Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War 3 weeks ago:
Oh look, a hit piece put out by a media company that’s owned by a capital investment group that is shorting UIs stock…I wonder what this could be about?!
Ubi isn’t selling this stuff to the Russians and neither are their vendors. Their vendors, most of them in the article are from overseas, are selling them to middle-men who sell them to another middle-man who then physically gets the equipment into Russian hands where it potentially goes through ANOTHER middle man before its used by Russian troops. There’s almost no way to control that and if you read carefully the “legal experts” quoted toward the bottom of the article use some very careful language.
You can’t just “shut it down” either, although even the article notes that Ubi is trying. Most of the gear that’s getting into Russian military hands for use in the war is stuff that you have probably never used. It’s PowerBeam and NanoBeam product that’s most often used by WISPs, which makes sense because that’s precisely how Russian forces are using it. What the article isn’t telling you is that this stuff does NOT need hooked to the Cloud in order to function. In fact it doesn’t need Internet access at all and so there’s no way for Ubi to know where it’s being used or even that it’s been powered up!
Even if Ubi can tell that the equipment is powered on and in use they may not know where it’s at with sufficient accuracy or knowledge to do anything about it. The damn thing could be on the Internet via Starlink sitting in Pokrovsk. On December 1st, 2025 was a SL system with Ubi gear attached to it in Pokrovsk being operated by Russia or Ukraine? There’s literally no way for Ubi or anyone else to know.
As for Ubi doing more if you read the whole article you’ll find that more than a few of these bad distributors HAVE been caught and shut down across the globe which almost certainly means that Ubi is helping at some level.
In short the article looks bad but when you start breaking down the individual points it quickly falls apart, especially when the media company behind it has a monetary interest in sinking Ubiquiti’s stock.
- Comment on Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War 3 weeks ago:
Nah, according to the article this is mostly the WISP type stuff, particularly the Power and Nano beam products meant for Long Range Point to Point / Multi Point connections. This isn’t routers / switches / etc.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft should not have the keys to decrypt Bitlocker ever.
Windows is a closed source and proprietary commercial Operating System. Microsoft is going to do whatever they like with it. If enough people get angry about an issue they may change their mind but that doesn’t change the nature of Microsoft’s ownership over their products.
I’ve been participating in discussion about what Microsoft should and shouldn’t do since the late 80s and it pretty much boils down to this: You need to select and use software that works the way you want it to. So if you don’t want MS to have your disk encryption key then don’t use Windows. If you don’t want MS to have access to your documents then don’t put them on any system that MS has control over.
It can be terrible inconvenient to protect your data in this way but this part and parcel of the privacy movement.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
It may seem that way but I’m really not. An encryption key is just data. It’s critical security data to be sure but it’s still data and like other data you shouldn’t share anything that you wouldn’t want made public.
Don’t want MS to cough up your data when asked? Then don’t give it to them. In regards to your BL key that means storing it another way, such as on a jump drive or printing it out.
In the end if you have data of any type that you absolutely DO NOT want made public then you need to retain that data locally. If that means leaving the Microsoft or any other ecosystem then that’s the price that needs paid for keeping your data under your control.
This is the foundation of the entire privacy movement.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
The encryption key is data, don’t give it to ANYONE. “Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
The word “Gave” is really doing some heavy lifting in that title. Microsoft produced the keys in response to a warrant as required by law.
If you don’t want a company, any company, to produce your data when given a warrant then you can’t give the company that data. At all. Ever.
Not fast food joints, not Uber, not YouTube, not even the grocery store.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 4 weeks ago:
It’s easy to do. Mine is a reolink piped through Home Assistant.