ArmchairAce1944
@ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 21 hours ago:
I have had open office installed on my computer since 2008. While back then word wasn’t complete shit I was still using it for many years. But now there is nothing Libre office has that word doesn’t so fuck MS office.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 days ago:
That’s why I said ‘they won’t immediately know’ I never said they will never know or never have that information. The way how the system works today is that the best thing that can be done is try to be noise in the system than anonymous.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 3 days ago:
Btw for anonymity it is critical. While it will never make it anonymous, they want you to connect to the internet for your activation so they can register your device and the ID you used to sign up for it.
By bypassing all that they won’t immediately know who owned it through whatever machine IDs computers have on them.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 4 days ago:
Good thing I am no longer on it. Going forward if I ever get a new laptop I am going to setup linux mint (or another distro) on it right away, thus activating it without it. Being connected to the internet in the first place.
- Comment on get out of my head 1 week ago:
Goatsy!
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
laughs in MS-DOS
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
I bought a 64gb desktop in late 2024, in addition to many other expensive features. They can kiss my ass.
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 2 weeks ago:
I studied coding for a while (and it has been a while since I punched in code), but I never coded a virus. I am hesitant to ask an LLM to do it since I have no idea if it’ll work, and I also need to test it to see if it works first. Not sure if I have any sacrificial electronics to do that.
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 2 weeks ago:
That was literally how Skygack, the first ever sci-fi comic, worked.
- Comment on Hey Grok 2 weeks ago:
Eat lead, murderer!
- Comment on Hey Grok 2 weeks ago:
Haha!
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 2 weeks ago:
It is kinda insane. I mean if someone was standing outside their window with a notepad writing down everything they see and hear people would be creeped the fuck out. But put a camera there and the same asshole is sitting on a computer desk in a different city they are ok with?
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 2 weeks ago:
Again? How insecure are these things? I am honestly wondering how easy it would be to get into one and shut down the entire system.
- Comment on Careful, he's a hero 2 weeks ago:
But the one we want to hear about…m
- Comment on Lasagna 2 weeks ago:
Nope. Last I checked around yesterday he’s still around. He is 80. Old but not impossibly old.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 3 weeks ago:
What the hell is a foreign illegal stream?
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 4 weeks ago:
And only when their names are Sharon.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact, vibrators were invented as a ‘medical’ tool to aid women.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 4 weeks ago:
Basically a VR space that Mark Zuckerberg thought was going to be the new internet and everyone will do their stuff there while wearing a VR headset and represented by an on screen avatar.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 4 weeks ago:
So long… never knew you.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 4 weeks ago:
That’s why this invasive tech is criminal. Just plain criminal.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 4 weeks ago:
I dont even vacuum. I get on my knees and clean my floors by hand.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 4 weeks ago:
Haha! This us why i never ask it to do anything serious.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 4 weeks ago:
They denied your passport? That is like literally the highest level of ID you can present! Holy fuck!
- Comment on Holy Fu*k 4 weeks ago:
There was a time when people online prided themselves on being super foul mouthed…
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 4 weeks ago:
Yes, like the farting monkey i made who uses his farts as a means of jet propulsion… the art world will never be the same.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 4 weeks ago:
I will be a happy man if they also lost all data and all chats permanently… meaning my chats are gone. Not that that I said anything embarrassing, but I like my privacy.
If you want to know, some of the things I asked chatgpt were sarcastic questions like ‘why won’t Bill Gates buy me lunch?’ Or ‘how do you know i am not Jack the ripper?’ Or ‘write a scenario where Mr. Bean joins the bomb squad and is tasked with disarming a bomb left by thr unabomber?’
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 weeks ago:
I think people don’t realize just how dangerous this shit is until they have been affected in some noticeable way, and even then they will not link just how the incredible amount of surveillance they are under every day is the cause of it.
I worked in tech support for 7 years, and one thing that will never cease to astonish me is how tech illiterate people are. Do you have any idea how many people called me and demanded that I make modifications to their account and refused to tell me any verifying questions? While some might have been malicious actors , most aren’t. Most of them were genuinely expecting me to do everything for them and they wouldn’t even tell me what their name is.
Some of them called me on a number not recognized by the system but they fully expected me to pull up their account (fucking how?) Without any information at all.
When you have worked in this field long enough you will know why there is so little effective opposition to all this shit. It is not just because they dont give a damn if we are literally in a 1984 scenario with active cameras and microphones in people’s homes, but they just dont understand what that really means. Even younger people who grew up with these devices from early childhood don’t fully understand just how much they are being observed. If anything Gen Z and Gen Alpha are more fucked since they are the first generation of people whom the algorithms and data brokers have had some profile on since early childhood.
As an elder millennial who grew up in a techie family with computers from childhood. I am fortunate in that they have nothing on me from early childhood to teen years. By the time I hit 20 the internet was still too chaotic and underdeveloped and algorithms weren’t the norm yet (and I was never a Google guy to begin with). But people born within the last 10 years can’t have that privilege.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 weeks ago:
The UK experienced a major data breach with all their government info from their ID checks not long after the law kicked in. How many fucking data breaches do we need before people catch on?
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 weeks ago:
When you are carded at a club the staff doesn’t scan your card and keep it on file. They simply look at it and return it.
As someone who worked similar jobs and would have had to look at tons of IDs every day I can assure, I dont have the time or interest in remembering all of them.