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barsquid ,

Get fucked, Meta.

barsquid ,

Subscribe to the sex bot you paid for to activate it, and it's still whispering ads in your ear while you ride it.

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be "more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence."...

barsquid ,

There needs to be a fine far larger than the contract to have any hope of curtailing this behavior.

The people making the decisions should be in jail. I don't know if this is fraud in the legal sense but this is literally fraudulent behavior.

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You had to log your time to the minute? I would quit instantly if my job got down to 5m increments, fuck that shit. Sounds like it is a former job so you made the right decision getting out of there.

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This company is doomed lol. Fucking dimwits.

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Nepo babies understand each other's need to suck money from people who produce the value.

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Content creators should move to a platform that isn't pushing far-right radicalization to kids watching video game streamers if they'd like me to pay for a premium account.

barsquid ,

Oh, bundling. I thought societies were pleased to get rid of cable bundling, why is it coming back?

barsquid ,

TIL I should be posting hundreds of AI-generated long form video essays to reddit.

barsquid ,

Why are the things people are paying YouTube for not on topic when discussing payments to YouTube?

barsquid ,

Well, damn, there goes that idea.

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Oh. Donald must have bought some Bitcoins so it is time to pump for a dump.

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This is it. He had a taste of pump and dump securities fraud with the SPAC. He has spotted a new scam.

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Do I want Waterfox or LibreWolf?

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Help! Universities are silencing regressives!

barsquid ,

How I wish that were true.

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I do enjoy seeing a horse rocketing off into the stratosphere or using the skeletal animation from a bipedal NPC.

barsquid ,

No, that one will have my full consent.

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To be fair to you, you don't have a photo library of millions of children from infant to teen to train your neurons on.

barsquid ,

I am an idiot.

barsquid ,

A thin-skinned and extremely fragile clown.

barsquid ,

I don't know if this explains the entire price but we have all seen his securities fraud on Twitter.

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Council of sheepdogs to decide if foxes are criminally liable for murder or if we should use pinky swears and the honor system.

barsquid ,

Are analog gauges more expensive or they just cannot show ads while the driver is idling?

HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware (www.tomshardware.com)

On May 26, a user on HP's support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

barsquid ,

Are we sure it is the BIOS? Perhaps these people have run out of magenta subpixels or their printer ink subscription has lapsed.

barsquid ,

I have a no HP policy because of their printers and a no Samsung policy because of their TVs.

barsquid ,

I had a stock Debian install actually rename the device for my NIC when I changed GPUs. You should double-check if your NIC has the same entry in /dev with and without the GPU. After I changed the name in some
config files the NIC worked fine with the GPU in, it could be easy as that.

barsquid ,

I read through your screenshot. The ip command has enp3s0 and the config has enp2s0, I think this might be it.

barsquid ,

You should check out the Fedora atomic distros if you haven't already. Making the system work more like a git repo is what they are doing with rpm-ostree. I am liking it a lot.

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I think Samsung is generally considered trash now. I certainly will never buy any of their "smart" objects either, especially not an ad-ridden TV.

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Another reason on my list why to never buy a Tesla.

barsquid ,

Samsung certainly seem very aware of return window timing. 8.5 years is much better!

I wish some of this stuff was more standardized. In an ideal world one should be able to just replace a motor and keep on going. (Like without needing to learn any wiring and so on.)

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

barsquid ,

If you are interested in gaming, Bazzite is built on top of a Fedora distro but adds default installs of Steam and (optional) Nvidia drivers and tweaks. It's got a cool immutable root setup. You should be able to stay pretty up-to-date, but can roll back the entire OS if an update breaks something.

barsquid ,

Even if the database remains local only forever, which I don't believe for a second, the computer will eventually make hyperspecific requests for ads based on the spying.

barsquid ,

I would also suggest not Ubuntu, and instead say you should give Bazzite a try. They are specifically interested in gaming with Steam (they even have a spin for running on Steam Deck). They might have already put in the work troubleshooting the distro with your VR gear.

barsquid ,

They could sell Wyoming to Canada, that'd be alright with me.

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Seriously. It's nearly a sure thing. I should buy on Monday and see how it goes. People are sleepwalking about adtech shit so they'll continue to fly United. There's already a dude in this thread telling people to chill and just don't fly if they don't like it. The ad revenue should be pretty juicy, too. They have a bored captive audience identified by full name and credit card number.

barsquid ,

What's the general consensus on storing encrypted data in the repo with the keys outside? I see people recommend that but I'm too paranoid and my secrets are very small in size so it hasn't been necessary.

barsquid ,

If you don't have a policy of never committing private keys to any repo, you should choose a policy of never transitioning any private repo to public. IMO if you don't choose strict and effective policy with low cognitive burden, you will burn yourself sooner or later.

barsquid ,

That's smart. Anyone trying that should definitely have a machine-generated strong password!

barsquid ,

And .world would be free of all the communists incapable of discriminating between communists and tankies. Everyone wins.

barsquid ,

You better block me as well. I don't know why we should help support Bibi's favorite candidate by doing exactly what Repubs want and voting for someone who barely broke 1% of the popular vote. I guess people really want more far-right theocratic judges who are blatantly unqualified and corrupt?

barsquid ,

The real change that will take place is Project 2025. They are not the ones with their head in the sand.

barsquid ,

SCOTUS is right now still somehow deliberating on whether a president is allowed to Night of the Long Knives or not. SCOTUS is already taking away rights from my friends and neighbors. You may be privileged enough to pretend it won't affect you, I guess.

You think you aren't being heard now, it isn't going to improve under a fascist regime that ends voting with their Project 2025 shit. Have you not been paying attention to how Repubs have dealt with protesters? Yeah, becoming an armed insurgent would be the only option for change remaining once it gets to that point.

That's cool, though, you do you.

barsquid ,

I do think that's a concern this time around. I think the best chance at stopping it is not giving him the legal right to take office, and not giving him a blank check to Long Knife whomever he wants.

Yeah, I guess I see your point also. Assume the country will be attacked either way. Get ready to defend myself if not fight for it. I don't disagree.

I still remain unconvinced that it is a good move to throw a vote away instead of casting it against Donald.

barsquid ,

Thought you were blocking us? Keep helping Bibi's preferred candidate, great work. When the killing accelerates even faster you can pat yourself on the back.

barsquid ,

It is ahistorical to think a third party will win at all with FPTP. Libertarian Gary Johnson had over three times more votes than Stein in 2016 and he only got a bit past 3%. Neither of them had actual EC votes.

The government is not going to trend towards leftism from voting. It is going to trend towards fascism and authoritarianism because the Repubs reliably come out to vote and will vote for someone who already did a putsch and is openly talking about dictatorship and assassinating political opponents. The Dems are going to trend (further) towards fascism chasing the middle voter if they do get another chance.

Plenty of countries have managed to be authoritarian for decades if not longer, but perhaps the regime would be toppled after a period of war. I don't think there's any guarantee an improved government would form out of the rubble from that.

barsquid ,

In a world where the Repubs would also vote rationally it might be the right choice. But they're all in on this guy. They're all in on whoever it is every election. Fox has brainwashed a huge swath of the country. Even worse, the land area gets the voting power instead of the people. So the Dems are only ever going to actually care about the opinions of a few select districts in a few select states.

And I don't think you see as much of a difference between Dems and Repubs as I do, so you view Donald as less of a risk than I do. I think it was a huge disaster 2017-2021 and it would be complete and (this time) irreversible disaster 2025 to whenever. I'm still not sure if 2017 was reversible TBH.

I appreciate the dialogue but I think we've reached the point where our fundamental beliefs about it are just at odds. Neither of us will convince each other to be all the way on the other's position. Let's conclude amicably (I think we were).

(I don't mean to cut you off, if you had closing thoughts to respond with here, I'll read them. But I might not follow up.)

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