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derbis ,

That's funny but I think Son is easily the dumbest billionaire. He's also the bag-holder for the whole WeWork grift. Got more dollars than brain cells.

derbis ,

It's ltsc an option for 11 like it was for 10?

derbis ,

You can disable so-called essential components and I believe it ships without almost any of the bloat. So essentially you could just take one drive out, or not have it in the first place. Or at least that's my hope

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit in the U.S. by giving plaintiffs a share of the company’s potential value, rather than a traditional payout, over lack of liqudity (apnews.com)

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights, a deal that attorneys estimate could be worth more than $50 million....

derbis ,

More like, "they will be offered part of the proceeds of any further watches we steal."

I don't know if I'm personally part of the class, but if I am, as relief I would want an injunction for them to fucking leave me alone, not shares in their operation.

derbis ,

Bye bye any pretext of legitimacy.

derbis ,

I stuck with 7 for an extremely long time under similar reasoning. Like I missed win 8 completely and only got 10 in maybe 2018. And only because I needed a version of directX for work that was unsupported on 7.

And it was the same shit back then. 10 was pulling a lot of the same tricks. Ads, reinstalling candy crush without permission, more bloat and antifeatures.

Eventually a combination of third party tools and understanding of how to keep the garbage at bay made 10 tolerable. And, I guess, now 10 is the semi-reliable legacy alternative to the current shitfest.

Is there a Shutup10 analogue for Windows 11? Or an LTSC? Not looking forward to having to go through that dance again. But I assume the day will come.

derbis ,

I think it's fair to acknowledge that everything is a trade-off, and without downvotes, we have to accept the downsides.

derbis ,

Let's have the authorities force us to eat salad and exercise while we're at it, it's better for us

derbis ,

Meh. You're not just talking about just making it automatic or easy or recommended, but actually forcing everyone to have to go along with it and taking away the option to not do it.

derbis ,

Even at the risk of Microsoft adding more spyware to my machine, reinstalling apps I deliberately uninstalled, reverting privacy settings I set, strongarming me into using their browser, etc? All of which has been reported.

My hardware, my choice.

derbis ,

I'd be fine with what you describe in the second paragraph, but that's not what's meant by "forced." That's opt-out. Forced is what's really objectionable, especially when it's abused, as discussed in the article and elsewhere in these comments.

derbis , (edited )

Lol.

As long as security updates are bundled with antifeature updates, this amounts to "install candy crush or go to jail!"

derbis ,

I'm not sure I follow the last "or" clause, but you can bring the criminal liability to Microsoft if you think it should attach for this reason

derbis ,

No. How about you, are you anti-abortion?

derbis ,

Yes thank you. I'm pretty worried about what happens without this guy. We still have Ed Markey but he's up there too.

Much as a lot of the worst people in government are relics from another time, age discrimination doesn't behoove us, IMO. Some of the best are also the most venerable. I'd take Bernie in a heartbeat.

Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU (support.apple.com)

As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their "platform policies for security and privacy" even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of an EU...

derbis ,

Hate that phrase. Great way to excuse malice.

derbis ,

"...AI" concerns me. I use quotation marks there because what is often referred to as AI today is not whatsoever what the term once described.

Lost me right there. Not only was and is this AI, but the term gets narrower over time, not broader. If you want to go by "what the term once described," you have to include computer vision, text to speech, optical character recognition, behavior trees for video game enemies, etc etc etc.

When I see people complain about calling LLMs "AI," I think the only definition that would satisfy them is "things computers can do that we aren't used to yet."

derbis ,

Oop, wish I'd read this comment before mine. 100% right

derbis ,

How do you short an IPO?

derbis ,

Man I really don't get how discord has become the default for so many things. It's chat. It's persistent, but not in a way that's easy to look through. Like, support forums or discussions about things that aren't just fleeting? Whyyy

derbis ,

Almost always? I have some strong doubts about that. It's just that you don't see articles about "Nothing is particularly going wrong with redd.it"

derbis , (edited )

I was on it back when it was in closed beta and even went to their launch party. People were even saying how much the quality was declining as the closed beta got larger. It's been a shitfest for a while - it seems tailor-made for blowhards to speak authoritatively without having any real authority on an issue.

To react to the article:

most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora

The first one is subjective but the second one isn't - and neither are true.

derbis ,

? Firefox plus ublock origin works fine on the Mac. Unless you mean ios only?

derbis ,

I might even suggest that having an mp3 or other file-based record collection is still in the same vein.

The big departure, imo, is people who don't own their music collections. They rely only on Spotify or Apple or Amazon or whatever and just stream.

One day, when their contracts with the labels or whatever expire, or the service is discontinued, or you move to another country... your collection evaporates. It's happened before.

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