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China starts smartphone inspections to boost 'anti-espionage efforts', raising fears among expatriates and foreign business people about arbitrary enforcement (english.kyodonews.net)

- China implemented new regulations on Monday under its toughened counterespionage law, which enables authorities to inspect smartphones, personal computers and other electronic devices, raising fears among expatriates and foreign businesspeople about possible arbitrary enforcement....

homesweethomeMrL ,

“Raising fears”

Honestly, let’s just abandon journalism to AI since there's obviously no point to having humans doing it.

homesweethomeMrL ,

? . . . as opposed to - ?

homesweethomeMrL ,

Ah! Yes. Hm. Well then . . . where do distributors get theirs from? Not Sony, presumably?

homesweethomeMrL ,

? Did not know that. I assumed they were essentially WORMs but otherwise identical. Do they not use the same laser or something like that?

homesweethomeMrL ,

Wow just like vinyl, sort of huh? That’s fascinating, I never considered it.

homesweethomeMrL ,

before they realized people were still perfectly happy paying $15 for a disc.

Heh, well i dunno about ‘happy’, i mean they did get sued. I think I still have my check for $7 somewhere . . .

homesweethomeMrL ,

I would have loved laserdiscs. The large format for art, all futuristic lookin’ - but all media degrades so maybe M-disc in laserdisc size? We’ll probably have crystal storage before then i guess.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Yes.

And why do we think that might be different? Anyone?

homesweethomeMrL ,

Yes. And why was that?

homesweethomeMrL ,

No, but very men’s rights there.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Also no, but interesting point

homesweethomeMrL ,

¿Que?

homesweethomeMrL ,

No, but that is a compelling narrative.

It’s because men sexually assault women a lot. Like, an awful amount. Children, relatives, the whole thing: 1 out of 3 women have been sexually assaulted. That’s why it’s different.

homesweethomeMrL ,

I don’t know how you mean, but okay.

homesweethomeMrL ,

So close

Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

homesweethomeMrL ,

I hear you. It's been a burutal long slog of putting up with their crap for as-long-as-one-has-done-it no matter when anyone gets out. I made the switch to mac and linux many years ago and after a brief transition period, everything personal-computer-related became wonderful somehow. Well . . . "neat", anyway. Leaving behind extensive and difficult experience with everything from 3.1 to 95, to 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, and 10. (skipped 8 for obvious reasons.) It had its good times but they're long gone. Good riddance. Best of luck to anyone still out there.

homesweethomeMrL ,

I'll try: Way. Bigly. Le chat grande.

Well, you know what I mean.

homesweethomeMrL ,

If they hadn't just completed screwing all the personal users such that everything built up over years was suddenly worse than useless, I'd feel bad for them.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Lets see a big industry leader influencing and directing state forces is called something . . It’s . . agh I was just thinking this the other day . . Oh well. It’s probably not relevant.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Good point, if they’re sending a rocket up there anyway, why not just push it away from earth rather than towards it? Is it because it’s in LEO and there’s a ton of other satellites farther out?

homesweethomeMrL ,

the real story is 100k sites not being run appropriately.

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Much of the modern web is reliant on JavaScript to function.

“function” is doing a lot of lifting there. Trackers, ads, and assorted other bullshit is not the kind of functioning anyone needs.

It’s true the average user gets flummoxed quickly when the scripts are blocked, but they can either sink (eat ads and trackers) or swim (learn what scripts to allow). (Spoiler: they almost always sink)

homesweethomeMrL ,

100% agree. A super-fast text only internet layer is approved.

homesweethomeMrL ,

I invite everybody to find out how everything "mostly" works if you disable "most of" javascript – also have fun deciding which parts to enable because you think they're trustworthy

Having done this for many many years, I can tell you: if you allow the site scripts (which is an acknowledgement of js at least), and a few “big” ones like ajax.google.com, jquery.com, and ytimg.com, etc., you then find a smaller subset of annoying-but-necessary-for-individual-websites that you can enable as needed or just add them as trusted if you’re into that kind of thing.

After that you have the utter garbage sites with 30 scripts of tracking data-sucking bullshit (CNN, looking at you) and for those sites I have said “Thou shalt bite my shiny metal ass” and i just don’t go there.

It’s a concession to js, yes, but it’s also not free rein to trample all over the surfing experience. Totally worth the time to work out.

homesweethomeMrL ,

While you can back it up, at least once you’ve suffered the loss multiple times you can get it 90% back on first re-visit after reinstall.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Yes and no. Promotion is a whole other beast now, not like in the day. But almost everything else - yes! And it’s great. My friend gave me what would have been $100,000 piece of gear in 1985 - because he had two of them.

homesweethomeMrL ,

"Failures of the wiper motor shouldn't come as a surprise," said Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst at Guidehouse Insights.

"This is the largest individual wiper ever used on a light duty vehicle with a 4-foot-long (1.22 meter) blade. That exceptional long lever arm puts a lot of stress on the motor and there have been a lot of anecdotal reports popping up since early in production of failures," he said, adding that the overall build quality of the Cybertruck is "quite poor."

homesweethomeMrL ,

What’s the big deal? Microsoft security is top notch. They totally didn’t get p0vvN3d by russia basically twenty minutes ago and have their source code stolen.

It’s why the US gummit is so happy to use micro$quash services.

And y’know even then, who cares if all your data is stolen by state-sponsored cyber crime groups, y’know? M$ has spared no expense to ensure all that data is secured end-to-end with unbreakable encryption even microsoft can’t read! (snkk) Even if they wanted to!

It’s not like they’ve tricked everyone into being data cattle for their giant cloud-ranching operation, to shovel everything into AI and sell the results to anyone at the highest price possible. I mean. We’d have heard something about that if it was the case.

homesweethomeMrL ,

I mean - I’ve hated them since the 90’s. It’s not a speed run so much as a philosophy. The principles of BOGU.

homesweethomeMrL ,

To be fair, they’re usually actually good at legally fucking everyone into the ground. The rest of the company they don’t really care that much as long as the money printer goes brrrrr

homesweethomeMrL ,

especially not when you're developing for Windows.

Well, obviously. Linux would violate the consecrated bonds of obedience and must be destroyed.

Also there's the issue of NVidia drivers

Yeah there’s that.

and also a lot of pro audio stuff isn't available on Linux.

Mmmm yes and no, but wow you’re wedged in there good, huh. Well . . be safe!

homesweethomeMrL ,

https://seanhoff.medium.com/my-favorite-uncommon-phrase-probably-for-good-reason-comes-from-accounts-ive-read-from-the-early-96e9b9aff4dd

Bend Over and Grease Up. They would buy a company and - essentially destroy them. Take the parts they wanted and throw away the rest. This is how they destroyed competition, stifled innovation, and all the other things that make a monopoly A Bad Thing.

Hilariously, it’s hard to find (because of bing) and even then a top hit is a blog where the person opines for the old BOGU days when (correctly identified as Bend Over Grease Up) he thought it meant microsoft employees would go to great lengths to make things happen. Ha. It . . does not mean that.

Microsoft has been evil from day fucking one.

homesweethomeMrL ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft#Acquisitions

homesweethomeMrL ,

I don’t know that to be true, but if so why has the history of Windows been a continual string of vulnerabilities, hacks, and weak security such as their own cloud service being compromised and their codebase stolen?

That is, if there’s a DoD “version” that’s more secure, couldn’t they make more money selling that? I dunno, they’re dead to me but they’ve never been short of people who want to use them for whatever reason.

homesweethomeMrL ,

When you realize that micro$quash has never not been incredibly scammy and skeezy from the get-go, the modern business landscape makes more sense.

Also, every day is a good day to leave microsoft behind forever.

homesweethomeMrL ,

This is the actual, real, subpoena-the-emails-you’ll-find-it answer.

homesweethomeMrL ,

That’s just science.

homesweethomeMrL ,

UNLEASH! . . . The Power! . . . of . . . Lemons. . . !!

homesweethomeMrL ,

Hey member when google drove around and sopped up everyone’s wifi info and was all like, “What? We found it.” Then they threw it on the pile of data-4-sale and are still drowning in cash from?

Message received and understood! Oh, uh, here’s a couple-hundred-million fine for the uh, imposition. We’ll just leave it on the nightstand.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Yes, they’re evil. Was there a question?

homesweethomeMrL ,

Gimme gimme gimme that transparent shell

homesweethomeMrL ,

Success . . . . yes. Yes that's it.

homesweethomeMrL ,

To be fair, you can be their Platinum Ultra Tier Level Partner or whatever, and they'll still not reply to you for a week. And when you get the reply it looks like it was written by ChatGPT anyway, and says nothing.

homesweethomeMrL ,

The new thing is shitting on the graves of Big Oil ancestors. On TikTok, obviously.

The outrage it provokes will undoubtedly solve the climate crisis. And, worse case scenario, people film themselves defecating on a grave. Which is snif so brave

homesweethomeMrL ,

“Microsoft just said they couldn’t reproduce it without providing any details,” Koroin told TechCrunch in an online chat. “Microsoft might have noticed my tweet because a few hours ago they reopen [sic] one of my reports that I had submitted several months ago.”

lol

homesweethomeMrL ,

AI so bad it can’t get your burger order right.

No wonder people are sinking hundreds of billions into it. As opposed to, say, education.

homesweethomeMrL ,

It’s one of those mysteries. Maybe we should ask an educated person.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Eh......AI messes my order. Some dumbass teenager messes up my order. Whats the difference?

I mean, I can think of a couple.

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