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jqubed , 2 days ago to Technology in NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks

As long as they didn’t bring any whistles with them they’ll be fine!

jqubed , 2 days ago to Technology in Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws

I saw they were also used by companies like DoorDash, Uber, and UpWork to verify remote contractors.

jqubed , 2 days ago to New Communities in Woof

There are more upvotes on this post than subscribers to the new community. I think we’ll need to see some posts first!

jqubed , 2 days ago to Privacy in Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register

I look forward to the lawsuits that will ultimately cost this man his job.

jqubed , 3 days ago to Technology in EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software

Chevy Bolt EV/EUV

jqubed , 11 days ago to Technology in The return of pneumatic tubes

They do make slides shaped like toilet bowls

jqubed , 12 days ago to Technology in The return of pneumatic tubes

The headline is a bit wrong: the tubes don’t seem to be returning, it’s mostly talking about an industry they never left: hospitals. They are fancier now, though.

jqubed , 14 days ago to Technology in Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure

The privacy-focused Swiss email provider

jqubed , 25 days ago to Technology in How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing

I think a perfect example of this is email. We used to pay for email; it came with our Internet service. Then they started offering free email services that would show banner ads in a webpage. Kind of annoying but good for people who didn’t have regular access to email in the dialup days, or eventually we realized it was convenient so we didn’t have to change our email everywhere each time we changed our ISP. Then Google started actually scanning our emails to give more relevant ads. They were less obtrusive, but we were giving up more, but we also got a lot more email storage in return and it seemed okay. Now most people use a free email for their primary. Our ISP (probably) still offers an email address with a small storage option, but who still uses that? People gradually gave it up without realizing what they gave up. Now it seems like you have to pay even more on top of your Internet access to actually get email privacy.

jqubed , 27 days ago to Technology in Privacy tool

I literally just found out about O&O ShutUp10++ and in the same post other commenters recommended Optimizer and privacy.sexy.

jqubed , 28 days ago to Selfhosted in SMB, FTP, or NFS for NAS + server?

I can’t comment on Linux, but IIRC SMB was best for situations needing both Mac and Windows, so I’d guess that’s the choice. Totally off memory, though.

jqubed , 1 month ago to Technology in RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time

Is that a project to bring back AIM?

jqubed , 1 month ago to Technology in RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time

Maybe someone in the art department keeps a Windows 98 VM setup specifically for these tech obituaries for programs and services people thought were long dead. I don’t think I’ve used AIM/ICQ/MSN Messenger since around 2007/2008, and it was because it had become pretty dead.

jqubed , 1 month ago to Technology in Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you

I clearly am a heathen because I’ve never even heard of TempleOS

jqubed , 1 month ago to Technology in Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you

Which is why those license agreements generally had a clause that if you disagreed you could return the software with all the media for a full refund.

I’m not saying it’s the right way, just that’s how it’s been structured legally. Of course, in the days of physical media with software that couldn’t phone home it was harder to enforce those licenses if people didn’t strictly adhere to them. The software companies didn’t generally find it worth going after individuals if they found out about violations either. Corporations, on the other hand… I worked once at a media company that Adobe caught running a lot of unlicensed software. The story went that it was so bad at the main office their auditors found a copy of After Effects or something similarly ridiculous on a computer that was used as a cash register in the corporate cafeteria. That was very much worth Adobe’s time and money to get the lawyers involved, and became a very expensive problem for my employer. I wasn’t involved in the problem, but I had to check and clean my local office, where we found about a half-dozen computers with unlicensed software.