When I leave comments now, I right-click the post time on the comment and "open in a private window." If I don't seem my comment highlighted, I know it's been blocked or spam-filtered, either by the creator or by YouTube. I then delete and re-issue my comment with modifications until it posts. Oddly, deleted/orphaned comments are still counted in comment counts.
Exactly this. And besides, the walled garden approach to program security is no better than the open source concept of "under enough eyes, all bugs are shallow." It assumes enough eyes, enough time, enough knowledge, and enough resources to find all possible problems with a piece of code, but the real world is not even close to such ideals. Thousands of apps make it through with abusive code inside, even in Apple's walled garden! You may have somewhat lower risk of installing an abusive app from a walled garden with lots of resources behind it, but the risk doesn't go away (not even close!) and in the case of true walled gardens that have no exit toggle, you're essentially giving up your freedom to run anything you want for a marginal increase in safety that still leaves thousands of threats within a few clicks' reach.
It is not freedom to "choose to not be free." On the PC, gaming has several stores available such as Steam and Origin, but those are different from the Apple App Store and Chrome Web Store and Windows Store in that they're marketplaces you can choose to be involved with or choose to have nothing to do with. The aforementioned "stores" come with lockdown that blocks all competition on the hardware it runs on, including competition that the user might want to access. There is a huge difference between a user choosing to tick a box that only allows trusted apps from the walled garden and a user not having that choice at all. I'm all for user choice, but when that choice is the application equivalent of anti-vaxxers in that it results in forced walled gardens becoming normalized, you're damn straight I'm going to put a foot down and say my piece.
What are you even talking about? Where did I say that I "want the government to prevent you from offering a secure/controlled platform that users can be free to purchase or not" exactly? There is a serious reading comprehension problem in this thread.
I know this little spate probably won't help tear them apart, but this sort of thing totally activates my inner desire to see all of these stupid walled gardens torn down. We used to have general-purpose computing where if you owned a piece of hardware, you could put any software you wanted to on it and no one else could stop you. Now we see Apple's iOS walled garden firmly entrenched and macOS tightening the screws in small increments with each OS update to move in that direction, plus Microsoft trying to coerce people into walled gardens with Windows 10 S Mode and even with some of the SmartScreen options. Android and Linux are the only places that are generally free from the dangers of these walled gardens that lock users out of using their own hardware as they see fit. Wouldn't it be great if these big corporations got in a childish feud that resulted in tearing down the walls of their walled gardens?
Last I checked, most of what we use today is either a direct copy of or influenced by UNIX from Bell Labs. If APIs are copyrightable and copyrights last at least 70 years, it seems to me that almost every modern OS and program is likely to be violating the copyrights of whoever owns that chunk of Bell Labs now...including Oracle. APIs must not be allowed to fall under copyright law; it's the computer equivalent of copyrighting a bunch of basic words and phrases, or 70+-year-patenting the classic box-end wrench. Can you imagine the clusterfuck if EVERYONE had to re-invent not just the wheel, but the whole car, by law?
I refuse to buy a phone without a 3.5mm jack and SD card slot. Removing either of those is extremely user-hostile and based solely in corporate greed. The argument about people wanting thinner phones is total bullshit. No one really cares if their phone is 0.2mm thinner. People want longer battery life, ease of use, and a phone that doesn't bend to the curve of their hipster asses in their back pockets. People do NOT want to carry overpriced USB Type-C dongles with third party manufacturer lock-out (and potential future DRM lockdown inconveniences a la HDCP) everywhere, nor do they want to carry a different set of headphones for phone and non-phone use. I also seriously doubt that Sennheiser is going to produce USB Type-C professional headphones anytime soon.
Plus, it'll be really hard to use my TRRS-plugged card reader for my credit card processor if I don't have such a jack on my phone.
I never said they gave a damn. A lot of people are stuck with Windows 10 through no fault of their own. I offered up the voodoo for those people; it doesn't excuse Microsoft being a hot mess. We don't live in an ideal world. We live in the real world, with real problems that we can't ever hope to get ideal fixes for, so we do what we can with what we have.
Windows 10 with compactos enabled and the program files folders manually compacted with/EXE:LZX uses something like 9GB total; then add pagefile, swapfile, hiberfile and whatever is in the Users folders. Base Win10 can be cut down pretty far if you know what you're doing, especially if you're dropping to PowerShell and using Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage to toss out all the extra non-store non-important crap like ZuneMusic and ZuneVideo and OneNote and People that are all otherwise non-removable. Toss in a generous dose of admin-run cleanmgr and a little "dism/online/cleanup-image/startcomponentcleanup/resetbase" to discard all update uninstallers and backup files and you'll have a neatly trimmed system. I've gotten a "32GB" (29.8 GiB minus boot/recovery partitions = more like 28.5 GiB) to have about 14 GiB of free space with all the things mentioned above, no user data, and no software installed.
It's possible to reduce this further by turning off paging, hibernation, and fast startup (which should lose all three of those big hidden special files I mentioned) but there are several reasons you probably should not do those things unless you're ready for extra grey hair.
With newer Win10 builds they're shoving an 800GB recovery partition at the end of the disk; you can delete this in diskpart or Linux, expand the main partition in Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) to suck up the extra free space, then in an admin command prompt go "reagentc/enable" to have Windows fix recovery mode by putting the recovery files in the main Windows partition instead, reclaiming a decent amount of unused space and overhead in the now-gone recovery partition.
Of course, once the machine is in the hands of someone that can't babysit the toddler that is Windows 10, it's going to fill up faster than you can say "how big were hard drives in 1992 again?" and Microsoft will rape Nanking way too hard, where Nanking is the name of your capacity-free HP Stream 11.
"Even on Slashdot, If I posted an obviously abusive message inviting people to someone's address for sex, it would quickly get modded to oblivion" - and there it is. A platform can't be held responsible for content it doesn't know is a problem yet. In your hypothetical, actions were taken that could bring attention to the content. It's not unlike the road system: no matter what precautions and laws are in place, the authorities can't do anything about problems on the system that they have not been informed of. They can patrol and install cameras, but someone has to interpret the cameras and drive the patrol cars; those resources are finite, and they're necessarily massively scarce relative to the size of the system. A dating site is no different.
"For a dating site not to have precautions in place (such as a compulsory "escrow" service for contacting partners and a credible mechanism for stopping people posting their locations) is grossly irresponsible" - okay, so how exactly would you implement this and how would you make it as foolproof as possible to be "responsible?" The site caters to adults. The site allows messaging between those adults. The adults should take personal responsibility for the things they post. What is this "escrow" service you're talking about? They already have to go through the app to find each other. Stopping people from posting their locations is not possible because there will always be a way to code it. On Craigslist personals, they rigged it so you couldn't post any phone numbers, so people started posting "jingle me up Nine 1four 5 fivefive three 0 zero oh" and any human could easily figure out the intended phone number; for website spammers they started posting "Come see me Casual AdultButts... COM"
Come on, you're the one who is demanding that platforms used by adults be able to filter things. Let's hear all about your well thought out system that wouldn't enable such bad behavior yet leaves the site in a usable state. It seems like you could make a lot of money if you could come up with that system, so I'm sure you already have done so. Give us the details, man, the details!
This isn't a markup, it's a middleman fee skimmed off the top. The two things are very different. 30% markup means Netflix gets 30% more than something cost them; a 30% fee means Netflix loses 30% of the subscription fee. Netflix presumably set their standard subscription rate to a price that enabled their business to sustain modest growth; 30% deducted from it could result in losses instead. How would your household work if you suddenly started not receiving 30% of your gross income?
It's not the same thing as if you're buying pants for your in-game character. Netflix is already a subscription service that exists outside of the Apple ecosystem. The Netflix app just lets you access that existing subscription.
If they hadn't fucked up the Final Cut Pro suite with FCPX, they might not have had problems selling Mac Pros, especially since Adobe went subscription and doesn't seem to care about any of the plights of its paying customers. The trashcan form factor was a stupid move, but it only mirrors the stupid move that was FCPX. Even today, many professionals stubbornly edit on FCP7 or use FCPX with a huge grudge. FCPX is basically nothing more than an iMovie on steroids and that dumb magnetic timeline emphasizes the point all too well. Heaven help you if you're naive enough to buy an iMac Pro and want to do something it's supposed to be able to do using "official" Apple solutions.
GIMP (even 2.8.22) has a single-window mode that docks the two main toolboxes and solves the stupid floating toolbox annoyance that no one has ever liked. Unfortunately, single-window mode is not the default; you must go to the Window menu and check it...which means you have to know it's there to be checked.
New Win10 machines have ACPI 5.0 (or some AMD chips' AGESA with the same effect) which doesn't work with Windows 7 and no option to use the older styles. OR they have UEFI with no CSM or with CSM boot crippled. OR they have hardware for which drivers aren't being put out for Win7. OR they have hardware which Microsoft has decided is arbitrarily not allowed to run Win7 and does what they can to frustrate such usage via updates when a user is successful in installing it.
Yeah, what a shock. Hardware fails as it ages and must be replaced with new hardware. Your new OS is an objectively worse system all-around except for a few kernel/driver improvements (native XHCI and UAS and direct support for USB booting) that could easily have been backported and a few multi-monitor improvements, but it has that big fat milk teat called "Windows Store" that you can use to milk wallets in your own Apple-esque walled garden of bloated misaligned Electron-style apps. Do everything you possibly can to force people who need to get new hardware for any reason onto your new platform even though the old one is still supported for two more years and OF COURSE the market share will increase over time.
Windows 10 is an abomination. As soon as Bill Gates left the company, it all went to pot. Windows 7 was not perfect at all, but it's what I use whenever possible because the Windows 8+ era took all the fundamentals of proper user interface design and chucked them right out the window in favor of a UI race to the bottom that functions everywhere and is useful nowhere.
Worse yet, you have these brats that think all that glitters is gold that listen to someone like me going off about Windows 10 and declare that I'm just mad because I can't keep up and that I need to get with the times and that Windows 10 is feature-packed ooh shiny awesome stuff and I have no idea what I'm talking about. Tell you what, junior: open a File Explorer window, find a folder eight levels deep on your C: drive, and bang out the keyboard shortcut to make a new folder. I'll time you. Wait, you don't know any keyboard shortcuts and what's a folder and why do I own a 3D printed save icon? Get off my lawn and go back to your shitty tablet.
I, for one, definitely want to be in an underground bunker when millions of gallons of water cover the land above me. There's no way that could go wrong. If it does, I'll just hop in my plugsuit and go beat up the weird-looking fleshy robot monsters impeding my survival.
There is also nothing at all that guarantees they'll actually DO the build-out, much less do it in rural areas that are unserved. Major carriers get literal billions from the government solely to build out service in unserved areas and they don't do it. Rather, they don't serve an area, a small competitor ISP starts dropping fiber in the ground in that area, and LIKE MAGIC, the big ISP that gets billions in tax dollars to build out to unserved areas has the funds and desire to build out to that area that's about to be served by the small competitor. But the ten houses two miles down the road and 2000 feet down a gravel driveway? Fuck 'em, the hillbillies, they don't get our tax-funded build-out that the government intended to be for them! These rural build-out agreements with telecoms clearly hold no teeth. The government is literally paying tax money to huge companies to keep small companies from competing with them.
You're already paying the fuckers! CenturyLink is being paid $500 MILLION in tax money yearly for rural broadband expansion and they're only using it to cover areas that someone else covers already so they can stifle competition, completely ignoring unserved areas. The rationale behind municipal broadband bans is that it's unfair to compete with the government because they have tax authority, yet they gladly take tax money and use it to be anti-competitive. NO MORE TAX MONEY TO BIG ISPs!
I work in text terminals all the time, so it makes a lot more sense to me to standardize on it. If you have the luxury of not doing SSH all the time, it probably makes more sense to pick something that takes advantage of the GUI paradigm better.
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When I leave comments now, I right-click the post time on the comment and "open in a private window." If I don't seem my comment highlighted, I know it's been blocked or spam-filtered, either by the creator or by YouTube. I then delete and re-issue my comment with modifications until it posts. Oddly, deleted/orphaned comments are still counted in comment counts.
Exactly this. And besides, the walled garden approach to program security is no better than the open source concept of "under enough eyes, all bugs are shallow." It assumes enough eyes, enough time, enough knowledge, and enough resources to find all possible problems with a piece of code, but the real world is not even close to such ideals. Thousands of apps make it through with abusive code inside, even in Apple's walled garden! You may have somewhat lower risk of installing an abusive app from a walled garden with lots of resources behind it, but the risk doesn't go away (not even close!) and in the case of true walled gardens that have no exit toggle, you're essentially giving up your freedom to run anything you want for a marginal increase in safety that still leaves thousands of threats within a few clicks' reach.
Huawei and Cisco’s Source Code: Correcting the Record. Can't believe that they bothered copying a strcmp.c file!
It is not freedom to "choose to not be free." On the PC, gaming has several stores available such as Steam and Origin, but those are different from the Apple App Store and Chrome Web Store and Windows Store in that they're marketplaces you can choose to be involved with or choose to have nothing to do with. The aforementioned "stores" come with lockdown that blocks all competition on the hardware it runs on, including competition that the user might want to access. There is a huge difference between a user choosing to tick a box that only allows trusted apps from the walled garden and a user not having that choice at all. I'm all for user choice, but when that choice is the application equivalent of anti-vaxxers in that it results in forced walled gardens becoming normalized, you're damn straight I'm going to put a foot down and say my piece.
What are you even talking about? Where did I say that I "want the government to prevent you from offering a secure/controlled platform that users can be free to purchase or not" exactly? There is a serious reading comprehension problem in this thread.
I know this little spate probably won't help tear them apart, but this sort of thing totally activates my inner desire to see all of these stupid walled gardens torn down. We used to have general-purpose computing where if you owned a piece of hardware, you could put any software you wanted to on it and no one else could stop you. Now we see Apple's iOS walled garden firmly entrenched and macOS tightening the screws in small increments with each OS update to move in that direction, plus Microsoft trying to coerce people into walled gardens with Windows 10 S Mode and even with some of the SmartScreen options. Android and Linux are the only places that are generally free from the dangers of these walled gardens that lock users out of using their own hardware as they see fit. Wouldn't it be great if these big corporations got in a childish feud that resulted in tearing down the walls of their walled gardens?
Incorrect: VHS was at least as good, if not very slightly better, in terms of picture quality.
Last I checked, most of what we use today is either a direct copy of or influenced by UNIX from Bell Labs. If APIs are copyrightable and copyrights last at least 70 years, it seems to me that almost every modern OS and program is likely to be violating the copyrights of whoever owns that chunk of Bell Labs now...including Oracle. APIs must not be allowed to fall under copyright law; it's the computer equivalent of copyrighting a bunch of basic words and phrases, or 70+-year-patenting the classic box-end wrench. Can you imagine the clusterfuck if EVERYONE had to re-invent not just the wheel, but the whole car, by law?
I can satisfy a girl with 3.5 inches. Plastic fantastic, baby.
I refuse to buy a phone without a 3.5mm jack and SD card slot. Removing either of those is extremely user-hostile and based solely in corporate greed. The argument about people wanting thinner phones is total bullshit. No one really cares if their phone is 0.2mm thinner. People want longer battery life, ease of use, and a phone that doesn't bend to the curve of their hipster asses in their back pockets. People do NOT want to carry overpriced USB Type-C dongles with third party manufacturer lock-out (and potential future DRM lockdown inconveniences a la HDCP) everywhere, nor do they want to carry a different set of headphones for phone and non-phone use. I also seriously doubt that Sennheiser is going to produce USB Type-C professional headphones anytime soon.
Plus, it'll be really hard to use my TRRS-plugged card reader for my credit card processor if I don't have such a jack on my phone.
Because MongoDB is web scale.
I never said they gave a damn. A lot of people are stuck with Windows 10 through no fault of their own. I offered up the voodoo for those people; it doesn't excuse Microsoft being a hot mess. We don't live in an ideal world. We live in the real world, with real problems that we can't ever hope to get ideal fixes for, so we do what we can with what we have.
Windows 10 with compactos enabled and the program files folders manually compacted with /EXE:LZX uses something like 9GB total; then add pagefile, swapfile, hiberfile and whatever is in the Users folders. Base Win10 can be cut down pretty far if you know what you're doing, especially if you're dropping to PowerShell and using Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage to toss out all the extra non-store non-important crap like ZuneMusic and ZuneVideo and OneNote and People that are all otherwise non-removable. Toss in a generous dose of admin-run cleanmgr and a little "dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup /resetbase" to discard all update uninstallers and backup files and you'll have a neatly trimmed system. I've gotten a "32GB" (29.8 GiB minus boot/recovery partitions = more like 28.5 GiB) to have about 14 GiB of free space with all the things mentioned above, no user data, and no software installed.
/enable" to have Windows fix recovery mode by putting the recovery files in the main Windows partition instead, reclaiming a decent amount of unused space and overhead in the now-gone recovery partition.
It's possible to reduce this further by turning off paging, hibernation, and fast startup (which should lose all three of those big hidden special files I mentioned) but there are several reasons you probably should not do those things unless you're ready for extra grey hair.
With newer Win10 builds they're shoving an 800GB recovery partition at the end of the disk; you can delete this in diskpart or Linux, expand the main partition in Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) to suck up the extra free space, then in an admin command prompt go "reagentc
Of course, once the machine is in the hands of someone that can't babysit the toddler that is Windows 10, it's going to fill up faster than you can say "how big were hard drives in 1992 again?" and Microsoft will rape Nanking way too hard, where Nanking is the name of your capacity-free HP Stream 11.
"Even on Slashdot, If I posted an obviously abusive message inviting people to someone's address for sex, it would quickly get modded to oblivion" - and there it is. A platform can't be held responsible for content it doesn't know is a problem yet. In your hypothetical, actions were taken that could bring attention to the content. It's not unlike the road system: no matter what precautions and laws are in place, the authorities can't do anything about problems on the system that they have not been informed of. They can patrol and install cameras, but someone has to interpret the cameras and drive the patrol cars; those resources are finite, and they're necessarily massively scarce relative to the size of the system. A dating site is no different.
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"For a dating site not to have precautions in place (such as a compulsory "escrow" service for contacting partners and a credible mechanism for stopping people posting their locations) is grossly irresponsible" - okay, so how exactly would you implement this and how would you make it as foolproof as possible to be "responsible?" The site caters to adults. The site allows messaging between those adults. The adults should take personal responsibility for the things they post. What is this "escrow" service you're talking about? They already have to go through the app to find each other. Stopping people from posting their locations is not possible because there will always be a way to code it. On Craigslist personals, they rigged it so you couldn't post any phone numbers, so people started posting "jingle me up Nine 1four 5 fivefive three 0 zero oh" and any human could easily figure out the intended phone number; for website spammers they started posting "Come see me Casual AdultButts
Come on, you're the one who is demanding that platforms used by adults be able to filter things. Let's hear all about your well thought out system that wouldn't enable such bad behavior yet leaves the site in a usable state. It seems like you could make a lot of money if you could come up with that system, so I'm sure you already have done so. Give us the details, man, the details!
This isn't a markup, it's a middleman fee skimmed off the top. The two things are very different. 30% markup means Netflix gets 30% more than something cost them; a 30% fee means Netflix loses 30% of the subscription fee. Netflix presumably set their standard subscription rate to a price that enabled their business to sustain modest growth; 30% deducted from it could result in losses instead. How would your household work if you suddenly started not receiving 30% of your gross income?
It's not the same thing as if you're buying pants for your in-game character. Netflix is already a subscription service that exists outside of the Apple ecosystem. The Netflix app just lets you access that existing subscription.
If they hadn't fucked up the Final Cut Pro suite with FCPX, they might not have had problems selling Mac Pros, especially since Adobe went subscription and doesn't seem to care about any of the plights of its paying customers. The trashcan form factor was a stupid move, but it only mirrors the stupid move that was FCPX. Even today, many professionals stubbornly edit on FCP7 or use FCPX with a huge grudge. FCPX is basically nothing more than an iMovie on steroids and that dumb magnetic timeline emphasizes the point all too well. Heaven help you if you're naive enough to buy an iMac Pro and want to do something it's supposed to be able to do using "official" Apple solutions.
GIMP (even 2.8.22) has a single-window mode that docks the two main toolboxes and solves the stupid floating toolbox annoyance that no one has ever liked. Unfortunately, single-window mode is not the default; you must go to the Window menu and check it...which means you have to know it's there to be checked.
Git the hell out of here. (Spelling is correct.)
New Win10 machines have ACPI 5.0 (or some AMD chips' AGESA with the same effect) which doesn't work with Windows 7 and no option to use the older styles. OR they have UEFI with no CSM or with CSM boot crippled. OR they have hardware for which drivers aren't being put out for Win7. OR they have hardware which Microsoft has decided is arbitrarily not allowed to run Win7 and does what they can to frustrate such usage via updates when a user is successful in installing it.
Yeah, what a shock. Hardware fails as it ages and must be replaced with new hardware. Your new OS is an objectively worse system all-around except for a few kernel/driver improvements (native XHCI and UAS and direct support for USB booting) that could easily have been backported and a few multi-monitor improvements, but it has that big fat milk teat called "Windows Store" that you can use to milk wallets in your own Apple-esque walled garden of bloated misaligned Electron-style apps. Do everything you possibly can to force people who need to get new hardware for any reason onto your new platform even though the old one is still supported for two more years and OF COURSE the market share will increase over time.
Windows 10 is an abomination. As soon as Bill Gates left the company, it all went to pot. Windows 7 was not perfect at all, but it's what I use whenever possible because the Windows 8+ era took all the fundamentals of proper user interface design and chucked them right out the window in favor of a UI race to the bottom that functions everywhere and is useful nowhere.
Worse yet, you have these brats that think all that glitters is gold that listen to someone like me going off about Windows 10 and declare that I'm just mad because I can't keep up and that I need to get with the times and that Windows 10 is feature-packed ooh shiny awesome stuff and I have no idea what I'm talking about. Tell you what, junior: open a File Explorer window, find a folder eight levels deep on your C: drive, and bang out the keyboard shortcut to make a new folder. I'll time you. Wait, you don't know any keyboard shortcuts and what's a folder and why do I own a 3D printed save icon? Get off my lawn and go back to your shitty tablet.
I, for one, definitely want to be in an underground bunker when millions of gallons of water cover the land above me. There's no way that could go wrong. If it does, I'll just hop in my plugsuit and go beat up the weird-looking fleshy robot monsters impeding my survival.
There is also nothing at all that guarantees they'll actually DO the build-out, much less do it in rural areas that are unserved. Major carriers get literal billions from the government solely to build out service in unserved areas and they don't do it. Rather, they don't serve an area, a small competitor ISP starts dropping fiber in the ground in that area, and LIKE MAGIC, the big ISP that gets billions in tax dollars to build out to unserved areas has the funds and desire to build out to that area that's about to be served by the small competitor. But the ten houses two miles down the road and 2000 feet down a gravel driveway? Fuck 'em, the hillbillies, they don't get our tax-funded build-out that the government intended to be for them! These rural build-out agreements with telecoms clearly hold no teeth. The government is literally paying tax money to huge companies to keep small companies from competing with them.
And then you got the trashcan Mac Pro. I guess it's spherical in two dimensions, at least.
You're already paying the fuckers! CenturyLink is being paid $500 MILLION in tax money yearly for rural broadband expansion and they're only using it to cover areas that someone else covers already so they can stifle competition, completely ignoring unserved areas. The rationale behind municipal broadband bans is that it's unfair to compete with the government because they have tax authority, yet they gladly take tax money and use it to be anti-competitive. NO MORE TAX MONEY TO BIG ISPs!
I work in text terminals all the time, so it makes a lot more sense to me to standardize on it. If you have the luxury of not doing SSH all the time, it probably makes more sense to pick something that takes advantage of the GUI paradigm better.