Some of us remember the jaw-dropping arrogance and hubris Micros~1 demonstrated with their Get Windows 10 (GWX) initiative:
The new icon in the systray that was an advertisement, and couldn't be disabled (unless you knew the exact KB numbers to uninstall),
The pop-up windows nagging you to take the upgrade before it was "too late,"
Downloading a multi-gigabyte hairball containing the update to your system drive -- without your knowledge or consent -- "just in case" you finally said yes,
Turning your PC into a Bittorrent node to distribute the update to other PCs, because why should Micros~1 pay for their own bandwidth when they can leech off everyone else's,
Using maliciously confusing prompts to trick people into accepting the upgrade, even -- and especially -- after they'd already explicitly said No several times,
The upgrades that failed,
The rollbacks that failed,
The machines that Win10 just plain didn't, and never would, support,
Arrogating all system administration to themselves, and still constantly fscking it up,
The promises and features that, to the surprise of no one who's been paying the slightest attention for the last 35 years, were never delivered -- shitty security, shitty performance, shitty UI, system updates that could break the machine at any given time, and device driver updates that never worked.
So I guess my question to Micros~1 is: What in your brain-worm-infested minds do you imagine has induced us to change our opinions on this matter? You are every bit as incompetent and every bit as untrustworthy as you were five years ago, ten years ago, 20 years ago...
Windows exists in my house solely to play games. If you feel you can't handle that duty any longer without completely fscking over my machine, then I guess I'll have to learn to live with just NetHack.
Basically UPnP should be removed from every single router firmware ASAP, it was a security nightmare from the get go.
This is why I long ago started referring to UPnP as Universal Penetrate and Pwn. UPnP support is one of the first things I shut off when configuring a new router/firewall.
Toward the end, the author makes an off-handed reference to QUIC, a then-experimental protocol that actually solves many of the issues that IPv6 was supposed to solve. Right now, TCP connections are hard-bound to IP addresses. If your IP address changes (as is extremely likely to happen on your mobile phone), your connection is broken and you have to reconnect -- a huge pain in the ass for streaming applications and network operators trying to paper over that. QUIC's big win (assuming it wasn't lost during revisions) is that it allows your network connections to survive IP address changes, since the endpoints are identified not by an IP address/port tuple, but rather by a GUID/port tuple. Downside: You lose (some? all?) anonymity, as your GUID is long-lived.
So, no, this isn't some kluge Google chundered up last week. This has actually been under review by the IETF for a couple years.
Hang on; are we talking about the gateway/modem, or are we talking about the set-top box/tuner? 'Cause the latter has a BOM cost well under USD$100, remote included.
...people opt into these experiences... [emphasis mine]
"Opt-in," my pasty white ass.
There are a shit-ton of "experiences" on Facebook that I haven't "opted in" to. Indeed, when I try to turn them off, Facebook turns them right back on again (most notably "Most Recent" versus "Top Stories", and "Login via profile picture"). Facebook should be trusted with precisely nothing.
The Z7 [... ] has a 45.7-megapixel sensor, 493 focus points, and 64-25600 ISO. The Z6 will follow in "late November" with a 24.5-megapixel sensor, 273 focus points, and 100-51200 ISO. The cameras bring with them an all-new Z mount system that will debut with a 24-70mm f/4 "kit" lens. With the lens bundled, the Z7 will run $3,999.95, with the Z6 at $2,599.95.
Oh, sure. Start your lens collection all over again.
Meanwhile, you can get a Pentax K-1 full-frame DSLR body -- 36 megapixels, 33 focus points, ISO 100-204800, sensor-shift stabilization -- for well under $2000.00, and it still natively supports K-mount lenses manufactured 50 years ago.
It's for LinkedIn. I HAVE NOT USED LINKED IN FOR 8 YEARS AND 2 COMPUTERS AGO. So they did not obtain it from a local keylogger. LinkedIn must have been hacked.
Uh, yeah, it was. Big news at the time. This was a short while before they were acquired by Microsoft.
The World in which IPv6 Was a Good Design. I found this brief history on IP and Ethernet to be quite informative. It also suggests a possible way forward for mobile IP (by basically putting another layer on top).
Read this. It was written almost 20 years ago. There have been no technological developments since that alter the main thesis of the essay, nor will there be. Further, this has been known to every ethical software engineer for at least as long ("ethical" in this case meaning, "Will not lie to your face about what is technically feasible").
Anyone on your engineering staff claiming not to be aware of these truths should be dismissed immediately.
...Yyyyeahhh, I'm afraid I'm going to have to concur here. I have absolutely no love for the Usurper currently squatting in the White House, but that kind of shit don't fly. Let Mueller finish his work; that way it'll all be nice and legal when that slob is hauled away.
* Revert to release 20171117, as per Intel instructions issued to the public in 2018-01-22 (closes: #886998) * This effectively removes IBRS/IBPB/STIPB microcode support for Spectre variant 2 mitigation.
-- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:01:59 -0200
Even more amusing, this update showed up a day or two after Linus correctly described their IBRS microcode patch as -- all together now -- "COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE."
Let's review: Wilson couldn't fix California, and neither could the Governator. But Governor Moonbeam did, and now the state is out of the hole, growing again, and projecting a surplus, all from RAISING TAXES.
To be a bit more clear: Wilson got close, significantly reducing the gap on the deficit in the weeks before the recall election. Also recall: California had been shaken down by Enron's manipulation of the newly (and badly) deregulated energy market, paying usurious electricity prices, completely eating up CA's budget surplus and more besides.
Then the special recall election happened, and Ah-nold got elected because everyone thought it would be cute -- not to mention a self-satisfying poke in the eye to the establishment -- to have a rank amateur running things (sound familiar?).
It's also worth noting that this is the second time that Governor "Moonbeam" has cleaned up the mess left behind by a bumbling B-grade movie actor.
To prevent driver distraction, "ads only appear when the vehicle is stopped, such as at car startup, traffic lights and upon arrival.
Waze already does this.
It's fscking infuriating. A distraction is still a distraction, even when the vehicle's stopped. Fsck, it's even more of distraction when stopped, one of the few times I can actually devote attention to the map to see where I'm going next, only to have the whole $(GOD)-damned thing squatted over by a piece of paid vandalism screaming about the shitty chain restaurant six blocks away.
Drivers already have enough distractions. The NTSB should rule this stuff as impermissible.
Opus does have an unusual limitation, however: It has a limited selection of input sample rates, and 44.1KHz is not one of them. So anything recorded at 44.1KHz has to be up-sampled to 48KHz before it can be encoded in Opus.
So if Mozilla can remotely jam new extensions in to my browser without so much as a dialog, that means malicious actors with even fewer scruples will be able to do it in about a week. Short of firewalling all of mozilla.org, how do I turn this shit off?
(I wonder if this has anything to do with the weird XSS blocking dialog NoScript threw three times earlier today. It was blocking an XSS attempt between two domains, neither of which was open in any browser tab at the time.)
The difference between networks like NBC and CNN versus a conglomerate like Sinclair is that Sinclair isn't directly producing programming or running news operations.
False, and false.
Sinclair produces "must-run" segments to be incorporated into news programming, including a blatantly fear-mongering "Terrorism Alert Desk" segment, and odious editorial segments from the Backpfeifengesicht-worthy Mark Hyman and Boris Epstein.
Some local stations have (so far) managed to sideline these propagandistic videos to the wee hours of the morning where they won't be seen, but it's easy to anticipate new edicts being handed down from corporate requiring their shit to be broadcast in prime time.
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The podcast 99% Invisible released an episode last month covering this shift in recycling, and what might have pushed China's change in policy.
Some of us remember the jaw-dropping arrogance and hubris Micros~1 demonstrated with their Get Windows 10 (GWX) initiative:
So I guess my question to Micros~1 is: What in your brain-worm-infested minds do you imagine has induced us to change our opinions on this matter? You are every bit as incompetent and every bit as untrustworthy as you were five years ago, ten years ago, 20 years ago...
Windows exists in my house solely to play games. If you feel you can't handle that duty any longer without completely fscking over my machine, then I guess I'll have to learn to live with just NetHack.
TL;DR: The Answer Is No.
Basically, Frontier is letting their copper rot on the ground, but still charging everyone full freight.
Yeah, right. "Glitch..."
The only appropriate response to proposing firmware as a service.
This is why I long ago started referring to UPnP as Universal Penetrate and Pwn. UPnP support is one of the first things I shut off when configuring a new router/firewall.
I clearly did not read the material closely enough; I stand corrected. Thank you.
First, read this blog post from 2017: The world in which IPv6 was a good design. It's on the long-ish side, but you'll come out the other end somewhat smarter.
Toward the end, the author makes an off-handed reference to QUIC, a then-experimental protocol that actually solves many of the issues that IPv6 was supposed to solve. Right now, TCP connections are hard-bound to IP addresses. If your IP address changes (as is extremely likely to happen on your mobile phone), your connection is broken and you have to reconnect -- a huge pain in the ass for streaming applications and network operators trying to paper over that. QUIC's big win (assuming it wasn't lost during revisions) is that it allows your network connections to survive IP address changes, since the endpoints are identified not by an IP address/port tuple, but rather by a GUID/port tuple. Downside: You lose (some? all?) anonymity, as your GUID is long-lived.
So, no, this isn't some kluge Google chundered up last week. This has actually been under review by the IETF for a couple years.
Hang on; are we talking about the gateway/modem, or are we talking about the set-top box/tuner? 'Cause the latter has a BOM cost well under USD$100, remote included.
"Opt-in," my pasty white ass.
There are a shit-ton of "experiences" on Facebook that I haven't "opted in" to. Indeed, when I try to turn them off, Facebook turns them right back on again (most notably "Most Recent" versus "Top Stories", and "Login via profile picture"). Facebook should be trusted with precisely nothing.
Oh, sure. Start your lens collection all over again.
Meanwhile, you can get a Pentax K-1 full-frame DSLR body -- 36 megapixels, 33 focus points, ISO 100-204800, sensor-shift stabilization -- for well under $2000.00, and it still natively supports K-mount lenses manufactured 50 years ago.
Uh, yeah, it was. Big news at the time. This was a short while before they were acquired by Microsoft.
The World in which IPv6 Was a Good Design. I found this brief history on IP and Ethernet to be quite informative. It also suggests a possible way forward for mobile IP (by basically putting another layer on top).
My mobile hotspot SSID is, "ERR:Buf overrun; restart WiFi".
Read this. It was written almost 20 years ago. There have been no technological developments since that alter the main thesis of the essay, nor will there be. Further, this has been known to every ethical software engineer for at least as long ("ethical" in this case meaning, "Will not lie to your face about what is technically feasible").
Anyone on your engineering staff claiming not to be aware of these truths should be dismissed immediately.
...Yyyyeahhh, I'm afraid I'm going to have to concur here. I have absolutely no love for the Usurper currently squatting in the White House, but that kind of shit don't fly. Let Mueller finish his work; that way it'll all be nice and legal when that slob is hauled away.
Yeah, I noticed this one the other day. The changelog is fun, too (Debian Sid):
Even more amusing, this update showed up a day or two after Linus correctly described their IBRS microcode patch as -- all together now -- "COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE."
GnuCash. Terrible name. Decent program.
To be a bit more clear: Wilson got close, significantly reducing the gap on the deficit in the weeks before the recall election. Also recall: California had been shaken down by Enron's manipulation of the newly (and badly) deregulated energy market, paying usurious electricity prices, completely eating up CA's budget surplus and more besides.
Then the special recall election happened, and Ah-nold got elected because everyone thought it would be cute -- not to mention a self-satisfying poke in the eye to the establishment -- to have a rank amateur running things (sound familiar?).
It's also worth noting that this is the second time that Governor "Moonbeam" has cleaned up the mess left behind by a bumbling B-grade movie actor.
Waze already does this.
It's fscking infuriating. A distraction is still a distraction, even when the vehicle's stopped. Fsck, it's even more of distraction when stopped, one of the few times I can actually devote attention to the map to see where I'm going next, only to have the whole $(GOD)-damned thing squatted over by a piece of paid vandalism screaming about the shitty chain restaurant six blocks away.
Drivers already have enough distractions. The NTSB should rule this stuff as impermissible.
Nothing "touted" about it -- it is better than MP3.
Opus does have an unusual limitation, however: It has a limited selection of input sample rates, and 44.1KHz is not one of them. So anything recorded at 44.1KHz has to be up-sampled to 48KHz before it can be encoded in Opus.
Are you kidding me?
apt-get install kdenlive
How fscking easy did they want it?!?!!
(I wonder if this has anything to do with the weird XSS blocking dialog NoScript threw three times earlier today. It was blocking an XSS attempt between two domains, neither of which was open in any browser tab at the time.)
Why not all three?
False, and false.
Sinclair produces "must-run" segments to be incorporated into news programming, including a blatantly fear-mongering "Terrorism Alert Desk" segment, and odious editorial segments from the Backpfeifengesicht-worthy Mark Hyman and Boris Epstein.
Some local stations have (so far) managed to sideline these propagandistic videos to the wee hours of the morning where they won't be seen, but it's easy to anticipate new edicts being handed down from corporate requiring their shit to be broadcast in prime time.
John Oliver covered this fairly well: https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc