Posts by RedGreen925

Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'

Apparently the same "mistake" is being made with an actual genocide now. The piece of garbage xAI is denying the Jewish holocaust by casting doubt on the amount of people killed saying it is a political reckoning for the total killed and an exaggeration. Meanwhile the slimy bastards cannot come up with a single solitary death attributed to this supposed white South African genocide.

DoorDash scam used fake drivers, phantom deliveries to bilk $2.59M

Re: Simply a matter of scale...

I have doubts that is cash transaction for the purchase, usually it is the over hyped stock with insane valuations being exchanged for those types of purchases. Actual money never changes hands only the fake valued stock does and even then there is usually a restriction on the sale of the stock for certain time period so the newly supposedly wealthy holders of it cannot sell and bring the whole scheme and stock price crashing down.

Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support

Re: Hubble Telescope.......

"It was launched and in operation in 1990, about a year and a half before Linus unleashed Linux on the unsuspecting planet. HST does not run Linux, it runs a RTOS called VRTX."

There you go doing the unthinkable injecting facts into the debate. When the oh so hard done by crowd is doing their usual whining on without a single solitary fact to backup their claims as they always do. To be complaining about dropping decades old at this point in time processor support is just typical of them, same with the 32bit whiners. If you have to have that support then scratch your own itch and do it yourself. Do not expect people to do it for you their job is hard enough as it is without providing support for who knows how few people that actually need it. And if they need it that bad then the time to pony up some cash and support its continuing development is now.

Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

Re: Fixed your headline for you

"I kept on with 98SE for many years,"

That piece of junk is why I switched to linux going on twenty-six year ago coming up soon in June I guess it is from the release date just googled. That garbage left my Sound Blaster Awe 64 top of the line card unable to play any sounds except a midi file. Downgrading changed nothing even tried the 95 a, b and c. Was in the computer store looking to buy new card and seen this Redhat Linux I had been reading about. Bought it went home an install and a sndconfig later putting in the DMA and IRC settings and I had full sound once more. Which strangely enough I seem to like having on my computers, that was it for my daily use of that windows trash.

The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

Re: Or...

"I very much doubt those very same beancounters would ever agree to spending one thin pence to guarantee the quality of their recruitment - it's not their problem, only that line on the balance sheet matters to these morons."

Well then make it matter a reasonably long ten or twenty year prison sentence for everyone of them morons who do not do their due diligence should improve the failure rate. That includes the CEO who allowed the morons to continue such shady practices as well. That will get their attention and lead to some changes.

Microsoft mystery folder fix might need a fix of its own

"and admins are left wondering how such a basic DoS route slipped into production."

Hahahahahahaaha, you are killing me, really from a company that has put out this garbage for going on forty years now. Somehow these clowns paying good money to suffer exploit after exploit like clockwork daily put out by an organization that has not one single clue how to do anything properly. They are wondering how it happens, apparently all that experience with nothing but this trash day after day is not enough of a lesson. Them Windows using morons do indeed deserve everything they get.

MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk

Re: obsolescence in the eye of the beholder

"The point is that it's 5.25 *POINT 5* which is from two years ago.

The latest KDE 5 is 5.27.12"

They use Debian stable as the base and that is twice now you have done that about the KDE in Debian stable you of all people doing this for a living know that Debian Stable is just that a stable distribution with the versions in it not changing once they release it. It is the main complaint people like you (reviewers) bitch about all the time. The only way to get newer software for Debian stable is through the backports section they do and since they chased away the only person who did it like clockwork with fine backports all the time, Norbert Preining, the situation for KDE backports for Debian has vanished never to return.

Re: Clarifications on some areas.

"Is anybody here aware it is possible to "clone" the MX Linux live session to another USB drive while it is still running?"

Simple enough to do my backup/cloning script I cobbled together has done that for at least a decade now. A simple backup_install.sh /dev/sda will clone/backup it to the sda drive choosing the correct drive name later in the script makes the necessary changes to the Grub, fstab files plus hosts, hostnames files if to be booted on a different machine. In addition will disable/enable services depending on the new hostname if changed.

Re: Fiddly?

"So I wonder: what is fiddly about Devuan that MX Linux solves better (it is not the installer...)?"

Nothing really it is perfectly fine to use except many of the mirrors listed are complete garbage to use for the purpose of updating the system. Missing sections, not signed files, timeouts leaving them un-cached when they fail, so slow they will take hours to complete an apt update let alone install any files from them. The one thing I found fiddly beside the mirrors is the Grub always defaulting to a thirty second countdown no matter the setting you set, I got sick of it so made a script to put it at the five seconds I like.

root@9600k:~# cat bin/fix_timeout_grub.sh

#!/bin/bash

# A script to fix the 30 second timeout Devuan defaults to with grub.

sed -i "s/timeout=30/timeout=5/g" /boot/grub/grub.cfg

"Slightly to our surprise, the KDE edition comes with the elderly Plasma 5.27.5."

Yes I could see the surprise that is if you knew absolutely nothing about the Debian release cycle. You apparently knew enough to say it was based on Debian stable and that being the version of Plasma that was current nearly two years ago when it was released that is what you still get now with any release based on it as they do not upgrade those version until next release. It is only a throw away line in the article added for no practical purpose but you know this perfectly well.

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

".No matter the opposition candidate, having failed in getting elected how can they influence the actions of or bear responsibility for that which take place after the election?"

By running a useless candidate you give the people no incentive to vote for them. Then once they have lost the election you capitulate like the spineless loser weasels they are on your first test to try and shape the policy of the government. This is how you get to claim the blame for what happens after the election, at the very least you are supposed to stand up against the bad policy not endorse it like them idiots did. When the ruling party does not have the votes to implement the policy it is the opposition parties job to make certain they get the maximum concession possible for their votes not cave like they did. But that goes against the "can we all get along morons in that Democratic Party" vs the scumbags in the Repugnant Party who are more than happy to inflict cruelty and pain on their fellow humans for their perverse enjoyment.

'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience

Re: I don't need bloat!

"This is why I chose the Linux route more than a decade ago, and, having recently had to try to do useful work on a Win 11 machine - on another machine in another work environment - I have come to realise just how bad Windows has become."

Twenty-six years for me next month, my sister-in-law brought me her laptop the other week with the "it is behaving/looking funny I think I have been hacked" no it was just a forced "upgrade" to Windows 11. I checked to see it worked correctly to open programs she needed and it did so I gave it back to her telling her you get to run it that way now. I have given up on the freebee's for the family running that garbage OS. Anyone else gets to pay a good price to have it fixed as my tolerance even for paying customers is running low too. I am sick of fixing their trash been doing it for four decades now with no end in sight, enough is enough.

Re: "How is this going to work with GDPR?"

"And that is where EU must hit hard, especially now."

Hhahaha, yeah them spinless bastards at the EU will get right on that, just like all the other hard hitting things they have done to reign in the tech companies.

Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough

Re: Meh

"Trump are going about it in different ways for the same goal."

That is not his goal, his goal is to bully and demean people bending them to his will. With the economy of the world being destroyed so he and his billionaire buddies can swoop in picking up the pieces dirt cheap while installing their fascist paradise governments all over the planet. You morons better wake the fuck up and start to realize it then fight back against it or you will see the it and the death squads coming next as they always do for anyone who questions the dear leader.

Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

In Co-Pilots own words it has been half a century now since I got rid of their garbage on my machine, 25 years, hahahahaha. Cannot get a basic fact correct typical of the trash they put out. The "upgrade" to Win 98SE left my top of the line SB AWE64 sound card unable to play anything but a midi file, downgrading did nothing to change that. I was in computer store contemplating buying new card when I seen this thing called Redhat Linux I had been reading so much about nice and cheap so I bought that instead. Went home and installed put in the required IRQ and DMA settings in sndconfig utility and instantly had sound again. That was the last time that garbage was used on my machine strangely enough I seem to like sound with my audio and videos files..

TSMC's US builds won't make America great at chips again, says ex-Intel boss Gelsinger

"If you don't have R&D in the US, you will not have semiconductor leadership in the US," Gelsinger said

A broken clock is correct twice a day, this is one of those times. Perhaps if Intel had done some actual R&D instead of profiteering to give themselves bonuses and excess payments to shareholders, they just might be in better position today. Along with their country, but it is doubtful with the all out attack on education and science going on there for decades now. With them driving away the best minds to have due to it, the totally foreseeable result. They have little hope of doing anything to stop the decline and throwing cash at parasite corporations to get it done will done nothing but line the billionaires pockets with yet more unneeded cash they do not deserve. Welcome to the implosion you dumb Yankee bastards you had it all but decided to declare war on yourselves and the world. Too bad the coming new Great Depression you seek to cause is going to do so much damage to the world. One thing is certain the world is not going to be there for you to exploit anymore they have finally caught on to all your lies for a change and are not going to be willing to trust a god damn thing said by you scumbags.

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat

Re: They're already

"Agreed - a mass murderer like Israel is far from being a "good example" of anything except unjustified deaths of innocent women, children, and men - I seriously doubt that all the men they killed were ALL terrorists!"

There are more than enough mass murders on both sides of that conflict, get off your high horse snotty BS blaming only one side for both sides complicity in it happening. Oh and in case you have not noticed the heroes on the Palestinian side advocate genocide of the Jewish people and have for literally a thousand years now counting their Arab brethren actions. Like most of the other places the Jews have been, where they have been hunted for sport for that entire time when the powers that be need someone to slaughter to make themselves feel superior. The Jewish complicity in this is only recent after the last slaughter in WWII when they said enough of that never again. Today's Jews no longer go meekly to the slaughter, you slaughter them they slaughter you now. Sorry about your luck you have taught them this is the only way the world works for them to have a chance to survive the never ending murdering of their people.

So Hillary runs an email server shares no classified information and it is lock her up heard for years going on for a decade now at least. The Secretary of Defense shares actual information that if it had been leaked would have resulted in the deaths of many Americans. Then the Repugnant Party and its Extortionist in Chief has the audacity to claim it is not classified, boys will be boys, mistakes happen, move along nothing to see here. As if any more proof was every needed that all of them traitors need to be out of office and in jail cells. I have no idea what it will take to get it done with them spineless Democrats being totally useless for their elected purpose. They they seem to have grown a pair on this issue perhaps it might wake them up and get them fighting to try and save their country. I doubt it though they will soon be back to being spineless, it seems to be their natural way of doing things...

GNOME 48 lands with performance boosts, new fonts, better accessibility

Re: Gnome3.....Gnome4..........Ughhhhhhhhhh!!!!

"Let me know what your LEAST BAD option would be!!!"

Stay the hell away from any of the parasite corporations, they are not here for the benefit of open source software. Every move they make is part of their desire to control it and shape it in their direction for their benefit not ours. And too many of these supposed supporters of open source have been co-opted by them. They no longer do what is in our best interests but what their corporate overlords will sponsor them for doing. As always in these things follow the money to find out who is in control. Even my favorite distribution Debian has been subverted they now follow the corporate agenda set by IBM/Redhat at every turn. Having long since abandoned the *nix philosophy of the do one thing and do it well their total support of the systemd garbage init system shows this in spades. What the hell does an init system have to with any of the other areas it has its tentacles in at this point. Every time you turn around it has expanded into a new area soon it will not be possible to boot a GNU/Linux system without its presence and in reality permission of its main sponsor that has turned out to be Microsoft after all the years of hiding it, now they have gone back to the mothership. Small shock there with the desire they have to turn it into the steaming pile of dung like they produce every day.

Re: Gnome3.....Gnome4..........Ughhhhhhhhhh!!!!

"If ever you want a terrible piece of software to spread around the major Linux distributions, just concentrate your efforts on making sure Red Hat picks it up"

Indeed I have noticed that too, they spread all the garbage software that gets incorporated into most distributions. Lead by the Gnome trolls they use to do it, who mostly seem soon become Microsoft employees eventually strangely enough. Or not so strangely enough if it was/is part of the corporate parasite plan to subvert GNU/Linux turning into the pure trash that is their commercial software operations offered.

Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent

Re: Consent ?

"Yesterday I was forced to try the "new Outlook"."

My sister in law brought me her laptop a few days ago. It was looking strange she said, it was conveniently "upgraded" to Windows 11 without her consent or perhaps a popup was shown she clicked on. Who knows with them Microsoft scumbags if they ever asked or just did it. I certainly do not know I refuse to use their trash virus/trojan delivery system masquerading as an OS, over twenty-five years MS garbage free now twenty-sixth anniversary coming up in just over a month some time in May.

Tesla Cybertruck recall #8: Exterior trim peels itself off, again

Re: All the idiots vandalising Tesla dearlerships are wasting their time

"It's 50/50 whether there's anyone actually setting the things on fire. "

The same odds I would give of it being his Nazi buddies doing a false flag operation to try and own the libs. With them getting the blame to enable more of a crack down on peoples freedoms. A classic scumbag Yankee move from their playbook for the last century, littered with the bodies of millions they have killed using it in other countires...

Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust

Re: License

"But I intensely hate the “…BUT IT’S NOT GPL!!! - HERETIC!!! NON-BELIEVER!!! STONE HIM!!!!” attitude that seems to go along with it far too often."

You are more than welcome to stick with your microsoft produced garbage, we won't miss you one little bit. Oh and BTW we are not to fond of assholes like you who do nothing but criticize the people trying to make a difference in this world.

Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip

Re: Unintended consequences ... part 2 ... and counting.

"he will turn into a berserker and attack NATO (population 970 million) with his army that has apparently lost most of it's combat vehicles and 1 million soldiers from a population of 145 million."

You leave out the idea it is a highly likely event the US will join him in carving up Europe among themselves, at this point in time nothing is to be dismissed at to how far that slimy bastard in the White House will go to become emperor of a greater America he wants. I fully expect the excuses to be made for the invasion of Canada coming soon, he goes with the extortion method first to seize control then onto outright invasion afterwards. Europe can look forward to the same treatment if they show absolutely any weakness, which they have in spades as so far the spinless bastards in charge have shown. If they had actually fully supported the Ukrainians from the start they could have defeated that piece of shit Putin and the much vaunted Russian army already. Three years and it is has not even come close to doing anything, what a missed opportunity by you dumb spineless Europeans, Christ could have saved the coming world war yet again but did NOTHING one more time. Well you got no Canada and Yankee scum to bail you out this time though who knows perhaps our country will be stupid enough to give you morons another helping had, the Yankees have already shown what they are going to do, leave you to your own devices, good luck with it fools..

Re: The road ahead?

"Well, after Canada finally fully joins the EU, it should be New Zealand's turn, and then, most importantly, India.

I wonder if that could work out ..."

I do too it would be great if we here in Canada could join the EU and get rid of them slimy American bastards, oh you left out Australia but they may be too far gone in their Yankee scum worship they do..

Re: Too little, and way too late

"If there were a viable economical and commercially attractive alternative to these US services, it would have been available by now, wouldn't it?"

Not when your chance of a profit has been undermined by subsides by a foreign government or their buddies in the parasite corporations which control it to subvert your sovereignty. It is the classic playbook all them US companies use, lately used by the Chinese to do the same. You are a complete fool if you think otherwise the aim is to dominate your economy and hold you to ransom anytime the people in those countries think they want the leverage on you. For Europeans to use any technology from extortionists is simply stupid beyond belief, if wanting to join the new fascists revolution sweeping the world spread by them parasite corporations it is perfectly fine. I think most in Europe would prefer to keep their freedom and liberties over being some peasant/serf in the new fascists world order.

Dash to Panel maintainer quits after donations drive becomes dash to disaster

"In todays world people are expecting a lot more than just the source code for free, as evidenced by the upset when RedHat decided to implement strict adherence to open source licensing and supply updates only to those who pay for the support service."

That is not strict adherence, that is violation of the license, the GPL clearly states anytime you modify the work released under the license you are to provide the changes made in your released version of it. It says nothing about only to paying customers it says all changes are to be made available to everyone else who wants them. Even if they do not want them they are to be made available for all to see and use if they so wish to. None of that garbage you can only see it if you pay for it BS you and they try to pull off. That is why they have not chosen to sue one single person or entity that has taken those changes anyways and used them, they know they are in the wrong and will loose the case.

Fresh Wine-flavored version of Mono released

Re: This is another WTF happened story ?

"How the fuck did Amercans ever get to the moon ? "

They used the Nazi rocket scientists they spirited out of Europe and the engineers from Canada after the Avro Arrow was canceled and 10,000 of them people moved south to join NASA to do the job for them. There was very little involved except the cash provided for it from Americans.

CISA pen-tester says 100-strong red team binned after DOGE canceled contract

Re: Stolen Elections

"What are the bets he'll start a war in 18 months time, and cancel the midterm elections because "we are at war"?"

Nah I think he is angling for martial law declaration with all the chaos he is causing leading to massive protests. That is if them spinless chicken shit Democrats every grow a pair and fight back for a change. Then he gets to suspend all civil liberties and elections while the never endings crises he will provoke continue on for years and years.

Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

Re: mass immigration

"Now there's an idea, I wonder if we can ship our racists to the US"

Now there is a plan I can get behind, let them have their cesspool of a country there, beats having them scumbags among us trying to create it here.

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

"or maybe just common sense prevailed among management"

hahahahahahahaha, your killing me, how long you here for?

NASA's on-again, off-again job cuts – what's the plan?

what's the plan?

Even a blind man can se them morons have no plan other than to cause as much chaos, misery and death as possible. That is the extent of their supposed planning with the goal of killing as many of their and other people around the world as they can. They are upset they only managed to kill off a million or so last time the scumbag was in power they need to up their game to kill a few millions more.

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

That is perfectly fine with me, they are on my never to buy from list so it will not get in my way. A lot of the parasite tech corporations are on it at the moment, along with many other thieving bastard corporations in other industries. I buy nothing from any of them unless absolutely necessary.

Ransomware attack at New York blood services provider – donors turned away during shortage crisis

"According to one study Microsoft cited"

Got on studies on why your useless f'n OS is ever installed by these organizations. With them clearly knowing your history of producing exploitable garbage for well over forty years.

Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings

"These powerful administrative privileges represent a significant attack vector and are frequently abused"

Yeah the whole world has noticed this for the decades you have allowed it to happen by default install, nothing like closing the barn door after the horse has escaped, morons.

Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products

"Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure"

No doubt about Microsoft and security in the same sentence is the biggest oxymoron ever written down. Their decades long track record proves they do not have one single clue on how to do absolutely anything securely.

Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5

Re: mate

"So Devuan it has been for a good few years now."

It has been a few months for me, the "however less percent UNIX" comment by one the Microsoft plants doing their trojan horse systemd work in Linux during one of their releases put me over the top on dropping that garbage. Also got rid of the assholes pulse audio at the same time for pipewire. Really liking it so far and despite their claims my system boots and shuts down much faster without that junk involved in the process, the good old tried and true sysvinit works wonders doing it quickly.

Clues to Windows Intelligence found in Windows 11 builds

ha ha ha

"Windows Intelligence"

Now there is an oxymoron classic for the ages, Windows and Intelligence in the same sentence. Just as bad as putting Security in its place unless of course the sentence is saying they have not one single clue on how to do either...

Microsoft reboots Windows Recall, but users wish they could forget

Re: I’m sure I won’t have to endure it…

"It's either a Microsoft account or nothing at all."

Sounds good to me my daily driver computer has been Microsoft free going on the 25th year anniversary next May. I have made lots of money from them windows using morons though, so gotta say thanks to the clowns in Redmond for a good living from it and the garbage they continue to produce for all those decades, with no sign of letting up.

Fine print in Intel's CHIPS Act deal includes requirement to keep control of its foundries

Re: Tough

"In fact, the CEO job no longer exists, and you’ve become the proud holder of a rather short-term role as message-carrier from some bureaucrat nobody has ever heard of."

Nobody held gun to their head to start them sucking on the public tit they jumped at the chance to take it. The government quite rightly wants to ensure they don''t take the money and run, that it gets spent in ways to try and benefit the country. If they don't want it like that they can sink or swim on their own. I for one have had more than enough of the parasite corporations taking the government cash then doing whatever the hell they please with the money.

Mozilla's Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?

Re: Ta Ta Firefox

"Sounds like you've got a Windows problem, not a Firefox problem."

I would think so too, I have used it for the entire time it has existed even before with those differently named versions that forked from the Netscape I used before that and never see any of these problems I see complained about all the time. It just continues to work day after day, year after year, decade after decade. Linux and MacOS being the OSs used during that entire time, been windows free for going on twenty-five years next May. Though now I think there was a time it was Konqueror in KDE I used on Linux way back then, so a small gap in continuous usage there..

Gang of monkeys escape South Carolina biomedical research facility

Inquiring minds want to know. Are they hard at it and busy in their hi-jinx re-writing Shakespeare????

Thank ya I will be here all week.....

Why we're still waiting for Canonical's immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop

Re: I’m not a fan of ‘snap’

"The kicker was when I forced it to install the apt version of Firefox, and tried some of the hacks people are using to keep out the snap version, and it managed to undo all of that and go back to snap."

From my install notes removing the snap works perfectly as does using the tarball I downloaded from the Mozilla site to use in my ~/bin directory. It updates flawlessly ever time new version comes out.

"Now I see that snap garbage first it. First to get rid of the firefox to use the self-installed in the ~/bin.

root@8400:~# snap list

Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes

bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonical✓ base

core20 20220318 1405 latest/stable canonical✓ base

firefox 99.0.1-1 1232 latest/stable/… mozilla✓ -

gnome-3-38-2004 0+git.1f9014a 99 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -

gtk-common-themes 0.1-79-ga83e90c 1534 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -snap

snapd 2.54.4 15177 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd

root@8400:~# snap remove --purge firefox

firefox removed

root@8400:~# snap remove --purge gnome-3-38-2004

gnome-3-38-2004 removed

root@8400:~# snap remove --purge gtk-common-themes

gtk-common-themes remove

root@8400:~# snap remove --purge bare

bare removed

root@8400:~# snap remove --purge core20

core20 removed

root@8400:~# snap remove --purge snapd

snapd removed

root@8400:~# apt remove --autoremove snapd

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:

libsnapd-qt1 plasma-discover-backend-snap snapd squashfs-tools

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 180 not upgraded.

After this operation, 90.5 MB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

root@8400:~# rm -r snap/

root@8400:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref

# To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of snap,

# this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.

Package: snapd

Pin: release a=*

Pin-Priority: -10"

The snap has never darkened my doorstep since this was done ages ago.

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

"On the plus side, if a future US administration gets mad at Germany, over chickens or something, we will presumably ban systemd and pulseaudio"

We can only hope they do and remove that Microsoft planted cancer from Linux.

Western Digital releases firmware fix for SSDs blighted by Windows 11 24H2 BSODs

Re: Anyone still buying WD?

"I stupidly bought a WD green, and was disappointed with it's life span despite it not being heavily used.

I'd still buy blacks and reds though."

I got a grand total of 280 power on hours according to the smartctl output from the others, out of their piece of junk Red Pro NAS drive I had to RMA a few weeks ago. I must say their RMA process left a bad impression, five phone calls to get the shipping label out of them scumbags. The whole process seems to be designed to prevent you from getting the warranty from them. By the end of it the option to talk to a person was removed from their phone support line as they were re-organizing it for better customer service, by not giving you any access to a person who could do anything for you. The last time I got through to a person I was calling to find out why despite having my drive in their possession for over five business days it was not listed as received. Then the web support system was updated to show the drive was there and replacement was shipped days before, which was true when checking the tracking. Not one single email from them about this but plenty of god damn spam emails about my great opportunity for a 10% discount on my next purchase. It took four tries at their marketing spam removal link to hopefully get rid of them. Who knows the daily spam has not happened for a good week now so it must have taken hold....

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete

Re: Yet more reasons not to upgrade.

"MS really do not have a fucking clue these days"

These days, I would argue they have never had one at all.

About that Windows Installer 'make me admin' security hole. Here's how it's exploited

Ahhhh, Microsoft code the gift that just keeps on giving to all the scumbags out for a quick exploit. So sad it has been true for decades now yet these clowns still use it and pay good money for the privilege.

Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

Re: Other problems

"So what this guy's saying is bald-faced lies. But we'll give him the benefit of the doubt, that with being not a visionary and all. Just a misguided true believer. And a microsoftian working on linux. That too. "There are no conflicts of interest there at all either," said Comical Ali."

There are all kinds of Microsoft plants working on Linux, more openly recently when they head home to the mother ship after a few years of their subversion having taken effect. With it entrenched like the systemd garbage they go home to get their reward with a nice high paying job. When they do not need to worry about the rubes in open source doing a god damn thing to remove their fine work for Microsoft and their attempt to change it toward their aims. We are in the extend phase of the embrace, extend and extinguish playbook of theirs. With full on support from most of these supposed freedom warriors in open source and the free software movement now fully controlled by the parasite corporations. There are very few left to defend free software as most of the distributions have bought into this new subversion hook, line and sinker. And like the fish once caught are soon to be gutted and gobbled up.

France charges Telegram CEO with multiple crimes

Re: "French president Emannuel Macron used his X account"

"The preferred term is xitted, or xat out."

I would go with defecated when referring to anything posted on anti-social media or with words attributed to a politician..

Microsoft patches scary wormable hijack-my-box-via-IPv6 security bug and others

Re: WTF

"From Microsoft's disclosure about the bug: "An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted print task to a shared vulnerable Windows Line Printer Daemon (LPD) service across a network. Successful exploitation could result in remote code execution on the server.""

Total morons, as I have many times they have not one single clue how to do anything securely. A bunch of clowns running a shit show for laughs and giggles about how much the even bigger morons who will pay them actual money to buy their garbage. The crowd who whine on about how hard done by they are by the mean old hackers exploiting the trash they bought. Looks good on ever god damn one of them fools.