Posts by LBJsPNS

Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on

Re: Consent and legality

"the last free speech forum on the Internet"

Bwaaaaa, hahahahahahahahahahaha...

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

Typically one can remember to empty/load *before* a morning crisis occurs.

40 years in tech here. The last thing I want is a smartass house or smartass appliances.

AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far

Re: medieval

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/characters/nm0000609/

Pulp Fiction. Read the first listed quote which I will not post word for word here as I don't want to get banned.

What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32

Welcome to Hell. Enjoy your stay.

Bitfinex crypto thief who was serving five years thanks Trump for early release

Re: Share and share alike

Donald the Dull has already received his cut. The pardon would never have happened otherwise.

Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed

Re: AVAILABLE??!!

Bend over and kiss your virtual ass goodbye.

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

I am going to have to order more popcorn.

You don't need Linux to run free and open source software

Re: Video editing software?

Kdenlive

Shotcut

DaVinci Resolve is good if it will run on your system. I was never willing to jump through the hoops necessary to get it running on mine.

"Unfortunately, a lot of FOSS is functional but not actually pleasant to use - and I’m not actually into wearing a hair shirt or eating my own peeling skin or fingernails."

No, what you're dealing with is Baby Duck Syndrome. You've learned one way of interfacing with software and therefore think it's the best way.

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

"Free software" doesn't mean people aren't making money from service contracts, support, etc...

Infinite Machine e-scooter is like the offspring of a Vespa and a Cybertruck

Re: Uncompromisingly ugly

Brutalism at least has a working design philosophy behind it. This thing is just fugly.

pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree

Interesting how the Linux trying to look the most like MacOS chose KDE for its UI underpinnings as opposed to GNOME.

Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause

Once again, Senator Sanders is the voice of sanity.

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

"Prince"

Are you referring to The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince?

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

ID10T problem

I have a Google Drive account.

And a server in the garage.

And one under my desk.

And at least two USB drive backups.

The most important thing I have on them is the lighting plans for my Pro Wrestling promotion. And I can rebuild that in a day if needed.

This individual, for all his learned contribution to Apple, was a fool if he didn't have everything backed up locally. Apple has been this way since the ][.

Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work

So, his imaginary friend in the sky...

...told him that imaginary intelligence wasn't the work of imaginary demons.

I would ask for some of what he's smoking but I know what that leads to.

AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns

The hell you say. No wonder G-S is so revered for something or another. Their prognostication is stunning, don't you think?

The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years

¿Por qué no ambos?

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't

*rimshot*

Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger

Re: Pratted by AI

The AristoTrumps!

US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia

Re: Statement of Vulnerability

It's a perfectly cromulent term.

See also y'all.

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner

Re: Mozilla

Funny that. Yes, I romped through the settings and found all of the AI turned off. Not automatically turned on through all of those upgrades. I have no idea about your system.

Re: Mozilla

Been running Firefox since it was Netscape Navigator. Still no AI.

Re: Mozilla

Running Firefox. No AI.

Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?

Re: This story

Please, please, please stop with the false equivalence nonsense.

Re: Contrarian View

What utter nonsense.

FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built

BARK BARK BARK BARK

We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares

Re: So....

Gil Scott-Heron is looking askance at you.

Re: So....

It will not be televised.

BECAUSE.

Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says

Re: When this administration fails

It's not a war crime because the U.S. is not at war. It's simply murder.

Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

Particularly how does a user in the type of locked down corporate environmemt where this seems to be happening get in to fiddle etc...?

They're not even trying anymore.

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece

How to say you know jack about the current controversy regarding moving the shuttle without saying you know jack about the current controversy regarding moving the shuttle.

Something about libs and winning, I gather.

Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever

"It's almost like someone asked Copilot to spray a sweater with iconography, though if that were true, the result would probably also lack a head hole and sport three arms."

So give it to someone in the Army...

Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer

Re: Windows 11 is pretty bad

WHOOOOOOOOOOOSH

Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight

Re: Trump took credit

And I take it you voted for the guy who gave a pardon to a cryto felon without having any idea who they were.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-binance-cryptocurrency-tycoon-he-pardoned-dont-know-who-he-is/

Re: Interlocks

It's Russia. They make bicycles out of rebar and concrete.

Re: Musk says

Are you mad? NO ONE touches fElon's ketamine.

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Re: You weren't there, man

'Twas ever thus.

The Story of Mel

http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks

Re: The "3D printed chicken"

"Head cheese,

It's the dead cheese.

It's got eyes and ears and nose and lips and everything I like except the tongue."

- Psychotic Pineapple, Head Cheese

Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

Re: 20 million cells?!

blank stare

Do?

Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away

Re: you need an incinerator

I have various calibrated mallets. I'm sure they can send any flash drive IC back to the sand from whence it came. I doubt any data would be recoverable.

Re: In my experience...

That would be the Critical Need Detector being triggered.

Lawsuit seeks to probe Uncle Sam's role in ICE-tracking app takedowns

I see the trolls are up early today. Oh wait, it's afternoon in Moscow.

Re: Obama biting his nails

Every person who pays taxes is paying for these people. Try not being a dolt.

Re: Who provided the ICE-tracking app?

So in your incredibly paranoid world we should arrest people on suspicion of being suspicious. Got it.