Posts by Blogitus Maximus 76 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2023
"People get arrested, fined and jailed for this all the time..."
If only the American government were as concerned about the rule of law when it comes to other obvious criminality, insider training and human rights.
Sherlock, because he's the only one who can say whether or not all the misdeeds of the current USGOV cabal will ever be answered for.
And so the march of subscription services continues toward the sunlit uplands of Enshittification.
Shittier version of Amazon Prime with adverts- check
Shittier version of Netflix with adverts or crappier quality - check
Shittier version of M365 infested with fake AI - check
The list, of course, goes on. I would never ever lease software from M$ and still enjoy a perpetual license for office professional plus 2016. It was bought using a student discount, so was reasonably priced at the time. Still works fine, and if it ever doesn't there's always open office.
If you wish to compartmentalise your sites I'd recommend using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
If you're still using Chrome, stop.
As for the article, this bit made me laugh "...tech-literate 18-29 demographic" You're joking right? Many/most of the people I know around this age bracket are very good at using applications but have about as much tech savvy as my elderly mother. i.e. bugger all.
Now, if you're talking about the generation born in the 80s brought up on the birth of the internet and all the innovations over those years to get where we are today, then I'm with you.
I've got a full version of office 2016 still which does a good job. I'm now wondering if its cloudier than 2010? I does have the option of using Onedrive but I don't use that.
About the laptop... I can sympathise with the El Reg over the size of keyboards being a fat fingered 6ft tall IT ape, but it does sound like the +++ of that battery is going to be desirable enough for lots of people, especially field sales.
Trackpads are OK, but I almost always carry a small Logitech mouse as I find it faster and more accurate. I suppose a couple of strategically placed stickers could help define the trackpad area. It also feels as if a small amount of effort on Dell's part would make not just a good machine by a great machine. Raised rubber keys for one and an indent around the pad et voila.
Not sure how I'd feel about the function keys, I would have to try them out, but it sounds like all it does is slow you down marginally. Good thing they're not the most used keys comparatively speaking.
Would a solar sail, once up to speed lose speed between stars? I suppose flipping the sail around at the appropriate time would help decelerate at the other end.
I had to look it up, and it seems Nasa think it might work :) https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/nasa-solar-sail-interstellar-travel
I firmly believe we'll need to send robots with significantly advanced AI ahead of us to prepare for the intergenerational ships that could carry humans that far. Interesting times...eventually.
e=mc2 because science is awesome.
This, a thousand times this.
Their sop toward the ad industry is exactly that, a sop.
Don't give them anything and work harder to block what they do. This is what should differentiate FF from the rest and this tech is the sort of thing that undermines that.
It still boggles my mind that ad slingers fight tooth and nail to force their tripe on people who are trying very hard to avoid them. Do they believe this somehow ingratiates their shite with those they successfully hack through to? Are there not enough normies out there happily handing out their data already for them to pore over.
This is the form to fill in to object
https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019
*HOWEVER*
Even when saying they'll respect the request their response, imho belies the fact they've already grabbed everything they want and anything already learned cannot be 'unlearned'.
Here's their response:
"We’ve reviewed your request and will honor your objection. This means your request will be applied going forward.
If you want to learn more about generative AI, and our privacy work in this new space, please review the information we have in Privacy Center.
facebook.com/privacy/genai"
Note the key phrasing "This means your request will be applied going forward."
They aren't to be trusted, going forward or backward for that matter.
I can see quite a bit of social unrest as, inevitably, there would be some lag between AI being smart enough to take over from human jobs and humans realising UBI would be required else the whole economic thing falls over.
AI doesn't spend money in the economy. If you take away income people will not be spending, nor will they be happy.
When someone sets up the 'boycott AI movement' in a post AI economy which screws over the people I'll fully support it. Interesting times folks.
EV charging infrastructure is the big one for me and is number one on the contributors to range anxiety . The notion of multiple independent payment systems, apps and infra should have been banned from day one.
Standard hardware on these sites with a common system means cheaper and easier to run and would be instantly recognisable wherever you go.
But you know...capitalism yay.
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