Posts by Benny Cemoli 33 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jan 2024
>>"TSMC says the exit interview also saw its general counsel remind Lo of the non-disclosure agreement and non-compete agreement he had previously signed.
According to the article Lo signed both a NDA and a Non-Compete Agreement with TSMC. So yes, TSMC does have the right and power to object to his being hired by their competitor Intel.
>>" . . . and Microsoft's demand that everyone login to a microsoft (sic) account."
Everyone login to Microsoft account? Really? Odd then that from the day I started using Windows 11 I've been using a Local Account and have _never_ been forced to log into a Microsoft Account to use Win11. Yes, Microsoft would really, really like me to sign in to a MS account and recommends that I do so but Microsoft hasn't _forced_ me to so I haven't and won't. And it doesn't seem to make a bit of difference in how Win11 operates. It does what I need it to do and I'm fine with it as it is. That is all.
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>>How about that they're backed by a bunch of ulltrta-right Maga crypto nazis?
How about you take your meds like the good doctors at the mental hygiene institution told you to before discharging you. The meds will really help with those delusions. Really, they will. So please take the meds as instructed. You'll be less likely to make such a fool of yourself on the internet if you do. Guaranteed.
And then when the EU regulations and fines become too burdensome and the bottom line profit starts to suffer, Microsoft simply exits the EU market completely and refuses to do further business with EU member states. Which of course, leaves the EU member states Apple Inc. or Linux. Not much of a choice but there you go and here we are.
The gas station that I used to go to installed even more obnoxious pumps. Not only do they play ads on the pump's screen they do not print-out a receipt for your gasoline purchase. They want you to enter your email address so that they can email you the receipt and then spam you continuously thereafter with advertising emails. Of course, they don't tell you that outright but it's in the very small, fine print at the bottom of the screen in a text font that's next to impossible to read. I simply use my smartphone to take a picture of the screen with the final cost as a record of how much was spent if I have to use this gas station,
>> "As for the contract, IANAL but in my experience most contracts contain a continuity clause such that it has to be honoured by any company that buys or acquires it. I'd be very surprised if Tesco''s lawyers didn't have such a clause in a contract which they assumed would apply in perpetuity."
But if that's the case, that such a clause exists and is actually enforceable against Broadcom®, why didn't Tesco® sue them on that basis instead of the "perpetual license with option to renew" argument they are apparently making in their lawsuit. IANAL either but that seems to me that it would be hands-down the way to go instead of the way there are going. That is, if such a clause actually exists and that it is actually legally enforceable against Broadcom®.
They claim it's not a VPN service The Psylo browser connects to their own "Mysk Private Proxy Network" and proxies everything through their own network at $99 (yearly rate) or $120 (pay by month). Not sure how that's different or better than just using a reputable, paid VPN service but there you go.
It's news now because the democrat party is tanking in the polls and has to try to do something, anything, to try and improve their poll numbers before the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. So they crank out a bogus "report" from the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Minority Staff, publish it, and then start the usual howls of faux outrage over the report hoping that it will rally their supporters and help their poll numbers. That is the only reason this report has seen the light of day.
"In the initial wave of attacks, phishing emails lured victims to download a Dropbox-hosted ZIP archive called xd.zip. Inside were four booby-trapped files, including a .library-ms file that exploited CVE-2025-24054. Simply unzipping the archive - or in some cases, just viewing the folder in Windows Explorer . . . "
Great Maker, there are still people that stupid to fall for such a thing? Will wonders never cease.
The only reason U.S. federal government workers use Gmail or other private online email services is to keep their emails off of government systems where they would be subject to freedom of information act (FOIA) requests from the public. So when they do get a FOIA request for some piece of information they can honestly say they do not have any such information/documents to provide the person making the request. Of course, doing so is a violation of government data/document retention policies and the FOIA itself but what the hey, this is the U.S. federal government we're talking about so why would we expect them to follow the actual rules, policies and law they themselves established.
Funny how the direct download link included in the article now leads to a "Page Not Found" page. As if they pulled back the document so that the public can't review it.
But don't worry, it's already been saved by the Internet Archive and can be found , read and downloaded at the following URL:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250401170351/https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/document/download/48218e1a-9e03-4be1-b19c-d04c323c1117_en?filename=ProtectEU-European-Internal-Security-Strategy_en.pdf
Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups. Or Corporations.
And the process you're looking for is called "Discovery". But it doesn't allow the plaintiff to just go in and "rummage around the other party's documents". There are rules and procedures that must be followed and it all has to go through the court.
No, you cannot register as both a Republican and democrat at the same time. You have to choice one or the other and then you're only allowed to participate in that party's primary. If your registered as an Independent (neither Republican or democrat) then generally you cannot participate in a state's political party primaries but some states make exceptions to that.
No, what will be "negatively impacted" are the salaries of the over-paid Mozilla employees that infest both the Foundation and the Corporation. You know, the ones that take home $10, $20, $25 Million USD per year salaries that contribute very little, if anything, to the development of the Firefox browser. That's who would be negatively impacted if Google were forced to end their pay for play payments to be default search engine in Mozilla Firefox.
>>Someone is actually holding them to their empty promises.<<
As a United State citizen I assure you that Lizzie Warren (United States Senator) wouldn't give rat's patootie about this issue if it weren't for the fact it is a presidential election year when the democrats have to pretend to actually work for the benefit of the U.S. citizen and not solely to enrich themselves and remain in power like they usually do. But actually "hold them to their empty promises"? Nope. It'll all be forgotten after Nov. 5th and democrats. quickly return to business as usual seeking to enrich themselves at the taxpayer expense.
What I would like to know is what penalties DigiCert is going to have imposed upon it for allowing these mis-validated certificates to be issued for the last five years. After all 83,267 certificates isn't a trivial thing. So will they be facing any penalty or will it just be a case of, "Oops, our bad. Won't happen again." and nothing else.Just wondering.
"All my internet access is via a VPN apart from YouTube which seems to have taken umbridge to serving videos via a VPN . . . "
I know this the obvious one but do you have the ability to change VPN servers and hence IP? I have the same problem here with The Register blocking me if I'm on certain VPN IPs. A simple change to a different VPN server and IP address fixes the problem. Never had a problem with YouTube though. Not sure what's up with that for you.
Yes, Brave developers are beholden to the advertising industry to provide advertisements for their Brave Rewards Program. You can find all the nitty gritty details here https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ . But they do in the end make money off advertising. Fortunately, its voluntary and opt-in at the moment but who knows what will happen in the future.
And the Brave browser does have an advertisement program. It's called Brave Reward and is described as a program to "Support content creators and earn tokens for ads you see in Brave. Use your tokens to buy gift cards, exchange for other currencies, and more." Apparently you receive what they call "BAT" or Basic Attention Tokens for every viewed ad. And I assume they make back-end money from the advertisers for allowing their ads to be shown in the Brave Reward program. Fortunately, for now it is purely a voluntary, opt-in program. But who knows what the future might bring.
And that's because all those McDonalds employees demanding $20/hour to stand behind a register and shovel crappy food to the customer didn't consider the consequences of actually getting that $20/hr. As a result franchisees installed those kiosks and terminated most of the counter staff as an unneeded payroll expense. At least that's what happened here in the United States. Not sure about what happened in the rest of the world.
>>"Anyway. Have Chrome, Waterfox, Opera and Firefox installed on this machine. Chrome, Waterfox and Opera get used daily. Firefox now only gets launched by accident when I click on the wrong icon."
Have Brave and Firefox on my system. Use Brave daily and Firefox rarely if ever gets used. Not sure why I'm keeping Firefox on my system. Probably wouldn't miss it at all if I just deleted it and recovered the disk space. Mozilla hasn't really offered anything unique in the way of web browsers features to make me want to keep it.
As you said, it didn't have to happen this way. But here we are and there we go.
>>…the occasional full-screen and un-closeable “finish setting up your PC (by switching to Edge)” popups that appear when starting Windows?
Odd that. I've got Windows 11 and have never once seen such an "un-closeable "finish setting up your PC (by switching to Edge)"" popup when starting Windows. And I don't have MS Edge set as default. I do have to use it occasionally for certain things but it's certainly not set as my default. What's up with that.
>>Or the super simple and reassuring-sounding “Use Microsoft’s Recommended Defaults” button in Settings, that makes it oh-so-easy to (accidentally) set your default browser to Edge?
Stupid is as stupid does if you're stupid enough to push that button and not think it's going to set everything to Microsoft defaults. That is all.
>>Or the recent kerfuffle with Edge hijacking Chrome users’ tabs?
Like Google somehow managed to install the Google Docs Offline Extension into MS Edge without permission simply stating in the description, "We have readily installed this extension to help optimize your Google Docs experience when you're without internet." Installed without my permission. Don't know where it came from but there it is as sassy as anything.
And in all her tenure as CEO of Mozilla (the non-profit) and Mozilla Corp. (the for-profit arm) Firefox usage has fallen from the Glory Days of 25% or more to a mere 4%. Not something in my opinion that should be rewarded with a $6 million USD per year salary. Mitchel needs to be put out to pasture and and a more productive and successful person installed as CEO. Someone that would work to make sure Firefox doesn't disappear completely.
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