Posts by BasicReality

How Java changed the development landscape entirely as code turns 30

Write once, run poorly everywhere. Never understood its popularity. So many better options available.

Actors' union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader

Who gives a shit about unions. We really need to eliminate them.

Judge puts two-week pause on Trump's mass government layoffs

But it's an order from the head of the executive branch to an agency inside that branch to reduce its workforce. Separation of powers should keep judges out of it.

So the head of the executive branch is barred from firing employees of the executive branch? Maybe we need to cut all funding to the federal court system. These judges have no business interfering in these issues.

Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection

Curious, what do other services use? Dropbox, Mega, OneDrive? What permissions are they using?

Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot

Because they can’t actually just fix Word.

Cook'd: Judge says Apple lied to court in Epic case, asks Feds to mull criminal charges

Sad that companies who create products now have to design to some idiot judge's standard instead of what's best for themselves. They did create the whole damned product and app store system. We need serious judicial reform here in the US. These idiots have far too much power at the moment.

Infosec pros tell Trump to quit bullying Chris Krebs – it's undermining security

Re: Erm

"So why is it not bullying when this guy and others attacked Trump?"

Because "Trump evil!" is all these idiots know.

Maybe it's time to expand the investigations.....

Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed

Perhaps they should have used Session instead of Signal?

Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

I hate Microsoft, but it is their product. Find options. I use their garbage at work, but off work, I don't touch a single MS product. Plenty of better options available.

Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA

It's simple, shut down the services in Europe over this crap until the governments drop it. Fight back hard.

California sues President Tariff

When will we realize California really shouldn't be allowed to govern itself anymore? It's demonstrated that multiple times, and here we are again. Tariffs are not up to the states, California gets no say in this at all. We should let Florida or Texas take over governing the state instead

Windows 11 roadmap great for knowing what's coming next week. Not so good for next year

I wish businesses would wake up and abandon Windows. Between Linux and Mac, they can get anything accomplished. No, you can't dump Windows overnight, it's a process, but it would be well worth the effort.

Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I'm building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that?

Will it require an Amazon Prime subscription?

OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts

The biggest problem right now, Elon showed up with his chainsaw.

He should have shown up with an entire fleet of wood chippers instead.

At $36 trillion in debt, we’re not eliminating enough of the government. If it’s not listed in the constitution, shut it down.

SUSE doubles down on AI and Multi-Linux Support to prove it's still in the game

I've got a 6 year old Darter Pro from System76. After running Pop_OS! for years, I decided to change. Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, SUSE, EndeavourOS. Finally settled on EndeavourOS, but out of all of them, SUSE was the only one that I could not get my Brother printer working from.

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

You state: "are legal-but-cynical tax efforts at reducing their tax bills"

Isn't that just basic fiscal responsibility? Pay the least amount in taxes you are legally required to pay. How many of you that will complain about that simple statement volunteer to pay additional taxes you don't have to?

US reportedly mulls TP-Link router ban over national security risk

Would have been nice to know about 3 weeks ago before buying one.

Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint, says Oxfam

Not enough panic

Yes, we should all panic and hate rich people even more for their role in the great climate myth!

I think I'm going to make it my life's goal to emit more carbon than these men ever could combined.

Bluesky capitalizes on X woes with funding and user growth

I thought people wanted bigoted slurs banned?

For all the talk of how other social media are capitalizing on X mistakes, X is still the platform where news happens. More news outlets talk about X, more actual news breaks on that site, it actually makes more of a difference than any of the other social media networks. It's just the best place to get out information without fear of censorship.

Is it perfect, no, has it become better with Musk in charge, yes, is it still the most important of the networks, most definitely.

Then you end up with some idiot like Olbermann calling for Musk to be arrested and the government to seize his property, where does he do this? X

'Open banking' rules will put your financial data back where it belongs

Not exactly sure how this benefits anyone. If I want to change banks I simply open new accounts with the new place, change my direct deposit settings and then stop using the old accounts, it's pretty easy to move the money remaining in the old accounts in several ways.

As far as transaction history, I have statements, or I can download the histories into my own software to track it.

Requiring more privacy is always a good thing, but the government never allows real privacy on financial transactions. Withdrawing money and using cash as often as you can is about the only option there.

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

I’ve said for years, shift the clocks 30 minutes, right between the two options and leave it there permanently.

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise

Been using Brave for years, I didn't realize advertising on websites was still an issue. :-)

FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again

Ehh, it's ESPN, was anyone really watching it anyway?

Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway'

Panic over the climate is idiotic anyway. Did we all forget about the new ice age that was definitely coming?

It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives

Same shit, different day.

Leftists make up bullshit that conservatives post false information, use that to justify censorship. Typically, the conservatives are proven right however.

NASA, IBM just open sourced an AI climate model so you can fine-tune your own

This is great, make up your own fraudulent climate predictions just like the government does!

Telegram will now hand over IP addresses, phone numbers of suspects to cops

Re: What price freedom?

"None of these are the result of some global conspiracy against free speech."

They kind of all are. The only proper role of government is to represent the people who elected it. Instead they do their hardest to control people. In this digital world, everything said, any money spent, it's all trackable. All of those cases simply show if you won't comply you will be forced to comply. People's freedoms are quickly vanishing.

Sad, but not unexpected. Telegram is ok, Signal has always seemed more trustworthy though.

I'd like to see apps like Session gain in popularity, no phone number and with their routing, providing your IP address is not an easy option either. Add a VPN service on top of that for even more security.

SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk's alleged launch impatience

It's pretty simple really. Follow the constitution and limit the federal government. Most things should be left to the state and local governments. Yes, unions harming companies that provide jobs is generally a bad thing. No, we shouldn't un-regulate everything, but we should cut back severely on the regulations we have. In most cases, they aren't needed.

"Really? You've been given access to the technical documentation and have had the chance to do site visits to make sure that everything has been implemented correctly?"

Simple common sense, the flights happened, where are the news stories about something going wrong? Nothing happened, other than some idiot at the FAA not being happy over paperwork.

"Safety drives everything we do at the FAA, including a legal responsibility for the safety oversight of companies with commercial space transportation licenses"

No, it really doesn't. These are paperwork issues, all of these launches were perfectly safe. The FAA really needs to be removed from this whole process.

Elon Musk's assassination 'joke' bombs, internet calls for his deportation

"Stochastic terrorism is not a damn joke."

Yes, that entire concept is a joke. It's an idiotic idea created to attack people you don't like for doing nothing wrong. If you state "I hate <insert anything here>" and someone causes harm to them, you get blamed.

Unless a person is actively calling for violence, they are not responsible for it happening.

If we followed this idiotic concept, with the sheer number of leftists calling Donald Trump a "threat to democracy" they would all be guilty for these assassination attempts. But no, I like to be fair minded. They can spout their BS "threat to democracy" all they want, they're not guilty of terrorist activity, at least for that. And this joke from Elon, same thing, it was a joke, get over it.

Big deal. People can't take a joke anymore. He didn't call for violence against them. Of course the secret service will probably show up and waste some of his time, but making a story out of this is absurd.

Boeing union workers in US reject contract: 96% vote to strike

Complete and utter BS. Unions demanding unreasonable wages and benefits have killed many companies. Did you know, the GM plant in Lordstown didn’t need all the workers they had, but they couldn’t get rid of them per the union. They had to pay people to come sit in the cafeteria. If someone called off for the day, the excess workers could be used to fill in. If they weren’t needed, they’d sit and read the news or sleep or play on their phones. But hey, let’s make GM keep more workers than needed, oh yeah, they closed that plant eventually. Thanks to the union.

Have you watched the news lately? Not sure they're flying now.

But seriously, the company is having issues, and these people demand a huge raise. The union will kill the company, then where will all these idiots be? But of course it'll be the company's fault for it, nobody wants to blame the workers. We need to kill off the labor unions, if these people want more money, earn it.

Fire them all, there's plenty of people who want jobs.

FCC boss starts bringing up Musk's Starlink dominance, antitrust concerns

Leave it to government

Who actually gives a damn. Amazon has claimed they were going to launch this same type of satellite network, where the hell are they? SpaceX actually has done it, now the government wants to bitch about it. SpaceX took out all the damned unnecessary licenses, jumped through whatever BS the government threw at them and delivered. Not their problem if no one else has come through on this. Those who can't do, whine and bitch about the accomplishments of others.

And yes, Starlink is my only option, had HughesNet before this, that was absolute garbage. Yes, I'd like a lower price than the $120/month, but this service is better than cable services I've had at other locations in the past.

SpaceX blasts being stuck in bureaucratic orbit as Starship approval slips

How much progress could we have without government interference?

Apple owes billions in back taxes over Ireland state aid rule break

"Them (or anyone for that matter) not paying their taxes or dues deprives _you_ of things that you deserve."

No, I earn what I have, I don't rely on money taken from others for my things. I do not "deserve" anything I haven't earned. The world would be better off learning that reality.

Consider it as going on strike. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon. Shut down the services in Europe, and when everyone's phones and computers simply stop working, maybe the politicians will stop trying to screw the American companies. It's just a strike for fair laws. Until then, no phones, no email services, nothing.

The government of Ireland gave them a tax rate, they accepted it, now the courts are complaining about it, how is that Apple cheating? They paid their fair share, which was exactly the amount the Irish government told them.

Another American company getting screwed by the EU, just shut off all their damned services and leave them in the dark. Apple, Google, all the tech companies, shut the assholes down.

Top EU court crushes Google appeal against $2.65B Shopping antitrust ruling

I'm not a fan of Google, I switched from Android to iPhone and stopped using almost all of Google's services a few years back, but these EU lawsuits really bother me. It would be funny if all the government agencies in Europe who rely on Google services suddenly find their stuff simply not working. American companies really need to disregard these idiot laws from foreign countries.

Trump taps Musk to lead 'government efficiency' task force

Re: Day one fire 50% of the workers in most agencies

The last administration was working on it, probably the most progress we've seen shutting it down in years.

Re: Day one fire 50% of the workers in most agencies

That sounds a bit racist, you want people illegally crossing our southern border to exploit them for cheap labor.

I don’t know that some new task force is needed. It’s simple, day one fire 50% of the workers in most agencies. Give the remaining ones 6 months to wind the operations down.

Of course the Internet Archive’s digital lending broke the law, appeals court says

From the article:

"The San Francisco-based Internet Archive has been scanning printed books and distributing them online – without the consent of copyright holders – through a process called Controlled Digital Lending (CDL). The idea is that the Internet Archive can lend readers one digital copy as a proxy for each physical book in its control without violating the law.

That idea has been rejected by US courts, first by Judge John Koeltl from the Southern District of New York in March 2023, and now by Second Circuit Judges Steven J. Menashi, Beth Robinson, and Maria Araújo Kahn."

They were lending one digital copy per physical copy owned and sued for that.