Posts by DrewPH

PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Looks like crooks lied

Crooks lying? What is happening to the world?

Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet

This article could be instrumental in updating the dictionary definition of "niche"...

I think it's wonderful that Linux makes it possible to do this kind of thing, but it's not a distro I'll be using myself... I'll stick to Raspberry Pi OS Lite with XFCE for my modest Linux needs.

Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot

Haven't used Word in 10 years

LibreOffice loads its first document within 3 seconds on a clean boot on my Mac M1.

Is there a "just sayin" icon?

RSA cofounder: The world would've been better without cryptocurrencies

Duh

In other news, pope defecates in forested area.

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions

This is not technical. This is political. Google sees Europe as a hostile business environment and is doing a "give me my ball back, I'm going home" in revenge.

RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox

I started blocking 3rd party cookies as soon as a browser supported it (we're talking quite a few years now), and have blocked them ever since. I'm fairly sure this has not negatively impacted my life.

Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it

Block, block, block

Just block the fuckers. In fact, why on earth would anyone _not_ block them?

I use Cloudflare's blanket AI block (which is quite effective) and any that beat that get htaccess blocks on their IP ranges and agent strings.