Posts by Jeroen Braamhaar 207 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Oct 2007
... but I still am using WinAMP as my media player of choice. Classic skins somehow broke earlier this year from one day to the next (playlist window stopped opening), but the modern skin packages still function fine.
I've tried some of the modern fork/offshoots but none of them managed to capture the ease of use or the convenience of the original - so here's a toast to WinAMP.
Cheers mate, carry on and stay llama ass whoopin' awesome
Just as America and their allies (and a whole lot of special interest groups) are leveraging the same [social] media to inflame hatred of those "enemies" (or create entirely new enemies), relying on the average social media user being too stupid/lazy to think for themselves, blindly believe what they're being told and launch 'mostly peaceful protests/occupations' "for [insert cause here] justice" among other things ?
Now that I have your attention with that little snark (for which I'm only a little bit sorry) I feel the the need to point this out:
It's a VERY slippery slope between disinformation and dissent, and the dumber you keep/make people, the further you can shift that line without anyone realizing.
Do you want to fight disinfo/misinfo ? Give people perspective and encourage/teach them to critically think FOR THEMSELVES.
Don't try to 'control the narrative' and bombard people with the one side you prefer and exhort people to 'trust the experts' while discrediting/removing the other side.
And that requires access to information on ALL sides of ANY argument; political, economical, scientific, religious, societal, ideological - you name it.
I don't think anyone realize this is still censorship, albeit in a very alluring guise for a noble (corrupted) cause, and effectively, doing this means "the West" has ALREADY lost, emplyojng the same tactics we criticize the nations we call 'enemies' for.
I was going to post this anonymously, knowing it's a pretty spicy/contrarian post most will probably downvote to hell.
But please, before you do: think -for yourself- on what I've said and what it implies.
I have, and that's why I'm posting this under my own name.
Put nothing in "the cloud"
- that you don't have a certified, current and regularly checked, usable and updated (local) backup of.
- that is too important to lose (for whatever reason)
- that you must have access to at critical moments.
Completely
Lost
Our
Unmissable
Data
;-)
Because MS insists on shoveling features they haven't fully tested (if at all) at their hapless victims (otherwise known as "users") in a desperate bid to prove their OS is ready for primetime.
And rather than STOP and fix the mess they made last update (or any of the previous ones), they happily/blissfully move on to the new flavor of the day insisting that this time, they'll get it right!
They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results ... making the institutional mental health of the Microsoft edifice questionable at best, mythical at worst. Take your pick.
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