Posts by Pascal Monett 18221 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I do hope this just means that you can now also develop Android apps on Windows 11.
Which shouldn't be a news event since, if you can do so on Windows 1 0, I fail to see why it should be such a revolution to do it also on Windows 11.
And if you can't do so on Windows 1 0, why ?
This is just Borkzilla pushing 11 to the forefront.
I have zero confidence in any so-called "smart" TV.
TV makers do not know how to be smart. They have made dumb terminals for the past 100 years. They're not, all of a sudden, going to gain the necessary intelligence to make something that is indeed user-friendly and useful.
"Smart", for me, means that the object has been saddled with unnecessary restrictions, supervision, phoning home, and a very poorly thought-out UI which will annoy me every time I have to use it to get to the content I want.
I pray that my current television will hold out for many more years, pushing back the date at which I'm going to have to navigate those treacherous waters.
Yeah but the problem is always the same : as soon as you define rules to automate mailing, some idiot is going to feel that his case is special and he'll go out of his way to work around the rules and send it the way he wants.
You cannot automate against stupidity, stupidity will win every time. You need to educate stupidity.
With a cattle prod, if necessary.
Icon because integrated battery charge.
Indeed. Talk about sheeple.
The first quarantine was accompanied daily by the death total. The second quarantine was accompanied by maps in red symbolyzing hospital saturation. After that, the government stopped bothering trying to find excuses, it just says : keep wearing the masks and respect social distancing, and we all follow meekly.
The numbers are good. The French population is almost 75% vaccinated.
And yet, we still have to wear those effing masks and QR-coded COVID status is required to go out for dinner.
What's the point of the vaccination, again ?
I have always been fascinated with Borkzilla's addiction to admin-access-required drivers to do just about anything, when , under Linux, you can basically update just about everything without rebooting your computer, including the graphic drivers.
A printer driver needs admin access ? WTF for ? It's a printer, for fuck's sake. It's an OUTPUT. It's not like the printer is going to access the hard disk or RAM, it just takes whatever the program feeds it and prints it out.
Jesus Christ in a basket, why all the complication ?
Another story of waste to bolster your point :
I have been in need of a respirator for the past decade, in order to sleep properly. At the beginning, I recieved monthly invoices by snail mail and thought nothing of it. Then, after paying the invoices, I got individual snail mails with the invoice, marked "Payé" (because I'm French, living in France).
So, just to be clear, the company managing my subscription would send me three invoices every quarter - in individual envelopes containing a response envelope - and when I had paid via bank transfer, I would get three envelopes with the invoice marked "Payé".
Once I realized just how much paper was being wasted I contacted the company and asked if it was possible to get the invoices digitally at my email address - which they already had.
No, it wasn't.
I have been asking regularly since, and the answer is always the same : no.
Recently, I got a snail mail from them indicating basically that they were looking for "generous donators" to help them weather "a difficult financial situation". I took one look at that mail and said to myself : "sort out your fucking snail mail and you'll find that you'll have saved hundreds of thousands of euros on useless paper mails".
The issue, as I understand it, is that manglement sees that the current system works, and if it works, why fix it ? Here's a reason : you're wasting a ton of money when you could send your invoices digitally and save all those postage stamps.
You want help ? Start by helping yourself.
I think that's in the Bible somewhere.
Don't knock Education. The teachers need 30 copies of the day's exercise page - and they don't have 30 copies of the book to hand out.
If Education was treated as seriously as the military budget, then that wouldn't happen, but the big bucks go to the boys in uniform, so teachers have to make do with photocopies.
That's just the way it is.
Not to mention that toilet paper in the business environment is starting to look more and more like corrugated cardboard, if not actually sandpaper.
I would really like to know what the "manager's" toilet paper line is in the beancounter's ledgers, because I'm absolutely certain that they're not using the crap they give to the underlings.
Mildly because even if electromagnetic radiation is unavoidable, I live in the country in a small village. A black van parked not 50 meters from my house is going to stick out like a sore thumb, so I'm not worried for myself.
However, it is very unsettling to think that the surveillance society that are increasingly going towards is getting easier and easier to accomplish due to the technology that makes our lives more practical.
Sheesh.
And here we go again : sloppy security practices by doofuses who couldn't care less until it's too late.
Well I am actually starting to hope that such organizations do get stung. If that's what they need to learn to do their job properly, then that's where the training money should go.
It's one thing to get hacked when you have proper opsec and you discover, belatedly, that there was a hole in there somewhere where the miscreant got through. It's entirely a different story if you get hacked because you left all the doors open. In that case, you definitely deserve what you get.
Although I agree with you wholeheartedly, I don't see that miscreants outside the US are going to be much bothered by being charged with extortion by a US court.
The only way to get a grip on this is by making it an international crime and rolling it into Interpol's purview.
And even then, Russian hackers won't give a damn (nor will Chinese hackers), but it might allow for shutting down the exchanges that make it possible.
That's a very good question.
I'd've thought that, after losing 500, somebody would be taking a closer look at what was going on.
It would appear that this activity was likely drowned under the hundreds of thousands of daily deliveries and also, that Amazon has been automated to the point that the whole thing administers itself.
Amazon needs to revisit the concept of activity alarms.
Oooh, you're stretching there. That would mean he knows how to install an app on a smartphone.
I'm betting he's barely capable of punching in a phone number. He's probably got a secretary to deal with all the technical details of inputting a phone number, and she (because of course it's a she, he's an alpha male, dammit) passes him the phone when the call is being made.
After all, he can't burden his two functional neurons with such mundane matters . . .
Not to mention the off-the-cuff question of exactly how experienced are the people designing these custom chips ?
If I had a car company, I think I'd prefer asking Intel (AMD/TSMC/whatever) to a meeting where I would specify what I need from said chip, and let them propose a solution.
I'm sure the tools to design a chip today are plentiful and good, but just like programming languages, that doesn't mean that the people using them are doing so at the top ability of the software.
It's programming. Programming was built in English. Yes, I know the USA is not the first place in the world programming took place, but it is the place where programming took hold and started swamping the masses.
You have two entities, A and B. You don't want people to feel like they're reading a mathematics treaty (even if they kinda are), so you want to humanize them. Back when those manuals were written, Alice and Bob were an acceptable, logical choice, not a colonial one. I kinda irks me how many people can feel offended for people they don't even know.
So let's cut the bullshit : make a survey of what names can replace Alice and Bob. Make it worldwide, but control that one IP address can only enter one ticket.
And if you end up with Aranahooteepie and BobbyMcBobFace, it's your fault.
Copper has proven anti-bacterial properties, does not need to be reapplied and would make for a killer keyboard+mouse combo.
Now that I've thought of that, I want it !
Okay, I agree that nothing is perfect, but it seems a bit of a stretch to say that you could detect LAN traffic from tens of meters away by "listening" to a shielded cable.
You might be able to do it from the other side of a wall, but if you want to target a specific cable, good luck.
I accept this could work if you can set it up in the server room, but then we're back to the Primary Rule : if you have access, security is gone.
Borkzilla has found no balance, it is simply surfing the sheer volume of applications that exist for the Windows environment, coupled with total apathy from the users who couldn't care less what OS they are running, and the apparent mind control it enjoys on the business users.
Legacy is what is making money for Borkzilla, that and the current Cloud madness.
The day Linux will have as many useful applications is the day Borkzilla will start to see its money vault shrink.
Well duh, computing hardware is nearing the bleeding edge of atomic limits. The golden days where Intel's new generation of CPUs was >25% faster than the previous gen are long gone.
The only improvements we're getting these days is in making the hardware multitask its duties and throwing more computing power at problems that were handled solely by the CPU before. And we're already reaching the limit on how much more can be done on that.
It sounds crazy, but there will come a day when new hardware designs will become few and far between. Computers will come in several sizes and power configurations, and the choices will stay the same for decades at a time.
And I might yet see the beginnings of that in my lifetime.
I understand what you're saying, and I am absolutely not contradicting anything.
The only thing I can say for certain is that my mobile data usage as of the time of this writing (October 13th, 2021, 20:10:23 CEST) is 47MB out of 40GB.
And I have been using some of my data allowance, for business purposes.
What I will do is, in November, before activating any mobile data allowance, I will check on the usage numbers.
That should clarify the situation.
On my Galaxy A3, WiFi is disabled, BlueTooth is disabled, Mobile Data is disabled and Location is disabled. I activate those things only when I need them, and deactivate them again when I'm done.
So, when exactly is all that telemetry happening on my phone ?
I'm guessing it's when I have them activated. So, almost never then.
They are basically trying to kill their fans' access to statistical data so they (the fans) can endlessly argue about who is better, bet on who will come ahead and, generally speaking, stay interested in the sport ?
If there is an issue with private data, no problem, take it out. Except that their height and weight is a matter of public record, like or not, and GDPR has nothing to say about that, so I really don't really don't see where this is going except another excuse for the players to milk yet more money out of running behind a ball.
I think they're already largely compensated for that.
That is true for Linux, which can be pared down to the bare bones of what you need to do.
I doubt very much that the latest Windows will alllow you to skip loading ten dozens of "services" for which you have no use, and will just bloat the RAM and diminish performance for nothing.
Especially Windows 1 0, which Borkzilla has specifically set up so the you no longer are in charge of your own computer.
"For your own good", of course.
Ah but Star Trek TOS has already explored that subject, and did a rather good job of it.
If government just stops spending you won't have schools, roads, hospitals or much of anything that you don't pay for yourself.
For fucks' sake, this is not about government. This is about multi-billion dollar behemoths sitting on their billions and not contributing to said schools, hospitals or fire stations.
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