Posts by Pascal Monett 19502 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Well done on jumping aboard the hype train. Don't you worry your pretty little head about what will be done with all that power-guzzling equipment, I'm sure you'll draft requirements and laws to ensure that they are powered only by clean electrons, without bothering to hand any money out for that. Nooo. You take care of ensuring that whatever power we have is used 300%. We'll worry about how to keep our lights on.
No buddy, you're going to be a lot sorrier when a class-action lawsuit (or whatever the Norwegian equivalent is) lands in front of a judge who will undoubtedly decide that you are to pay for the costs of annulation of contracts that these "winners" contracted in good faith.
Redmond has been doing that to itself for decades, but that did not convince anyone to move away from Windows. It was just the cost of business, and the IT drones had to be paid for something, right ?
Having a big baby sitting in the Oval Office, making threats, arbitrary decisions and generally demonstrating total unreliability and the unwavering will to punish by every possible means anyone/entity/country that doesn't kiss his ass was a very big wake-up signal.
I think this is serious, and it is going to become a serious issue for Microsoft/Apple/Oracle etc, and a game-changer for everyone else.
So, thank you Trump ?
That being said, it really pissed me off that Redmond is now the owner of Minecraft and of Blizzard.
Since the last interface update of Minecraft (curious how often those things happen these days, without any substantial visual difference from my point of view), when I launch Minecraft on my gaming rig I now get a popup that tries to get me to go to the Microsoft store. I ignore it and get on with connecting to my server, but the message is clear : the enshittification has started.
I dread to find out how they're going to kill Diablo III (no worries about Diablo IV though - Blizzard killed that one itself with stupid design decisions).
Why did Canada's government purchase a Chinese CCTV product in the first place ? Aren't there any Canadian ones available ? Oh, I know : budget concerns.
Well that's a winner now, isn't it ?
On top of which, it's CCTV. It's not supposed to communicate with anything but the computer of the security guard that is supposed to check it between coffee and donuts.
How can that be a national security risk ?
Who is reinventing history now ? You are full of strawman arguments.
NATO never "expanded". Every single NATO country in Eastern Euope signed up because they didn't trust Moscow. That's because the Soviet Union died in name only. Remind yourself that Putin is an ex-KGB officer.
The spirit of the Soviet Union is still very much alive.
Moscow invades Ukraine and what happens ? Finland comes out of its neutrality and requests NATO appartenance. Because Finland knows first hand that that bear next door is RIGHT THERE. You have probably forgotten that Stalin used WWII as a pretext to invade Finland, or you are deliberately ignoring that fact because you are obviously not interested in any fact that does not support your point of view.
How's the weather on Red Square these days, komrade ?
"Iran, along with Russia and China, are getting really good at using generative AI for fake news and social media posts that aim to manipulate public opinion. "
And who is providing said generative AI ?
And to think that some orange baboon is pretending that Tik Tok is a national security menace (without doing anything to stop it).
"We appreciate the decision from the Court. Open source AI models are powering transformative innovations our bottom line, productivity and creativity for individuals and companies bonuses for our managers, and fair use of copyright material our ability to hoover up other people's work with impunity is a vital legal framework for building this transformative technology to allow us to continue raking in the dough."
TFTFY.
But, but . . haven't we been repeatedly told that Bitcoin is completely anonymous ?
With a public ledger ?
If you cannot understand the contradiction, please drive your car at full speed against a wall. It'll do wonders for your brain, because you're obviously not using it.
Simple : use a Linux kernel.
Oh, and teach your developers to work in an environment that demands they actually pay attention to security.
Then you can go on make Excel charts and Powerpoint presentations that manglement can't get enough of in an actual computing environment.
I'm sure your bottom line will manage . . .
The first of which is will the USA continue honoring its obligations towards its allies, or will Trumpism win the day and it decides to "stop paying for other countries" ?
Frankly, at this point in time I think it is dangerous to rely on anything the White House can influence.
Sounds like the title of a certain film.
This intellectual masturbation for or from people who are basically criminals is getting tiring.
Stop honoring them with sexy names. Internet Crime Group #NNN is all they deserve.
"Theoretically and given a court order, Apple can figure out the randomly generated ID of the user in question. If we were to hand out the data associated with the randomly generated ID, it would only be the bandwidth usage of that user in the current month, and two months in the past. Older data is automatically deleted. "
So I understand that this so-called privacy enhancement won't keep Apple from tracing a user for up to at least three months - because sure you say you delete older data, but why should I believe you ?
I'm supposed to pay $100 (let's not quibble) per year to have my privacy depend on yet another company actually repecting its word ?
Somehow that does not inspire much confidence to me.
Plus, I note that this is only for Apple users. Non-Apple users are apparently not worth the effort.
And there is no tech that hasn't been at least tested to see how it can be used on the battlefield.
Ever since the first pre-hominid who picked up a branch and found that he could use it to club an opponent, we humans have nearly always found a way to use new tech to help us kill or defend (which is just killing preventively) more efficiently.
Is that what defines intelligence ?
Then you cite two years.
Looks to me like China is doing fine for a country that Trump has decided to block at every turn.
So they're two years behind ? They're catching up is the point. Plus China doesn't need the US market (or Europe, for that matter). China has plenty to do at home, and time to get it done.
That is one advantage of government the Chinese way : it doesn't change direction every four to eight years.
And ?
Competition is good. It weeds out the incompetent, leaves only the strong.
But I can understand that a member of the Trump administration is worried about the possibility that a country that has spent the last century making practically every bit of tat the USA cosnumes daily is finally spreading its own wings.
After having been copiously shat upon by a certain orange baboon.
Far be it from me to question scientific observation, but how is it that a disparate cloud of gas in the middle of the nothingness of space can retain such a temperature ?
That's a bloody high level of activity for electrons that haven't been doing anything for eons.
Given a few more eons, I'm guessing they'll cool down enough to coalesce into stars and solar systems, maybe even whole galaxies, but still I have to wonder : what was their initial temperature ?
I take that to mean that Borkzilla is mirroring your PC 100% of the time, instantly.
You had better not be on an ADSL link for this service. I'm guessing GB fiber is mandatory.
Just another excuse for Redmond to have control over all your data, but this one will really cost you.
But all that aside, I'm just wondering : if this is an instant copy of your PC environment, what happens when you get pwned by malware ?
What are the use cases for this tech ? Is Redmond promising that its Reserve Cloud PC will be immune to malware (it can't) ? What happens if you've lost your connection and only notice half an hour later ? A PC is, after all, made for working locally.
And when you do recover the use of your PC, what synchronization options are there ? And why should you trust them ?
As a Tolkien fan, I know exactly what that refers to. No, no link. Look it up.
As a European, it amuses me immensly to see just how successful the orange baboon is in isolating his country from the rest of the world.
A wall for Mexico ? My good sir (I'm being polite here), you're making a much greater wall of indifference and distrust and its cost will be the matter of debate for decades to come.
