Posts by Pascal Monett 18880 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Dropbox has veered into scam territory. They've updated their taskbar icon to have a red block on it. Red means urgent (or even dangerous) in many cultures. The first time I saw that icon I thought there was an issue and I opened the application, but no, it's just attention-whoring.
I don't appreciate that. If they think I'm going to go for a paid subscription with that kind of attitude, I've got news for them : I'm voting with my wallet. No.
As a species, we are going to have to accept that what we say is our responsability.
The Internet has been, and still largely is, a haven for idiots mouthing off ignorance and hatred. And wokism is not helping.
That has to stop.
I say that regardless of whatever happened to that core developer. I don't know him, I didn't follow him, I'm unaware of the specifics.
But, globally, people need to shut the fuck up.
Oh, you mean that exact thing that some stupid pension fund is blaming Intel for trying to do now ?
Business over engineering always fails. Until MBAs get that drilled into their heads, there is no way companies will ever learn the lesson.
Anyone ?
Anyone who minds their privacy, you mean.
Firefox + NoScript + uBlock Origin is absolutely my trifecta when it comes to surfing the web on my home PC.
I would accept nothing less.
Chrome ?
I use that only to access my professional GMail, Google Maps or Google Translate. Anything else means Google can go forth and multiply.
As long as Beijing accepts our presence and can continue pilfering our IP with impunity.
You have engineering done in China ? Consider yourself lucky that there is not a Chinese company producing near-exact replicas of your stuff for the local market.
China is actively stealing every secret it can, and you are actually counting on Chinese engineers in China to create your stuff ? Talk about having the chicken pen guarded by the fox . . .
That sweetheart deal is going to be a lot less interesting if Boeing tanks, like it should.
Of course, if that is the case, there will be a "too big to fail" bailout, but the public effect of that would be disastrous - which doesn't mean it wouldn't work. After all, the White House can hardly imagine buying an Airbus 320 for its next Air Force One, now can it ?
Oh come now, imagine your heads-up display being the Pipe Screensaver.
Wouldn't that be . . . very distracting ?
Honestly, the more I read about all the bullshit they're trying to stuff into cars these days, the more I intend to keep my good ol' diesel running for as long as possible.
At least my car does what I want it to do.
And it doesn't talk back.
I thought the White House had banned China from getting the best goodies. So that must mean that Meteor Lake silicon is not considered high-tech enough to ban China from getting it.
Interesting. One would think that anything AI would be considered too sensitive to be given to China these days.
"we are actively and vigorously implementing an improvement plan to return to full browser acceptance"
Well all you need to do is follow the CA guidelines. If that has been so difficult for you in the past, then you need to actively and vigorously get your finger out and start working properly.
Why is it that compliance with recognized international stardards are so difficult for some companies ? Are they in league with criminal elements that prevent them from doing the job properly ?
Because, apart from sheer incompetence, what other excuse is there ?
I realize that this is way easier than coding an analysis into the Outlook client that measures what already exists and pops up a non-hackable alert when a new email address is discovered.
Now tell me why Redmond decided not to do that.
I mean, I'm an average developer and I'm pretty sure I could do that, so ?
"asked that the next payment made to it was sent to a new account"
In a word, no. Not until we have a written letter signed by the CEO defining the new account, and then only when we have made a test transfer and validated that it worked.
What is it with these new account scams ? I will transfer the money to the account I know. You can transfer it to another account if you so wish.
Honestly, by now accountants should know that, if the transfer is urgent and the account is unknown, it's a scam. Period.
Shareholders can easily also have shares in AMD, thus playing the two big (only?) horses.
Not to mention that, said shareholders are that cash flush, they should have shares in TSMC as well, giving them revenue across the board.
That's all ?
And they expect Redmond to act on that pitifully small amount of user pressure ?
Gosh, with the millions upon millions of people who use Outlook, not to mention the tens of millions in a business environment, you'd think that, if there were a problem all those users were all uppity about, there'd be a smidgen more than 100 votes to make a change.
No wonder nothing changes . . .
Not to mention that no country has the power generation required to replace all ICE cars with EVs.
But hey, not to worry, we'll all do like Germany and build new coal-powered energy stations to power all those wonderful climate-respecting EVs, right ?
No. They received a wake-up call to reality.
It is high time that funny money got the comeuppance it deserves : world-wide banishment.
There are no crypto exchanges that are reliable. None of them respect anything near banking charters, and all of them are staffed with incompetent idiots who are either waiting for a chance to skip with the money or are waiting for some hacker (or even a normal user) to empty their so-called "vaults" and leave them high and dry.
Funny money is an immense waste of resources and time, and everyone taking part in it is just a potential luser.
But people still can't replace their faces or their fingertips when those biometrics go wrong.
I am now at the stage of seriously hoping that one of those biometric databases gets hacked and sold on the dark web so that politicians can no longer avoid dealing with the consequences of individual privacy.
Given that, when I retire in around a decade, I won't be needing my Gmail connection, maybe this kind of thing could fit my personal bill.
Not to mention : a week on a single battery charge ? That sounds like music to my ears.
By then, I suppose the kinks will have been ironed out . . .
Okay, I know Jira is crapware, but it's crapware that's selling.
How is it that Atlassian is losing money selling software ? How bad do you have to manage things to lose money when you're selling the same code over and over again ?
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