* Posts by Ilgaz

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Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4

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"Ballmer leftover gang"

There is still a fraction at MS acting like it is 1998 which they claimed Linux doesn't even properly support USB.

I just installed ms-edge to openSUSE TW via Terminal and I noticed my default browser has been set to Edge. This is the only instance a developer abuses the "default apps" mechanism of UNIX desktop. That should give a clue about my claim. Ballmer ideology is still wandering around at MS.

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

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The first thing I noticed was VLC MSI package which was signed was detected as "dangerous". Please note, they signed the package. Normally many GPL licensed software refuses to sign their package as it is expensive and means nothing security wise. I think VideoLan guys made an exception so Windows doesn't alert non technical users.

I have sent feedback to Ms. At least they seem to have got rid of template monkey spammers.

Nothing good can come from such a incompetent company. It is completely impossible to know how many VLC installs out there. It is cURL level popular. Unknown software.

Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

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a wish regarding wayland

Unless wayland isn't the main point of 2 article, I wished it wasn't mentioned. It will create "noise", a lot of noise.

Hopefully plan9 will be mentioned, that strange looking OS and its ideas could become the next MacOS. MRAM, thousand++ cores may need the true UNIX V2.

Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared

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There is a worse problem

In a technical point of view, money should be spent to quantum computing hardware and software. For regular computing there should be a way to implement this thing on a p2p grid which will benefit the grid members somehow, monetarily.

The really worrying word in the article is Abu Dhabi based funds. Funds owned by oppressive regimes in the Middle East should have no say in such a massive power. They may look uneducated, filthy rich to you but trust me they have their own agenda. Just watch what is happening to Twitter.

AI/hardware is totally a knife thing. Can prepare food or stab a person.

Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion... but what about Firefox?

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Re: "Why hope... Brave... has had this for a long time"

It is really interesting that whenever a story appears anywhere regarding Mozilla foundation or Firefox, these guys appear out of nowhere advertising that browser.

For example we don't see Vivaldi browser fans. Speaking of which, the new CEO should ask for a technical review about why Vivaldi had to choose Chromium instead of Gecko. Why is it so hard to integrate it and the reasoning behind PWA cancellation.

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Re: Translate

If you do that, say bye to corporate, government and education desktops. Why would they do it while Tor people based their stuff to Firefox ESR?

IMHO even the "they won't be able to spy your browsing!!!" coming "on" by default is a mistake since private data vampires already "run as roof" at the background. It just breaks sites and for general user= "browser is broken". See top 20 websites.

I am telling all of above from from the general end user perspective while I am building servo browser from source on Linux right now. I really wonder what they wasted and the performance of it.

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Mozilla should do what Steve Jobs wanted in 80s

Steve Jobs is claimed to say something like "The war is over, IBM won, it is time to move on" back in 1980s to Apple. He wanted Apple to concentrate on markets where they have success instead of trying to beat PC clone sales and market share.

If people looked to performance and quality of code, all would use Linux or BSD. It isn't good vs evil either, they choose definition of evil in elections.

While I was trying to explain why she or anyone stay the hell away from apps like life 360,I typed "life 360 Mozilla" at 7 AM local to search engine. A result popped up too. IMHO this should be the foundation of new direction.

Is it a generally known fact so people don't mention it? Alt right, crypto bros and conspiracy theorists hate Mozilla and Baker. I bet they are investigating new CEO's cultural background,religion, some education grants etc right now. Actually as this is a British site, let's call what they actually are: Neo Nazis. When I cared enough to follow the trails, it always ended up in some alternative browser community.

The spyware business is booming despite government crackdowns

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This is about Desktop security not server.

You can't do much if your profile is specifically targeted by a state or a billion dollar company however every single day passing with zero competition on the Win32 Desktop security, it goes worse.

Yea I am talking about Windows built in security. There is no conspiracy, it is just nobody is that good. E.g. even Mr Cutler himself wrote it, they would find a way. Actually, the attack surface is gigantic compared to pre Windows 10. A black hat really knows which one to break now unlike Win 7 which had thousands of security configs.

DEF CON is canceled! No, really this time – but the show will go on

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Casino cancelled

For a global and technical attendees going to a casino for a conference was weird.

If one cares about "why" the cancellation happened they should find a business nerd and ask them. They may have some interesting financiers from oppressive regimes etc. Sometimes the explanation could be very basic.

E.g. find a way to make an ordinary Arab to circumvent Saudi billion dollar firewall and post it on "X". Watch what happens.

Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge

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Re: these designs coerce, manipulate, or deceive users and are therefore unjustifiable

It sure got annoying but Edge isn't a bad browser even on Linux. I am using it for a restaurants online ordering control panel which has uptimes like 10-12 days. No leaks of any kind.

It is really like Balmer left a small gang there making 90s things.

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Re: Linux/BSD is worse

It is a known/trivial thing that both xdg and crontab can be easily modified by deb/rpm however ethics have stopped packagers. At the last resort there could be google-chrome-stable-default package can do same thing.

Both are corporate packages which are abusing mechanism designed with good intentions.

About your crond: I remember Google was abusing OSX launchd with something triggered every hour.

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Linux/BSD is worse

Actually both Microsoft and Google abuse Linux (free desktop) default web browser mechanism to takeover the default browser status from Firefox or whatever you use.

See yourself. Install their Deb or rpm. See what happened to default browser setting.

Oracle quietly extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037

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Re: It’s Either That Or Move To Linux

I think they would switch to *BSD.

Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store

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Re: Slow

Not just that, it looks like you can't get wayland while flatpak version can with a single exrra command.

Will anybody save Linux on Itanium? Absolutely not

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Remember Crusoe had great X86 support in an interesting fashion. It wasn't a bad chip, it was acquired.

The issue with Transmeta was the gigantic hype created just by the Linus himself being there. We were checking Transmeta page source file and the page daily to see a single sign of "miracle chip" coming. The company or Linus did nothing to increase the hype, people hyped others etc. When the truly impressive (battery life) chip released we were like "So this is it?". It can remind you Segway however it was Kamen himself and the silicon valley billionaires hyped it to insane levels.

On the other hand, Russian Elbrus a respected company hyped up their X86 crazy spec chip which most of the people thought it was a pipe dream. EL2K or something. Chip really exists, it ended up being a military chip.

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Re: The influence of Itanium

Dave Cutler recently said in David Plummer interview that he was impressed by the concept of AMD64 immediately and they started the AMD64 development at MS right away.

Also another legend, Knuth says: In a 2001 interview, Knuth criticized Itanium for its complexity and lack of compatibility with existing software. He stated, "Itanium is a very complex machine, and it's not at all clear that this complexity is going to buy us anything in terms of performance." He also expressed concern that Itanium would not be able to run legacy software, which he considered to be a significant drawback.)

Control Altman delete: OpenAI fires CEO, chairman quits

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Re: Firing a CEO for lying, really?

A CEO can't lie even hide important information from the company board. American law is very complex however there must be a serious consequence of this. Additionally it is also a non profit.

The problem with Jon Stewart is that Apple appears to have cancelled his show

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The solution to such paranoia is Linux on open hardware. China can do it. You will see how software and drivers become RISC-V/Linux compatible in a matter of weeks.

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Re: Who’s Jon Stewart

I wonder if YouTube could step in? Thing about YouTube is, he can setup a channel via his laptop and have 10M subscribers without dealing with anyone in suit. People/companies make insane amount of money on YouTube.

Intel stock stumbles on report Nvidia is building an Arm CPU for PC market

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Re: What's with

I was happily using Windows and even tested an early Windows 7 with Virtual PC under G5 Mac. I believe they acquired Connectix for it. It was doing some crazy stuff to reach acceptable performance.

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Re: What's with

Actually what made me take Windows/ARM serious was noticing Adobe ships software for it. I mean Photoshop etc. Game guys may also be interested in truly portable machines with good performance.

I bet unreal/id are doing tests for a long time.

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Dual booters will agree

Windows and Microsoft ecosystem will waste that great architecture too. It is almost a cultural thing for Wintel companies, developers. They will waste any kind of CPU and IO for trivial, lame things.

I have a i5 laptop which sometimes runs DRM video etc stuff under Windows 10 having almost nothing installed. I actually wait for the system to be usable like 10 minutes after boot. There is also massively irritating fan sound.

Once I reboot the same machine to open SUSE Tumbleweed (rolling+btrfs) fan literally stops as early as it is booting and stays that way unless I do something like detect faces in 200.000 photos with all cores.

Windows 10's latest update issue isn't a bug but a feature – to test your patience

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Rolling release Linux

On openSUSE Tumbleweed (or similar) you get like 2000-3000 updates a WEEK sometimes and such catastrophic or system downing reports are rare. Even if they happen, they offer "fraction of a second" rollback mechanisms such as "snapper".

I remotely connected to 2 critical machines running Windows in panic after reading this story, they seem to be updated fine but this is absurd. These are also critical security updates and in that specific location they _have to_ be updated since they are exposed to Internet and local network.

Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard

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"Windows key+ L"

I remember playing with a 3d title animator program on my 68000 Amiga 500. I designed a logo set parameters and waited 20 hours to render until the cat pressed ESC and Y.

That's why I keep locking KDE/Win at home while I am out. When I come back there is always some text in passwd field.

Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more

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FOSS and Microsoft agrees one time

Rust even made into Linux kernel and Windows kernel. It is the most trending and famous language right now and Mozilla abandoned servo which was developed with it. I won't mention "pocket" this time.

Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

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CUPS is so important to Apple so they acquired it. Obviously it is still FOSS and they aren't Oracle.

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It is a good thing

While people can use an expensive printer from 1980s on a Linux/FreeBSD, they are doing this. One more false "perfect backwards compatibility" claim is gone.

Save the Children hit by ransomware, 7TB stolen

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There goes my Bing torture

I used Bing for my searches for over 15

days to gain "rewards" and once I hit 1000 points, I donated all to save the children.

Using a locked Linux or even properly managed/secured Windows was too hard.

Morgan Stanley values Tesla's super-hyped supercomputer at up to $500B

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I was reading about Itanium

On this iOS Google keyboard, Itanium or as the Register called it "Itanic" isn't even auto filled.

You should check Wikipedia which has a section about big name projections about the future and market predictions about it. We were supposed to run it on our desktops retiring x86

Nevertheless both Intel and HP were seriously managed companies by professionals. Not someone in a highly publicised mid-life crisis.

Windows File Explorer gets nostalgic speed boost thanks to one weird bug

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It senses a full screen application is running and enables game/movie mode disabling telemetry?

ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century

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I believe IBM licensed Scitech GRADD drivers which are kind of a VM to run graphics but you should check with Arca.

USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

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Re: IRC

Chinese may have done it on purpose since the Usenet isn't really easy to censor like the centralised web.

IBM shows off its sense of humor in not-so-funny letter leak

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Seinfeld quote

Father: And this offends you as a Jewish person.

Jerry: No, it offends me as a comedian. And it'll interest you that he's also telling Catholic jokes.

OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times

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"not there's anything wrong with that" (Adobe AI)

I was in a hurry trying to prepare a poster with a couple dining on an Iceberg to show a restaurant has air conditioning. When I type "a couple dining on an iceberg with wine on the table" to the prompt it showed same sex couples from minorities. I tried almost a dozen times. I didn't want to put anything racist to the prompt either.

It is kinda ironic that I finally gave up Photoshop not because of that AI but global warming. It is a really badly written suite with 100% CPU load. The laptop thermal shutdowns without AC.

"not there's anything wrong with that"

Seinfeld: Season 4, Episode 17 (a must watch)

Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop

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I looked around, serious cloud "PCs" are extremely expensive

I have a i5 CPU with Intel HD5500 GPU which really can't work well with Photoshop. It even overheats and shuts down and I _hate_ Windows. So I thought "let's rent some good PC which does have a good (non pro) GPU, 16GB of RAM and Windows whatever just to run Photoshop with Neural Filters.

When I finally gave up, I was looking to an offer from Amazon which was worth $650/month. Adding Windows license and GPU makes the prices crazy. I am not even talking about the stuff you would want to rent while having a good GPU.

The real amazing thing is, Adobe doesn't offer any solution to advanced users/small companies who doesn't really want to keep up with new GPU every 6 months. They are already subscribed. Just add extra "cloud processing" thing.

Arc: A radical fresh take on the web browser

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As the use of KB mentioned

I wonder if any of Jeff Raskin's ideas were used. There used to be a Firefox extension in XUL times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin#Pioneering_the_information_appliance

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me too but...

Does Mozilla make it easy to embed it to a browser? They even removed PWA.

another Firefox user.

Red Hat to stop packaging LibreOffice for RHEL

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Re: re: They will try to move you to the Collabora Online cloud

Game of thrones author happily uses WordStar 4 running under MS-DOS https://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/how-george-r-r-martin-writes-on-an-old-school-dos-computer/

Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for 'free' LibreOffice

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Re: I'd pay

The web versions of these apps are also free if you have an icloud account. If you like cloud things, worth a try.

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Re: Windows S store has been charging for some time

Libreoffice guys told me on Facebook that they are working on Windows Store version so it is definitely a leech taking advantage of Apache license. I suggested them to ship a Windows Store version just for that reason and an easy way to donate.

If they post a version,leeches are automatically eliminated.

Is the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope worth the price tag?

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Bing

MS Bing costed more and it is only good for wallpapers.

Near-undetectable malware linked to Russia's Cozy Bear

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Re: Click at your peril

No matter what you do or teach them, they will do it.

The idea is securing the workstation. I am shocked that a company sized as Solarwinds being in that business didn't setup complex policies. On Windows, you gotta be Administrator to mount ISO files or install such deep level software.

Everyone wondering around as Root, sh*t happens.

Misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott brings attention to FOSS archiving tools

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They really don't understand GNU/GPL philosophy

WinRAR Author is Russian too, he lives in Germany as far as I know. Issue is, we don't know if these people are Putin supporters or dissidents. Actually we shouldn't even have the right to ask.

GPL has a very stict "no discrimination" policy. People use open source/GPL software but aren't aware of "free in freedom speech" policy. E.g. an imaginary Ukranian missile may use 7zip internally and Pavlov wouldn't be able to discriminate it. Or, Zelezny could get sick of shareware winzip and run 7zip.

A legal analysis of "no discrimination policy" and how "no evil" policy has failed

http://cardozolawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/GREENBAUM.37.4.pdf

DuckDuckGo tries to explain why its browsers won't block some Microsoft web trackers

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What about Microsoft?

They are trying to position themselves as "nice guys" and "nice vendor of chromium" and they exploit their agreement with a search vendor.

They did harm both to themselves and competitor of their arch enemy. Let me guess, this agreement was done in Ballmer era?

Twitter buyout: Larry Ellison bursts into Elon's office, slaps $1b down on the desk

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Re: Dickheads?

5. Saving a social media network from authoritarian censorship.

with money from Qatar, one of the most democratic countries on planet with a perfect press freedom.

Jesus man.

F-Secure spins out new enterprise security business: WithSecure

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Freedome

They have this very unique offering named Freedome which combines VPN, anti tracking and antivirus but it didn't create such a splash. It is also kind of expensive but it is the security product that can race with free Microsoft antivirus.

For those worried about Microsoft's Pluton TPM chip: Lenovo won't even switch it on by default in latest ThinkPads

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Re: What's the real function?

You will still have to if you use kmod packages for Wifi etc. It can't be scripted/auto enabled either.

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Re: What's the real function?

As RUFUS is open source/use open source components it had to suggest disabling secure boot to boot Windows 10 ISO. People flamed author of open source/free software since it is "disabling secure something".

Reading PR response is one thing, reading manufacturers error messages is another https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1044664/

It is called: Microsoft Secure Boot

Wi-Fi not working? It's time to consult the lovely people on those fine Linux forums

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There is an app for that ;-)

Tell/use rfkill command for such situations. You can turn off wireless with weird key combos etc too.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/rfkill

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