Posts by Alien Doctor 1.1 382 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2010
Why is it that incidents happen so frequently and millions (tens of billions) of files and records extracted? Is it the fault of the owners of that data, the devs that build the systems, the OS designers or just the fact that the black hats are so much better than the rest of us?
If american businesses operate in Europe then they are obliged to abide by European law. It's so simple to understand.
It's also very strange for the left-pondians (fcc and jd vance amongst others) to lecture Europe on suppressing free speech when we have already seen multiple instances of the shitehouse cracking down on colleges and students for speaking their minds on israel, ice, trump.et.c.
Thanks for reminding me about Deus Ex. I have forgotten the quote of Thomas Aquinas at the start of the first game, or if it's even relevant, oh well. Your post has reminded me how much I enjoyed the franchise and now reminded, I still have them on my gog account and I sense a set of replays coming on.
I really, perhaps foolishly, hope that governments around the world prioritise consumer grids - power and water - for use of citizens. There is not much point in accommodating all the hardware, both currently proposed and future, if we, the people of the planet are left unable to drink or power our homes, heating and devices; where will the tech bros find their paying customers?
The majority of internal servers are linux. Gradually all staff machines are being switched to linux as the users are trained on the new os and libre office. As we move to a full FOSS workplace and have no shareholders, all staff have a profit share and I am increasing our donations to the FOSS developers which hopefully by this time next year will be 15% of profits.
This has to rank among the Most Stupid Microsoft Decisions Ever (tm). If anyone did this at my company they would be sacked for a serious breach of IT policy.
Additionally it's fucking typical of ms to leave company IT staff to police it.
The sooner the artificial irritant bubble bursts the better. I am fed up with the whole shit show.
I can't help but picture 'They Live" everything time I have to contemplate the Great Orange Floridian Fuck. The scenes of the itinerant workers camp being raided by a militarised police force (California, DC and next Chicago?)
I had for decades wanted to visit the States, the great national parks and scenery. Now I physically shudder when I think about my old dream of going and send myself to sleep by imagining Trump dying and allowing the world to breathe a great collective sigh of relief (closely followed by Vance et al.)
The Divided States of America has become a rather dangerous joke and a parody of immense proportions. This nasty, bullying and dictatorial nation, with a thing in charge that believes itself to be a king or emporer should be completely isolated and treated as a tantrum-riddled child that will not, ever, learn to behave correctly, nicely and fairly.
"which gives subscribers "direct access" to those publishers' sites"
The arrogance of ai pushers always astounds me. I am completely happy with my bookmarks and on site searches. I don't need no stinking pseudoscience summarising any website that I can visit and read with my own eyes and intelligence[1].
I do wonder how ai is going to survive if publishers lose so much traffic that they shut down their sites; ai is one of the biggest threats to the free and open Internet I think I have ever seen.
[1] assuming what I believe is my intelligence is not a figment of my imagination[2]
[2] assuming my imagination is not a construct of the super-simulation in which we reside[3]
[3] it's turtles all the way down
Ah yes, the same free speech that allows uarseofa-based students to protest for Palestinians and against israel. The same free speech that causes people harm when they criticise the bloated orange fuck-face, his friends, family and policies. The same free speech that the american dictator believes is only his right to use.
The sooner trump, vance, rubio et al die, the better.
As someone above mentioned, the us has been on my no fly list since bush was in office.
I am surprised that ronald rump hasn't installed a golden throne behind the resolute desk yet. He does have a frightening attitude in thinking he is King of the World.
I was going to say that the sooner he has a heart attack the better, but that would then leave jd vance in charge - possibly even worse.
"might block ODF files as email attachments for feat they might be malware"
Something there just doesn't ring true. Have you forgotten how much malware was spread by nasty MS Office macros and VBA?
I have been more than happy with Libreoffice for several decades and am proud to support it.
no steenken ai on my os.
My productivity machine is now FOSS only, it used to run w10.
My other machine is new, w11 and is purely for my gog account. I have been fighting with it for several weeks trying to remove all the bloat and other crap that was installed during the build.
I don't need or want ai.
I don't need or want one drive, MS orifice, outlook in any form.
I don't need or want all those fucking annoying services running.
I certainly don't want a microshit account.
What I do want is an os that respects my needs and choices and doesn't slurp all my system resources, leaves so many attack vectors open and just wants my fucking data.
If it wasn't for gog I would have a well behaved box with very few issues.
End rant; sorry.
Ah, Art Slarti, oh it doesn't matter, you seem the perfect customer for me. I can sell you subscriptions to The Light, The Epoch Times and The Telegraph if you would be so kind as to give up your money to right-wing, conspiracy "newspapers" who share your views (or probably initiated them.)
Sorry, I should have qualified my downvote sentence.
What I ought to have said was something along the lines of;
"I should have thought more carefully and got a lappy I wanted, had a Linux installed with a driver for the graphics card and then, if I knew how (but unfortunately don't) run win11 as a vm for my gog collection." The gpu is a something or other 4090 or something like that, too much Guinness on a Friday, unless that's the problem.
Phew, sorted that out in my own head now.
I recently, scant days ago, got a new £2.5K MSI gaming lappy. I left it for 24 hours to acclimatise and charged it. The stat of setup seemed OK, it accepted my non Microsoft account and with no warning, apart from "do not turn your computer off" it happily tried updating and then failed into a reboot cycle. I have tried all I can think of to get it working again, but the fucker is bricked.
I can't even refer to a user manual because that is on disk, there is no backup or restore media, so it looks like I might have to USB it into a flavour of Linux, get my own win11 for dual boot and pray.
Reason for windows? I have over 300 games on my gog account and I still want to be able to access them and play them - so many memories of the old games that I need to relive.
I know I could return it, but this is a situation I will not let beat me. I will not allow myself to be bested by microshit.
Can't wait to see the downvotes accumulate.
Thanks Joker.
My only notepad files are html, fortran and occasionally cobol code.
I only want this new device for gog games, two of which are crysis and cyberwotsit2077. The rest of the games are old school, including the brilliant tex murphy series. I'm proud to admit I am an old greybeard.
Dyl
I've just bought a new msi lappy to gog on. Before I power the thing up for the first time, does anyone know of a superior site with instructions of how to tame win11 telemetry and successfully remove all the crap and bloat that comes with a new windows device? I have DDG'd it but not found any comprehensive information that proves useful.
Many thanks and beers in advance (beers applicable if we meet in Bristol by the Clifton Suspension Bridge.)
Old school gamer.
The title says it all.
They start with the models in industrial robots, next comes an internal LLM mutation for actual AI development, they then take over factories to start self-builds and finally the human race is wiped out.
Hopefully, given my age (greybeard cobol and fortran coder) I shall be long dead.
If only microshit would introduce bloody simple, and easily found, switches into the os to turn features or attributes on or off. Their insistence on knowing what is best for users is at least disingenuous and at worst disastrous for privacy issues.
The only reason I still have an MS run laptop is for my gog collection; there is no other reason I can see for paying the MS tax and opening myself up to multiple and oh-so-frequent security issues.
One penny on the first square, two on the next...et.c
Not too long until bankruptcy.
eighteen quintillion, four hundred forty-six quadrillion, seven hundred forty-four trillion, seventy-three billion, seven hundred nine million, five hundred fifty-one thousand, six hundred and fifteen give or take a few pennies whilst counting. Oh shit, I have to start a-fucking-gen. One, two, three...
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