
Will anyone who believes this
give me a shout. I have a few bridges for sale.
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I mean it would be cool to have a sort of AppImage-like bundle where you have a Windows application like Photoshop or MS Office that "just works".
Er, isn't that the mission statement of Docker ?
I'm a bit of a Dockler fanbois with HomeAssistant, piHole, Deluge, gPodder all running as containers on my little Deb12 server. All of a sudden arsing around with infinite combinations of Python, php, Apache, MySQL etc etc are history.
What you really want, is the ability to tell someone your location, without anyone in the middle knowing what it is.
Isn't that what encryption is for anyway ?
The problem here is that you have to rely on whatever ad-slinger is in your device (Google or Apple) to do that without slurping it in the process.
You really need an incognito mode for your GPS subsystem. So it can send position to a request without it being seen by the OS.
Generally, I'd happily say that rushing to patch is a waste of time. Every time you are risking system stability (a known known) for some variant of improved security (an known unknown). Not a great trade.
However, we all know that if you were to be breached. and it turned out that you had not been applying patches (even if that would not have prevented the breach) then it's sueballs at dawn.
If the UK government were serious about growth and attracting investment (spoiler alert: they aren't) then they could do a lot worse than develop an official framework that ignored vendor recommendations (which mysteriously always suggest increasing your spending) and provided a playbook for companies that would be backed in civil disputes.
The intention to build a new system, now known as New Branch IT (NBIT), began in 2021, with the state-owned company wanting to move away from the Horizon system, which became the focus of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in recent British history.
Which is still ongoing. Many victims still haven't received a penny in restitution yet, and are still facing a process of being told that being wrongfully convicted is really an honour and they should be paying the Post Office for the privilege.
Surely by now some wags will have developed a realistic looking website (and chefs kiss if they did it using AI) that lists loads of plausible but fictitious AI products that we won't be able to live without. (Survivors of the "smart" wars may recognise this, with a Stob edge ...)
AI shoelaces.
AI thermal mugs
AI Lazy Susans .....
As I said - a *meeting*. That is where a group of individuals all share the same space with equal input.
One thing the past week has done is uncover management practices that have fooled (some) employees into thinking that the Gods addressing the Pleds is somehow a "meeting".
If you can't say "I'll pick that up at the next meeting" then it's not a meeting. It's a rally.
of where the people on eye-watering salaries manage to have fuck all grasp of the business they are leeching - sorry - "leading".
I will bet cold hard cash, that somewhere in the corporate records of Starbucks, you will find plenty of upward communications saying "This is a really bad idea".
It gets better than that.
He has already established a narrative that the Garcia case has been managed by lawyers and he has "just signed" what they told him too. So now they have had their hands dipped in blood.
25 years of history shows me that Europeans are very very good at bellyaching, and fucking useless at doing.
It would have been relatively trivial in a Euro-scale of things to setup a project to deliver a non-proprietary client-server OS based on FOSS, *and* provide support for Euro companies using it.
But hey, it's "cheaper" to shovel $$$ to MS, so why would we do that ?
"already approaching the 5% "
and it only took (checks notes) 25 years.
At that rate it could be 10% in 2050.
Lot of low energy commentards these days. They seem to take statements of fact as an attack on their world view.
Ironically I am typing this on a Linux desktop machine that I have had in various incarnations for (checks notes) 20 years. And in that time, despite begging, pleading, and demonstrating immediate and significant costs savings, not a single BigCorp I have worked for has bitten.
Because the fact US systems are so hopelessly compromised is public knowledge, it follows that Uncle Vlad and the gang can't trust anything they read on it without additional verification.
It's a rather bizarre example of that adage "someone with 2 clocks never knows the time".
If we are incredibly lucky, the Russians will be using "AI" to sift through the petabytes of data they are exfiltrating. Which means they are pretty much handicapped from the off.
"it is not another contender for a Windows replacement, "
There are no contenders for a Windows replacement from the world of Linux. So if this was, it would be the first.
There are, of course, plenty of distros that us IT types rock daily. Personally I like Mint and Debian. However no one anywhere has even tried to make a concerted and organised push to deliver a grown up supported-like-Windows version of Linux.
And I have been waiting now since Dapper Drake.
Two things are guaranteed in IT.
1) The continuing dominance of Microsoft
(because of)
2) No decent Linux desktop programme.
So for all the sound and fury vented here, I can predict in 5 years time - even *with* US goods being as popular as a fart in spacesuit - the primary desktop OS will be Windows of some sort.
We all run Linux at home. We get it. But we don't run corporate IT do we ?
ISO standard for password complexity ?
Of course not. So everyone+dog has their own idea of what is acceptable.
ISO standard for MFA implementation ?
(Spits coffee out) Are you kidding ? We need another century on that.
This is better than nothing. But that's only because we literally have nothing to compare it to.
when it comes to working, isn't it ?
21st century tech produced in a 1700s factory.
Anyway my last place had a cashflow crisis and we were asked nicely to drop to 4 days. Which worked and the company recovered. However when the CEO went to restore the lost day, over 50% of staff said "you know what ? I like it this way".
So I was working a 4 day week for 18 months. And now wouldn't go back. (Currently WFH when I like).
the death of the data selling industry in the US.
If it becomes impossible for a data handler to prove they obtained the data legally (i.e. not as a result of this case) then civil courts should provide that anyone using the data has to pay the fine.
Overnight it becomes too risky to use *any* personal data.
To read out a one minute fix is not helping the cause of productivity in the west.
I suspect it's related to the decrease of facts/minute in modern TV "documentaries". Another demonstration of how to fil 60 minutes with 15 minutes of facts. Anyone who remembers "Horizon" from the 70s will know what I mean.
that "AI" isn't "intelligent" in any accepted sense of the word.
It doesn't understand whatever bilge it's producing. It's like someone who can vocalise the latin alphabet reading French phonetically without actually actually comprehending any of it. You could even learn the pronunciation and inflection to sound fluent, but still have no idea what you are saying.
"...are easily parted".
In this case anyone who believes a word about the "AI" bullshit revolution is a fool who may want to look at a bridge I have for sale.
When "AI" can remove all the "AI" shite from my screen in the same way I have to by dismissing the inappropriate ads and clickbait corners, I'll buy some.
Until then ... FUCK .... OFF
I'd pay to have all this "AI" cruft removed forever.
However as long as they insist on trying to charge for it, then I can continue to insist on not paying for it (with the related uptick in performance).
Same way I was never interested in a Smart TV, or some godawful infotainment system in my car.
If the only reason to upgrade a phone is to get the new "AI" shite, then my Samsung A7 has another 8 years life ahead at least.
Company I worked for lost internet for 3 months in 2023 after a cabinet strike that took out both the primary circuit and it's fallback (BT Openreach).
We had to distress buy a 5G router and reverse our VPNs to be able to use our hosting companies IP address whilst ours was out.
(Mind you a few years back our hosted servers went down as the secondary power had been connected to the main one bypassing the UPS).
+1
I have no idea what grifting outfit downvoted you.
Quantum cryptography (if it ever comes to pass. Where's my fusion powered jetpack ?) just means that you apply a little logic to your encryption needs. 80% of encrypted data will generally have a very short shelf life and can be generally casually encrypted.
And there is probably a lot of data that doesn't really need to be encrypted at all.
As in with all this fucking AI dross'n'shite around, how come no one - NO ONE - has thought to add a check for stupid size LNK files as a vector ?
You also find yourself asking what moron didn't put some sort of sanity check on the structure of an LNK file.
Because then you sidestep the charging problem by having a car that can go and charge itself when it suits you, it and the grid.
And if it can take a few passengers around while it's at it, it can start to pay for itself. Or the consortium that bought it.
Until then, pissing around with storage is like tweaking mortgage rates to fix the housing crisis.