* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

I paid for it, that makes it mine. Doesn’t it? No – and it never did

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SUCKERS!

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Feds put $10m bounty on Putin pal accused of bankrolling US election troll farm

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The only people who didn't who Trump was were those who had never paid attention to anything in their life.

It was a nightmare to find out just how many people that was. And it turns out, a very deadly one.

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Re: So Donald was right?

And it would appear you have attracted at least two of them

So have my upvote.

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It's a start

See title.

Your job was probably outsourced for exactly the reason you suspected

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Eggs-actly!

Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

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I cannot believe you got any downvotes for this, let alone two.

The really smart nations are already offering free education all the way through uni and casual learning.

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You get what you pay for

I my country. EE's, like so many other professions these days, now work on contract/temp basis.

Job insecurity is a real de-motivator. No mystery to me why there is a shortage.

My Big Coin founder is – you guessed it – a $6m crypto-fraudster

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It never ceases to amaze me!

It never ceases to amaze me how so damn many fraud businesses are this insanely successful at making millions and how so many legit businesses fail.

Outlook email users alerted to suspicious activity from Microsoft-owned IP address

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Re: Dumbf***ery abound

Ublock and NoScript are your friends.

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Re: Careful what you wish for

Geo-fencing is already a thing.

Oracle, Microsoft agree to shared custody of your workloads in the cloud

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Re: This is silly

Only an idiot would not care about who is holding your data and processing in their hands.

And if it's not on premises, it will never, never, ever, be safe.

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Holy...

Are you effing kidding me?! ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME?!

Screw that shit.

Security flaws in GPS trackers can be abused to cut off fuel to vehicles, CISA warns

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Re: Cut off fuel ?

There are a lot of savants in I.T. A LOT.

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Re: Remember folks ...

Indubitably.

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SMH

FFS.

It's almost like connecting everything to the cloud was not a great idea.

*facepalm*

After 40 years in tech, I see every innovation contains its dark opposite

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Re: Bricking It.

Thank god that's not happened before!

Oh wait...

Yeah, nailed it.

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Re: Once again, convenience

It's pretty obvious the Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B crashed HERE.

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Well said

See title.

Slack to increase prices for Pro customers

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Re: Please, please price yourself out of the market

And this after XMPP settled the technical aspects of the problem 23 years ago.

Look, it the wheel isn't re-invented every 10 years, are tech douche bros even trying?

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Re: Please, please price yourself out of the market

I was about to say the same thing.

They are still around? Who knew?

Intel’s first discrete GPUs won't be a home run

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Re: Those that strive for mediocrity often find it.

Not sure why all the down-votes.

My experience of over a decade with Intel graphics has proven to me to never buy one again. And I thought nVidia was bad.

The CPUs as well. Intel lost the plot years and years ago.

Why $52b chip subsidies are being held up – and what the White House is doing about it

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The chip companies can go boff themselves sideways

See title. They deserve NOTHING.

IT departments often regret technology buying decisions

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Re: Glaringly obvious

"Whether or not some regret can be blamed on technology being oversold or buyers being ill-informed is not a point of discussion"

Exactly. It is fact, the WHOLE damn point and cause almost 99% of the time.

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Re: The IT department is often the last to know

Truth.

Them: "Hello, I.T.? We've just made a major purchase with Lenovo and the new kit will be provisioned by IBM*. Can you deploy that across our national operations by next week?"

Me: "Goddamn you blithering morons!"

*yes, I know those are now two different companies. That's the point here.

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Re: One Reason

I've "salvaged" few nice odds and ends that way.

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I will never understand

I will never understand why, just WHY companies make it so damn hard to purchase things?! Websites designed by flying monkeys, customer non-support and automated voice menu hell.

And it's in every damn industry!

Even basic retail! No floorwalkers and no clear pricing to be found and only 3 registers out of 20 that are open. They are rejecting literally trillions in sales!

Never, never, NEVER let your company be run by bean counters!

Thousands of websites run buggy WordPress plugin that allows complete takeover

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Re: Built In

WP was never meant to be more than a self service blog for people who could not do HTML.

Then it went berserk. And it was never that good to begin with. It rode a wave of blogger mania (remember that ages ago?) and has a popularity it really doesn't deserve.

It's bloated trash with an administration interface that did too many drugs and now hears voices from a Monty Python skit.

Linux Mint 21 hits beta, and it's looking fresh

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Re: Snog marry avoid?

This. I've never had single problem with Mint across all the installs I've done.

For a "daily driver" it's as good as it gets.

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Oh, that reminds me

I need to update my installs.

SCOTUS judges 'doxxed' after overturning Roe v Wade

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Re: All sense of irony aside...

LOL, Gandhi was no doormat. Even though he preached passive resistance, there were times when he gladly overlooked very violent protests.

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Re: This data storage thing..

It favors both. Groups and individuals.

So yes, this is a self evident individual right.

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Re: Doxxing

I keep reminding people of this. Encouraging the downfall of the U.S. by violence will leave no corner of the world untouched.

Making the U.S. stop its evil ways? Yeah, that needs to happen. Sudden violent destruction of the nation? Who in their right mind wants a rogue nation that controls thousands of nukes and the most powerful military in history? For that matter, who in their right minds want a fascist theocracy controlling same?

No one, absolutely no one will escape unscathed from that scenario.

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Re: Privacy is mentioned nowhere in the US Constitution.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches...

The right to privacy is spelled out RIGHT THERE, you gibbering knobblywank.

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Re: The left no longer understand what democracy means.

Like that insurrection?

Oh wait, that wasn't the left.

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Re: This data storage thing..

5. It's the same thing.

Stochastic terrorism does not absolved the source.

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Yours is a strawman arguement.

The far right has already proven their violence and disregard for the Constitution and laws and rights.

When there is no one else left to appeal to, the citizens have the right take back their rights any way they see fit. That is the very foundation of the U.S.

If you or anyone else cannot tell the difference between right and wrong, a simple ethics class and common law class will fix that.

Weird Flex, but OK: Now you can officially turn these PCs, Macs into Chromebooks

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Re: So, wait, what? Why again?

This. Replace Google Linux with better Linux.

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But...

Why?

Just, why?

US EV drivers won't be able to choose vehicle safety alert sounds

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LOL, found the three Microsoft fanbois.

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Re: Take a cue from Cyril Kornbluth

Thank you.

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This. Modern cars are already so damn quiet you can only hear them from the tires noise unless the owners decide to make them loud or deliberately buy them that way.

This is a solution looking for a problem.

Intel axes Nvidia-powered NUC X15 laptops for Arc GPU reseller push

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Intel? GPU?

I'm never touching another Intel GPU if I have choice, ever again.

This big phish can swim around MFA, says Microsoft Security

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Maybe connected everything was a bad idea

See title.

1.9m patient records exposed in healthcare debt collector ransomware attack

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Criminals hack criminals

While it sucks that personal records were stolen, I have no love for the company either.

Much like when Equifax was hacked.

Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

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Re: Stop judging Microsoft on what it did a decade ago and judge it by what it's doing today.

...and that's the SHORT list!

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Re: There is no 'good', no 'evil'

Pretty sure greed is listed as an evil. Hang on let me google that.

Yep. Evil.

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Re: Mostly agree

...so you can't paint the whole thing with one broad brush.

Well, yes, yes we can.

WE owe NO company the benefit of the doubt, loyalty or patronage. NONE. Not ever.

Europe passes sweeping antitrust laws targeting America's Big Tech

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Re: Not good

Thank god none of that happens now!

Oh wait...

As for who decides, please take some college classes on ethics and common law. Right and wrong are not very hard concepts except to people who are ethically "challenged."

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Re: "if the rules are actually enforced"

Like Meta?

We need a Library of Congress – but for the digital world

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Already exists

The actual Library of Congress AND The Internet Archives have you covered and Google Archives fills in some of the cracks.

What's yer point?