Posts by ecofeco

Florida's content-moderation law kept on ice, likely unconstitutional, court says

Re: move the Social media out.

While a nice idea, it doesn't work like that.

Landmark case recognizes Bored Ape NFT as an asset

Re: Crazy times!

Your turbo-encabulator inductive capacitors might be in flux and need calibrating so you do not burn out the spurving bearings.

IT staffing, recruitment biz settles claims it discriminated against Americans

Re: "reached numerous settlements"

America has the best government money can buy!

Re: WTF DoJ?

At the very least.

Bing! Microsoft tests search box in the middle of Windows 11 desktop

Typical MS

MS: "Look let's move this thing."

Everyone else: "But why?"

MS: "?"

A uniform user interface is pretty much set these days. Just leave it alone MS. Stop rearranging the deck chairs. Tell marketing to go pound rocks with their foreheads.

Will this be one of the world's first RISC-V laptops?

OK, and?

What are the benefits of a RISC laptop?

What are the downsides?

Inkscape adds multi-page support with v1.2 update

Took 'em long enough

This lack of feature was THE very reason I un-installed Inkscape the very day I installed it.

GPL legal battle: Vizio told by judge it will have to answer breach-of-contract claims

Re: There Oughta Be a Law

I just never use any smart feature on my "smart" TV.

I just want to watch TV, not endlessly have to fiddle with it like every damn "smart" device in existence that really exists only to try and extract more money from me.

Re: Ah for the good old days...

Are you sure you don't want some nice fresh toast? I can make those in a jiffy for you! Or maybe you're a toasted waffle man.

Oracle really does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub

Re: Happy Days

HP is HP. The rest is just fiction.

Re: Couldn't happen to a nicer company

This. Manglement is solely to blame.

Bwhahahahahaha!

I hate both companies, but Oracle-extortion-by-license-audit, deserved this.

Live by the extortion... win stupid prizes!

Google opens the pod doors on Bay View campus

I can hear the echos now

What WERE they thinking? The acoustics in that place must be migraine inducing!

The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

Re: The curse of overchoice

Got to love someone complaining about Linux who can't use google. *snerk*

Re: The curse of overchoice

Windows has entered the chat, slowed the transmission speed and hidden the controls to fix it.

Linux is a feather compared to Windows.

Infusion of $3.5bn not enough to revive Terra's 'stablecoin'

Re: So to summarise...

Or Flooze and Beanz!

Re: The only downside

Exactly. They eschewed, to the point of very loud proclamation, they did not ever want government interference.

Now then can sleep in that bed of consequences. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes and cry me a river.

Eat the rich

When the rich have 42 BILLION dollars to just burn, they have too much money.

When they also burn billions more on other failed enterprises, they are a proven detriment to every society on earth.

Fully automated AI networks less than 5 years away, reckons Juniper CEO

LOL wut?

Bwhahahahahaha. Go on, piss on my other leg.

xkcd: Dependency

Toshiba says it's talking to 10 suitors about possible sale

The once great zaibatsu

It's seems all the once great zaibatsu are dangerously moribund.

Another ex-eBay exec admits cyberstalking web souk critics

Well knock me over with a feather!

One of the master(bater)s of the universe is facing felony charges!

And I'll say it again: it's amazing how dumb the rich are.

We can bend the laws of physics for your super-yacht, but we can't break them

It's amazing innit?

How dumb the rich really are.

Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-Big-Tech content-no-moderation law

Both are un-Constitutional

These laws violate the interstate commerce clause in that no state has the power to regulate interstate commerce.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI_S8_C3_1_2/

Open-source leaders' reputations as jerks is undeserved

I know none of these people personally

But what I do know is that open source and shareware and freeware are a godsend against the corporate tech douche bro walled garden of insanity.

That alone makes them OK in my book.

Half of developers still at screens even during breaks

Re: Not a dev...

Oh well looks like the bird of inspiration has shit on my screen..... maybe I'll bang on the roof so the seagull of annoyance takes off and shits on his car...

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Re: Sixty-two percent of respondents' employers encouraged physical and mental wellness at work

That's just crazy commie talk!

Intel blames software, COVID lockdowns for Arc GPU delays

Too bad, I guess?

I'm done with all things Intel graphics. Their history of unexpected glitches and weird conflicts has soured me forever.

Trying and failing to update Visual Studio? You aren't alone

This. I'm close to retirement age and cannot wait to leave the entire shit world of MS.

Oh wait, Azure is now everywhere on the web. Well damn. :(

Same ol same ol

I wonder if I will live long enough to see MS finally abandoned and recognized for the shite it actually is?

Naw, too much Stockholm Syndrome out there.

OpenAI's DALL·E 2 generates AI images that are sometimes biased or NSFW

Re: "Trained on images scraped on the internet"

GIGO!

Re: Sorry, computer said "no"

The sad truth.

Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon

Brilliant sub head

Says it all.

Pyramid Analytics receives $120m in VC funding for 'decision intelligence'

Re: 'decision intelligence' - Really?

This quandary already exists and smart lawyers are already fighting against it.

See "lawyers fight against unfair AI decisions"

Too stupid to run a business?

Any one who uses this system has just admitted they are too stupid to actually run a business.

Sure sounds like one.

Outlook bombards Safari users with endless downloads

Microcrap as always

Microsoft gonna Microsoft.

US judge dismisses Republican efforts to block release of Salesforce emails

It's hard for folks with recto-cranial-inversion hypocrisy to hear things.

Bwhahahahahahahah!

Excellent!

Re: There is a lesson here...

SPLITTERS!

Re: Only in 'merica

Oh do shut up.

A discounting disaster averted at the expense of one's own employment

Re: Alarming, fired.

Because the end client would never accept the real cost. So everyone down the line lies to get the contract.

And while it's smart to try and save money by everyone from the end client to the sub-sub-sub-contractor, there is a relevant old saying: "It's good to save money in business, but you can also save yourself right out business."

Intuit sued over alleged cryptocurrency thefts via Mailchimp intrusion

Re: Pot meet Kettle

Exactly.

In IT, no good deed ever goes unpunished

Re: I've met this is in all sorts of projects. Mostly not IT related.

...or a small can of air.

Re: The EDI project .....

Gospel right there. ^^

Re: Management sometimes has very weird ideas

You are not even joking.

Oh many times

Learn the lesson many times that the incompetent do not like to be shown they are incompetent and would rather bankrupt the company than admit they are incompetent.

So now I just do my job to the letter and cover my ass as best as possible.

Every company says they want better everything, but they really don't. They really don't.

Apple's grip on iOS browser engines disallowed under latest draft EU rules

Re: Browser Warz

Agreed. And your donwvoters can feck right off.

Re: Shiny shiny ...

Do try and keep up.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/20/18273888/google-eu-browser-search-choice

Re: If they are attacking Apple for not allowing Chrome

Do try and keep up.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/20/18273888/google-eu-browser-search-choice

Wait until you hear about satellites!