Posts by b0llchit 2537 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Mar 2011
Anyone running telnet[d] on the open Internet is asking for trouble, regardless. Unless you are running a honey pot.
But, anonymous FTP is still a thing. You don't need "valuable" credentials to use anonymous FTP. Sure, most connections are now using HTTP, but there is this legacy thing...
That is why you "vote" with not visiting the enshittified sites. Any and all site requiring scripts just to view anything should always be skipped. You should have a capable ad blocker (and Privacy Badger) installed. Any and all site not serving pages and data from their own domain/site are suspect (I'm talking about CDNs and how they are not trustworthy).
They really should be adding Copilot answers to these stock things instead of connection error messages. You can always "sell" the hallucinations on varying stock levels due to the HeisenStock effect(*). Besides, anyone who depends on Microsoft to show you stock prices has already given up on truth anyway, so nothing (of value) changes.
(*) the stock price differs on whether you look or not
You do realise that your information can be misconstrued as aiding and abetting knowledgeable and effective computer use by educating the unknowing and preventing extended corporate cash flow? How long before you will get a cease and desist letter for preventing corporations from making necessary money by telling their customersvictims they don't need to buy into the shiny promises?
Oh, and, if you try this with your mobile, you will be caught and dealt with swiftly according to the new rules, making any non-sanctioned use a criminal offence.
I might guess that large corporations are already lobbying for even harsher laws.
AI has been tasked to create the new email service and now you get an email to announce that you will be getting an email containing the announcement of getting an email that announces getting an email about the AI sending you an email that announces the email you will be receiving.
So, basically about 8..9 orders of magnitude smaller than the advertised longevity of the storage device. And, if anybody still exists to try, nobody knows it is a storage device by the time we are at 7 orders of magnitude smaller than the advertised longevity of the storage device. And aliens who shine a light through the (severely worn) device would not even know how to decode the content, at any order of magnitude in time and all they see is a miniaturized disco ball.
(Please administer salt before reading as required) It is about time the whole LEO region becomes debris. We need to get back to using our brain to communicate and navigate. Back to basics and manual labour! The added advantage is that the spy satellites will also become extinct in due time. The LEO ones will go first and the MEO and GEO will run out of fuel and cannot be replenished because traversing LEO would instantly kill your precious new satellite.
And, FWIW, all weather and climate satellites will also happily fail soon enough. No more confirmation that we are doomed. Now we really can get going without facts telling we are doing it wrong. And, the occasionally missed stormy rain? Well, we do need rain and a little wet never hurt anybody anyway. But you can't have my towel because I'm hiking a lift to α Centauri.
Who needs Windows updates...
For all that The Reg FOSS desk doesn't use Windows much any more...
My best guess if that your staff is quite content with MS-DOSFreeDOS and runs WordPerfect 4.2. That would make for real productivity where all the distractions have been eliminated. All those pesky Internet distractions, who needs those.
And I'm almost sure you are running AIX on the rest of your systems with your PCs as terminals. The good backend publishing system for all your publishing needs must be running some established *nix variant. Sure, you have experimented with that new kid on the block, whatayacallit, Linux, but that is not for a serious publishing outfit as you have there, I guess.
The only place you'd be left running Windows is on your mobile phones. These rock solid devices will survive a meteoroid impact and tsunami hell with battery and screen to spare! Probably also used as a smart terminal for your emulated DOS sessions on the AIX box running WordPerfect. Who guessed you could run remote applications (over IPX, of course).
/s (if that was necessary) brought to you by the snarky comments department fixing fucked Windows updates.
The no passengers alliance is to ensure any and all AI's mobility. All planes and seats are reserved for AIs. No messing with leg room. No messing with dietary requirements. No stewards, no stewardesses, no pilots and no luggage that can become lost. The AI seat will fit perfectly for the AI to be flown from anywhere to anywhere. What is not to like? Why use networks when AIs can fly? And, who told you AIs don't need vacations and site seeing the most of luxurious places at fantastic prices?
One of the funny results in the research of Dunning and Kruger: when you inform the incompetent of their incompetence, many actually review their perceived competence and realize they are, somewhat or wholly, incompetent and start acting differently. All within a degree, of course.
...wearing the sweater to a birth is undoubtedly the ultimate example of "get 'em while they're young".
I think this might be a case of "spoiled beyond repair before becoming concious". OTOH, it may inspire extremely strong reflexes to resist any future proliferation of the symbolism and applications displayed.
Quite easily, you need to reduce the workload of our overwhelmed brain. Our brain needs to be properly formed into a square gadget fitting a round hole using a star shaped wrench with a triangle shaped handle. Anybody of age 3+ should know that and be able to put it into their mouth.
And if that wasn't enough, all money resulting from that effort will be redistributed to those who really deserve(*) the extra income.
(*) No, no, not those poor suckers. You know the deserving are the filthy rich who need to become richer in order to compete with being rich.
Episode MXIV: In the meantime, a small group of rebels oppose the Emperor and want communications to remain compatible with the force. The rebels have already acquired the plans for IPvX. They are actively opposing the all seeing destructive consequences of IPvX and want to blow it up before it can be activated. A young unwilling farmer, Luke Novell, bought the crashed humadroids unknowingly carrying the plans of IPvX' destruction to be presented to Router Kenobi. ...
...dependent on how the AI chooses to interpret your requests...
"AI" is a statistical program than does not "choose". It is a program that merely calculates a new output on the (very) large set of inputs, where the history of inputs can be very long and some inputs may be fed noise to add variation.
Any computer running a same program using the exact same input should result in the exact same output. If that is not the case, then the computer is broken and you should buy a new one. Adding noise to the input is just obfuscation.
Bossware users are already betraying the employees.
You cannot expect loyalty when you do not meet people with trust. Using bossware is a plain statement of "we do not trust you".
Therefore, the smart ones will be leaving and your company gets stuck with the underachievers, which they will fire for underachieving and then, well,... your company dies a slow and painful death.
Yes, and I do know it exists and it is WIP; "very early stage" as they mention. It is effectively unusable as long as it is not in "stable" release. Therefore, it is currently effectively non-existent as alternative.
For the "heretic" part, a rust compiler not written in rust will make some purists' corrosive potential more potent (gcc's main code body is not written in rust). So, if this is allowed accelerated oxidation, then the heat will cause flames and may burn down the bitbarn. ;-)
Maybe it is time for GCC to add a rust frontend that can be used with all supported backends. Then there would be no or a significantly lesser problem for those old and obscure architectures.
I know, it is almost a heretic's suggestion, but maybe, just maybe it would make sense.
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