Posts by AndrewCappo 15 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jul 2011
Keeo an eye on which extensions you've installed, and set them to have auto-update off. I've been the victim of a browser extension developer gone rogue — not a oleasant experience. Some yobs will say ',don't use extensions at all', and to that I say: should we bring back Lynx?
Userscripts, as fsr as I can recall, began life as bookmarklets — little bits of user-created code that lived entirely in a bookmark and executed on clicking said bookmark. Then came Tampermonkey, which allowed you to create your own sceipts, on your side of the browser, that could execute on page load. This was used mainly for stylesheet changing in the bad old days before Stylus.
You can put down your cane now, grandpa, nobody is remotely installing plugins on your PC. Except for widevine DRM......
Even with adblockers, piholes, and limited sandboxing, there are things on this wide wide internet that would loooooooove to get their bony hands on a machine like yours. Microsoft stopped providing security updates to regular 7 and 7 Embedded users ages ago. Firefox drops support for 7 next year because they are no longer certain they can harden the browser against future system-level exploits.
7 had a much longer life than anyone expected; it began life in a time when 2GB was more than enough to play simple games and handle spreadsheets on displays limited to 1920x1200, when comouter graphics cards had 256mb of RAM, and where hard drives indeed did go brrrrrrrr.
For much of the era of personal computers, the service life was expected to be about 5 years, with 7 years of security updates expected. Your windows 7 machines have long exceeded that. Unlike Cupertino, Redmond still supports your hardware for a few years more yet, if Internautting is your desire. It's called Windows 10 22H2, and it's available now, at no additional cost.
If your tasks are entirely offline, by all mwans, continue to use Windows 7, which is, in my opinion, the second best looking OS microsoft ever emitted. (Vista, you sly fox. You haven't aged a day.)
Astonished at the number of pro-plague polemicists demanding all re-enter the office, with no restrictions, being upvoted on this here forum.
So much for being a tech-based board where people longed for the ability to work remote — away from Dennis and the other meddling middle managers, not to mention Harold and the beancounters.
Tantacrul's reign over MuseScore has been pretty benevolent.
Absolutely cocked-up the Audacity revitilization effort, though — never, ever, ever introduce telemetry by default, even as part of an effort to, well, reduce the effort involved in using Audacity.
Here, none of the comment section cares one whit about his professional music experience or previous open source management record, and here's why:
It is impossible to tell well-intentioned dumbassery from corporate malevolence; they oft have the same effect.
The US is so divided that some people, whose existence harms nobody, find that their very existence is politicized.
In many states, Laura from Accounting could be tossed out simply for having married a woman. David from shipping might be evicted of the landlord learns that David was assigned the name Belinda at birth.
Express dismay that a cop executed a man for selling a loose cigarette? Carla, why do hate America so?
Companies that respect their employees tend to be the most efficent. But all too often, companies in the USA do not.
14 88 is a two-fer foghorn which you either decided to play dumb about or didn't care to Read The Flaming Article.
14 for the fourteen words, the neo-Nazi creed most infamously recited by Canadian nazi Faith Goldy at Charlottesville, a close friend of Lauren "Feast Replacement" Southern. (Lauren went on to attempt mass murder and inspired at least ten mass shooters who quoted her at length in their manifestos, including the New Zealand Shooter.)
88 stands for Heil Hitler.
This number shows up in a lot of alt-right and mainstream American right publications and social media postings. Jack Posobiec, Trump's favorite twitter propagandist, routine makes open references to the numbers 14 and 88.
ICE put out a press release last year fessing up to losing a bunch of detained children. The number in their public statement and quoted by the spokesperson? One thousand, four hundred, and eighty eight. (The number of lost minors, according to internal ICE figures, was 1502.)
Dilbert comic from '96:
http://dilbert.comhttp://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-12-21/
Asok: I'm only an intern here, but can I make a suggestion?
Asok: The Elbonian database system you're installing for our company will never work... unless I rewrite the entire thing with just six keystrokes.
Asok: Done!
Dog: I thought that sort of thing was only possible in bad movies.
PUNCHLINE
Asok: Hey, let's hack into NATO's system! I can guess their password in three tries!
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