Posts by Smartypantz

The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge

I want out

People want to be idiots

LibreOffice adds voice to 'ditch Windows for Linux' campaign

Re: As I've said before

OK Donald

Another fine simple solution to a complex problem. The whole problem with modern IT is the "winner-takes-all" inherent property of the way our tech works. Choice, and sensible standards are the way to go to create a diverse eco-system of tech with real competition and choice.

Mussolini-boistering like your post just leads to ever more stupidity which leads to the strengthening of the tech-bros, monopolistic stranglehold we have today.

Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping

Debian is easy

It doesnt get any easier than debian. No telemetry, no built in enshittification, world class quality and documentation. Cool and calm computing.

Ofcourse you can't monetize that unless unless you do a lot of shifty spin-branding, change the colours and name it something sexy ;-)

KISS -> Use debian!!

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

And a hell of a lot faster! Why is Windows taking 10-20 s to access a simple SMB share???? In KDE if you have done it right (fstab and so on) its instant! Even over the Internet and VPN.

Still can't get to your Outlook mailbox? You aren't alone

I haven't seen it, but i'll check the logs, been running my own mail server since 2006, so lives in peacefull bliss :-)

Microsoft warns Trump: Where the US won't sell AI tech, China will

EU support

If the EU put their money where their mouth is and pour some serious financing into Open Source and the European tech sector, MS better put their gloves on :-)

Fingers crossed..

Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl

Digital natives

It turns out that the "Digital natives" know jack-shit about the way things like the Internet works.

So "AI" are going to save the Internet from falling apart when the old guard takes a rest and the replacements thinks that the Internet is the same as SOME?

*BOOM*

Best regards

Boomer-techie

Want Intel in your Surface? That’ll be $400 extra, says Microsoft

Why?

Who would want windows 11 on anything? That hellishly nagging piece of noisy spyware, that keeps changing the ground beneath your feet with no warning, A weird schizophrenic experience where you don't know if you're on some kind of psychedelic spying social media or an operating system.

No thanks!

I'll take the calm of a Linux desktop any day. I need to get shit done, you know

Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5

Not a shock, but a blessing

" but Debian's very slow-moving release cycle can come as an unpleasant shock"

The slow moving release cycle is one of the things that makes debian so attractive. Some of us has to actually use our digital tools, not just play around with endless patching and change for the sake of change.

AI PCs flood the market. Their makers hope someone wants them

Double whoosh

Double whoosh

Whoosh

Whoosh

Google Cloud burst by 12-hour power outage in German region

Re: Is It Possible ...?

Off course not what you are asking is "is there a perfect system that never fails if i throw enough money at it?" -- NO!

Monocultures are ripe for pandemics. This principle is universal. Cloud services by their nature are monocultures. therefore they are a global disasters waiting to happen.

Is my custom setup on-prem safer?

Yes! If you know what you are doing!

Windows 11 user hurt by the KB5043145 update? Microsoft offers a way out

Re: 25 years difference

Microsoft is not in the "Install our Operating System and be vendor locked-in" Business any more. They are in the "Rent your computing from us and be forever enslaved" business now. they are teetering on the edge of sabotaging their own on-prem offerings.

The servers

Remember: All this shit is coming to your Windows servers too!...

All of our DB and web stuff is moving to Linux, The MS stuff just isn't trustworthy anymore, and we only run it when we have to. Unfortunately we still run a lot of Citrix servers and they are a pain in the 1ss.

Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK

Its the tooling stupid

I have never understood why the different stewards of Java (Sun, Oracle) did not create the tooling needed to use this great runtime. This was obviously the way to make money on java. Just like Microsoft does with Visual studio and all of that ecosystem (.NET CLR is "free" but the tooling end frameworking is not).

Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'

Antifeatures and lazyness

If you use "Chrome" or Edge" you either:

1. Like to bend over and hand over your shit to the tech-titans

2. Are to ignorant to realize how the Internet works these days

Microsoft squashes bug that sent Windows devices to BitLocker recovery

Don't use laptops

For anything else than terminals to your secured workstation

Problem solved (no software involved = success)

Survey finds that four in five enterprise endpoints could run Windows 11

Re: Five out of five could run...

Well you just have to hope MS wants to keep supporting your needs don't you?

"Hope is the best strategy..." Hey wait.... ;-)

EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft

Who needs enemies

When you have friends like Crowdstrike? ;-)

Re: Linux only had problems if the Linux admins were stupid

Maybe proper separation of code and user data would have helped, then you didn't have to emit all that CO2 to stupidly encrypt and decrypt the OS code over'n'over.

Re: Linux only had problems if the Linux admins were stupid

KISS has gone out the Window(s) This is a result, it will only get worse..

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

Re: Gluttons for punishment

Let me translate the issue for you: Laziness!

GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes

Looking forward

To genAI taking the shit right out of modern Internet enshittification.

What was that definition of insanity again??

Microsoft forges One Teams App To Rule Them All

That Franken-app of a Cluster F*** just needs to die

EOM

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

Re: I need classic outlook

Not an issue if you run your own mail server. As you should! ;-)

KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion

fluxbox

Luckily fluxbox stilll works perfectly, nobody's touched it for decades.. Hurrah!

Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it!

It's supposed to increase the lock-in to the MS Eco-system. Any user concerns was lost in enshittification decades ago. Windows is the prototype for this process

Re: Win2k was peak windows

"I just don't have the time to invest in making it do what I need/want it to do."

Expressing yourself in a precise manner, in any language, takes effort!

The Linux and UNIX OS's are very powerful, they are user-friendly. They might not be beginner-friendly, there's a difference. Often overlooked

So much this

I still have Windows server 2003 instances (I know, not pure win2000, but still) running on kvm. It's insane how fast that s*** is on modern hardware!! With just 1 GB of RAM. UI is "instant-anything!!"

Microsoft touts Visual Studio Code as a Java juggernaut

netbeans

IMHO netbeans is the best java IDE hands down, the layout is intelligent and intuitive, it has a full featured swing WYSIWYG editor. It has great support for PHP and C/C++ if you use the old 8.2 plugin.

Of course swing might look a bit dated if you are doing GUI's, and the other hand it's an easy way to do UI's that are not insane

CLIs are simply wizard at character building. Let’s not keep them to ourselves

Sabotage

If Microsoft didn't sabotage their own GUI how would they keep people from discovering that web based "Azure Portal" system Administration is grossly inferior to the old ways of doing things?

On CLI: I can configure, replicate distribute and change any number of sites or databases in CLI on any number *NIX hosts a hell of a lot faster than the clicking and probing bullshit in IIS!! Of course this requires a lot of experience, but there is a major difference between "user friendly" (what i just described) and "beginner friendly" (what Windows GUI's used to be).

Microsoft puts the 'why?' in Wi-Fi with latest Windows patch

Re: Oh the (painful) irony.

None of those are Linux, they're distributions. Linux is the kernel, this is where the hardware drivers live. Distro fanboism just distorts from getting things to work!

PIRG petitions Microsoft to extend the life of Windows 10

"All software reaches a point at which it's no longer supported"

FALSE

ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century

Screenshot

Looks good. everything is clearly readable, contrast is good and elements are easily identifiable? How strange when you're used to the sandblast my eyeballs with poorly designed light-on-light, jarring fancy-of-theweek train wreck of windows 10/11

MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall

LAMP/WAMP

Is dead as a door nail, and so is MySQL/MariaDB.

From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?

Re: Utterly Pointless

You are so right.. The Web browser is a piss-poor operating system ;-)

Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users

Re: the company saw more of this abusive behavior

It's not "free" maybe to many people learned how to use encryption, thereby spoiling these spying assholes data brokering business (ie. selling your privacy to the highest bidder)

Re: The limit on M365 OneDrive is 25TB these days

Agree apart from the RAID thing (even though mdadm has saved my ass for more trouble that i care to think about). network distributed filesystems + 10 Gbps network rules the day for large storage pools (see the ceph filesystem). I would NOT build large arrays with cheap 10 TB disks like i did in the old days when 2 TB was all the rage. I get cold sweats just thinking about the probability of two bad (tiny) sectors on a 10TB resilvering, Not to mention the time a takes to resilver 10 (or more) TB, with seriously degraded performance.

LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity

Cooporation

Decentralized co-editing and cooperation that is trustworthy and easy to use would be the killer feature!

Microsoft pushes users to the Edge in Outlook, Teams

Re: Chrome

And, the fact that they just gave up half-ways to creating their own browser, folded and started modding chrome into "new edge" says a lot about how serious they are about creating quality software!

Microsoft tries again to ignite interest in DevOps cloud security

Soo.. they recognizes the obvious impending doom

"Azure cloud" or any cloud is a global disaster waiting to happen! Anybody with ½ a brain knows this

Disentangling the Debian derivatives: Which should you use?

gentoo

Was actually also fine, ran it for a couple of years in the 00's, the switched to debian, and never looked back :-)

Systemd supremo Lennart Poettering leaves Red Hat for Microsoft

Re: Depart, I say, and let us have done with you.

Systemd is made for automated deployments in the cloud for organizations having the resources to maintain this approach, and, crucial, the resources to control the automated administration.

SysV init is usable by humans on systems run by humans. This enables independent computing, which runs contrary to the interest of the cloud vendors.

That's it. Sad but true

Incidentally, the same motivation is behind the insane release schedule of software like the chrome browser.

Brave roasts DuckDuckGo over Bing privacy exception

Re: Targeted advertising needs to die

Targeted content of any kind need to die! It's allays been the pipe dream of manipulating little shits that think they can predict human needs with what mostly amounts to keyword matches.

Discovery is an extremely important part of life, and the algo-driven dystopian desert that most people experience online runs contrary to that.

Windows 10 still growing, but Win 11 had another bad month, says AdDuplex

Facelift

Translated: Windows "Nefarious facelift 5" not penetrating bend over users as well as expected.. ;-)

Microsoft under fire again from open-source .NET devs: Hot Reload feature pulled for sake of Visual Studio sales

Always thought of it as ".NJET" :-)

Windows Terminal to be the default for command line applications in Windows 11

Re: When will I be able to ...

No we don't !

Your slow as shit "anti malware" (aka snakeoil) ridden windows "servers" are to slow and unreliable to store anything on.

HAR - HAR

- Nelson

Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser

Re: git, wget

Yesterday, because i do this for a living and live in the real world.

Let me guess: You identify as a "developer"?

We cant all just sit around scratch our asses/navels and "use git" to load the tons off bullshit you need to "develop" the next , agile version of "hello world".

Some of has to get shit to work IRL.

Re: Soon HTTP as well?

TFTP is the most UNsecure protocol ever invented,. It was only ever used to load boot images on trusted networks in the old days.