Posts by 4d3fect

Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else

Personality implants have failed--so far

Twitter tries to lure brands back with spend-matching scheme

Betting or beating?

"Time to open that office betting pool."

--the betting will continue until morale improves

Tesla reports two more fatal Autopilot accidents to the NHTSA

"drivers urged to remain alert"

You don't say?

New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard

Truss reppers

will be persecuted to the full extent of the law!

Musk reportedly wants to gut Twitter workforce by up to 75%

Ghastly. I'm relieved now my son never got hired by Twitter. (Initially I was annoyed)

California asks people not to charge EVs during heatwave

Not that unusual to have a heatwave first week of Sept

I live here, and early Sept heatwaves are not uncommon. Don't understand the media hysteria on the subject.

Google says there's no Waze forward, carpool app axed

Which is fine.

For my purposes , th only the information I needed out of that article was its last sentence.

Could have put the last sentence first, you know.

Ubuntu 22.04.1: Slightly late, but worth the upgrade

Just got the notification to upgrade from 20.04.4. Guess I should look over the release notes.

Our software is perfect. If something has gone wrong, it must be YOUR fault

Re: '...own web-hosted user community forums...'

....but I don't have a dead badger!

Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? Consult our cynic's guide to desktop Linux

My last three Ubuntu upgrades (16>18>20) have been painless, and in fact, kind of boring in a good way.

Maybe I'm a non-power-user/undemanding type?

Getting from 6 up through 15 was an adventure though, I'll give you that.

Did ID.me hoodwink Americans with IRS facial-recognition tech?

"increase equity"

Whose?

Yours, I expect?

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

Re: Pull the udder one

Naaaay.

Meetings in the metaverse: Are your Mikes on?

as if we're waiting for a dental appointment except without any copies of Readers' Digest or an out-of-date Ikea catalogue to keep us amused.

No stacks of Highlights?

Fish mentality: If The Rock told you to eat flies, would you buy my NFT?

Congratulations on 10 years here. Always look forward to your dabblings--erm, dribblings, I mean scribblings.

BOFH: All hail the job cuts consultant

Re: "Gerard's going to recommend firing the board."

"Pitchez la vache!"

A tale of two dishwashers: Buy one, buy it again, and again

Strangely, haven't got that yet. Although now when I order something for my wife on Amazon, I tick the "is this a gift?" box. That seems to help.

That's a signature move: How $320m in Ether was stolen from crypto biz Wormhole

Re: Nominative determinism

..or at least makes you helpless and irresponsible.

James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its new home – an orbit almost a million miles from Earth

Cursing the darkness?

Predictive Dirty Dozen: What will and won't happen in 2022 (unless it doesn’t/does)

Re: It will be the year of AI

"I don't know how much more taking of it I can be!"

Re: Can we try and get HMG to join the crowdfunding lark

In Cali myself (think Bugs Bunny's wrong turn) , used the myturn app and made an appt at our local county health dept. Jabbed and recovered before Xmas.

Sorry to hear about all the probs elsewhere.

Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done

just put him on th "B" ark.

Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot charged with deceiving US aviation regulators over MCAS

Boeing I'm sure has different labels ready to apply to this person, here are just a few to choose from:

Lamb

Patsy

Fall guy

Former employee

Contractor

Rogue

Liability

Depreciated asset

Ubuntu on a phone, anyone? UBports reaches 18th stable update, but it's still based on 16.04

This is the year of the linux ph-

I'll see myself out now

HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink

Dumb printer for life!

We don't print enough of anything to justify any but the smallest expense.Hence a dumb (yes, it's an HP) inkjet.

Why are we disappointed with the best streaming media box on the market?

If you're a SF Giants fan

No amount of Roku goodness will save you from that world of pain.

On a side note, we have older Roku 2XS patched into our little home theatre setup and it works fine.

Only plan to upgrade once one of the components fail. So far, so good.

We have limited OTA content locally, being out in the sticks, reception-wise.

Linux 4.14 'getting very core new functionality' says Linus Torvalds

Started with Dapper Drake, dualbooting with 98SE. Got a lot of help from Ubuntu fora, yet not nearly as much grief as might be expected considering all the stupidity I evinced. Most problems came down to HDD or GPU failures anyway, not OS issues.

San Franciscans unite to smite alt-right with minefield of doggy shite

Gave away the game plan, didn't they?

Well, I suppose they must make their duty clean---er, clear.

Nasty firmware update butchers Samsung smart TVs so bad, they have to be repaired

Cue Internet of Shit post

in 3.. 2..1..

Juicero does to its staff what your hands can do to its overpriced juice sacks

Other reasons this is despicable

I've been wondering--since the guy was involved with a beverage company (Coca Cola or some such) --if maybe the reason he got so much VC funding was some speculation (well duh) that they could turn their system into a beverage-dispenser type business model: you see one in every fast food joint, theatre, convenience store, &c here in the states. That's some serious money.

Another reason to hate this is that Oprah gave one away to the cast and crew of A Wrinkle In Time.

Ubuntu Linux now on Windows Store (for Insiders)

No "year of the Linux desktop" jokes?

--I am disappoint.

Talk about a hit and run: AA finally comes clean on security breakdown

AA

Hi, my name is Ford, and

--you already knew that?

America throws down gauntlet: Accept extra security checks or don't carry laptops on flights

It's still whack-a-mole.

You just don't recognize the mole.

Walmart workers invited to shuttle packages

It is to laugh.

Distro watch for Ubuntu lovers: What's ahead in Linux land

Re: Printing

Have the original HP deskjet that came with our original W98SE system, it's been working with nary a hiccup since we went with Dapper (Ubuntu 6 ish IIRC), still does now with 16.04.2. Don't print much anymore anyway, thought that's what modern tech was supposed to supplant?

Re: Slackware

Gesundheit!

Trump signs executive order on cybersecurity, White House now runs the show

Literacy--your friend

He'll be unlikely to read the reports anyway--unless they're double-spaced, on a single page, preferably WITH PICTURES!

Linux homes for Ubuntu Unity orphans: Minty Cinnamon, GNOME or Ubuntu, mate?

Lazy yank here.

(that doesn't sound obscene, does it?)

I just use the latest stable Ubuntu and log in with gnome-compiz selected. Easy.

Only reason I keep windows around --not that anybody asked-- (dual-boot on our home box) is for the software for our harmony remote.

Trumping free trade: Say 'King of Bankruptcy' Ross does end up in charge of US commerce

No naming please?

Can we all agree to stop using his name, a la the Harry Potter works? Call him the Yam, or Cheetolini, anything, just stop gratifying his insane urge to see his name in print at any cost.

I see the door, I'll let myself out, thanks.

ARM: Hold my beer, we'll install patches for your crappy IoT gear for you

"It's all going to end in tears."

'I'm sorry, your lift has had a problem and had to shut down'

Re: Elevator

"Left in the lurch by a lift"

Having offended everyone else in the world, Linus Torvalds calls own lawyers a 'nasty festering disease'

Too much coffee, man.

Linux Mint to go DIY for multimedia

Back to Hardy.

AT&T suddenly finds demand for 1Gbps fiber in Kansas City – just after Google arrived

Nice bandwidth if you can get it

If I could get it I would. (Being out here in the sticks, ~50Mbps is about as good as I can do.) AdBlock Plus, NoScript & such would take care of the most objectionable ad stuff.

And I just automatically assume ALL ISPs slurp your data.

Hollywood's made an intelligent science vs religion film?!

So this wasn't a film about how St. Steve started the fruity tech?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone movie: report

Especially liked Brick,The Lookout, and Manic.

Re: Re-watching 3rd Rock

Very Busy. HitReCord.

NO TIME to read Facebook? Delegate the task to your FUTURE SELF

Meh

We sent a probe SIX BILLION km to measure temperature of a COMET doing 135,000 km/h

Re: Impressive and I'd expected it to be *much* colder

Interesting, since I just finished reading an old copy of Heart of the Comet (Benford/Brin collaboration)

27 Data-Slurping Facts BuzzFeed Doesn't Want You To Know!

NoScript. If you MUST engage with Buzzfeed for some reason.