No sympathy from me. All the big players in the tech sector bowed down to trump. Whatever happens now is their own fault.
Posts by MrRtd
117 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jul 2012
Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts
Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge
US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt
Zuckerberg admits Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts
Linux Deepin 23: A polished distro from China that Western desktops could learn from
Despite the highly subjective opinion of the author, I rather like having all the options KDE have built in, and as for looks, I don't want my desktop to look like a Windows or Mac Clone. And another thing, I can't stand the detached floating menu, just as I don't like the detached tabs in Firefox.
Reddit hopes robots.txt tweak will do the trick in scaring off AI training data scrapers
Manjaro 24 is Arch Linux for the rest of us
Apple broke the law with anti-union tactics in NYC, labor watchdog barks
Re: I don't get it...
Lazy management might do it that way, but seniority isn't the only factor they consider when a position opens up.
I was once an employee in a unionised workplace, and I can speak from experience that seniority is only one of the considerations, I got a position I applied for even though there were a couple of others who also applied with more seniority but they didn't get the job for various reasons like bad attendance, and what not. I also had more experience for the position outside that organization too.
Elon Musk can't wriggle out of SEC Twitter fraud inquiry
Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday
Re: Being remote is career limiting
"It will be the best people that they lose."
That is only partially true. Have you stopped and considered some of the best people may actually like being in the office. Also considering many businesses are also doing the return to office and others are doing layoffs there may be less "best" people leaving.
IBM-led advertising X-odus gains steam as more flee Musk's platform
Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza
Pizza snobs avert your eyes, you may not like what I've got to say.
If I were Australian I wouldn't be worried about being blackmailed. I like pineapple and I'm not ashamed to say I like it sometimes on some types of pizza. It goes great with ham, bacon, pepperoni, possibly other meats too, but I'm not a heathen, I would not pair pineapple with toppings such as anchovy or olives...
Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs
Google Chrome calculates your autoplay settings so you don't have to - others disagree
ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer
Munich council: To hell with Linux, we're going full Windows in 2020
New York Police scrap 36,000 Windows smartphones
Re: Why does she still have that job??
In her case yes she is obviously overpaid. But otherwise most civil servants get paid a livable fair wage (at least where I live in Canada). Oh and yes even with a union if you fuck up enough you do get fired. The union just makes sure there is just cause and treated fairly. But I suppose you think big bad unions are so unfair protecting their workers from the whims of managers and negotiating better deals for them than those workers would get otherwise.
Ubuntu 15.10: More kitten than beast – but beware the claws
Ubuntu Wily gaggle builds 15.10 beta beachhead
Re: Plasma 5 regressions = features
Or the devs could listen to the users and give them what they want, rather than passive-aggressively pushing users around into alternate and ultimately unnecessary (by some) software by "upgrading" software whilst removing features, when all that needed to be done is maintain existing features that are not broken and used by many.
Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations stalled until November
GOOGLE GMAIL ATE MY LINUX: Gobbled email enrages Torvalds
KILLER! Adobe Flash, Windows zero-day vulns leak from Hacking Team raid
Buh bye fakers? Amazon tweaks customer product reviews system
Re: BS, there is no will at Amazon, tech won't help.
Followed the link you provided, and was not disappointed. Based on a quick look over the reviews by the reviewer Alex, I've deduced that Alex is either a man or a woman, has children which at least one is a daughter, is over-weight, buys many life changing books, has an iphone because s/he buys lots of accessories, into photography, has a dog, into programming with Python, and every review is 4 or 5 stars. A total of 183 reviews since April 2015. Is Alex an amazonian-shopaholic or something else?
Microsoft dumps ARM for Atom with cut-price Surface 3 fondleslab
Avast there: MEELLIONS of Androiders scuttled by 'adware' game app
One Sync to rule them all: How Microsoft plans to fix OneDrive
VPN users reckon Netflix is blocking them

Is Netflix contemplating suicide?
Netflix will lose this customer if they start blocking access. The whole reason for my Netflix subscription is because I can access all their content thanks to VPN services.
No doubt the big media companies are behind this, as we all know they are averse to providing easy cheap worldwide access to content including content that should have been in the public domain years ago if copyright laws weren't bastardized.
Couch potatoes relax: Netflix scores big STREAMING TV PATENT win
Re: great, fine, congratulations
Buying a VPN service is relatively cheap and the software is super easy to install and use, then you can enjoy Netflix from any country your VPN service has servers and Netflix operates. I don't think anyone needs to be tech savvy to do this and I'd argue if a person isn't capable of this, they probably shouldn't be using a computer.
Gorilla Glass maker gobbles Samsung's fibre optic biz
TPP takes another tiny step forward
Microsoft's TV product placement horror: CNN mistakes Surface tabs for iPAD stands
Trolls pop malformed heads above bridge to sling abuse at Tim Cook
Redmond top man Satya Nadella: 'Microsoft LOVES Linux'
Hey, iPhone 6 fanbois: Apple's bonk to 'Pay' app IS GO
Adobe CSO offers Oracle security lesson: Go click-to-play
Jony Ive: Flattered by rivals' designs? Nah, its 'theft'
I've got a new Linux box, how does it work... WOAH, only asking :-/
Windows 10 feedback: 'Microsoft, please do a deal with Google to use its browser'
HP's axe swings AGAIN: 5,000 more staffers for the chop
Vanished blog posts? Enterprise gaps? Welcome to Windows 10
I tried out Windows 10 yesterday for a few hours. Aesthetically, it quite boring. Just more flat square blandness (I feel that Win7 was prettier). It was nice to unpin all the Tiles from the start menu, which is a huge improvement over Win8 start screen.
What I don't really like is the requirement of having an online Microsoft account and the defaults are a concern in relation to privacy. I especially hate the "Not recommended" suggestions Microsoft displays when turning off online connectivity for various apps. Then to uninstall pre-installed apps, you wont find them in the usual place (Programs section of the Control Panel), rather you need to go to PC Settings, Search and apps, App sizes. Maybe this will change, but for now it appears somewhat disorganized.
Overall I'm not really that impressed, the default pushes all things "cloudy", which to may appeal to some but not so much for anyone valuing privacy.
NYC, LA mayors hammer Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger
GitHub.io killed the distro star: Why are people so bored with the top Linux makers?
So I decided to check what the trends for Microsoft Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Andoid, iOS, OS X, Apple and Macintosh. I found that all the Windows' had declines, Apple/OS X/macintosh has steady with slight decline, then iOS is pretty bumpy (presumably due to their hyped up releases), and Android had made gains and seems steady.
So not sure what to take from these stats, but there may be a correlation between the falling sales/interest of desktop/laptops and the raise of mobile devices/tablets, and one thing is for sure and that is marketing is probably one of the weakest areas of any Linux distribution.
EU justice chief blasts Google on 'right to be forgotten'
If you want Google search to forget, you need to have the source altered or removed. Why is it so hard for anyone to understand that Google is the tool to find information, and if the information is there, I expect at minimum that Google provides that information uncensored.
A few years ago, I found some miss-information about myself thanks to Google. I used that opportunity to contact the website and had it removed, which eventually lead to Google forgetting about it.
This is a clear case of shoot the messenger. The EU has got this law completely wrong, and should focus on the source of the privacy concerns.
Americans to be guinea pigs in vast chip-and-PIN security experiment
I don't know about anyone else, but I like my chip-and-pin and contactless cards. Banks and anyone who has worked in retail know that it is rare a signature is accurately verified.
It appears that some US banks are using these cards as an excuse to pass on the fraud costs to the consumer. I suspect they will offer fraud insurance at an additional cost. Remember it's all about reducing their costs and making more money from you.
Microsoft throws old versions of Internet Explorer under the bus
Dr Dre's crew gets Beats-down from Apple: 200 jobs to go – report
Microsoft's Euro cloud darkens: US FEDS can dig into foreign servers
Android busted for carrying Fake ID: OS doesn't check who really made that 'Adobe' plugin
Could security be handled in a more inefficient manner? Google really screwed up this aspect of Android. Millions of users are left vulnerable because Google left the distribution of security updates to manufacturers and carriers, both of which have an economic interest in not providing updates, oh and lets not forget Google's own ridiculously short Android support term of 18 months.