* Posts by Alumoi

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Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant

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Out of curiosity, did you look under the hood to see where Firefox is getting its safe browsing data from?

March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club

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Testing? We don't need no freaking testing, that's what the users are for!

Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole'

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Re: the only way...

They can only impose fines which bribes will make certain won't be too big. And the fines will be passed to the sheep, as always.

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Re: Nowhere do they say what of their private information Microsoft ever improperly collected

Spitting out verbatim (too large a chunk of) an article can be a copyright violation.

Repeating information from that article, using a different form of words - and especially if combined (even badly) with information gleaned from another source, is not.

So, theoretically, if I'd get my hand on Windows source code, remove all the bugs, telemetry and useless crap, add a lot of impovements, it wouldn't be a copyright violation, right? After all, I'd be cutting it down to under 50% so it won't be a too large chunk of it.

Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments

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No, I'd like to NOT pay a fee every time I load a page. If you can't support your site then don't publish it. If you want to make money off your site, paywall it.

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Shirley you meant bend over.

SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal

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Re: Why does a software company need company cars?

Ever tried to diagnose a not-freaking-connected-to-the-internet equipment over Zoom?

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x

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Re: I use....

Is every device on Earth supposed to get its own TLD, which will have to contain random alphanumeric strings?

Isn't that what's IPv6 for?

Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage

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Re: I was wondering why things were so quiet today

It's not even that. It's hush money so corporation won't start rising hell.

Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it's hurting the secondhand market

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Re: No real surprise

I'd say hookers, booze and drugs, but I thinks that's for CEOs not workinng bees.

Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook

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Water is wet, bears do whatever they do in the forest, you are tracked 24/7 and advertising doesn't work.

So, anything new worth talking about?

How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds

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Re: outSHONE

...lack of spelling and grammaer...

Riiight!

Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms

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Re: Single point of failure?

Let's go by committee, Microsoft style. That will teach Linus how an OS is done.

Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors

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What raidsharing companies? You mean the ones that operate just like taxi companies but refuse to obey the law (licensing, insurance, responsability)?

Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before

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Re: Only for a specific type of open source, and only from a certain viewpoint

Have you tried to use Windows?

Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail

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Maybe? Definitely!

After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients

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From your backup. Ooops!

Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?

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Re: Once again MS generating more unnecessary E-Waste…

Ye Gods, you had to say it out loud!

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Old man. 3D print yourself a nice cap that goes over that stupid row of media, mail, internet, power and whatever keys.

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A program is a piece of software you wrote yourself. An application is a piece of software somebody else wrote and is asking you money for it.

BTW, what's the difference between directories and folders?

New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law

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Re: Think of the Grid!

I cook with gas. Just saying.

Google to start third-party cookie cull for 30 million Chrome users

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Re: What's the betting

One can only hope!

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Re: Armchair

Do they really think people are that stupid?

Ahem. People keep voting for the same politicians, keep buying overpriced crap cause it's Apple (insert favourite maga-corp here), use the so called social media, watch Disney movies....

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Re: Only stupid people use google crome

True dat! Use MS Edge, as it's an enforced policy by your corporation.

Microsoft kills off Windows app installation from the web, again

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Re: In other news...

Why is it always the lowest common denominator that gets catered to?

They vote as they are told.

Maybe M$ should simply have an "I'm an idiot" tickbox at installation time, the result of which Windows can use to determine whether such "conveniences" are enabled or disabled by default.

Care to bet they will install every crap under the sun if you tick that box? For your convenience, of course. And, if you don't tick it, they will install it anyway, for your convenience.

Mozilla CEO pockets a packet, asks biz to pick up pace the 'Mozilla way'

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Re: Retire

She may be the one forcing the developers to introduce all the junk we've been getting in the last years.

Amazon already has a colossal ads business and will extend it to Prime Video in January

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Plot? Do movies have plot in these days?

Apple's timepiece turmoil taken to appeals court

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Re: Stolen tech

Oh, crap. Forgot the sarcasm tag again. Sorry, won't repeat THAT mistake again.

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Re: Stolen tech

Does is says 'on a computer'?

If so, it's innovation. Where have you been in the last, oh, 10 years or so?

Study uncovers presence of CSAM in popular AI training dataset

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Re: AI accurately represents humanity from random sample...

It doesn't know that this is bad. It doesn't have a concept of good or bad.

But, but, but, it's AI. Artificial Intelligence. It has to know good from bad.

/sarcasm

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

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Re: Oh the (painful) irony.

Told you to stick to Mint. But nooo, you had to get Debian.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto stolen after Ledger code poisoned

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Re: Who is the greater fool?

Yes.

Systemd 255 is here with improved UKI support

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Re: Everyone Hates systemd

Everyone except politicians, HR & marketing droids, CEOs, managers...

What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck

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Re: Not an angry place .

You mean Astalavista :)

Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files

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Re: Meant to comment on earlier article

Unfortunately, they are loosing YOUR data, not the data they have ABOUT you.

UEFI flaws allow bootkits to pwn potentially hundreds of devices using images

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Ahh, no worries! It won't be used to hijack your PC or exfiltrate your precious PII. It will just display personalized ads on your boot screen. Pinky swear!

AI offers some novel crystal materials that could form future chips, batteries, more

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Re: Better Twinkies?

What's wrong with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

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1. Contrary to corporations and governments, the Mafia will honor a contract.

2. Drug running and murder are not morally acceptable unless some government agencies do them, right?

3. If you all missed the sarcasm...

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I take it that my downvoters still believe that corporations and governments have honor?

Or it's because I've spelled 'honor' right?

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At least the Mafia has some sense of honor.

Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble

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Re: WTF????

I wonder if all those politicians have even heard of video conferences. You know, when you settle your arse in your favorite chair, wearing only your briefs and a shirt with tie, looking into a camera and speaking into a microphone.

They don't fucking need to meet in person. Think of the savings in fuel, food, services, drugs, hookers, booze and so on they can save.

Tesla, Musk likely aware of Autopilot deficiencies behind Florida fatality, says judge

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Re: But then

Why would he pay attention? He had Autopilot engaged.

/sarcasm

What do Apple, Meta, TikTok have in common? Fighting off Europe's stiff antitrust rules

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Re: Doing the Lords's wrok

EU: you're big, so we'll impose a large fine but don't worry, we won't collect it. Oh, and if we can come to an agreement we'll reduce the fine. But no worries, we still won't collect it.

USA: you're big, so we'll have you pay a small ammount, recognise you've done nothing wrong and carry on.

Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support

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Re: @Korev "Well the Z in Regomised is still there..."

It's 'Vulgar' English and 'British' English. You know, just like it happened to the Roman Empire.

Copilot coming to Windows 10 to help navigate the OS's twilight years

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Re: Hidden the moment it arrived

Yeah, Microsoft listening to feedback NOT praising their crap. That would be a first!

Rights warriors claim online ad auction data a danger to national security

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Shoveling shit down the internet, right!

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Targeted advertising is not targeting you but those suckers with more money than brains that believe advertising works.

The only people who gain in this business are those doing the advertising.

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...data that enables personalized advertising could be used to compromise civilian and military leaders...

So it's OK for the peasants but not for the leaders?

Naah, that's not it. Wait, I've got it! It's OK when it's done by the state but it's evil if it's done by private companies.

You get a Copilot, and you get a Copilot – Microsoft now the Copilot company

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Re: Same old

You forgot influencers, politicians, celebrities, newspapers, lawyers...

Google, Amazon, Microsoft make the Mozilla naughty list for Christmas shopping

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Re: Google Maps asks how much I trust them

I absolutely trust Google to spy on me and they never broke that trust. So, for me, Google is trustworthy.,

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