Posts by The Central Scrutinizer

Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do

Re: Windows 11 toaster

And I definitely don't want any buns, baps, baguettes or bagels.

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’

Colour me cynical too

That sounds like a privacy and security nightmare. No opt out of anything much? I'm sure the pinky swear about doing nothing bad with it will never be broken.... noooo .

Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid

Yes, very droll. 10 points for snark. It won't stop me from using it though.

Bla bla. I happily use a systemd distro.

Explain to me in one or two coherent sentences why it's so bad.

Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

7 grand for a Mac. It is to laugh.

Really, just to have the shiny Apple logo somewhere, when you could get far more performance for that money from Intel or AMD based machines.

Yep. there's one born every minute.

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" – to train its AI models.

But of course. All your data belongs to us.

Fuck off.

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

Re: systemd-free distros

You really love totalitarian shit, don't you?

Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds

Very funny. Multiple tech websites refer to this.

In the end, I don't actually care, because it's never going anywhere near any of my computers. Bwahahahaha.

Whichever way you want to wash it, Windows is shit, full stop.

Requiring a user online account to even install their shitty OS?

That's a my gigantic red flag that no one should go past.

Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'

And I have a couple of bridges to sell. One has unbeatable harbour views in Sydney.... get in quick!

Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee

Re: fees on membership plans

And that "creative cloud" bullshit. No, I'll edit my photos on my own hardware ty very fucking much.

I was happy to use Lightroom way back when I bought a so called perpetual license for it. Then they started the subscription garbage. Not for me thank you very much.

They just seem to have degenerated into a company that keeps infinitely gouging their victims, (sorry, customers)!

Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems

Anyone arguing for this nonsense is totally naive. In the politicians' case it's just sheer stupidity/bloody mindedness.

It's all part of the war on personal computing that is being waged these days - encryption back doors, DRM, endless data slurping, the list goes on. As the article states, the proposed law is so nebulous and ill defined, how on earth is it going to be enforced?

Those who would argue that it's just a minor quibble miss the larger point. It's called scope creep. If by some miracle this sort of thing becomes a requirement, you can bet your bottom dollar it will be expanded over time into something truly odious.

We don't need government permission to use our own computing devices as we see fit, free of spying and verifying every damn time we want to do something.

That should be the starting point for combatting garbage like this.

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

The level of stupidity being peddled by the senile cretins who are proposing these laws is truly mind boggling.

It's something this week, next week it'll be something else equally stupid and repressive. VPNs are already in the sights of some lawmakers. Cue that dumb as a rock woman in England who said that VPNs should now be banned. Then when she learns about Tor, that'll be the next "loophole" in the firing line.

It is not even remotely close to being a crime to try and protect your privacy and security online. People still bang on about how encryption is somehow evidence of wrongdoing, when it's just people taking care online. Now this OS level stuff comes along and some gullible people are saying "oh it's not that bad really". Do they seriously believe that or are they just suffering from a huge case of denial?

What's next, government permission to buy a phone or computer, where all the details are stored in a government database?

It seems that "1984" and "Minority Report" are not coming some day, but that the day has already arrived.

Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

They're actually a pretty good company (Australia only). They just want to sell hardware, no bullshit.

I bought my current desktop box with no OS installed. It was an option when I ordered it. A company that actually gives their customers choices.

Don't give them ideas....

No, it makes precisely zero sense.

We have a right to use our own computers as as we see fit, and not to request "permission" to do so.

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

Re: Still running with no Apple account

What? Shirley you must be joking?

Re: IS_ADULT value

"The problem has to be tackled anyway, so the OS-based verification totally makes sense. Great first step."

Sorry, what?!

What "problem" has to be tackled anyway? Do tell. This is "the problem", where government intrudes into innocent people's lives. You have it exactly 180 degrees backwards. We don't need "permission" to use an OS or applications on the hardware we own. Treating everyone as children is a very slippery slope that eventually will dumb everything down to the lowest common denominator. This is like asking for permission to do anything at all on our own computers, the equivalent of getting a license to use one.

It's just another attack on computing from clueless politicians.

Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification

Funny but also sad video, because it encapsulates enshittification perfectly. Another string to enshittification's bow will be the new proposals by some idiot politicians to force age verification on us when we have the temerity to want to use own computers without asking for permission first.

Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway

Does anyone really think that the rule of law applies in the US anymore? Just read the news.

Facebook went down for about three hours, interrupting your poking and Meta's ads business

Re: Oh no !

Bugger all.

Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians

Aaaand.... the total lunacy from the current American government seems to have no bounds.

Hey Donald, the bots just accidentally nuked Nebraska!

Ah don't worry about it. We'll blame the Democrats.

KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on

Re: "narrowly definied set of users'

WTF are you smoking?

Linux does install flawlessly and is up and running in minutes. Stop with the FUD already.

Re: Precisely the Problem

What a load of bullshit. Have you ever even used Linux?

It does just work with no fuss whatsoever.

Give it up

Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame

Re: I still use HDDs.

Absolutely. Back up, back up and back up again. In way too many years of computing, I've never had a hard drive fail.

Monitors, on the other hand....

Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

AWS down for hours?

Win!

DEF CON bans three Epstein-linked men from future events

Re: Bill Gates, too?

You clearly know precisely fuck all about computing history.

Linus Torvalds and friends tell The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session

Re: Amazing, the article actually mentioned GNU

I wish. He is so annoying and full of it.

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

Yeah I get all that Liam Weaning yourself off Windows apps is a whole thing in itself. I haven't touched it in over a decade now and it's been bliss.

"but there are limits to its compatibility: for instance, there's no Microsoft Store."

That sounds like a positive to me....

AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

Re: intent

I had the exact same experience with GPT. Stuck in an endless feedback loop where it just kept providing "solutions" that sort of worked but not, to ones that totally failed. The irony was that what I wanted it to do could have been done with 2 keystrokes. Rubbish.

Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely

How cute. I know what I'd like to do to their algorithm. It wouldn't be pretty.

Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security

Some people are just small minded idiots.

OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!

Sloporific....

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has decided Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar"

About 50 fuckin' years too late.

It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year

The first sentence was all I needed to read.

Suck the planet dry of water and electricity you mofos.

Go and get you know what.

VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files

Yeah, Snap is a steaming pile of merde. Never again.

Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

What a meaningless word salad he vomited out. Did anyone actually manage to make any sense of that tripe?

StopICE hacked to send alarming text messages, admins accuse border patrol agent of sabotage

Stop already. You are just posting continuous bullshit.

Got any actual evidence for all your trolling?

I thought not.

Re: Tower of Babel collapsing

Wow, you've reached a whole new level of complete gibberish.

Re: Tower of Babel collapsing

Yeah, because STRANGERS should be feared and demonised, right?

Notepad++ update service hijacked in targeted state-linked attack

Re: When will there be..

If only....or the ability to ignore someone.

Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

You really are an annoying little troll.

Re: CSuite are doing the right thing

Donald, is that you?

You have it exactly 180 degrees out of whack. The US government are the fascists, not the peaceful protesters being executed in the streets by the Gestapo. Have you bothered to watch the video footage?

And yes, the US is now run by a monster, albeit a stupid one, but a monster nonetheless. Get a grip.

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

The same old cliched arguments get trotted out bla bla. Let's just do everything in plain text and be done with it. Better yet, the politicians should submit themselves to encryption busting efforts and then we'll see how long the idea lasts.

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads

Re: No ads = no profit

No shit. Same thing here Bla bla bla. One of the main reasons I quit his shitty antisocial media garbage years ago was the fact that I had to scroll through literally 10 fucking gambling ads to get to my feed.

Just go and get fucked.