Posts by The Central Scrutinizer

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

wtf are you smoking/drinking/sniffing?

Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone

It will probably change it's mind about pricing at random times, start auto dialling the Kremlin at 3am and refuse to let you call Mexico or Canada.

Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases

Some time in the next 10,000 years a comet's gonna wipe out all trace of man I'm banking on it coming before my end of year exam.

Apologies to TISM. Sir Humphrey and Ron Hitler Barassi.

Apple goes glass whole as it pours new UI everywhere

Something something something.... AI! Something something something..... yawn.

Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress

Re: centi-billionaire Elon Musk

dick billionaire surely

Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack

Re: Zelenskyy sure seems to hold a lot of cards

"denazification of Ukraine."

Fuck off

Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff

Windows.... yawn.

Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine

Re: Potted Russian history

as usual, you are full of shit.

Re: Potted Russian history

What a load of tripe. I suppose next you'll be claiming that Ukraine started the war.

Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud

evidence? citations? bring it on

Victoria's Secret website laid bare for three days after 'security incident'

Re: One day…

Now I have that jingle stuck in my head, damn you!

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

Feedback loops producing errors. It's called sensitive dependence on initial conditions and is one of the cornerstones of Chaos Theory.

AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro

Re: Memories

inkjet.... luxury. I had a dot matrix connected to my A4000.

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop

Re: Bloatware Linux

Thanks for the laugh Liam.

And well said.

Re: Linux is never Windows.

No, Linux is not Windows. That's rather the whole damn point.

Re: Bloatware Linux

Bullshit. Mint installs in literally minutes, as I'm sure many other distros do. Stop spreading disinformation.

Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress

The White House has promised to introduce new export restrictions, but apart from a few vague promises to safeguard US national security, details remain razor thin.

Like everything in the clown house these days. It's all just gonna magically happen, bro

GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help

Making so called doge - what a fucking stupid name - redundant? Sounds great. Can we make Elon redundant too? Oh the humanity.

US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties

Re: Well, ...

Do some actual reading. Fascism is a far right ideology, you numpty. I'm not interested in your BS spin on it. It's a fucking fact. hello, Hitler, Mussolini ?

Re: Well, ...

Fascism is a far right ideology. Your rantings are meaningless.

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

What utter bollocks. The overwhelming majority of Internet content was out there long before AI bots started scraping it willy nilly

And screaming in all caps doesn't make it true.

Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices

Re: Childish

Exactly. Those are all facts, not the conspiracy garbage and outright lies posted by some others here.

.... a hostile and political act. Apparently even stating facts gets you in the shit list now America, you're fucked

Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

Just passed my tenth anniversary of using Mint full time and I absolutely know I will never be touching Windoze again.

Blender, Darktable, GIMP, Resolve, Emacs and the occasional bit of Libre Office are my commonly used applications and they all work a treat.

Mint (as I'm sure is the case with the other distros) just gets out of your way and lets you get stuff done. Honestly, I mostly forget that I'm even using Linux because I'm too busy using the applications.

Now that's the mark of a good OS.

Ninite to win it: How to rebuild Windows without losing your mind

Windows users are meant to upgrade to Windows 11, even if that means buying new hardware because a perfectly capable PC doesn't have a TPM 2.0 module. Since 11's launch, Microsoft has blocked loopholes, and it isn't backing down on the requirements. It even removed the documentation on bypassing them.

Oh dear. How many people are going to throw out perfectly good hardware in the next few months? What a criminal waste.

ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations

Re: What would you do?

He can't even be bothered to register a nickname here. And yeah, my father experienced the horrors of those Nazi fuckers. So fuck off anonymous little man.

Not you, but that idiot.

Re: What would you do?

Have you ever seen a documentary about the Nazis?

It sure as shit looked like a Nazi salute to me and many other people. Context my arse.

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back

I really like the idea of poisoning as much of so called "AI" as possible. All I've seen of it so far is total shit.

And yes, do be careful Eugene.... haha.

Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

Trust us. we're Microsoft after all.

Ha ha ha.

The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive

The first thing I do after a new OS install is disable all sounds. They drive me nuts.

Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users

Well, there is that

The view from Linux Towers just gets better and better.

Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

I remember being stuck in dll hell quite a number of times.

Also the fun of "please insert driver disc". But I don't have a driver disc!

No, I don't miss those days.

Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid

yes, unfortunately, but that doesn't mean we willingly use it.

Well, just addressing the first point, yes, if you use devices in your home such as Alexa, etc, you are an idiot.

And if you willingly use anything Amazon related, you are an even bigger idiot.

Today's jobs Microsoft thinks could use an AI assist: Researchers and analysts

Re: AI in Research

Where's Michael Garibaldi when you need him?

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

"The two cameras will be installed in the city center in an effort to combat crime."

You mean to turn absolutely everybody into a fucking suspect. FTFY.

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat

This whole thing reads like a bad movie script.

The new name for the idiots "in charge" of America.... dumber and dumbest.

Im remembering all the pearl clutching and the hysterical screeching of "lock her up!" from only a few years ago.

It's now abundantly clear who should actually be locked up.

Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

"Baffled by the plethora of Outlook options out there?"

No, I haven't touched Microsoft's shit in years and years.

Bwahahaha

Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0

I use both on a daily basis.

How much have you really tried to learn either one?

"Obscure working philosophy" is just a meaningless word salad.

Blender is vast software. It has so many tools that nobody can possibly know them all.

3D, by it's very nature, demands its own language, just like many other disciplines.

If you want simplistic and limited, then stick to Pinta (seriously?)

Image editors and 3D programs take time to learn. It's the nature of the beast.

Re: Krita

Krita is a painting program, GIMP is an image editor.

Big difference.

I used PSP 6 for years. It was simple to use and had some great tools, including excellent batch processing.

Yeah, it also got turned into crapware in future versions.

Actually I didn't know that. I have a workflow all sorted out anyway. I really don't want to get buried in the intricacies of git either, to be honest.

That's hilarious..."needing" Photoshop to create thumbnail images.

They have obviously never heard of IrfanView. Free download that has good batch processing capabilities.

When Adobe started screwing its customers with subscriptions, I stopped using their software. I was very happy with my copy of Lightroom, but the subscription stuff was a total deal breaker for me.

Darktable is now my raw photo processing software and it's pretty damn good.

I had used GIMP on and off for years. Now it's my FOSS go to image editor for general graphics work.

It has all the tools that most people will ever need. Photoshop is a bloated monster, with stuff that the vast majority of people will never use.

Good to see the GIMP still moving forward.

Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update

"According to Microsoft, the problem was due to "a recent change made to a portion of Outlook on the web infrastructure, that may have resulted in impact."

Reverting the change did the trick, and service was restored, but the question must be asked – does Microsoft test its changes before deploying to production?"

My derision for Microsoft knows no bounds. lolol as they say in the classics.

Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament

Re: Rather escape Earth than what exactly?

You really have swallowed the Kool aid, including the bottle.

Re: before they die more slowly.

. "There is a reason why certain views are immediately suprressed rather than being allowed for open debate and examination. A reason why more and more under cover censorship laws are being passed; to keep us "safe" and to save "our" democracy."

You are obviously referring to Trump's outright attack on freedom of the press and journalistic integrity.

Don't want Copilot app on your Windows 11 machine? Install this official update

Re: Sod accidentally uninstalling copilot...

I intentionally uninstalled Windows 10 years ago. Never been happier with my computing experience since then.