Posts by rmullen0

Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescue

Gnome needs an overhaul

Gnome should switch to using a Windows-like task bar at the bottom. The use of the Super key to do anything is just annoying, and for practical purposes user hostile.

Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook

Re: Edge can be uninstalled

The only way to be sure, is to nuke it from outer space. Failing that, wipe the disk clean and install Linux.

This ish is 100% whack

WTF is wrong with this company (Microslop)? They literally have to ruin every aspect of their software. Switching to alternative software isn't even optional at this point. It is required. The people running that company need to be fired immediately.

Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'

Re: Sick and tired of these billionaire tech bro bozos pushing this ish on everyone

Sorry for the typo. I mispelled Microslop Microsoft.

Sorry to break this to you, but, they already ruined cat videos as well. Half of them are fake. They literally have to ruin everything and will be unsatisfied until they do.

Sick and tired of these billionaire tech bro bozos pushing this ish on everyone

The billionaire class needs to be cut down to size. There should be an upper limit on wealth. And I'm thinking that should be $10 million. The government should seize the rest. If you can't get by on that much, then, there is something wrong with you. Additionally, it is time to start breaking these corporations up. I made my living programming and now I feel that I don't want to have anything to do with this industry. This garbage is hurting humanity more than it is helping. Corporations like Microsoft need to be boycotted.

Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs

Microsoft is a total clusterf**k of a company

The title says it all. They should open source the pre-AI version of Windows and let someone else who is competent take it over.

Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware

The IDF is known for infiltrating companies.

Re: Two decades

How many people that upvoted this drivel know the first thing about programming? Keep on keeping on with the status quo. It's working out real well for you. Luckily, we live in a perfect world where every developer is 100% skilled and never lets in any buffer overflows. You are right. Don't rely on better tools. Just keep doing things manually. No wait. You all must love running in a hamster wheel and constantly having to patch security holes many of which memory safe languages would eliminate. Self modifying code? Enlighten me on how often that is used. How many buffer overflows appear in drivers versus everywhere else? You sound like a C programmer who is unwilling to change. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Moving to memory safe language is decades overdue. It has been obvious for a long time now.

In a just world the scumbags developing and selling these hacks would be locked up

They are nothing but criminals. But, the world already sees that. They see the genocide that is going on in Palestine and know that Israel and the United States are the two biggest criminal organizations on the planet..

Microsoft shifting to cloud management software brings possibility of it peeking into your estate

All the more reason to switch to PostgreSQL and Linux

If you want any semblance of control over what you do, you have to switch to Linux and open source. There is no way around it. These corporations get more and more psychotic with every new day.

As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options

There is already a fork

It's called PostgreSQL. And minus a few annoyances, is for the most part much better.

Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red

Grove's law?

I take it that is the successor to the failed Moore's law? In other words, not a law at all, just a falsehood.

Dump Zionist owned Oracle

If you invest in Oracle, you have no morals or ethics. Larry Ellison is a terrible evil person who in addition to trying to take over and censor the media, is also building AI data centers that are not wanted or needed, ruining the environment, driving up utility prices, and using up water resources, in addition to being a huge proponent of the genocide that Israel is committing against Palestinians, paid for with US tax payer money and weapons.

Meta reacts to power needs by signing long-term nuke deals

Who cares about nuclear waste

Yeah, generate a lot of nuclear waste for AI garbage that no one wants. Does anyone seriously think that the waste is going to be looked after for thousands of years? The country is on the verge of breaking up right now. The reckless irresponsible fools don't care. I am ashamed to be an American. The country is a disgrace.

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Too bad their modern player is still unusable

Maybe the legacy player would no longer be necessary if Microsoft would fix the modern one. The new one is a joke. It takes forever to import music into it and then hangs. I find it amazing that a company like Microsoft can't implement something as simple as take a list of files and read the metadata and load it into a database. I have around 20,000 files. It can't even handle that many. They couldn't just load the data into an SQLite database or something? It's pathetic. Clearly, they don't care at all about applications such as these. it doesn't make them any money. So, they don't care. They would rather try to jam AI down everyone's throats even though most people don't want it.

US punishes China’s ‘dominance’ of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs

All he is doing is devaluing our money

The Bozo and Thief is doing nothing but devaluing our money. It is only worth 1/2 to a 1/3 of what it used to be. He is a reckless incompetent fool.

Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement

The new guy is apparently as big a bozo as Mitch Daniels was

And that says a lot. Because Mitch Daniels is a psychotic freak.

Apple, Google forced to issue emergency 0-day patches

This is probably Israel's handy work

I wouldn't be surprised if this is Israel's handy work. Most unethical entity there is. The IDF claim they have booby trapped devices around the world. I wouldn't be surprised if their pager attack was just them exploding the lithium ion batteries in the devices.

Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says

No, more like directly to his jail cell

Along with all the rest of the demons in the Republican party.

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security

Wrong again Bob

Prices went down. Down to 0. I'm on Debian now and using LibreOffice. Have fun destroying humanity with AI chumps. I won't be a part of it.

'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole

That's why you don't use SPA

And simply make a server-side app with minimal JavaScript. Simple, effective, and more secure. SPA is total garbage if you ask me. Slow, bloated, buggy, and insecure.

Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere

Re: MS has over 200k employees..

Totally agree. Most likely, Visual Studio 2022 will be the last version of Visual Studio for me. The same way Windows 10 is. For exactly that reason. I don't want the AI garbage.

Uncle Sam's new power plan will plug AI farms into the grid faster

USA ran by demons

The people running this country are literally evil demons. I have yet to see them do one good thing. Day after day, it is nothing but evil.

Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block

Re: It's gonna crash sometime

Yes, that is exactly the problem. You say the wrong thing and you get the Internet death penalty and have your accounts closed. What would happen if Microsoft disabled your email account tomorrow? Could you even get a hold of someone for support? It is insanity how everyone is reliant on these companies for something as critical as email.

Re: It's gonna crash sometime

I always thought cloud was nuts, and still do. The oligarchs just want you to rent and not own anything. It is the same for everything else in society. It is what you call techo-feudalism.

Microsoft wants mass exodus off Office the same as Windows

It is obvious that if one wants to have any autonomy whatsoever in what they do on their own computer that they must abandon Windows for Linux. And Microsoft is doing the same thing to Office as they did to Windows. They want to control everything and spy on everything you do. They will not be content until they have created a total surveillance state. Glad I'm on on Debian now. Along with Firefox, Thunderbird, and LibreOffice. They do the same thing, work fine, are free, and most importantly let YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITHOUT CONSTANTLY BEING TRACKED AND SURVEILLED. The billionaire class are losing their minds, because they know there is going to be an uprising.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Oh no

How is Pete Hegseth going to illegally communicate illegal military operations with Signal being down?

Feeling lonely? Microsoft Copilot can now listen to your every word, watch your screen

Re: Just one more reason not to "upgrade" to Windows 11

Exactly what I was thinking. Should have been broken up back in 2000.

Utterly disgusting

In the process to switching my computers to Debian 13 and it can't happen fast enough. No way in hell will I ever run Windows 11. The tech oligarchs are 100% running amok and out of control. The platform is out of control and has to be abandoned.

Google-sponsored DORA report reframes AI as central to software development

No one wants AI

No one asked for or wants AI. The tech companies are forcing it on people whether they want it or not and are only looking out for their own interests. Furthermore, they will be using it for evil.

Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees

Re: Marketing company

The new version of Visual Studio looks like a nightmare. Nothing but AI BS. No thanks. Visual Studio 2022 can be my last version of Visual Studio. Just like Windows 10 is my last version of Windows. I don't want AI. Never asked for it. And won't accept it. If you want any semblance of control over anything, you have to move to Linux. There is no way around it at this point.

Re: Does anyone want this

NO. This is once again, Microsoft forcing things that users never asked for and don't want onto them. In other words, standard operating procedure for Microsoft. It happens with every new version of Windows, only now it is completely out of control spyware.

Re: +

Me too. This is exactly why Linux is necessary. Linux lets you do what YOU want. Instead of having Microsoft dictate what you do. Sick and tired of them forcing things I don't want on me. They do it with every new version of Windows and this is finally the breaking point. I've already switched multiple PCs over to Debian 13 and have no intention of ever upgrading to Windows 11. Microsoft has boulder sized balls thinking users will accept something like Recall. It is nothing but spyware.

Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helping

Old hardware works perfect fine

2025 is the year of Linux. I have a several older PCs. Some as old as 16 years old. They all work fine. I installed Windows 10 Enterprise IOT LTSB on some of them, which is good until 2032. On others, I've switched to Debian 13. I'm slowly chipping away and building up experience on Linux. Every new thing I learn, gives me one less reason to stick around on Windows. I've been using Microsoft products since 1990 and I'm a .NET developer. At this point, I feel I have no other option to abandon the platform. It just gets worse and worse. I don't want AI. Never asked for it and will not have it force fed to me. A new version of Visual Studio is coming out. Look and Microsoft's dev blogs. It's nothing but jamming AI down your throat. The people running these tech companies are truly sick people. All I have to say is, thank god Linux persevered. It is the only way to have any semblance of control over anything. The people running our country and the ones running these tech companies are truly evil people.

Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' Social Security database 'immediately'

Trump, Elon, and all the rest of the criminal goons in his administration need to be locked up

They are nothing but criminals

Microsoft readies Windows 11 25H2 while Windows 10 circles the drain

On Windows 10 Enterprise IOT LTSB now which is good until 2032

Installed Debian on a few computers and I'm in the process of getting off Windows completely. No thanks on AI invading my privacy. I don't want it. Never asked for it. And won't accept it. Recall is just the latest example of Microsoft not caring at all about what customers want. The oligarchs are trying to turn the world into a total surveillance state. I saw a video the other day by I think it was PC World and the guy in the video said it captured and consumed 75 GB on his hard drive.

DOGE accused of duplicating critical Social Security database on unsecured cloud

Payback when the fascists go under

Elon Musk, the DOGE goons and the rest of the Nazi fascist Republican party need to be held accountable for their crimes and locked up after the overthrow of the dictator.

Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites

Re: Tacky fake-coloured crap with a thin veneer on top of it

They already have SSO, had the incompetents at DOGE bothered to look.

Re: He probably just wants...

If you are looking for "competent" modernizing, you are going to get that from any of the DOGE fools. You will 100% get the opposite.

Start your engines: Windows 11 ready for broad deployment

Re: Getting the most out of it...

At the moment, you can choose "domain account" and it will let you create a local account. They purposefully have the wording to confuse people and force them into using online accounts. Microsoft operates kind of like the government does. They do what they want to do, regardless of what the people that use their software think. Just like the corrupt politicians that do absolutely nothing that the people want and instead waste all the tax money on the military industrial complex.

Re: Unusual suspicous activity...

Yeah, I mistakenly sign up for a T Mobile phone back in 2003. Back then, they required you to give them your Social Security which I thought was total invasion of privacy and should be illegal. Stupidly, I went ahead with it anyway. The phone got horrible reception. So, I returned it a couple days later. I wasn't a customer of theirs since then. A few months back, my bank notified me that my SSN and drivers license number were found in T Mobile's data breach data that was compromised. I think it was 50 million customers whose data was compromised. So, even though I wasn't a customer of theirs for close to 20 years, they still had it on file. There is no reason why they should ask for a SSN. Comcast used to ask for SSN also. They are illegally surveilling us, that's why they are doing it. Kind of like how the CDC bought cell phone location data from a "data broker" so see if people were locking down.

The bottom line is anyone who values their freedom has to switch to Linux

The subject says it all. If you want to be able to at all control how you use your software, you will have to switch to Linux. Restrictions like requiring a Microsoft account, the telemetry, and all the other spyware built into Windows will only continue to get worse. As a long time Windows user, if Microsoft keeps this up and doesn't change the requirements for Windows 11, I won't have any other choice than to switch. The corporations need to learn that they can't just push around and mistreat their customers. They will leave and go somewhere else, and thankfully we have open source software. We need an open source phone OS as well. A smart phone is nothing but a personal tracking device.

OpenVMS on x86-64 reaches production status with v9.2

Switching to OpenVMS after Windows 10

If Microsoft doesn't fix the hardware requirements for Windows 11, I'm switching to OpenVMS when Windows 10 support ends.

HP finance manager went on $5m personal spending spree with company card

Working for a $1 a day for the California prison system putting out forest fires

New Windows 11 build boasts inbox updates and UI tweaks

Windows 11 is irrelevant if you have to buy new hardware

Microsoft needs to relax the hardware restrictions. Otherwise, it is irrelevant what the new improvements are. People aren't going to buy all new hardware for a new version of Windows with new and always more confusing control panels

Google's Chrome OS Flex could revive old PCs, Macs

Why bother?

Why would anyone want to bother with Chrome OS, when it is just Linux, and you can run Linux on old hardware already? The whole point to running Linux is to eliminate the evil of corporations like Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Google Linux defeats that purpose.

Microsoft releases first preview of .NET 7

Re: "Modernization" - that word does not mean what they think it means

It sounds like they are going to make it so that eventually it will only operate in the cloud where you have to pay them rent. I.e. neo-feudalism

20 years of .NET: Reflecting on Microsoft's not-Java

Re: Alas poor SOAP!, I knew him

I should add the Microservices are a complete sham also.

Re: Alas poor SOAP!, I knew him

I agree. Writing REST at the "bare meta" is a total PITA. Advocates of it, never used SOAP where you just generate a client and you are done.