Posts by Me.I.Am

Yes, Slack isn't working properly right now – enjoy your internet snow day

It's fixed now.

We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists

I suggest they drop their signs and picket line and go put in a solid day's work in the office/warehouse/shop/yard or wherever.

Then focus on the changes in life that can better the social environment they live in, which by proxy effects the greater good of the many.

AI is here already. Its going nowhere and the more time invested in training people how to use it efficiently, effectively and securely the better.

Rollable laptop displays to roll off the production line from April, says Samsung

Gain 2.5 inches with this one weird trick ...

Honestly not sure this is going to be world changing right now apart from peer to peer bragging rights on who has the biggest screen.

DoJ wants Google to sell off Chrome and ban it from paying to be search default

My choice

It's already my choice. I choose to use Chrome and I choose to use Google.com to search.

I understand the risks involved. I simply prefer the convenience.

I am sensible with what I share online. Google can have at my data. I'm far too tight with my money to ever purchase from any crappy add the is "tailored" to my requirements.

CIQ takes Rocky Linux corporate with $25K price tag

License availability

"RLC guarantees fast, secure and trusted updates from our Tier 1 U.S.-based repositories. You can pull your updates directly from our servers or mirror the repositories and we’ll never count your systems or entitlements so you can mirror to all of your hosts. It delivers the absolute freedom you expect from open source."

Seems you buy once, use many.

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

Just watched that Red Dwarf ep last night. Odd timing for a random quote from a 35 year old TV show whilst reading a random post on The Reg because I'm bored before work.

Luxury smartphone brand returns with $41,500 device

I repeat. There are still children starving around the world unnecessarily.

Dear phone owner ... Sort your priorities

Audacity users stick the knife – and fork – in to strip audio editor of unwanted features

NoDacity

ForkDacity

FreeDacity

Must 'completely free' mean 'hard to install'? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community

I'll just stick with my Centos 8 installation .... Oh right !

The reality is I like my OS to just work to do the job I need it to do. I use Windows 10, Centos, Tinycore, Windows Server 2019, Free as, Linux Mint etc etc.

But the next time I need total privacy, and openness I will in deed consider Debian, as I am signing into IceWeasle to access my Outlook account and shop on Amazon whilst listening to my free Spotify (wait wrong kind of free right ?) ... ! At least YouTube never fails me.

Linux Foundation, IBM, Cisco and others back ‘Inclusive Naming Initiative’ to change nasty tech terms

I'm offended

I'm offended their offended.

Can't they pledge all this time, effort and money into solving world hunger or making sure every child can read.

Agree with other posters. Total waste of time.