Posts by StrangerHereMyself 1783 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jul 2020
I personally think this is a very nice touch. I've never been able to get any Windows application to run on WINE no matter how trivial.
Last one I tried was Password Safe and it had all sorts of issues. Fortunately for me they created a native Linux version so that's what I use these days.
Why didn't they just use a radio altimeter instead of a laser altimeter. Radio altimeters have been used since WWII and are very reliable although their power consumption is somewhat higher. But hey, power consumption doesn't matter much if you're lying in pieces on the Lunar surface, right?
There's nothing funny about this because it's obvious the requirements are merely stipulated to force people to upgrade and even spark another hardware upgrade cycle. The unintended consequence of this is that many users will switch to Linux Mint to enable them to keep their (sometimes relatively young) hardware employed.
That's nonsense of course. Nothing will stop you running Windows 10 after October 14th 2025. And all your applications will keep working as well, so there's no immediate need to upgrade to Windows 12 or buy a new computer.
It's just after so many decades of security scares people have become accustomed to updating their operating system and suspect that if it isn't updated it will become insecure almost immediately. That's an obvious falsehood but try removing that from people's ingrained instincts is arduous and fraught with difficulty.
Microsoft knows users are never going to accept a paid subscription with their Windows PC. They're not THAT stupid. Making Windows subscription based will sink the entire Windows franchise within a year. And Microsoft itself not long after.
No, you'll be able to buy a Windows license in the foreseeable future. Just don't expect Microsoft to support your Windows version for very long.
Clearly a sales ploy. All these security improvements have never hindered the pwning of Windows computers in any substantial manner. Even to this day disk encryption isn't standard on Windows 10 computers (it is in Windows 11, though, more than 2 decades after TrueCrypt / Veracrypt saw the light) except in the Pro (business) version.
But all those PC's that are being left behind will most likely switch to Linux Mint, which is far more secure and almost infinitely supported by hardware going back decades.
I believe there's a very real chance Musk will succeed. I mean, who would've thought his "chopsticks" landing of the Super Heavy would work. When I saw the animations about a decade ago I shrugged and thought "I believe it when I see it!"
I'm therefore unwilling to discount anything Musk says. He may not succeed in his proposed timeline but in the end there's a real possibility he will.
His only failure was Full Self Driving, which I blame on his inability to oversee the complexity of the problem he's trying to solve. Driving is a complex task which even humans with 1 billion neuron brains have trouble dealing with. Although the Grand Challenge in 2005 showed you could solve it for a limited scope dealing with the real world conditions is quite another matter.
I predicted MSR would be scuttled and here we are. The program was already running on its last legs but has now finally been laid to rest.
The insistence of NASA to continue with its convoluted and complex MSR architecture with many single points of failure and its inability to make key decisions in a timely fashion have made this the only reasonable outcome for the project.
Many companies demand you supply personal and resume information in a certain fixed format or enter it into a website so some AI can evaluate you. It wouldn't surprise me in the least that in a couple of months or years there will be no human in the loop to hire you. It will all be A.I.
Gaming the A.I. will become the next prerequisite skill.
These middlemen (or women in this case) are disposable. The malware has probably already been planted and might be nigh impossible to detect if done properly. The only way to be sure is to rip out everything and start rebuilding the IT infrastructure from scratch. Only DATA can be restored, not complete software installations which have turned toxic.
It's a lot of work, but it's the only way to be sure.
Most professionals are already switching to Linux since they're tech-savvy and most of the tools (including Microsoft's own) are already available for Linux.
Visual Studio Code is often used on Linux and if you're into developing web applications for .NET or web-based back-end systems there's no need to use Windows.
I don't see Android ever becoming a replacement for the desktop. Billions of poor people may have no choice but to use a smartphone, but in the affluent West there will always be a need to have a "real" desktop machine in addition to a smartphone.
Coming October I suspect many will jump ship towards Linux Mint since the flogging has become intolerable. Users simply won't take any more.
And as I've said many times before: Linux Mint suffices for the majority of users who merely use their computer to surf the web, write an email, print a document or watch videos. If just those users move to Linux Mint it will shake Redmond to its foundations.
IMHO the EU already produces more than 20% of the world's IC's by VOLUME but not by VALUE. The semiconductors made in Taiwan are mostly high-end, used in GPU's, AI accelerators and top-of-the-line CPU's for PC's and smartphones sometimes costing hundreds of dollars a piece.
The semiconductors made in Europe are mostly made using low to medium complexity semiconductor processes for use by the automotive, consumer products (washing machines, audio) and smartphone sector. These are low-cost but made in large numbers.
So it all depends on your metric. If Europe wants to compete with Taiwan, Korea and the U.S. it will indeed have to invest a LOT more money. A single high-end semiconductor plant can cost up to $100 billion these days.
I suspect Amazon will cancel most Ariane 6 Kuiper launches and redirect them towards Blue Origin, also the property of Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos.
The Ariane 6 booking is merely a back-stop in case Blue Origin doesn't come through. Now that it has there's no reason for them to keep flying on Ariane 6.
Microsoft is making itself irrelevant with these stupid A.I. gimmicks. No one's asking for some stupid A.I. to take over their computer and "do things" for them. The only one who touches my computer is ME, thank you!
Said company shouldn't be surprised if users jump ship at the first opportunity, and that will be October 13th, 2025. To Linux Mint.
"Secret courts have no place in a democracy." That phrase says it all, doesn't it?
And in the U.S. it's even worse. There are secret laws there as well. No one (except some lawmakers that have to rubber-stamp them) knows what's in them. No opportunity for journalists and the public to even discuss the implications of these laws.
The wheels are coming off of democracy in the Western world. How long before we resemble something like Turkiye, China or even North Korea?
Politicians are scum. They keep making noises about not wanting to backdoor E2EE and at the very last moment pass a law that mandates exactly that.
I still remember clearly Labor wanting to introduce RIPA Part 3 in the UK and the Tories blocked it calling it "Orwellian." And what did the Tories do when they came to power? The first thing they did was to pass RIPA Part 3.
I would therefore not surprise me that despite all the supporting noises for E2EE they will enact something like RIPA in the EU. Many countries have been quietly been lobbying for this. Publicly they're against backdooring but when the EU enacts legislation they'll tell their constituents they "had no choice."
Because both companies make insecure junk and someone's probably discovered a zero-day to exploit. It truly amazes me that hardware specifically being sold on the premise to keep out undesirables is itself becoming a avenue for criminals to steal the keys to the kingdom.
Why aren't they using MINIX or some other microkernel operating system in their hardware? Because they're lazy and incapable of slapping more than an insecure Linux kernel on their stuff is why.
Isn't this simply a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing?
Microsoft is a huge company where software engineers have a large degree of autonomy in what they want to achieve and build. The company has general guidelines but like most large companies it consists of multiple fiefdoms each doing its own thing.
How about the UK government funding and developing MINIX or RedoxOS to get it ready for government use. These are by far the safest offerings on the market. Even if they are rarely updated they remain secure.
Yes, Linux is far more developed, but even the best ones are still sometimes rough around the edges. I just upgraded my Linux Mint version and I got all sorts of repository errors which would baffle most users.
I'm adamant Boeing will pull-out of the manned space business. There are so many other companies which can do it more cheaply and profitably than them and they've got their shareholders to look after.
All of this could've been avoided if Boeing hadn't managed the program according to its profitability wishes and instead focused on getting a working manned space capsule. All the delays and cost-cutting has cost them dearly. So dearly they'll probably conclude that this is not the business they want to be in.
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