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Want to know the future of FOSS? You can look it up in a database

Auntie Dix
Happy

FOSSing Prevents Truth Decay

My Chinese dentist tells me to FOSS, and I appreciate his point of view, but many of us are stuck with what our employers choose.

Enterprises that have been suckered into Microsoft's cloud of Office and accessories will likely already be SQL Server customers. Using existing contracts and pricing tactics ("Software Assurance" BS, for example), Microsoft will negotiate away temptation to go FOSS, as it has been doing successfully for decades. FOSS is still viewed by some as third-party, 'free'-but-support-will-cost, community-hodgepodge software with dodgy [HIPAA, etc.] compliance and licensing.

Prohibitive costs of conversion aside, FUD still works. Supported interoperability (not only technical, but licensed) has always been a legitimate concern, and it is even more so now, with automation and AI. Like it or not, we are seeing (cloudy, sometimes Azure-tinted) consolidation in the market.

No matter what sound decision you make, we have already seen how Microsoft just might change its licensing, spoiling your well-laid plans:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/31/cloud_rivals_hit_back_at/

Automating Excel tasks to come to Windows and Mac

Auntie Dix
WTF?

Cloud, Product, and Rent Lock-In via Crappy Cloud User Scripts Strewn All Over the Place

Imagine thousands of Office-Cloud and Power-Asinine Scripts sharted out by naive "Users" and self-hyped "Citizen Developers" no longer in that department. Imagine that some of those Scripts of screwy, bastardized, and canned code do things on which various teams of the remaining naive staff do not know that they rely. Imagine that the rest of the cryptic crayoned Scripts sit unused, and anyone discovering them is afraid to delete them.

Alas, a thousand monkeys, each with multiple Kindergarten-level code creations: Who wants to support that steaming, cloud-tied pile of Crayola code on which the department pays never-ending cloud rent every month?

No one in his right mind, certainly.

Microsoft has gotten users to pay rent on their own macros, many of which do not at all need to be in the cloud. Brilliant!

US, Mexico to align chip and lithium supply chains to amp EV production

Auntie Dix
Big Brother

¡El Gran Hermano te vigila!

Nationalization scares away private capital. Having to deal with the Mexican government, ¡no es bueno!

Also, from Reuters:

Lithium is typically extracted from hard rock or brines, but Mexico's lithium is found mostly in clay deposits, from which the metal has never been extracted commercially, and industry experts doubt Mexico can do so without private expertise.

Bolivia, which has the world's largest lithium resource, has tried and failed for years to produce lithium commercially using its state-owned firm.

Governor Noisome's EV battery lies just get worse and worse.

So, let's be realistic by acknowledging that the only export that Mexico will be able to deliver reliably to the U.S. over the coming decades is the fentanyl that its drug cartels import from China.

Amazon 'punishes' sellers who dare offer lower prices on other marketplaces

Auntie Dix
Go

AG Bonta: Full Steam Ahead!

From The New York Times:

Mr. Bonta said he thought the case would succeed where the District of Columbia had stumbled, by providing far more details on how Amazon was hurting consumers. He said there was more research “than any other case has ever seen,” adding that California state law provides some additional protections.

The more lawsuits against Amazon's BS, the better for us.

Après Californie, le déluge!

Blue Monday for Blue Origin as rocket bursts into flame

Auntie Dix
Flame

Phallus on Fire

Bezos should be more careful about whom he sticks it to, to avoid that uncomfortable burning sensation.

Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030

Auntie Dix
Stop

Time to Shoot a Deere Right Between the Eyes

A customer may not get parts for and fix his own equipment...or run on his equipment his choice of cloud-free, unlocked OS?

I hope that a mountain of lawsuits works to inhibit Deere's ruthless, monopolistic behavior. Legislators seem to be taking their sweet time.

Farmers must not be beholden to the cloud-only software games of today (or, worse, tomorrow). This profiteering is spreading as nefariously as Digital Restrictions Management, essentially poisoning our food supply for decades to come.

All of us will pay any Deere fees shoved on the farmer.

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

Auntie Dix
Unhappy

All the King's Horses and All the King's Men

When I heard that England's queen was dead, I thought, "Elton?"

Quite a lady of her time. Queen Elizabeth II, that is.

RIP

Microsoft warns of bugs after nation pushes back DST switchover

Auntie Dix
Meh

The Chile Zone: Meat-Based, No Beans

Assign Chile its own zone entry and get it over with. Micro$haft should have seen this undonkeyed cart rolling toward it, years ago.

DST is an anachronistic PITA.

US wants to give global chipmakers a 25% tax credit on new fabs

Auntie Dix
WTF?

Billions Squandered

What enormous free gifts at taxpayer expense to businessmen who neither deserve nor need them!

This is what happens when legislators have a sudden priority, a no-cost-to-them treasure chest, lobbyist pressure (perhaps, with paybacks due), and a lack of negotiation know-how.

Dead people could be designated authors of Atlassian Confluence docs and that can't be changed

Auntie Dix
Stop

The New-Age, Nagging Bullsh!t of "Agile," Jira, etc.

"Solving the ability to change the author of an existing page is on our priority list."

Oh, it is not just on any old list, it is on your PRIORITY LIST!

So, you have been using the "agile project management" of Jira FOR YEARS to get that done, and it is STILL NOT DONE?

Go sprinkle some more "Agile" on it. Infuse the project with "Kanban." Create some more nagging Jira tickets.

Finally, light some incense for all of your customers incensed by your hippie BS.

California passes bill requiring salary ranges on job listings

Auntie Dix
Go

Long Overdue. One Step Closer to Truth in Job-Advertising

What a load of crap:

"The California Chamber of Commerce, a business-oriented lobbying group, opposes the bill as "unworkable," even after the removal of a clause that would have made all pay data public. The group claims the salary range disclosure requirement is "difficult if not impossible" to implement because the bill provides a private right to action to sue non-compliant companies, even when the infraction was the omission of salary data from a third-party job website."

Solution: Hold accountable third-party job sites.

There is much more garbage that should be outlawed.

Middleman, do-nothing recruiters try to enrich themselves by posting the same job umpteen times, leaving out select details to hide the hiring company. Consultancies act as subcontractors to enable hiring companies to skirt paying FTE salaries and benefits. Hiring companies like to play games with résumé-collecting blind ads and never-intended-to-fill jobs. The list goes on.

Recruiters pitching jobs to me have claimed that the Colorado salary ranges were not yardsticks for what the jobs pay.

Oh, really? Would you repeat that for Colorado's Attorney General?

The crime against humanity that is the modern OS desktop, and how to kill it

Auntie Dix
Thumb Up

Third-Party "Classic Shell" and "Open Shell"

Magnificent machinations that mitigate Microsoft's miserable "Metro" menu mania!

How this Mars rover used its MOXIE to convert CO2 into precious oxygen

Auntie Dix
Alien

MOXIE: A Clever Toaster That Cannot Make Toast

These experiments are interesting, but there is way too much hype about putting man on Mars.

The reality for the foreseeable future is that it will be a death sentence for any first pioneer, should he even reach its soil.

Let us shift focus back to our mostly unexplored moon. We have not even managed to reside there!

We are nowhere near creating Moonbase Alpha of "Space: 1999," let alone working side by side cheerfully in Rudi Gernreich's form-fitting, polyester outfits.

Show me a fleet of Eagles before you spend my tax dollars on recipes for Martian poop potatoes.

Xcel smart thermostat users lose their cool after power company locks them out

Auntie Dix
Stop

Thermostat Communism: Coming Soon from Profiteering Utilities and Control-Freak "Green" Loons

"...smart thermostats...unable to adjust their air-conditioning systems as local temperatures rose...well above 90°F..."

These homeowners got the crappy "Reward" combo that they signed up for. Hope that they enjoyed the company's surprise Dutch oven.

As for thermostat communism, just say no to "green" control freaks and profiteering power utilities that neglect to spend what is required for maintenance and capacity.

California asks people not to charge EVs during heatwave

Auntie Dix
FAIL

The Absurd: EV Lies; Self-Defeating Policies; and Rich Geeks' Homemade "Green" Virtue-Signaling

How ridiculous! Just a few days after Governor Noisome's dictate:

—● Quick, turn off your EV chargers, air conditioners, toothbrushes, vibrators...

—● Quick, emergency-override those environmental regulations...

What a prime example of the results of ongoing delusional, incompetent CA leadership elected by gimme-subsidy, "green"-virtued/-duped voters!

I am surprised that proponents of hydrogen-fueled clown cars are not out protesting Noisome's electric lies. The EV battery story alone is so obscenely "ungreen" that purists should be apoplectic. But, no, we must bury that story, for the greater, delusional good.

Now, I read posts by what sounds like wacko survivalists investing wealth — that no average joe has — to outfit home power generation. Are you insane? Oh, wait, you are at the end of your rope because of CA's incompetence. I understand, and I empathize.

Still, step back a moment. Successful societies build at scale resource-efficient, government-regulated utilities for power, water, etc. (and allow for self-supplied energy, wells, etc., as appropriate). If the government-regulated utilities are a problem, society is supposed to address those issues through government...not go out and dig millions of wells or plaster solar panels on every house.

One poster, clearly out of his mind, buys into the "emergency" of "climate change," like someone at a mall food court looking for a toilet. Jesus Christ, you need medication, not an EV.

The mad rush that some embrace is spinning out of control. Germany is now paying a price for its arrogance. Let us bathe in the Schadenfreude, as its Russian natural-gas supply dwindles and heating costs skyrocket. Deutschland, to the world, you virtue-signaled "Nicht wiedersehen!" to nuclear and fossil fuels, and now you are going to pay for your Commie love and "green" stupidity.

The same goes for CA, but it will not be cut off by Russia. Biden's boondoggle billions will fill California's craved subsidy syringe.

California is to the rest of the nation the same as its spaced-out, money-draining San Franciscan drug addict who wants government to watch over him with free, taxpayer-funded shoot-up locations; free, taxpayer-funded syringes; free, taxpayer-funded NARCAN; and free, taxpayer-funded dope, if possible.

It is about time that the rest of the U.S. demand some tough love for CA.

Goodbye, humans: Call centers 'could save $80b' switching to AI

Auntie Dix
Mushroom

Ladder-Climbing Management Scum Laps Up This AI Crap

"By 2026, the call-center industry could save up to $80 billion by replacing humans with AI chatbots, according to analysts at Gartner."

Subscribers to Gartner are mostly ladder-climbing, technically incompetent, ruthless dullards who got their money by sh!tting on people.

Unfortunately, all of us already suffer too much AI BS. We may find workarounds (Say "Agent!" five times!), but eBay and fifty others who hide their telephone numbers will then, as retaliation, deliberately drop the call in order to force us to redial and suffer again the deliberately annoying VRU menu.

How does one fight back? Make their disregard cost them. Spend money elsewhere, first. Next, when they are all screwing with AI, do other things that cost them money:

Split a free-shipping ten-item order into ten free-shipping one-item orders; order extra and choose multiple free returns; demand full refunds; invite Amber Heard to make a deposit on the sheets sold in store...

Why bother with warrants when cops can buy location data for under $10k?

Auntie Dix
Stop

The FTC Must Move More Quickly and Cast a Much Wider Net

"Fog Data Science is a data broker that claims it collects...15 billion sets of data points daily from 250 million US devices every month sourced from 'tens of thousands' of mobile apps with tracking code included."

Get an injunction. Force revelation of the "'tens of thousands' of mobile apps" and shut down all of them immediately.

Cut off funding for police to use the data-crooks' databases.

Throw out any case where police use this data to subvert getting a proper warrant.

GM's Cruise revises self-driving software after San Francisco crash

Auntie Dix
Stop

Teenager Loon Theories

Key paragraph:

"...NHTSA...claimed [NOT proved] the oncoming vehicle was...estimated at [NOT measured]...40mph in a 25mph zone...in the right-turn/bus-only lane as the Cruise AV was attempting to make its unprotected left turn."

Who cares what the idiot in the Pious clown car was doing? GM is 100% responsible for its clown-car deathtrap.

Here is what a traffic-court judge would tell you:

- You are not owed a left turn.

- Your left turn is under your control.

- Do not turn unless conditions are unambiguously safe.

- PERIOD.

A proper judge is not going to entertain teenager theories of "AV" loons.

I hope that both CA and GM are sued until their bad ideas end up in the grave along with the people they kill.

Braking news: Cops slammed for spamming Waze to slow drivers down

Auntie Dix

Re: Fishing Expeditions & Dreams of FOSS Alternatives to Privacy-Violator Waze

Regarding:

"The primary purpose of the right to silence is to prevent an innocent man from implicating himself in what may later be ambiguous circumstances."

I love that! Perfect!

Auntie Dix

Re: Fishing Expeditions & Dreams of FOSS Alternatives to Privacy-Violator Waze

Regarding:

"Being asked to prove who you are in order to prove you are insured and permitted to drive the stopped vehicle seems a fair exchange."

Indeed, it is.

In the U.S., that happens when an officer asks for "license and registration" (the first card is usually in your wallet; the second, your glove compartment). A photo driver's license is issued by each State. A registration card (per vehicle) is issued by an insurance company; its info is usually accessible on line in the patrol car, so the officer may not bother asking for the card, since he has already run your license plate tied thereto.

Pulling someone over for such a check is comfortably sustained if an officer can show cause (weaving, tail light out, etc.); otherwise, "driving while black" or some other such discrimination may be raised as an issue.

Auntie Dix

Re: Fishing Expeditions & Dreams of FOSS Alternatives to Privacy-Violator Waze

Regarding "home of the cops are out to get you":

Some are, just to fill ticket quotas or some other dark desire. I have always wanted to believe that most are good folks just trying to do the job, but after hearing lawyers' stories, I have tempered my enthusiasm a bit.

A lawyer once pointed out that court is not so much about justice but about following the rules of the game. I cannot recount the long story around that, but the gist is that what you expect to be the right thing to do or the proper justice for the circumstance may not be at all what the rules decide. This goes to the right to remain silent: You may feel inclined to share reams of information, but any good lawyer will tell you to shut up and offer only the info that you must provide. Doing otherwise often creates unnecessary repercussions for which you, the perfectly innocent guy, will pay.

Auntie Dix

Re: Fishing Expeditions & Dreams of FOSS Alternatives to Privacy-Violator Waze

Always be polite, as I was, but know what you are getting into.

In the U.S., you open yourself up to additional interrogation when you offer information. "You have the right to remain silent" is more of a warning (or should be) for everyone.

Most of us want to be helpful, but remember that this stop is a fishing expedition. You have nothing to win here, but you have lots to lose.

Auntie Dix

Re: Fishing Expeditions & Dreams of FOSS Alternatives to Privacy-Violator Waze

This was in the U.S.

The Supreme Court affirmed DUI checkpoints but left it to the States to decide laws around them.

Auntie Dix
Pint

Fishing Expeditions & Dreams of FOSS Alternatives to Privacy-Violator Waze

Neither of us drinks, but on a date and on the way to a movie, we had to idle in a line of vehicles at a city's "security theater" DUI checkpoint.

A cop approached and attempted an interrogation. I learned later that Companion, a victim of Southern upbringing, would have folded, by answering every question (and thereby creating grounds for even more questioning). Good thing that I warned Companion ahead of time to keep quiet.

I did not kowtow to Officer Curious. I was polite when I told him that where we were coming from or going to was none of his business. That one line ended the fishing expedition. We were waved through.

Without cause, none of the vehicles should have been stopped in the first place. Unfortunately, The Supreme Court, in one of its many cases of a$$holery, upheld these lazy, privacy-invading, let's-go-fishing events. I have no sympathy for intoxicated drivers, but patrolling bar districts and pulling over only for cause makes much more sense and equates to shooting fish in a barrel.

California to try tackling drought with canal-top solar panels

Auntie Dix
Alien

Re: Costs and Corrosion

The term illegal alien, as defined by U.S. law, is dispassionate. Its context is well understood.

Its deliberate rewording by agenda-driven activists and the media is flagrant propaganda and should be called out as such.

Regarding Bowie's character: The extraterrestrial was not an economic refugee. The United States would likely bend over backward, as much as practicable, to help such an alien and his people, assuming, of course, that they were not the predatory lizards from "V" or the like. The last unhingeable jaw that anyone here wanted to see was Linda Lovelace's.

Good movie (his, not hers)!

Auntie Dix
Facepalm

Costs and Corrosion

Key paragraph:

"Still, the costs to construct canal-top solar systems can become much more expensive. Among the costs that Indian officials have run into is the need to galvanize panel supports with zinc due to increased risk of corrosion, and finding canals that are not too narrow, which would be inefficient, or too wide, making construction costs too high."

California could instead eliminate its "sanctuary cities" and repatriate its millions of illegal aliens, which would reap promptly greater returns, including profoundly reduced water usage.

Big cloud rivals hit back over Microsoft licensing changes

Auntie Dix
WTF?

Our Cloud Never Promised That You Could Run Our Software On It

Per Micro$haft: No M$ SA or subscription SW licenses allowed on Azure, AWS, Google, or Alibaba. AWS flunky Garman sums up the rest of Micro$haft's latest BS:

"MSFT's answer is not to do what's right for customers...[—] fix [its] policy so all customers [may] run [its] software on the cloud provider[s] they choose... Rather, under the pretext of supporting European technology needs, MSFT proposes to select cloud providers about whom it is less competitively concerned and allow [its] software to run only on those providers."

The question is, will "run on any cloud, without premium or penalty" become a strong enough consumer (or, better, governmental) demand that Micro$haft capitulates?

Licensing — the one piece of wisdom from Daddy Gates off of which ugly cheater Booger-Eater made his fortune — too often turns the customer into a sucker at the whim of the owner who reserves the right to change the terms at any time.

So, how's that "cloud" sound, now?

California to phase out internal combustion vehicles by 2035

Auntie Dix
Flame

California's Delusional Dictate Crumbles Just a Few Days Later

Governor Noisome's Loons: Read it and weep!

California Asks Residents Not to Charge Electric Vehicles, Days After Announcing Gas-Car Ban

https://www.mystateline.com/news/national/california-asks-residents-not-to-charge-electric-vehicles-days-after-announcing-gas-car-ban/

Enjoy your taxpayer-subsidized/robbed, dead-battery electric clown cars!

Rather than repeat his EV lies, squander Biden's bureaucratic-boondoggle billions, and continue to misappropriate taxpayer money on economic refugees, Noisome should instead eliminate sanctuary/drug-rehab status from California's now-crime-ridden cities and repatriate its millions of illegal aliens, which would reap promptly greater returns, including profoundly reduced crime as well as energy and water usage.

Auntie Dix

Re: California Governor Noisome's Pipe Dream for the Loons

Your premise is nonsense.

Further, your example is faulty. California's loons would likely tax such a car, to make its importation cost prohibitive.

No worries. Noisome's pipe dream is just that and will be defeated.

Auntie Dix
FAIL

California Governor Noisome's Pipe Dream for the Loons

It is just a matter of time before Noisome's folly will be dead at the abandoned Whole Foods charger.

As more Americans educate themselves about the "green" lies that he has spouted, lawmakers will derail his delusional train of thought. It is likely that California will be sued successfully for trying to exceed its authority, and the next President will be pressured to put aside any CA waiver.

This will be another underground mass-transit vacuum tube -- or whatever goofball idea Musk was insincerely promoting several years ago -- to nowhere.

Tesla faces Autopilot lawsuit alleging phantom braking

Auntie Dix
Go

Musk Lies, Suckers Buy, and Lawsuits Rectify

"...Fraud, breach of warranty, violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, disregard for California's deceptive-trade-practices laws, unjust enrichment..."

Finally, some words of truth about Musk's Tesla.

"The problem is that Tesla is rushing these features to market when the technology is not yet ready and not yet safe."

The Feds should have censured, fined, and jailed Musk, years ago.

Now, lawsuits are the remedy.

Japan to change laws that require use of floppy disks

Auntie Dix
Alert

The Wisdom of Requiring the Fax and Floppy

That reckless pol must be stopped.

Think about it: What happens when storage is increased?

Answer: Data grow to fill it.

By keeping the data limit to that which fits on a floppy or fax, government is forced to keep forms simple and collect only the modicum of information that it really needs.

Remember what trusted Detective Joe Friday wisely required: "Just the fax, ma'am."

Google Play to ban Android VPN apps from interfering with ads

Auntie Dix
Go

Re: I have an Android with no Google account, no apps...and I refrain from accessing Internet...

Same thing here.

The only reason that I own a "smartphone" is that U.S. carriers turned off 3G. The only reason that I used a 3G phone is that U.S. carriers had turned off 2G.

I held out and received free, good-quality replacement phones each time.

The transition to smartphone has sapped a lot of time, to turn off, disable, and remove mostly privacy-invading crap.

The only benefit of the toy? A much better camera, which is important to me, now that the digital-camera market has been clobbered by "good enough" smartphones.

"Booting" a phone...what a F-ing time-wasting annoyance! Same goes for new TVs, which I have avoided.

It is like waiting for a picture tube to warm up...but it takes longer!

Googler says she was forced out after opposing $1.2bn cloud contract with Israel

Auntie Dix
Big Brother

Our Immature, Kardouchean Society of Insufficiently Regulated Capitalism

"Jewgler"...no wonder he couldn't fix my watch.

Per this article, Google should be prosecuted for its Brazilian wack. Clearly, it is retaliation, no matter your politics.

Scum companies flourish under unregulated capitalism. Abuses will continue unabated unless society redefines success to include consistently humane, ethical conduct and punishes violators vigorously.

No chance of that anytime soon. More overseas, slave-wage outsourcing!

I remember Apple's third-party kids jumping from factory windows: That was no big deal to most Apple customers. Did not hurt sales one bit.

Google's Dragonfly censorship was such an obvious red flag (of many), but did the media shout out about it in the same way as the latest Kardouchean trivia or iPhone?

Pervasive surveillance is one of the scariest threats to freedom, but measure-of-success Google exists solely to make money. It worries solely about its freedom and no one else's.

Kylin: The multiple semi-official Chinese versions of Ubuntu

Auntie Dix
Meh

Hungry an Hour Later for Another OS

How many programming languages are written in Chinese? Japanese? Korean? Klingon?

That would be zero...or damn close to it.

Have fun with the localization, but Ubuntu's a hobo snooze, even in English.

Record label drops AI rapper after backlash over stereotypes

Auntie Dix
WTF?

Cowboys and Hidden Indians

"Some Americans are racist and the moment they find out the agent is not one of them, they mockingly tell the agent to speak in English."

"Racist"? No, you are a race-baiting, "woke" idiot. Your incompetence in English is the issue, and you are an obstruction put in place deliberately by your obnoxious, cheapskate employer that spews customer-service platitudes.

The software will not fool anyone. Even if it replaced each of your words, you would still sound like you have a screw loose.

Critical hole in Atlassian Bitbucket allows any miscreant to hijack servers

Auntie Dix
Facepalm

Re: Atlassian are excellent

Embarrassing, right down to the male CEO's hyphenated name.

Microsoft adds virtual core licensing to Windows Server

Auntie Dix
Meh

Cat and Mouse

Absent strict regulation, companies will play these games. It is about time that governments introduce to lawmaking experts who can parse the BS promptly and react.

Source: IBM disguised Watson Health layoffs as a 'redeployment initiative'

Auntie Dix
Unhappy

IBM Sells Turd and Takes Another Crap on Employees

IBM's illegal BS has been going on for decades. Labor law remains weak, courts move too slowly, and the ripped-off die off.

Sephora to pay $1.2m to settle Cali privacy law claims – and why this is a big deal

Auntie Dix
Thumb Up

"My office is watching, and we will hold you accountable."

Well done, AG Bonta!

Micron wants tax breaks for '$160b' Texas chip fab plant

Auntie Dix
Thumb Down

Tell Traitor Micron to Stuff It and Leave

"If Micron is unable to obtain such a cap, the chipmaker says it will likely pursue other locations with more favorable incentives. The application cites Singapore, Taiwan, or Japan as potential alternatives."

Threaten the United States? A President with balls would tell Micron to leave and enjoy the U.S. embargo anywhere it sets up shop.

LastPass source code, blueprints stolen by intruder

Auntie Dix
Facepalm

Last-Passed Gas

An insecure security firm that once again smelt it and dealt it. Time to light a match, leave, and never look back.

ServiceNow: Customers 'struggling to understand the value of ELAs', says Gartner

Auntie Dix
Alert

History Repeats: Too Many Eggs in One Village Basket

Makes it much harder to say no and walk. There are advantages to being hetero, but they seem to be forgotten when all-in-one pricing hype appears. The first taste is free...

Similar to the Micro$haft "ecosystem," which ruthlessly chokes customers once transported to "The Cloud." Think you are ever going to export successfully everything buried in your SharePoint nightmare? Dream on. Pay up, or we turn it off in thirty days.

You are The Prisoner, and you may NOT resign. That white thing chasing you is your new gouging ELA.

How archaeologists can use AI to date our ancestors

Auntie Dix
Happy

Archeologists Should Not Be Using AI to Date Our Ancestors

I realize that these guys covered in dust, dirt, etc., are hardly great catches, but they do not need to be traveling back to a time when hygiene requirements were less stringent, just to score a companion.

"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" showed that anyone could be cleaned up without turning back the clock.

Japan reverses course on post-Fukushima nuclear ban

Auntie Dix
FAIL

"Green" Idiocy: Wind, Solar, Batteries...

The relentless "green" propaganda sounds like that of "channelers" and pyramid hats. Media morons repeat "green" nonsense unchallenged, and the young-and-clueless lap it up.

None of the above fairy dust can replace at scale fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Period. Stop the BS. Consult the truly smart experts in power generation, civil engineering, etc. Look for gray at the temples and decades of experience completing real-world projects.

California's Governor Noisome just applauded an asinine decision to outlaw combustion engines in the State, via a $20,000 fine per car over a given year's quota. This is the idiot pol who could not even build his mass-transit pipe dream. So, "dream crazier" is his next bad idea?

It is no wonder that CA residents are fleeing.

PanWriter: Cross-platform writing tool runs on anything and outputs to anything

Auntie Dix
Boffin

I Support the Author's Panhandling

I am always interested to read about someone's newfound success with a tool that hits the spot. Of course, everyone's spot is different, as the comments prove.

The more details on what hits your particular spot and why, the better. Same goes for URLs and tips.

Who knows when any of us will need the special sauce that your editor offers!

Lawsuit accuses Oracle of facilitating sales of 'billions' of folks' personal data

Auntie Dix
Thumb Up

WELL DONE! Sue, Baby, Sue!

If only U.S. privacy law were extensive, well written, and enforced with eye-watering penalties!

Brave, indeed, are the ones who challenge the status quo.

Lessons to be learned from Google and Oracle's datacenter heatstroke

Auntie Dix
Flame

Re: Shite, sub-par AC

"Shite, sub-par AC" is right! No wonder it fails.

As for residential AC, sorry, but to most Americans, when it comes to dentistry and "modern cons," the UK and Europe are in The Third World.

While Google et al. slop on the "green" banners, the truth remains the same, no matter the hype.

Those cheap-@ss, hippie-dream "green" data houses just got a hot taste of reality.

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