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Posts by Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch
930 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Mar 2022
Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges
Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess
Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore

Re: See my answer to the first question
Passing through the US Border Security an Australian was asked to show the contents of a kid's backpack, and, removing a teddy, only occupant of the backpack, said "There's a bear in there." Her partner, being a comedian, added "And a chair as well."
For context, in Australia, the TV show Play School is a national institution, and its theme song, unchanged for 50 years, begins "There's a bear in there, and a chair as well." Practically everyone who grew up in Australia knows it by heart, because it's on twice a day, every day of the year, and for pre-schoolers viewing is pretty much compulsory.
Cue multiple officials grilling the entire family and searching every scrap of checked and hand luggage (not sure but in the original account I believe they missed their flight because of it). "What did you mean by a chair? Is there anything else in your luggage you haven't told us about? Are you attempting to take anything out of the country illegally?"
Depending on the story-teller, cavity searches may be part of the story. Possibly apocryphal, but absolutely credible.
/anecdote

Re: Other religions?
It would stop the teaching of evolution as science and creationism as religion. It would stop sex education that teaches any method other than abstinence for contraception, despite abstinence being demonstrably worse at preventing teenage pregnancy even than no sex education at all. It would facilitate some states' already implemented plans to teach that 81.2 million < 74.2 million, as in the 2020 Presidential Election. To the extent that the "green madness" is science, it would prevent the teaching of science.
"The people who run the schools" are frequently parochial bigoted morons. The schools are paid for by the state, and the state has an imperative role in making sure the students are educated, sometimes in direct contradiction to their parents' wishes. Education is the defence of the state (Benjamin Franklin). A state that prevents its citizens from thinking in the disguise of education is weakening itself, with consequences that are already obvious.

The (executive) government can breach the constitution. If it does, well, that's what the judiciary is for, the likes of Alito and Thomas notwithstanding. In theory, that's the resolution to your paradox.
If questioned, "I support the principles of the US Constitution completely." If asked for more detail about the current government, "With respect, making a governmental decision about me based on my answer to that question is unconstitutional. See my answer to the first question, in particular the bits about free speech, free association, self-incrimination and equal protection before the law."
I have no intention of going anywhere near a place where an employee of the US Government might be empowered to ask one of those questions any time soon.

Re: You aren't much of a student if you don't criticise the government.
Maybe that was the case back in the 60s and 70s when there were professional jobs for graduates to go into and earn a reliable comfortable living for themselves and their families.
For anyone who has grown up under the kleptocracy that has been in place since the Reagan era, the whole country is f*cked and demanding it be turned into some kind of socialist "utopia" where billionaires and presidents don't feel inclined to buy entire islands so they can isolate themselves from the anger of the millions of people whose labour enabled them is the only way society will have any actual security, as opposed to the illusion of security the kleptocrats have been selling us unsuccessfully for decades.
Microsoft dangles extended Windows 10 support in exchange for Reward Points
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown
Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says

Re: Scandinavia
Monocultures don't become multicultural overnight. Integration needs to be a positive decision, not just something a society hopes will happen passively and naturally.
Australia made a decision to become a multicultural country 75 years ago, and out of necessity. The idea that Anglo Australia could stay not only dominant but the exclusive culture was rubbish anyway
Whether it be the displaced people of WWII, Vietnamese or Somali or any of the other groups that made home here, they've all brought their own trauma and all needed help adjusting.
But I like walking through Footscray or the Vic Market or down Swanston Street and trying to work out what nationalities I live with. I like that the kids of my country hear dozens of languages in their playgrounds.
It's the opposite of boring.
Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work

Re: Data collection...
There is a second prong to the AU government's approach here and it's: Use our ID validation.
MyID (FFS will marketroids ever move on from trying to make us feel included, warm and fuzzy? The "M" section of my app list is clogged with My[phone company], My[energy company], My[government service] when we all know perfectly well it's theirs. And I still can't pay my power bill.) will serve to let you into MyGov ($@#*!) and thence Medicare, the Tax Office, Centrelink (welfare), Child Support, Passports, the Post Office, even PBS Prescribing if you're a medico like me, all high value targets.
Registration starts with 100 points of ID and current address validation, so at least 2 government issued photo ID sources and usually a recent bill issued against your current residential address, validated against the respective state and commonwealth databases that issued them. And if you're worried about Met Police style re-birthing, 1) they validate against the death certificates as well, and 2) most neonatally deceased don't get drivers licences.
It then becomes 2FA to let you in to the service of your choice. So far I've only been asked to use it to access government services. I'm thinking it's a matter of time before e.g. online banking services are subjected to mandatory minimum ID verification standards. AU gov: haven't worked out your infrastructure for that? Would you care to look at ours...
SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground
Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack
Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire
Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line
X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

Re: Would Elon do that?
There are fringe groups who claim the Roman Catholic church as a hierarchy strayed into heresy in the 1960s, and only they spotted it. They say it's nothing to do with we-were-wrong-about-officially-approved-anti-Semitism, but then...
We can all be a card-carrying pope of the Discordian religion, so why not His Holiness Barry II of Milwaukee?
Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options
Ukrainians smuggle drones hidden in cabins on trucks to strike Russian airfields
American science put on starvation diet
Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results
Victoria's Secret website laid bare for three days after 'security incident'
Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away
Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

Re: Microsoft Monopoly Must End
Win10 is different from the other releases in that Micros~1 said words to the effect that "Windows 10 will be the last release we'll ever make. From now on it will just be security updates." Now they've expensively made fools of anyone who believed them, but hey, when was the last time that happened?

Re: Reasons not to upgrade to Windows 12
If I turn my computer on and there's no OS, nothing happens, so there's effectively no computer.
From a corporate governance point of view, maybe it's time to realise that OSes are natural monopolies and they should be treated the way that phone services were in the US before the 1980s - monolithic and de facto not-for-profits.
Spin off the OS division into it's own wholly owned enclave that's not under any influence of the authors of Office, Copilot, development suite, any of the profit centres. Micros~1's reward for decades of work is tighter integration with the OS through familiarity and closer communication. But the makers of the OS itself concentrate on and only on efficiency and security at one thing - the OS. And consumers get that for free.
Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence
Your graphics card's so fat, it's got its own gravity alert
'I guess NASA doesn't need or care about my work anymore'

Re: Why do you hate savings?
Cutting costs? Because a filesystem with 89% free is so much cheaper to operate than one with 84% free.
Institutional ignorance, as opposed to institutional memory, is the goal. They're taking the most direct path. If an agency looks likely to question a Führerbefehl, lobotomise it.
The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive
When Microsoft made the Windows as a Service pivot
Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops
Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

Re: Hallucination
A delusion is a fixed false belief which is not accessible to change through reasoned argument.
A psychosis is a delusional system of beliefs about the world.
Both just require a malformed system of processing information, a formal thought disorder, no sense-information required. Calling AI mistakes hallucinations is terminologically wrong.
Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

If you get in an accident and have a dashcam and know you screwed up, you want to rip it off and chuck it under the seat.
If you get in an accident and have a dashcam and know you screwed up, you want to be very careful the innocent party didn't spot that you had a dashcam, because you'll get subpoenaed. If you want to add destruction of evidence / perverting the course of justice to that dangerous driving charge, go right ahead.
EU lands 25% counter tariff punch on US, Trump pauses broad import levy hike – China excepted

Re: EU to charge citizens 25% extra tax on loads of stuff and pocket a stash of their cash.
The politics of grievance is strong in both countries. The USA has a perceived grievance over the squandering of a century-long rise in prosperity ("We're the best country on Earth! We won the Cold War! Why doesn't everyone just give us our due?). China has an actual century-long historical grievance over colonial occupation, which they have already largely overcome by their own hard work. Strangely, that grievance is not with the USA. It's with this nebulous thing called "the West", which might not actually exist.
If the two countries could be content with the fact that they are the numbers 1 and 2 economies in the world (by whatever measure), none of this would be even contemplated. A good look at the leadership of both countries will tell you why it's happening.
M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired'
AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason
Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff

Re: Not very efficient
Plausible deniability would be my guess.
F. Elon is approaching the time limit beyond which he has to be given a formal government position, and thereby be subject to congressional oversight, or lose access to federal government systems. Having shoehorned his DOGEy cronies into positions where every public servant is dreading their knock on the door, the crony-in-chief can step back and say, "not me, bro."