* Posts by ecofeco

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US warns cryptominers must cut power use to avoid busting US carbon goals

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Crypto-coin is great!

... if you're a crypto-coin thief.

That's the only ones I see making real money from it these days.

Mozilla CSO demands fines to curb Big Tech surveillance

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Re: Perhaps a better way...

I wish I could up-vote this more.

South Korea takes massive step toward sustainable nuclear fusion reactions

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Very impressive!

See title.

Ad blockers struggle under Chrome's new rules

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Re: Advertising weary?

Every word the truth.

I remember that era as well. I even pioneered (and please don't hate me) the first video ads. But they had NO tracking. What for? All you needed was page count. Was page viewed? Yes? Then so was ad. Done.

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Same here. I've tried the others.

All are decent browsers in their own ways, but nothing gives me more privacy control than FF combined with NoScript and Ublock and it just keeps getting better.

Japan's NTT claims it's built 1.2Tbit/s optical comms that sip power

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That's impressive!

See title.

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

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It really is quite nice and no nonsense.

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Re: Consider

Gospel truth right there.

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Re: Windows has become portal to "consumer" services

Ah yes, but the updates can take the rest of your life.

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Re: UXtards to blame

Blame marketing. Blame the client. Blame the coders. Most UX designers don't have a choice.

California passes bill requiring salary ranges on job listings

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Re: Yes it still helps.

You would be wrong.

https://www.paychex.com/articles/human-resources/eeoc-workplace-discrimination-enforcement-and-litigation

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Re: Will this actually help ?

Blame other business owners, not the government.

If businesses weren't hurting others, none of it would be necessary.

Sure, we have a lot of rules because some people just want to micro-manage, but MOST of the rules exist because far too many people just want to screw other people.

Cloudflare stops services to 'revolting' hate site

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Re: Nothing as permanent as a temporary solution

Never let perfect be enemy of good.

Right now, this is good.

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Re: Proud Boys = Antifa

4chan much?

Or did you forget the /s tag?

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Excellent news

See title.

Snap to lay off one in five employees as losses mount

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Oh Snap!

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Cloudflare tries to explain why it protects far-right forums that stalk and harass victims

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This will not end well for Cloudfare

The U.S. has a law specifically for this. 18 U.S. Code § 1038 - False information and hoaxes.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1038

I'm sure other countries have similar laws.

Cloudfare is thus aiding and abetting and is not immune to prosecution nor lawsuits.

You can talk smack all you want, but when it causes real harm to people, your right to talk that smack, ends.

...along with swatting laws and filing a false police report.

Novant Health admits leak of 1.3m patients' info to Facebook

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Both.

Both are too blame.

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Re: Let me get this straight

Yep. There are no good guys in this situation.

The first mistake was using Facebook. There are hundreds of other services that could have done the same thing, cheaper and better.

But why even make it complicated in the first place? I used to do advertising tracking before the Internet. It's not rocket surgery. Send invite. Tally responses. Compared against number of invites sent. Done. Can't track your sent invites without complex technology? You're doing it wrong.

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

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Shocked I tell you!

I'm shocked, shocked to find corporate lawbreaking going on here!

/s just in case

LibreOffice improves Microsoft compatibility with version 7.4

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LOL look at all the compatibility numpties

MS Office and Libre Office don't play nice? Well how about that? What a shock. /s

MS Office has compatibilities issues within ITSELF. Not to mention an UX that gets worse every year.

Libre Office does not.

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Re: Another question is...

I keep telling people this: MS is locking people in forever in every way possible.

Oh well, as always, there is going to be a lot finding out the hard way.

Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

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Dollar Store Second Life.

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Re: E=World

First color and sound? Atari ST has entered the chat.

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How does VR benfit anyone?

See title.

When someone, i.e., the masses, sees a benefit to them, they will adopt it. Until them, it's just very expensive wanking.

Microsoft to drop price for Teams Rooms, add free Basic tier for SMBs

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Anarchy

I live in the entire MS ecosystem these days and it's an anarchistic disaster.

Office. Teams. Sharepoint. Azure. Power Apps. Dynamics. Each one trying to duplicate functions of the other along with inscrutable interfaces and cross program logic connections and required permissions at the least opportune time. And the pop-ups. Dear god the annoying pop-ups. I spend almost as much time fighting the pop-ups as I do actual work. And each new version moving controls or doing away with them altogether and some that can ONLY be found and used by using the search function. There is no other way to access them.

MS is doing nothing, NOTHING, but creating complexity for the sake of lock-in.

When maintaining the OS and programs becomes a full time job itself, your product has failed. By definition.

Excel @ mentions approach general availability on the desktop

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Counterpoint: Excel is bloated, non-intuitive bollocks and users have Stockholm Syndrome.

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Re: STASI in Redmond, WA....why am I not surprised???

Not understanding the downvotes.

The way MS has decided to link EVERYTHING together, with multiple REQUIRED log ons, and create failure if any given link in the chain is broken, is beyond insanity.

Twitter unveils US midterm election integrity plans, upsets almost everyone

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Re: Waaaaah!,...

Politics is always about the choice of the lessor of two evils.

Learn to tell the difference and quit whining.

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Twiiter needs to fly away

The most useless app in the world needs to go away.

Microsoft's Secure Boot fix sends some PCs into BitLocker Recovery

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Bitlocker?

People still use this shite?

More datacenters coming to Ireland, despite energy concerns

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Well of course!

It is of course VITALLY important that corporations know which hand I use to wipe my arse on Tuesday at 5pm each August and that knowledge should be kept for all of... posterity. In the largest file possible.

FAANGs failing on keeping user data safe from bug hunters

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This can't be true!

I've been assured by impeccable sources that the cloud is a perfectly safe place for all my data and operations!

Impeccable! Sources!

General Motors charges mandatory $1,500 fee for three years of optional car features

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Joke

Re: So you pay the same as everyone else?

You spelled capitalism wrong.

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Re: milk the cow

Are you sure?

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Actually, no. No I won't

Why won't I? Two words: goodbye GM.

Facebook hands over chats to cops in abortion case

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Maybe not storing so much bleeding useless data?

Oh wait, what am I thinking?! My bad. It is of course VITALLY important that corporations know which hand I use to wipe my arse on Tuesday at 5pm each August.

Forever.

Sorry, don't know what came over me. My commie tendencies come out when I'm not drinking heavily.

Tech industry stuck over patent problems with AI algorithms

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Re: Patents Require People

All those words just repeat what the OP said.

They cannot hold a patent that was created by a machine because one cannot be issued to a machine.

Ex-CISA chief Krebs calls for US to get serious on security

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The comments section on this article is FUBAR

I keep getting no page exists errors and cannot edit post once made.

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I know how to fix this!

Just put it all in the cloud! All the cool kids are doing it these days! What can go wrong!

Economic uncertainty can't stop cloud growth

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God help us all

Yeah. Put everything in the cloud they said. It'll be fine they said.

LOL. Suckers!

Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop

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You will change or Microsoft will own you

MS is moving everything to Azure. AD and SCCM are outdated. Long outdated. Azure is cloud. Office is cloud. Dynamics is cloud. Power Apps is Cloud. Teams is cloud. Sharepoint is cloud.

Everything that was once local, department and enterprise deployed and controlled by the administrator you could call within your office, has all gone cloud. This means MS can change the terms of service any time they want. And do anything with your data and what are you going to do about it? Your lawyers vs their lawyers? Get real. And your once useful admin is now at the mercy of the cloud as well. "Sorry, cloud is down, can't fix it and nobody to call".

Oh I know, you can just use something else! Oh wait, no you can't, because you're irretrievably sunk deep into MS and since nobody really created demand for an alternative, none really exists.

Suckers.

Hyperbole? LOL. Did you just fall off the turnip truck? And how did everyone forget WHY the PC was adopted? Just... how?!

But hey, keep on and find out. I'll be long retired and won't care about your hostage to MS consequences.

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Re: The entire article studiously ignores the fact

And why is that? Certainly not because it's easy and intuitive and productive, because it damn sure isn't or most of us would not have jobs.

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https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/05/23/238252/munich-says-its-now-shifting-back-from-microsoft-to-open-source-software----again

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Your users have administration rights? Seriously?

Apple ends corporate COVID mask mandate

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Re: The panemic is over?

Right on cue.

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The panemic is over?

When did the pandemic end? Are those 450 Americans still dying every day from covid along with the never ending mutation of the virus just my imagination?

I have no doubt some well informed PhD epidemiologists and doctors will chime in and let me know I'm just imagining things.

Oh wait... no they won't. Just the Dunning Krugers will.

Google asks workers for ideas on being 'more focused and efficient' in internal survey

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Re: They don't even know how to support their products

Many, MANY moons ago, Google had some cool software. I remember decent business, engineering and scientific stuff. With intuitive interfaces.

Now? Long gone in the mists of time.

Indonesia sparks outrage by blocking PayPal, gaming sites, for compliance oversight

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Re: Yahoo

Actually one of the better news sites these days.

Yeah, I'm just as surprised as you are. Short concise articles with no spin. Like finding a coelacanth.

I paid for it, that makes it mine. Doesn’t it? No – and it never did

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Re: Let’s get physical, physical…

Fahrenheit 451?

Not much longer at the current rate. We all have the big tellies and social programs now.