I am still gobsmack
... that people WILLINGLY buy machines that actively spy on them. Smart phones are bad enough. But if you are savvy enough, you can at least mitigate its spying.
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"...we can't be far from AI generated images being indistinguishable from real..."
About...oh... yesterday. And moving past it, quickly.
Once again, somehow people think current laws are somehow magically suspended because "digital". Slander, libel, incitement to violence, fraud, discrimination, and underage porn are pretty obvious "points of wrong."
And AI, hell just plain old sophisticated algorithms, are being used for those for a few years now.
Well stated, Mishak. It's just another info device, knowingly bought. People wanted full feature smart phone connections on their cars. How did they think this would happen? Magic?
Of course they did. Becasue numpties.
But I see the professionally offended mob is out for blood today.
Sorry, you act like we OWE them patronage.
Maybe if Google had not spent, checks notes, 26 BILLION dollars on monopolizing search engine placement, they might not have such onerous overhead?
Think of the Internet as street busking writ large. Got something good? You might make money. Anything less and too bad for you. Oh wait, that's how all business works. Unless it's been gamed and rigged.
MS did. It's called Windows 11.
I've spent a ridiculous amount of time turning off the spyware crap in Win 11.
It's a decent OS, except for all the spying. It's just one big spyware system. I thought 10 was bad. 10 was nothing compared to 11.
But so is Apple and Google these days. Big Brother is here and his name is Googleapplesoft.
I will never understand why the whole world picked the worst possible operating system.
In the early days, we used DOS because it was mostly free. Then, when GUIs came about, we mostly used Win 3 because it was, free(ish). (not really free, we pirated the hell out of it actually) The other choice was Apple. (a lot harder to pirate).
The other reason was IBM-PC clones were also cheap and, most important, modular, and Apples were not.
What we should have ended up with was Workbench, but Commodore priced themselves out reach of everyone. So that was never a real option.
And look at all the stans downvoting you.
The bad intent of every corporation is proven over and over, yet people still believe the fairy tale, on a website that shows examples of corporate malfeasance and jiggery pokery, every, single, day.
I wish the stans would find somewhere else to gaslight and astroturf.
They insist the benefits will trickle down. One day.
Far too many people talk about the "productivity" of Microsoft (not the just the stans that show up here) that I have to wonder if we are using the same software.
MS did not get rid of Clippy, it just hid it in every single action you take to get the job at hand, done. I spend more time fighting to turn off the pop-ups and auto-whatevers that productivity goes right out the window.
And even after turning it all off, it gets turned right back on again after any major updates. Or some new annoying "feature" is added whose control is hidden 3-4 layers down.
Yeah and updates? Seems like one every week.
MS has turned just running and maintaining Windows into a full time job. I consider it a good month when I don't have to chase down and kill some annoying "help" feature during that four weeks.
Productivity? For who?
And LOL, how about that Bitlocker boat anchor? Kills 50% performance on your SSD.
No snark here. High profile companies are not the end all, be all of the computer world.
I've said this before, there are millions of high tech jobs that nobody hears about that are the real heart and soul of our modern world. If you find yourself laid off from the high profile zaibatsu, there is still plenty of work out there.
But you'll have to set your expectations lower. Not real low, but lower. Like, middle class, low. And taking time to get rehired.
As another poster said the other day, it's almost like a start-up is more stable employment than working for the whales these days. This is as dysfunctional as it gets.
Did we read the same article? Or do you (and those other down-votes) work for cisco?
Thousands of failure point. Breaches already happened. Not even cisos's first few dozen times this has happened. I'm pretty sure I did not imagine those words. Oh wait, there they are right there in black and white.
Oh ho ha, you almost had me going there for about an... attosecond. Yep, right there in black and white.
Take the piss somewhere else. An admin worth their salt would not accept junk hardware not fit for purpose to begin with. Yet here we are.
This is almost EVERY M&A playbook.
What most people don't know is that an M&A is mostly leveraged, i.e money was borrowed to buy the target company. Very Large sums of money. This is done for many reasons that would take an entire school semester to explain. But mostly accounting trickery. All quite legal of course. But Schrodinger and his cat often figure prominently.
So cutting expense to the bone is required after the purchase.
Most M&A are NOT about expanding their market and therefore sales, but more of asset stripping and elimination of competition, thus being able to raise prices in that market, forcing the former customers to either buy at the new rates or find some alternative. And let me tell you, customer inertia is a very real thing. It's comes under "Rate of Retention" is very coldly calculated.
I could on for hours, but you get the idea.
An oh how I LMAO when people talk about supply and demand and somehow benevolent self correcting market forces. Such naivete would be charming if it wasn't so prevalent.