Posts by The Central Scrutinizer 361 publicly visible posts • joined 26 May 2017
Murdoch owns 70 percent of Australian news media, which is no good for our democracy. They spout utter right wing garbage and have failed to find a business model that works in the digital age.
They went begging to Canberra, cap in hand, complaining that they were struggling. Tough.
Those payments are nothing but a link tax.
I'm certainly no fan of Facebook et al, but having to pay for merely linking to web pages fundamentally attacks the way the Internet is supposed to work.
Where does it stop? Slippery slope and all that.
I can see the downvotes coming in 3,2,1....
Ah yes, blindly trusting in technology. I once had a car GPS tell me to "turn hard right now". The only problem was that I was doing 110 kph and the only thing on my right was a 5 metre high earth embankment.
Tip: if you are coming to Australia and going anywhere that is reasonably isolated, learn how to read a map properly and buy paper maps and a compass. Use Google maps as a backup if really necessary.
At lunch with a friend yesterday, she told me that she had nothing to hide online and anyway, she has incognito mode in Chrome. After I finished choking on my burger, I explained that she did have things to hide as she does banking online. I also told her about how incognito mode actually works.
She laughed hysterically and then turned a peculiar shade of grey.
I've been using Firefox forever and will be for the foreseeable future. It works perfectly well and I never have a problem with not being able to Interact with websites. Banking, government, whatever, all work fine.
This article just sounds like someone venting their displeasure about Firefox. I for one will never join the Chrome lemmings.
That's an amazing claim to make from the viewpoint of this Linux-centric forum where you spend hundred of hours choosing between distros and desktops, never you mind working out hardware driver issues.
Er, no, actually. Hundreds of hours? No.
Hardware driver issues? No.
Install the OS and required apps and run. Simple. In 10 years of running Linux I've never had a system level problem like MS seems to have on at least a weekly basis.
The only formatting I ever need is a new paragraph every x number of words. I have my Linux editor's spell check turned on because it's really handy. I don't even bother using the menu system because keyboard shortcuts are so much faster.
Almost 10 years of not using Windows and I definitely do not miss it. I kinda feel sorry for people having to put up with Microsoft's garbage.
You need to relax there pal. Get a grip.
Study after study has shown that there is no such thing as anonymised data.
But, hey, if you want to surrender your privacy and security to the corporations, good on you!
The excuse that it's too hard, not worth it blah blah will come back to bite you in the arse one day.
So you are happy to be spied ón everywhere you go on the Internet. How incredibly naive of you.
I'll complain again and again and again about surveillance capitalism, because it's immoral, unethical and possibly illegal. So, you know, there is that.
Just because you're so flippant about your own online privacy and security, don't expect anyone else to be.
You might want to think of the consequences of that.
I worked for Xerox back in the 80s and 90s, first servicing small copiers, then the 9400 series, then moved to the Electronic Printing division, where we looked after the 9700/9790 series and beyond. Fun times.
Those laser printers were basically a license to print money. Big mail houses used to print things like phone bills for telcos and much more.
I've occasionally wondered since I left how "The Document Company" was fairing.
I guess I know now.
It's funny, you know. I picked up Emacs 5 or 6 years ago as an exercise in Linux geekiness. I found it incredibly frustrating. I binned it after 3 weeks of getting precisely nowhere. Then I tried Atom. What a mess. Slow to read/write and apart from the "pretty" interface, I hated it.
I went back to Emacs and made a concerted effort. And I got to the point where I could actually use it and started to appreciate how powerful it is. Now I use it pretty much every day and am extremely productive with it. I never use the mouse with it, so I'm not futzing around in menu bars, etc. and I can get a lot done very quickly.
At this point, I can't really see myself ever changing to another editor.
You'll continue to put your own warped spin on things ad infinitum it seems.
Get your head out of the sand and try to think critically for once in your life.
You also seem to have racist tendencies. You brought up Ireland and the Algerian angle. What the hell has that got to do with the referendum here in Australia?
Seriously.
You're spreading nonsense too.
The Yes vote advocates never said anyone who planned to vote no was racist. Peter Dutton played the race card when he repeatedly claimed that a yes vote would "re-racialise the country".
There was plenty of information about what a yes vote would mean. Clearly you couldn't be bothered to educate yourself about it. I'm guessing you never even read The Uluru Statement From The Heart either. The only people frothing at the mouth were no campaigners and disinformation wankers, who claimed all sorts of garbage would happen if the yes vote got up.
Do try and provide some facts in future.
Zuck finally grows a moral backbone and stops spying on everyone, ditto Google.
Governments worldwide realise that encryption is actually a good thing and stop trying to back door/outlaw it.
Richard Stallman gets appointed as Microsoft CEO and makes Windows open source. Thousands of programmers around the world turn it into a bulletproof, functional OS that has zero spyware in it.
I sign up for an X/Twitter account.
I use YouTube purely for information on certain topics (yes, really). I have my favorite channels that I visit semi frequently plus some others that seem worthwhile having a look at.
YouTube has been bitching at me for some time now to turn my ad blocker off, and now it seems it will refuse to play any more videos for me until I do.
My response is very simple. FU Google. I'd rather go without than participate in your craptastic ad infested shitstorm of an "experience".
Seeing as you mentioned ad blockers, YouTube is now refusing to let me play videos because I have the temerity to be running one. I use YouTube as an information resource for 3D graphics techniques, so wtf am I supposed to do now? Give gogglebots the ability to play me endless ads while I'm finding information, I guess?
The enshitification of the Internet continues unabated....
I'm an avid SBS On Demand viewer. They have some fantastic TV shows on, especially the so called Nordic Noir stuff.
We are suffering an absolute fucking plague of sports betting ads on TV here. They are impossible to avoid on any commercial TV station. A recent report stated that a million ads had been aired on TV in the last year.
Good on SBS for at least doing something about it. Is it perfect? Of course not, but it's a start.
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