Posts by TheSmokingArgus

Alas, I do sure hope these horseless carriages fail, it would be horrible for the buggies we all know and love.

But who knows perhaps the environmentals will remain forever too strict to see quantum computing become viable.

STATE enforced Net Neutrality is to free & open internet as PATRIOT Act is to Patriotism

STATE enforced Net Neutrality is to free & open internet as PATRIOT Act is to Patriotism. One does not best Marxists by implementing their stated policy goals:

"Centralization of the means of communication in the hands of the STATE."

Plank Six

Communist Manifesto ca. 1848

Twentieth-Century FCC licensure of old-media created and fostered consolidation unto STATE's favored corporations raising barriers to entry and locking out competition.

1776> 1984.

Viva la IBM

Seems a tough road to hoe for the plaintiffs to emerge successfully based on the complaint. Between IBMs legacy mainframe installations [read: 90% marketshare] firmly entrenched throughout banking, transportation, finance, healthcare, government sectors, in addition to continuing Service Level Agreements, along with their pivot back to concentrating on new mainframe installations in lieu of SMB server, PC desktop, mobile seems purposefully targeting older experienced workers would be counter to their business interests.

Not that businesses cannot/do not shoot themselves in the foot, but most that survive 100 years, world wars, great depressions, probably not so much.

" ...by Jeffrey Epstein, the financier who killed himself last month" <--- Give me break.

He was not a financier, call this piece of trash what he was, a child--sex trafficker who left his mortal coil under incredibly suspect circumstances. Or by all means keep pretending otherwise, using safe language to disguise the wolf so as to not dare face reality. Cui bono.

Perhaps then, such shall make it more easily to convince one's self that they are not subjects of governments wholly infested at all levels with pedophiles.

The perpetual outrage-diversity crowd's word games is getting a bit long in the tooth. Reminds me of just after the turn of the century, when Microsoft led the charge on obliterating referring to hard disks as "Master" and "Slave."

Decentralization is already here, Bitchute, Gab.ai, Dissenter Browser, IPFS, the great pilgrimage is already underway.

Google Chrome is Garbage

Google Chrome is garbage, how many times do people have to learn Google is tracking your browsing, leaving backdoor access to camera/mic, etc before it sinks in that THEY the user is the product. A product to be packaged, distilled, and sold off to the highest bidder.

Vivaldi, Opera, and Brave all are based on Chromium, will ignore the new restrictions on ad blockers so there ae certainly free alternatives to choose from in replacing Google's spy-browser.

Aw, not even a mention of RocketChat, boy guess that whole "tool of Isis" smear campaign really stuck. Well whichever solution wins, I am in full agreement that on-prem is far from dead, despite whatever the cloud zealots may preach.

I have to figure the rampant de-platforming bySilicon Valley socialists whereby poof... and all your content is gone has an effect on the psyche beyond the Social Media Wars as the lesson holds true when you trust your enterprise wholly to the cloud. Poof.

Yes Destroy All SMall Content Publishers

Gee how convenient as they look to grant government new enforcement over speech on the internet, we see a story that looks to dissolve the Safe Harbors that protect bloggers from Copyright trolls.

Gosh its almost as if the old media want to use government as a bludgeon to totally remove original small content creators & alternative views completely off the internet while cementing their control over new-media via the regulatory state.

STATE Supremacists Salivating at Thought of Re-Consolidation of Media

This is of course how the Corporatist Regulatory STATE functions. The entire deplatforming/censorship crisis proven to be being waged by old-media FCC licensed dinosaurs such as Comcast through their new-media proxy shill Vox or NBC's Axios against unlicensed, individual content creators is precisely designed to result in the creation of a new federal "Internet Speech Equity Bureau" or similar thereto.

Precisely a textbook example of the Hegelian Dialectic.

Thus once passed you can guarantee Zuckerberg, Schmidt, Dorsey et al, or their lawyers/lobbyists will receive appointments to the new STATE Supremacist bureaucracy.

Thereafter, you will see a bevy of regulations similar to the ruse of GDPR, "Adult Content Identity verification" and pre-filtering copyright capital equipment outlays, which then raises barriers to entry as only the old-media hacks have the phony monopoly fiat to endure such an expenditure.

Thus if you think consolidation to six mega-corporations being in control of 95% plus of everything read, seen, or heard is due to anything other than the licensure schemes from last century, then you are not well-read unto history.

Marx spelled it out pretty clearly the path authoritarians seek to control communication:

Plank 6.) Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the state. - Communist Manifesto 1848

So downvote away Marxists, the Remnant see your spots leopard, we are more than happy to willfully nullify any & all attempts at packaging up the internet to hand back over to the oligarchs. And well we don't plan on surrendering either Free Speech or Private Firearms to bitter unable to compete, failed post-modernists.

Second the vote for RocketChat. Seems to me if you value your enterprise's privacy & data security, the smart money called the cloud/hybrid-cloud game for what it is a number of years back: snake oil.

Amazing to me how in this tech-info-utopia we are fortunate enough to live, we sometimes forget old maxims.

When Opportunity Comes a-Textin' She Will Ride...

Well looks like yet another golden opportunity for a disruptive entrepreneur to come along and toss the apple cart and micturate in the lemonade of the oligarchs.

Private equity will have a fun new outlet in which to flow.

Perhaps said view stems from a lack of ever endeavoring to build an enterprise with your own capital, blood, sweat, tears, and thus merely signing the backside of a paycheck?