Also, what idiot decided that only one settings window is allowed open at one time?
Microsoft engineers were worried that people missed the joys of MS-DOS and having only one application running at once. Next up, will be the return of base memory versus expanded memory versus extended memory. This ends when they devolve Windows to prove Bill Gates right that 640kB should be enough memory for anyone.
Simple, NoPilot can just erase all your files. Binaries can’t take up memory of they can’t be loaded.
A joke is a lot like a frog, it can be informative to dissect it, but the patient usually dies in the process.
IT is what you do when you are good with computers and not so much with people. You get really good at making the magic number boxes work for the MBAs and start explaining RFCs or networking protocols so that they fuck back off upstairs so you can go back to digging through log files and pcaps. It’s all just puzzle solving, reading and a crippling fear of social interactions.
I remember this being quoted when Bush II dragged us into Iraq. And here we are again:
Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Foice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
– Hermann Göring
I must have gotten one after the enshitification. I bought a HiSense TV during the pandemic and the unit I got was trouble from nearly day 1. A line of pixels went dead all the way across the screen. I tried to work with their warranty department and they asked for a picture of the problem.
Ok, easy enough. Take the picture and send. They reply, “can you take a picture with better lighting of the bezel?” Ok, no problem. Gerry better lighting, snap picture, send off. They reply, “can you get better lighting on the bezel?” Seriously? Fine, get the TV under really good lighting, take picture, send. “Can you get better lighting on the bezel?” WTF? Ok, I’ll admit I don’t have 50,000 candle power spot lights on it, but this is just obvious stalling. Each round of pictures and request for more is taking weeks.
During this time, the TV OS sees several updates and the underpowered nature of the system is starting to slow. The menus aren’t just sluggish, they are downright unusable. The home screen is now half ads. I finally decided, “fuck it” took the TV to the dump and bought something else.
Thankfully, the TV was only around $500. Not cheap, but the cost of the education in not buying crap didn’t hurt too much.
tl;dr: Fuck HiSense
Maybe it’s a regional thing, but I don’t think it’s a common phrase. I’ve heard “nothing-burger” a lot, and this may be someone playing off that.
I need to fly for work in the coming weeks. If my having to wait 4 hours in a TSA line is necessary to get ICE neutered, I’ll consider it time very well spent.
This one is a mixed bag. KYC regulations are very useful in detecting and prosecuting money laundering and crimes like human trafficking. But ya, if this data needs to be kept, the regulations around secure storage need to be just as tight. This sort of thing should be required to be kept to cybersecurity standards like CMMC Level 3, audited by outside auditors and violations treated as company and executive disqualifying events (you ran a company so poorly you failed to secure data, you’re not allowed to run such a company for the next 10 years). The sort of negligence of leaving a database exposed to the web should already result in business crippling fines (think GDPR style fines listed in percentages of global annual revenue). A database which is exposed to the web and has default credentials or no access control at all should result in c-level exec seeing the inside of a jail cell. There is zero excuse for that happening in a company tasked with protecting data. And I refuse to believe it’s the result of whatever scape-goat techs they try to pin this on. This sort of failure always comes from the top. It’s caused by executives who want everything done fast and cheap and don’t care about it being done right.
I’d just be happy to see “evil” choices which weren’t cartoonishly silly. So many of these game end up offering you choices like:
There’s never anything like:
Really well done “evil” should be loved by the people, seem outwardly good while using that as cover to do selfish things. But that is much harder than “Press X to murder an innocent for no reason”.
Right, but have you considered that no one actually cares about Greece?
Oh good. Give him a gun, strap a parachute to him, and kick him out of a C-130 flying over Tehran at 30,000 ft. He can go take all the action he wants from there. Otherwise, let’s not go get a bunch of young men and women killed in yet another foreign military adventure.
I trust every AI group to do their level best to separate me from my money. Beyond that, I wouldn’t trust them with a stolen identity.
In a normal world, I’d expect this to get smacked down hard in the courts. But, we can pretty much count on Thomas, Alito and Gorsch being on board with Trump as an overt dictator. So, it just becomes a question about how much leverage the Trump administration has on Kavanaugh, Barret and Roberts. It’s pretty sad that we’re counting on three compromised people to protect the rule of law.
And I have plans to win the lottery. I suspect my plans have better odds of happening.
This strategy really depends on their ability to bribe President Trump for a pardon.
So a couple possibilities come to mind:
Go for it. It’s already broke, even if you make the problem worse, it won’t functionally change what you are planning to do with it (throw it away). Do be careful around any capacitors, @Nollij@sopuli.xyz made a very good point about discharging them carefully. I took a hit off a capacitor for the flash in a disposable camera some years ago and was certainly shocking.
Fixed my monitor rather than tossing more e-waste in the landfill. Replaced a couple blown caps and it’s running like a champ again.
Kinda wonder if they are just distributing a Hyper-V machine image; or, if the actual requirement is that it runs on Linux and they assumed their entire userbase is Windows only and won’t be able to spin up a Linux VM on their own?