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[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just say that video from Wendell. Looks promising.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When that first happened I switched to KISS Launcher. Fully search based. really simple and really fast.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a client as of a couple of years ago with a custom fronted software build on top of an access mdb database running on windows 98 continuously since 2000. They had been backing it up onto a 18 year old 1GB flash drive every night for years. Their interest was exactly zero in upgrading to anything newer.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was my main take-away. You're the CEO of the company. If someone writes a mean blog post about your business so what? Fix the issues with the product if they are legitimate things that need fixing. Otherwise leave people alone. If something constitutes libel then sue. Otherwise it's just someones opinion which they are entitled to.

No I have a bad opinion about him as well (please don't reach out to me either).

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

I think they mean Seth Grahme-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

So I'm down. Please not too many pew pew space battles. You can include Abe Lincoln if appropriate. That is precedented and canonical for Star Trek.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Researchers: Hey you're breached

ATT: MMMM I don't think so. Pretty sure other people got breached and it looks like our data.

Researchers: Pretty sure it was you. Here's pretty compelling evidence.

ATT: No actually. I'm pretty sure we would know if we were breached.

...

...

... ATT: We were breached

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

Only 1000 times? It's interesting that there's such a bias there but it's a computer. Ask it 100,000 times and make sure it's not a fluke.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've got 110-130 dollars that says people will buy it anyway and the publisher will make a fortune.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I finally have Windows banished to a VM, only to be awoken for the 3 times a year I need a desktop version of PowerPoint.

I'm with you. 99% of the way there.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 35 points 1 year ago

There's a toggle

Becomes

There's a toggle but we moved it deep into a sub menu

Becomes

If you toggle it off it also breaks a lot of other things you want to have

Becomes

Toggle it off if you want but it's still going to run in the background

Until the EU sues and forces them to have an option to actually remove it.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago

There's a new proof of concept malware that when an AI processes it causes arbitrary code execution and spreads itself to everyone on the victims email list.

This requires no input from the user

Yes please put more of this crap into every crevice of the OS.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago

This seems like it might be a perfect use case for Tailscale. The open source version of the control plane is called Headscale but you'd have to host it in a vps somewhere if you wanted to use it.

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