ChaoticEntropy

ChaoticEntropy , 18 hours ago

Great… so we’re reaffirming that society’s various structures exist purely for the benefit of monied interests, as ever. Any benefit the regular person sees from arrangements is purely coincidental, your rights stops at the point at which a corporation needs them to.

ChaoticEntropy , 1 day ago

“We listened.”

ChaoticEntropy , 1 day ago

Did MS derive any particular benefit from Timeline? It was a lot more localised as far as I recall. Recall seems geared to give them a lot more data that they could monetise.

ChaoticEntropy , 2 days ago

Yeah… regardless of circumstance, that title is some shitty journalism when you editorialise that much.

ChaoticEntropy , 2 days ago

That is basically the biggest fuck up you could make as a government contracted technology provider. They even let it happen and hid it deliberately.

ChaoticEntropy , 2 days ago

“More than a dozen employees” for Wells Fargo is basically no one.

ChaoticEntropy , 1 day ago

heralding major change

In a good way though, right? Right…?

ChaoticEntropy , 3 days ago

Pretty sure I had some of the 3x last week, though I didn’t finish them. They were pretty spicy yes but also they just didn’t taste very nice, it didn’t seem worth it.

ChaoticEntropy , 3 days ago

It’s okay to not start in your ideal job on day one and to take sideways shifts to get closer to it. I went from phone monkey in a call centre, to a letter monkey, to a software tester, to a software business analyst (all at the same company), to a software product owner, to a software product manager. I gravitated back towards my stronger IT oriented passions over time.

ChaoticEntropy , 3 days ago

Did you remember to clear your cookies and cache?

ChaoticEntropy , 5 days ago

He believes a heavily embedded AI integration on iOS with a 3rd party is a violation of security and privacy… because its not his 3rd party being integrated with.

ChaoticEntropy , 5 days ago

Almost feels Borderlandsy.

ChaoticEntropy , 5 days ago

Some of the loudest voices in the anti-war movement in Israel have been families of hostages. Considering the track record of their military action, exchanges and peace talks are a far safer way for their family members to be returned, and they are not happy in their loved ones being used as a pretext for a purge of Gaza’s civilian population.

ChaoticEntropy , 5 days ago

Bombing of Nuseirat’s busy market area began soon after the raid started at around 11am (9am BST), turning the neighbourhood into “smoke and flames”, Muhannad Thabet, a 35-year-old resident, told AFP.

“People were screaming – young and old, women and men,” he said. “Everyone wanted to flee the place, but the bombing was intense and anyone who moved was at risk of being killed due to the heavy bombardment and gunfire.”

At least one wave of heavy airstrikes was launched to secure the passage of the three men, who had been held together. Argamani was rescued alone, from a separate location.

Not. Discriminate. Enough.

ChaoticEntropy , 5 days ago

I’m not having a great time with DisplayLink driver support, personally. Various applications I use with mixed levels of support too, along with missing out on Windows specific GPU features.

This has been my most successful round of Linux adoption, but there are still niggling issues and confusion. The biggest difficulty is that my accumulated support knowledge of like 20 years is useless and I am relearning basic issue identification and resolution processes.

The internet being a raging dumpster fire, support is kind of patchy on more niche topics. All the good, useful discussions are largely happening behind closed doors at this point on everyone’s Discords and whatnot.

ChaoticEntropy , 5 days ago

I’ll say it. Cats have bad work ethic.

ChaoticEntropy , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

I’m going to try to take this in the spirit that it was provided, but you’re using a lot of "…"s, and a lot of implications that what I’m saying is obvious, for a person trying to provide earnest assistance. I wasn’t requesting technical support or expressing surprise at these things, I was merely expressing that these were the things I was generally encountering difficulty with my transition to Linux as a daily driver.

The DisplayLink driver for instance is running, and basically functional, but ends up running slowly, with distortions, and instability. It also isn’t signed, so my plan to still run Secure Boot with the distro I’m using alongside Windows is out (without a lot of faff), but that largely won’t matter excusing some specific work setups that I don’t currently have to worry about. Having useful AMD specific driver level tools on Windows that don’t exist in Linux isn’t a surprise, it is a discouragement.

Forum content and non-Reddit content are a pain to locate, especially when you don’t know how to frame your problem in Linux syntax, as you say. Communities are either open but in specific places that I will never find without already knowing about it, or happening in places that aren’t accessible without having already joined, like the Discord of the specific software I need guidance on. My experience has been that there is basic info and there is advanced info out there, but intermediate info that lets you bridge the gap is a challenge to locate, especially with subtle differences in certain steps that are distro/package manager specific. Yet I press on.

ChaoticEntropy , 9 days ago

That’s the real sticking point for me, it is a problem for my desire to transition to Linux as a daily driver.

ChaoticEntropy , 9 days ago

Bitwarden is too functional and too affordable for me to really consider moving.

ChaoticEntropy , 9 days ago

No… we’re good…

ChaoticEntropy , 9 days ago

“It works fine if you follow a 10 stage guide filled with terminal commands to configure it properly, which describes commands that are different in your distro.”

Cool.

ChaoticEntropy , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

What possible reason would he have to do that…? If he wins, he gets off scot free. If he loses then he’ll claim that he won and is being suppressed for political reasons and then get of scot free.

ChaoticEntropy , 13 days ago

He won’t need to, it’ll be his “independent” department of justice calling the shots. Sessions and Barr did everything in their power, without committing actual explicit crimes, to keep Trump happy while they were in charge.

ChaoticEntropy , 16 days ago

Heh. That’s cute. Pissing off players by cutting them off from their games has been going sooo well for them.

ChaoticEntropy , 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

If someone wants to use a vibrator that consumes an entire city’s worth of yearly energy consumption each day then I’d say that they shouldn’t be allowed to do that. Making excessive energy consumption prohibitively expensive goes some way towards discouraging this at least.

ChaoticEntropy , 15 days ago

Right, so the imperative to consume less power inspired the innovation needed to make it ultimately viable in the long term. Rather than people being left to consume infinite resources without a care in the world. Let’s hope that the imperative to be efficient and not use all resources all the time inspires this to also becoming viably efficient rather than regulators/officials just allowing it to spin out of control.

ChaoticEntropy , 15 days ago

Did I say at some stage that I just want a flat, nuanceless ban on industries? I answered a hypothetical posed about individual’s personal consumption.

AI needs reigning in for so many different reasons, energy consumption or otherwise. Its utility to society is more than counterbalanced by the dangers that it and its unregulated expansion poses to that same society. If nothing else, government and industry bodies to catch up with it and impose appropriate standards.

ChaoticEntropy , 18 days ago

Oh good… janky oversold systems that do a lot of automation on a very shaky basis are also having high impacts when screwing up.

Also “Facewatch” is such an awful sounding company.

ChaoticEntropy , 18 days ago

Who the fuck wants this…? Besides the company raking in venture capital money.

ChaoticEntropy , 23 days ago

If that’s what you’re trying to express then I kind of feel like you miswrote your comment. You want them to focus on browser features but not continue to add features? You don’t feel like there’s any room for confusion there?

ChaoticEntropy , 23 days ago

It’s not you. It’s ridiculous that they’re this indignant.

ChaoticEntropy , 23 days ago

The proportion of good content to bad content has taken a steep nosedive to be sure.

ChaoticEntropy , 24 days ago

“We need you to reconsider… because we already did it and we’re just looking for your stamp of approval after the fact.”

ChaoticEntropy , 24 days ago

The implication being that this is the deal that the AI boom is offering, it’s not necessarily an endorsement of that philosophy by the writer.

ChaoticEntropy , 24 days ago

Okay.

ChaoticEntropy , 24 days ago

Corporations are as callous and mechanical as they have always been, with an ever expanding range of tools to exploit. They will do anything and everything they can unless it is less profitable to do it.

ChaoticEntropy , 23 days ago

If by “forgiveness” you mean an avoidance of legal liability, sure. :P

ChaoticEntropy , 24 days ago

What an amazing feature!

For Microsoft…

ChaoticEntropy , 25 days ago

And before anyone says it, the only person to menace me with a knife has been my partner… and I think she was joking.

ChaoticEntropy , 25 days ago

I didn’t call her bluff, so who’s to say.

It’s comparatively low, but you take about the level of crime you have I guess, rather than crime you could have. I don’t hold much hope for whatever bizarre Frankenstein’s government is next in charge of the country, but we’ll have to cross that channel when we come to it.

ChaoticEntropy , 25 days ago

How many knives can a disaffected teen carry/throw per minute?

I wouldn’t seek to downplay how much damage a sufficiently motivated individual with a knife can do in a short space of time, but it is certainly orders of magnitude lower than a firearm in most cases.

ChaoticEntropy , 25 days ago

With respect, that’s bullshit. Common sense gun reform is on the table almost monthly, after every single mass shooting pretty much… which happen with great regularity. The simplest of measures is treated like a slippery slope to full bans and so nothing at all is allowed to progress. From the outside looking in, a nationwide firearms ban is a bogeyman used to prevent anything happening at all.

ChaoticEntropy , 25 days ago

Public opinion does not equal policy, and what you’re effectively saying is that there is no negotiation possible. Moving an inch could lose you a foot, so no movement is possible.

Don’t pretend that it is both sides who refuse to “negotiate”, when one side views any change at all as unacceptable compromise.

ChaoticEntropy , 25 days ago

Great. So everyone will just continue dying or being in fear of dying in mass shootings, regular shootings, and more. This will continue for the rest of time because one side is scared of making a positive change to the situation.

ChaoticEntropy , 24 days ago

Unwilling due to their fear. Of their donors, of their electorate, of losing control. Pick your poison.

ChaoticEntropy , 24 days ago

A small subset of the electorate sure, made fearful… by grifters, agenda led news, and arms manufacturers who want to sell them guns.

ChaoticEntropy , 25 days ago

No shit…? The only reason that Saudi Arabia isn’t a stretch of glass is because they were providing oil whilst Iraq was making moves to cut it off. Sate your bloodlust and destroy a regional inconvenience at the same time? That’s a freebie.

ChaoticEntropy , 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

We’ve been pretty up ourselves about it though, a blank flag waving on the moon will be cold comfort for the burning remains of our civilisation. I could imagine this being the inevitable end to an intelligent species, smart enough to destroy itself but dumb enough to destroy itself.