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• Post #3067221

  This is so Microsoft on so many levels. Imagine buying Microsoft Office 2019 for your Mac. Perpetual licence. Just a good ol' software in a box (except without a box, I guess, times are digital). "It's so great to own a real software and not a subscription", you think to yourself. Now Microsoft basically says: "I'll do ya one better, pal. Now your Office 2019 will work in read-only mode. Hope you wrote everything you needed. Get a subscription already". I didn&#39...

• Post #2953915

  Fun fact: if you're dualbooting with Windows 11, it silently changes default boot order in UEFI to ensure it always boots first. I think there's no way to change that behavior.

• Post #2953914

  Мой сонный разум породил подходящий рекламный слоган для #GitHub в последнее время: «Я часть той силы, что вечно обещает SLA, но вечно производит баги».

• Post #2953913

  Exquisite.tube is a very strange place indeed!

• Post #2953912

  I'm not a programmer by trade, but seeing how every (it seems) open source project founded and managed by enthusiasts for enthusiasts turns to vibecoding makes me wonder: Why do you people hate programming so much as to make someone (something?) else code instead of you? I mean, it is clear that vibecoding in enthusiast OSS projects is a way to NOT code. Why bother then?

• Post #2138137

  @hi Well, yeah, but that's how we did it back in the days, right? I had Nokia 3310 and a huge CD player in its own bag stuffed with like a dozen CDs. This bag had a whole system of straps, so you couldn't just TAKE the player, you had to EQUIP it. Only later I bought a tiny mp3 player that had crazy 256 MB of memory.

• Post #2138136

  What the hell, another day, another browser. Turns out, Google Chrome silently installs 4GB Google Nano LLM model on every device for its AI features. Without permission. By default. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/ I couldn't care less for carbon footprint, but 4GB of bandwidth is the thing I will most certainly notice, because with my ISP it would take an hour or two on good days to download. And they drop it on every single device using Chrome. Unless yo...

• Post #2076342

  Another day, another slop. Security researcher found that Microsoft Edge loads all saved passwords in RAM in cleartext. https://x.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308329880719730 Here's his Github repo to test it for yourself: https://github.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/EdgeSavedPasswordsDumper That's Microsoft at its best, I guess. =)

• Post #1843413

  This is so funny: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Old-Network-AI So, Linux drops support for many old network drivers from ISA and PCMCIA era, and the reason is AI. Andrew Lunn says: "These old drivers have not been much of a Maintenance burden until recently. Now there are more newbies using AI and fuzzers finding issues, resulting in more work for Maintainers. Fixing these old drivers make little sense, if it is not clear they have users." Basically, maintainers are tired...

• Post #1530898

  @neil Your points are totally fair, I think. But I'd like to point out that you're "infinitely more" sovereign than any usual person or entity that relies on SaaS products. Because while you rely on other people's work, that work had already been done. And if perchance Internet disappeared, your systems air-gapped or else, you'd still be able to exist quite fine. You don't need a huge staff of your ISP, Cloudflare, Amazon, Microsoft and s...

• Post #1530897

  RE: https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116265905987693759 Countless open source projects in dire need of talented contributors, and this educated and quite competent guy comes and gracefully does the most atrocious thing possible instead. What a story. =)

• Post #924212

  Stumbled upon this golden joke that says volumes: WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI.