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Comment Re:I like that we are going to burn our entire wor (Score 1) 20

It's a interesting and legitimate sci-fi scenario but the real problem isn't going to be waste heat it's going to be diverting huge amounts of limited resources, ie construction and money and time, to building out nuclear power plants for the sole purpose of AI to replace white collar workers.

So instead of machines serving all of us they are going to survey very very very very tiny group of people. Techno feudalism.

Comment Re: I like that we are going to burn our entire wo (Score 1) 20

Dude that heat energy has to go somewhere. So even if you have miraculous electricity you're still going to be belching heat into the atmosphere.

But fusion is getting the headlines while these big tech companies are building out nuclear power plants.

The resources that are going to go into building those plants are going to be diverted from other projects. They don't have to be but they will be because there is very very very little money for anything besides corporate profits.

The economy doesn't have to be a zero-sum game but it is. That's the mistake a lot of people make.

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 3, Insightful) 49

Um did you forget Microsoft Office exists? Offices a little more than twice as profitable as Windows...

Microsoft forces computer upgrades as a giveaway to the oems. It's not for there well-being it's so the dell and HP and all of them have a chance to sell a new computer. This helps keep those oems locked into windows.

To be honest with Windows 10 I don't think they cared nearly as much because they were pretty damn sure the oems couldn't do jack shit and they were right.

The reason Windows 11 requires a computer upgrade is so they can do some of the nastier DRM and eventually lock down the platform like Apple iOS is. That's been their dream since Windows 8 but software vendors saw it coming a mile away and wouldn't have anything to do with Microsoft.

Comment Re:400m more LInux desktops -- Year of Linux Final (Score 2) 49

This isn't caused by enshitification. This is just Microsoft never being able to put together a decent tablet at a good price.

Microsoft has never been good at much of anything. Take away the antitrust violations and they wouldn't even be around anymore.

But thanks to those antitrust violations and our complete unwillingness to vote for politicians that enforce law they can do things like lose 6 billion dollars on the OG Xbox and then just throw out another one and then throw out another one and lose money on that one and on and on and on.

But people aren't leaving Windows because Windows got worse. For r the average user even Windows 11 is fine. You have to be a gamer or someone doing advanced content creation to notice the difference. And I mean advanced, if all you do is throw together a YouTube channel with a bit of 4K video you won't notice the problems Windows 11 brings to the table.

But the fact of the matter is most people just use computers to access email and shop and maybe a bit of porn and a cheap Android tablet is good enough.

If Microsoft was a more nimble company they could have put out a cheap Windows CE tablet to compete with Android but they're not so they ended up chasing Apple money on overly expensive devices and anyone who's dropping $1,000 on a tablet is just going to buy an Apple device.

Comment Re:400m more LInux desktops -- Year of Linux Final (Score 1) 49

Great, so that means there are 400 million more Linux desktops! Right? /s

Sure hope not. Talk about sloppy seconds.

(Linux) ”You say you used to go HAM on that rig? Like I need to ask how many miles you got on that chassis. Reeks of defrag, Cheetos and porn. No thanks.”

(BSD) ”I’d still do her.”

Submission + - Iranian hackers are exploiting lazy American security and nobody seems to care (nerds.xyz)

BrianFagioli writes: The U.S. government is sounding the alarm about a growing cyber threat tied to Iran. A new joint advisory from CISA, the FBI, NSA, and the Department of Defense warns that Iranian-affiliated hackers and hacktivists could be preparing cyberattacks against vulnerable American systems.

The targets? Critical infrastructure and defense-related companies, especially those with links to Israeli research or technology. According to the agencies, these threat actors are already scanning for exposed systems running outdated software, using default passwords, or connected directly to the internet without proper security.

And if that sounds like old news, that’s part of the problem.

This isn’t theoretical. During the Israel-Hamas conflict last year, Iranian actors breached dozens of U.S. industrial systems, including water utilities and manufacturers. Many were compromised through unsecured PLCs and HMIs left wide open online.

The same tactics are still in play. From website defacements to DDoS attacks and hack-and-leak operations, Iranian-aligned groups are combining technical intrusions with social and political messaging. Some work directly with ransomware gangs, stealing data and threatening public leaks if demands aren’t met.

The advisory makes it clear that the U.S. remains an active target. Sadly, it’s not because of sophisticated zero-days, but actually, because many organizations continue to ignore basic cyber hygiene. Sigh.

The suggested mitigations are mostly common sense. Disconnect OT systems from the public internet. Kill default passwords. Apply patches. Use MFA. Monitor logs. And perhaps most importantly, rehearse incident response plans like your business depends on it. After all, it might.

Too often, organizations with the least resources are left running the most critical infrastructure. That reality hasn’t changed, and neither has the threat.

Comment So if you didn't have the hellscape (Score 1) 34

You wouldn't have people being charged with human trafficking just based on random travel patterns because you wouldn't have a fascist government looking for reasons to charge people with crimes they didn't commit.

You're putting the cart before the horse. The problem is once you have a fascist government all the individual security and privacy in the world won't save you. If all else fails they will just come down on you like a ton of bricks with simple violence.

And by yourself you can't stop fascism because billionaires always want fascism. Before that it was billionaires but that's just inflation. If you're going to withstand the assault of people with that much money the only way you can do it is by grouping together with large numbers of people.

So protecting your individual privacy won't stop the actual thing you're afraid of, which is being arrested for crimes you didn't commit.

Comment Re:Xfce also uses GTK (Score 1) 126

XFce is using GTK3 currently and the change is in GTK5. Hopefully, as more users have the sad realization about Wayland, GTK5 will be end of the line for GTK.

GTK's decision isn't that surprising, they've been part of freedesktop for some time, so they've bought in on the plan to cram Wayland down people's throat with a stick if necessary, much like RedHat in general.

Comment Damn (Score 1) 40

My latest vaccine shots had the 6G upgrade, to take advantage of the higher-speed web access when the networks upgrade, but if they're selling those frequencies to high-power carriers, then I won't be able to walk into any area that handles AT&T or Verizon. :P

Seriously, this will totally wreck the 6G/WiFi6 specification, utterly ruin the planned 7G/WiFi7 update, and cause no end of problems to those already using WiFi6 equipment - basically, people with working gear may well find their hardware simply no longer operates, which is really NOT what no vendor or customer wants to hear. Vendors with existing gear will need to do a recall, which won't be popular, and the replacement products simply aren't going to do even a fraction as well as the customers were promised - which, again, won't go down well. And it won't be the politicians who get the blame, despite it being the politicians who are at fault.

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