The whole thing is about perception, it wont really stop people who planned to shop-lift but the number of spur of the moment shop-lifters will drop like a rock because of the perceived risk of getting caught will be much higher. It's a cheap solution with a measurable positive economical effect for the store.

Of course, because it's obvious you don't understand that what you want isn't the same what everyone else wants.

Defensive much?

You would have known that if you actually bothered to find things out, but you went full "not invented here" and started assuming stupid things to invent strawmen why it must horrible.

It wasn't my argument, it was yours since you specifically said "without my control or supervision", that implies you are on top of everything you install.

Funny then how inconsistent you are when doing your checking since it seems to be built on familiarity and visual cues rather than actually looking up facts.

He said while using package managers that install random software from random sources.

Learn how the world and people work, because assuming everyone has the same needs and wants is just plain stupid and lazy. You imply you are big on due diligence but your responses here shows something entirely different, because making shit up and assuming things about something you didn't even bother to look into, that is a fucking professional disgrace.

And I guess all these tools makes it so you can pick 5 apps from an a la carte menu and have them installed in minutes with a few clicks without resorting to typing and running shit in an administrator console? And who uses Clonezilla to install software on Windows? Docker I can get, but Clonezilla...

Btw, in regards to professional tools - why do you think Ninite isn't one? It's not like they have a version specifically geared towards businesses.. Oh, wait! They do!

Just like you wouldn't know of any problems with any of the applications you use, right?

When was the last time you verified every source you got your software from? Because that is the basis for your argument here, and I hope that you actually do that because otherwise you are just being a hypocrite for the simple reason of not being familiar with a piece of software that hundred of thousands of people use.

So Ninite as a package-manager is now suspicious and totally unnecessary and trivial? But Chocolatey who do exactly the same thing isn't? And Scoop? The very first thing it says you should do is to open a powershell and change the execution policy so you can download and run an unknown script to install it. Funny how that isn't suspicious at all for you.

Your reaction is typical of people who instead of actually looking shit up starts throwing it on the wall for no other reason than being unfamiliar with something.

Which I guess comes from random third parties that provide tools that installs software using admin privileges.

Ninite has been around 16-17 years now and if you haven't heard of it it's because of two things: 1. There has never been any issues with it security-wise, 2. No one expect you to know about every tool available.

And I have to ask, what was it about their website that made you dismiss the tool? Was it the absence of ads and fake download links, or its simple and clean design presenting everything you need at a glance?

You are missing the point, this affects current customers which will lead to some of them becoming "non-customers" which is a win for them since they will have less problems and ads, plus they'll have more disposable income they can spend to their liking on something else.

It's insightful and clever when compared to the actions of the companies involved which seems hellbent on accelerating the enshittification.

Not in the least, and here is a recent example: Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation

Everything is cheap when you are playing with other people's money.

I should also mention that moving something the size of a space-shuttle is difficult and very expensive especially since none of the specialized transports (SCA 747-100) for is in a functional state.

I wonder how many people have lost money betting after using ChatGPT to recommend what to bet on. Using it to pick stocks are in the same category of stupid.

That 117% is based on this definition: The power conversion percentage indicated by the asterisk is derived from the optimal power (or power density) obtained from motor-driven devices in air, as reported in the corresponding literature, compared to the optimal power achieved under simulated aquatic conditions in the laboratory.

Ie. 100% is a baseline corresponding to a specific known metric and technology, so 117% isn't how much energy is actually extracted and converted but how it performs against the baseline. So don't worry, the technology doesn't break the laws of physics, just the laws of sensibilities due to poor presentation of the scientific paper.

Uhm, there are doorknobs with microprocessors and NFC these days that validates that a physical key is allowed to turn the lock so Winston's prediction isn't that far off to be entirely realized.

That brings me back, we discovered that you could send a malformed IPX/SPX packet to any computer on the network and it would instantly reboot when the network stack crashed. And so DIE.EXE was born and was used on unsuspecting targets during the weekly and very unofficial beer and snipes tournament at the office.

Almost full circle, perhaps just one more step until you get it.

The switches were tripped just after 08:08:42 and AFAIK copy-pasting 42 or 43 don't turn it into 01.

Of course they did, but that doesn't explain why anyone would write 1 as 01.

I can't see any reason why someone would write 01 sec instead of 1 sec but I can see someone writing 01 sec by mistakenly pressing AltGr/Ctrl instead of "."

We'll have to wait for a more comprehensive report that don't have that ambiguous time to make sense of that time gap.