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Submission + - Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup (pcworld.com)

Submitted by ttyler on Thursday May 01, 2025 @12:24PM

ttyler writes: PC World's Michael Crider reports that Office is now so slow to load that "Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup." The "Startup Boost" function, soon to be available, frontloads the suite's apps so they are ready to use.

Comment UNIONIZE! (Score 4, Insightful) 140

by ttyler on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:13PM (#65201981) Attached to: Google's Sergey Brin Urges Workers To the Office at Least Every Weekday

When are tech workers finally going to unite?

Comment Boing Boing (Score 3, Insightful) 166

by ttyler on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @11:17PM (#64974995) Attached to: 'Enshittification' Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year

Ironic that Doctorow's Boing Boing has recently succumbed to enshitification by going hard core against any ad blocker and paywalling all of the discussions. Truly sad...

Comment Obligatory XKCD (Score 1, Redundant) 522

by ttyler on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @02:58PM (#64884899) Attached to: EVs Are Just Going To Win

https://xkcd.com/2948/

Comment Not even the first time Google has faked AI (Score 3, Informative) 49

by ttyler on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:50AM (#64066455) Attached to: Google's Best Gemini Demo Was Faked

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

Comment UNIONIZE! (Score 2) 47

by ttyler on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:03PM (#64063911) Attached to: Bungie Devs Say Atmosphere Is 'Soul-Crushing'

Every time these articles pop up about one of the tech industries mistreating employees, someone shouts about the need to unionize. UNIONIZE!

Submission + - Apple iMessage support coming to Windows (with Limitations) (macrumors.com)

Submitted by ttyler on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:25AM

ttyler writes: Microsoft today announced that it is adding iPhone support to its Phone Link app on Windows 11. The app allows iPhone users to make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, and view an iPhone's notifications directly on a PC.

Submission + - Protestors hack Iran state TV live on air (bbc.com)

Submitted by ttyler on Sunday October 09, 2022 @08:33AM

ttyler writes: Iran's state-run broadcaster was apparently hacked on air Saturday, with a news bulletin interrupted by a protest against the country's leader.

Comment And according to TFA, it's already been removed... (Score 1) 43

by ttyler on Friday January 21, 2022 @07:08PM (#62195985) Attached to: Apple Now Verifies Anyone Asking for Educational Discounts

Update January 21st, 4:58PM ET: Updated to reflect that the Unidays’ verification seems to have been removed from Apple’s US education store.

Submission + - Apple Delays Return to Work INDEFINITELY (nytimes.com)

Submitted by ttyler on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:03PM

ttyler writes: BREAKING: Tim Cook just sent out an email delaying Apple’s return to work to a date “yet to be determined.” He also said the company is giving every corporate employee $1,000 to spend on home office equipment.

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffe...

Submission + - The McFlurry Machine Company Just Got Hit With a McRestraining Order (gizmodo.com) 1

Submitted by ttyler on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:12PM

ttyler writes: A lawsuit between the company that makes McFlurry machines and a company that manufactures a third-party diagnostic tool for them is part of a broader "right to repair" battle.

Comment Re:Wrong Metric (Score 1) 47

by ttyler on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:34PM (#60732612) Attached to: Demand For Employee Surveillance Increased As Workers Transitioned To Home Working

Yes this, a thousand times THIS!!! Give me tasks, and make sure I get them done. As long as I get them done on time, who gives a shit if it takes me 5 hours or 8 hours. You are paying me to get tasks done, not to sit mindlessly in front of a computer.

Submission + - Apple Offers Support for Thread Networking (macrumors.com)

Submitted by ttyler on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:12PM

ttyler writes: As MacRumors reports https://www.macrumors.com/2020... their new HomePod supports Thread Networking https://www.threadgroup.org/.

Thread is a low-power IP-based networking technology for connecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices, offering a secure, mesh-based system that makes it easy to build an ecosystem of devices.

While Thread is essentially agnostic to the application layers that run on top of it, it can support multiple layers and may play a role in Project Connected Home over IP, the alliance of Apple, Amazon, Google, and other companies.

Comment Who is going to make sure this won't happen again? (Score 1) 57

by ttyler on Sunday August 30, 2020 @02:37PM (#60455800) Attached to: Major Internet Outage: Dozens of Sites are Down

So at work when the boss asks "why did this happen?" I will blame my ISP, and my ISP will blame Cloudflare, and Cloudflare will blame CenturyLink. How does one company have the ability to take down a significant portion of the Internet (and my VOIP, and other all of my other servers - even our backup ISP was affected) Those who are in charge of the Internet and are much smarter than me need to figure out what needs to change to make sure this cannot happen again. Please! And thank you!

Comment Re:Tool (Score 2) 80

by ttyler on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:27PM (#60251912) Attached to: Detroit Police Chief: Facial Recognition Software Misidentifies 96% of the Time

They know the failure percentages, but the daily reporting, which is digested by the media, makes it appear that people are instantaneously arrested if there is a match. That's simply not the case.

Actually, that is EXACTLY the case. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24...

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