The way companies talk about technology on their websites and in articles reminds me of Newspeak from the book "1984" but with the intention of tricking Google's "what will make us the most money" algorithm into giving them higher rankings.

Computer Science classes are currently nothing more than how much free stuff can the teacher get from Micro$oft or Goolag sponsorship, leaving students worse off than what they could have learned on their own (and now in debt) because what they think is currently "professional" will either be out-dated, no longer maintained, or too expensive to own by the time they graduate. That software as a service program (such as Adobe) and free unlimited cloud storage (such as 365) expired because you're no longer a student? That sucks. You should have been teaching about free and open source software on Linux and flash drives are cheap.

If you like VisualBasic but would rather code on GNU/Linux, you should really try Gambas (http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html). It's syntax is somewhat similar and easy to use even if you don't know that much about programming. Also, as far as QuickBasic goes, you can use QB64 as an alternative to QB 4.5; however, it does include features that when used, it can only be coded on QB64.

To give you an idea, it's basically the "Linux Mint" of Debian but with custom tools like ElementaryOS has to make things even easier. So, it's really easy to use but stable as hell. Matter of fact, if something that normally breaks on Debian, the maintainer has repos with fixed versions. An example I've already noticed was with OBS Studio. The interface is kind of like XFCE but the panel is on the left side and a searchable app menu. Uses only 300-400MB of RAM after login and startup. The creator has a few really good YouTube videos on it.

Before you know it, Ubuntu people will be like "What up my GNU/Linux?" And the rest of us will be like, "Hey! That's our word!"

I made a script that uses FFMPEG called "StreamPi" to make it easier to stream for people that can't run OBS Studio because of the OpenGL requirements. https://www.bitchute.com/video....

Its called Blender, though it's "Python" and not "BASH." Matter of fact, a most of Linux programs have a headless mode. https://docs.blender.org/manua....

...So, they're both wrong.

We privacy enthusiasts have been so hopeful about what may happen to Facebook's user count that if you all want to be in denial and think they're the only ones stealing you're data, fine. We will take what we can get. We know we're playing a long game. Just know, you always have a third option. There's no such thing as "less of the evils" when it comes to capitalism and computers. You just have to get out of your comfort zone and start looking. And if my uBlock/NoScripts is telling the truth, you don't need Google, you don't need Amazon, and we Linux users definitely don't need Micro$oft. Besides, I wouldn't trust anything Germany says about privacy anymore; they've really been screwing with that concept in the last few years.

About as long as it takes to install an entire Linux distribution such as "Linux Mint" without updating as it goes? Ummm..k. "A" for effort good buddy.

If you're a Windows user, sometimes the system will switch back to the default ISP's DNS for certain programs (Edge browser *cough cough*) and not just p2p/torrent stuff because, and like we Linux users keep trying to say, they are evil, assuming that all the ads and tracking doesn't give you away or if Micro$oft itself made a deal to throttle on behalf of the ad related conpitition. How else can Cortana give Micro$oft their untainted data fix if your lying to her or get you to use Bing instead of Google? Skype instead of literally anything else? Payed subscriptions instead of free and open source cross platform tools? I even have people telling me their Windows system is warning them that Firefox is an insecure web browser because they clearly want them to use IE or Edge. Classic web browser war bs, but they go much further than that now and you don't get a much of a choice these days. I guess I'm saying it could actually be your Windows 10 system being a dick instead of the ISP. Linux users will not wave it in your face like you think if you switched unless you picked pure Ubuntu (they're partners of sorts). Using WSL isn't going to help. Also, using ping isn't going to help either because it only rates the response time and not the amount of data transferred which is what the ISP is going to look at. It might not hurt to check anyway because maybe it's the just servers acting up.

https://www.bitchute.com/video...

But as an orange colored hipster version of Kim Jung with a shitty comb-over and a neck beard. Speech bubble: "Go 'way! 'Bate'n!" Pick any female guest that's ever been on The View and give her a thick nose ring and shave half of her head. Speech bubble: "All men are evil! Lana Del Rey is #1. Why am I still single?" Place a generic smart phone between them, each holding a side of it instead of directly holding hands because otherwise that would be sexual assault. The tabs on the cell phone's screen are open to reveal Facebook, Tindr, and Instagram are running; it's symbolic because they always are no matter what you do. Both dating profiles say "bisexual" not because they actually are, but in protest for gay/transgender rights as brainwashed and guilt-tripped by their ethics professor. Each are peeing in the same urinal and wearing #blacklivesmatter tee shirts while standing on the Rebel flag. And if you look really carefully, like you're finding Waldo, you can see Putin pointing and laughing his ass off when he's not too busy snap chatting or tweeting his "friends" during protests like every young person all over the world does now. Bumbling moron playing Pokemon Go gets hit by a car. Cop gets blamed for it and it just makes them all a little worse with more excuses for surveillance and "probable cause" while tricking normal citizens into thinking it's for their protection as opposed to passive and active biometrics collection vulnerable to God knows who while the top counties around the world fall apart. This is why aliens don't visit or at least don't let us know about it. "We're here because of Elvis, cheeseburgers, and fuel. After that, we're getting the hell out of here." It might not be the world as a whole in taking account of our history, but that's where we are right now and what evidence we will leave behind if we got wiped out tomorrow.

They are only redefining the "cookie" and calling it something else. The Internet decided that its version of "plain toothpaste" wasn't enough and added "whitening," if you catch my meaning. Also, Google isn't the only one with "bubble" technology. Hard drives are getting larger and cheaper and they have the resources to store info on every person leaking an "ip/mac address/canvas/OS" digital fingerprint. When my website was active (too expensive; hosts holding hostage), I honored the "Do Not Track" option and had a dummy cookie option for browsers that didn't support it but for those that didn't do either one, I could get your IP (censored most of it), your operating system, your device, screen resolutions, where you came in from, what you interacted, how long on each page, and where you left to. And the relevant part, if you were a returning viewer. That was with free and open source tools (Piwik); I'd hate to think what others like Google and Facebook are doing. I would also assume that they're depending on mobile users with smart phones and with applications that contain Google or Facebook libraries. More and more applications are including them by default all the time and don't think for a second there isn't any back scratching going on with your personal browsing, text messages, photos, etc.

Anyone else keep mentally doing this when seeing these headlines?