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I got wifi 7 for twenty bucks. well, TBF I paid maybe $24 with antennas.
I got wifi 7 for twenty bucks. well, TBF I paid maybe $24 with antennas.
There's apparently lots of bribe money to go around.
Ah, yes. Another "one day people like me will force people like you to live the way we think you should" post.
That's fucking stupid, and here's why: People like you supported and continue to support the people who forced people like him to buy a car.
The hardware itself is loaded with nerd bait: dual Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6E
Last decade's wired ethernet and the year before last's wifi is nerd bait? GTFOH immediately with your slashvertisement clown shit. At least put in some fucking effort.
Trump wanted to control the AI market, but the AI market offered him enough bribe money to control him.
Of course, I've always said that if you have untrusted users you are fucked. LPEs are a dime a dozen and can break anything, even VMware tenant separation.
The problem is, you're going to be opening connections outward, and you might be compromised that way. Say, through your browser. As long as LPE remains possible then that opens the door to owning your whole system, to say nothing of the damage they can do to your data even without one.
Great, so Vizio is violating the license and has no right to reproduce the software. I believe the statutory damage limit for each infraction is $150k?
The license gives them the opportunity to stop distribution as a remedy instead.
There's another way to mitigate this, and it's ideologically difficult for a lot of Open Source people to accept...
The big problem is not ideological.
but you'll have to diverge from the tried and true path. AI makes this much easier: instead of using $popular_thing_everyone_uses, you use something else - either COTS or roll-your-own. Yes, it might be bugs, and yes, they might be security bugs, but unless they're painfully obvious issues where you didn't do your due diligence, it's going to be a more obscure target which will require more targeted attacks.
Humans are vulnerable to making the same kinds of errors, and security is hard, so you're going to either be highly likely to make predictable errors that are going to be easy to find or you're going to need to pull in some libraries to handle security.
No, this doesn't solve anything and it's 100% "security through obscurity".
IOW it's not a useful suggestion, especially now that there are exciting new tools for finding vulnerabilities rapidly.
I gave up on NoScript a long time ago. Too difficult to use. Too many broken sites.
I have to use Chromium to access a few sites which are important, like for paying certain bills. Those sites don't work in Firefox with or without noscript; even when I enable all scripts, they still don't work. Anything not critically important which doesn't work when I enable all the scripts I'm willing to enable, I just don't go to, and I'm better off.
Yet Microsoft Word requires a maximum of tens of megabytes of RAM per document. And arguably Word is more powerful.
Word can't even draw text while scrolling at speeds above a crawl because its rendering engine is such pathetic trash, so very much no. It also can't keep its UI drawing reliably if left running for a few days, even after windows are forced to refresh some elements won't draw until every window is closed (since they all run under one executable like it's the fucking 1980s because Microsoft doesn't trust their inter-process clipboard functionality to work correctly) and so on. Every part of office is hot garbage, and Word is absolutely not an exception.
We're not living in the 1990s any more. Hell, the 1990s weren't the 1990s, but consolidation
...which was illegal before Bill Clinton signed the CDA...
Removing server features from workstations was a step ahead of the pack.
Into a hole.
It's an upgrade
It isn't.
Apple has all the money, they can afford to do both things and it's weird they haven't. Having a meaningful management system is a huge part of selling computers, to corporate and educational users. Back before all computers were on an IP network, when they didn't have security beyond antivirus, you could get away with not offering management.
Those who have demands closer to the old day workstation solutions are better served by other OS'es, but we're a blip on the consumer axis, not a norm.
Apple has a solid alternative to Windows for business use, if only they offered a full suite. They could be digging into that market. That's what NeXTStep really was supposed to be, a Macintosh-ish system for business use. Their prices were even more hallucinatory than Apple's at the time, which prevented any real adoption more than any lack of software, especially since they had very good compatibility with other environments (including, for example, a Netware client.) It's quite confusing what made them think they could get those kinds of dollars for a 68k when the PC was just getting fast. We can't ask Jobs now, though.
I am in favor of Microsoft releasing Linux distributions, donating code for Linux distributions and for the Linux kernel, supporting Linux on their cloud infrastructure, et cetera. I am not in favor of anything which involves Redhat even peripherally as long as they (IBM, really) continue to mount an attack on the GPL by continuously violating the clause about additional restrictions not being allowed, hiding behind the corrupt US court system, and exploiting the fact that approximately no one can afford to sue IBM.
To return to my point, I remain unsurprised.
I can tell you've never used Microsoft hardware.
The issue is that I use Microsoft software every work day, and it is shit all day every time.
I just want a way to write a scheduled task with one line instead of an entire config file.
cron daemons still exist. Some of them are fairly fancy. I am running the default one for debian (as in, I installed "cron") and even that conveniently creates cron.{daily,hourly,monthly,weekly,yearly} where I can just dump scripts instead of editing crontab, if one will suit anyway. And then there's also at.
Another thing I would like is to be able to just put startup scripts in one directory and have them run instead of doing all kinds of configuration
That's
Even bytes get lonely for a little bit.