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Comment Re:Shots Fired! (Score 1) 67

Well, that rules out 99.9999% of all mobile phones for you, then, with a +/- .0001% margin of error. :-)

I don't "trust" any of these providers. I expect them to fuck me. I just don't get the option to use none of them if I want to participate in modern society.

Open source is not even slightly immune to those sorts of issues.

Which issues? Not being able to trust that the code doesn't do things which are intentionally malicious? It's as close as you can get. Literally all closed source software is less trustworthy.

Comment Re:Why Are We (the UK) Helping Ukraine? (Score 1) 187

First we were told that Ukraine needed to DEFEND her territory.

As long as Russia is attacking Ukraine, attacking Russia is defending Ukraine.

This is not complicated.

All Russia has to do for the attacks on Russia to stop is stop attacking Ukraine.

Or is it just me, and going on the offensive against Russia is perfectly OK?

It's not just you. There's lots of other clowns just like you who think allowing Russia to continue attacking Ukraine is perfectly OK.

Comment Re: Yeah! Most incompetent ever! So much winning! (Score 0) 50

My favorite thing is how when I open an office document when I've got one already open in that program, the other window MAY (or may not) un-maximize and rise to the top before the new window appears. That doesn't fuck up my workflow or anything... wait, yes it does, it fucks it right in the ass.

I also especially like how Outlook appointment notifications usually don't come to the top even when you're not typing, they just show up under other Office windows, and cause the taskbar icon to flash. They occasionally work correctly.

Comment Re: Yeah! Most incompetent ever! So much winning! (Score 0) 50

Bitch about MS all you want, they took security problems very seriously after XP and fixed almost all of it.

Is that why we were discussing one of their allegedly patched vulns still not being patched years later... like two weeks ago? They take stock prices seriously, security not so much.

Comment Re:Shots Fired! (Score 1) 67

It's fundamentally impossible for an operating system to protect you from the manufacturer of that operating system. That trust is unavoidable.

Apple made their OS open, then closed portions of it, so you cannot trust them, just like all of the other closed source vendors. That doesn't mean no operating system is trustworthy, only that Apple is no more trustworthy than Microsoft.

Comment Re: Yeah! Most incompetent ever! So much winning! (Score -1, Troll) 50

"The fact that they managed to keep up with this and publish massive amount of patches is a sign of excellence."

That's assuming they did meaningful fixes and not just some AI slop bullshit that will create more problems than it fixed.

I don't give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, they have proven that is not sensible time and again.

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