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Comment Re:Great news (Score 1) 79

it's a complete disaster for end-users to think they should be managing CVEs directly, which is precisely what the security community frequently demands

From TFS:

Can't manage it yourself? Pay a company for support, or "just use Debian or Yocto as their security practices are amazing."

Comment I know GLWT, but this has to stop (Score 2, Interesting) 42

This triggered years of complaints, reviews, and legal disputes that have ultimately now been resolved under undisclosed terms.

They suck a huge amount of money out of the court system and then We The People who paid for that don't even get to find out what the outcome was? The courts sure as fuck don't work for us.

Comment Re:Apple Fan No More (Score 1) 76

They never did so. The cost of that software was embedded in the price of the computer. Thatâ(TM)s partly why Macs are historically more expensive.

No, it isn't. We know that's not the explanation because historically, Apple did NOT give you tools and free software other companies charged for. That was not true until Mac OS X, when they finally gave away a development environment. Prior to that you had to buy a compiler from a third party, as Apple didn't even offer one.

Apple did give you hypercard for a while with classic MacOS versions, but they failed to execute on that and it eventually died. It might have been popular, but all the extensions you needed to make it do anything interesting were commercial (like you couldn't even send serial characters) so it was inferior to BASIC which you got with DOS, Windows, Amiga, Atari... well, pretty much from everyone but Apple.

Which Apple are you thinking of?

Comment Re:Ownership and the Next Check. (Score 1) 76

I don't disagree that your example is somewhat applicable, but a more mundane example we all face is actual "credit scores" which are becoming more and more closely akin to China's "social credit" system. If your credit score is bad, it affects your ability to get transportation and housing, and even employment. Credit scores shouldn't actually exist, they don't do what they say they do, because you can have no ability to pay anything whatsoever and your credit score can be huge based on your prior activity and ability to pay.

Comment Re:Apple Fan No More (Score 1) 76

I used to like Apple as the scrappy underdog giving people tools and free software other companies charged for.

So from 2001-2014 I guess? 2001 is when Mac OS X came out and 2014 is when a non-crippled free Visual Studio came out.

Apple used to be morally anchored under Steve Jobs

The RDF really did a number on you, huh?

Comment Re:Great news (Score 1) 79

So he literally says "it's not feasible to prioritize" and "I'm not sure what to do". Is that 'complaining', where you come from?

Yes:

To complain is a verb that means to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment about a situation. It involves stating that something is wrong, unfair, or inadequate.

Thanks, dictionary.com! I wish everyone was smart enough to use you!

Comment Re:Apple sold out, man (Score 1) 76

It is why for istance they yielded the enterprise market to Windows - he not only didn't give a shit about device management or directory service permissions or stuff like that, he considered that somewhere between distracting from and hostile to making "insanely great" devices.

He was wrong, and NeXTStep is an admission that he was wrong, especially since it became Mac OS X. And if you believe he was right, which you clearly do because you gave this as an example of what he did right, then you're wrong too.

Comment Re:It's not worth $40/month (Score -1, Troll) 137

Tesla is worth the $99/month, but GM supercruise isn't worth anywhere close to $40/month. It's unreliable, intermittant, and at times dangerous.

Dangerous like FSD driving you into a wall or under a tractor trailer and disabling itself a fraction of a second before the crash so Tesla can claim it's not their fault? Shill harder.

Comment Re:Suckers (Score 0) 137

OnStar uses cellular service to connect, so if you have an emergency, either both OnStar and your cell phone work, or neither work. So there's no advantage to using OnStar rather than just dialing 911

OnStar systems detect that a collision has occurred and dial 911 for you. The phone can't do this as well, though it could perhaps do it. The service also has other features. I don't think it's a good deal (I don't want the spyware either) but it's not just a phone with an emergency button.

Comment Re:This is why Win11 required newer hardware ... (Score 1) 41

As I said, âoein partâ. Also, Win 10 hardly shied away from monetizing the user.

The goal of commercial software is to get paid, but Microsoft has been sleazebag number one or two in computing since forever. (It's hard to decide these days between them, IBM, and Oracle...) More on-topic though, if Microsoft wanted to ensure Xbox compatibility then they would have had to also require a relatively advanced GPU, which they didn't do.

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