I overhauled my corporate WiFi and implemented PEAP-CHAPv2 for one SSID so that users can put their Windows Domain user/pass into WiFi, instead of a shared WiFi password. I know - PEAP-TLS would be better, but this one SSID is just for staff BYOD phones so un-managed devices - and managing per-user certs on un-managed devices is like pulling teeth. I just give them DHCP and Internet access and some Internet DNS and everyone is happy.

So anyways for the PEAP cert I use Let's Encrypt in conjunction with my domain. On Android users can use System Certificates and validate the domain and they aren't prompted to trust the PEAP cert - Android does validation instead - the user just has to add our domain to their settings for validation. It's great!

But iOS devices are simply horrible. You don't have that validation option. Users have to get a warning to trust the certificate. They have to view it and see that it is for our corporate domain and signed by Let's Encrypt, but that's asking a lot from non-tech users. It's horrible. But it gets worse. Every month when I refresh the cert - they have to re-trust all over again. Android phones are completely unfazed by the certificate refresh. I wish iPhones were better for WPA-Corporate, but they suck big hairy donkey balls. I love their hardware (for the most part), but their software stack is too dumb in many areas.

It's not piracy. Piracy is when you take something from others, and probably scream "YARRRR!!" and swing a cutlass around, maybe with a peg leg and a parrot on the shoulder. "Forbidden sharing" is a far more apt name. Other people still have their software. I'm not saying its harmless - it does have the potential to rob people of an income. It also has the potential of boosting people's income, if you trial it and like it, and then go and buy it. So yeah there are definitely both positive and negative aspects to this "forbidden sharing" caper.

But I don't agree with him that it's OK. If people want to charge, it's their right. He's showing he's a smelly communist, and in all other aspects he's a nutcase, and no longer relevant.

KDE is under the GPL/LGPL, which is a license expressly designed to stop corporate takeovers. Anyone is free to fork. They can always pivot to a non-systemd DE if Plasma goes all in on systemd - no big deal. But it also begs the question - why don't the BSD folk just create their own DE? Perhaps one under the same permissive BSD license that the OS uses?
Modern desktops have so many inter-dependencies that it makes total sense to develop for a single init system, and have tight integration with it. Otherwise it's just compromise after compromise, and some of those compromises have security implications. I can see a world where each DE targets a single init system, and you use a DE based on what init system your OS has.

KDE confirms it!!! /jk

He was good at puttng lipstick on a pig

1. China is a frenemy of the West. These cars will have kill switches, and also send telemetry back to the mothership
2. China unfairly subsidises their EVs. A classic case of "predatory pricing". You State-subsidise an industry and then dominate. When all competition is dead, move onto the next industry. Rinse repeat.
3. China is a horrible dictatorship which will invade the sovereign nation of Taiwan soon
4. China culturally destroyed Tibet
5. Chinese EVs aren't made to the same environmental standards. Why have environmental standards in Europe, only to reward the Chinese for flaunting theirs, and slow-kill their population with a toxic environment.

The smart people of ./ can add more reasons to this. I'm sure the china bots and little pinks will attack this. Germany destroyed their culture with mass immigration, and then sold their soul to Russia with Nordstream (which funded the invasion of Ukraine) and now are massively polluting the environment as their green dream didn't go so well so now burning brown lignite to make up the shortfall (should have kept nuclear). Now they want to fund the Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Germany is shameful. How did a country that rebuilt itself from the ruins of WW2 now fail so badly and so quickly? Germany needs a good hard long look at itself. I mean seriously. It's so sad what they are doing to themselves, and to the world.

Don't let the facts get int the way of TDS. They never even read the article - they read the headline, and came straight to the comments section to forment. The Dems NPCs have remembered their programming. Unhinged TDS gets modded +4. Your facts get -1. That's the true sad state of things.

"Environmental policy rollbacks were not significant factors"

"The cold 2025 winter meant more heating of buildings, which often comes from natural gas and fuel oil that are big greenhouse gas emitters, King said. A significant and noticeable jump in electricity demand from data centers and cryptocurrency mining meant more power plants producing energy."

Yep. All Trump's fault.

Their whitepaper talks about reaching "Kardashev Type III", which Gemini AI explains:
"A Type III civilization on the Kardashev Scale is a hypothetical civilization capable of harnessing the energy of its entire galaxy, controlling energy from billions of stars and potentially manipulating phenomena like black holes for power, allowing for galactic-scale travel, colonization, and advanced mega-engineering far beyond current human comprehension, making them appear god-like.

Type 0: Uses energy from its home planet (current humanity).
Type I: Controls all energy of its home planet.
Type II: Harnesses all energy of its home star (e.g., Dyson Sphere).
Type III: Commands the energy of its entire galaxy."

These people are lunatics - pun intended. They'll also never date Olivia Rodrigo... https://www.theguardian.com/co...

To be fair, the GPL does share some traits with cancer, in how it can grow. In the context of Linux though, that's not an inherently bad thing. It's a "cancer" we can be proud of. Especially if Microsoft is the host :P

Yeah I use Linux for my servers, Dockers, plus networking equipment: routers, firewalls, switches (mostly hardware-embedded) and mobile phone (Android), but for Desktop OS, it's the apps, stoopid! I've been using Linux since the original Yggdrasil and Slackware but have yet to pull the trigger on the desktop as I do amateur photography and am anchored to Lightroom, some Photoshop, and color calibration of my monitor using a hardware device. I also game, but am happy to have a separate full-tower rig just for gaming.

The thing is - people don't like to go backwards. The change to Linux has to be an upgrade, or at least a side-grade, but not a downgrade. If 100% of their old functionality is not replicated, it just feels like a downgrade. The challenge is that EVERYTHING has to come across, in terms of functionality. If you can't do that, it's a downgrade. For me the holdout is the photography stuff. Sure there's GIMP and Darktable, but they aren't on the level of LR and PS, in terms of features and integration. For other users, it might be pro audio software, or gaming or MS Office suite.

My crazy idea is that in future, Microsoft make enough money from cloud service subscriptions, that sales from OS bundling doesn't mean shit in the general scheme of things, in relation to their spend on developing the OS, and that they come out with a Microsoft Linux, and really push the top tier software vendors to make their software compatible with it. Then have a long-term strategy to sunset Windows. Linux, will of course remain open source. We can then choose to run the Windows flavor (good for the masses) or some other flavor (people like us) and have all the current software available.

Microsoft, at the end of the day, is a publicly-traded company whose sole purpose is growth and returning value to shareholders. If the numbers stack up that it's easier to just Microsoft-ify a Linux distro and push that, instead of maintaining a small city's population worth of devs working on "legacy" Windows, then it's not as crazy as this sounds. As more people switch to Linux, the less return they get from Windows for the same (or growing) amount of devs. This is especially true in the context that they've squeezed the Windows lemon for as much juice as they can.

It might not not be a whack fever dream - it could happen within the next 10 years - who knows. By 2040, I wouldn't be surprised that we look at Windows the same way we look at AmigaOS and OS/2 Warp now - a relic of the past. All great empires have their rise and fall. In fact, the more I think about this, the more confident I become, that it will eventually happen.

That you can find a moral equivalence between Hitler invading Poland, and Trump detaining an illegitimate dictator who invited all kinds of evil (Iran, Hamas, Russia, CCP) into America's backyard, is reprehensible. Well - that's what your ridiculous tag-line seems to be saying. When the evils of the world come to take you over, you can at least be smug and say "well at least we were the nice guys!" as the world crumbles around you. the rest of us don't want to die on that hill.

This feature would be great for graduates of the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good. This feature is probably good for the 99.9% of people in the community with whom you never converse with. i.e. plebs.

The pattern is called TDS, with liberal helpings of self-delusion and propaganda.

Meeting domestic targets by mass de-industrialisation is like meeting your weight-gain target by cutting off your leg before getting on the scales. Or did you not hear about all the German factories moving to places like Poland and China?

Yeah stay away from XPS I reckon. I posted about it above. I am quite happy with the Dell Pro Max line though - thicker with better cooling and more ports, and a better keyboard where the keys aren't touching each other.