They've spent decades abusing their customers (and everyone else) with their endless corporate bullshit, network abuse, price hikes, service outages, etc...

And when people start finding reasonable alternatives, SURPRISE.... They take advantage of them.

Thats what happens when you lose your monopoly spamcast. The second I was able to get fiber at my premise, I dropped them the same day.

Got 3 times the speed, for half the price. Latency also dropped quite a bit too.

Used to be a long time ago the scam was the idiot suckers who paid AOL for shitty internet access.

The past few years the scam has morphed into whoever is DUMB enough to buy AOL.

Apollo apparently was stupid enough to waste 5 billion on AOL in 2021, and they're only getting 1.5 billion out of it. 3.5 billion loss in 4 years - slick investment there guys (LOL).

Yet would you use RC4 for wifi or web security?

Poor security is no security, and I'm shocked someone hasn't written a program that would tie into a cheap realtek SDR and eat ADP keys for breakfast.

It would be like when DVD encryption got cracked. Once someone buys a case a beer and spends a weekend coding it, the horse is out of the barn for good.

In the US, a lot of agencies are still using RC4 (known as Motorola advanced digital privacy, aka ADP ) for critical communications. And these agencies have zero clue how easy it would be to brute force the keys.

I will be attending their theaters even less now.

I despise advertising and its one sure fire way to keep me from giving them money.

Apple Watches already generate a bazillion garbage 911 alerts - such as crash alerts when no crash has happened.

Now we'll be getting bazillion "Grandpa just died! " alerts.

Sounds like fraud to me.

Win 11 LTSC is already out if you know where to look for it.

https://drive.massgrave.dev/X2...

Yeah that worked wonders for them.

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Go ahead though, enjoy your communism comrade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Its about the only way to use Windows and not get the latest M$ bullshitware shoved down your throat.

Fortunately there's some good resources out there on how to grab LTSC and activate it.

I really don't get it. What does anyone have the gain by DDOS'ing archive.org ?

If you're ddos'ing the feds, or some Hollywood studio, or M$, I'd get it (even if its rather pointless in the end), but archive.org ??

NyTimes loves for people to not read their articles. I'm happy to oblige them. Is there a different source for this ?

Goddamn Autoplay/autorun.inf, a script kiddies wet dream for spreading crapware.

The day M$ enabled flash drives to run a program as soon as a flash drive is plugged in, with zero user intervention was just BEGGING to be abused. And it has for decades now.

Idiots. I've been disabling it from day one on my builds and its saved me (and my clients) a LOT of headaches.

I have a bunch of servers at work on 10gb and 25gb connections, some Windows based and some Debian based. Windows based Iperf3 (even the newer one on the budman.pw site) can often give results that don't match up vs what the machines can transfer via SMB or HTTPS or NFS.

that the Goob Squad butchers. I've made more than a few bucks over the years fixing their fuckups.