JBlaze03 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Rookie Mistake! (Score 2) 34

by JBlaze03 on Monday May 12, 2025 @05:42PM (#65371769) Attached to: Google Updating Its 'G' Icon For the First Time In 10 Years

Its all part of the "be more evil" direction the company is taking.

Comment Re: Or . . . (Score 1) 40

by byolinux on Friday May 24, 2024 @10:16PM (#64497561) Attached to: Google Search's 'udm=14' Trick Lets You Kill AI Search For Good

DDG and Kagi and Brave are also bullshit due to AI.

Comment Re: Again with the leeches (Score 1) 66

by byolinux on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:30AM (#63710340) Attached to: RHEL Response Discussed by SFC Conference's Panel - Including a New Enterprise Linux Standard

FreeBSD is also free software as defined by the FSF. ZFS is too.

Comment Re: The Good Ol' Days (Score 1) 284

by byolinux on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:57PM (#63616916) Attached to: Gen Xers and Older Millennials Say They'd Prefer to Live in an Era Before the Internet

When were you born?

Comment Re:What has changed? (Score 2) 10

by byolinux on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:26PM (#63254283) Attached to: W3C Re-launched as a Public-Interest Non-Profit Organization

They were a membership organization run by 3 universities.

Comment Re:Not good (Score 2) 145

by byolinux on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:13PM (#60973716) Attached to: Raspberry Pi Foundation Launches $4 Microcontroller With Custom Chip

ESP-32 is about twice the $4 price.

Comment Sizing for the pod (Score 1) 112

by JBlaze03 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @03:13PM (#60842170) Attached to: Amazon Wants To Scan Your Body To Make Perfectly Fitting Shirts

Just sizing us up for the matrix style pods we will be shoved into soon.

Older Samsung Smart TVs, Certain Roku Devices To Lose Netflix Support Next Month (techcrunch.com) 170

Posted by msmash on Thursday November 07, 2019 @04:15PM from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

An unspecified number of smart TVs manufactured by Samsung will lose native support for Netflix next month, the companies said in an announcement this week. From a report: Netflix app installed -- or available for -- Samsung smart TVs manufactured in 2010 and 2011 (C and D lineups) -- and likely sold for many years after that -- will stop functioning December 2, Samsung alerted customers this week. In a statement, a company spokesperson said these TV models were sold only in the U.S. and Canada. In its statement, the top smart TV manufacturer advised affected customers to look for a game console, streaming media player, set-top box or other devices that still support Netflix app to continue their binge-watching sessions. A Netflix spokesperson cited technical limitations for the change. The developement comes weeks after Netflix alerted several Roku customers that they, too, will lose access to the streaming service on December 1.

Comment Re:If it aint broke. (Score 1) 345

by byolinux on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:33PM (#56002337) Attached to: Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance

It would have been more like 1998. Yahoo Mail was part of an acquisition of Four11's RocketMail in late (October/November) 1997.

Submission + - FSF adds PureOS to list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions

Submitted by donaldrobertson on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:05PM

donaldrobertson writes: The Free Software Foundation today announced PureOS as an endorsed GNU/Linux distro. PureOS is an operating system focused on privacy, security and ease of use. Endorsement means the system meets the FSF's Free System Distribution Guidelines by providing and promoting only free software, with a dedication to making sure the system always remains free.

The Kodi Development Team Wants To Be Legitimate and Bring DRM To the Platform. (torrentfreak.com) 156

Posted by msmash on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:20PM from the not-giving-up dept.

New submitter pecosdave writes: The XBMC/ Kodi development team has taken a lot of heat over the years, mostly due to third-party developers introducing piracy plugins to the platform. In many cases, cheap Android computers are often sold with these plugins pre-installed with the Kodi or XBMC name attached to them -- something that caused Amazon to ban sales of such devices. The Kodi team is not happy about this, and has taken the fight to the sellers. The Kodi team is now trying to work with rights holders to introduce DRM and legitimate plugins to the platform. Is this the first step towards creating a true one-stop do it yourself Linux entertainment system?

Comment Bansky? (Score 2) 158

by byolinux on Monday April 03, 2017 @12:44PM (#54164817) Attached to: 'Grammar Vigilante' Secretly Corrects Bristol Street Signs

He's supposed to be from Bristol, after all.

Comment Re: My own ISP site! (Score 1) 136

by byolinux on Monday August 08, 2016 @02:03PM (#52666227) Attached to: The World's First Web Site Celebrates 25 Years Online

Thanks for this!

Who were the other early ISPs in the UK? I remember UUNET, Zynet, Demon -- something called The Free Net, too?

It's Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab In Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom (qz.com) 81

Posted by msmash on Friday June 17, 2016 @02:00PM from the runaway-robot dept.

According to a report, a robot escaped from a science lab and caused a traffic jam in one Russian city. Scientists at the Promobot laboratories in Perm had been teaching the machine how to move around independently, but it broke free after an engineer forgot to shut a gate, Quartz reports. From the report:It promptly ran out of power in the middle of the road. The robot got about 50m (164 ft) before its battery died. After a policeman directed traffic around the dead bot, an employee wheeled it back into the lab, and back to a life of servitude. Hopefully this was just an isolated incident and not the start of a larger coordinated effort to overthrow humanity. Only time will tell.

Comment Re:Time of Intermediate free-form descriptions (Score 1) 125

by all204 on Friday March 11, 2016 @01:21PM (#51678725) Attached to: A California Jury Finds Copyright Infringement In an Interface

Business Driven Development. The little I know is you write out in English the business rules you need a piece of software to operate on. Then you program around these requirements. I mainly see it in testing/QA right now and it's my only experience with it. Those business requirements get compiled into a class with empty method that I fill in and test the dev code with. Basically unit testing but at a higher level that covers the business rules. I'm working with SpecFlow right now if you're curious. http://www.specflow.org/

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