People seem to be forgetting that Ukraine is still a nation-state. That's how they can defend themselves. A guy in the basement isn't going to be able to do jack shit. First off 99% of those guys will get identified and taken out long before they get any drones built. For the remaining 1% they won't be able to throw enough drones at the problem because they're going to be too busy scrounging up food.

I don't think folks have realized just the scale of poverty that the Epstein class has in store for us. Go look up what it was like living on an American Indian reservation back in the 1800s. Think that. Maybe worse.

That a fine upstanding company like Microsoft would engage in potentially anti-competitive behavior? Perish the thought. Quick fetch me my fainting goats!

On a more serious note elections have consequences. If you like having choices when it comes to software 45 years of zero antitrust law enforcement is one hell of a consequence.

there are few clear mitigations.

Other than fixing your bugs.

Good for browsing and side by side though.

Companies don't care about the quality of your work or your skills. There is a small number of people who have unique and irreplaceable skills. They are a very small number. These are mostly people who are genetic freaks of one's kind or another. People who have amazing recall and focus and can learn incredibly complex mathematics or people who have incredibly good vision and hand-eye coordination who can become surgeons. Things like that.

For literally everything else good enough is always good enough.

Now if companies still competed against each other good enough wouldn't be good enough. Higher quality talent would produce a higher quality product overall and customers would flock to the better company.

We stopped and forcing antitrust law over 40 years ago. You can find the charts showing you the seven companies own basically everything. And those seven companies are owned by a handful of people when you look at who actually owns the stock.

So that gets you enshitification. I don't need to make a good product. If somebody comes along making a better product because they overall have better people I buy that company or I run it out of business. This is what Facebook does. You can look up the company's Facebook has bought and it's a who's who of up-and-coming social media competitors. Amazon did the exact same thing and it's how they became the number one retailer. It wasn't impressive tech it was buying their competitors and being allowed to do it by toothless regulators.

We broke one of the fundamental aspects of capitalism and they are downstream effects. In this case there's drastically less employment in our economy as a result and your wages and mine are substantially lower as a result.

It's a chesterton's fence. Don't pull the fence down if you don't know why it was put up

If there's a seed of truth to the story I suspect they used a quantum magnetometer to locate the transponder signal. It's possible the GPS was spoofed or jammed which means you'd have to triangulate or trilaterate the signal. The things are designed to resist that, as you say. Quantum magnetometers have been used in research settings to improve both sensitivity, especially wide band sensitivity, and directional resolution.

Someone was explaining it to Trump in suitably vague terms and maybe included the example that quantum magnetometers have also been used to detect heart beats without direct contact. Mix and serve.

That was actually my thought. It wasn't until I got to the mention of Twitter than I figured out they didn't mean X11.

I did think switching from X11 to Wayland was a funny thing to post publicly about. And a funny thing for /. to pick up.

I think the history lesson is stop listening to bros who slept through history class saying things like "{X} pulled it off."

I doubt Trump will be remembered for the Iran war. Most American presidents for the last half century have gone and killed a bunch of people in the Middle East. He's much more likely to be remembered for some tariffs and comments about crippling export weapons freeing a bunch of countries from the burden of being American allies.

The compounds of the ruling elite that own all of the capital and AI will be thoroughly shielded against EMP attacks of any kind.

Nobody is coming to save you. That includes mother nature. Although there is a distinct possibility that these idiots will get their hands on nuclear weapons and end our species.

Anything that can't be repaired usually ends up in a landfill, probably leeching toxins into the soil. This is a massive environmental issue. Additionally, I hate how disposable goods propagate bad design. Things should be built to last. They should be repairable. If I am getting a $20 bluetooth speaker from the dollar store, OK, I have realistic expectations. However, it is heinous to make it difficult to repair a $3000+ laptop. I should be able to change the battery with nothing more than a screwdriver, especially for anything labeled "pro."

Biden was busy cleaning up Trump's mess, he wasn't about to fast track the release of files that were already going through the court system and he had no reason to believe were going to be suppressed.

Remember that after January 6th 2021, nobody in their right mind thought Trump would ever even be allowed to run again, let alone become President.

But for most Americans that would be a change in how they vote.

Most Americans vote based on who was in office the last time they got screwed over. We vote for the other guy. It literally doesn't matter how terrible or destructive the other guy is. If I'm having a bad time I'm voting for the other guy.

The problem is that creates a ratcheting effect. You're always moving towards the pro corporate direction because sooner or later if you're just voting for the other guy you're going to vote for somebody who's super super pro corporate and when those guys getting power they seize a lot of power and get a lot of shit done. Now during the next cycle other guy voters are going to switch to well, the other guy who will be significantly less pro corporate if not completely not pro corporate (although financially it's hard to make it out of a primary if you're not pro corporate to some degree, because if all else fails the corporations will spend up certain amounts of money defeating you in a primary if you're a existential threat to them). But the problem is you still have all the damage from when you voted other guy without really thinking about it because the last guy didn't fix every problem in the world in 4 years.

I don't know how you stop other guy voting. I don't think it's enough to expect people to vote strategically because people hate politics and it's a chore thinking about it and dealing with it so asking your average voter to vote strategically is of tall order...

What I would like to get people to do is to at least start to think about their vote. Also I'd really like to get something done here in America about county level voters suppression. We have a lot of it and it is drastically changing our politics...

But getting back to my original comment the main goal here is to get people to actually think about their vote just a little.

She didn't have four years to do it, she wasn't even President.

And at that point the wheels of justice were going, just... slowly. There was no reason for Biden to speed up the process either. It was assumed that there would, ultimately, be trials and convictions.

Having the name that appears most, save for Epstein himself, in the Trump-Epstein files become President, coupled with the people he put in charge, including Pam Bondi who was AG during a suspicious period in Epstein's life, and given Epstein died under Trump's watch, made the issue far more uncertain and made it clear it wasn't practical to just assume the courts would do their job.

Microsoft specifically denies windows certification to any device that doesn't allow secure boot to be disabled and custom keys loaded, and they have since the release of Windows 8.1 (13 years ago). There's no Windows RT devices on sale, and even Microsoft's own first party Surface Pro Snapdragon devices give you, the user, complete control over secure boot process and custom key loading.

But if the best you can come up with is criticising a Windows version that flopped so badly it nearly took an entire idea of using arm as a desktop computer architecture with it, that was used by so few people that Microsoft abandoned ideas to develop an ARM based system for a full decade, then I'm sorry but you are advertising a huge win for Microsoft there.

Now, have you got anything to say that actually impacted users, preferably something from this decade?

Your lack of understanding doesn't make something bullshit.

You forgot one. I had root on your box. That made me an evil-maid, and you just said secure boot protects against that. There's a difference between malware at a point in time, and achieving residence. Maybe I don't want your shitty dick picks in your mounted volumes, maybe I'm after your bank account details. Oh I know how about a key logger. But what if you attempt to remove said key logger? Well we have the perfect solution, since you don't know about persistent malware and choose to leave secure boot disabled I now have fucked your system beyond your repair. We thankyou for your ignorance and lack of security.

Maybe you should look up the word "secure" in the dictionary. You just described data in its *most* secure state. Nothing is more secure than something inaccessible and unrecoverable. Even if your case were true (secure boot has zero to do with your data) the result would still be more secure not less secure.

At this point it's clear you don't even understand the basic terms being used in the discussion.