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Comment Re:BitLocker is fake disk encryption (*) (Score 1) 83

> If your only goal is to hide things from the police, who have a warrant.

How comfortable would you be with Chinese developed encryption systems, where the Chinese company held the keys, if you were say American or European?

Now, how comfortable do you think it makes non-americans that an american company holds the encryption keys. Especially with the current US administration and how they treat other countries ...

Comment Not all Linux Torvalds does is worth imitating (Score 1) 61

For example, he acquired American citizenship. I bet he must feel real smart about that one today...

If he's "vibe coding" anything important, as impressive as the man and his achievements are, he's an idiot. But my understanding is that he doesn't use it for anything important.

Comment Re:Barring foreign students doesn't help (Score 2) 146

CAD $50K for four years?! That's something like 36000USD.

To study at the University of Oslo, the tuition (semesteravgift) is about $100USD per 6 months, or .. $800 for 4 years.

Of course, there are books and living expenses in addition, but the tuition is .. cheap.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 199

You need to look at a map. Seriously. It's entirely true that the land area is pretty small, but you need to look at the shape of the country.

Take a look at this:

https://thetruesize.com/#?bord...

You also have to realize that Norway is quite, quite rural. There's a one "big" city (Oslo), then smaller cities like Bergen, Trondheim, Kristiansand and Stavanger. Tromsà is also considered a relatively big city here - population is 80.000 .

Comment You can do something about that (Score 1) 31

If you want to fight AI mediocrity, and more importantly, its weaponization by Google to steal traffic from other websites and become a one-stop-shop, you can force yourself to go click on results instead of reading the damn AI blurb.

This one is also on us refusing to slurp up what Google offers by default.

Comment Risky is the word (Score 5, Insightful) 57

Windows is everything people don't want: a surveillance platform, an advertisement billboard and now an unreliable "agentic" piece of shit.

But worse of all, Windows is mostly what people have to put up with at work.

And finally, there's another negative factor working against it: Microsoft is a company headquartered in a rogue fascist country. My company for one is actively exploring option to ditch Office 365, Teams, WIndows and depend on Microsoft things as little as possible. I'm sure it's not the only one.

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