Also just a general lag and race conditions in the Explorer UI. Frequently I find myself left-clicking a file, hitting Ctrl+C, going to another window to Ctrl+V - just like I have in every OS for 30 years. The problem is W11 doesn't register the file selection immediately on click. There's occasionally a small delay, probably under 200ms. But it sets up a race condition. It has resulted in me accidentally copying entire disks, due to the new file selection not registering immediately, and the previous selection still being active when I hit Ctrl+C.

I hear they are tweaking the CPU frequencies now to try to address this issue. Sounds like punching on the accelerator to compensate for a shredded tire.

Microsoft 365 (no longer "Office") has its own layer of special UI crap above and beyond the base Windows experience. It gets real fun if you have multiple Excel windows minimized and one of them wants to open a dialog box... ALL of your Excel windows will expand, typically the one asking for something is at the very bottom, and then you have to minimize the 3 or 4 Excel windows that just unnecessarily maximized, to find the one that opened a dialog box.

They can't even get the parts people can see right - performance, UI. Something arcane and obscured like security? What's the impetus for them to care about that?

Class action indeed.

Here I am worried about some singular massive fraudulent charge by AI credit-bot, easily spotted.

Never thought about a DDoS micro-charge attack that too many don’t notice. On auto-charge.

I think that "most companies don't like their ads..." thing is on its way out.

Xitter is seen as a "legitimate" service, deeply embedded within the government and society at large. Their promotion of Nazi content is seen as a legitimate or acceptable action to take. Don't confuse it to think that people like the propaganda - largely they don't - but there's an acceptance developing of it presence.

The fact that a normal person on a normal website is now bombarded with fascist propaganda, normalizes it for advertisers the same as everyone else. They use these sites too.

I'm curious, will the footage air, or will the news media hide their own interview?

No, this is America, where you're free to lob death threats. It's why we have such reasoned, thoughtful debate in the public square.

You could just build the crap yourself. Just like we don't have to beg billionaires for the right to exist we don't have to beg dictators for the right to have a functioning transportation network. We could literally just do this ourselves for our communities.

It would mean those people get to have transportation to though, whoever those people are. But if it's one thing I have absolutely learned it said it doesn't matter the time or the place there is always a those people.

Hell I'm American and the reason I don't have a proper healthcare system is racism. On at least two possibly three occasions and I'm not talking about the aca, the American people were on the verge of passing a universal health care plan through our Congress and the racists shot it down because, what do you mean we got to give it to the blacks too!? That happened twice at least that I know of an American history and that's just the times it almost came to a vote...

So we should be building giant wind and solar farms to replace all of our energy needs both in America and Europe and we're just not going to do it because they would be public services available to everyone regardless of whether you like that guy or not.

So I can get mod points I'll point out that this is all tribal bullshit. For some reason if you talk about race and bigotry and homophobia that sets the mods off on a downboat spree but if you point out it's tribalism which is just another way of saying the same thing everyone wants to mod you up.

That's another problem with human psychology that means where I think we're all doomed. Anyone want to take a crack at telling me why I'm wrong? Remember if you're going to do that you also have to explain why the human race isn't doomed and human civilization will continue to advance. And remember you can't do that if you are a conservative because definitionally you don't want civilization to advance, that's kind of what it means to be a conservative or at least it's how we use the word...

Ignoring all the obvious comedy potential here which is essentially limitless, the only way shit like this could be profitable and therefore worth doing for anyone is if it either had an expensive subscription service which nobody would pay for or it prioritized businesses that paid the AI company for preferential treatment inside the AI model, essentially a shitty advertising service.

Are the way it's a guaranteed bum deal for the consumer. Either you're paying a bunch of money for a service that isn't very useful because realistically how often do you want something to do an extensive search for a product on your behalf or it's going to hide the actual results you want in favor of whoever is paying to get their shit listed on the service.

There is not anything in this for anyone except the AI companies. Even businesses who would be buying into this crap would end up getting charged so much it would be like Groupon all over again.

Lately it seems every time we get more free speech it's just more racism but having profound you criticize Saint Kirk.

And yeah the people who did mild criticism without glorifying violence and immediately got fired, and there were a couple dozen of them, did win their lawsuits, at least among them that had the money to do a lawsuit.

It's almost as if right wing extremists are weaponizing free speech and exactly the same way right wing extremists have always weaponized Free speech going all the way back to the Nazis.

I'm not saying we burn the Constitution or anything but I am saying with that we need to be aware of the tactics being used to end democracy. Fascists will use Democratic institutions to kill democracy. Which is something an eighth grader should be able to tell you.

To have a huge part of your infrastructure owned and operated and capable of being remotely disabled by a rather brutal dictatorship?

I mean I get it, electric car go vroom! But I feel like I shouldn't have to explain why allowing this is a bad idea.

Realistically I understand that the ruling elite of Europe gets along just fine with the ruling elite of China just like America gets along just fine with the ruling elite of Saudi Arabia despite them being a brutal dictatorship and America ostensibly being a free democracy, voter suppression not withstanding.

Honestly it's just another example of how we as a species aren't really built for or capable of navigating a global geopolitical landscape. We are not built for social structures this large and complex we're supposed to be in a group of about maybe a hundred people chasing down antelope until they're too tired to fight back...

Are all going to poor rural communities. The kind that are about to lose all their hospitals because the last round of billionaire tax cuts into big beautiful bill cut Medicaid funding.

The communities will push back but the state governments will override them and because of voter suppression and culture War panic bullshit you've got right wing corporate asshats in charge of everything at the state level. It's especially funny because the people getting screwed over often voted for those asshats specifically and explicitly because they were promised control of their communities and small government.

Government small enough to drown in a bathtub. That's the goal of the modern right wing. You want a government that's in control of the kind of people who show up in the files. If the government's too big like a nice big national government it's tough to control that because it's so large. But if it's too small like your county level that can be tough too because there's so much to oversee and control. So they prefer to have everything done at about the state level which is big enough that they can exert power but small enough that they can drown it in a bathtub as needed.

I have said it before and I'll say it again I don't think we can stop this at this point. We let shit get too bad. I used to think the baby boomers were at least going to escape but except for the older ones I think the shit is going to hit the fan so fast because of so many years of voting for right-wing pro corporate assholes that even they aren't going to get away from it.

The crap I am seeing in the stock market right now where it's being structured to loot 401K savings and what's left of the pension system is just insane.

You do understand you're still tracked right? eBay knows who bought the SIM and they know who sold the SIM. It's child's Play to track that person down.

So is an American I am very close to becoming a fascist nation. We are One More term of trump away from that. JD Vance would do it too but I think he would probably lose unless the Democrats fuck up again and run another unlikable woman because they insist on it in which case even JD Vance could be president...

So I'm at the point where I am seriously considering the need to be untraceable like somebody in China or Russia would want to be untraceable by their government. That's a consideration I need to start having. Whether or not the ministry of Truth is going to knock on my door and take me away.

The problem is that that is so far into the territory of science fiction in people's minds that when it's actually happening you just can't fathom it

I'm saying that the majority trade it there privacy and their ability to organize without oversight from the ruling elite for bullshit like woke and transgendered girls in sports and the drug war panic and a whole bunch of other nonsense.

I'm saying that you make decisions about who you're going to vote for and for the majority of Americans maybe you maybe not you those decisions are made based on incredibly stupid things that have no impact on their daily lives and that often make their daily lives worse when implemented.

I'm trying to get you to think about when you vote what you're trading and what you're getting for that trade. Because in any modern complex political system you are going to have to make trade offs and statistically if you're an American one of those trade-offs is going to be some little pet moral panic or culture War issue that you prioritize over privacy and economic security.

You know you can just turn off your gps? I got in the habit of doing it because it saves a lot of battery life. Same with Wi-Fi I turn it off when I go out to save battery life.

If you want more privacy you can use Firefox. If you want even more there are alternative versions of Android you can run.

Americans especially seem to have a really really hard time with nuance.

There is a difference between having my movement tracked in a way that requires multiple layers of protections to get a warrant versus how easy it is to connect my cell phone data to my person when my carrier can know every single thing I'm doing instantly.

Just right at the moment I can live with the fact that my carrier can do that. In a few years maybe halfway through Trump's third term that might not be true anymore. Again nuance.

You need to get away from black and white thinking but unfortunately the human brain likes doing that because we like to take mental shortcuts to save on energy so we can focus on the big scary tiger that's going to jump out of the grass and eat us. Evolution did not prepare you or me for the modern world.