gigel82

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by gigel82 4mo ago
We're not right back where we started, we're in far far worse place where all online activity of every single person is de-anonymized (associated with their full legal ID). Tech companies are salivating at the thought.
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by gigel82 4mo ago
I would be very surprised if that's the case. I heard from a buddy that used to work in Office back when SDETs were a thing. They had labs of random machines rendering the same files (out of a library of thousands) and comparing the ac
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by gigel82 4mo ago
If someone actually got "pixel-faithful" Office documents rendering correctly, MS would be screwed. That's actually really important for a lot of companies that carry around decades-old templates that never look exactly right
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by gigel82 4mo ago
I think we need legislation. The "no expectations of privacy" probably was ok when little old ladies were spending time outside their home watching passerbys, but not when everyone's movements are tracked and saved by fully a
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by gigel82 4mo ago
Fudge... we can de-flock all we want but if naive people walk around with the portable surveillance cameras on their face, there's nothing we can do about that. We need privacy regulation...
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by gigel82 4mo ago
There is no such thing as E2EE email. You can encrypt your storage or some of the hops, but the plain-text email contents goes through between every layer, unless you're talking about PGP, or some similar scheme you built on top of the
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by gigel82 4mo ago
Are you high on your own supply, or did you genuinely hallucinate a reality where a $3 trillion company is dying because a handful of Redditors learned how to use Proton?
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by gigel82 4mo ago
I'm guessing that "Enterprise Alexa" thing is dead on arrival, but the badge is quite interesting. You have to carry a badge around the office anyway and if you get company stuff on the badge it means you don't need to p
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Coreutils for Windows(github.com)
227 points by gigel82 4mo ago|247 comments
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by gigel82 4mo ago
Native Coreutils for Windows is genuinely some good news coming from Microsoft.
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by gigel82 4mo ago
I just want a new NVIDIA Shield Pro; can't believe that 7 year old device is still the best media player on the market.
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by gigel82 4mo ago
I don't understand what this does. How can it "build" anything without a VM capable of running actual code? Is "build" being used here in the sense of assembling pre-existing layers into an image? What would be the
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by gigel82 4mo ago
An interesting learning project, but not actually usable. https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine looks interesting in this space, but unfortunately it can't really run anything remotely modern in practice (though if
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by gigel82 5mo ago
If you want to "Put me in control of Start", how about you let me permanently kill SearchHost.exe and StartMenuExperienceHost.exe (not to mention widget*.exe) if I don't use your ad-ridden start menu (and replace it with some
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by gigel82 5mo ago
I do, but this still uses the Bitwarden app and browser extensions. I'm now worried that in pursuit of monetization they'll start screwing with those. After all, the code in the clients have access to all recorded secrets and ther
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by gigel82 5mo ago
Damn, all schools in our district in Washington moved to Instructure last year. They moved away from Teams because it objectively sucked, but I haven't heard of widespread compromises like this in Microsoft's systems so...
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by gigel82 5mo ago
"If those kids could read they'd be very upset"
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by gigel82 5mo ago
The "sense of pride" bit makes me think they're not even taking it seriously... either that, or they hired EA's PR person that managed this record voted comment on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/St
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by gigel82 5mo ago
If there aren't serious consequences for driverless cars committing crimes (I mean jail time for executives serious), what's to stop someone for starting a hitman business? We'll just run someone over with our "driverles
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by gigel82 5mo ago
I was surprised that the old Cat5e in my home supports 10Gbps without any issue, so went ahead and upgraded the rest of the network with 10Gbps switches (expensive Ubiquiti gear, but worth it to talk at 10Gbps between all my machines, even
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H.R.8470 – Surveillance Accountability Act(congress.gov)
6 points by gigel82 6mo ago|1 comments
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by gigel82 6mo ago
This sounds great, how can we help influence representatives to support and vote for this law?
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by gigel82 6mo ago
I can see some embryonic potential in the concept, almost like a little spark of genius. I'm convinced a variant of an agentic personal assistant will become commonplace within a few years and will likely gain widespread adoption. That
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by gigel82 6mo ago
Good, hearty group right there. But how about Palantir, NSO Group, Flock and Axon? Aren't they lending a hand too?
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by gigel82 6mo ago
A "Senior Software Engineer" at Microsoft is someone with a pulse and 3 years of experience (due to title inflation); so despite the "senior" in the title definitely not "senior engineering staff".
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by gigel82 6mo ago
I have no doubt Azure sucks, but almost all huge projects like that have systemic issues. Axel sounds like a pretty smart guy, but wanted to point out I've seen this kind of behavior before, often from mid-level "job-hopping"
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by gigel82 7mo ago
Support for Xbox Game Pass games (typically deployed as UWP / containerized) would be absolutely amazing and likely the final nail in the coffin for Windows for gaming for many people.
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by gigel82 7mo ago
According to the enshittification playbook the next step is to discontinue the lower tiers (or price them so high they stop making sense), then celebrate "Copilot adoption" :)
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by gigel82 7mo ago
I hope this keeps momentum. If nothing else, it may force assholes like Altman to think a little bit about the impact of a decision to sell services to a government / military. And it may lead some folks into discovering privacy-preser
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by gigel82 7mo ago
Holy dystopian f*k. So not only does ChatGPT record all interactions, it actually leaks them to the press when they see fit? If you still needed a reason to look into self hosted models, it'd be tough to find a better one than this.

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