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byTeun
6 @04:44AM
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Attached to: EU Deploys New Government Satcom Program in Sovereignty Push
Well said, there is nothing unelected about the EU leadership, when needed they can all be called to defend their actions.
A real problem is only the whole commission can be send packing, not individuals.
180719652
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byTeun
6 @04:13AM
(#65963802)
Attached to: Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K?
but honestly, im not sure i've seen any 8k content ANYWHERE!? im sure if i explicitly search for it, i can find it,
Have a look where Betamax failed, in the corner of porn you'll find some 8K smut :)
180717420
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bysjames
026 @06:06PM
(#65963152)
Attached to: When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates
Harvard, like all universities with a mainframe back then claimed rights to anything developed on their mainframe. It was part of the agreement signed on admission.
180716950
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bysjames
026 @04:19PM
(#65962964)
Attached to: When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates
Some had pre-paid for Altair BASIC and it was months late. Gates didn't pay for the mainframe time used to run the emulator Altair BASIC was tested on. Technically, the code belonged to the university, but that legal term was never enforced. Several bugs were fixed before it was distributed.
180716636
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byTeun
6 @03:10PM
(#65962882)
Attached to: Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction
Have you checked the name of the project?
180716450
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byTeun
6 @02:08PM
(#65962778)
Attached to: Microbes In Space Mutated and Developed a Remarkable Ability
And that's a good reason to look at the phages that were developed alongside.
180716410
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byTeun
6 @02:01PM
(#65962762)
Attached to: Microbes In Space Mutated and Developed a Remarkable Ability
Uhh, that would be a return flight from Australia :)
180716378
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byTeun
6 @01:54PM
(#65962744)
Attached to: 99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
Try to explain it to the 32% that voted for the Orange Ape...
180716000
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bythegarbz
2026 @12:05PM
(#65962572)
Attached to: China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia
Yeah well in the USA there's a lot of stupid people too, such as those who use a justification of an error of justice from a country known to use the death penalty in stupid cases and attempt to apply them to a case where guilt isn't even in question.
Maybe make your point on a different story, it would have more meaning.
180715996
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bythegarbz
2026 @12:02PM
(#65962568)
Attached to: China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia
Who said this is a deterrent? By all accounts these people here should have been removed from life. Ideally we'd invent a time machine and give their parents the death penalty instead. It's one thing to rape and murder, it's quite another to head up a ring of mass trafficking, slavery, torture, all to defraud others.
These people didn't commit crimes, they invented entire enterprises to perform crime in a commercial quantity. Fuck them. The death penalty wasn't barbaric enough.
180715620
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byunixisc
2026 @10:52AM
(#65962486)
Attached to: AI Use at Work Has Increased, Gallup Poll Finds
That's what I was wondering. Are employees doing it to trick their managers into believing that they're being more productive, or are they using it as a part of a corporate drive towards using more AI? If it's the latter, then sooner or later, those people will be gone, b'cos their work can just as easily be done by AI
A few days ago, I was watching a clip of a person who claimed to have written scripts that ends up in him only having to work one hour a day, rather than eight. A recruiter who played this script warned the readers that employers are looking to pull off such feats as well, so that they can let go of the person they have to pay, and just have scripts do all the work. That's what this increased AI usage at work will result in - most of the people being let go. It is a propaganda claim that those employees will be repurposed into more creative/productive tasks, but there is no reason why that work too couldn't be done by AI
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byunixisc
2026 @10:40AM
(#65962478)
Attached to: Apple Switches to Build-to-Order Systems on Its Web Site
From a business POV, Apple's fortunes turned for the better when they transformed from a "weird" option to the luxury option. Once they polished the brand so that it became the computer equivalent of porsches and guccis, that was when the cash started flowing in. One can hardly fault them for going that route, when one option drove them towards bankruptcy, while the other made them a trillion dollar company that then went on to diversify into media
I do agree w/ the GP, though. Before Steve's return and OS-X, macs were very configurable, and that was b'cos the OS had simple ways to update the configuration once changes were made. Something that's not the case w/ Unix, where the kernel would need to be rebuilt. But even factoring that in, the lack of configurability of current macs in favor of making them look sleeker is not doing customers any favors. There are quite a few things that need to change. For instance, for iPhones, instead of making iCloud the only cloud synchronization platform, allow users to enter an alternate cloud URL - even a home solution - to let them utilize the full capabilities of their phones and other devices, rather than being dependent on just Apple, that gives one a measley 5GB iCloud storage, no matter how much of storage the macs, iPhones and iPads have
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byunixisc
2026 @10:28AM
(#65962464)
Attached to: Apple Switches to Build-to-Order Systems on Its Web Site
Serious people have real work to do, and don't have the luxury of obsessing about the FSF's "software freedoms" the way opinionated computer activists do. They need computers that work right out of the box, and has the software they are familiar w/, or the software that their employers require them to use
180715442
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bythegarbz
2026 @10:25AM
(#65962460)
Attached to: WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers
Errr no. 1. The user is absolutely notified when a device is linked. Even if the "linked devices" page is open in the app you still get a notification that a device has been linked (which seems redundant, but blocks precisely the issue you postulate). And yes I checked this just now before typing it by linking a new device.
2. The server is not involved at any point. A client action from your phone is required to initiate a key exchange with the added device, just like from Signal. Given the architecture there's no reason for any chat partners to be made aware as the key used with the chat partners is not shared with another device (read your own link).
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byunixisc
2026 @10:21AM
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Attached to: Backseat Software
I was referring to at the start of the trip. If I wanted to navigate home, I'd first - before I set off - set the navigation and everything, and then start driving. In b/w, if I were to get a phone call, I'd use the controls on the steering wheel to pick up and disconnect the calls, and my phone is also set to automatically send a response if I get a text. At any rate, I don't have voice commands enabled on it
Other than that, the only time my right hand goes off the steering (the left hand still has it) is if I want to rewind a bit the podcast I'm listening to. I try to do that only at traffic stops
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