exitzer0

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by exitzer0 2y ago
It only takes a single visit to an old house built around the turn of century to realize that the artistry, craftsmanship, and all of the other skills needed to make such a thing today are incredibly rare. Everyone seems to think and say th
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by exitzer0 2y ago
These new PCs/chips are about more than just co-pilot. They are also the first series of chips with Pluton. https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/25/the-power-of-microsoft... Pluton should be absolutely TE
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by exitzer0 2y ago
the SLTs of all major tech companies and software companies are absolutely hyping AI. these people are have compensation packages with significant ties to stock prices and those go up with hype and inflated expectations.
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by exitzer0 2y ago
This guy Microsofts.
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by exitzer0 2y ago
as fun as it would be for redditors to now go and burn down any/all content that would feed this bot, you have to believe that this announcement is more of an after-the-fact notification vs a we-are-about-to-do-this piece of informatio
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by exitzer0 2y ago
This. I invite everyone to go and look at the amount settings that must be turned OFF in Windows 10/11, Firefox, Chrome, whatever app from companies that claim to respect user privacy. For Windows it is literally dozens of toggles, an
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by exitzer0 2y ago
"Once the Guardia Civil obtained the iCloud email address, the documents show that it requested information from Apple, which in turn provided a full name, two home addresses and a linked Gmail account." Basically everything but t
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by exitzer0 2y ago
If anyone is dumb enough to trust Microsoft after all the shit they've pulled over the last 30+ years, including the most recent collection of large-scale security fuckups, they deserve what they get.
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by exitzer0 2y ago
Until we sort out the whole idea that it is OK for the US intelligence communitity to use Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, N-other big tech companies to act as their data collection services. They will all continue to basically do whate
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by exitzer0 2y ago
Evolution seems to work fine for me.
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by exitzer0 2y ago
Notice how little scrutiny Microsoft has been getting by Congress, DOJ, FTC, etc. despite these many huge security blunders and whatever is going on between them and OpenAI. This might be because it is almost impossible to tell where Micros
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by exitzer0 2y ago
offshoring is a big part no doubt. another big part is that almost no one's comp structure includes things like bugfixes, quality or perf work. people only get credit for shipping new features, etc. this is why everything is basical
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by exitzer0 2y ago
Some things to think about. - Tesla's charging network is opening up. I think this used to be the single biggest selling point. - Tesla's repairability is not great, neither are the insurance rates. - The 4680's have not exa
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by exitzer0 2y ago
I work for a large closed-source software company and I can tell you with 100% that it is full of domestic and foreign agents. Being open source means that more eyes can and will look at something. That only increases the chance of malici
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by exitzer0 2y ago
the special firmware that microsoft uses in these machines breaks network, USB, anything that you attach to it. it just can't get power management right. I've been saddled with one of these for 5+ years and it just never got bet
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by exitzer0 3y ago
Basically a proxy war.
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by exitzer0 3y ago
As does Microsoft, Apple, AT&T and every other company involved in the PRISM program. The issue is that people just do not seem to care.
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by exitzer0 3y ago
Mini-splits seem like they are the future for the value conscious and light-weight DIY crowd. These systems are quite simple in design and implementation while also offering a pretty effective way to control temperature in a zoned way in va
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by exitzer0 3y ago
This does not strike me as a productivity device. I doubt many of the target demographic will actually notice this issue.
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by exitzer0 3y ago
CEO's are driven by compensation packages that are heavily dependant on stock prices and peer pressure. Retaining and retraining good people are just not a factor in their decision making process, neither is social responsibility. The
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by exitzer0 3y ago
Microsoft Teams already generates a ton of data(down to reactions on messages) that you can see in the Entra activity log. I guess this is aimed more at Slack, etc. which I am sure already has plenty of logs somewhere. This does nothing to
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by exitzer0 3y ago
Depending on your distro, the Firefox package you see in the official repo is ... well packaged by the repo maintianers and some distros will include customizations like adding in bookmarks to the distro's welcome/docs/pages&
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by exitzer0 3y ago
The truck seems to be more or less what was promised. I think it is the new batteries that are not necessarily living up to the hype.
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by exitzer0 3y ago
Just not sure that I am ready to trust my driving safety to 100% Chinese automobiles.
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by exitzer0 3y ago
It is just not wise to allow some random application to MiTM your SSL traffic.
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by exitzer0 4y ago
biggest issue is not allowing for remote, not the clearance.