Posts by benderama

Getting dangerously close to losing me... The Roku tv OS has started to drag with all the forced ads and theme changes, and who knows what other telemetry is going on in the background that wasn't there years ago

I’ve used blockers for years. Early on I had convinced clarkconnect to include adzapper for this purpose. Then I kind of relaxed about ads thinking “ok sure, necessary evil”.

And then I found out that they could track where my mouse moved on the screen, how long it hovered, or even where I touch the screen on my iPhone and iPad. And then that was enhanced by the way Facebook was “experimentally” recording keystrokes, so if you wrote a comment and decided to delete it THEY STILL HAD IT IN THEIR SYSTEM and gave it to brainiacs to work out why i (“the user”) didn’t pull the trigger.

I insist on blockers now. They did this to themselves. All of them.

The reliance on bots and walls of support text instead of a human to interact with is perhaps starting to bite these companies. Just try and get someone useful at Google, Facebook..

I already pay $20/m for chatgpt, and I have an annual license for office ($100?). I use Google mail as my primary, and mac as my primary device.

Why would I spend another $20/m on 365 copilot? What am I not noticing here?

This is the one we know about. It’s a decoy.

I don’t think we’ll see it in our lifetime, but a marketing-free internet would be amazingly faster. I disabled my blocker recently for an hour or two. Ugh.

When you’re shown 4 ads around one small paragraph, and all the ads are for the same thing, something’s gotta change.

Something absurd about “rich people” legally crying about not stealing enough money from little kids and luddites

Oh the marketers dont like it?

Good. As an industry, marketers can rot. They’re about as useful as a glass of water while standing on the sun. And if any marketer is here, you can go to the sun at night when it’s cooler…

But as people yeah you’re ok. It’s just the industry.

So, could they discern whether the song was being listened to or whether the participants were just singing along in their heads?

How many of the participants knew the song prior to the study, how many were not aware of it?

35 people?

In what location would $900k pay for 35 humans and give health care to their families? Certainly not San Jose, where Netflix is homed, nor Hollywood or New York where many of the filming giants are located.

Up-coming John Wick sequel? Do you mean The Continental, which is a prequel series?

Simpsons said it best

Muskrat isn’t gonna play nice and give real answers to legitimate questions. So stop reporting he isn’t answering. Take his rebellious response and use it against him - don’t talk about it.

“Just don’t look, just don’t look!”

Facebook releasing a product to minimal audience with widespread appeal? Gosh, doesn’t that sound like something they did in their startup days?

But then again, “restricting” its release just makes it easier to deny responsibility when something major goes bad.

Unless you're bringing something truly unique, I dont understand why you would want to go up against the "free" tools of Hangouts and Teams. "Free" as already included in subscriptions, "free" as in people use it in their free time anyway.

It was busywork to keep slackers away from real duties, while keeping them near enough to be scapegoats in an emergency

well

The initial deletion script did exactly as it was supposed to do. The error, as always, was human. Humans provided the incorrect IDs for deletion, humans failed to prepare a feasible restore process.

They should take from this the skill to consider as many what-ifs as possible instead of only the expected outcome.

Auditors aren’t the enemy here. You know who is?

The manager who wants to work from home but can’t because of security protocols. So he complains to the ceo who unilaterally decides punching holes in said security is ok because the manager is a nice guy.

It’s the accountant who doesn’t read her emails properly and tries to wire a large sum of cash to the ceo who sent a poorly worded request from an unusual address.

Its the CS team who work late at night and prop doors open for each other with bricks so they can sneak out at 4am and have a smoke.

It’s the guy who tapes his passwords to his screen and needs other passwords reset daily.

It’s the facility manager who prints out secure WiFi settings and posts it every 5 feet.

Auditors are nothing.

Please don’t advocate giving the peasants access to the file system. Or improved shells. Apple devices work as well as they do because you can’t break them so easily just by fat-fingering a freaking /etc/ text file. Imagine the idiots who will delete / because of the mess, or because some tard on YouTube said it’s a way to free up space.

Do you really want your friends and family to call you at 3am because they farked their phones loading the newest flash version with pornhub pre-installed?

30 days grace for crappy ads sounds highly exploitable

Hard to see how it would chase people away, with its forcing a stupid timeline structure on us, telling us we want to be friends with people 7degrees of Bacon away from our actual friends, the massive amount of ads scattered everywhere, the required separate apps for separate functions with stupid update notes that don't say anything... yeah it's a real mystery why people are moving away...

Love that it's the sysadmin's fault for the cockup and not because Microsoft laid out some poor planning...

Different keyboards?

We already get prompted with different keyboards from within apps. With the system already non-uniform I don't see how this will improve anything

The story was an anecdote from some trainers... It may not have even been real.

I don't get how elevators shunting a dozen people at a time are easier to deal with than elevators shunting a few garbage bags full of coffee cups and snot rags.

Sounds like a case of "do as I say, not as I do"

He should have offered the domains to HoTMaiL.

It is humourous we are lambasting "the cloud"... while using a tool hosted on another person's cluster...

There goes the migration from google I was about to explore...

The last thing you want to do is show Zuckerberg you know how to kick him out of his company.

Lets give Tom Baker another run at it. After all, who knows?

There's a reason the big publishers won't touch his game - and it's not what he says it is. You'll be amazed.

The more a sales agent makes for Oracle, the less they get in commission? Is that right?

Sign me the hell up, I'm so motivated I've already generated $0 in sales so I should get a nice fat check.

Interestingly, I'm not automagically switched to https:// when on The Reg. I should stop signing in

How does breaking someone's account on a different service count as "testing your security"? This was done for the bragging rights. If the kid wants to impress us, break into Netflix proper and enable all content for all regions.

Relying on Adobe to fix a hole in your house is like asking a bovver boy to help with discrimination.

I don't think you can say "we weathered the storm" AND "our systems are coming back online" in the same speech. If you're knocked offline, you did not "weather" an attack.

Why did "Alex Holden, founder of US-based intelligence company Hold Security." not report this information to CERT himself, or the victims? Why did he offer it to a news publisher?

Sounds really, really shady.

If my adblocker is blocking legit posts, it's not the adblocker I'd blame but the host for putting legit posts in the same style containers as ads. I already miss important posts from friends and family thanks to the crazy algorithms in place.

I am always shocked at how dirty some sites are when an adblocker is not used. It should be a mandatory part of Chrome, Firefox, and IE these days.