slazer2au
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- Comment on SSL/TLS certificates will last 47 days max by 2029 3 hours ago:
God I hate this, dropping it to one year is fine but a month and a half? Fuck that shit.
Id you can use acme/cert boy it’s fine. But some of us have to manage decades old equipment that doesn’t support it and no we can’t just put a reverse proxy in front we tried.
- Comment on Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks. 6 days ago:
Anyone shocked by this? Because I sure am not.
- Comment on Honey has now lost 4 million Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed 2 weeks ago:
Good.
- Comment on Will big tech be caught in the crossfire of trade war? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. We have seen it with Europeans looking to move away from cloud providers and us orgs no longer able to sell into the Asia market in case China gets a hold of the tech.
- Comment on [Apple] The world’s most valuable tech company has a problem it can’t easily solve. 3 weeks ago:
Jesus, what a terrible clickbaite title for what is effectively ‘making Siri better’
- Comment on Google agrees with OpenAI that copyright has no place in AI development 4 weeks ago:
No place you say? So you will train your models on non copyright materials?
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 5 weeks ago:
Suddenly productivity of the world increased by a small amount.
- Comment on ByteDance's custom chip made by Broadcom has been canceled, Broadcom to lose $2B to $3B 1 month ago:
Na, they will increase the licences by another 10-15%% to cover the losses
- Comment on Microsoft finalizes its EU sovereign cloud project 1 month ago:
Before?
We passed that point a long time ago.
- Comment on U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace. 1 month ago:
If only there were a way for a group of employees to discuss in unison with employers.
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 1 month ago:
“We’re always looking for ways to improve our customer service experience. This support offering was intended to provide more digital options with the goal of reducing time to resolve inquiries.”
Yes, that makes sense. Let’s improve resolution times by making customers wait 15 minutes before being added to the queue to talk to a representative.
We’ve asked HP to comment. We suspect we’ll be waiting longer than 15 minutes.
Oof.
- Comment on Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain. 1 month ago:
I doubt google are in on it. What is far more likely is google developed the reporting system in collaboration with copywriters to make it easy to lodge a complaint.
Also those copywriters are the same groups who also happens to be advertising on the platform.
They are a victim of their success (acquisition) with YT being beholden to advertisers.
- Comment on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000. 1 month ago:
That site was a wild ride.
- Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again 2 months ago:
Looking forward to Gamers Nexus coverage on this.
- Comment on Why Celebrities, Actors, Writers, and Artists Fear AI. 2 months ago:
Money. They will likely get less work and lower royalties if AI does their work.
- Comment on PC Gaming Has Been Outperforming Console For Years - And It's Getting Stronger 2 months ago:
No, just Skyrim
- Comment on Destiny 2 Has Lost Massive Amount Of Steam Players Since Last June 2 months ago:
- Comment on X CEO signals ad boycott is over. External data paints a different picture. 2 months ago:
So muskrat will withdraw those lawsuits right?
- Comment on Wyden Again Warns That ‘SS7’ Telecom Flaw Lets Foreign Countries Broadly Spy On American Communications 3 months ago:
As always. Government mandated backdoors are a gold mine for non government actors to exploit.
- Comment on Tech giant Meta will pay Australians $50 million for enabling the Cambridge Analytica scandal 3 months ago:
The payment scheme will be set up by Meta but administered by an independent third party. It will be open to people who:
had a Facebook account between November 2 2013 and December 17 2015 were present in Australia for at least 30 days during that period either installed the This is Your Digital Life app using Facebook login or were Facebook friends with an individual who installed the app.
People can check whether they are eligible on a help page on the Facebook website. The information commissioner anticipates those who are eligible will be able to submit applications “in the second quarter of 2025”.
The help page.
- Comment on 🇷🇺Russia: Foreign Tech Companies Cave to Authorities’ Pressure 3 months ago:
No shit they cave. The money they make from
the USARussia makes it worth the regulatory burden. - Comment on Perplexity, not Google, is now the best search engine 3 months ago:
Meh, it’s an opinion piece
- Comment on Why Is Printer Ink So Expensive? 4 months ago:
How do they? Because there is enough illusion of competition that anti trust investigations won’t be launched.
- Comment on Former PlayStation Executive Says Its Time To Dial Back Game Lengths 4 months ago:
Na, dial back the length so they can churn more out faster at an ever increasing price.
- Comment on 63% of companies plan to pass data breach costs to customers 4 months ago:
Are the other 37% lying or did they fold because of the breaches?
- Comment on Opera labels every other browser 'f***ing boring' in an inexplicably sweary promo reel. Oh, and updates its gamer-focused Opera GX browser a little too 4 months ago:
Or US spyware?
- Comment on Streaming TV Enshittification Will Continue Until Morale Improves 4 months ago:
Moral? I think you mean profits.
- Comment on Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide 5 months ago:
But what about fixed addressed that consumers use?
- Comment on Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide 5 months ago:
Ummmm, no.
You don’t use ISO or clns at all. We standardised on the DOD TCP/IP model and still teach ISO because who fucking knows why.
And before you say otherwise check your network adaptor and notice you don’t have a clns or nsap.
- Comment on Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theory rabbit holes? 6 months ago:
No. They are regurgitation machines prone to hallucinations. With the right prompt you can makke then say what you want.