Ray McCarthy

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange They didn't scheme or figure out. Don't anthroposise the process or events.

@cwebber@social.coop I once wrote a novel in 2 weeks. It took over 15 years to fix it.

@AkaSci@fosstodon.org IMO all the FCC satellite approvals for other than Geostationary satellite to internationally approves slots for USA use are invalid.

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @catsalad@infosec.exchange @jdblair@hachyderm.io @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange They don't pay enough!

@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Not just Covid. Many things and how does the doctor know if they are "clean"? They do always wear them in a operating theatre and it's to protect the patient, not avoid catching stuff!

@nixCraft@mastodon.social You mean Alphabet / Google is crippling yet more Android features. In a sane world Alphabet would not be allowed control of Chrome, Search, Youtube, Android, Groups, Playstore, Nest and taxies. They are an unregulated Advertising Agency that uses technology. Similar logic: Amazon is a mail-order catalogue retailer that uses Internet instead of phone/telex/post/fax.. They should not have products they control (Fire, Kindle readers, Kindle apps, Kindle DRM, Echo, Dot, Ring etc).

@AkaSci@fosstodon.org They are a Spectrum regulator. They should have no authority to licence anything else. Nor spectrum outside of above USA. Nor content of TV/Radio stations. The ITU allocates spectrum usage. The FAA only authorises launch safety and is bad at it. USA Regulation is broken.

@space_environmentalism@mastodon.social The FCC is not a fit authority to authorise anything in space except RF with Geostationary satellites assigned to USA slots. They have no authority to authorise LEO or MEO communications satellites.

@firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net @cwebber@social.coop Would spending the money on a translation program to translate language A to B be better? Though I've never seen one of those that worked for non-trivial real world packages. The MS tool for VB6 to VB.net was worthless. It was better to re-design & rewrite in C# to move from VB6 to .net. Redesigning is important when moving & I can't believe LLMs can do it. How maintainable or easy for humans to change/add features to LLM gened code? Can the LLM add features? PR!

@Gina@fosstodon.org @rikviergever@mastodon.social @murena@mastodon.social It should be illegal to have app only. There should be a fully functional web page. Conversely an App that is a local thing shouldn't at all insist on location or Internet. Also Google/Alphabet has lost the plot. They need HARD regulation with massive penalties. & any appeals must be rapid.

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Even 1600W is generous. Decent 500W vacuum cleaners existed in 1960s! The high power and noise was marketing. As unnecessary as a USA V8 engine eating 3x the fuel of car just as good for A to B and maybe better. Next ban the overlarge SUV and have a special licence showing need for trucks.

@mrundkvist@archaeo.social Citations? There was massive population loss from plagues, more than once. But not population replacement. Normans invaded Anglo Saxon "England" in 1066, but were never more than a small percentage of population. Iceland is Scandinavian mixed with Celts (either captured or Emigrated).

@jdblair@hachyderm.io @_thegeoff@mastodon.social @ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @quixoticgeek@social.v.st @catsalad@infosec.exchange @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange Here in Ireland you can get them to reduce the limit. Also I once increased it on the phone, though it was very low at the time, to pay for a tow-away and a clutch replacement.

@randulo@mastodon.social @grassrootsforeurope@mas.to How many of Vote leave were influenced by lies? Much funded by Russia (See Farage and DUP funding). It didn't meet standards for a referendum and wasn't meant to be binding, so some may have used it as a protest vote.

@Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party @kate@shrike.club There is a poll for people who can actually vote on the 13th August. Less than 5 weeks isn't long.

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social Now, if J R R had been a #dnd fan, then "The Silmarillion" would have been more accessible..

@futurebird@sauropods.win These are the giant companies that pay so little that the people working for them need food stamps? Do they even pay a "living wage"? Also Uber is a parasite.

@petersuber@fediscience.org Compare the $3k per title with penalties of file sharers corrected for inflation. Or an individual stealing cable/satellite service (can be €100,000, seizure of all electronic equipment and closure of buiness). Anything less that shutting them down, seizing data centres and ruling all titles & sites used was illegal is endorsing it. Web sites & books are content for humans to read.

@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @briankrebs@infosec.exchange It's not a position, it's a fact, based on professional programming training, professional work and University "AI" courses. You can obviously write a program or create a system that has the illusion of intelligence. As we don't have clear definition, it's possible to think a system is intelligent. That's a failure of logic and critical thinking. No road map for real artificial intelligence. Loads of useful programs have AI labels. LLM/Generative/Agentic dead ends.

@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @briankrebs@infosec.exchange There is as much intelligence as clockwork alarm clock.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @hadeny@mastodon.social @In_Otter_News@mastodon.social People used to do that with computer photo editing. Then before that with physical images, cutting, spray brush and re-photograph. From 1880s to 1980s. See Stalin (war photos and earlier) and the girls with fairies in the the garden. Of course the photo hoaxes and disinformation was bad rather than amusing.

@typositoire@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange @campuscodi@mastodon.social Wire cutters or a mini cpu with a video loop.

@Barbramon1@mas.to @Clutha@mastodon.scot Likely tall buildings are worse. The fossil fuel sockpuppets talk up wind turbine issues and lie about solar panels. They ignore batteries. One black blade isn't a big expense, especially on new installs.

@davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social @redsad@ohai.social The DUP in Northern Ireland. Democratic Unionist Party. Opaque candidate selection & don't believe in Democracy. DDR. German Democratic Republic. The defunct Soviet backed dictatorship.

@IndyMediaAus@mastodon.social Also "unregulated company activities" is accurate, while Neoliberal and Libertarian are misleading and too kind a term.

@hywan@floss.social Follow the money. Torvalds is not god.

@susankayequinn@wandering.shop It should in illegal that it's not opt in instead, or even just illegal. A pointless destruction of the environment and robbing of IP by corporations.

@protonprivacy@mastodon.social I'd trust my ISP more than random foreign VPN service provider who really exists to provide evasion of geolocation based blocking. Geolocation based on IP and blocking by location are both immoral. But that's a different issue. The use case for VPNs is secure access to your own office or home when away, and that doesn't need a 3rd party that can spy on you.

@BobDevney@wandering.shop @mrundkvist@archaeo.social Well, probably if you go back far enough Europe was populated after the Ice Age by migrating humans. Humans in the Americas came from Asia. Likely people originated from Africa. The European invasion & colonisation of the Americas and Australia / Aotearoa and Hawai'i are in recent times. And they brought disease, deliberately and accidentality. Much later than English Annexations of Wales & Ireland. It was Capitalism Comparisons to Neolithic migrations are not relevant.

@bettina@mastodon.nu @FrankBlack78@social.tchncs.de @itsfoss@mastodon.social USB applies to copying non-DRM ebooks in azw3 format to physical kindles. Only K1, K2 & DX family don't use azw3, which is closest to epub. Send to Kindle: Amazon converts to KFX, deletes fonts & resizes/reduces quality on images. There are file size limits too (larger on Web interface than email) and it uses Internet twice. Amazon get a copy. Using Calibre (free on Mac, Linux, Windows) to convert epub (or other reflowable formats) to azw3 is closest to epub.

@FrankBlack78@social.tchncs.de @itsfoss@mastodon.social @bettina@mastodon.nu Amazon has blocked the Kindles & downloads that allowed DRM removal. It's now nearly impossible to remove the DRM. They are contract obliged to offer DRM free where asked by provider, but KFX has no DRM free version, so they brought back downloads for those, only epub (mangled by Amazon) and no indication before you buy. Don't use Send to Kindle as it gives Amazon a copy other issues. Use Calibre & USB for Kindles.

@crocodisle@woof.tech I don't so much care about blocking ads, as selectively blocking scripts, that if 3rd party can be malicious, and if 1st party can interfere with the content because the website builder was an idiot. I find uMatrix best for that and it doesn't run on Vivaldi. I fount "The Guardian" web site (and others) unusable with Vivaldi. It they are serious about being an alternative they need their own browser instead of reusing someone else's engine. Firefox has gradually got worse.

@itsfoss@mastodon.social No ebook reader requires DRM on eBooks, not even the locked down Kindle. Kindle can be used without Amazon. The Kindle is the only ereader that phones home & only if WiFi is on. Ebooks load via USB. Buttons for page turn are good & can be ignored. 4.2″ is too small for most people, though there are some smaller. There were 5″ ereaders, but they'll not be back. 6″ is OK and 7″ or 8″ are very good. 480 × 800 is poor. CPU too cheap & slow. OS doesn't mean a free ride!

@AkaSci@fosstodon.org @sundogplanets@mastodon.social So my Orbitron postcard ware will finally be obsolete. I did send him a lovely Limerick postcard. It was on XP but runs well on WINE. Many years ago we borrowed a projector and put it on the laptop in a scout hut with Orbitron filling the wall showing the ISS. Mobile 2m Ham radio aerial mag mount on the hut metal roof. A 5W FT817ND radio and we heard the ISS when it showed in range on the big screen. We got one contact with them. JOTA.

@bevanthomas@mstdn.ca The Necromancer of Endor hired by Saul to talk to Samuel. Witch is a mistranslation. No James in the originals of the KJ Bible either.

@blipcast@mastodon.social @protonprivacy@mastodon.social Plenty of ISPs here. They have zero incentive to serve advertisers anywhere in the EU as it would be illegal. Maybe the USA is different. There is no use case for a paid VPN other than evading geolocation limits. That's why most people have them; not privacy. I've been running a VPN server here off & on for 20+ years and used ones to connect to an office.

@dansup@mastodon.social @OpenSCAD@floss.social Only a 12 M byte install? Only script driven.

@milo@ostkind.social @stux@mstdn.social Using the Internet is a security risk. Server or client.

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social The only private secure VPNs are ones with the server/endpoint in your own home or office. Those allow secure use of public WiFi etc. The 3rd party ones are not about security or privacy, they are a service to evade geo-restrictions. The big issue on age limited access is nothing to do with VPNs, because it has zero affect on services or VPNs provided from your own office or home, but loss of privacy for everyone accessing public services / websites.

@bettina@mastodon.nu @itsfoss@mastodon.social You can only read the tiny % of ebooks on Amazon that are DRM free, they have an epub download. Amazon doesn't indicate which ebooks are DRM free. The rest can only be read on a newer, registered Kindle, or current Kindle app. Kobo isn't locked down & is far better value. This is a hobby project with too small, too low resolution screen & too slow CPU. Foss is good, but OpenBook Touch is pointless. More expensive than a 7″ ereader here Kobo. Pocketbook & Boox alternatives

@barbra@social.vivaldi.net @emilymbender@dair-community.social @alex@dair-community.social Block the scripts anyone runs to insist on that which is technically illegal in UK & EU. uMatrix or uBlock Origin Also malware, even attempts to reprogram your router DNS, come via 3rd party advert scripts even on legitimate sites.

@dangillmor@mastodon.social Google in reality was always an enemy of the Internet and the ordinary person. So was their search and the entire SEO industry it created!

@BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social The colouring is wrong. Easy to check with a disc and a white light source.

@js@mastodon.nl @MarcAbrahams@mstdn.science Yes, and even matt black car/acrylic spray on blockboard (both any DIY place) makes an instant blackboard. Doesn't wear as well as real blackboard paint, but 20 minutes vs a day drying!

@BucciaBuccia@mastodon.social @rallias@hax.social @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social "You can just enable HTTPS-only mode." Why? Any site that has https should be re-writing. Some sites are http only and don't need https as you are not logging on and they are innocuous. Also a public WiFi or poisoned DNS can MitM attack HTTPS. There is no point to a plug-in such as https everywhere or HTTPS-only mode. Any sane HTTPS site doesn't accept HTTP!

@rallias@hax.social @BucciaBuccia@mastodon.social @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social You don't get cert failures!

@TimWardCam@c.im @junebug@slime.global Could be the Windows are not using high enough level security. By default SAMBA lower levels of MS security are disabled. Or DNS. Add name & IP of Linux server to the Windows host file.