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@JenMsft but... they all fit into the square hole!
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Þór Sigurðsson
@thor@mast.ttk.is
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Who is this guy? Computer user since 1976, professional developer since 1984, UNIX user since 1989, Linux user since 1994, SysOP since 1994. Been a Mac user, Windows user, UNIX (hpux, Solaris, SunOS, Digital Unix, Unisys, AT&T...), *BSD, VMS. I've done most of it. The past 10 years professional developer, SysOP on the side and now data security specialist at Persónuvernd (IS-DPA).
If I'm not following, please don't be offended - I am extremely selective for what to keep in my feed.
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@iFixit@mastodon.social What is awesome about Lenovo Thinkpads is that good repairability is nothing new. They have ambition for doing things right, inherited from IBM, while others spend time shaving dimes off of the dollar - creating a microscopic blimp in the profit in favor of unrepairable trash for the customers. (Toshiba, Acer, I'm looking at you!)
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@ThePolishDispatch@mstdn.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social yeah ok, I didn't get that referece :) The wikipedia page doesn't offer him a birth year - and le'chat confirms that he "had his birth date redacted from government records" so...ok, yes he's probably not THAT old... unless he had a facelift to eff with government officials and he's actually born in '43...
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@pglpm@lemmy.ca You really need a smaller shovel for that hole you're digging for yourself.
You were called out for being rude by being blocked - and you get called out again when you blog about being called out for being rude, so now you've been called out twice - and for the third time by a large language model.
You hole is almost ready. Whether you fill it up or jump in depends on whether you can man up to face your own attitude.
I'm done, got better things to do with my time and my life.
Adieu.
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@JenMsft@mastodon.social
I'm pretty sure even in Windows Powershell, this works:
cd ~
pwd
@pglpm@lemmy.ca Your perception of your open letter is "polite".
The boiled down version is "if you do this, then fuck you." Literally.
There is no such thing as a polite ultimatum.
Sorry, but YTA.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
Identity: Firecracker factory in a blender
Pronouns: ba-doom-tss
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@Pionir@masto.bike @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social nah, he's in for a blast at the restaurant at the end of the universe, ain't he? :)
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@ThePolishDispatch@mstdn.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social 1963? Although I wasn't born yet back then, I'm pretty sure someone was - and NASA is founded in 1958, so not completely off the chart...
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@FlohEinstein@chaos.social funny thing tho... I created an error page, pasted it into a chat, then I wanted to use ChatGPT - and Cloudflare was really down. 🤦♂️
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@zbrown@floss.social @itsOasus@pawb.fun I'm simply suggesting that the UK implements a nation-wide ID system. The nordic countries (Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) have done so without complications. In these countries identity theft is almost unheard of (and very very difficult). Unlike the UK where identity theft is possible simply by calling the bank and provide a plausible story.
So... dear friends in GB - buckle up and get yourselves an ID system that works.
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@zbrown@floss.social @trollkatt@mastodon.online @ret@furry.engineer @itsOasus@pawb.fun
All "well known quotes" are well known in a small area of the world. I know many "well known quotes" that you have never heard of :)
Culturally embedded references or regionally iconic phrases are exceedingly unhelpful on the global internet. :)
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@ret@furry.engineer @zbrown@floss.social @trollkatt@mastodon.online @itsOasus@pawb.fun Absolutely! You wouldn't believe it!
(also... I'm not much of a party-goer... BBQ and beer sure, but...)
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@itsOasus@pawb.fun (my ref to Iceland's debet card age limit - the UK will follow suit, later, but not much later)
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@nicr9@techhub.social @rexxdeane@mastodon.online @VTDARKSIM@toot.community @aphyr@woof.group ues I have the whole thing running in a VM on a DL360G8 and it just works. You can even host it using SQL Server Express, although for larger projects it may be ill-advised
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@nicr9@techhub.social @rexxdeane@mastodon.online @VTDARKSIM@toot.community @aphyr@woof.group Um... not as much as you think.
Google however is.
Screenshots prove my point: bing maps vs. google maps.
Also for alternatives in case you DON'T want to make your code opensource and you don't want to use GitHub - Microsoft has their DevOps which can be used on-prem and is free for small teams. Just sayin'
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@JenMsft@mastodon.social Just wow. I'm thankful for the abundance of women at my company ( I think it's close to 50% ) - and damn smart, each and every one. Some are equals (or >=), some of them my bosses (several). I think we'd falter and halt without them.
Cheers to all of them - and cheers to this dude for reminding me that for every one toxic copy of him in existence, I'll appreciate the women so much more - with them around, my job is easier & more fun - and he's not going to fill their space. Win-win.
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@opensuse@fosstodon.org Seriously?
That migt *SEEM* like a good idea, but in reality it's the same stunt Microsoft is pulling with Windows 11 - it's just an artificial line in the sand. Only difference is, your line lies a tad further back.
Do I have hardware this old? Yes. Yes I do. WOULD I have upgraded it to Leap 16? No, not this specific hardware. Do I know of OTHER hardware that might have been upgraded and which is older than 2008? Oh yes, I do. Lots of equipment wired to legacy machinery. *SIGH*
Please someone make it so that if websites use a fatigue-driven cookie policy, then they get erased from existence.
There should be three and only three options.
Accept Accept essential only, reject all.
Það er alveg deginum ljósara að Ofar (Origo), Advania, OK, Computer2000 - allir þessir aðilar sem gefa sig út fyrir að vera selja lausnir fyrir fyrirtæki - eru ALLIR með allt niðrum sig.
ENGINN þeirra selur Enterprise SSD diska - og ENGINN þeirra selur harða diska, eða SSD diska með SAS tengi.
Allir með tölu í M.2 og SATA.
Það þýðir að þeir eru ekki að selja fyrirtækjum server lausnir - aðeins skrifstofubúnað.
Það er sorglegur andskoti.
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@AngelaScholder@mastodon.energy @dazo@infosec.exchange @iFixit@mastodon.social Yeah - the Tecras and the Satellites were two different beasts. The Tecra with its Magnesium shell was more... enterprisey - on the outside (same crap on the inside though). The Satellites were "budget" systems (if you can call a $3K "budget") with good parts put together in a piss-poor way.
I had a Tecra M4 which I was very happy with until it proved me wrong - and a Satellite P50-t which I disliked from day 1 and until its untimely death. Wife also had one. 👎🏻
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@mort@floss.social @marekfort@mastodon.online @amberage@eldritch.cafe @kelset@mastodon.online
This may be enforceable in the US (I do have my reservations though) but this is not an enforcable clause in much of Europe as minors are in general incapable of entering a binding legal agreement (TOS/EULA) and therefore Zed would still be harvesting data of a minor (a BIG no-no in Europe).
This is an un-enforcable thing (no age verification) so there should be no harvesting at all - or no AI at all. There is no try. Do or do not.
@univention@univention.social - here's a nugget that will improve your life: NOBODY writes dates as "month-day-year" except the disabled ones in the west.
Absolutely not Icelanders, after selecting "Icelandic" for language, locale and keyboard!
Location of programmer error: UCS User Management, General, Personal Information, Birthdate.
Fiel danke!
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@poppacalypse@alpaca.gold All the world's rotorcraft and Sun Tzu's Art of War.
Y'all trying to tell me something?
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@rexxdeane@mastodon.online @nicr9@techhub.social @almibe@tech.lgbt @VTDARKSIM@toot.community @aphyr@woof.group The "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" picture I posted IS Google.
The "Mexíkóflói" (Gulf of Mexico) is Bing maps.
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@dazo@infosec.exchange @AngelaScholder@mastodon.energy @iFixit@mastodon.social The difference being - the Thinkpads have the design quality through and through. I've done lots of work on all our Thinkpads and have had no bitter taste so far (more than a decade in).
And yes - the Lenovo non-Thinkpads are Toshiba Satellite quality. Definitely. Would not recommend any of the non-Thinkpads even to an enemy of mine.
But that's where Toshiba and Lenovo differ - I CAN recommend the Thinkpad, but wouldn't recommend a Tecra.
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@dazo@infosec.exchange @iFixit@mastodon.social I'll agree that they have some machines that could have been done better, but their overall good over bad is in the high numbers. I have a P53s, T15g1, a couple of Thinkpad Yogas (pre-forking of the Yoga brand) and a really old m-class CPU (next step after C2D). All of them have turned out to be 💯in terms of servicability. Even the oldest one which had a effed DSP. I could mute the DSP with a stick in the 3.5mm jack and just use a USB audio card instead.
First Michelle Trachtenberg, then Anthony Stewart Head and now Hayden Panettiere ?
The end truly is nigh 😫
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@shanselman@hachyderm.io But... even if they're identical, they still have different BDA/BMAC and as such should be able to stay paired, both of them?
Funny still though 😆
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@mossman@social.vivaldi.net @zbrown@floss.social @itsOasus@pawb.fun It's precisely the lack of the ID card and the fact that only a percentage of the people (about 80% of adults) have a driver's license - which means you have millions of people that don't have a license.
It IS a circus and it's so easily solvable.
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@momar@layer8.space @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de at least that one is ahead of - and safe from - the ongoing DDoS.
Safe healing!
This is not ok @FirefoxOfficial@mastodon.social
Firefox is a browser, not a network device. It is up to *me* to choose what VPN if any is used by my family or employees. You implementing a browser based VPN in your control, that is a gross overreach, not acceptable.
That was a long absense from the elephant-network. Good to be back.
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@lxo That is your prerogative. You cannot however extend that view to everyone else. Consumers have the right to be disinformed, ignorant dweebs - and manufacturers do have the right to be corner-cutting bat-dung. It is bad, yes, when these proxy their problems to unsuspecting individuals - but that is permissable to regulate.
And I'm old enough to remember Y2K too - and it wasn't that much of a problem in gov/geo nor in uni.
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@ret@furry.engineer @zbrown@floss.social @itsOasus@pawb.fun
Famous last words before sinking into paranoia.
I presume you've already made yourself a tin-foil hat?
I asked Gemini if there existed a plugin or syntax highlight for Bind. It took five attempts to convince Gemini that it was wrong, there was no such syntax highlighter - and to the point where it offered to create for me the syntax XML file - which it then promptly did and now it just works.
But it's exceptionally dumb that one has to waste so much time on some artificial LSD trip before getting something concrete.
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@itsOasus@pawb.fun They are going to have loads of fun when they realise that the landscape for age verification (other than literally a ID number) changes so rapidly that it is useless.
1) My son has an account since he was 0yo
2) You could have used your mom's CC ?
3) The age limit in Iceland recently changed to 9yo and will continue to lower
4) You could use someone else's CC or a pre-paid CC readily available online.
🤷♂️
Learn to ID-number. It works. Just sayin'
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@nicr9@techhub.social @almibe@tech.lgbt @rexxdeane@mastodon.online @VTDARKSIM@toot.community @aphyr@woof.group Well that clears it (a bit) up - Microsoft chooses to localize their damage - which is smart. Google does not - which shows where on the spectrum they are.
Also would explain why I swing more Microsoft than Google in the past decade or so! Thanks for the clear-up :D
I just want to make it clear - Anti-Semitism != Anti-Zionism.
Let me say that again. Anti-Semitism does NOT equal Anti-Zionism.
Free Palestine. Fuck Zionists. And fuck Pink.
Pardon my language.
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@dazo@infosec.exchange @iFixit@mastodon.social in contrast, my Toshiba laptops have been atrocious - especially the high-end one (a laptop that cost me $3k, had 4K display with touch, big HDD, dedicated ATI graphics etc) - insides look like someone randomly picked parts from AliExpress and hotglued them together. Quality is on par with the cheapest you can find in Temu.
Even Apple does not come remotely close to the servicability of Thinkpads. (I was Apple tech from 2007-08, can attest for lack of quality and servicability!)