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Redmond hopes you’ve forgotten or got over why everyone hated it the first time
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Psychoanalysts need to study this even if it is already in the DSM.
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I an others in this thread know why this won't work but let's not discourage them. Let them confine themselves and all their utopian / dystopian tech in their little cities and let all…
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Not a lawyer nor an executive but it's a common practice and also common for companies to file lawsuits for poaching to waste each others time and money. I've had to interview people off-si…
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A vulnerability in the OttoKit WordPress plugin with over 100,000 active installations has been exploited in the wild.
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It feels like important details are missing here. First of all, 6100? That's an oddly specific and small number of people. There are many millions of immigrants and some millions of illegal …
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This historically happens in the lead-up to world wars. Large amounts of steel will be required for automotive companies to switch to building tanks and other military vehicles. It is probably also …
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I am sure people disagree with me and agree with you. Fact is if I bundled up the latest version of Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux malware and ransomeware most here would be hesitant to copy it to their wo…
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Hopefully the combined power of HN can figure out how to not enable this opt-in feature. Feature toggles like this can be enabled on a single OS update, a single dial-home to the mother-ship. If th…
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For the battery life is your CPU scaling set to ondemand or performance? One can write an alias or function to switch from ondemand to performance for gaming then switch back to save power. One can …
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You think shadowy governments are coercing Microsoft into adding an opt-in AI feature? They could be, yes. Once the code base is there then it is just a feature toggle at that point. One dial home…
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Do you really think they have a legal department or any department whatsoever? That is actually the point. If they do not have one and are using HN as legal advice then essentially I said it was a …
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Here [1] is a documentary that talks about LifeLog and the origin of other related platforms as well. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY [video][44 mins][documentary]…
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HN is probably not the best place to ask. I would start with your legal department and as if the risk is aligned with the reward. I do not have experience with what you are asking but I see articles…
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Sounds related. So now we must summon the combined power of HN to find the simplest way to hobble this behavior on Mac and Windows without entirely breaking the OS itself and that our overlords would…
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Oh yeah and that number from the IT crowd [1] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m6qutSER9Q [video][11 seconds]…
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Have any other popular operating systems implemented something similar recently? If so that would be quite the tell that Microsoft are being coerced into this.