Just another voice yelling in the void.
I’ve probably protested for your rights. I’m definitely on at least one list.
I believe firmly that everyone should have a fair shake and as much freedom as they can be afforded - so long as it does not encroach on the freedoms of others.
Occasionally a wordy cunt who will type a book when a sentence or two will suffice.
Oh no question. Wall street isn’t about being honest. He has a certain set of skills. You could quite comfortably draw tons of parallels to any number of organized crime groups. Dudes pure evil but if youre gonna be in the mob you might as well be the boss.
He may have missed the window where the president was cognitively capable of signing his own name. He’s already regressed to child like babbling, tantrums, and shittng his pants.
Ive had some time to look at the timelines and that was definitely in the “era” of Microsoft making poor choices for the end user. Apparently lindows rebranded (who knew lol) and also crawled into existence around the same period.
I think, for good reason, people should be concerned with the direction of any consolidating market. I believe the devs were correct to have the foresight to anticipate this eventual reality.
Also, ReactOS is closely tied to helping WINE and always has been, so it’s not a complete waste. It’ll just never actually emulate Windows in any stable way.
Exactly what I was curious about considering the goals are similar and could benifit from shared knowledge. Very cool.
As far as the emulation layer discussion goes - I’m not so sure it will matter in the years to come. It needs to simply provide a ‘good enough’ bridge to other platforms to allow a critical mass to form. After that point those platforms can stand alone as a viable alternative and grow from there. Example: VMWare debacle.
No shade being thrown at the devs. Ive chased many a “what if” myself. I certainly have opinions but what someone does with their time is their business.
I wouldnt necessarily classify this project as pointless as the research has value. I simply was making observations and asking questions as an outsider looking at a project I wasnt familiar with conversationally.
Interesting. I applaud the efforts … though I do find myself wondering if that energy could have been focused on a more unified front for those compatibility layers instead. Backwards compatibility certainly would be useful but I feel like modern compatibility (parity) is a sisyphian task. You’d be eternally chasing a standard that a company is setting for you. The exact company with a history of file format and code changes to fuck with efforts identical to this. You’d never be able to pull ahead.
I’ll have to go read up on the project. I’m interested in the project itself - but deeply curious if they have addressed that elephant.
Oh don’t worry I wouldn’t kink shame. Fly your freak flag and all that. I was just dispairing at the notion of what would be an outstanding way to protest… ending up being something they’d be into. It seems the more out there and depraved something is… its just all the more likely a politician is to be doing it.
Time to start shipping pee to the GOP lawyer. Unless they’re into that.
… They probably are.
He really shoulda bought himself an island. Or a leather jacket and sold snake oil. One of those.
Is this the shambling remains of lindows?
Let’s see here… we just take your time served … apply some creative math with some leverage and we’ll have you out in a ji…
Sacks for everyone! I feel like the title is trying to be witty. The caffeine hasn’t kicked in yet… so I’ll quietly hope someone can bag a better title for us.
Fun aside: as someone already observed - its not worth chasing down someone for retail theft. Theres insurance, shrink is factored into running costs, and you could get hurt or sued… or both. Also, while it sucks to look at it this way… if someone is stealing food… they probably needed it.
This. 100x.
We had answer snippets long before they shit this abomination into existence. I hope they lose horribly and Germany goes for the hat trick and drops a: “oh! while you’re doing that you’ll need to remove those false results that are ads… or need to CLEARLY label them.”
I can dream.
Good call. Also if you are a religious type I’d steer clear of hallowed ground for a bit. You may start to smolder after speaking such depraved words, true as they may well be, into existence.
I’m not saying you should… but you could… use the cameras and other open sources … darkweb and whatever else and just to utterly dox each and every one of these people promoting these products. These are not tech savvy people. They are old, decrepit, and well trained in responding only to a hearty handful of totally-not-a-bribe.
If you want these cunts to worry about security and rights… you need to make it personal.
Find an open flock cam? Live stream it with a projector where people see it. Collect some damning evidence and push it right in the face of the people who think it’s secure.
My favorite discussion topic when someone starts with that protect the children bullshit:
You are totally right! But oh wait: with devices likely headed in the direction of being a beacon of ‘my user is underage’ … doesn’t that mean you can effectively, using publicly available information, play pokemon go… except with children?! After all with the leaks and cross references… they could probably just put a filter system in place and let you just find your match. Boy, girl, age, weight, build? I see you’ve made a selection! Care to cross reference with our live footage so you can find pick out that special place for the ideal get together? Need some AI help with finalizing your choice? Let’s dress them up with a bit of help from our app developer GROK! …Promise this is your child and youre just playing dress up to pick out that right gift? Alright! Here you go! Oh its actually your significant other and youre looking for something spicy… well … why not! Heres a few more images with some fun playful outfits for the bedroom… we did you a favor and put them in a couple recommended positions we completely recommend. Go get em king! You’re ready!
Usually by this point they’ve shut the hell up and are now contemplating how to put the genie back bottle. Feel free to use some creative flair. If they dont look like they are about to be ill - you clearly need to go harder.
Damn this seems dark. Just anybody could steal our children. And so easily! We should probably gps tag them at birth. We’ll call it loli-jack. This way we’ll never lose another kid. I’m sure that won’t backfire… Hey and kids grow fast. Maybe some mandatory 3d scans of them during yearly checkups. Obviously so AI can track them if they are being trafficed. No way to disguise them then! Oh and then we can totally sell those totally anonomized scans to help with…
You’ll feel positively disgusting if youre doing it right.
After care is important: the thing I recommend is washing yourself down with iso alcohol. Get a good scrub in. Then get that inner cleanse with a stiff shot and a good cry in the fetal position in the shower. Fuck I hate this timeline.
Ah. Lovely. I’ll just go set the "its been x days since ‘ai fanaticism’ made me throw up a little bit " back to zero.
Its a shame people haven’t realized how few of them there are and how much better things would be if they… just … you know. Weren’t.
Meanwhile they are building bunkers and installing more surveillance we are paying for. The mind boggles at the trajectory we are on.
Theres a certain amount of inevitability in this… If its expected every single quarter you somehow produce better numbers than your last numbers… you are incentivised to make the sand castle taller by digging around its foundation spill more on the top. This applies to not only individual companies but the market at large - its practically fractal in nature.
Most of the market by now is aware AI and its promises are bullshit. Its just about passing that hot potato nuke around until it explodes. Nobody is worried about each pass making it a bigger bomb… they’re worried about not being the guy holding it when it blows.
Venture capital?! Is that you?
This is, consequently, also why all these AI companies are talking about selling computers to agents now. Its obvious the math doesn’t work when an agent costs more than a person does.
… but if agents were selling agents to agents while agenting… the math works similarly to company n increasing its market cap exponentially by “investing” in another company… o which promises really hard to invest that back in company n…
Look: its totally logical and all of this makes perfect sense. 🫧
Prolly can buy 50 sample cups for a buck or two - get the kids and some food color and you have all manner of variations with none of the risk. Feeling fancy? I hear tell they sell the fake stuff for… reasons. But on their end they need to play what’s in the box because… maybe this one is real and they don’t know.