Murdoc

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Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

Murdoc,

But buying new things is good for the economy!
(/s in case it’s needed)

Murdoc,

I use Clementine because it lets me rate my songs. Does Strawberry do that? If it does I’ll give it a try.

Murdoc,

"The government has a defect: it’s potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they’re pure tyrannies.”

— Noam Chomsky
(Not exactly the same, but very similar.)

Murdoc,

I was thinking Hawaiian Punch. (I think we may have found a new versioning theme)

Murdoc,

I feel like you guys aren’t really “explaining like I’m 5”. Let me show you:
Sometimes, when a mommyboard and a daddy graphics card fall in love, the daddy graphics card puts his connector pins inside the mommyboard’s expansion slot. Then when they both get turned on, millions of tiny electrons surge out of his connector pins and into her expansion slot, where they travel up through mommyboard’s data bus, and into one of her memory cards. Meanwhile, there are thousands of image files inside mommy’s storage drives waiting to come to life, and every once in a while one of them ventures out of the storage drive and into her memory card. And if the electrons and the image file happen to meet at the same time, then 9 milliseconds later, a picture of a baby appears on the monitor!

Murdoc,

I can see a woman holding an airplane made of cheese, full of passengers that are hungry and listening to a Belgian radio show about 3 veggieburgers that fight crime in the back alleyways of Rivendell. One of them is married to an oviraptor named Steve who just graduated from Bovine University with a 6.0 GPA majoring in Advanced Yelling, and with aspirations of one day becoming a comma.
What the heck does that mean??

Murdoc,

The microsoft strategy.

The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful".

The Bill includes no definition of hate and is wide open to abuse by bad actors. Defend free speech – say no to this legislation, and any legislation of is kind… Anywhere!...

Murdoc,

For some reason I’m now thinking about a video game called x.com where you have to fight aliens who have infiltrated and taken over a major social media site and are trying to TAKE OVER THE WORLD Wide Web.
(Actually, that kinda sounds like a sequal to x-bill.)

Murdoc,

most of the best apps are based on GTK and not QT

As a long time kde user, what am I missing?

Murdoc,

Irrespective of the article, you can still advertise free things.

Murdoc,

Not impossible, just The Most Generous Man In The World!

Murdoc,

The second one seems most likely as there are indications that the boxes are only just arriving. Also there is an old meme about sending away for items delivered from Acme, like the coyote in Road Runner cartoons.

Murdoc,

Should have opted for Amazon Prime. 😛

Murdoc,

Chickens look dead, not disappointed. Maybe they were all hit with nerve gas or something?

Murdoc,

I just knew of the band from Buffy.

There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data – The Markup (themarkup.org)

Location firm Near describes itself as “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real-World,” with data representing “1.6B people across 44 countries.” Mobilewalla boasts “40+ Countries, 1.9B+ Devices, 50B Mobile Signals Daily, 5+ Years of Data.” X-Mode’s website claims its data covers “25%+ of...

Murdoc,

I’ve heard others suggest something like “then you won’t mind giving me your SSN/SIN, bank account details and PIN, all your e-mail and computer passwords…” and whatever else you can think of, and if they are still ok with that, then add “and I’ll post them on the internet.” I don’t know how well it works though as I haven’t had the chance to try it.
People who say this are assuming benign, rational actors, but there are plenty of predatory and irrational ones that will misuse your data. So a list of examples, general and specific, may help there.
Hmm, could we as a community compile such a list for people to use as a kit (assuming it hasn’t been done already)? Then when people get the opportunity to use it, they could provide feedback that can be used to improve the kit. E.g., which examples work best, which don’t, presentation methods, etc. Does this sound like something people would want, and/or want to contribute to? I know that I’d find it handy.

Murdoc,

Don’t be silly, that’s just ridiculous. He’s not that powerful. But he is on the secret syndicate boards with the people that do. 😳

Murdoc,

Maybe he had one of those ties that have musical notes on them, and got curious (and careless)…

Murdoc,

This has me imagining music made by a banjo and those “sproing” sounds (don’t know how else to describe it).

Murdoc,

Not quite what I was thinking of, but wow! I love creative stuff like this.

Murdoc,

They already do in public.🤮 I’ll fight them as long as I can on my own computer though.

Murdoc,

Dang it, you gave it away! Now we have to change the knock.

Murdoc,

I hate ads more than anyone, but how are all ads a cybersecurity risk? Like say just a posted image that says “Buy (product X)”?

Murdoc,

At least we can see how that turned out. 😆

Murdoc,

Yip yip yip yip, uh-huh, uh-huh.

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