Located 1513 results from search term 'update'
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Commented in Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
Like the steps you took to brick my phone with your last update. I'll never use an Apple product again.
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Commented in Shopify to reduce workforce by 20%, sells logistics business to Flexport for 13% equity
I'm sorry, but I couldn't find any information about Shopify reducing its workforce by 20% or selling its logistics business to Flexport for 13% equity in my training data up until September 2021. It's possible that these events occurred after my last update, or they may be inaccurate or speculative. To get the most accurate and up-to-date information, I recommend checking reliable news sources or contacting Shopify directly for the latest details on any changes to their business operations.
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Commented in You think patching Windows is a pain? Try patching a Mars rover millions of miles away
Yeah, it was a very interesting read. I was full of awe to learn how much effort was needed to update that Mars rover. Makes one think while updating the Linux-box at home, with Gigabytes per minute and so on.
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Commented in Windows 11 Slapping a Watermark on 'Unsupported' PCs
Just did my update, while I kept on working on some documents in Libreoffice, added several graphics that were made (pretty much at the same time) with Gimp and Inkscape, while playing some of my favourite Infected Mushrooms songs with my big-small-friend Audacious. And after the update, I just kept on going until all was finished. Except for the music, those beats are awesome. And now, several hours later, I'll turn my machine off after watching some episodes of Three Body. Did you notice any reboots? Exactly, neither did I. Gotta love my current distro (Arcolinux). Bye.
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Commented in What's brewing?
Check my final update. :-)
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Commented in Lifelong excess weight can nearly double risk of womb cancer – study
No one really knows cause,as usual,more research is needed. Yet they never update their research on salt or sugar research,etc.
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Commented in Apple Made an Additional $6.5 Billion USD by No Longer Providing Accessories With New iPhones
Those fanbois haven't read the users end agreement very well, because it is not some certificate of ownership, but an agreement/permission to use the software on that piece of hardware. Both OS's are in fact leased to you and stay property of Apple or Microsoft, which renders any consumer right about the software insignificant. Their argument is simple: you agreed on our terms and they state that you, the end user, are under our control and we do whatever the hell we want with our property. Thing is: that's a fact since the inception of their users end agreements and go back many, many years.
You have a strong point on the paying to go online idea. It's already here, in a way, except for the paying part. Without being online it is damn hard to install, update or upgrade the OS's. Also: to do that, you need an account with those companies. Lots of users do not even care about that, they simply do it, because that's easy. And with my experience on helping people with their computers, they can't even give one damn reason why such a dick-move is even close to fair from the perspective of the user. Besides it being convenient, that is.
Things change as soon as they see on their hardware an OS running that doesn't do that and that doesn't send tonnes of telemetry and other data towards servers they can't have access to or even something close to an insight on what's being used or taken. When they see the difference in ease of use, privacy and actual ownership of software, those dear people still need time to recover from the years of being fooled in front of their eyes or even conceptualise what choice and ownership is.
I think that's so sad and hearing people even defend the ways they are used and abused, just for profit, shows how indoctrinated and propagandised they are. Spreading Linux, FreeBSD and all other open source software sometimes feels like an uphill battle, but one laptop or desktop at a time it will grow. And the more people understand the ways they are screwed over, the more people will leave those asshole companies behind. And the sad fact about it is that it's not just with OS's or other software, it's the same screw-overs in other parts of life also. Bank accounts, rent, buying food, borrowing, voting, education, just to name a few, are just as mindblowingly set up to screw people over in ways they can't imagine.
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Commented in Once-in-a-century solar superstorm could plunge world into ‘internet apocalypse’
This overlooks the bigger problem; devastation of the power grid in a Carrington-level event. Who cares if you can't tweet or update your facebook when you don't have electricity to keep the food in your fridge cold, and neither do the stores. Generators will run out of fuel. No gas pumps work, so no replenishment and no deliveries to the stores. This outage will last for years as the grid gets rebuilt (if it ever does).
Large cities will starve in less than a month. Mass numbers of refugees will flee, but they will find no welcome anywhere.
Back in the days of Usenet, I read a discussion about this subject that estimated well over half of the world population would be dead in 5 years after the event.
Of course, the Yellowstone stratovolcano could erupt, and that could be an extinction-level event.
Happy thoughts.
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Commented in Amazon and Apple 'not playing their part' in tackling electronic waste
They should exempt them from or give them a discount on the recycling program if they are willing to actually support their devices for a longer amount of time. I'm not saying you need to update the ios version for 10 years, but maybe patch for security flaws so finance apps and others that require up to date security will stick around keeping devices out of landfills, I have an iPhone 5c sitting in a drawer that still turns on, can make calls and receive texts, but it's no longer updated so apps have moved on because it's on too old of software so I had to move on. They could also maybe offer more than a dollar of trade in value on these things, it's not worth the time to mail my old device back if they are only giving me 10 bucks for it.
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Commented in Jet suit paramedic 'could save lives'
Not to mention the possibility of setting the bush/grass alight as a helicopter did in Australia in summer, starting a massive bushfire.
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Commented in Thunderbird e-mail client survives Mozilla layoffs
Thunderbird is such a handy tool. :-) I am glad they integrated the calendar instead of using it as a plugin. Best improvement ever. Another neat feature: you can check your Gmail with it and avoid a lot of advertisements and redundant information that comes with Gmail.
The message-filter system is another underrated feature which works so well for me. Last but not least: copying the .Thunderbird-directory (hidden directory) to your back up drive, completely re-install your operating system (Linux, of course) and after the fresh install copy back the contents of the hidden Thunderbird directory into the newly made hidden directory, start up the software and BOOOOMM everything works just like it was before the update/upgrade/new install. :-)Edit: I forgot this. :-)
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Commented in Microsoft is force-feeding Edge to Windows users with a spyware-like install
I actually just experienced it a week or so ago, it just appeared on my taskbar, chrome disappeared and my default browser suddenly became edge. Was pretty pissed, figured it was just something I did, but then I thought, that's a LOT OF steps I would need to do, so I just figured it was a part of an update. I swear, one day I am going to switch fully to OSX.
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Commented in Adobe Flash Cut-Off Will Kill Millions Of Websites
When using several techniques/languages/coding with the (open source) W3C-standards as guideline, Flash could be obsolete for many years already. If I'm correct this has been going on for about 10 years, especially after the discovery of many security-holes in the "software".
Good use of HTML, CSS , plus some jQuery/AJAX, and Flash is not needed. Ah, Flash is also proprietary. Less plugins make better webdesign. ;-) -
Commented in The Psychology of Russiagate
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Commented in Add-ons disabled or failing to install in Firefox
There is now an update that fixes this.
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Commented in Firefox 66 arrives with autoplaying blocked by default, smoother scrolling, and better search
We'll need another line of defense (update) when enough web developers will come up with some other annoying anti-pattern to abuse.
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Commented in Motorola and Nokia’s new phones make $350 look like $1,000
I don't mind saying, I've just about heard enough of new phones. However, having intensively researched this subject the conclusion I've come to is that Motorolas cheapy phones are the best pure Android phones on the market only recently (potentially) superceded by Nokia, and mainly due to Motorola phones only updating to the next itteration Android whereas Nokia promises to update its phones infinitely. That being said, the word on the street is that Androids potential has almost reached its peak and any further updates will be handset specific and not software advancements.
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Commented in Driverless Cars Should Spare Young People Over Old in Unavoidable Accidents, Massive Survey Finds
Old people generally have more money and will probably buy more self-driving cars. Are they going to buy a car that may kill them in preference to some young person? I don't think so.
This is all supposing a self-driving car will ever be able to tell the difference between a young person and an old one at speed. Can people even do that?
Update: Actually, would anyone buy a car that wouldn't protect them first?
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Commented in 9 common passive-aggressive work emails and how to neutralize each of them to still get what you want
"The goal of the passive-aggressive person is to get someone else to visibly act out the anger that they have been concealing,"
Okay
'Per my last email', 'Any update on this?', 'Please advise', 'Re-attaching for convenience'
How are those phrases in particular helping anyone achieve a goal of getting someone to “visibly act out anger they have been concealing”?
Also angry and concealing emotional state is technically exhibiting traits of passive aggressive behavior
passive-aggressive
adjective
of or denoting a type of behaviour or personality characterized by indirect resistance to the demands of others and an avoidance of direct confrontation
I mean, come on. If you receive an email asking for a follow-up on a discussion you had IRL and you perceive that request to be an act of hostility because you are concealing anger - is it really fair to say that the email is passive-aggressive rather than the recipient?
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Commented in What Happens When You See Regret in Someone’s Eyes
I can post an update later. I need to collect my thoughts into a coherent, non-flaming structure. It's time and effort on my behalf. If you're really interested I will make the effort and create the time
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Commented in Star Citizen fans raise pay-to-win objections over removal of in-game currency stockpiling cap
I actually tried No Man's Sky a few days ago ever since the NEXT update, and they overhauled pretty much everything. It's a very good game now, and they aren't finished with the updates. The difference from launch and now is massive, almost unrecognizable in regards to the game mechanics and all the additional features.
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Commented in Microsoft wants to win back the consumers it let down
Exactly. I actually lost work the other day when my windows decided to update overnight without my knowledge/permission. I was furious.
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Commented in If renewable energy can power entire countries, why isn't everyone doing it?
They claim they have enough money, but do they really
Yes. Australia has some of the largest provinces in China.
Governments run on huge deficits
Meanwhile, economies run on money banks create out of thin air when they issue debt.
they could go into more debt for it and are probably good for it, but is it cost-effective
That depends on what costs we consider to be what economists call externalities, and what costs we don't bury because they're not our job. For instance, poisoning the atmosphere to the point of another great extinction in Earth's history, that's a real cost, not an externality in our energy economy.
let's not forget that a country like the USA is large, not postage stamp sized like the often quoted Iceland
Incidentally, it's always surprising to me how big Australia is.
The truth is that it would cost billions for each state to implement
So what? We spent $100 extra on military spending this year and didn't even have any debate about that.
you would have to get large batteries to store it
Or what any country with a national industrial policy and world class research and development know-how would do, develop new kinds of energy storage.
my understanding is battery production is in no way Green
There're more ways to store energy than electric batteries. As the U.S. Navy's shown, if you've got enough extra energy around you can do more than just desalinate, you can synthesize jet fuel. There are more things you can do with excess energy than are dreamt of in your wildest Aziz Ansari bit.
batteries also don't last forever and need to be replaced
Some folks store energy by using it to haul heavy trains or water uphill. There're a lot of options for energy research around storage.
would there be an offset to the green revolution when they have to continue producing very unclean batteries?
Agreed, let's get control over these supposed externalities early.
The article talks about a cost of 3.3 Trillion
Oh, so roughly two-years-in-Iraq money?
As does money it would cost to update and install.
I'm confused, it's like we don't have free market economics on our side? Why do we as Americans have so much trouble understanding that industrial policy isn't the exact same thing as a command economy?
We are tied to the past
Which'd be fine, if the past had a future. Which it does not.
it's already installed, we don't need to spend trillions to replace it and update to new stuff
Yes, we do.
most states operate on a budget deficit as well and can't keep up with crumbling infrastructure, where are they going to find the ability to do this?
Well, maybe if these states were united in some way, then there might be some way we could collaborate as a people toward needed ends... Nah.
who is going to pay for the rollout of the new technology, it's not going to be the companies installing it
A lot of people that would make this point would also be instinctively opposed to any kind of government subsidy, like the tax deal that makes companies like Solar City pay to put solar on people's roofs in exchange for the long-term tax credits. I don't know if you share that view, but subsidy is a policy tool, a means to an end.
Jobs will be created but thousands will be lost when the coal workers are out of jobs
Guess what? Obama didn't kill the coal industry, and Trump's not saving it.
it's way more feasible and economical to stay the course
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Commented in If renewable energy can power entire countries, why isn't everyone doing it?
My own country, Australia, is rich in renewable resources and has the money to invest, yet only around 15 percent of electricity is sourced from renewables.
They claim they have enough money, but do they really, Governments run on huge deficits, for the most part, they could go into more debt for it and are probably good for it, but is it cost-effective?
Wind power can be sent straight to the electric grid, or stored in a battery. The trouble with the latter is that, at the moment, batteries big enough to store lots of energy are expensive.
Batteries are expensive, but let's not forget that a country like the USA is large, not postage stamp sized like the often quoted Iceland, which coincidentally didn't go Green suddenly but started in 1904. The truth is that it would cost billions for each state to implement, on top of that you would have to get large batteries to store it, my understanding is battery production is in no way Green, batteries also don't last forever and need to be replaced, would there be an offset to the green revolution when they have to continue producing very unclean batteries?
If we could build enough of these pumped hydro stations as backup for the variability of solar and wind power, Stocks said, Australia could easily get all of its electricity from renewables.
We are again talking billions to install. The article talks about a cost of 3.3 Trillion if we don't do anything about global warming by 2050, we are probably talking the same figures or more to replace the old system.
"If there's uncertainty around politics, then things grind to a halt," Stocks said.
As does money it would cost to update and install.
"But the struggle is on the political, institutional, cultural areas, trying to get movement from governments and industries that are tied to the past."
In the US, a country that Stanford University says has more than enough resources to run entirely on renewables, the goal is 30 percent by 2025.
These last two quotes go together for me. We are tied to the past, it's already installed, we don't need to spend trillions to replace it and update to new stuff. The goal at this time is to phase out the old and in the new, but this article makes it sound like they should do it immediately, the Stanford study even claimed: "Geothermal energy was available at a reasonable cost for only 13 states." But they don't say what they think is reasonable, or how those states could pay for it, most states operate on a budget deficit as well and can't keep up with crumbling infrastructure, where are they going to find the ability to do this?
The Stanford study also says...
So the overall cost spread over time would be roughly equal to the price of the fossil fuel infrastructure, maintenance and production.
"When you account for the health and climate costs – as well as the rising price of fossil fuels – wind, water and solar are half the cost of conventional systems," Jacobson said. "A conversion of this scale would also create jobs, stabilize fuel prices, reduce pollution-related health problems and eliminate emissions
They never talk the actual costs in either the fossil fuel or supposed lower costs of green, you can't compare because they don't give you numbers you are just supposed to take their studies word for it... The second part of that quote is that green will cost half of the fossil fuels, sure in theory, but who is going to pay for the rollout of the new techno...
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Commented in Facebook Android app caught seeking 'superuser' clearance
leading to speculation that a new feature or update is to blame, and it may not have been intentional.
Seriously?
FB gets no benefit of the doubt.