I never thought Mac OS releases were planned for longevity after they started being free, more like point releases. You were expected to upgrade and if you didn't, Apple doesn't care if you had a valid reason to stay (PPC Rosetta, i386 compatibility), just upgrade. Windows releases on the other hand can last up to 13 years and even longer, there are forums for modern day XP users and even ports of modern browsers.
This is true for Windows. Free software has helped keep operating systems like Windows XP and 7 still modern and secure, and many applications have been patched to work on these older systems. Here is for instance a port of Firefox Quantum to XP and a fork of Chromium maintaining support for 7, but I like to stick to the last Ungoogled Chromium version because I hate Google.
What if I just run a bunch of cryptominers on my Windows 365 instance? Either way this is gross and I guarantee people will just accept that. To unintentionally quote Deus Ex, Some people don't see the danger of indiscriminate surveillance.
About 8 pop-ups with ads and newsletters popped up within 10 seconds of clicking this link. Great topic but campaigns for worst website I've ever seen.
From how out of touch I am with my generation I fail to realize how many people watch TV and anime and whatever through those weird, peculiarly named "free TV and movies" websites with the pop-up ads and kinda-okay quality that have JS scripts and tons of protections to prevent you from downloading the content, one even somehow activated my browser's back button if I opened the developer tools. Who is owning these websites and why aren't they as easily taken down? It's certainly not hard to find them if the most technologically illiterate people I know find them easily.
Firefox can't because you can just change the code to remove the block, but the Mozilla compiled versions very well could. CloudFlare could, and they seem like they very well would because as a company they seem as comically evil as Oracle.
100% agree. I don't want to rent access to my music or rent access to TV/movies/anime through whatever people use now and have it able to be taken away from me or altered. Motley Crue's music is like 30 year old and was getting taken off and put back up in different compilation albums multiple times in 2019-2021. I want to own and keep forever, and it's extremely difficult to buy a copy of any of that stuff so I just go on rutracker with Firefox's translate tool and get what I want.
I thought the article hinted towards the companies making drinks that don't pretend to be alcohol, and are just good-tasting drinks as an alternative to alcohol but I saw the opposite. I don't see why anyone would want non-alcoholic rum.
Artists and photographers were never asked permission of their photos to be used to develop image AI yet they ended up doing so, it was built off theft and will continue to be build off theft by using user data from social media companies.
I always had this idea in my head about feeding AI garbage it cannot regurgitate into anything useful but not a clue on how to create said garbage. Hopefully tools like this can stop image AI dead in it's tracks.
Shopify seems to love Ruby. Ruby doesn't seem to be all too popular now, if I'm a beginner would Ruby be a good language to look into?
(Please don't recommend Python/JS, I dislike them for personal reasons)
Way uglier than a classic pair of Ray-Bans which is what I expected to see when I saw their brand attached to it. Thing looks like a shitty old Thunderbird.
Looking forward to AMD releasing some more budget oriented options for AM5, currently it's a very expensive platform. I really wanna see how these take on Intel, and if they steamroll them the way they did when they Threadrippers first came out.
I learned to not use my name online the hard way. I'm 15 now and I had poor opsec when people started getting mad at me on games or whatever else, and I use online personas on almost everything.
It's stupid and egregious to ban someone for "breaking TOS" or "sharing harmful information" and not telling them exactly what they did and where they did it, no matter what you see them as.
This will change nothing. Since 2020 and their efforts to get more than gamers on Discord it has been a cesspool of minging, predators and other nefarious activities. I've gotten like 4 or 5 Discord accounts banned for trolling, raiding, false reports or other harmless crap like that and they have no systems in place to prevent people from just making another account other than phone verification, and I have used the same phone number to verify 8 accounts before. The things going on already are newsworthy, but in my opinion TikTok/Instagram algorithms encouraging teenage girls to starve themselves is probably as serious if not more.