heavyboots

heavyboots, 4 months ago

Article talks about how Chrome will be happening almost immediately and I’m like… why? Why would you switch to Chrome when you know it’s going to reduce your ability to keep things private. Firefox will be a different story hopefully, but even then it will be interesting to see if it can pass the fingerprint test finally on an iPhone. (Currently nothing can.)

heavyboots, 2 months ago

Gosh, that’s $1000 per year they tried to give that poor black woman that failed to caste a single provisional ballot, let alone 9 successful votes.

heavyboots, 2 months ago

Someone still had faith in Google???

heavyboots, 24 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

Let’s do it slightly differently, let’s make the mandatory retirement age for political office the median life expectancy age for the entire country. If the politicians, etc can manage to make everyone live longer, they can hold office longer.

Similarly, take away their separate and different medical coverage and put them on the same Medicare system everyone else in the country has to use.

heavyboots, 1 month ago

Browsers love it!

Practically anything you write will execute without all that scope and well formed statements nonsense.

Mind you, number 2 is also its biggest flaw as well, but…

heavyboots, 2 months ago

So obviously not to everyone’s taste but if you have access to iCloud+ email, your mail isn’t scanned for sale (as per their US privacy agreement anyway), you get randomized email addresses available to give to places that you think might be spammy and you can link a domain to your account, although you’re only allowed 3 email boxes per user in your family per domain. Works well for me so far. Mind you because of photo storage size and devices backups I’m up to $3/ month from the original $1/month when I started.

Plus with Advanced Data Protection a lot of iCloud info is E2E encrypted. (Not email tho.)

heavyboots, 29 days ago

Huh. I used it pretty much since the start and I certainly don’t recall it being that bad? Like you got a lot of relevant content up front usually.

heavyboots, 30 days ago

All we want is 1990s Google, guys. That’s really all we want. None of this AI BS that kind find a country in Africa that starts with a K, just Google without the evil enshitification layer on top.

heavyboots, 1 month ago

But was it an escaped boomslang snake?

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heavyboots, 8 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

And of course, he wants you to side with the felon who was convicted on 34 counts by a jury of his peers…

EDIT: I love Colin Cowherd’s reaction.

“Donald Trump is now a felon. His campaign chairman was a felon. So is his deputy campaign manager, his personal lawyer, his chief strategist, his national security adviser, his trade advisor, his foreign policy advisor … they’re all felons.”

“If everybody in your social circle is a felon, I don’t think it’s ‘rigged’. I don’t think the world’s against you. And to get people to agree on anything, 34 counts? Zero for 34? That’s a batting slump even the New York Mets could be impressed with.”

heavyboots, 2 months ago

True, just observing that it’s happening much faster now than it did for the preceding iteration of Windows.

heavyboots, 2 months ago

The enshitification of Windows compared to macOS has really accelerated a lot recently it seems. I work with both daily and it is weird and irritating how much extra crap keeps getting hurled willy-nilly into Windows updates this last year.

heavyboots, 22 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

To me this sounds like either your GPU acceleration is off or is choking somehow. I’d start with checking your GPU acceleration settings and updating your drivers if they aren’t the latest. If that doesn’t work, maybe try FF with a fresh config to see if it’s a setting you’ve enabled?

heavyboots, 2 months ago

That’s how you know the privacy protections are working. Meta won’t let you in if they can’t identify you well enough to sell your data.

heavyboots, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

This is the stupidest thing they could possibly do. How in the hell would Trump be any better on that one specific issue?

Meanwhile, on every other issue he’s going to be a demented (literally) nightmare tearing down the foundations of democracy in any way he can so he can keep power this time.

EDIT: Meanwhile…

www.usatoday.com/story/news/…/73531861007/

heavyboots, 2 months ago

If you want to read something slightly closer to “normal” SF by him, The Embassy is good. Although my absolute favorite is still The City and The City, which is all about social mores and to a degree, castes.

heavyboots, 2 months ago

Hahaha, yeah I only buy books that I know I will be rereading down the line, because otherwise the foundations of my house would crumble under the weight.

My library allows requesting new books 3 months before they come out, so I usually try and be the guy requesting it and getting the first hold on it that way…

heavyboots, 2 months ago

Ouch. They should either change the font or just ban 44 globally.

heavyboots, 22 days ago

I saw the Marques Brownlee review of this and I have no idea why they actually released it to market? It looked so wildly undercooked.

heavyboots, 10 days ago

Why the hell can’t we have candidates this awesome on the ballot here in the US?! 😿

heavyboots, 10 days ago

Yes, and I voted for Bernie when he ran and I would absolutely vote for AOC if/when she does run. Just… the choices in this election cycle are wanna-be, half-demented dictator-for-life vs a “moderate” Democrat who, while he’s gotten a surprising amount done, isn’t exactly renowned for pushing the corporations hard on climate change.

heavyboots, 10 days ago

Yeah, it’s a pretty frustrating time to be leaning left. And given the chaos Trump would unleash, it’s not like there is any choice at all about whether or not to vote for Biden… 😿

heavyboots, 6 days ago

This is kinda genius, lol

heavyboots, 6 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

I would absolutely send him an email to the effect of

“Per our multiple verbal conversations, this is just to serve as notice that, in my professional opinion, your refusal to allow me to upgrade a system at risk of multiple security vulnerabilities on a platform that is no longer supported is a risk that you are choosing to accept against my advise.”

with a list of known major vulnerabilities attached if possible.

That way at least if this comes back to bite the company on the ass, he can’t say “Well he never told me this was a problem!”

heavyboots, 2 months ago

HTML5 is a perfectly valid technology when used for good purposes though? Their zoomable charts are fine as long as it is enabled. I don’t think they’re using them for tracking, just to make it easier to enable certain technologies.

The company I work for does all our interactive lessons in HTML5 Canvas via Animate CC. When Flash was EOL’d it saved us from having to redo literally thousands of lessons completely.