[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 26 points 5 months ago

According to Microsoft whistleblower Andrew Harris, Microsoft spent years ignoring a vulnerability while he proposed fixes to the "security nightmare." Instead, Microsoft feared it might lose its government contract by warning about the bug and allegedly downplayed the problem

This says everything about this shitty company. Worst of the worst. Because that’s how they make 90% of their cash. By exploiting licensing deals and siphoning data to sell to whomever because they do not care who it is so long as they bid the highest.

It’s amazing no one has tried to break up their control over PCs. Make this world make sense.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 26 points 5 months ago

Normally I wouldn’t take comments like this to heart. But I tried the latest beta recently after maybe 15y and wow. You’re totally bang on. I was stunned how bad the UI was. How bad the app was. Upon reading this, it all just sort of makes sense.

I’m sad things are so bad on the Linux front that this is the most highly rated design tool. Linux community deserves better.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 months ago

It’s Bob. He’s got a budget of $200 a year. He does what he can. We like Bob.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 months ago

This dude woke up and decided, blood.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 27 points 11 months ago

My friend worked at Best Buy corporate some ten years ago. He got the corporate discount at stores so we went to check it out. Most of the big name stuff had almost nothing. So their margins were pretty thin there (not to say those companies couldn’t sell their products for less just that BB wasn’t getting most of your cash).

But for their in-house stuff like anything Insignia, the cost of a $20 HDMI cable went to $4. And that was a discount so BB was still making something.

I’ve started to become super jaded about discounts, especially at grocery stores because now I’m not looking at it like “wow I’m saving on eggs” but rather “so you’re probably overstocked and want me to bail you out or you’ll lose a shit on of profits if these go bad”.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same movie. 1080p. 2h. 6000 Bitrate. AAC 5.1 audio.

  • H264: 8 GB
  • H265: 5 GB
  • AV1: 3 GB
[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago

Wait till OP finds out this was not done by a kid but a full grown man.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago

In all my dealings with government entities, they were fucking clueless. Even the trained ones. Look over and all their PCs run Windows 95. Government websites look like they were coded by Homer Simpson.

But somehow, they got all this awesome, secret tech? I don’t buy it. Their power is in their numbers and endless budgets with very little recourse for fucking up. Not from being smart or even competent at their jobs.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago

"Finally got all my wacky, zany plants organized, so happy with the result!"

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago

TT doesn’t steal your data. It weaponizes it, against you.

Banning isn’t the right way to go anyway. Controlling these companies, preventing them from harvesting and weaponizing your data is what needs to be looked at.

How are lawyers this inept.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago

The real question is why anyone would use Kodi/Plex/XBMC over Jellyfin

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago

Not sand, pencil, and the rich have all the erasers. But yeah no, good luck out there, it’s a totally fair and even playing field, trust!

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