Posts by Pascal Monett 19097 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Who are these "campaigners" and who is paying them ?
And could somebody please point me to an official, proven report that demonstrates that we have the capacity to recycle batteries up to 95% ?
Batteries are toxic by nature. Making more is nice (well, except for the child labor and pollution that mining Lithium generates), but recycling them is mandatory when you wear a Green badge.
So where is that report ?
Well what else can it be ?
If you want to honestly ensure that only "adults" use a website, then you have to register the identity of all the adults, which is not "protecting the children", but much more "tracking everyone".
I'm not saying that FaceBook/Instagram/Twitter (yes, I know, but I will not change the name) should have some sort of entry barrier for kids (because they should have something else to do withe their lives), but turning The Internet into Big Brother is not the solution.
I'm not saying that I know what the solution is, but this is not it.
Another push to replace passwords with <anything else>.
Do you realize the difference between passwords and <anything else> ? You can change a password.
Biometrics ? I can't change my fingerprints any more than I can change my face (hey, I'm not a multi-millionnaire).
Pass keys ? Managed by who ? Do they guarantee that they can't be hacked ? Ha !
Do you know the definition of Democracy ? It's the least worst system of government.
That's what passwords are. The least worst system of security.
I know how to manage my passwords. I never use the same password twice.
Leave my passwords alone. Especially from pseudo-AI.
Sorry, which "agencies" are we talking about ?
I'm asking because, in France, there is apparently only one agency : the moron who thinks he's a playboy.
This, from a government who wants to "protect" the children by requiring every adult to register in order to be able to continue to access Instagram.
Even teenagers can see through this bullshit.
I hope you will find that someone. One day. Because the World needs Linux.
Personally, I doubt it. Finding someone just about as competent would already be acceptable.
Because, let's be clear : if the Internet was run on Windows server, the Internet would be a mess of updates, impossible connections and undocumented errors.
Congratulations, Linus, you have just given us a window into a future of really, really, undesirable consequences.
Congratulations. What is the next step ? Cracking down on smokers throwing away their cigarette butts ?
That is definitely disgusting, but I don't think anyone needs a government division to control it.
What's the next step ? Drones patrolling the sidewalks to control that people don't insult each other ?
The laws in place should already be sufficient to solve the problem. Enforce them properly, then you can dream about increasing surveillance.
"This finding supports growing concerns that space traffic may pollute the upper atmosphere in ways not yet fully understood "
The Human species has been doing things it hasn't fully understood since Day 1 (your choice, I'm not picky on that score).
So, this is another thing we don't fully understand. That is not going to keep China and India from going full-ahead with their own space programs, because honestly, you are not a World Power if you don't have "eyes in the sky", right ?
And if a few hundred million peons need to suffer forthat, who cares ? We're too many on Earth already, right? So, gien that Natural Selection has failed to curb the ever-increasing dominance of Man over Earth, Artificial Selection will have to replace it.
And, given how little practically every country's government is allocating budget to the education sector (vs, for example, the military sector), it's fairly obvious that "the elite" (aka : those who have "connections") are not interested in educating the masses beyond what they need to have a compliant base who will blindingly obey whatever edict "the elite" decide to publish.
As in, COVID. Enough said.
Interesting point. What would replace passwords with ? Biometrics ? Because you really think I want to have my face stored on all those servers that I don't control and that, history tells me, will be hacked at one point or another ?
I can change a password. I can't change my face.
Joe User doesn't even understand what those words mean.
You are clearly a professional. Your solutions, efficient as they are, are not available to the guy who just wants access from every bit of electronics he has at his disposal and has no idea of the consequences.
And I'll bet that, if you start trying to "educate" him on those consequences, he'll shut you out in order to continue to easily consult his FaceBook page, and whatever else he usually does.
Um, if you're sent a link by the police, I believe you're supposed to trust it.
This is all from Dutch translation, so I'm pretty sure we don't have all the details, but it would seem that the issue is not that he clicked the link, the issue is how he handled the aftermath.
You don't go telling the Police that you'll only give back if you "get something in return".
I have no way of knowing the particulars, but we're talking about the Dutch. DEutch Police are vastly more trustworthy than ICE thugs, so if they arrested him, I would tend to believe that he was a bit stupid in his response.
is hardly an example of Justice.
It is now a Trumpian tool of dystopia and should be entirely replaced. The only problem is : with what ?
The USA is failing. It has a convicted criminal at its head and a political machine that is 100% geared towards continuing the march into oblivion.
I'm sure they will succeed.
Why on Earth would you need to reinstall Linux when you have a working environment ?
At the condition, obviously, that your display server is air-gapped from the Internet, If It Works, Don't Fix It applies.
On top of that, the "fixer" obviously didn't do his job properly. Ever since we discovered that Swiss air-traffic controllers were too few and overworked (can't find the source, sorry), it would seem that the vaunted Swiss efficiency has taken some buckshot to the wings.
The only people who are surprised are the idiots who are employed by companies pushing LLMs with billions in the bank.
As someone said recently : "the i in LLM is for intelligence".
And they will be bitterly disappointed.
Or, and this is quite possible, they will readjust their expectations to find it quite acceptable. Which, in turn, will end up proving that Idiocracy was, in fact, a documentary.
I think I can guess which path we'll end up with . . .
I have been called upon to write documentation for internal software for a few years now.
It's not easy. You need to write the docs for the people who have never worked with the software, not for the people who've been working with it for years (or more) and who just need a reminder. I was specifically told that my documentation would be read by new hires. That practically added double the number of pages to the purely technical side because I had to make sure that the new hire understood the interface (and its quirks) that he was working with.
As a result, I have the greatest respect for people who do that job for a living, without ever actually working with the product.
It's not easy, especially when you can't help but ask yourself : is anybody really reading this ?
JWST is at L2 and there are zero plans for its maintenance.
L2 is 1.5 million kilometers away. I'm guessing that L1 is just as far. It took a whole month for JWST to get to its current position. You can't do maintenance on that scale and, btw, what happens to maintenance ship afterwards ? Is it supposed to come back ? With what fuel ?
Etc. Etc:
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