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- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 1 week ago:
Some of it is useful but IT practices that waste my time mean I get less done, makes me work more unpaid overtime, and destroys innovation and the company in the long run because more and more things need permission. You cannot run an imnovative organization that way.
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 1 week ago:
The real idiotic thing is a network where one client system compromise compromises the whole company.
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 1 week ago:
This is exactly it. Out sourced stuff that there is no way to verify. I stopped clicking on this stuff too unless I had to.
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 1 week ago:
Ironic thing a company I use to work for would send out both email you need to click links to do your job then do training to not click links or even open the same kind of email. Then even test that by seeding in very realistic test email. Total stupidity. Your expected to tell the difference when there is no way to do so. The training was moe CYA then anything.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 1 month ago:
Programming in particular, though fun, has always been kind of a piece part job. Aparently easily out sourced, and now easily automated. I say aparently because out sourcing and off-shoring turned out not to be that easy. We are now going to find out about AI.
One reason I did not go into IT 40 years ago was this reason. I went into the physical sciences and engineering. I was wrong then it turned out. Who knows now.
- Comment on Bosch dishwasher needs app for many neccessary features 1 month ago:
Absurd! No home appliance should require an internet service.
- Comment on They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion. 2 months ago:
You could say the same thing about cults. A lot of the MAGA movement. A lot of religion.
- Comment on Power Loss but Still Online with Fiber Connection 2 months ago:
In my case the NID is in the basement and connected to my own UPS that powers everything on my main comm panel.
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- Comment on Can magnet damage hard disk? 2 months ago:
Fields can, just depends how strong and this applies to spinning hrd drives not SSDs. We had an idiot at work once that decides to store a bunch of magnetic bases on the top of a tower PC. Corrupted the drive.
- Comment on Google Gemini deletes use's code 3 months ago:
I am never quite sure if the I in AI stands for intelligence or ignorance.
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- Comment on Solar Industry Says Senate Plan Would Cede Production to China 4 months ago:
Not surprising. The US is a petro state. It will never want to switch to something else. China and the EU are far more motivated.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 5 months ago:
No you probably sue them both.
- Comment on Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable - The Oatmeal 5 months ago:
By the way, lot of crap paper out there too. Lot do not mark which side to print on first and this is related to curl and shineyness. On3 hs to guess. If your getting a lot of jams try flipping the paper over.
Our last ream has a deffective narrow page every 4th page too.
- Comment on Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable - The Oatmeal 5 months ago:
My first printer in the early 80s was an EPSON dot matrix for $800. The second was an Apple laser printer in the late 80s for $3500. The third was a Brother momochrome MFC laser printer for $500 in the 00s. You can see why they are crap, huge price reductiions. E>en more if you consider inflationn and capability.
Always look at per page cost. Generally that means monochrome laser.
- Comment on Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked 6 months ago:
Interesting. Government record keeping rules require loggimg of many things. Normal Signal probably would not comply. This might.
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? 6 months ago:
That is not what they said. They said operationally nothing is changing. However, they are basically in-part ad supported and so with that comes some strings. All of this can probably be configued out but it is a pain.
For me, hard call. Fragmenting into maybe better browsers reduces Firefox popularity and that impacts wheather web developers will test against anything but Chrome. When that happens these other browsers become irrelevent. So using other browers has a consequence.
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? 6 months ago:
Why do you think Firefox is spying on you any more then any if the other major browsers?
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? 6 months ago:
Yes or sometimes it is just that the Firefox version is too old or your privacy setting too strict. So updating to latest version and switching to a new clean standard profile can help.
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? 6 months ago:
There is only one answer, Firefox or a derivative. Anything else is a vote for a closed commercial web.
- Comment on The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain, thanks to Elon Musk 7 months ago:
And yet the American people vote for this. Hard to get IRV through. Hard to get election finance reform. Both parties complicit but MAGA is blatant about it.
- Comment on The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain, thanks to Elon Musk 7 months ago:
There tends to be truth in that You do not get mega weathy without stealing the money from someone either legally or otherwise.
Not all wealthy people are total crap though. Then there are those that were not great in thier earning years and then try to patch it up with philanthropy later.
- Comment on The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain, thanks to Elon Musk 7 months ago:
Political salaries are more or less caped. It is campain financing that is the issue and lack of IRV. It is also the lack of some term limits or maybe age limits. We have too many fossils in congress that have not brought younger people along, Also too many old presidents, In my lifetime Reagon, Biden. and Trump were too old.
We also do not choose the best leaders Nixon was not capable at the end and Clinton was just inappropriate in the workplace those these were personnal issues. Then there is the question of which ones were even up to the job.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Skip browsing YouTube use RSS feeds of the podcasters you like. Also use Firefox and the uBlock Origin plugin.
- Comment on WordPress leader Matthew Mullenweg exiles five contributors • The Register 9 months ago:
Are we looking at the end of WordPress the FOSS CMS as we know it? Feels like another enshitification plan.
- Comment on US Email Providers - Other then Google, MS, Apple, ... 1 year ago:
Thanks so much.
I listen to Security Now. Steve always groans when GoDaddy and Network Associated come up.
On another topic. Have you ever looked at Namecheap VPS service? For that I am with Linode but they were bought by Akami. Nothing has really changed yet. Actually maybe some more options but I worry about the enshitifacation phase that may come. Hoping for the best but thinking of options.
- Comment on US Email Providers - Other then Google, MS, Apple, ... 1 year ago:
Fastmail is probably the front runner. The cost which is maybe $132 a year seems a bit much but doable. They also do not support PGP and WKD. The namecheap premium plan would we would be $72 a year and even less with the current promo. They also have a cpanel mail solution too which is even less. Similarly mxroute is about $49 year for more too and seems like it may be run by people with similar attention to detail.
I agree though that Fastmail is a good choice and a more definition term reputation for email.
- Comment on US Email Providers - Other then Google, MS, Apple, ... 1 year ago:
Thanks. Interesting.
Just FYI, I was talking multiple SMTP servers not IMAP servers. If I did it, I would have 2 public facing SMTP servers which would then route to an internal SMTP server probably with a single IMAP server. The routing would probably be over a private link not a public one and the final server would present only IMAP publically. Really reduces attack surface.