iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-17T16:52:37+00:00

I'll just leave this here.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nsa-snooping/citizens-racy-photos-shared-among-nsa-workers-snowden-says-n160916

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-17T12:46:29+00:00

This bug is probably just more fallout from the industry's crusade to do away with conventional file management. I.e. they are obsessed with reinventing the wheel and making it shittier and less reliable in the process. Other day I upgraded the music player on my (non-Iphone). The older version allowed you to just browse through the files. The new one requires the use of a precompiled file database. Not only does it take forever to build and hammer the battery in the process, but then the piece of shit crashes half way through the indexing process because the massive list of files is presumably too big for the database to cope with.

It's so bad that I've seen stories where university professors were complaining that students don't have basic file management skills. That's not a bug, it's a feature, brought to you by big tech companies. The less understanding you have of how your device works, the more you are reliant on them, and the more they can e.g. blur the line between what files are on your device and what files are shared with the government --- I mean up on the cloud.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-17T00:59:29+00:00

"Stooping to new low" makes it sound like Microsoft has some sort of ethics and integrity in the first place.

Guess who has been buying game studios left and right, only to lay off loads of people right after (effectively removing competition and simultaneously damaging the games industry? That's right. The government might be too corrupt to stop this practice, but it seems as though the tide is turning against the Xbox brand (in terms of developer and consumer trust) anyway.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-15T16:38:05+00:00

I keep thinking that consumers will finally learn not to trust any of these companies when they sell you digital garbage that they can then evaporate at any time for any reason, and just never give any of them money again, but the average person will simply never catch on.

Even animals quickly learn not to trust, so I'm not sure why so many humans can't figure out the very fundamental concept that if someone screwed them over before, they will do it again.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-10T20:28:58+00:00

Ima laugh when they start "updating" peoples' previously purchased games, injecting them with ads and commercials. "This zombie encounter was brought to you in part by (insert fast food chain name here).

You know it's coming. And who could have possibly predicted that transitioning from a world where games were a purchased and owned product in the 1990s, like a microwave oven, to a world where everything and everyone wants you in an online, "sticky" relationship with them would turn out this way?

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-09T16:13:16+00:00

That's true. As long as we have moderately powerful PCs, there is 0 reason to buy a console today. It wasn't this way during the NES or SNES generations, because most PC games were a joke until id software really jump-started the PC game scene. And even late in the SNES generation, when the 486 and sound cards and CD-ROM were a force to be reckoned with as far as PC game capabilities go, a lot of well-regarded 2D games were only available on consoles.

Now a console is just an ultra-locked down PC with less features and flexibility/functionality, and most games are released on the PC anyway.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-09T15:45:48+00:00

You might say that the government got played. But nope, they knew this was gonna happen all along. The only reason Microsoft is buying all these game studios is to monopolize any and all of their popular video game franchises; they do not give a rat's ass about any actual developers.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-08T23:47:47+00:00

So, who's going to jail?

(You can stop laughing at me now.)

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-08T18:32:06+00:00

Weird how people get mad about this, but at the same time they don't get mad about captcha companies extorting free labor out of them while they browse the web. 'Click all the fire hydrants!' I am not your employee, we are not in a business relationship, so fuck off.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-07T14:24:43+00:00

And it happened again this week. Still no jail.

Watching this guy play the joke that is the American legal system, (because it sure as hell is not a justice system), is like watching a guy play video games with the cheats enabled!

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-02T22:49:29+00:00

If you're using Windows, you don't care about your privacy anyways. :)

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-02T15:06:24+00:00

Skynet!!! ... lol

And you just know, eventually the Americans will change their tune when they decide that it's cheaper to put a machine in charge instead of a qualified and educated human. Capitalism demands it.

Humans expect to be paid. Worse, humans expect pay raises to keep pace with hyper-inflation. Machines don't. Therefor, the law of cost cutting dictates and guarantees that machines will eventually be put in charge... to cut costs.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-05-01T23:27:29+00:00

You have to laugh; the ONLY way Microsoft will get people to leave Windows 10, is if they do another GWX-style malware crusade where it asks you daily whether you want it and then just installs it anyway and tells you that it's being done for your own good and you'll like it.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/241587-microsoft-finally-admits-malware-style-get-windows-10-upgrade-campaign-went-far

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-04-25T16:09:56+00:00

All of the headlines are saying that (if the judge decides he is in contempt), then he will be subject to fines and not jail like the rest of us ordinary peons would be for doing the exact same thing.

But all the fines in the world are meaningless to him, since it will take exactly 0.00245 seconds for people to give him more than enough money to pay them.

You would think that those responsible for making the decision as to whether he has breached the rules, and whether to imprison him for doing so if he has, would factor the above into the equation. But I doubt it.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-04-24T03:47:38+00:00

"Wow, what game is that? The graphics are amazing!"

lol

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-04-23T06:51:48+00:00

We Californians like our taxes ludicrous, our parks overflowing with homeless encampments (tents and all), and our energy bills obscene.

It makes you wonder where all the damn money is actually going. Not towards improving shit, that's for sure.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-04-16T14:50:32+00:00

Copilot: The software nobody wants, but everybody will get.

Not me though, I use Debian.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-04-09T18:43:08+00:00

You've gotta love it, actually. While Microsoft is exclusively focused on enshittifying and making Windows worse, Valve's Steam Deck is sneaking up on them and gaining market share/momentum. Much like with the Iphone and the Ipad, it will be too late to correct course and right the Windows ship by the time Microsoft notices what's going on.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-04-09T15:27:09+00:00

Who could have possibly predicted that creating a world where consumers can only buy locked down shit that they are not allowed to modify, alter, or repair, would result in something like this?

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-03-16T02:59:36+00:00

The only thing worse than pissing in your own pool, is pissing in somebody else's. Injecting ads and popups on me while I'm using a competitor's software is straight-up malware. If I wanted to be nagged, I would get married. At least then, I wouldn't have to just use my hand.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-03-14T16:34:44+00:00

Here we see the latest Microsoft acquisition in progress.

If the US government wanted to do something productive for a change, they would stop Facebook, Google, and Microsoft tracking everything people do.

Whether you're filling out a psychological profile online, paying your taxes, or looking up x-rated videos, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are watching.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-03-05T17:46:23+00:00

The next step will probably be making this thing pop up every fifteen minutes, covering what the user is doing, whether they like it or not. lol

Don't forget to take into account the number of users who didn't want this installed on their computers in the first place.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-03-04T23:07:05+00:00

Sorry about the Javascript paywall thing. It comes with the clusterfuck dogshit abortion of enshitification that the Internet is morphing into/has morphed into. Soon, you won't be allowed to read any articles at all online unless you are simultaneously signed in with Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple so that they can be assured that you are human, track everything you look at and sell that data to the highest bidder.

Anyway, as far as AI chat bots giving tax advice...

Jurassic Park said it best: They were so obsessed with whether or not they could, that they didn't take the time to stop and think whether or not they should.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-03-01T05:11:55+00:00

Reminds me of the MalwareBox One debut a decade ago, where they wanted to force you to be connected to the Internet at least once a day or else all your games would get disabled.

Unfortunately people get stupider and stupider by the decade, so this sort of business model is getting closer and closer to reality now. More and more people are comfortable with the idea of their stuff refusing to work if they aren't connected to the Internet.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-26T23:09:14+00:00

Microsoft is like that creepy uncle who doesn't take "No" for an answer, except, unlike the uncle, everything Microsoft does is sanctioned by the US government.

But just like with the creepy uncle, the best course of action is to stay as far away from them as possible. Far, far far away.

EDIT: Also, if you don't give them what they want, they'll just steal your shit anyway and say it's a bug.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/16/24074712/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-bug-fix

Every other month, their Chrome rip-off gets roasted by journalists for doing stuff behind the scenes that it has no business doing.

https://www.neowin.net/news/edge-sends-images-you-view-online-to-microsoft-here-is-how-to-disable-that/

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/microsoft-edge-is-sending-all-your-visited-pages-to-bing-how-to-turn-it-off

Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-23T17:09:09+00:00

Not scared at all of this old as fuck, mentally deficient sack of shit.

I do have a legitimate question though. Why is so much of the world run by people who are so old that they have mentally regressed to the state of a toddler?

Why not put a 45 year old engineer or someone with a doctorate in charge of things, instead of people who probably couldn't tell you what they had for dinner last night? Do people who are free from dementia and Alzheimer's not lick enough corporate ass, and is that why we don't let them run the show?

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-19T07:32:11+00:00

In Reddit's defense, if you don't give the big tech/AI overlords the data they want, they'll just steal your shit anyway and say it was a bug, or for your own good, or both.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-19T03:44:30+00:00

It was all about getting consumers to embrace Windows phones and tablets by bringing the desktop down to their level. Huge flop, obviously. Windows phones and tablets are d. e. a. d. dead, and Windows is steadily, though slowly losing market share.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-18T03:47:30+00:00

I had an idea where anyone who browses the net while not logged into a Google account and a Microsoft account and a Facebook account and an Apple account and a Twitter/X account (all at the same time), is deemed to be a bot, and automatically barred/rejected from visiting most of the Internet.

You know they'll implement this eventually.

As for Hollywood, I couldn't care less if AI drives them out of business. In fact I would see it as a positive.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-16T22:45:45+00:00

Tablets and phones, sure. Consoles, hell no. I would love to see the Xbox fail in the market after what Microsoft tried to pull a decade ago, but even if it does/by the time it does, they will own 70+% of the game industry anyway, making it a moot point.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-15T05:49:01+00:00

Are you ready to be nagged to death for money by literally every website you visit? You thought the cookie banners were bad, intrusiveness, dark patterns and all, don't make us laugh.

Also, this will be the scapegoat and justification the Chrome people will eventually use for reintroducing web integrity/trusted computing into the browser, "to make sure it is secure".

God I hate having everyone and everything completely figured out. And if you think providing websites with "micro-payments" will make advertising and tracking go away, falls out of chair with laughter.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-13T22:31:44+00:00

The most entrenched players in the market get exempt from the new rules that were supposedly designed to ensure a level playing field for smaller ones. Government "regulation" in action.

Almost as spineless as the US; at least the US does not even pretend to care at all about reining in tech companies.

Small company: "We can't effectively compete because monopolists are using their monopolies in one market to drive out competition in other markets!"

US Government: "We know. Here's a quarter, phone someone who cares."

EU: "We know, we have new legislation in the works to fix this mess... now excuse us while we render it completely meaningless, by not applying it to literally the biggest companies in the world."

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-12T06:29:24+00:00

It would be so nice if Debian KFreeBSD had finished development, and we could just do "apt-get install kernel-freebsd" on our existing installations, while giving the people who are doing this the middle finger.

Maybe that's why they want to diverge Linux and BSD so much with stuff like Systemd and Wayland. Making it harder to escape.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-12T05:17:25+00:00

I think you misunderstand the situation. The change implemented in the production kernel version, breaks drivers for all Nvidia cards. Why in the world would Nvidia want to do that? I could maybe understand Nvidia breaking compatibility for older Nvidia cards, to sell the latest ones, but there is simply no way Nvidia would want what is going on here; because even their latest cards won't work.

Also I think the kernel developers who push these changes that are designed to sabotage Nvidia and their customers need to consider that Linux may be used in e.g. critical medical equipment. If they want to humiliate Nvidia, they can make a CUDA competitor that is mature and widely supported, but instead, vandalizing other peoples' stuff seems to be easier for them to do.

Again, the breakage on display here is not a bug or mistake, it's a "feature", coded by someone to disrupt functionality on others' systems.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-12T04:00:02+00:00

Quality of flash getting worse while price simultaneously goes up... smells like capitalism!

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-12T02:32:11+00:00

So yeah, they're breaking production systems now. This is not a bleeding-edge development or experimental environment. It is supposed to be reliable and stable. Honestly I'm tired of this bullshit squabble between a select few kernel developers trying to sabotage NVidia and fuck over us users. It has not been determined by any court of law that use of proprietary modules breaches any license, so from my perspective, what you are doing, is straight-up sabotage, trolling and subterfuge, and it's really no different than some punk-ass teenager going around breaking other peoples' windows.

Therefor, the Linux maintainers should ban and reject these select few developers from submitting further patches to the kernel, as has been done with University of Minnesota. To the developers who are breaking this, you are obviously not that high and mighty when it comes to free software ideals, otherwise you would not have allowed your code to make it into proprietary corporate shit-boxes that are swimming in closed source garbage/DRM such as smart TVs, set-top boxes and Android phones.

Patches (not) welcome.

References: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/22/22398156/university-minnesota-linux-kernal-ban-research

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-11T19:44:05+00:00

Reminds me of the Nintendo Virtual Boy. AKA their biggest mistake of all time.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-10T16:45:21+00:00

I thought they backed down from this because of a public uproar. Don't get me wrong I am no Sony fan, after the rootkit thing, and Securom making my legitimate older disk based games no longer playable on a new computer; which was the entire point of the shite all along; making sure I can't still use what I bought a decade later.

That's why I'm "not interested" in giving them any more money.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-04T03:37:31+00:00

Before enshitification and late-stage capitalism, games like Duke Nukem 3D came with programs to extract the game files and create custom maps and mods, right on the official CD! When you would quit the game, it would even inform you of this.

EDIT: Also, consolidation and acquisitions in the games industry will hasten the arrival of mandatory subscriptions for games... once the big players like Microsoft can make it into a "take it or leave it" affair, as is the case with so much in the tech sector today.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-04T02:44:59+00:00

Surprised they can't just fix this with a firmware update. They could even go all Orwellian and either detect/make sure that all sold vehicles have had the update applied to them, and/or disable the ones that have not had it yet until they do have it installed.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-03T16:58:08+00:00

Did I mention that the biggest reason I stopped buying games, is because I don't want to give some piece of shit on the other side of the world the ability to disable my stuff after taking my money?

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-02T19:00:30+00:00

This is why I refuse to support or deal with Microsoft products today. They can totally eat me.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-02-02T00:14:37+00:00

The big companies who actually do things like this, using overseas proxies and shell services to avoid association with their brand and simultaneously dodge liability, are probably laughing so damn hard right now. "Oh no, it's illllleeeeeegal!"

You know, like the bogus net neutrality comments thing. https://apnews.com/article/settlement-fake-public-comments-net-neutrality-ae1f69a1f5415d9f77a41f07c3f6c358

The check they got from the telecom industry was probably 4X the settlement.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-01-31T13:56:34+00:00

So apparently today, programs running on consumer PC garbage have to take steps to protect themselves from their data being stolen by other supposed legitimate programs also running on the same system, that the user doesn't even want being installed or ran in the first place.

Maybe each program can encrypt it's own files or something to stop competitors from pilfering the user's data. Or society can collectively switch to an operating system that isn't literally malware.

Myocarditis-Man · 2024-01-30T19:15:01+00:00

The government can't even get Boeing to properly assemble their planes, and THAT comes after the MCAS nightmare and supposed increased scrutiny.

The idea that this same government is going to do anything to punish Microsoft for lax security when it comes to customer-facing services (you don't see Xbox/Pluton being compromised because Microsoft actually cares about the security of these), is... bwahahahaha

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-12-27T16:42:59+00:00

Imagine if a restaurant that I regularly visit started putting rat shit in my food, so that I now have to pay them extra to avoid it.

This is the gold standard of customer service when it comes to the entertainment industry (games, movies, TV, you name it), and it's why I just don't give them money anymore, period.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-12-24T17:08:57+00:00

As far as Microsoft's Ewaste Extravaganza goes, on the bright side, we in the west will have more cheap/free computers to run Linux than we know what to do with, and people in third world countries will have plenty to eat. (The last bit of this is a joke, obviously.)

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-12-23T16:59:37+00:00

Not just Linuxbros. If Google is smart, they will launch a campaign to convert all these old machines to Chrome OS Flex "for free". It'd be easy theft of market share from Microsoft.

"Microsoft doesn't want to support your hardware anymore, so we will. Install Chrome OS Flex today and say goodbye to Microsoft Edge forever! It's free."

Hell, Windows has become just as much of a privacy dumpster fire anyway. In fact Windows has become worse than Chrome OS, because only one of these two feels like staying in the sleaziest roach motel in town, with nag screens, dark patterns and popups everywhere. Google may not have a great privacy reputation, but at least they know better than to do this.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-12-22T02:40:51+00:00

The real question is whether Microsoft can manage to fix this mess without fucking something else up in the process... lol

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-12-21T21:40:16+00:00

It's depressing how little has changed, actually. Most users are still racing to adopt cloud services where all their personal data is abused by corporations and governments, and all they have to show for it is a higher subscription bill this month than the last one.

It's like they learned nothing, or they just don't care. And to think, a man threw his American life away to expose what we all suspected all along.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-12-21T17:10:42+00:00

More dirt cheap/free Linux computers than one could possibly want.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-12-15T23:14:21+00:00

They really are driving away the techies with behavior like this. It's so heart-warming and satisfying to see the negative sentiments towards them going mainstream. All Microsoft will have left, are the grandmas who don't know how to defend themselves from sleazy business practices, thereby ensuring that Edge becomes the new IE, where only people who don't know any better are using it. But grandmas would rather use their Iphones or Ipads to go online than a dog shit Windows PC.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-12-10T15:11:23+00:00

This is the sort of thing that conclusively, without a doubt, proves animals are smarter than humans. Animals quickly learn not to trust, but humans are stupider than a lump of coal; stupid enough to support the same corporate shitheads that constantly screw them over, again and again and again.

Being naive and or clueless the first time is one thing, refusing to learn from one's past mistakes and continuing to make them while expecting a different outcome, is quite another.

So yeah, the customers who are losing purchased content here are getting exactly what they deserve. It's always fun to point, laugh, and say "I told you so."

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-11-24T14:58:24+00:00

Use Debian or Arch and Linux will probably give Windows even more of a thrashing. No snap crap + less bloat overall = more performance.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-11-13T15:20:40+00:00

You know you're living in a free country when the government dictates what stuff you are allowed to repair.

China steals IP, but America has created a world where you can't own the shit you buy and can't fix it when it breaks. Both of these are bad, but one of them is much, much worse.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-11-09T02:18:35+00:00

Let's load up a 10 or 12GB scene in Blender and see what happens. This here ain't much different than claiming that a 48 inch TV has as much screen area as a 72 inch TV.

Faster memory with lower latency will not save the day when it is exhausted. And no, thrashing the solid state drive to death with a swap file is not an acceptable solution.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-11-02T21:32:50+00:00

Still want to give these clowns your web browsing data and other extremely sensitive and personal information? Course ya' do!

Reminds me of that old saying, "What could possibly go wrong?"

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-10-30T18:15:56+00:00

Splash! That's the sound of five more tons of E-waste in the ocean. Still, it's nothing compared to what they have planned for the PC market with the dropping support for so many CPUs.

The fact is that if you're like me, and only interested in escapist single player games with an immersive story, and not interested in playing online and hearing shrill voices shouting obscenities in your ear, the downsides of connecting your console/TV to the Internet outweigh the upsides, by, probably a factor of ten.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-10-30T13:43:03+00:00

Do not want. Most ARM systems are completely proprietary, making it impossible to run a vanilla Linux kernel on them. The only reason this is possible on X86 is because it's a true standard. If we see a proliferation of ARM based PCs, we will also be seeing a large number of machines that can't effectively run anything other than Windows.

Yeah sure you might be able (with a lot of work) to make a version of Linux that runs on yours, and only yours, but you'll have no wifi or video drivers, and if you do, they will be proprietary and only for kernel versions X Y and Z. This is already how it works in Android land.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-10-25T20:25:35+00:00

If I ran the world, there would be an international policy where anyone who cyber-attacks a hospital, is permanently banned and becomes completely ineligible for any type of medical services or care going forward. Doesn't matter how much you are willing to pay, if you need surgery, your only option becomes to do it yourself, whether it's a tooth-pulling or a lobotomy.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-10-24T20:22:19+00:00

Since they don't have a textbox to answer the question, because they have nothing but contempt for their customers and are not actually interested in what we think; only browbeating us into submitting to their agenda, I figure we can list our reasons here.

I don't respond well to bullying or coersion. When you forced your software onto my computer without my permission even though I already have another browser that I am happy with, you already crossed that line.
Computers exist to shut up, respect my personal space, leave me alone and do as I say. Your software fails at all of these.
I trust you less than the other guy, if that's even possible.

I would actually be all for them giving users a survey, only if they allow users to respond in a text-box, and disclaim that responses will be publicly posted, if only to see what answers other users would come up with. Think of it as sort-of an anti-marketing campaign. You can even screen out all the vulgarity and profanity, I'm pretty sure it would still be a very entertaining read.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-10-24T16:44:06+00:00

Hahahahaha

That is all.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-10-23T22:49:47+00:00

At this point, I am wondering how many different settings scattered all around opt me into sending Microsoft my browsing history.

At least I would be wondering that if I wasn't using Linux.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-10-19T00:11:57+00:00

"If you won't use our shitty browser that is just a rip-off of our competitor's, at least let us steal your data!"

And since they opt you in to syncing your activity to the cloud by default, you better believe that's where it's going, and that's why they're allegedly doing this in the first place. Frankly I don't understand why this crap is not criminal. Oh wait, US justice is the cheapest hooker that money can buy, that's why.

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