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@frank609
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Retired IT professional. Volunteer software developer. Electronics and embedded software enthusiast. Linux user.
Preston MacDougall@KimPerales “All hate begins as self-hate.” - Dalai Lama
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol such as #StephenMiller.
Max LeibmanNo, I do not want to install your app.
No, I do not want that app to run on startup.
No, I do not want that app shortcut on my desktop.
No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter.
No, I do not want your site to send me notifications.
No, I do not want to tell you about my recent experience.
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No, I do not want to allow you to read my contacts.
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No, I do not want to click "Later" or "Not now" when what I mean is NO.
@adventure_tense Yes. I mean, Microsoft has done good things in the past, and much of my software development career was using Microsoft products such as Visual Basic, ASP.NET, etc. I also used Unix back in the day, so Linux was natural for me as well and I had been using it for some things (home server for example) for many years Earlier this year I was planning to buy new PCs and go with Windows 11, but I kept reading about Windows Recall. The nearly doubling in price for Office 365 and Quicken and the inflating cost of PCs further reinforced my desire to leave Windows. It was not so much a matter of affording it, but the principle of it.
My switch to #Linux for home use is now 100% complete!
I have two high-end computers, a desktop and a laptop, purchased in 2017 and 2018, than will not run Windows 11. To replace these two computers with new ones of comparable power would run close to $3000. Between the cost, Windows Recall (which I consider a major privacy risk and potential security risk), and the fact that the subscription prices for both Office 365 and Quicken have doubled over the past few years, I decided to bite the bullet and switch everything to Linux.
I first ran Linux in 2000, and recently had been using it for about a third of my tasks. I installed MX Linux onto an SSD drive with USB adapter and began booting to it on my desktop a month ago. I moved all my finances to GNUCash, all my OneNote files to Zim, and after a few weeks with no issues installed the HD into my desktop. Laptop is dual boot and I was already running Linux the majority of the time on it.
I cancelled my Office 365 and Quicken subscriptions.
@risottobias Nothing wrong with building your own cryptography system for fun. The problem is, some people who build one then trust it to protect sensitive things, which is a definite no-no.
Back in the 1980's, I could not find a cryptography program to protect "diary"-type files. So I wrote one, in BASIC. I basically created my own random-number generator, using a hash of the typed key as a seed, and added modulo (didn't yet understand xor) each random number to the character. A few years later, I needed to recover a file I had mistyped the key for, so decided to write a program to try all possible keys. I looked for a bunch of space characters in the result to test decryption. And had matches within seconds. Turns out, my random number generator was faulty because it used single-precision numbers, so there were less than 100,000 distinct keys.... Fortunately, I had nothing super-sensitive, but I definitely had a false sense of security.
@yogurtwrong Not sure if this is an "all-in-one" resource, but it is a great place to start (I'm not affiliated, just a user of the site): https://www.fpga4fun.com/
Kerr Avonsen (she/her)One of the lesser-known findings of the infamous Milgram Experiment was that if ONE person protested, it broke the logjam of apathy, and others were able to resist too.
You aren't alone. Question authority: you're only saying what everyone else is thinking.
J.P. WingI don't care who you are, how you identify, or who you love. Just be a good person and do good things.
@RoundSparrow One of my client assignments for my IT consulting company back in the 90s was also for a health insurance company. Anyway, I recall hearing on the radio at that time about a new, less invasive procedure to replace the pap smear for women. Trying to impress my client boss that I kept up with news affecting my clients, I mentioned it. He told me he "heard it was not very good". When I asked him why he said, "Because it costs more!". I also recall how my boss had me selecting data for reports that ranked doctors by how much their procedures cost, and every month he had a meeting with doctors (I forget what their incentive was to attend) where he would point out doctors who prescribed expensive procedures and recommend alternatives, then follow up in subsequent months to see if they had reduced their costs. And this was back in 1998. Oh, I also remember one of the employees in the company had a photo if himself shaking hands with Newt Gingrich on his desk.