I try to respond to every genuine engagement. I block trolls, contrarians, and provocateurs because life is too short.
Did i say they needed it?
This may surprise you, but to your average person (or even your technical person who is time-poor for whatever reason), moving to a new OS is a frustrating or time consuming process, so they delay the move until they get (or build) a new PC.
Your average person stays on the same OS for the lifetime of the computer.
That’s great to hear. I’ve had mixed results with migrating Windows editions in the past, and I believe it’s still an officially unrecommended process due to hiccups that can occur during, and difficulties in diagnosing issues afterwards (can be a bit of a frankenstein as far as libraries WinSXS content, system logs, etc).
I love Linux and use it myself, but not everyone is ready to move.
For them, an extended Windows 10 EOL is a nice bridge to give them some more time to plan a main OS install (backup all their data, test replacement apps, etc) as OP said. It’s not about knowledge or capabilities it’s about options, time and many people waiting until they can afford a new PC build to move to linux.
Came to say this, I’ll add that its is a completely safe and free option.
Benefits over official methods:
Its FOSS so the entire script can be downloaded and read before you run it if you feel uncomfortable fetching some random script from the web and running it via terminal, as I did.
If your competitor can put out a model that functions really similarly to yours for $2 less per month, and your entire userbase can just leave and move to them… explain to me why investors would want to pump hundreds of billions into your business to be ‘first to market’? That’s a really dumb thing to admit for Anthropic.
Who is ‘first to 100 million users’ is utterly irrelevant under a business model where your sole value is Intellectual Property (IP) and that IP can be “illicitly extracted” by a clever competitor without ever hacking into your nextwork or doing anything explicitly illegal.
I’ve had to explain this to a lot of people who seem to think Anthropic/OpenAI are incredibly valuable companies because “they’ll make money long-term so long as they keep being pumped full of it investment cash to be the first to earn a big userbase”, but that just doesn’t make sense. OpenAI owns no datacenters…zero. Theyre 100% IP. Anthropic “is building” some datacenters, but they exist on paper only so far, so they’re also presently 100% IP.
Can this obvious scam just collapse already so I can upgrade my PC without a personal loan?
Ultimately AI is an unaffordable industry. It’ll crash in time, and there’ll hopefully be a whole lot of price drops on ram, graphics, etc. People will not want to stop playing games. The industry has had crashes before and always bounced back bigger than ever.
It will be bad for whoever’s economy is most dependent on it though… And any businesses really heavily invested in it. Won’t it, Microsoft.
Oi mate, you got a loicense for that track?
If the station is failing and the track selection was that dire (2 fucking songs??) I’d be contacting small labels / indie labels asking for written permission to play their music and if they can send you a CD or record or whatever. Guarantee you’d get several bites from small artists that want their music heard. Hindsight 20-20 and all though.
It’s a tough one honestly, because you never know if its someone that’s generally a considerate person but had to park for an emergency… Or if it’s just a general asshole on a standard day.
Judging by the car make and model though (all black Tesla), I’d lean towards the latter.
The point about ‘educating users’ being dumb is itself incredibly stupid, because the largest element of hacking is social engineering: the letter from a nigerian prince, the zip file from an attractive person with ‘my hot photos enclosed’, to today’s calls from government impersonators (tax agency, immigration), and emergency requests from close known contacts that ‘urgently need money wired to them’.
Education has gone a long way to improving user response and caution against default trust of unverified contact, which is essentially what the first two points complain about from a technical aspect (default allow). Those complaints are at odds with one-another.
Just more subterfuge dressed up as genuine concern - always to drive the investor hype machine for fear there is no more money for investment.
I’ve been unable to replicate this issue.
I have the exact same build except my network card is an official Playstation 2 network adapter. Try replacing the LLM.
Oh right, I didn’t know they had a web version I only saw the local edition. Glad to be corrected.
I don’t know for sure, but my magic 8-ball says ‘signs point to yes’ if that helps.
Nah this new Euro-Office is literally a OnlyOffice fork according to their GitHub. It’s much closer in comparison to LibreOffice than Google docs.
They have worked with NextCloud to make Euro-Office an app/add-on (I forget what NextCloud calls them specifically) from this release (v1.0), so that they can integrate with a platform that already… Has this feature (with Collabora office), but hey… The more the merrier.
NextCloud is a contributor, I believe the screenshot they’re using is to show that Euro-Office can be used as an integration/app in NextCloud as of now.
Euro-Office seems based mostly on OnlyOffice if I’m reading their source page correctly. It’s a competor to LibreOffice more than a whole platform.
“[This new amendment is] proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law”
Woah. I guess the people who overreacted and claimed this was a secret conspiracy to gain full personal ID of everyone on the internet in some grand globalist scheme must be feeling pretty silly right now.
To those fretting: there is a wide margin between a legit VPN service and these guys. Interpol are not coming for your paid run-of-the-mill VPN provider.
I hadn’t even heard of 1VPN prior to this story, and the reason is that they advertise almost exclusively on cybercrime forums - mentioned multiple times in the article.
The administration/owner of this VPN service explicitly tailored their business to enabling cybercrime. That’s real stupid, because it means you become a legitimate law enforcement target as an accomplice with prior knowledge / facilitator to a crime, and generally explicitly waives your immunity rights as a service provider under legal frameworks like EU DSA.
Dutch police stressed that this particular VPN service “was considered criminal, because it specifically targeted cyber criminals.”
First VPN “mainly advertised on the cyber criminal forums known to the police and thus expressly approached cyber criminals as potential clients,” Dutch police said. “The website of the service also stated that any cooperation with the judiciary would be denied, that the service was not subject to any jurisdiction".
Lol. There is no country on earth that is not subject to any jurisdiction - as the VPN provider and users found out.
Any legit VPN has a thorough ToS/policy to explain acceptable and unacceptable use of their systems (including any illlegal use like crimes/DDOS/etc), and to cover the legal jurisdiction they fall under and what they do when recieving legal court orders.
If anything, be pissed that this intentional cybercrime service tarnished the concept of VPNs a little, not that they were pursued and busted. Your legit provider is safe.
Fantastic outcome. Great to see people striking when their concerns are not answered and unions coordinating.
How is a ‘lifetime pass’ a subscription? 🤔
Yeah guys, this is true for sure and we should all panic buy now. Because prices for computer hardware never come down over time.