Nagware has been around since the 80s and it was just as annoying then even without this bloated corporate hellscape we call the internet 🙁

Look. You are incapable of doing work anywhere but the office. Your collaborations severely lack. Somehow tho, when the executive class spends 10 hours in email it’s innovation. When you do it, you’re unproductive.

“I’m actually really excited about how nerdy we got on the security architecture,” says David Weston, vice president of enterprise and OS security at Microsoft

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Please do. Stream it too so we all can enjoy.

I’d always leave my computer on but turn off the monitor. Usually it would go to sleep or hibernate, but certain programs would keep it awake. Keep in mind this was during the Win 7 era so it wasn’t foolproof and it would just stay on.

I’ve been denied a refund for a game I played for 2 minutes and realized was trash. When I quit it went back to a popped-under splash screen instead of quitting to desktop. I turned off the monitor for the night and the next day when I requested the refund, Steam said I played it for too long and denied my refund.

It was a game under $10 so I didn’t lose much but it was still bullshit.

Fuck that shit. Bring a jammer and disable it.

As an American I wondered when the police would be made the victims and the actual victim would either get shot or arrested and blamed.

Found this on the YT app on Roku awhile back and it makes watching without browser-style ad blockers acceptable

As of 2020, all of his companies had received around 5 billion in subsidies, tax credits, and the like.

That is the more likely scenario sadly, and the cops will say “don’t blame us those kids got killed, we just listened to the AI” and some judge will say “yea, that’s ok . the officer did what he was told like he is supposed to, unlike that bus of kindergarteners who didn’t lie down and put their hands behind their heads when commanded”

But after they install cameras everywhere and after a bunch of misses despite surveillence on everyone they actually get someone the amount of self back patting and chest puffing will be off the charts.

Texas law enforcement doesn’t need a language model to blame false positives on. They can false positively shoot whomever they want with no reprocussion.

I know another thng that will stop them and it rhymes with guillotine.

Don’t worry, it’s AI. It won’t work properly.

No thanks.

Tell that to Microsoft. Lol.

That’s just executives in general. And on the wayout they’ll leech a golden parachute.

don’t forget archive.org!

It’ll anger Redditors but they’ll gladly hand over their money

No, but to learn bring computing to 2024 and to pad my github I’m currently working on a modern replacement written in React that can also use Electron on the desktop. It’s pretty light at around 150mb. I don’t have plans to natively port it to Linux, but it’ll work in Windows Linux and MacOS with a little tweaking.

I do have plans to release the Docker image I’ve used for testing later this year along with a Snap and Flatpak so I guess it will natively work on Ubuntu.

Oh, and longterm goals are to have an Android and iPhone port. I have an ad provider set up so I can offer the mobile apps for free (gotta hustle) but I’ll have a patreon and kofi set up by then for donations and a mostly ad-free version that aggregates usage info of your device and apps but doesn’t give away any personally-identifiable details if you opt-out.

I do almost nightly coding streams on Twitch and Youtube but I blur out the code itself because I don’t want anyone borrowing my idea and implementation.

You can find me on Insta, TikTok, Facebook and I’ll have links to my X (formally known as Twitter), Telegram, Discord, Riot, and Mastodon accts. I also have curated some playlists on Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon Music that include some chillwave tracks as well as some binaural beats, white noise, pink noise, and brown noise (to name a few).

I also have an affiliate link for a microdose provider that gives me a cut everytime you make a purchase which helps me out.