Mom, I want an aim bot!

But we have aim bots at home.

The aim bots at home.

European e-waste campaigners are calling on EU leadership to force tech vendors to provide 15 years of software updates, using Microsoft’s plan to end Windows 10 support next month — which may make an estimated 400 million PCs obsolete — as a textbook case of avoidable e-waste.

Windows 10 has already had 10 years of support. ESU extends this one extra year. If you have hardware that cannot meet Windows 11’s requirements, there are other OSes available that will happily run on that hardware. Which is what brings us to the real issue.

Microsoft’s near monopoly on consumer grade PCs and Apple’s vendor lock in. This is the core issue.

Companies can do this because there are no regulations to stop them. We call on European Commissioner Jessika Roswall to introduce EU Ecodesign requirements for laptops, guaranteeing at least 15 years of software updates. No more devices designed to break or become obsolete before their time

Ten years is a very long time for support. If you need support past that length, you need a different OS. Apple does good to keep Macs made in the last five to seven years still able to run their newest OS. They are some of the worse offenders on this. But even with a different OS, there’s still a limit to how far you can take hardware. You could put the best optimized software on really old hardware and that won’t change that the underlying CPU is old.

The older hardware gets the harder it is to keep supporting it. Case in point, there reason you can’t get TLS 1.2 that pretty much every site now requires onto Windows 95 era machine is the underlying hardware cannot keep up with the required computational needs to support that encryption. And if you happened to install Windows 95 onto modern hardware, the number of changes to the OS to get access to the underlying hardware is pretty much an upgrade to Windows 7.

Ten year old machines are doing alright for the time being, but we have to move on. TLS 1.3 is here, has been here since 2018. The stricter requirements for security, require more advanced hardware.

And I just mention TLS as a single example of what we’re talking about here. Modern hardware advances and attackers and users get those at the same time. While software security schemes do ensure security long after the hardware has become dated, there’s a point where it won’t matter anymore what software you toss onto the machine. It’s just so out dated it doesn’t matter, no software is securing it. Now that’s usually a lot longer than ten years, but it’s not much longer.

You can take a very lightweight Linux distro and pop it onto a Pentium 3 machine. It will technically run. But you are lacking SSE2 and even if you recompiled to remove SSE2 optimizations and strictly held to 586 ISA, you’re not going to enjoy the performance on the machine. For even the most simple tasks like unpacking a 7-zip. You will fare very unwell to some attacker who has a modern Threadripper machine.

I love old machines but the rest of the world is moving forward. Yes, software could technically cover for more than ten years, but not much more. But it’s silly to think that a Athlon 64 (2003), the oldest CPU you can technically get working on Windows 10 because of the NX bit requirement, would be able to keep pace on today’s multi megabyte sized website. Hell even the X2 models that were the first to be “dual core” would have issues with how modern web browsers handle things because Athlon 64 X2’s model for multiple processors is vastly different than how modern CPUs do it. It wouldn’t take anything for someone to feed it a website that would bring the system to it’s knees.

The thing is 15 years a very long time in the world of technology that’s ever evolving. Software can only go so far. 15 years is absolutely you need a different OS if that’s your requirement territory. But when you start hitting 20 years, your going to see breakage no matter what software you throw at it. It might be very slight at the 20 year mark. but each year after that it’s going to become more pronounced.

Hyundai already announced a two to three month delay on this plant after this whole thing. They aren’t walking away, but this isn’t an event they are forgetting.

It won’t matter what President comes after this one, this whole thing is going to influence investment from South Korea for some time.

That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally

What happens when they have oven mits or you know, just gloves, or just wait until night when the metal is cooler and they have cover of night?

Whatever, I guess I shouldn’t care about that $500+ million that goes to put on a single coat that peels off six months later because they didn’t prime the surface.

The only way he’s halting the elections in 2028 is if he starts a Civil War.

The entire point of a C- suite is to have a room full of fall guys for the board

This can’t be stressed enough. Every since the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 which came from the Enron and Worldcom collapses, C-suite exists as the person to go to jail if shit really hits the fan.

The idea of the law was to hold companies accountable, instead all if has done is force companies to create more layers and places to point fingers, thus muddling everything and making to where no one can be held accountable.

At the same time, Chief officers now knowing that there’s legal requirements, have just demanded outrageous pay and compensation because of the “massive risk” they are taking with any company.

I’m glad we have SOX, but boy has that law really missed the mark on what it was enacted to do.

Amazon makes the majority of its money from AWS. Literally using the Internet makes them buckets of money.

People can boycott it all they want. I just don’t use them, but none of that really hurts Amazon in the end.

If people want to actually hurt Amazon they need to call on the Government to break up AWS, Ma Bell style.

Kids aren’t going to work these stupid ass jobs. And if they are working a hotel, they aren’t going to give a fuck if some stick up their ass tourist gets upset, they’ll just flip the person off and walk out.

Teenagers aren’t going to fucking fill these positions DeSantis is pitching. Migrants work it because they’ve got a need to do the work. A lot of teenagers work jobs because they’d like a little extra cash, but outside, they give flying fuck. Hell, the biggest fucking reason teens got jobs in the first place to fund their car is falling apart as more teens just skip the whole driving thing or start way later in life driving.

DeSantis is living in some yesteryear daydream.

Their creditors are going to be looking for recompense. So I feel like this is one of those times when we use the answer of “yes”.

Yes, yes, now what about the rest of the stock market?

To say, “oh this boycott is self injury” is akin to worrying about one’s stubbed toe all while bleeding out from a severed arm.

Additionally it’s typical American only thinking to believe it’s just the US citizens boycotting the company. You easily forget that sales are down globally, not just the US.

Yeah, China sure as shit isn’t going to lose sleep over a US Copyright case.

Brazil: “Oddly enough, we find your current positions on things untenable. The irony is not lost on us but such is the present reality. Thank you for your inquiry.”

WHY ARE THEIR ROCKETS NOT EXPLODING!!?

— Rocket X. Hitler

negotiator

I don’t believe that Rubio has earned that distinction in the slightest, even in a derogatory manner. In fact, I am pretty sure that he has only ever once walked onto a used car lot and that resulted in only two things happening. One, learning that he ought not walk onto a used car lot. And two, the true value of a high mileage Jeep.

Fucking CyberTruck like fucking pile of shit website. What kills me the most is that the fucking things they’re screenshoting, those pages have literal “export to XML” buttons that they could fucking export, save the XML to some shared drive that gets swept, and the put it in some actually secure database.

This whole fucking thing reeks of some fucking weeb ass Roblox hackers whose last project consisted of Lua Script emulating some fucking redstone calculator they wrote in Minecraft. And the export fuction on the thing? It’s just one dimension SUM function CSV exports. Literally no other dimenstions of values to add, shit I would be fucking surprised if a single one of the people writing the goddamn have ever heard of OLAP.

And to top it off, we already have a fucking website that does what this fucking place does, but 846 decillion times better. And it doesn’t have a fucking Instagram esque reel of Tweets of people taking fucking screenshots of an open database.

I can’t wait till the next dumbass gets into the White House and turns this pile of grabage off. Paying these idiots millions to power and run the hardware this pitiful excuse of a website runs on. And all we got for that money is some shit that is about on par as the shit you get from some O’Reilly book called “Building a Government Website Crash Course” with a Bald Eagle dying of bird flu on the cover.

This fucking idiot maybe wants to fucking learn what the hell SQL is.