Miscellaneous Tech News
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@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I guess it all depends on how important one views the right of free speech and what is considered censorship.
Right. The free speech of the platform owners is what is in question. Freedom means that they control what their platform does. Since day one, the US has always given publications the right to their own freedom of speech, it is not seized by the government.
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@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Governments for the past XXX years continue to tell businesses who and what they have to accept if they want to do business in Country/State/County A, B, C...
Right... the polar opposite of free speech. Trump is fighting to ban freedom of business and speech and make his own, government controller speech, get treated differently. Freedom for him, not for anyone else. Anti-freedom. When newspapers, television, teachers, etc. are told what they can and cannot say, and who can and cannot say it ... we have no freedom.
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@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I believe President Trump should start his own and go that direction. Create more competition and take millions of users off the other platforms in a very short amount of time.
I thought he did that. He's said it enough. I just thought no one cared and it died on the vine.
If he wanted the right to say anything, he would have done that already. But freedom of speech isn't his goal. He wants the right to dictate what can be said elsewhere in the private space of other people. He wants to control not just the freedom of what he can say, but the freedom of listening. He wants to remove the controls that we have legally in the private space to be able to turn someone off.
It's 1984... the TV that you can't turn off. That's what this is about. It's not really about what he CAN say, but WHERE he can say it and who can stop listening.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I thought he did that.
He just tried to use a different platform.
Said platform shutdown until it found new hosts willing to accept them.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I thought he did that.
He just tried to use a different platform.
Said platform shutdown until it found new hosts willing to accept them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/01/gettr-trump-social-media-platform-497606
That's what I saw.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
That's what I saw.
Ah, had not heard of that one yet.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I thought he did that.
He just tried to use a different platform.
Said platform shutdown until it found new hosts willing to accept them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/01/gettr-trump-social-media-platform-497606
That's what I saw.
Yes, he mentioned a few times that he was contemplating starting his own.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
That's what I saw.
Ah, had not heard of that one yet.
I found it, but Google doesn't seem to list it...
LOL, funny stuff.
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@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yes, he mentioned a few times that he was contemplating starting his own.
He says it all the time. But he has not. Various organizations have.
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Look, they recommend that you follow the "solid blocks of stone that are pyramids in the desert are actually grain silos" guy...
https://gettr.com/user/benscarson
This is why Johns Hopkins will never be a feather in anyone's cap when talking to me. JH actually promoted this guy, not just hired him. If you work for JH, I assume you are the uber-dunce.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yes, he mentioned a few times that he was contemplating starting his own.
He says it all the time. But he has not. Various organizations have.
He's at least using it...
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
He's at least using it...
Using is not starting. But yeah.
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Apparently the problem with Team Trump (that's what they are called, not an opinion) is that they promised that the purpose would be to be a censor free platform but now it is all spam and fake accounts so its being heavily censored..
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
He's at least using it...
Using is not starting. But yeah.
Problem is... as a person who isn't even literate, let alone able to figure out what a website is, what does "Trump starting a platform" look like other than encouraging people in his sphere to make something he influences and to get it online? It's not like he has funds to pay for this stuff himself (he's dirt poor according to all reports) nor the wherewithal to even understand what it is. I mean this guys a dufus. You can like or hate him as a person, but you can't argue that he's got any smarts in there, this is the dumbest sounding public person potentially, ever. I can't imagine what talking to him about "making a website" would go like.
So having people in his circle create a platform that's exactly what he said that he wanted, after demanding publicly that it happen... is what "Trump makes his own platform" would be if we defined the parameters before it happened.
Just like if anyone's senile grandmother suddenly got hopped up on coke and demanded she get her own Facebook where no knitting pattern would be censored. She's likely have no idea what she was saying. But some well meaning cousin might spin up a WordPress site to keep her happy.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Problem is... as a person who isn't even literate, let alone able to figure out what a website is, what does "Trump starting a platform" look like other than encouraging people in his sphere to make something he influences and to get it online?
Directly from your first link a few posts up.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Problem is... as a person who isn't even literate, let alone able to figure out what a website is, what does "Trump starting a platform" look like other than encouraging people in his sphere to make something he influences and to get it online?
Directly from your first link a few posts up.
That doesn't clear much up, though, right? He said he wanted this done, his inner circle followed that order. That's what "Trump makes something" looks like.
He wanted a wall built. He told people to build one. He didn't go out there with a hammer himself.
In a situation where you want something done that you know nothing about, and you tell your people you want it... and it gets made... even if they say "we don't know if he's participate", that doesn't change the fact that he gave a loose order and it was loosely followed.
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Microsoft’s emergency patch fails to fix critical “PrintNightmare” vulnerability
Game-over code-execution attacks are still possible even after fix is installed.
An emergency patch Microsoft issued on Tuesday fails to fully fix a critical security vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that allows attackers to take control of infected systems and run code of their choice, researchers said. The threat, colloquially known as PrintNightmare, stems from bugs in the Windows print spooler, which provides printing functionality inside local networks. Proof-of-concept exploit code was publicly released and then pulled back, but not before others had copied it. Researchers track the vulnerability as CVE-2021-34527. -
The Windows 11 insider build is surprisingly unpolished and unfinished
Windows 11 looks to be a decent upgrade, but not one to lose sleep over missing.
Microsoft made early Windows 11 builds available via its Windows Insider program the week after its first major announcement, and we've spent quite a few hours kicking the tires. When Windows 11 publicly releases, it's likely to be a fine operating system—but right now, it's an unpolished, unfinished mess. Of course, this isn't a surprise—Windows 11 is still only available in the Dev channel of the Insider program. The three Insider channels are Release Preview, Beta, and Dev; Dev roughly corresponds to a software alpha, and Microsoft itself describes it as "the newest code," with "rough edges and some instability." -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The Windows 11 insider build is surprisingly unpolished and unfinished
Windows 11 looks to be a decent upgrade, but not one to lose sleep over missing.
Microsoft made early Windows 11 builds available via its Windows Insider program the week after its first major announcement, and we've spent quite a few hours kicking the tires. When Windows 11 publicly releases, it's likely to be a fine operating system—but right now, it's an unpolished, unfinished mess. Of course, this isn't a surprise—Windows 11 is still only available in the Dev channel of the Insider program. The three Insider channels are Release Preview, Beta, and Dev; Dev roughly corresponds to a software alpha, and Microsoft itself describes it as "the newest code," with "rough edges and some instability."How can that possibly be surprising. It has "Windows" right in the name. Windows 10 has been out for years and is totally unpolished and unfinished. Updates STILL don't work, at all. It's buggy as hell as if no one at MS has ever tried to use it themselves (actually, they probably don't.)
The title should read "Totally As Expected, Windows 11 Insider Build is Unpolished and Unfinished"
