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Comment Re:Red Hat has EEE'd Linux (Score 1) 89

Linux is enshittified, and if you try "alternative" distros you usually get your motives questioned by the toxic community.

I moved away from CentOS when RedHat played its packaging games. I had installed RedHat for customers, no more - I will push Debian or Linux Mint - both of which are completely free to use and do not require registration.

Comment This kind of leak has been known about for years (Score 3, Insightful) 18

When going on duty to a sensitive location all personal mobile 'phoned must be left at home in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.” --- switching them off while on duty is not enough.

To make this work the employer must provide locked down 'phones with minimal apps installed; if this means that the security guard cannot chat with his lover on Instagram/whatever then tough shit - they are well paid to protect someone not to chat on social media while on assignment. This might also make the guards more effective as they will not have social media distractions when they are supposed to be keeping an eye out for assassins/whatever.

Submission + - The terrifying truth about why Tesla's cars keep crashing (theguardian.com)

Alain Williams writes: Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops on the highway – have led to questions about the safety of the brand. Why won’t Tesla give any answers?

Comment Like when the Catholic church banned books (Score 4, Interesting) 77

The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of books deemed heretical. The idea was to stop people from reading things that might give people ideas that the Church did not like. Taking down these web sites is much the same thing: stop people getting ideas that those funding Trump do not like.

Submission + - BBC threatens legal action against AI startup over content scraping (theguardian.com)

Alain Williams writes: The BBC is threatening legal action against Perplexity AI, in the corporation’s first move to protect its content from being scraped without permission to build artificial intelligence technology.

The corporation has sent a letter to Aravind Srinivas, the chief executive of the San Francisco-based startup, saying it has gathered evidence that Perplexity’s model was “trained using BBC content”.

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