RickRussell_CA

RiffTrax Friends, The Gizmoplex, and Twitch Turbo give me everything I need.

Inkscape and LibreOffice Draw do all that, but they’re not bitmap editors.

This thing drops the mine, and arms it as it is released. It’s not meant to hang around and get blown up.

Emacs.

No really, it was like 1989 and I had to learn Unix systems for classes, and this white haired Emacs advocate convinced me to try it.

Who said “FOSS computer”? The FOSS that saved the night was ffmpeg. That he also ran it on a Linux system is a nice little FOSS bonus, but it’s not the headline.

Next time, suggest they have a rehearsal with a full tech shakedown

ffmpeg itself is FOSS

Sure, but the core complaint of the article – that folks are forced to changed ALL their e-mail based authentication to a new address – is without merit.

Yeah, my mom has been using AOL.com since the 90s. When the dedicated client went away, I pointed her at mail.aol.com and she was fine. She’s still using it today.

Err…

Users will keep their exisiting (sic) email addresses on this service, and would get it free for the first year. After that, there will be options of paying for a service, or an ad-based free service after that.

So, what’s the problem, exactly? Just take the ad-based free service. Gmail, Yahoo, etc. are ad-based free services too. Nobody is forcing them to change anything.

Although you don’t have to be smarter than the experts, just smarter than police. Few local PDs can bring the kinds of resources to bear to do a decrypt on a properly encrypted data store.

Obviously if you’re pissing off major state actors, all bets are off – they are probably already surveilling you and saw you type your password through a zoom lens pointed at your window, or worse.

It’s layers on an onion. Every extralegal step they take provides a possible mitigation if you go to trial.

Obviously, if they straight up murder somebody, that’s a whole different problem. But in general, you should invoke your rights at every step of the process, so that if they trample over those rights you’ll have an argument in court to get evidence or charges thrown out.

Well, you can work on a Veracrypt partition.

Even if everything is encrypted when powered off, and decrypted while running, if you get raided while everything is running, it’s irrelevant.

Well, you can hit the power switch. The local constabulary isn’t gonna be smart enough to plunge the computer into liquid nitrogen and work on extracting the symmetric key from the frozen memory (although, federal authorities might be).

Short version:

• Police chief was accused of sexual impropriety, and the newspaper was investigating.

• A prominent local restaurant owner got caught in a DUI and the newspaper got a tip and investigated. On investigation, they decided the story was not newsworthy.

• Police raided the newspaper claiming that the DUI tip was the result of illegal computer hacking, and that they had to confiscate the computers to analyze for evidence of hacking.

• The judge who signed the search warrant also had a history of DUI.

• Critics believe that the police used this hacking claim as a thinly veiled excuse to cripple the newspaper and check to see what they really had on the chief.

• Critics have also suggested that the police themselves may have leaked the information to set up the flimsy excuse for the search.

Google Drive eliminated its full sync default a long time ago. Ironically, I have the opposite complaint – I’d like some folders to be synchronized ALL the time, and some NEVER, and Google Drive no longer gives you any direct control over what gets synchronized. It’s all controlled by some implacable internal algorithm with no exposed preferences.

Look at the timeline. LTT went silent for weeks until GN called them out.

Also next time maybe put a label on the thing “Prototype Not for Sale. Property of Billet”, like every other prototype.

Gimme a break; LTT knew it wasn’t for sale, that’s 100% clear from the emails before they auctioned it off.

With respect, whether it can properly be called “intellectual property” or not, is not the point.

It was a one-of-a-kind engineering sample that LTT agreed to send back when they were done with it. LTT did not fulfill their obligation, and when Billet Labs asked about it, they got stonewalled.

But they couldn’t find a 3090 to test it with! Not even the 3090 that the company sent with the cooling block. Cough.

we didn’t ‘sell’ the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity

Jesus. It doesn’t matter whether you sold it or auctioned it. It doesn’t matter if it was for charity. What matters is that IT WAS A ONE-OF-A-KIND PROTOTYPE THAT DIDN’T BELONG TO YOU AND YOU AGREED TO RETURN IT (and the RTX3090 they sent with it), and you didn’t do what you promised.

Everything wrong with LTT is summed up in this response. Instead of going to the company’s CEO and composing a response on behalf of the company, we get a bunch of over-personalized complaints about hurt feelings and imperfection, fired off only 3 hours after the GN video, that make it 100% clear this is all about Linus’ personality rather than a dispassionate review of the facts.