Notices by smeg (smeg@assortedflotsam.com)

What is wrong with Windows?!

I keep a small Win partition on my 2022 gamer laptop in case I need to take a cert exam or use a gov website, and I booted it for updating for the first time in 6 months. It took over 6 hours and 6 reboots to update! At one point, it was going bu-ding every minute from random notifications so I had to mute it.

Meanwhile, my 2012 Thinkpad T420 needed a full Fedora version upgrade, and that finished in 15 minutes.

No wonder MS is losing users

#Windows #Windows11

Leftists: "We should feed starving kids"

Fascists: "The only thing kids are good for is working in the coal mines while I enjoy my $12,000 caviar"

Centrists: "I literally cannot tell you two apart."

@mattl 95% of my apps can be updated through my distro. Except that Docker app. And that Flatpak app. And that Snap. Oh wait, this other one needs a new AppImage.

We know

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/time-saved-by-ai-offset-by-new-work-created-study-suggests/

#ai #genai #llm #workers

So a fetus is a person when trying to deny women rights, but not when the hospital's wallet is on the line? It's obvious the true ideology here is about controlling women and nothing more.

Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn't the same as a 'person'
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/09/aiming-to-limit-damages-catholic-hospital-argues-a-fetus-isnt-the-same-as-a-person/

#abortion #womensrights #abortionishealthcare #catholic #prolife #prochoice #fetalpersonhood #hospital #liability #lawsuit

After a week away, returning to US news is so exhausting

Ride a bike

#boycott #fossilfuels #exxonmobil #cycling #BikeCommuting #transportation #boycottmaga

I guess we won't be growing food in this country in the near future

USDA fired the experts on invasive pests that can decimate crops
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/usda-fired-expert-invasive-pests-can-decimate-crops-rcna194913

Nothing is possible?

We know.

Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value
https://futurism.com/microsoft-ceo-ai-generating-no-value

#ai #llm #microsoft #copilot #chatgpt #openai #claude #anthropic #gemini #AIfraud #AIscams #hype #hypetrain

Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

#ai #llm #piracy #libgen #libgenesis #copyright #books

Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked

#linux #facebook #cybersecurity #censorship #foss #meta

Watch these companies lie through their teeth. And the employer, of course, later will be firing people if they get sick or cancer from breathing in all of the smoke.

Amid fires, a fine line between work and well-being

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-01-11/how-workplaces-are-dealing-with-los-angeles-fires

#lafires #palisadefire #palisadesfire #californiafires #labor #workersrights #workersafety #FireSafety

On a #Reddit news article discussing how American men have been turning to religion in growing numbers while women have been turning away from it, I made the comment:

"Men want to control women, and are adopting an ideology that morally justifies them doing just that."

And the amount of responses shouting some form of #NotAllMen and openly bigoted anti-trans nonsense has been really amazing. Men are not alright.

#antitrans #feminism #feminist #womensrights #ReligionInAmerica #Religion #men

@lowqualityfacts

Tourism leads the pack in growing carbon emissions, study shows
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-tourism-carbon-emissions.html
#carbonemissions #climatechange

Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People
https://futurism.com/neoscope/united-healthcare-claims-algorithm-murder
#insurance #InsuranceCEO #brianthompson #unitedhealthcareceo #unitedhealthcare #healthinsurance #denydefenddepose

Cloudflare says it lost 55% of logs pushed to customers for 3.5 hours
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-says-it-lost-55-percent-of-logs-pushed-to-customers-for-35-hours/
#cloudflare #infosec #tech

I'm already seeing EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) user experiences from Threads/Bluesky on Mastodon. People are responding to content from there, linking to content there, but if you aren't on the other platform you don't see the content, the links don't work, you can't see what they're replying to, etc.

By embracing connectivity to these platforms, the Fediverse is choosing to be a second class citizen on corporate platforms.

Some Americans are coming to the same realization some Germans did… that 1/3 of us would kill 1/3 of us while the other 1/3 watches.