Notices by sjvn (sjvn@mastodon.social), page 2

Not only was this a real product, you can still get it today. It's used for finding and deleting porn on PCs.

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/windows_10_demise_linux/ by @sjvn

Want to keep your old computer running? Can't stand #Windows 11? Then, it's time to give serious thought to switching to desktop #Linux.

@lauren Wow. Just wow.

I may have had too many meetings in the last few days.

If you rely on Medicaid for your health care, as I do, we're in a world of trouble thanks to Trump. Amusingly, I just had a doctor's appointment yesterday.

https://qz.com/trump-medicaid-freeze-1851749684

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/windows_10_demise_linux/ by @sjvn

Want to keep your old computer running? Can't stand #Windows 11? Then, it's time to give serious thought to switching to desktop #Linux.

How to protect your #privacy from #Facebook - and what doesn't work https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-protect-your-privacy-from-facebook-and-what-doesnt-work/ by @sjvn

Don't like Big Zucker looking over your shoulder? Here's how you can limit how much #Meta tracks you.

@jailandrade Exactly so.

It’s been 39 years, and the memories stick with me still. I expect they always will.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/33-years-later-challenger/

@ColleenB Perplexity is best known as yet another AI chatbot, but it's really the best search engine around today. https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/opinion_column_perplexity_vs_google/

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is 'Nazi.' Nobody cares about their motives anymore."

― A.R. Moxon

Or spring? How does spring work for you?

For everyone who voted for Trump and drinks coffee, for the increased costs you are soon to pay, may you be grateful.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/26/trump-colombia-tariffs-coffee-crude-oil-and-cut-flowers-could-see-higher-prices.html

Wireless doorbells resting on their chargers.

Finally, the perfect Windows keyboard.

@AAKL They already are. She knew exactly what she was doing and still, she did the right thing. As should we all.

OpenVox: The Community-Driven Fork of Puppet Has Arrived: https://thenewstack.io/openvox-the-community-driven-fork-of-puppet-has-arrived/ via @TheNewStack
hachyderm.io & @sjvn

Discontented Puppet DevOps users now have a choice: OpenVox.

The Open Weight Definition offers another take on the OSAID debate https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-open-weight-definition-offers-another-take-on-the-osaid-debate/ by @sjvn

The Open Weight Definition adds a new chapter in the ongoing #OpenSource #AI definition debate.

If you cut the cable, I guarantee you won't need to worry about any attacker connecting to your network. Or anyone else, for that matter.

A shameful day for the US government as the Trump dictatorship starts its squeeze. Essentially, identical memos have been sent to all other federal agency employees to encourage them to get everyone except white, straight men fired.