Notices by Jack Daniel (often offline) (jack_daniel@mastodon.social)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jack_daniel/115599160952274592

Here's the thing about this, if MS can override or ignore Group Policy settings for Copilot, it can do so for anything else and that seems bad.
It seems bad, because it is bad.
Further proof MS can not be trusted.
I say this as a long time Windows user and admin, going back even before my MCSE+I in NT4.

Bluetooth is amazing, every version is better and better- but it never loses it's roots of being an unreliable piece of shit with a myriad of shitty implementations.
USB-C follows in its stumbling footsteps.

@ryanc that went from "oh no" to "oh yes!"

Just told my ISP "May the backhoe of despair forever hunt your underground fiber"

I love how Waze‘s time estimates are based on you having enough money to afford felony speeding tickets.

predictive text used to suggest the word "doing" if I typed "how are you". It has updated to predicting the word "coping" instead. I think that sums it up, doesn’t it?

Windows 11 may finally usher in the year of Linux on the desktop.

Totally normal Sunday morning, ended up with getting a sobbing hug from a woman because I was kind. All I did was help her load a few bags of gravel into her car.
In case you were wondering how much the hatred has infiltrated everyday life here in the mortal remains of the US.

Overheard yesterday:
"May he die surrounded by friends.
You know, like Julius Caesar."

"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!"

Quoth the Nac Mac Feegle in The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

Oh my, the annual Festival of Cyber Avarice that is RSAC, ugh. With more ugh than usual this year.

R.E.M. led me to believe I would feel better about this.

Imagine if you, your cronies, and your benefactors all had lots of money to play games in the stock market, and had the ability to manipulate the market into bust and boom swings, that would be wild, wouldn't it?

Watch HR 9495
“Under the bill, the Treasury secretary would issue notice to a group of intent to designate it as a “terrorist supporting organization.” Once notified, an organization would have the right to appeal within 90 days, after which it would be stripped of its 501(c)(3) status...
The law would not require officials to explain the reason for designating a group, nor does it require the Treasury Department to provide evidence."
Weaponized tax law, already looming.

This image is absolutely terrifying. Be safe y'all. GTFO if you are in the path.

While I'm at it
"Ground Control to Dementia Don
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Dementia Don?
Can you hear me, Dementia Don?
Can you hear me, Dementia Don?"

I am again traveling the back roads of the rural deep south.
I am again reminded of my go-to saying for most towns I pass through.
"Well, sure, this town ain’t what it used to be, but then again, neither are you, buttercup."

Dear medical practices: Fuck you and your shitty online check ins. Teaching people to answer THOSE kind of questions at a random website from a link in a text message from a random phone number? FuuuUUUuuuck YooooUuuUu.

Love
Jack

@ryanc just use Excel
/me ducks

When I was a kid I figured out that if I wanted to know how the magician did a trick I shouldn't look where they pointed. Then I figured out that this didn't just apply to magicians, but to politicians, media, clergy, and more.
A whole bunch of folks have not figured this out.