lucius septimius 10/5/2021 5:31:03 AM

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So if you're a parent and don't want the school board to force racist bullshit down your kids' throats you are now officially an enemy of the state.

But no mean tweets, so it's all good.

Occasional Reader 10/5/2021 5:40:39 AM

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In #1 lucius septimius said: So if you're a parent and don't want the school board to force racist bullshit down your kids' throats you are now officially an enemy of the state.

Correct.  But if you burn down someone’s livelihood and assault people in the name of Black Lives Mattering, you’re a peaceful protester. Got it?

vxbush 10/5/2021 6:12:14 AM

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In #2 Occasional Reader said: Correct.  But if you burn down someone’s livelihood and assault people in the name of Black Lives Mattering, you’re a peaceful protester. Got it?

I really feel for all the parents who are trying to be responsible for their children and make sure they are well taught truth and not lies. It has to be awful right now. 

But I saw the teacher scanned the QR code, so that's excellent! I'm glad to hear she did it. I love being wrong sometimes. 

Occasional Reader 10/5/2021 6:24:04 AM

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And so, today, RudeBridge is whitelisted (or whatever the term is) on my work 'puter, again.   [shrug]

Buzz, if you're seeing this; sorry to hear about your upcoming, and expensive, periodontal adventures.  Generally speaking, I'd say, yeah, find the money and git 'er done; that's not something you want to mess with.

Financially, at least, if not in terms of actual pain, my equivalent experience for this past month was automotive.  I took my car in for scheduled annual maintenance - already an expensive proposition, with Audi - and a couple hours later they called me (never a good sign) and said "we also strongly recommend replacing A, B and C".  And WHOA NELLY was that expensive.

For my next car, turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so. 

Kosh's Shadow 10/5/2021 6:29:12 AM

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In #1 lucius septimius said: So if you're a parent and don't want the school board to force racist bullshit down your kids' throats you are now officially an enemy of the state.

If you won't do what the government tells you to do, then you an enemy. The State knows what is best for your children; must make them proper woke Dummycrats.

Us oldthinkers unbellyfeel Demsoc.

Kosh's Shadow 10/5/2021 6:34:51 AM

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In #4 Occasional Reader said: And so, today, RudeBridge is whitelisted (or whatever the term is) on my work 'puter, again.   [shrug]

I'm wondering if they go by IP address, not just site URL, and the hosting company has some customers setting up bad sites. Then the company pulls the site, and it is allowed again. Then bad guys set up another site, and blacklisted. 

Note that the IP address is the same for many if not all sites at that hosting company. The server parses the URL to get the right site.

Kosh's Shadow 10/5/2021 6:36:50 AM

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So the Dell computer that was having problems still isn't fixed; today was the estimated completion date. No good estimate, and will take a while to replace if I go that route. Not sure why they don't replace it with a similar system in stock.

But I did look around last week3 at their sale items and found a good system 45% off. Arrives tomorrow. No DVD drive, but I can do fine with an external one for < $0

lucius septimius 10/5/2021 6:55:26 AM

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In #5 Kosh's Shadow said:

You saw where the DOJ announced that from now on the FBI will investigate parents who speak up at school board meetings as "domestic terrorists"?

Occasional Reader 10/5/2021 7:01:35 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 6:

… and now, it’s blocked again. Ridiculous.

Occasional Reader 10/5/2021 7:04:17 AM

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In #8 lucius septimius said: You saw where the DOJ announced that from now on the FBI will investigate parents who speak up at school board meetings as "domestic terrorists"?

Not quite, or at least, not yet.

The “national school boards association“ is *asking* the Biden regime to do so:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailysignal.com/2021/10/01/national-school-boards-association-calls-on-biden-administration-to-police-parents-using-domestic-terror-laws/amp/

lucius septimius 10/5/2021 7:09:37 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 10:

DOJ issued the order yesterday.  You can read about it here.

Kosh's Shadow 10/5/2021 7:17:54 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 11:

Also here

vxbush 10/5/2021 7:35:32 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 10:

Noncompliance with *any* government mandate is now considered terrorism, regardless of the belief that led to that so-called noncompliance. This is simply formalizing it. 

Consider that I ran across a study yesterday that calculated how many people had to die for each person who was saved by the COVID vaccine. This is a common calculation done by the immunologists or vaccinologists. I had read a previous study that set it at 2 people dying for 1 person saved by the COVID vaccine, but this latest research set it to 5 people dying for 1 person saved. 

This are unsupportable numbers, but of course the truth doesn't matter anymore, if it has in the last 20 years. 

Occasional Reader 10/5/2021 7:46:39 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 11:

Thanks for the update. I guess it was just a matter of time.

This country’s slide into fascism is accelerating.

buzzsawmonkey 10/5/2021 7:49:59 AM

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In #12 Kosh's Shadow said: Also here

Interestingly, "something has gone wrong" at the Fox site to which the link leads, and one therefore cannot read the article.

Kosh's Shadow 10/5/2021 8:07:30 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 15:

Trying again link

buzzsawmonkey 10/5/2021 8:16:19 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 16:

Much better, thanks.

JCM 10/5/2021 8:25:52 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 13:

It is fascinating horror watching Liberty die in such a short amount of time with a whimper.

JCM 10/5/2021 9:12:58 AM

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Local radio this morning. Long interview with a nurse. (Podcast)

She took the first shot and had an serious anaphylactic reaction, with longer term lung complications. Two doctors have advised her not to get more of the injections.

Her hospital STILL requiring her to finish the mRNA injections or be fire.

This total insistence on 100% mRNA injection despite evidence for caution is another red flag.

Alice in Dairyland 10/5/2021 9:20:04 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 10/5/2021 10:29:32 AM

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In #20 Alice in Dairyland said: Forget about teaching common core and start thinking about teaching common sense!

All students must learn to be proper obedient members of the State. You must report for re-education.

(Soon)

Alice in Dairyland 10/5/2021 11:42:39 AM

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In #21 Kosh's Shadow said: You must report for re-education.

I'm afraid it's useless.  That's one trick this old dog refuses to learn.

Kosh's Shadow 10/5/2021 11:53:16 AM

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So today Windows 11 comes out. 

Here's a review

Windows 11 review: An unnecessary replacement for Windows 10

Aesthetically, Windows 11 sacrifices productivity for personality, but without cohesion. A new Start menu seems designed for enterprises. A hyperactive Widgets app pushes celebrity gossip. Teams Chat asks you to reorganize your social circles around Microsoft.
Under-the-hood performance improvements will collaborate with gaming enhancements like DirectStorage and AutoHDR…eventually. For now, however, most users will probably want to forgo the update from Windows 10. 

Some takeaways - Win 11 home (but not pro) requires a Microsoft account.

Changing a browser requires changing every web filetype in settings.

Task bar not as functional

vxbush 10/5/2021 1:01:23 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 23:

But most folks will be told to upgrade because of improved security--or so they will say. Personally, Windows will never be secure because they haven't changed the underpinnings. They are still built on a Windows NT base. 

Alice in Dairyland 10/5/2021 1:17:35 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 24:  I thought those of us with "older" computers weren't able to upgrade to Windows 11?

vxbush 10/5/2021 1:26:52 PM

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In #25 Alice in Dairyland said: Reply to vxbush in 24:  I thought those of us with "older" computers weren't able to upgrade to Windows 11?

I don't know what the latest status on that is. When Microsoft released that info, there was a huge uproar amongst the IT community, so they backed off on that and didn't say that new computers would be needed. I don't know what the recommendation is now.

In general, when I see the standard computer configurations that are sold, they always seem to have too little RAM to let you run more than one program at a time. I always get as much as I can afford.

Kosh's Shadow 10/5/2021 1:30:09 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 24:

Plus, adding all kinds of social features reduces security. 

I can't remember the name, but one of the architects of VMS at Digital (operating system for VAX) moved to Microsoft and was one of the architects of NT. Took a lot of the crap from VMS (bloated process structure and some other stuff), and lost the good stuff (handling programs that required different versions of a library - remember DLL hell?)

I've had courses in both VMS and Unix internals (in the 4.3 BSD days)

Keeping stuff out of the kernel when possible increases security, at some performance cost. Linux does that. Windows has gotten better than NT days when all the windowing code was in the kernel, but it still suffers from bloat.

Kosh's Shadow 10/5/2021 1:33:56 PM

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In #26 vxbush said: In general, when I see the standard computer configurations that are sold, they always seem to have too little RAM to let you run more than one program at a time. I always get as much as I can afford.

4GB is like pulling a semi with a VW beetle. But Linux can run decently with 4

I'll settle for 12 on a cheap machine, but 16 is my minimum.

Have a Linux system that barely uses more than 4GB even when I'm doing a lot; this computer is using 12GB out of 16 now, but then it has a lot of Firepig, I mean Firefox windows open - Firepig is using 4.4 GB alone. (Chrome rarely uses 1 GB) 

Kosh's Shadow 10/5/2021 1:35:37 PM

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In #26 vxbush said: I don't know what the latest status on that is. When Microsoft released that info, there was a huge uproar amongst the IT community, so they backed off on that and didn't say that new computers would be needed. I don't know what the recommendation is now.

They keep changing the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) requirement. That is needed to keep it more secure, but TPM 2.0 is fairly new.

(As opposed to TPS reports, which need a new cover now)

vxbush 10/5/2021 2:20:48 PM

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In #29 Kosh's Shadow said: They keep changing the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) requirement. That is needed to keep it more secure, but TPM 2.0 is fairly new.

That's right; I forgot the TPM standard was the linchpin of their decision. As of lately, TPM has been periodic trouble on my machines but otherwise not much of an issue using it. 

Most users at the company have just 8 GB RAM for their machines, but given the video stuff we do I won't get one under 16 GB RAM. 

Linux systems have certainly tried to make an effort to have a cleaner user interface for X windows, but there are days when I'll just take my terminal window over all the bells and whistles. 

Kosh's Shadow 10/5/2021 2:44:49 PM

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In #30 vxbush said: Linux systems have certainly tried to make an effort to have a cleaner user interface for X windows, but there are days when I'll just take my terminal window over all the bells and whistles. 

I use the terminal window in Linux for quite a lot, but then, I started using Unix when that was the normal way of using them.

I also use the Windows Subsystem for Linux, even for such things as finding files that contain something, because Windows search tool stinks.

I probably can simplify it but

find . -iname 'file*name*with*wildcards' -exec grep -H stringImLookingFor '{}' \;

(On Windows I use iname for case insensitive filename comparison, but not usually on Linux)