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Both AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives released their newest assessment report recently and in this article, we look at how the various anti-virus products that were tested stack up in terms of system/performance impact. Why you always feel like you need a new computer: AV Edition
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What a benchmark... when most of the listed act like viri themselves... 
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Opinion: HP's printer business practices have infuriated users for years. What's worse: reviled or detested?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What's worse: reviled or detested?
What's worse: ignorance or indifference? I don't know and I don't care.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Opinion: HP's printer business practices have infuriated users for years.
Not me, never used it voluntarily... and when forced, I wasn't paying for them and had support.
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I had an HP InkJet printer about thirty years ago, but that's it. I spent more on ink for cleaning than on actual printing, and eventually the nozzles got completely gummed up. No more InkJets for me!
OTOH, their ProBook line of laptops is OK - reasonably sturdy, not too heavy, and do everything that I need them to do.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I have a Z-Book at work and yes, they are fine.
But I had a friend with an normal HP Laptop and it refused to boot up from other CDs that were not the HP Recovery they delivered in the box, what for me is a no go.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Opinion: HP's printer business practices have infuriated users for years.
As an Ars Centurian, I suggested the above change to the sub-title.
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read the article, I feel the user pain, HP? As braindead as MS - focused on milking customers with dubious claims then locking you in. The comments are the most hilarious, here is my favorite:
"I was briefly excited before I read the article and discovered it was just marketing people huffing their own farts again."
Dear marketing and CFO types - if customers say this about what you are doing, you are doing it wrong. I think I will go pet my Brother laser printer now.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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We’d like to introduce changes in HTTP space, newly added metrics, new HttpClientFactory APIs and more. Still waiting for NetBios support
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Terminal addicts, throw your thoughts in the ring, it might make your life better. Visual Edlin
Vim#
PowerEmacs
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Quote: Windows, and it wants your feedback
What for? To ignore it as the last 10 years?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: PowerEmacs
Great! As I always said: Emacs is a great OS, but it could use a decent editor.
(Disclaimer: Someone else said that before me, but I don't remember who.)
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As per my comments elsewhere in this parish, I was rather fond of the 'edit' editor in DOS. I think the nearest modern equivalent would be Nano[1].
Putting a native port of Nano into Windows (using the Windows spellchecker) would be handy.
Well, yes, handy, but I would have thought that anyone who was likely to use it would already be using Nano/Vim/Emacs/whatever in Cygwin or WSL.
Footnote:-
1: See also the now ancient FTE FTE Text Editor[^] or tilde GitHub - gphalkes/tilde: The Tilde text editor[^].
modified 11-Dec-23 7:20am.
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Can a person with no prior training simply guide everyone to a smooth touchdown? So I've wasted all that time in Microsoft Flight Simulator?
Next you'll tell me I can't craft stars
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Of course I could land it, another question is if the passengers could later complain about it 
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Tried it once in an Air Force trainer. Not a chance can I land a plane.
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There was no voice interaction, nor was the demo happening in real time. A fake demo on stage?
That's right up there with a headline about a band lip-syncing in concert.
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Still do not beat the unbreakable broken glas of the cyber truck 
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European Union officials have reached a provisional deal on the world's first comprehensive laws to regulate the use of artificial intelligence. Two-four-six-eight. We're the EU; time to regulate!
At least that seems to be their marching song.
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Being honest, a bit regulation is not bad, the only problem is that they do not know what is OK and actually needed
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AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear. By interrupting developers every 15 minutes to let them know there's a new AI assistant on the market
When everyone knows that's my job!
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I was speaking about it today with a friend of mine, due to an article in german magazine about the new version of Google's AI (alphacode 2) beating devs...
At the end both have agreed: We will buy popcorn and wait for the first big "OOOOPS" News that will come, because someone decided to let "AI" do all the job in something important, because we devs are obsolete.
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I’m a little surprised that there hasn’t been an oops moment yet, but I imagine it might be hard to identify it between all the human oops moments out there.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I’m a little surprised that there hasn’t been an oops moment yet,
People usually are afraid / cautious with new things. There must already have been some, but still small enough to not do it to the mainstream.
It has been over a year and the chat bots are really making advances, but they still are only helpers. As a tool to increase productivity, yeah, I can buy that, anything more than that, specially creativity, different perspective adoption to solve problems... definitively not for a while.
But we already know there are enough managers out there that will buy it and fire most of their IT / dev people, because AI can do it better and faster. When that happens, it will last not so long until the big OOOPS comes.
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Nelek wrote: As a tool to increase productivity, yeah, I can buy that, anything more than that, specially creativity, different perspective adoption to solve problems... definitively not for a while.
Thus far, I've found them useful/helpful on coding and other technical tasks - sometimes even when they are wrong.
E.g., a while back I fired a math question at one of the AIs, from a course I'd been taking because I didn't fully understand it. The AI explained it a bit better but actually got its calculation wrong! But I was able to see from its correct explanation why it had got its answer wrong. I then told it so and it corrected itself.
Kevin
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