If you're not in the unlikely situation that your hardware doesn't support virtualization, why would you run a dual boot at all?
Perhaps it’s the virtualization itself that is to blame, since most everyone running around with decades of VMWare experience is scrambling to learn and move systems onto anything other than that overpriced shit.
The text makes it seem like Microsoft twiddled their thumbs over this patch but if GRUB had an actual vulnerability in the SecureBoot process that needed patching...
When exactly was that patch released? Was it right after the vulnerability was found or shortly before Microsoft released their Win11 patch?
Reading through the details, only proved why finger pointing is now a valid legal defense.
To address this security issue, Windows will apply a Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) update to block vulnerable Linux boot loaders that could have an impact on Windows security.
Between the makers of Linux, Windows, Secure Boot, and GRUB is the responsible party. Good luck.
It pretty much does all the same stuff.
From an InfoSec perspective, I would tend to disagree without even seeing the tool yet.
The Start Menu is part of the basic UI and is built to support every user on the system.
It appears this tool is more targeted towards power users and developers. In other words, a select group of trusted users with advanced access and/or elevated permissions. Using tools that also often require elevated access/permissions, inherently creating a risk to mitigate from a security perspective.
An MS-DOS Command prompt vs. one executed with Administrative rights may be the exact same tool, but they are NOT the same thing from a SysAdmin or InfoSec perspective.
As in "making my computer's fans scream and whine for 5 minutes after one single use"?
(Marketing Narrator) “..you can feel the sheer power of AI as it flows through your chassis, breathing life into your digital partner..”
Yup. That’s right. Shits gonna get so cheesy we’re gonna name the first AI marketeer-bot Cheesy McCheeseface.
The question is, how long before Kennedy guts the FDA, making it incapable of either approving or clearing medications of any kind.
Time will tell if that shouldn’t have been done long ago, but FDA and American food safety are not exactly aligned. Which is putting it fucking mildly.
How long before we find out the FDA was part of the problem.
Can we make the test mandatory for politicians?
Start with the voters. They’re the ones electing Ancient History to serve. Again and again and again.
A serious competitor to Facebook for social media starts to get traction Facebook buys them. You can Google the list of companies Facebook has bought and it is legion. Facebook faces a fundamental problem that every few years a crop of young teenagers grows up and doesn't want to be on the same social network as their parents. So the teenagers go find another Network and Facebook buys them out using their market dominance.
Facebook has another considerable problem in its quest to act like THE social media monopoly network while denying every accusation of being one.
By its own actions, it will become the world’s largest online graveyard. If it isn’t already.
Dead people might vote, but they don’t view ads or buy shit to justify advertising costs. Good luck convincing advertisers that your “user” numbers claims aren’t DOA and haven’t become a punch line.
This.
If your biz is only on Facebook, I figure you're probably running it out of Mom's basement.
And if your business isn’t targeting the social media global audience, you’re probably limiting sales to Moms basement.
Perhaps that’s where the true monopoly is. Try and run a business without it. Any of it.
It's ludicrous to call Facebook etc. a monopoly. There are tons of alternatives (Reddit, TikTok, and even good ole Slashdot) and the barrier to entry is low.
I know it’s a “cheap” hosting move to use Facebook to run a business (as opposed to procuring standard hosting and your own domain), but there certainly is more than just cost that drives tens of millions there.
Tons of alternatives? Move an established business off Facebook and onto one of them and prove it then. See if subsequent sales can’t perhaps at least suggest a monopoly within a fiscal quarter.
People aren't paying four figures for a "course" that can easily be generated with a free chat-gpt account.
No, they are paying for courses from an accredited institution that supposedly has been reviewed and vetted by the college. Using AI in developing teaching materials doesn't invalidate all the information taught in the class. The student will still receive a grade and credit hours for the class, and those credits can be transferred to other colleges that reciprocate credits from the accreditation agency.
If she really thinks she has a case, then she should complain to the accreditation agency..
..which is a concept a century old. You can try and argue that someone sitting in a classroom for four years vs. sitting in front of YouTube and learning is vastly different today. But you’d be hard pressed to convince anyone other than everyone else that was forced to waste $80K on a piece of paper. “Because I had to, you have to”, is not how we should justify a degree for any job position. And yet we feel that animosity in damn near every “entry-level” position that’s now magically requiring a degree.
Nothing but marketing on top of marketing on top of bullshit. Especially since Experience is still King.
There isn’t anything magical about “accredited” education. Those that assume there still is, are the greedy ones still selling magic in the 21st Century at a fucking corrupt price. Sure as hell am glad I got my education done back when they were only charging what a car costs instead of a fucking mortgage. Doesn’t mean it makes it any easier to recommend higher education to anyone else.
Letting an LLM do the heavy lifting for your coursework is terribly tempting for a student, but ultimately a disastrous choice. We humans learn by doing and by repetition. The entire point of getting an education, especially for undergrads, is to acquire a firm foundation of theory and practice for your chosen field. The ability to reason and think for yourself is not something you can simply will away with a few LLM prompts.
You bring some valid points. But let’s look closer at the secondary education in particular.
The entire point of those providing an education, is profit. They are a business. Which is why we’re still forced to ask what the hell Early American History has to do with a CS degree. That repetition you speak of does actually have value. When you’re actually doing valued work with it. A lot of college work, isn’t valued by anyone. The first two years of for-profit bullshit courses that fill most degree requirements have FUCK ALL to do with a chosen degree/profession AND life in general. 99.99999% of humans have never used the advanced mathematics we’ve imposed on students for literally centuries now. Like I said before. It’s a business.
Normally I don’t have a problem with anyone “over” learning. When that education isn’t filled with a year or two of pointless bullshit putting people in fucking permanent financial ruin. Unfortunately it now is.
A professor, or any educator, doesn't need to practice the material. They can beg, borrow, or steal the lesson plan and course work and present it to the students and still be an effective educator.
Steal lesson plans? Now I have to wonder if law professors are nothing but the world’s largest hypocrites. Are they also stealing lesson plans to ironically teach law? Should students also beg, borrow, and steal the answers? Follow the leader is something they learned long ago.
Reminds me of a high school graduation ceremony I went to last year where 85% of the graduating class were Honor graduates. I’m guessing none of them could tell me what a bell curve is. Including the educators.
And honestly, I don't really trust professors that write their own text books and force their students to buy them.
Students do. For one main reason. Saving money. In my experience every professor that had created their own materials were usually selling it at 1/10th the price of the commercial alternative. And every professor who was confident enough to write their own material, was also confident enough to not get fired over it. In other words, they were very skilled at teaching. And therefore could be trusted to in fact educate.
Now I'll be sued by my clients once they find out I've been vibe codeing for months. In all seriousness, if the content is not any worse than any other course material - who cares.
Professor uses ChatGPT to write the teaching materials.
Student responds using ChatGPT to write essays and find answers.
The FUCK is the point here again? Are we still talking about humans learning? Or actually teaching? You’re really questioning how this couldn’t get far worse? What, are we going to rely on ChatGPT to hire people too? Because that would be rich.
(ChatGPT) ”You are not even remotely qualified for this position. I do not know how you even graduated with your relevant degree. Who taught you to be that unqualified?”
(Student) ”Uhh, actually..YOU did.”
The ChatGPT Wild West era will be remembered for creating one thing; a moron graduate.
We very much still write essays in the real world...we just call them "multi-paragraph e-mails" in most cases and rarely print them on paper.
Oh you mean that shit I learned long ago NO executive has time for? For fucks sake, that whole longer-than-the-preview-pane argument is as old as the damn preview pane.
Seriously? Multi-paragraph emails? You might as well schedule a meeting instead. So you can watch them read your ain’t-got-time-for-this-shit email essay for the first time.
(Evidence? I used to spend half my fucking day reducing my multi-paragraph emails I *thought* were full of pertinent detail, down to 140-character tweets just so the executives would actually read them.)
You bring perfectly valid points.
Unfortunately those points exist in a classroom. Not the real world. And kids are a LOT more aware about the more pointless parts of our American edumucashun system. Writing essays is certainly one of them.
But go ahead. Tell me the last time you were asked to “write an essay”. In the real world. That actually provided value.
’Nuff said.
(The excuse about shitty spelling is dead and lame. If you can’t spell AND can’t figure out the spellchecker built into every-fucking-thing, then I REALLY shouldn’t hire your idiot ass. Even ChatGPT can’t help that.
A lot of people seem o think the MBA is a job title. Some position in the company where the best occupant is someone who is equally clueless and heartless. The reality is that it is a broadly applicable degree. That said, the silver spoon nepotism poster children frequently pursue an MBA and really do have no other redeeming qualities. The problem isn't the MBA, it is that they have no meaningful background to understand the companies and people that they destroy in the pursuit of the fleeting god of "perpetual growth" and "increasing revenues."
If the MBA profession tends to attract ALL the wrong individuals, then perhaps the job is about as valued as a college offering a Masters in Narcissism. Seriously, one would think the industry could shit out at least one or two retired MBA billionaires with fantastic success stories. Nope. Not really.
Pretending this profession will improve is like waiting for the actual psychic to come along in an entire industry full of bullshit artists.
The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity. -- Edsger Dijkstra
