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The chart in the post appears to at least include 2020 through 2024...

Step 1: Don't collect ID info...

This exposes, yet again, what should be the most commonly acknowledge flaw to exist in AI;

It doesn't actually KNOW anything.

AI has no actual comprehension, and it never will. It can mimic, obviously, to varying degrees of success. But it doesn't actually KNOW what it is 'saying', and without comprehension there will forever be wrong answers or hallucinations.

Schneegans.de autounattend XML files generator

Even easier, Schneegans

Needs the date, seeing as this article is from 2021

Anyone who suggests otherwise needs to go back and relearn the basics of etiquette and politeness and treating fellow humans with common curtesy.

It doesn't excuse the issue, but it certainly makes it harder to step away from them solely on that argument.

I don't know about openly hostile. Definitely making moves that the user base openly disagree with and think are, at best, very bad decisions, but I don't think they have crossed the "hostile" line. And MS is not alone with those kinds of decisions.

Apple may not "force" you to use an iCloud account for their devices, but they sure push it hard.

As far as Linux communities go, Red Hat, Arch, Cisco, and even Ubuntu have also done their fair share of "bad decisions".

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497384

I understand the desire to get out from under the MS umbrella, as there are definitely legitimate gripes. But I also see the irony that if you have the technical ability to install a Linux distro, you definitely have the technical ability to use an autounattend XML.

You're doing that pretty much regardless of what OS you use. Yes, I agree MS has issues, but legitimate malware has not yet been a line they have crossed.

The simplest remaining way that I am aware of is actually an autounattend file. This is a Microsoft supplied method that has been around for a long time and something that I truly believe will stick around untouched because it is pretty much a requirement of any enterprise Windows deployment.

Not only does it allow you to create a local admin account, but you can also skip all the other setup screens that you want by pre-supplying values. Throw this file into your Windows boot media, do a fresh install (which you should be doing when you get a new machine regardless), and away you go. I use this both personally and my work environment. Not only are you then not relying on modifying OS ISO's or compilations, but an XML file is relatively easy to verify that only the settings you have set are the ones being input into the system if you utilize a third party tool like the one available at schneegeas.de

If you are getting your OS from some third party torrent packager you are doing it wrong. There are far easier ways to get around this without trusting that some mysterious third party hasn't embedded some malware in their custom Windows deployment.

Autounattend files are about to become far more popular...

And on that note, have to recommend this tool for them: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

The tin foil hats are out.

Long live the Macbook Airhead!

I can't help but chuckle a little at this line:

"This is the latest attempt to bolster the made-in-Canada movement..."

If only there were some Canadian car manufacturers to help out there...

Buzzfeed is about as reputable and easy to use as The Daily Wire. I wouldn't put much stock in anything it 'reports'.

You could also look at Tailscale as an option https://tailscale.com/

I have not used it personally, but I hear good things about Rust Desk https://rustdesk.com/

These are two different types of taxes. Your home, and any increase in value, is not taxed as income like what is trying to be done to unrealized gains. Your residence is actually a loss asset given the upkeep costs and property taxes that you pay without earning income on it. Property taxes only similarity with income taxes is that money is being collected by the state.

This is one of those situations where I really have to wonder if running SD via a cloud solution for personal use is truly cheaper. Granted, I don't really use cloud-services that I don't host myself, but I have a hard time believing that, over time, this would a more cost-effective endeavor then just investing in the hardware.

I am intrigued, delighted, incredibly supportive of this measure, and finally, laughing my ass off.

I'm assuming you agreed to use their hardware. They have the right to do what they want with it. If you don't want to follow those policies, don't use their hardware.

1969: Biologist Paul Ehrlich claimed that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.

1970: Professor James Lodge Jr of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, claimed that "the demands for cooling water [in electricity generation] will boil dry the entire flow of the rivers and streams of continental United States."

1970: Professor Kenneth Watt predicts a global mean temperature drop of 11 degrees by the year 2000, "About twice what it would take to put us into an Ice Age."

1970: Senator Gayloard Nelson of Wisconsin cited Smithsonian Institutes Dr. S Dillon Ripley who "believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."

1970: Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years [by 1985 or 2000] unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

1970: Biologist Paul Ehrlich claimed that due to climate changes, food shortages would have the result of hundreds of millions of people starving to death in the 1970s, the US population would be reduced to 23 million because of pesticides, and England would not exist in the year 2000.

1971: Dr. S. I. Rasool of NASA and Columbia University claimed that the fine dust from fossil fuel-burning could screen out so much sunlight over the next 50 years to cause a temperature drop of up to 6 degrees, and if sustained over the next 5-10 years it could cause a temperature drop sufficient to trigger an ice age.

1975: Biologist Paul Ehrlich claims that 90% of the world's original tropical rainforests will be gone by 2005, causing the extinction of up to half of the organisms living within them.

1978: New York Times writes an article about how global cooling was here to stay with "No End in Sight".

1979: New York Times writes an article of how the North Pole might melt.

1982: UN Environment Program official Mostafa Tolba says "By the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible, as any nuclear holocaust."

1989: Noel Brown, UN Environmental official, tells the Associated Press that unless global warming is reversed by the year 2000, entire nations will be wiped off the face of the earth.

2008: Dr. James Hansen of NASA predicted that in 5-10 years the Arctic will be free of see ice in the summer.

2009: Vice President Al Gore repeats Dr. Hansen's claims to a UN Conference.

2009: Then Prince (now King) Charles states that the planet had 96 months to avoid decimation.

2013: US Naval Postgraduate School Department of Oceanography student/scientist claims Arctic free of summer ice by 2016.

Really? IRL? Must we continue to degrade journalistic headlines with the inclusion text message acronyms? Does making a document digital no longer make it part of "real" life?

1) It is OK to not know something. No one knows everything. Those who expect you to know everything have unrealistic expectations.

2) Acknowledging your lack of knowledge and weak points is a good and healthy thing. No one is perfect and you have no reason to expect yourself to be perfect and it helps you set goals for yourself.

3) It is not OK to refuse to overcome said lack of knowledge, especially in a subject where you need it for your career goals.

4) The beauty of the world wide web is that there are many places to find answers to arithmetic problems. If you don't know something, ask/search. Either a professor/instructor or find an answer online from a reputable source.

5) Keep on learning. Seriously, never stop in your attempts to learn. Then look back in 1/3/5/10 years time and see just how far you have come.

What?! You mean the scum of humanity will use whatever means at their disposal to distribute their depraved content?! Oh, the humanity!

Where's the sarcasm flag when you need one...

FFS NASA, the word is 'quintillion'.

That's the part that confuses me, is we don't currently utilize S/MIME from everything that I can see.