Phoenixz

How would one get onto Usenet? Asking for a faaarrrrriend

Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with that shit

Why not? Still so much good and beautiful left… Saying this as someone who has seen more than his fair share of dark underbelly of society.

Sometimes it’s really a dark day but seriously, cheesy as it is to say, the next day will be brighter

I was working for my best friend of 30 years and his business partner. Over the years I begin a relationship with the ex of said business partner. It’s all very new and we don’t know what it will do but we want to find out

Her ex, the other business partner is a borderline narcissist with psychopathic tendencies so we want to be careful with him… For one, I’m assuming fairly this will cost me my job if it comes out, worth it.

Either way, I want my best friend to hear it from me, not from the psycho, and in that week I also receive info that my best friend will be dumped and replaced with, well, me.

I have no interest in the position, I also don’t want to see my best friend for 30 years ruined, so I so the right thing.

Be a good boy, but not too good.

I tell him that we’re starting something and that his job and income are about to go south, so that he can prepare maybe save his job.

He takes exactly 3 minutes to tell my relationship to his business partner which immediately starts a shit storm with more murder threats than I care to remember. He still has his cosy position.

Took the guy a good 3 minutes to dump 30 years of friendship with the garbage. He immediately blocked me everywhere, never said a word on why.

Be a good boy, but not too good. If your best friend is about to drown, I guess let him.

Why are you using that crap, then?

Yeah and? That’s reddit for you. You’re now allowed to even speak to them or face the wrath of the mods. Fuck that place

I hate it so much that I can’t tell if you’re dead serious or joking…

Of course subscription

Didn’t you know that AI can only run on servers?

/S, of course

It’s not Nazis, it’s different. It’s probably just as bad but it’s a weirdo mix.

Trump is a mobster wannabe. He is also dumb as fuck and a useful idiot who is controlled on the one hand by foreign powers, but also by right wing extremist Christians, some of whom actually see him as a Messiah figure. I fully assume he is going to install himself as a dictator fast, as that’s what the past 4 years of preparation were about. He’ll also die, probably. He’s old, fat, doesn’t exercise, eats unhealthy, in a super stressful job and loads of people want him dead.

I can’t remember the time (in my time anyway ) that so many people wanted a US president dead.

Anyway, he’ll die soon and the the christo fascists will start the infighting who can become the next US dictator.

I fully expect chaos in this year with chaos being the sweet synonym for that mass deportation starting, people will resist, people will get shot and die, people will start terrorist attacks. Whenever you work for years to pit one group of citizens against another, it’s not going to end well.

Man this is fun…

The point is that Cloudflare is a provider that you can choose to have as a part of your own infrastructure.

It is NOT a man in the middle as man in the middle implies “attack”

If Cloudflare is a man in the middle, i can make similar evil claims about anyone using Google Drive or Microsoft crapware. Loads of governments store sensitive documents on Microsoft services and Microsoft actually actively breaks contracts by messing with said data.

At least, as far as we know, Cloudflare has no I’ll will.

Yet

Funny, when I suggested that, I got down voted to oblivion

Yes, it’s really unappealing to say that windows is the shit that it is, makes Linux look so bad

Are you? Since you’re only able to feign an insult, I’m guessing you’re not the brightest

“stupider than simply wrong”

What are you? 5?

My sentiment is that it’s a crazy situation where people are defending a multi billion dollar company that we all coninously pay, who spies and serves ads despite said payments, that time after time willfully neglects security, anything in the name of profits, over a free system that works better, more reliably, is open, and dependable.

Your response: you’re stupid

What is wrong with saying that a paid product that is far inferior to a free (both as in beer and freedom) product should be dropped in favor of said free product when said paid product has embarrassing failures, scandals and abusive behavior on pretty much a weekly basis?

How long ago was it that Microsoft testified in front of Congress after deciding they weren’t going to fix a security hole because the negative press would cost them contracts (and thus money) which resulted in China successfully hacking the US government? A month or so? What did the Microsoft dipshit say again? Oh yeah, THIS time (after all the previous times) the CEO would be on top of security, weally! And more importantly, weeewe sowwyyyy, we won’t do it again.

Yes yes yes, this is a different provider, who cares? Its a core product that is only there because their system is so badly Designed in the first place.

These are.paid products and millions if not billions of machines went down and I’m the bad guy for saying that this is not acceptable and that people should drop that paid spyware and anware shit for Linux, which is free and a hell of a lot more reliable than this windows crap? YOU ARE PAYING MONEY FOR THIS, YOU STILL GET ABUSED AND THEN ITS STILL NOT RELIABLE! WHY DO YOU A ACCEPT THIS BULLSHIT? what is wrong with you?

Edit: At this point it’s hard not to see these reactions as a beaten and abused wife saying “oh but my husband really isn’t such a bad guy once you get to know him!”. I don’t get these attitudes, why do you accept this treatment from a multi billion dollar company?

Because they’ve done that countless times before and its always the same. A few motbsh ago there was a senate hearing on ehy Microsoft knowingly caused the Chinese government hacking the US government by deciding not to fix critical security bugs to avoid losing contracts and thus,.money.

What is the result, every damn time?

Weeeeewwweee sowweeeyyyy, but the CEO is on it this time! THIS time we won’t fuck you over! That was what, a month ago?

Meanwhile I say, fuck Microsoft, stop paying for that corrupt badly built spyware shit, switch to Linux, and then I’m the bad guy.

Edit: judging from the downvotrs here, it’s fair to say that a lotmof people are perfectly fine with paying to get screwed over

Yeah, youndont know what you’re talking about. Literally.

Why?

Seriously, why?

Linux is a free system with a fraction of the daily / weekly issues that Microsoft has. Its Been like this for literally decades now.

Microsoft Sella expensive paid systems that spy on us and still feed us advertising. This week, Microsoft and vendors caused likely billions of dollars in damage. Will there be any consequences? Nah. Even better; If I say stip using Microsoft software, I’m a bad guy!

Just a few months ago, it came out that Microsoft consciously decided not to fix critical security hugs resulting in hacks in the US government bu the Chinese government. There was a senate hearing in this where they weally weally promised this time they would behave. I said the same back then, install Linux already and got the same responses, I’m making Linux look bad!

So I ask you… HOW? How exactly am I the bad guy here, why isn’t everyone shitting on Microsoft and it’s providers for fucking this up so so wonderfully bad, AGAIN…?

And mind you, we all pay for this shite. Why hasn’t anyone there hone to jail for causing shit like this by making decisions that obviously knowingly would cause this shit?

But yeah, you’re riiiiight. I make Linux look bad, and we wouldn’t want that, now would we?

And?

Debian is a FREE (as in beer) AND a free (not as in beer but as in freedom) system maintained mainly by volunteers which has an actual focus on us, the end users.

Microsoft, on the other hand, makes us pay through the nose for shit systems that all have focus on Microsoft, NOT on the end user. If you make me pay and spy on me and serve me ads, then at the very fracking least I expect you to take responsibility when you fuck up, and paye for my lost time and money. However, as windows fracks up just about every week, Microsoft would be bankrupt within a month if they’d have to do that.

Microsoft and nagging? Naaahh, they would never! They would never “hey hello, please please send us feedback!” 5x per day while I’m trying to get work done on that awful offce365. They would never stuff popups all over their sites to continuously nag me about new updates and features and bullshit, they. Would. Never.