Re: cpu-x

On Fri, 17 May 2024 03:28:23 +0000, RonB wrote:

On 2024-05-16, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On Wed, 15 May 2024 23:50:04 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:
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Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 12:44 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Wed, 15 May 2024 03:28:23 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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We do read open-source licences and understand them. They are
designed to be read and understood. Unlike proprietary EULAs.
 
Case in point: the question you were asking about below.

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That's definitely a good thing. The licenses are also shorter, so
even if it were difficult to understand, reading it wouldn't take
that much time.
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And aren't updated as often.

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That's a good point. The licenses users of proprietary software might
have agreed to on day one will become so different by day three that
the terms might not be so agreeable. We've all received those e-mails
from services telling us that the terms have changed. Many of those
terms have, in the past few years, become increasingly restrictive.

 
That's why I don't bother reading them, I know they're going to get more
restrictive every time. And it's also why I'm moving most of my mail
away from Yahoo and Gmail and to other providers, like Vivaldi and
Yandex — and maybe Posteo. I don't trust Google (or Yahoo) to NOT shut
down my email account if I don't toe the Woke line. Google was started
with grant money from the NSA and its CEO for several years was an
ex-CIA wonk.

I'm not sure how woke Posteo is, but I know that e-mails from Gab and
Rumble are blocked by default by their spam system. I have to change the
settings to make sure they come through. However, since all of my e-mail
is encrypted as are the contacts and address book, I have no reason to
believe they have any kind of useful access to my account. I trust that
whoever maintains their spam filter isn't conservative, but that he, she,
ze, xe or whatever else doesn't mind my circumtventing their decision.
 

No fan of Google or Yahoo anymore (unfortunately I once was). Remember
when Yahoo was the place to go when you wanted to get around the
Internet? Hopefully we'll get that point with Google in the not too
distant future. Moving their Chrome browser to Manifest 3 might be the
first chink in their armor. (We'll see. Probably not, but I can hope.)

I never much liked Yahoo or found their search engine useful. Even when it
was "the best," it was rather awful. I think I used to use altavista back
then which gave me much better results.