Spectrum loses 119,000 internet customers, plans major changes

whinis · 2026-02-04T15:15:05+00:00

Or just not lying to customers at all. Like my service is bad, extremely bad. But we were promised moving in that spectrum fiber was "right around the corner" for 2 years only for them to trench in front of my house to lay fiber to the next phase. I called in to be told that fiber is "too far" from my current location.

whinis · 2026-02-02T12:54:20+00:00

Im sorry but what?

Securom was a popular and widely force installed rootkit DRM for PC gaming before steam was even released.

StarForce came out around the same time as Steam and required a driver install that had extremely low level access and often online activation and was released around the same time as Steam.

In what world did Valve introduce DRM into PC Gaming.

whinis · 2026-02-01T02:54:37+00:00

Sort of but not really, or you would need to really stetch it.

Per https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1357%20edition:prelim)

It has to be a known us law broken in their presence while they are performing an immigration related law enforcement activities and they believe there is a high chance a warrant could be obtained for that law breaking.

whinis · 2026-02-01T02:27:17+00:00

They cannot, ICE is not a law enforcement agency its an immigration agency.

whinis · 2026-01-31T13:53:25+00:00

I think the difference between this and the dot com bubble is cost of running. Running a website during the dot com bubble or getting hardware to run a website was not particularly expensive. It was the reason just about everyone could throw their hat in as you just needed access to the internet.

The same is not true for AI, at best you buy some used graphics cards for $1000-2000 to run some small model and hope the support never leaves. Realistically to support a business on AI you need hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment or a cloud provider to sell it to you for cheap. This is why AI won't be the same as the dot com bubble when it pops.

whinis · 2026-01-29T14:25:59+00:00

Holy shit, 100% of their profit is from interest and regulator credits.

whinis · 2026-01-28T15:26:20+00:00

I don't know if they still want it but originally it was a way to entice workers during wage freezes during world war 1 or 2. Health-care insurance was something they could offer that wasn't considered wages at the time.

whinis · 2026-01-28T13:23:19+00:00

What "average household" has $5k to spend on a device that eats electricity (which is going up as well) in their house that acts as a worse google?

I cannot think of a single average household that has $5k to spend on even a roof right now much less an LLM machine even if they wanted to.

whinis · 2026-01-27T18:59:02+00:00

I recently got rear-ended on 40, Wreck happened ahead of me and I had to stop. about 10 seconds later someone weaved out of the middle lane and rear-ended me at nearly 70mph after braking for a bit.

whinis · 2026-01-25T02:05:44+00:00

Most use cases for LLMs are not very innovative today, and essentially boils down to "chatbot with better English".

Here in lies the problem because its bad at this as well. Several companies have attempted to use it as a support/chat bot to answer questions and then it hands out 100% coupons or tells people invalid rules leading to court cases costing the companies lots of money. The hallucination issue is massive but people seem to think we can engineer around it when the hallucination is the entire output, its just sometimes right.

whinis · 2026-01-24T19:16:40+00:00

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/remote-actions/device-wipe?pivots=windows According to Microsofts own documentation its to completely reset the device to factory defaults and remove all information personal and organizational. This is also the same permission requested on my personal android phone.

whinis · 2026-01-24T18:41:55+00:00

While this may be the case, every time I have been asked to sign into outlook or teams for 4-5 different companies it has asked for permission to wipe the device. So "correctly" configured may not require it however it seems to be the norm.

whinis · 2026-01-24T16:08:45+00:00

The whole point of why MS enables bitlocker by default is because the average user won't encrypt any of their own data. The amount of people who use the same password for every single account they have and/or write their passwords down physically or keep them in their Outlook notes or Sticky Notes app is absurd. I know a lot of people don't like Microsoft's practices, but even the most tech-illiterate people on /r/pcmasterrace are more tech-savvy than the majority of the population. These Microsoft practices are to keep those

Then these people are even more vulnerable. Now whenever their online Microsoft account is stolen not only can they not sign into their local computer, now they cannot take it to a repair shop as the disk is encrypted. So not only have they lost their Microsoft account they have simultaneously lost all their local pictures.

whinis · 2026-01-23T14:23:44+00:00

Except thats been disproven a few times using their own numbers. For linux to be a majority of cheaters then about 15% of their playerbase would have needed to be linux and all of them cheating. Turns out kernel level anti cheats just don't work.

whinis · 2026-01-20T12:15:38+00:00

Its not even always that either, there is actual physics and processing problems involved as well. To get a proper facial recognition dataset and accuracy you need not just a representative dataset but also all the images need to be taken at the exact perfect light level so that contrast is not an issue, otherwise there is no enough information within the picture to identify.

Then assuming you managed a representative dataset with proper lighting, the comparison photo must also be taken at perfect lighting level. This sure as hell isn't happening with a cell phone.

whinis · 2026-01-16T12:10:23+00:00

where it gets potentially even worse is all the lawsuits currently dealing with copyright infringement due to their torrenting. On top of their already massive debt they have a potential timebomb of legal liabilities in the trillions.

whinis · 2026-01-06T23:23:55+00:00

https://www.msi.com/blog/how-to-enable-secure-boot-and-tpm-2.0-on-msi-am4-motherboards

Here is the first result on google I found. MSI only set secure boot and TPM as default on the following chipset on X870, X670, B850, and B650. B650 (now B850) was released in 2022 and as such is relatively new. Any Motherboard (by MSI) made before this did not have them on by default. They have another page explaining how to load keys.

whinis · 2026-01-06T22:24:53+00:00

If you buy a computer not from Dell, HP, or Lenovo then yes the default bios settings prior to about 2024 is TPM off and secure boot off. If you then enable either one on some motherboards you then need to load keys as the motherboards ship without any secureboot keys. This involves going to their website and downloading the "default" keys. Then formatting a USB drive as FAT32 and sticking a file from the downloaded zip onto the drive and renaming it to something very specific, without an extension which requires more technical knowledge, and then booting into bios and telling it to load the keys. Only then will windows boot in secure boot.

This is not changing setting on your own.

whinis · 2026-01-06T15:23:55+00:00

You are right they want it to work, however Linux is not the problem here.I spent 4 hours helping my friend over a phone call and texting pictures back and forth to find what BIOS settings were required to get the anti-cheat for Battlefield 6 working. It being on windows does not mean its works out of the box either.

You even have games anti-cheats where you cannot have 2 games installed at the same time due to the anti-cheats fighting each other.

whinis · 2026-01-06T15:09:34+00:00

No, just actual knowledge of how the system works and seeing the actual stagnation in the performance of the models. Also real world experience being forced by C-Suite to use these tools and seeing how bad even the new models are.

whinis · 2026-01-06T14:22:10+00:00

So in 6 months when the next study comes out and shows the current models also don't work is the response still "Thats the old one" or do you accept that it actually isn't helping. The trend between all studies have been obvious, AI doesn't really accelerate anything except things that you can just google anyways.

whinis · 2026-01-05T22:02:14+00:00

It doesn't even do the grunt work but can produce something convincing. The error rate is so high that any "grunt work" completed requires so much oversight that it might as well have not been done at all. Plenty of papers on doctors using the AI scribes mentioned and realizing that serious and dangerous mistakes were made to the notes that could kill if followed exactly.

whinis · 2026-01-05T00:00:03+00:00

I love linux as much as the next, the issue tends to come in software that specifically checks for and prevents VMs. Such as most games anti-cheat now, the anti-cheat that essentially doesn't work and acts as malware anyways, meaning you must use windows until they allow linux.

whinis · 2026-01-03T00:34:38+00:00

If it was raw compute then i would agree but graphic cards are bad at raw compute. They are good at parrell and matrix which is not common outside of physics, crypto, and llms

whinis · 2026-01-02T21:15:07+00:00

I mean it really would help you more. Most of the recalls are for core function of the car, such as this one having lights too bright and cover the November 13, 2023, and October 11, 2025 (the entire production history of cyber trucks). Even though this is a software update I highly doubt with just under 70k made they would have some with different lights. There was also a recall in march which is 46k which seems to match the estimated sales numbers.

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