noshellswill - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Linux on the desktop will happen when (Score 1) 76

by noshellswill on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:37PM (#65736320) Attached to: FSF Reminds Consumers That Truly Free OS's Exist

"WINE actually works" ... in a very obscure bakazz sort of way only a nekbeard could love. I've used in on-and-off for 20 years and still can make no sense of it. I'm trying to get an old copy of TOPSPICE into an Ubuntu-24.04 system, and nothing is natural or obvious. Naturally , obnoxious WINE is NOT meant to be applied by the casual-computer user, but by a very "nitch" set of Linux pros who are trapped using some M$-based software program. Sadly, WINE like the rest of the Linux eco-system has really not improved ease-of-use since RedHat-6. Get 1/2 f*ing-A step off the beaten path and casual lusr is screwed.

Comment Re:Yes. And what is the recommendation? (Score 1) 23

by noshellswill on Sunday October 19, 2025 @10:51AM (#65736156) Attached to: Extortion and Ransomware Drive Over Half of Cyberattacks — Sometimes Using AI, Microsoft Finds

Recently "... dragged kicking ad screaming ..." euns a bit over-the-top. Do you not think that a ROMAN Centurian carefully watched the design/manufacture/assembly of his centuries ballista "machine" ? Or that makers of failing ballista escaped the flog ? I also understand that maedevil GUILDS were picky about apprentice training not just to limit supply, but because a just G*d was watching them construct the cathedral. Professional certification of engineers is pretty-much a 19-th Century anomoly, and was NEVER opposed by practicing engineers until wonkish nekbeards snatched power over computers from the military.

Comment Re:Is it better than standard ICE? (Score 1) 72

by noshellswill on Saturday October 18, 2025 @10:10PM (#65735426) Attached to: Scientists Create New Form of Ice, Known As Ice XXI

Slow progress indeed. ICE agents need ice-rifles that shoot streams of liquid nitrogen at narco-MEX border jumpers and their SJW pimps. Frozen on-the-spot , they can then be fork-lifted into fast-frost railway cars for deportation. Cools-off the border regions as a no-cost benefit.

Comment Re:I listened to a comprehensive NPR report bout t (Score -1, Offtopic) 104

by noshellswill on Saturday October 18, 2025 @09:58PM (#65735412) Attached to: Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead

Tell it like it is, bro. The uniformly collectivist crap that issues from NPR stations drove me off the few literate moments. The thoughtful listener is hoping for something like Dave Garaways' Omnibus ; very sad.

Comment Re:Uh, Wouldn't– (Score 1) 18

by noshellswill on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:53AM (#65731892) Attached to: Physicists Inadvertently Generated the Shortest X-Ray Pulses Ever Observed

I believe current theory says the "strength" of the measurement determines completeness of the wave-function collapse. Electron hitting a BRICK-WALL is a "strong" measurement. One wimpy X-ray passing thru the virtual-change cloud ?? So collapse is not an all-or-nothing thing. Always seemed weird that when a particle passes thru a sit ( in a double slit experiment ) the temporary local fields within surrounding material couldn't be measured without wave-function collapse.

Comment Re:bad. (Score 1) 235

by noshellswill on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:01AM (#65729204) Attached to: Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China

You say '... block any imported EVs ...' as if that tariff action were a bad thing. I'd favor the retro/contra-tilt: block ALL "industrial" manufactured imports except medical equipment. OTOH allow importied "craft" products like German/Russian sausage , Irish whisky and Italian womens shoes. Individuals and "guilds" and sweatshops may compete world-wide. A producer/designer society values much higher than consumer/investor cultures. Let globalist sociopaths and mercantile pederasts immigrant to China ha...hahaha and watch them howl when Maos' doppelganger rises again. .

Comment Re:Using money from your overpriced iPhone. (Score 1) 27

by noshellswill on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @05:28PM (#65727702) Attached to: Apple's Tim Cook Promises To Boost China Investment

Cooks' folly is old, not new. Traitorous behavior for financial gain has little to do with modern culture. See classical Greek Pausinais bend-over for his Persian masters ... after he had screwed both Athens & Sparta. Like Cook, he was a technically competent wanker.

Comment Re:It sounds to me... (Score 1) 34

by noshellswill on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:41PM (#65725058) Attached to: Indonesia's Film Industry Embraces AI To Make Hollywood-style Movies For Cheap

Indonesia is a Muslim country with approx the same population of USA, but sharia-law & a yearly theater box-office less than 10% of ours. Indonesia really does-not-count as a media mover, so their use of movie.ai fades into noise. When a country ( like China ) with a proven record of world-class films begins slurping *.ai into their art then movie-goers can start to worry. BTW// I do not consider integrated CGI-crafted catastrophes as "ai".

Comment Re:Why not OpenDocument Format? (Score 0) 146

by noshellswill on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @01:07PM (#65724366) Attached to: Beijing Issues Documents Without Word Format Amid US Tensions

Yep. China is employing economic screws to promote state power ... as has every city/state/nation since Gobekli-Tepi. It's all good ... and USA should return the favor by rejecting ALL/ANY Chinese manufactured products or raw materials. Shut-down trading that has never been in USA interests, apart from a few sociopathic globalists. If required the USA can go to a temporary war-time footing and generate everything it needs right here or from "affiliated" partners. USA workers would see huge employment gains and SA/Canada would finally get the USA attention they deserve. Some unproductive USA economic sectors --- like software --- would suffer: no problemo. To repeat ... China screws us we screw them ... all's fair.

Comment Re:How is this even "tech" anymore? (Score 1) 42

by noshellswill on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @10:43AM (#65723872) Attached to: China Is Shipping More Open AI Models Than US Rivals as Tech Competition Shifts

Not just scientists and engineers find AI technically useful. I am in a no-support / "troubled" WiFi environment with my Linux systems. I have used DDG.ai troubleshooting my randomly(?) on-again/off-again internet connection. Without DDG.ai I simply could not fumble-thru enough setting changes to maintain my connection. It's like having a tireless Linux-savvy pal sitting at my side.

Comment Re:The discipline of a recession. (Score 1) 60

by noshellswill on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @10:28AM (#65723838) Attached to: NASA Unit JPL To Lay Off About 550 Workers, Citing Restructure

It's a fair guess ( the Kennedys thought so ) that excluding medicine, basic science has played-out until the next Archimedes/DaVinci/Newton/Einstein/ comes along. You know, once every couple centuries. Surely "string theory" failure has taught us something. A century or two of plodding experimental/engineering development seems the most robust and productive course of scientific action. Meanwhile, methods like *.ai and Quantum computing can find their own value-producing niche venues ... and humans can return to more face-2-face cultures.

Comment ignore (Score 1) 127

by noshellswill on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @10:10AM (#65723790) Attached to: Britain Issues First Online Safety Fine To US Website 4chan

Likely 4Chan can simply ignore neo-Stalinist British laws/regulation; surely ignore the fine. Does 4Chan have a "hardware/brick" presence on English property? If not Brit leverage is zero. 'Course the Brits may install their own "Great Firewall", but that will only provoke world-wide hackers to tunnel thru it as happens with the Chinese version.

Comment Re:Bee Ess ... (Score 1) 70

by noshellswill on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @09:55AM (#65723746) Attached to: Major US Online Retailers Remove Listings For Millions of Prohibited Chinese Electronics

Fact: Chi.com electronics ALL/repeat/ALL include firmware snooping devices that report activity back to the CCP "mothership". Importing such devices to America represents a direct political/military security risk. Of-course personal privacy is also suborned by these Chi.com devices -- and after corruption fed-back as mis-information -- but American companies have yet to be forbidden such data "kidnapping". Best let the chi.comz eat their own production while American labor and capitol looks after internal consumption: tools, raw materials, medical equipment and womens shoes excluded naturally.

Comment Re:Trying to make a new generation dependent (Score 1) 25

by noshellswill on Saturday October 11, 2025 @11:34AM (#65718426) Attached to: Microsoft To Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools

I lived in Seattle 25 years ago, and still remember the local rag ( Seattle Times ) describing the Seattle workforce : "... they are as productive as ants ..." . With a classical East-Coast education I was naturally horrified. Evidently nothing has changed in coastal Washington State. Having lived in Spokane also, I know eastern Washington people mostly poach with Remingtons, not AI.

Comment Re:Well, what did you expect??? (Score 0) 37

by noshellswill on Friday October 10, 2025 @01:56PM (#65717028) Attached to: China Expands Rare Earth Export Controls To Target Semiconductor, Defense Users

There's no "tat" in the exchange ... as USA has plenty of exotic minerals ready to be mined & extracted. Only USA globalist mercantile scum sucking on the Chi.com "tit".

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