Tag your favorite application that has added an LLM agent nobody wants, babes

[targetdrone@mastodon.social]

@tk @hacks4pancakes Setting aside the complete inanity that you have to deal with this bullshit, I recommend going to Settings/Apps and uninstalling the "Notepad" app. The same old Notepad32.exe is still in your System32 folder, unaffected by the uninstall, and will run as expected -- without the Copilot nonsense.

Or do what I did after a year of Windows 11 -- buy a new Framework laptop, put Ubuntu on it, and stop looking backward. So much less stress!

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@hacks4pancakes
Canadian Revenue Agency web portal.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@w_b no clue, but maybe one of my followers does.

@Fpccraig

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@w_b @alice @Fpccraig My understanding is that they used to be reputable, but have been bought out and hollowed out. I was a Gandi customer, but the kept jacking prices on me.

I switched to Porkbun, which are far from ideal, but at least seem to be an improvement over Gandi at the moment.

[fpccraig@mastodon.social]

@alice @w_b Heh. Thought I was being considerate in dropping you from my reply to w_b (vaguely positive impression, but no actual knowledge—now made obsolete by xgranade’s informed reply).

[w_b@mastodon.world]

@xgranade @alice @Fpccraig

I'll keep this in mind when it's time to renew. Thanks!

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@w_b @alice @Fpccraig extremely fucking not. Do NOT use Gandi. It has long since been acquired by vulture capital and has become increasingly shitty both in quality and ethics as a direct result of those sales. Prices are going skyrocketing every year with quality and honesty going off a cliff.

French web biz Gandi.net raises the white flag over outage

: Oh, and Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X downtime

(www.theregister.com)

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@w_b @alice @Fpccraig if you are looking for a non-US company, I can and do recommend INWX.ch (available in English.) I'm not a huge fan of the new site, but their service and support has been top notch. When I was having issues with AXFRs, they didn't hesitate to escalate to engineering, confirmed a documentation problem, and got it fixed quickly.

Netcup is also a good option, though they're more focused on VPS than registrar. However, they have more US exposure potentially.

[everyday_human@infosec.exchange]

@w_b @alice @Fpccraig
How is spaceship?

[w_b@mastodon.world]

@rootwyrm @alice @Fpccraig

Fortunately, I only have DNS/dnssec with them. Price has gone up but isn't much more than non-intro price at inwx.

I use Migadu for my mail hosting. I am considering a move there to get 2fa. I'm open to suggestions here.

[jochie@strangeweb.page]

@w_b @alice @Fpccraig They were stable, until they were sold / got bought and "flipped" by a PE company:

"On 28 February 2019, Gandi CEO Stephan Ramoin announced that private equity firm Montefiore Investment had acquired the company.

In February 2023, Gandi was acquired by Total Webhosting Solutions, forming a new brand, Your.Online. In June, the company announced drastic price increases, including a new monthly fee for mailboxes previously included for free."

Gandi - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[w_b@mastodon.world]

@jochie @alice @Fpccraig

Thank you for the status report on Gandi

[jochie@strangeweb.page]

@w_b For context, I am one of the many customers that ran away from them after a decade+ of being a happy customer, so it was more than "Oh, LMGTFY". Quoting the snippet of Wikipedia was the quickest way to summarize "why?"

Carry on

[chargen@canuck.social]

@w_b @alice @Fpccraig been using their services for years. Their slogan is “no bullshit” isn’t it? Haven’t had a lick of trouble with them in the time I’ve used them, likely a decade.

[colorfulceleste@bark.lgbt]

@hacks4pancakes Probably Hostinger. Their entire site is basically just them shilling their AI "products" at this point (despite having otherwise fair services).

[deweyritten@infosec.exchange]

@hacks4pancakes animal videos.
... like that was the last good thing i had on social media now i can't even watch bird reels are you fucking kidding me i hate this shit so much how tf did they even ruin birds???? its so evil

[jdb_env@mastodon.social]

@hacks4pancakes
I use portableapps.com : no install needed, even with mt office laptop.

I don't escape the nastu ones under windok.

Personnally, I use an old portableapp archive under linux/wine.

The same toolset ar work for decades.