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Random_Spock said:
Yep they've done a 'Hold my beer' stunt, that's for sure.

Windows: Here's a new unnecessary update.

Firefox: Hold my beer.
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did you actually read what the issue was?

wasn't an update issue, it was a issue relating to a security certificate used for code signing and has most likely been in use for quite some time so would hit quite a few versions.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/03/a-glitch-is-breaking-all-firefox-extensions/

A ticket submitted to Mozilla’s Bugzilla bug tracker first hit at around 5:40 PM Pacific, and suggests the sudden failure is due to a code signing certificate built into the browser that expired just after 5 PM (or midnight on May 4th in UTC time).

Because the glitch stems from an underlying certificate, re-installing extensions won’t work — if you try, you’ll likely just be met with a different error message. Getting extensions back for everyone is going to require Mozilla to issue a patch.
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Marc said:
did you actually read what the issue was?

wasn't an update issue, it was a issue relating to a security certificate used for code signing and has most likely been in use for quite some time so would hit quite a few versions.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/03/a-glitch-is-breaking-all-firefox-extensions/
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Well thanks for the information. Thought it was update related. Good to see it wasn't that. Double checked the info I read earlier and saw that it was related to the certificate. So obviously I mis read. No biggie.
 
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I just had the most weird fault turn up with my computer monitor?

I have a Samsung S22E390 full HD monitor and the menu button was not working at all so could not turn the screen off via the menu. Today just on a hunch I removed the HDMI cable and plugged it back in and now the menu button works as it is supposed to.

How can that happen, the two just to me don't seem connected?

Also have a 24 inch Polaroid TV / DVD that is also 1080 and it has 4 screws on the back panel at the bottom, is that for a monitor mount?
 
^ Most modern monitors are software controlled - both internally and externally... I.e. more complex that necessary!
 
Yuck! got a nag screen from M$ on one of my Windows 7 machines.. :wtf:
Dear M$, yes I know you [insert insults] will stop supporting Windows 7 next year, and NO I will not install M$ Spyware 10 on any of my machines, change is indeed hard and would be much less hard if your service, eh I mean OS wasn't a spying pile of bugs combined with crap, I mean "features" no one cares about and no one wants... No I don't need you to "help" me with the transition to another OS, I am pefectly capable of installing Linux on my own.. :p
 
Who doesn't? I run Win7 in a VM under Oracle VBox, which I prefer to VMware Player. I think M$ still permit one change of hardware per licence for Win7. I can snapshot the VM, permitting access to former state configurations if required.
 
Indeed I have a problem with M$! When someone has a problem, usually friends and/or family they come to me... :wtf:
 
My monitor's single power / menu button now seems to be working properly which is weird because before it would not function after a few hours and you had to fiddle with turning off the power and cycling the power to the monitor to get the switch to work. Now it's fine. Most odd but I am still planning to get a new one as this is a bit over 4 years old.
 
F Adobe.

The company didn’t inform users why they needed to discontinue use of the software, but the company’s Twitter account indicated the issue stems from “ongoing litigation.” AppleInsider, which first reported the notices, pointed to a copyright lawsuit filed last year by Dolby Labs.

In a controversial move, Adobe pivoted away from the standard software model to the cloud-based subscription model in 2013, resulting in notably higher revenues (and higher prices for customers). Dolby’s lawsuit accused Adobe of copyright violations related to how the licensing costs Adobe paid to Dolby would be calculated under this new model.

In a statement to Motherboard, Adobe confirmed the letter's authenticity, but wouldn’t provide any additional detail beyond what was included in the notices.

It’s yet another example of how the products we buy in the modern era can lose functionality or stop working entirely on a lark. Be it a game console that loses features with a firmware update or entertainment products that just suddenly disappear, it’s a problem that’s increasing popping up in the always online era.

Dylan Gilbert, a copyright expert with consumer group Public Knowledge, said in this instance users aren’t likely to have much in the way of legal recourse to the sudden shift.

“Unless Adobe has violated the terms of its licensing agreement by this sudden discontinuance of support for an earlier software version, which is unlikely, these impacted users have to just grin and bear it,” Gilbert said.

Gilbert noted that consumers now live in a world in which consumers almost never actually own anything that contains software. In this new reality, end users are forced to agree to “take it or leave it” end user license agreements (EULAs), in which the licensor can change its terms of service without notice.

“Even if Adobe is fully in the right here with regard to the Dolby dispute, it has the power to force its customers to upgrade to newer more expensive versions at its whim, which illustrates the undue power and influence of EULAs over the lives of consumers,” Gilbert said. “We should be able to own the things we buy.”
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Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...-get-sued-for-using-old-versions-of-photoshop

https://socialistexan.tumblr.com/post/184903338531/read-more-here-friendly-reminder-that-gimp-does

Sources: via Tumblr

Anyone know of a good program similar to Photoshop in terms of their eraser tool? I'm not a huge fan of the one in GIMP. That one is a bit of a pain to use.
 
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Oh yeah, been using their Photography Suite, ie Photoshop & Lightroom and got that email as I apparently didn't upgrade them soon enough. What's particularly perturbing, is the fact that they don't tell you anywhere in the actual creative cloud app that what you're using shouldn't be used anymore. Rather, they send you an alarming email that makes it sound like you did something very wrong :sigh:

What's worse is that in certain cases, there might be several versions available. Lightroom for example has both Lightroom Classic and Lightroom available if that's on your plan, but no notice of what is particularly safe. I just updated my version of Lightroom to the latest version of Lightroom Classic, yet I still don't know if that's what they want, or if they want me to just update to Lightroom. The notice is very vague and confusingly worded, and the version numbers don't accurately correspond to the product names. This is why it's very confusing to have both internal names w/ version numbers and generalized product names. I think they could have done a much more effective way of communicating this while limiting panic.

I'd add a pop-up message to the app that says the versions one is using are no longer supported and that you're now being updated to the latest versions.
 
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