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Posts by Gene Cash
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Kick Google all you like, Mozilla tells US government, so long as we keep getting our Google-bucks
Is Google fudging search rankings to benefit pages that embed YouTube vids? Or is this just another ‘bug’?
Hey Reg readers, Happy Spreadsheet day! Because there ain't no party like an Excel party
I'm getting OLD
I remember when Visicalc came out, and the first time someone showed me formulas that were related and how it recalculated.
My brain exploded and my jaw rattled around on the floor. It was about as earthshattering as the time someone explained exactly what pointers were in C.
We need an "old man rambling on about shite" icon...
British Airways fined £20m for Magecart hack that exposed 400k folks' credit card details to crooks
If a company is in such financial difficulty that the fine will massively increase the number of job losses
Then perhaps they're so ill-managed they should go out of business.
ESPECIALLY when they say shit like "credit card data breaches are an entirely commonplace phenomenon and an unavoidable fact of life”
Every last one of them should be selling pencils on the street corner.
If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish
Nvidia signs up for an Italian Job: Building for Europe the 'world's fastest AI supercomputer' by 2022
Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so
will drop PPD file support soon
OK, what do I do with my 4 year old Brother laser then? It's certainly not getting IPP support.
I guess go back to LPRng then?
"this relies on the printer manufacturers implementing the protocol correctly"
Right. And they expect that to actually happen, do they? I have some bitcoin to sell them...
BBC Micro:bit with boosted specs and onboard mic to go on sale from next month
Re: One question
As to the addition of a microphone by default this to me carries the reeks of amazon/google style listening in
Did you actually READ the article?
"the microphone is a Knowles MEMS sensor, which is accompanied by an LED light. This, the BBC said, is to help facilitate classroom discussions around privacy."
Time for a virtual love affair: ESXi-Arm Fling flung onto the web for peeps to test drive with Raspberry Pi 4, other kit
SpaceX breaks run of scrubs with Starlink launch: Darth Musk finds your lack of faith in on-time launches... disturbing
Don't see what Musk hopes to improve
The Florida weather is always iffy, unless he gets that weather-control system working.
The automated abort system that SpaceX is using removes a ton of the traditional constraints. It saves so much time & money, the range is pushing Boeing and others to use it, or provide funding to continue to use their legacy system.
A system limit is set by the engineers, and you have to have faith as their manager that they're setting them appropriately.
With rockets, sometimes the shit stacks up, and you stay on the ground. Or you push it and take the good chance of a fireball. Just like airplanes.
Reno4 Pro 5G: At this price point, OPPO's latest phone for the UK market ought to feel better than a mid-ranger
How many people actually impatiently wait for their phone to charge on the go whereas plugging it in when its convenient. How often is it going to be needed anyway with a monster battery?
I do. There's never a convenient time to plug it in. My Moto G6 Play has a monster battery but sometimes it goes for 3-5 days and sometimes I'm on the phone A LOT and it goes only a day or so.
> How big is the proprietary charger to support fast charging?
My ANKER one is 5cm x 5cm x 2.5cm. It's smaller than the battery packs I have.
Massive news, literally: Three super-boffins awarded Nobel Prize in physics for their black-hole breakthroughs
Infosec researchers pwned Comcast's voice-activated remote control so it could snoop on household chit-chat
A freshly formed English council waves £18m at UK tech industry, asks: Can somebody design and run pretty much everything for us?
FFS FSF, you're 35 already? Hands up if you just sprouted a gray hair or felt a craving for a Werthers Original on reading that. Happy birthday, folks
Excel Hell: It's not just blame for pandemic pandemonium being spread between the sheets
All at sea: SAP was barely out of the port when it sank its 'social responsibility' voyage
TalkTalk marches OneTel users into a brave new email world
There ain't no problem that can't be solved with the help of American horsepower – even yanking on a coax cable
Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing
Enjoying "I told ya so"
My friend poo-pooed my concerns about sending personal data to the cloud, and what if Google has issues or shuts it off?
Now he's getting dozens of phantom rings and is asking me how to turn it off.
I suggested a sledgehammer, and he's angry I can't magically fix someone else's server issues.
What price your home delivery? Amazon accused of hiding real injury rate in its overworked warehouses
FYI: Mind how you go. We're more or less oblivious to 75% of junk in geosynchronous orbits around Earth
Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do? Los Angeles Police Department found fibbing about facial recognition use
It's powered by a mega-corp AI, it has a Liquid Mode, but it's not a T-1000. It's Adobe's PDF auto-reflow for mobile
Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods
And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time
Tesla to build cars made of batteries and hit $25k price tag about three years down the road
Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology
Before you buy that managed Netgear switch, be aware you may need to create a cloud account to use its full UI
Das Keyboard 4C TKL: Plucky mechanical contender strikes happy medium between typing feel and clackety-clack joy
Thunderbird implements PGP crypto feature requested 21 years ago
iOS 14 suffers app preference amnesia: Rebooting an iThing resets browser, email client defaults back to Safari, Mail
Feeling bad about your last security audit? Check out what just happened to the US Department of Interior
Internet Archive's way cool Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over pact
Brit MPs to Apple CEO: Please stop ignoring our questions about repairability and the environment
Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material to Facebook – after US-EU date confusion in IP address log
Climb every mountain, wsl --mount every Linux disk in latest Windows Preview
Australia starts second fight with Google, this time over whether app stores leak data, gouge devs, steal ideas and warp markets
China launches and lands its first re-usable spacecraft
Taiwan tightens rules around local tech firms sharing tech with China
Amazon spies on staff, fires them by text for not hitting secretive targets, workers 'feel forced to work through pain, injuries' – report
I'd like to stop buying from Amazon
But that would mean I'd have to stop buying anything, as local stores stock almost nothing I need.
The local auto parts place doesn't stock jack oil any more, for car jacks. Nor does it stock anything but the shittiest of gas cans or oil drain pans.
The local Best Buy doesn't stock wired mice, video capture devices, USB microphones, ethernet switches, or SSD drives.
Nowhere stocks a decent size bench vise, or decent brands of pliers, like Knipex.
When I wanted a decent motion sensitive night-light, so I didn't bang my shins going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I went to Home Depot, Lowe's, Best Buy, Bed-Bath&Beyond, and a couple other places. They had shitty Chinese stuff that wasn't all that motion sensitive, or just stayed on for 10 seconds.
It's so bad, I don't even try any more, even though the Best Buy is only a block away.
The article starts off with "Amazon is famous for its extreme efficiency yet behind the curtain is a crippling culture of surveillance and stress"
I'd think they go hand-in-hand.
Relying on plain-text email is a 'barrier to entry' for kernel development, says Linux Foundation board member
Is setting up a non-shitty email client really that hard?
It boils down to people being lazy and impolite.
How about people stop the goddamn top posting?
How about email clients having a plain-text version of the email instead of a choice between HTML and fuck-you? A true modern email client should be able to provide plain-text email by checking a preference. If it can't, then it is broken.
The advantage of plain text is that you can search it, and quote it, and thread a conversation in an archiving page, and do a lot of things that HTML breaks.
Why should I have to deal with parsing the shitty HTML a lot of mail clients (including Thunderbird) put out?
gmail and the Apple Mail do a lot of shitty things. For example, I regularly get work emails at home because Apple Mail just puts "Gene Cash" in the address, and people can't tell if that's my work address or my home address. People don't give a shit to the point that I've had to stop responding to these emails from home.
Why are people focusing on the HTML wrapper instead of the message inside it?
If you can't configure your email client, do you really belong on the LKML or writing kernel code?
So... just 'Good' then? KFC pulls Finger Lickin' slogan while pandemic rumbles on
Re: Stats
> Where I live we can have alternative for the same price so why bother with the fast food
Well where I live, I'm fucked. I have either shitty hole-in-the-wall dives that serve hair-in-the-eggs and sweat-in-the-coke or I can go to a chain where at least corporate sets SOME sort of minimum standards.
That's what I get for moving to a town of less than 45K where I can drive around the whole place in 25 minutes.
This PDP-11/70 was due to predict an election outcome – but no one could predict it falling over
FYI: Chromium's network probing accounts for about half DNS root server traffic, says APNIC
We've heard some made-up stories but this is ridiculous: Microsoft Flight Simulator, Bing erect huge skyscraper out of bad data
You there. Person, corp, state. Doesn't matter. You better not shoot down or hack a drone. That's our job – US govt
Good news: NASA boffins spot closest near-Earth asteroid ever. Bad news: We never saw it coming. Good news: It's also really small
Farewell to notches and hole-punches? ZTE expected to announce mobe with under-display camera next month
Re: I would be happy with a no camera phone
I use my phone camera an absolute fuckton for documenting things.
For example, I used it to capture how the right switchpod of my bike looked before I disassembled it, and then various stages of that disassembly. I only needed the pictures for about 3 hours, but they were invaluable when I was putting it back together.
Friday I took a picture of where a router was supposed to go, to demonstrate it wouldn't fit there to the boss.
Phone cameras are worth their weight in gold.
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