Re: Modern Apps
V3.0 is already implemented.
No, I'm not joking, the calculator really does slurp.
Expect similar for every Windows 10 app.
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V3.0 is already implemented.
No, I'm not joking, the calculator really does slurp.
Expect similar for every Windows 10 app.
For websites see https://www.turnon2fa.com/tutorials/ and https://twofactorauth.org/.
Even PayPal has it but it's pretty well hidden.
Be careful with this one. It's another one of those opaquely-funded groups which try to change government policy at 55 Tufton Street.
Their agenda seems to be only jump on government, but the same thing were done by private companies they wouldn't have a problem with it.
Here is another idea: when such a thing calls you, refuse the booking. Yeah, you are "losing" a customer that way - actually that person would not have booked a table at your place in person anyway.
The thing is, the restaurant actually hears a very close approximation of a human being so, unless the state where they live actually has laws saying the callee must be told they're talking to a robot and the call is being recorded, it's difficult to make a judgement.
So, once again, through their ubiquity meaning people get pulled into the Google way of doing things, Google has found a way to make businesses that opt out lose business.
It's not just the immigration data, surprise surprise...
MPs condemn Home Office over new Windrush failings
Report highlights failure to support those affected, with systemic problems still evident
[...]
Officials are still unable to say when a compensation scheme will be launched; meanwhile, many of those affected are in dire financial circumstances caused by periods of enforced unemployment, the removal of unemployment benefits, and debts run up trying to pay legal bills and Home Office fees; some remain homeless.
The report also found that:
The Home Office displayed a lack of concern for the impacts of its immigration policies on people without documents, compounding this with a systemic failure to keep accurate records, leaving many people who are British citizens struggling to prove their right to be in the UK.
There were numerous examples of the department doing “as little, rather than as much, as possible to find and help people affected by its actions”.
The Home Office was failing in its duty of care to identify and support everyone affected by the Windrush scandal. Greater attention should be given to large numbers of non-Caribbean victims.
Officials have been “woefully complacent” in promoting the existence of the Windrush scheme, which works to help affected people get their papers, particularly internationally.
British ethnic minorities remained vulnerable to being discriminated against by hostile environment policies that require landlords and employers to check documentation.
The Windrush failures had “major implications for the future as the UK prepares to leave the EU”.
If it's not 6502-based or Commodore BASIC he doesn't like it, which is odd as both 6502 assembler and Commodore BASIC are both pretty poor examples of assembly language and BASIC.
Also, the hatchet job he just did on the ZX80/1 was rather uncalled for. Nice to see Jeff Minter put him right in the comments.
There's an easy fix to make 48K machines output composite instead of RF.
128K machines output RGB and can be converted to VGA.
The 8-Bit Guy has just started a project to build an 8-bit computer using modern parts, but if you're a regular viewer you may be unsurprised to find out that seems set on re-inventing a Vic-20 or Commodore 64.
For some reason I had this nagging doubt so I went back and looked on the net, it seems the ROM was originally socketed but the socket was dropped somewhere through issue 2.
In an age where people updated the memory themselves and transplanted the board into a new keyboard case (I did both), I'm sure early adopters would have paid for a new BASIC ROM if it were objectively better.
And to be honest I was jealous that the Acorn machines had the proper OS...
As for the eventual ZX Spectrum itself, it would launch in April 1982 with unfinished firmware and a BASIC ROM that could charitably be described as lethargic. A plan to ship an upgraded ROM was dropped due to the popularity of the thing, with the finished firmware shipping on peripherals, ready to take over from the Spectrum’s incomplete ROM when needed.
It wasn't upgradable because Sinclair wanted to save pennies (of course) and soldered the ROM to the circuit board instead of pushing the boat out and using a DIP socket, and the ROM software was unfinished because Sinclair wanted to save pennies (again) and fell into a dispute with Nine Tiles. A lot of the functionality which was in the Interface 1 was originally meant to be in the Spectrum ROM.
The closest approximation of what the ROM should have been like is here (Sea Change ROM). Over the years this turned into the Gosh Wonderful ROM.
Of course nowadays there's interpreters for Windows other OSes like this.
HMD's relationship to Google is similar to Dell and Wintel 20 years ago: they want to be the reference platform, with as little divergence as possible, which makes rapid patching easier.
Well they can fix the battery saving then as Nokia phones have a task killer which is a little too keen.
(Who are Evenwell?)
Judging by the downvotes, in case people have misunderstood that, these are names of android apps which allow access to Facebook without the Facebook apps' tentacles in your phone. They are wrappers for the website with no contact or phone number permissions, and do not share cookies with the Android browser.
Hence useful if you 'must' use Facebook from your phone.
I mean, it's not like they've ever stuffed a microphone in a subsidiary's consumer gear without telling anyone what it does or anything.
YouTube (and other platforms) should allow you to moderate replies to your videos/posts/whatever to be moderated by you. The idea being the person most interested in keeping their garden clean is you so you should have the tools to do it.
Obviously that doesn't stop people creating sketchy videos which YouTube's fantastic algorithms completely fail to catch, but I think this is a battle which needs to be fought on several fronts, and this would stop anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, people with political opinions funded by unknown sources, and undesirables of the sort mentioned in this articles rocking up and ruining otherwise perfectly fine stuff.
But, for technology companies, YouTube and others seem to be extraordinarily resident to change, convinced that the model works but they just need to tweak the PHP script behind it.
To be honest I don't think the human race is ready for social media. It might work when geeks blabber on about operating systems but it doesn't scale up to real life, it ends up amplifying and polarising every problem society has.
And yet no browser has a built-in point-and-drool tip jar, all thought so far seems to be towards clobbering ads sometimes followed by 'letting the ads we think are good though' or 'replacing other ads with our good ads'.
If you could pay a few pence if you liked an article by simply clicking a button, that would really challenge the advertising model.
At least there is method behind the madness with Perl, the only thing it's guilty of is straying a little too far away from C syntax which for some people is an insurmountable problem. Sticking two keywords together in JavaScript or PHP is like playing Wheel of Fortune, but the familiar squiggles and braces lull you into a false sense of security.
Unless and until it has a human pre-moderating all videos, I ain't trusting it and will be treating it just like YouTube. I.e. it ain't for kids and mine's going nowhere near it.
Magic algorithms still can't do what one human being can. The fact they won't use a real person for vetting children's videos is symptomatic of everything that's wrong with Silicon Valley culture.
I bet employees who do have children won't let them anywhere near it.
If they're Brexiters you could give them Criadillas al Brexit.
I'll let the audience find their own English translation.
Perhaps if he hadn't said "portability is for people who cannot write new programs" and hadn't had a go at MINUX, he wouldn't be in this situation. It took a lot of work to convert Linux from an i386 OS to work on other CPUs, one day he might work out more modular kernels aren't such a bad thing either.