Posts by Dan 55

Re: Technical marvel, but it's the economics, stupid

Sellers are merely charging what the market will bear, which has little to do with the wholesale price.

Re: Never mind DJI

Nah, they've just decided that only Russia's going to get a licence and they don't want other countries buying stock that could go there.

Re: But I *Liked* the Z80! ...

You can do real multitasking on Z80s... SymbOS, Fusix

Perhaps Biden better send them 6502s. ;)

Ofwat, that sets maximum permissible leakage rates and sewerage discharge volumes for the various water companies

About that regulator, here he is defending the water companies:

Ofwat chief defends water companies over lack of new reservoirs

The head of the water regulator for England and Wales has defended water companies against criticism over not building new reservoirs despite high levels of executive bonuses and shareholder dividends.

David Black, the chief executive of Ofwat, also said old pipes were not to blame for leaks and that most companies were meeting their leakage targets.

Water companies are meeting their leakage targets, but...

Water regulator giving companies a ‘licence to leak’, say MPs and charities

Ofwat, the water regulator, is not using its full powers to clamp down on sewage pollution and leaks, ministers, MPs and charities have said.

The regulator has been criticised for giving water companies a “licence to leak” for years and not curbing massive bonuses for CEOs who preside over a system of pollution and chaos.

Hold onto your hats, but there appears to be a revolving door between Ofwat and the water industry:

Calls for inquiry into appointments of Ofwat chairs past and present

The appointments of the current and previous chairs of the water regulator Ofwat should be investigated, campaigners have said, as the Liberal Democrats called for the watchdog to be abolished.

Jonson Cox, a former chair of the regulator, had multimillion-pound links with the privatised water industry before taking up the role. The current chair, Iain Coucher, remains a senior adviser to a global private equity firm that has interests in the water industry in the US.

Re: Too late!

Just use this.

Re: My takeaway from this article...

That sounds like it's a problem with the linker.

Re: Nothing that can't get patched up with laugh track.

Sort of like this?

Nothing, Forever

Maybe not...

Re: Committed to end twitter

Also, Zuckerborg showed Musk how to do it:

The old front end - Instagram (Twitter).

The new front end - Threads (X).

Call the new front end "X, brought to you by Twitter" or vice-versa in the same way as Instagram/Threads.

The same account info is shared between the two websites and a few more DB tables and columns added for the new front end. That means you start off with n million users.

If he's such a rocket scientist he should have thought of that first, but he didn't. But when he saw it happen, he should have realised that was the way to do it, slammed the brakes on renaming everything to X, and done the same thing. But he didn't, because he's just a dim boy from a rich family with an ego that comes from being from a rich family and he's stuck in a loop of making something called X because he thinks its a cool name.

AmigaOS is an example of an Exokernel before MIT came up with the idea so it can't be that bad a design.

As for fixing AmigaOS, it needed more money than Commodore were prepared to invest in R&D. By 2.04 and definitely 3.0, documentation should have been updated and library calls which needed shared memory should have been complaining "you set the wrong memory allocation flags" if the programmer had done that.

Re: I don’t think they understand

You can make a machine like a C64 or a Spectrum out of all-modern hardware, you need to order different parts from different suppliers but it's possible. FPGA systems like the MiSTer will reproduce an ST or an Amiga about as accurately as can be done. On original or modern hardware, these computers still work.

An iPhone will never work, the online services it connects to just don't work any more and 2G is decommissioned in many countries and will soon be decommissioned in the rest. If you could somehow fix either of these problems then it wouldn't be an iPhone either.

Whereas you can actually use older hardware and derive some value from it that way, you can't use newer hardware as it has to connect to online services which manufacturers have no interest in maintaining using protocols which are out of date. An second-hand iPhone has no real value now, it's just tulip mania.

Re: Behavior that deprives customers?

So this is MS' nth iteration of shady bundling practices proven to lead to downfall of a competitor, but this time it won't happen and this time the competitor is indulging in misrepresentation in their complaint?

I guess they haven't learnt anything from the "allow backup" flag, i.e. if it's not included then the user can't backup their app data.

Re: As someone who does not and will not ever have either a twatter or a zuck imitation account

Nitter.net and Squawker (Android app) appear to have found workarounds to the latest API changes.

Re: Profits?

Well, what else can you do when you turn a open platform into a simp club?

Re: Technically...

A dice wouldn't work unless it's loaded to greenlight sequels.

Re: Elon needs a bigger plate

Only two of those have been successful, SpaceX because they don't let him near it and Telsa because they were first but there are better options now.

Re: What is "The Party"?

They tried capitalism when they were on the receiving end of colonialism? No, they tried colonialism, specifically the wrong part of colonialism. That part never works out well.

There are many examples of The Party protecting the interests of the people with batons and pepper sprays and little rooms you don't leave for a long time, the people must be so grateful that The Party is looking out for them.

Re: A Twitter lawsuit database

twitterisgoinggreat.com, filter just by lawyers, but that stopped updating in May.

They're great for business, public sector, education, and lately home when RPis became unobtainium. Then Intel wondered off into gaming NUCs and unsurprisingly it turned out that they weren't as good as real gaming PCs and so the entire line got the chop instead of just the gaming NUCs. They threw the baby out with the bathwater, for a change.

Re: a clear disconnect here between law and technical reality

That is not disruptive. Disruptive is doing whatever you want and lobbying for it, if you lobby enough you won't have a problem finding well-meaning idiots.

Re: Nonsense

Inspired use of COPPA in the class action.

- Has your six year old ever posted a comment on the Internet?

- Yes, but it was just a bunch of random keypresses in the YouTube app.

- Ok, good enough, he's in the class action.

Re: This kind of makes sense

* Other nationalities staffing the helldesk who have to follow lobotomised scripts are available.

Re: Well at least now we know why

Well then if it's trained on Twitter as sure as shit it's not going to understand reality.

Re: Massively profitable company

They're just waiting till ReactOS is finished then they'll buy it out.

Re: It's very strange...

All Sega have done is look at Square Enix who followed the NFT hype and got burnt by it, now Sega are trying to find a way of changing their mind and saving face.

Re: I'm convinced

The crazier he gets, the more people talk about him, and the more his musketeers fall in love with him.

Only now you need to be a Twitter user to see posts and Twitter is haemorrhaging users, it all means nothing anyway. The worst possible outcome for a raging narcissist like Musk.

Given that McNealy managed to take each and every great idea that Sun invented and turn it into yet another nail to hammer into Sun's coffin, why would he be right about privacy when he was wrong about everything else?