Posts by Dan 55

Such was Johnson's fantastic Brexit agreement, the UK can't even make trade easier with the whole of... the UK, let alone its neighbours.

Re: building tribal knowledge

Maybe one day there could be a business which actually documents things in the first place instead of labouring under the belief that elder forefathers and younglings must meet by divine chance at the hallowed water cooler place and sacred serendipity in whom we have always trusted will ensure that the mystic incantations will be passed down.

Re: THESE are my kind of El Reg articles

I think it was a result of that questionnaire a while back asking what types of articles do you like the most and there was a choice of four answers. That turned out as well as Mozilla changing Firefox's UI according to telemetry... the mix was what made El Reg what it was.

Re: LineageOS is probably the next best thing if you don't have a Pixel

And maybe if you do, since GrapheneOS's lead appears to be having a few problems.

Re: Racist?

We all know this is due to not giving it enough training data. Just enough training data was given to confirm existing biases and the results were confirmed as okay. Then later on when this was found out, the solution was "ah, well, fixing this is too much like hard work and why would black people want to tag photos anyway?"

Re: Mozilla that markets Firefox [...] for the availability of ad blocking extensions, or add-ons.

I just tried to do this on the latest Firefox for Android for a few extensions, it just downloaded the .xpi file instead of installing every time. Even if when I put it in developer mode (Settings > About Firefox and tapping repeatedly on the logo). Maybe there's an extra step that has to be done somewhere or maybe it needs less strict cookie settings or something?

Of course it won't be cheaper because their cloud offering uses a standard PC, not a Raspberry Pi, making the entire undertaking utterly pointless and merely a method of paying the Danegeld to Microsoft every month.

Of course "key decision makers" in corporations will willingly sign on the dotted line while their developers who have to use this shit will collectively facepalm... again.

Re: Really?

I'm sure they can knock out some lovely screens which might give a close approximation of your heart rate and blood pressure but that still doesn't mean I should trust their software or privacy policies, both of which have been found to be wanting.

If you really have a medical condition then you'd obviously need a home blood pressure monitor.

Re: Dystopian

You'd presume iPads can have more than one user profile, but they can't.

Apple probably worked out there were enough gullible people in their target market willing to buy his and hers matching iPads with iPad Minis for the children.

Re: Hmm.

The EU is living rent free in Brexiters' heads, as the youth would probably say.

Re: EU data safe from from inspection by the spooks

That is the ePrivacy Directive, not GDPR.

Re: more unsafe

All that's going to happen is you change your app store address to outside Montana if it's actually accurate in the first place, download it, then change it back to Montana if you really want to.

I stand corrected, the OP's premise was right. I guess they all have to stay in hotels and eat somewhere.

Re: Missing something

It was what the first consultancy they asked told them to do and there's no changing their minds.

Re: Our internal analysis...

There's no reason to give Google your phone number to use 2FA. Nor is there any reason for Google to ask for it (for 2FA).

Of course, they like unique identifiers so they're asking it for that.

You want to work in Microsoft?

Re: Reporting just as bad as ever in El' Reg...

That's a totally different topic to the one of this article, which *repeatedly* suggests that Horizon would solve the things Dyson is critical of.

The article mentions Horizon *once* when talking about UK's ability to compete in science. That's competing in science, not making vacuum cleaners. Dyson seems to confuse the two and talk about innovation when he means he wants to make household goods more cheaply. How much of a non-compete clause do you need if you're making fans or hand dryers? SpaceX he ain't.

It doesn't matter, Clearview still slurped UK and EU citizens' data. They are amassing GDPR breaches and it's difficult for a judge to just throw out a case just because it comes from the UK or an EU country, CCPA is a thing and the comparisons between GDPR and CCPA can easily be made. They also settled with the ACLU which is as good as admitting guilt so why shouldn't they pay up for GDPR breaches?

nvi's going backwards though, it's a fork of vi which didn't get very far, unlike vim and neovim (or even dare I say it MacVim and VimR).

Re: Trump?

I do hope so. With extreme prejudice.

Re: Security vs Convenience

If you want idiot proofing take the idiot out of the equation. Don't use push notifications (i.e. use TOTP) and the system should flag accounts that have repeated successful password entries but keep failing on 2FA.