Posts by Dan 55

Re: @Overunder Am I bad for not...

I may disagree with what you're saying, but I'm willing to fight for your right to say it.

And what would a neo-Nazi party do once it gains power? It would disagree with what you're saying and take away your right to say it.

What happens when they use turbo-charged freedom of speech that social media offers? Unlike traditional freedom of speech there is no consequences, no pushback, and an amplifying echo chamber? Well, we've seen what happens, they end up in Congress.

Therein lies the conundrum.

Re: Money making middle men

They actually pushed the boat out and went for 64GB, unless there are some special low low spec models floating about.

Re: I don't see the problem

And right on time one wine importer has posted his odyssey with CHIEF. Remember not to edit fields, it could get confused.

Apparently only some builds are infected, Windows Defender does detect it, and the recovery partition does not contain the virus so if your build has it then reinstalling from recovery would be the way to go. Read on from here.

Re: GDPR

The UK is still in the "European Region" which is EEA + UK if we believe WhatsApp's privacy policy however everything sent to Facebook's platform (Business, Facebook Messenger) is slurped.

Re: What am I missing here?

The products they've released over the past few years mean they've had to break Apple's special top-secret security several times over which makes Apple look bad and they won't let themselves be bought by Apple either, so the only thing Apple can do is release the lawyers to try and stop them.

The grown ups have to tidy up the mess.

Re: ZX Printer

You're probably thinking of the Alphacom 32. And yes, I also remember that anything you printed was gone in about a month or so. Also anything you wrote on the paper in ballpoint pen changed colour after a few days.

Also have an upvote.

Re: Google Play Services

Now, what's the betting that Google forewarned NHSx (and Denmark's equivalent, based on LosD's comment) but no-one took any action?

Move fast and break things vs. government IT. What could possibly go wrong?

Re: Using TouchPoint....

Got a link? It appears touchpoint is on the bullshit bingo card so it's impossible to find.

Re: Best thing to happen...

Gopher? Luxury. We used to dream of Gopher. Had to use ftpmail to get files and stitch them together by hand and use uudecode and then find out it was corrupt and do it all over again... if we were lucky.

Re: 1st amendment

Do you know what? I couldn't give a toss. After one armed insurrection attempt last week and more planned for the 16th and 17th, your freedumbs stop where mine freedom starts.

Big Social Network have finally learnt this lesson too, and they know they've gone to far.

Re: Damnit!

Obligatory plug for Fuzix, it supports 6502s amongst other 8-bit CPUs but there's no disk image for a 6502-based computer on fuzix.org yet.

It takes less than a couple of hours to boot.

Re: Keep your damn "OK" and "Cancel" buttons way apart!

It's something that's been brought across from the Mac perhaps because UXers all have expensive shiny.

TikTok said they're not interested, as has practically everyone else.

I imagine all the Google accounts on Android phones behind one IP address give Google the possible accounts to choose from, and from there it's no great leap to associate which account it is for sessions which aren't signed in based on browser fingerprinting, previous searches, etc...

Re: I sniff a rodent.

If you complete a transaction with WA Business it uses FB's shopping platform so it's not going to be E2E encrypred.

WA will soon also allow multi-device usage, history sharing, and the web interface to work with the mobile off, so I'm guessing E2E will soon dead and buried or have so many exceptions so as to be useless.

Re: ....and the beat goes on.............

Oh, the three resident idiots who can't use facts and data to support their argument because all facts and data point to it being a disaster.

Re: The Queen of Carnage

"failures in the interface to the French Customs System"

Please also read this whole thread. It's a clusterfuck.

Re: Burn it to the ground

That was because Trump's change was that the platform should moderate posts "consistently" otherwise it loses protection in Section 230.

How about not allowing hate speech to the list of things not permitted under Section 230 instead?