Posts by Dan 55

Re: "You're going to have to re-engineer processes within your company to match the product"

Perhaps Oracle took a leaf out of SAP's book. They liked the lock-in it causes as a result.

Re: Webassembly is the future

If you're converting to JSON, RFC 3339 would be the way to go. Java's milliseconds since epoch is a not very human-readable representation in a human-readable file format.

Re: As a complete aside...

GadgetBridge needs a lot of work on the GUI before it becomes accepted by the mainstream (as far as mainstream goes in alternative FOSS apps).

Re: She’s dead on my systems

There is an unsubscribe link at the bottom which I hit on the first day and it seems to have killed it.

However I shouldn't have received it in the first place as I had the option to receive advertising e-mail off in the Office 365 dashboard the data sharing option in Office preferences also turned off.

What data are they supposed to have on me if I disabled everything, or are they worthless placebo toggle switches?

Re: Who killed MIPS?

I'm not sure if the PC made sense in anyone's mind, it was like Frankenstein's monster bolted together by DOS and Windows. The only thing it had going for it was it got cheap once the clones come out and once it got cheap it took off.

The platform was like Trigger's broom so it couldn't be killed off. The Mac/ST/Amiga/weird boxes built in England eventually couldn't compete against a generic PC with decent graphics and sound expansion cards made by specialist companies who could survive thanks to the market being huge.

Re: Oops

I am shocked that you would even insinuate each new national IT security report is a bunch of meaningless paragraphs copy-pasted and maybe even slightly even reworded from the last report, over a period of several years.

Re: Ah, happy memories...

Nostalgia Nerd covered a bunch of different records here.

He also calls them vinyl. I call them records, I refuse to call them vinyl. That'd be like calling RAM silicon.

Re: Still. The Farage Garage will be open for business on time.

Not one customs union, single market, or economic union in the world allows a country outside access to whatever it likes without tariffs, otherwise obviously a large amount of goods end up flowing through this country to avoid tariffs.

The UK will trade with the EU, but with more barriers (slower transport, tariffs, differing standards) than before. Because that is Brexit up in a nutshell, raising barriers between the UK and the EU.

Re: Opted out should be the default.

As usual, the giant US megacorp with no concept of privacy or data protection will do it anyway and then the ICO may or may not do something (probably not).

Nobody's talking about compiling code from github. This is about distributing binaries, e.g. in github, homebrew or however way you see fit (your own storefront, as unfashionable as that is these days). You might think it's reasonable to compile everything from scratch, but for many people that is not reasonable.

Your ARM binary's ad-hoc certificate generated by Apple's linker is only valid on your computer so you can't distribute the compiled ARM binary to anyone else as it won't run on their computers.

XProtect doesn't matter, that checks that a binary has not been flagged as malware by Apple, but that happens later on in the launching process, only after the ARM binary's certificate has been accepted by the computer.

There are those that maintain that the Mac was the result or internal power struggle inside Apple. Well, that and Jobs getting fired.

Re: It's been a while

NUCs are quite good as a Hackintosh'd Mac Mini as Apple barely strays from Intel's reference design.

Re: The good old days

There speaks someone who can't remember how shareware was sold and how id software made it.

Re: Your privacy is important to us

You're right, everyone should stick with Google Analytics.

Re: Hmm

The UK isn't out of the transition period yet, let's see what happens in January (unless Johnson asks for an extension at the last minute).

Re: I hated Firefox last time I let it update

Bookmarks are a little better than before, you can share them now.

Re: Worlds biggest snowflake

The bigliest bestest snowflake there is.

Re: Without us, you'll 'widen the north-south digital divide'

Considering the government drastically reduced laptop allocation to schools with disadvantaged pupils in a pandemic when more students would need to learn from home, they probably want to exacerbate it.

Re: Who owns your Mac?

It's a little more complicated since Catalina, a bit of frog boiling took place since Sierra.