* Posts by sabroni

4136 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2007

That was fast: MetaGuard emerges as an 'incognito mode' for the metaverse

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re: You can not track that which you can not see.

And with facebook trackers integrated with millions of websites that's millions of website YOU can't see.

Or are you simply saying you don't have a personal facebook account? That doesn't mean facebook aren't tracking you.

Software developer cracks Hyundai car security with Google search

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Re: Companies need to spend more money on competent individuals

Sorry, there's nothing left for that bollocks after the management bonuses.

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Unhappy

Signed up just to derail a thread?

Sad

Excel @ mentions approach general availability on the desktop

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Facepalm

Consider that I (and you!) are better with software we've got decades of experience using.

Wow, what a shock, jake, to learn that you're not very good with modern Windows apps.

UK launches 'consultation' with EU over exclusion from science programs

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Re: It is a fact that the UK was a net contributor to the EU.

Ok, so why don't we just spend all the money we've saved on research then? Problem solved!

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Re: I assume a continuation of their efforts to anex NI

Where is the border supposed to go then smartarse? Bojo promised the Irish no border on the island, he promised the Unionists no border in the sea. So how exactly was this magic act of leaving the EU supposed to fucking work?

Elon Musk 'buying Manchester United' football club

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Re: He is such a f#$ing twit.

Worse than that, he's a fucking twat.

Open source VideoLAN media player asks why it's blocked in India

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Oooh! I know! I know!

They have someone in government who understands good user interface design and has had to use VLC on Android?

Dinobabies latest: IBM settles with widow of exec who killed himself after layoff

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Re: Funnily enough...

Reigns is what royalty do.

Reins steer a horse.

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

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Re: Please, dial down the angst.

Unless you're pro-nuclear in which case, "HOW DO WE KEEP THE LIGHTS ON?!!?!??!"

Our software is perfect. If something has gone wrong, it must be YOUR fault

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Re: how would this be a full day of work?

Work required has to be refined and ready. Team have to do the work, write the unit tests, get it reviewed and merged. QE have to accept the update, write their own tests, get that merged and ready for review. PO has to sign off on the delivered work. Promote it into production and check it's ok.

Sounds like at least a full days work to me.

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Re: the management often thinks that Full Stack also means UX

The user interface is part of the stack. A full stack dev should have good knowledge of UX like they have good knowledge of the DB.

BT union announces 48-hour strike action in protest over pay

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Re: hopefully one day I'll be like you

And right there is the problem.

As long as the majority believe there's a chance that they could, one day, be the person with all the the wealth they're happy to put up with how unfair this for them now.

Turkey's voting for xmas because it's such a good time for the turkey business.

Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop

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re: Life gets awfully complicated when you throw Windows into the mix.

Life gets awfully complicated when you throw an unfamiliar operating system into the mix.

FTFY.

BT union wants pay dispute talks with telco's largest shareholders

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Re: called itself the Union of Democratic Mineworkers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo

Yeah, that name is a dead giveaway.

GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash developers and reneging on cookie commitments

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Re: free expression, assembly, and association

Doesn't include free speech.

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Re: not a valid get-out clause

So their free speech should be curtailed in this case because you disagree with what they are saying?

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re: call into question its commitment to free speech

Github are under no obligation to host your free speech.

If you think they are then you don't understand any of this stuff.

Google sues Sonos yet again, claiming it stole IP and infringed patents

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Re: the servers essential to operating their products go offline.

You bought an audio system for your house that relies on an external, 3rd party server?

Chances are you'll get what you deserve.

DuckDuckGo says Hell, Hell, No to those Microsoft trackers after web revolt

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Hang on

I search on DuckDuckGo, click a link to visit another site, click an Advert on that other site, and DuckDuckGo can't protect me from the scripts in that advert?

And you say that like it's a massive fucking surprise to you?

Google asks workers for ideas on being 'more focused and efficient' in internal survey

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Re: equality

That's a red flag word to you, is it?

Apple sued by French media over App Store power

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The Register has asked Apple for comment.

You guys!!

It's on: Twitter vs Elon Musk trial to start October 17

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BT accused of 'misinformation' campaign ahead of strikes

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Phillip Jansen 32% Simon Loweth 25%

People who do the actual work: £1,500.

It's obvious that there is money to spunk away when it comes to executive pay rises.

How greedy and stupid do you have to be to think you can get away with this shit?

Philippines logs on to Starlink for remote area internet services

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Stop

Last paragraph

Should be labelled as an Ad.

Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'

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Re: This just seems cruel and unnecessary.

Should catch on pretty quick then.

Your job was probably outsourced for exactly the reason you suspected

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re: Once it's safe to go home, go home - Ms Patel, Mr Sunak.

That's not anarchism, you've got that confused with racism.

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Re: Don't dump it all of the Tories...

Yeah, of course, people don't get much more left wing than Blair.

UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform

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Re: This could be the straw the breaks the EU's back.

But Bojo wasn't doing Putin's bidding, this is just a coincidence.

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Re: is usually based on whether you agree with the result or not

No, it's not.

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Re: This is the most bare-faced example of corruption this country has ever seen :(

You might like to take a look at Private Eye if you think that.

Disentangling the Debian derivatives: Which should you use?

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Re: because all of its stable releases are codenamed after characters from that film.

See, you can all play nicely when you remember to hate MS!

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because all of its stable releases are codenamed after characters from that film.

Grow the fuck up.

Judge approves Twitter's request to hurry along Musk trial to October

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Re: Maybe he should have asked his lawyers

He did. They said "Keep asking for more and more data. Twitter can't give you everything, you don't work there. Once we've asked for so much they tell us to fuck off, then we can go to court."

Russia fines Google $374 million for letting the truth about Ukraine be told

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Re: Now go away.

Gavin, that you?

Great to see some top level British Diplomacy!!

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Re: Gosh, really ?

When someone posts sources and makes a clear argument?

Downvote and run away.

That really helps your argument.

Beijing residents blast COVID surveillance device

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re: Fortunately the left's constant calls for constant harsh lockdowns went mostly ignored.

There's a reason for that. The rest of us can't hear the voices in the Left of your head.

Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

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Great stuff guys! - Bogbrush

;-P

Google: How we tackled this iPhone, Android spyware

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WTF?

Watching people's every move and collecting their info – not on our watch, says web ads giant

Yeah right!

Would sound a tiny bit more convincing if Google weren't all about that shit themselves, eh?

You just needed to add a "Someone else" to the start of your byline and you'd've been good.

ZTE intros 'cloud laptop' that draws just five watts of power

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Re: I'm sure there will be some takers for this, but not me.

Too right.

Cisco all the way for me! A reliable, American back door that you can trust!!!

TypeScript joins 5 most used languages in 2022 lineup

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Re: You seemed to have unresolved issues...

So many touchy people, so little time!!!

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Re: Says the person who's found the time to post 3711 times

Wow, who knew that people a) take breaks or b) don't work 24 hours per day and have weekends or c) slow tooling, d) an off day, etc. Muppet.

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Re: Muppet

Oooh anonymous snark! Put a name to it or fuck off.

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re: the median time spent was actually just over 15 minutes.

So this is a survey of devs who had about 15 minutes to fuck arse around answering questions on a survey.

What do the Devs who are doing the work use?

A miserable work week spent toiling inside 'the metaverse'

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Re: Usability, frustration, anxiety, visual fatigue, motion sickness

Dunno about a day's work but they're emulating the commute perfectly.

Rows, columns, and the search for a database that can do everything

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Snowflake has declined the opportunity to take part in this article.

Bunch of Snowflakes!

SpaceX reportedly fires staffers behind open letter criticising Elon Musk

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Re: Fair or not, owners get to do this.

For exactly as long as everyone else in the company lets them.

This is why Unions get such a bad press.

The proles control the means of production.

Even at SpaceX.

SpaceX staff condemn Musk's behavior in open letter

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They have a "no asshole" rule

And Elon as the boss?

And now the employees are asking for the rules to be applied equally at all levels?

C'mon, it's pretty clear where this is going.

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Re: Who FORCED you to work for Elon?

That's a very bombastic post......

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Re: Idiotic comment.

I know.

What about the one you're replying to?