* Posts by sabroni

4141 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2007

Open source, closed wallets, big profits – nobody wins the OSS rock, paper, scissors game

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WTF?

re: This is, of course, balderdash.

Yes. Yes, it is.

Hoping everyone will start to play together nicely is not a plan.

Tesla Full Self-Driving videos prompt California's DMV to rethink policy on accidents

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re: how many are equipped with LIDAR

But that's exactly Musk's argument. The experts who understand the tech say it needs lidar but those who love Elon think an AI computer must be better than a human brain.

He thinks his customers are morons. Why do you think this way?

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Re: won't have to glue themselves to anything

My god, what a nightmare! I'm not paying for an autonomous vehicle if it's going to give way to plebs!

We need some kind of "net worth" scanner so it can brake for high value individuals but ignore those who can't be bothered to improve themselves.

Linux Mint 20.3 appears – now with more Mozilla flavor: Why this distro switched Firefox defaults back to Google

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Re: re: and I speak as an enthusiastic Mint user.

Oh no! I hang around here with my linux snark because I want upvotes!!

What a disaster!!!!

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Re: Quick fix for the stupid skinny scroll bars.

Doesn't get you the upvotes that the arcana does though.

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Re: some regard personal anecdote as generic experience.

Depends which way you look at it, eh?

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Re: and many people will tell them Linux Mint

As clearly evidenced by the shit show above, eh?

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re: and I speak as an enthusiastic Mint user.

Yeah, but clearly not enthusiastic enough for the fundamentalists on here.

You must venerate all aspects of linux or face the tyranny of downvotes!!

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Re: Otherwise they would lose the "let's look down on the plebs" superiority complex they have

That's it in a nutshell.

If you understand people as well as computers it's pretty obvious.

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Re: Quick fix for the stupid skinny scroll bars.

Good grief.

Thank fuck for MS eh?

HMRC tool for measuring IR35 status is so great, employers are ditching it in their droves

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Re: I’m clinging on

Downvotes for suggesting that contractors make enough to take care of their own benefits.

Telling.

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Re: And without any employee benefits!

Oh, is that not the choice you make when you decide to structure your tax arrangements like this?

I thought that's why you needed all that extra money, because you knowingly opt out of employee benefits (or rather, your company of one is too tight to provide those benefits to it's sole employee).

Oh, we want to have it both ways, but get upset when we get it both ways!

Cry me a fucking river.

Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won't ante up

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Naive

If you learn a little bit of history it's pretty fucking clear the only way FOSS developers are going to start getting paid appropriately is collective bargaining.

Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike resigns, leaves WhatsApp co-founder to run things until a successor is named

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Re: According to the Mobile Coin FAQs

According to the Mobile Coin FAQs this is absolutely fine and no-one should complain about it!

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Re: Why does EVERYTHING have to eventually turn to shit?

Greedy twats.

That's who turn everything to shit.

California files appeal in latest bid to intervene in Activision Blizzard's $18m discrimination lawsuit settlement

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Re: Bobby Kotick, the Activision Blizzard CEO, is getting off scot free

Why were you expecting a wealthy CEO to face consequences for their actions? Are you new to planet Earth?

Google: We disagree with Sonos patent ruling so much, we've changed our code to avoid infringement

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Re: This is a company who developed a technique of syncing speaker volumes across a wireless network

Wow. I wonder how it works.

Maybe by sending the same volume value to each speaker?

Quick, smack a patent on that, no one else could possibly work that out!!!

AT&T, Verizon delay 5G C-band rollout over FAA fears of passenger plane radars jammed by signals

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re: Why is everything suddenly a threat to our (US) democracy?

Because it's hanging on by the skin of it's teeth. Nearly half your population don't believe your democracy works but they have unwavering faith in semi-automatic firearms.

Why would you think democracy isn't under threat the USA?

Google fixes bug that stopped some Pixel phones from making 911 calls

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They don't test very well

"when users’ screens automatically unlock after receiving missed calls if they haven’t set a screen lock"

Cue a flurry of comments about how Google don't have any testers anymore and just release stuff to the public to test?

Or is that just when it's MS?

Fans of original gangster editors, look away now: It's Tilde, a text editor that doesn't work like it's 1976

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re: If unix text editors were military aircraft:

They'd all be absolutely fucking useless. Try backspacing and inserting a comma with a machine gun firing synchronously through a propeller.

What are you trying to say?

Google joins others in Big Tech: Get vaccinated – or you're fired

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Re: regular lateral flow testing

My son's got covid, tested by a PCR. He and his flatmate have both done multiple lateral flows, none of them came up positive.

A positive lateral flow test probably means you have covid but a negative one doesn't prove shit.

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Re: I'll bite :)

I think they were looking for a reasoned response not a daily mail brain fart......

FoI response points to network updates for ambulance outage on England's south coast

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Re: From the Article:

All you smartarse ACs are doing a typical tory hit job. Get the plebs to fight amongst themselves.

Look at how much Private Hospitals made at the start of the Pandemic (Private Eye will give you some good facts about that), think about how stressed out the NHS staff are by being unable to provide the help they should, and think about who wins when you try and pit ambulance staff against the general public.

This is a classic conservative ploy. Aren't you old enough to see through this shit?

Google Chrome's upcoming crackdown on ad-blockers and other extensions still really sucks, EFF laments

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Good grief.

If you're going to watch Fox can't you at least try and get some balance from a less rabid news source?

Log4j RCE: Emergency patch issued to plug critical auth-free code execution hole in widely used logging utility

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re: Java programmers: like programmers, but not so good.

Not so good what? Did you mean not as good?

Smartarse commenters: like me, but not so smartarse.

Chinese paper runs interview with Alibaba staffer who claims she was fired after exec rape claim

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Re: A Chinese company, trampling over the rights of it's victims...

A company trampling over the rights of it's employees.

FTFY, no need for the racism or to pretend they do this to random people.

The SEC is investigating whistleblower claims that Tesla was reckless as its solar panels go up in smoke

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Walmart later dropped its claims, and settled the matter privately.

Best justice money can buy!

Tech Bro CEO lays off 900 people in Zoom call and makes himself the victim

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Re: staying in contracting from now on.

You still have to deal with wankers in management, what's the advantage?

This fucker can't unexpectedly ruin your xmas because you know it's coming?

NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

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Why can't we have a decent free OS Daddy?

Why that's easy junior, just look at the discussion under any article on El Reg about Linux.

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Re: Consumers have this nasty habit of wanting things updated,

No. No they don't.

Consumers want things to work. They want things to keep working. They only want "updates" that have no noticeable effect.

We aren't the majority of users.

Amazon accused of grossly underreporting COVID-19 cases to US labor agency

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Still very convenent for cusomers though

And we don't give two shits about warehouse plebs.

Smart things are so dumb because they take after their makers. Let's fix that

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re: I don't think "500 server error" is a bad message

You're wrong.

BOFH: What if International Bad Actors designed the vaccine to make us watch more Steven Seagal movies?

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Nicholas Cage, same in every movie

I've seen him shooting a shotgun in a fight scene while shagging someone. I've seen him drink himself to death in a motel. Those were two different characters.

I know, he's inconsistent in the extreme, but Leaving Las Vegas is a great film and to make out that's the same character as Ghost Rider is wilful ignorance.

You forced me to use this fancypants app and now you're asking for a printout?

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re: What's missing at the moment is clever

NO! A thousand times No!

I've been working as a developer for over 3 decades. Nothing is worse than a "clever" idea. Give me simple ideas, straight forward ideas and well known, tested patterns. That's what makes things work.

Keep is simple, stupid!

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re: And this is what I find so crazy about Conspiracy theorists

You don't really know much about "conspiracy theories", but you've grabbed firmly on to the narrative that it means "nonsense you shouldn't think about too much".

I wonder who's pushing that narrative, and why.

Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future

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Re: it's an "arms race" with "loony" protestors getting more and more extreme

The suffragettes used to blow people's house up.

You're just parroting some hyperbole you've heard in our (incredibly right wing) media.

Blocking a busy road is not the same as bombing someone's house.

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Re: but not for apps on smartphones or comments on social media.

People don't get arrested in the West for posting things on social media?

I think maybe you need to spend a little time on techdirt.com.

Apple sues 'amoral 21st century mercenaries' NSO for infecting iPhones with Pegasus spyware

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Re: When Apple put profit before principle when dealing with China.....

.....it lost all claims to be a moral company.

You're missing an "in my view" from that statement.

Yeehaw, y'all! Texas done got itself a honkin' new Samsung semiconductor plant

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Let's hope none of their female employees have an unwanted pregnancy, eh?

Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say

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Re: And I'm absolutely certain they were trying to fix what wasn't broken.

Why are you certain jake?

Is it because you have insider knowledge or are you just inferring what's happened based on your prejudice?

UK Ministry of Justice secures HVAC systems 'protected' by passwordless Wi-Fi after Register tipoff

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re: the ruling party has an interest in running the judicial branch into the ground...

You sound just like one of those pesky human rights lawyers.

I bet you think the state should have to obey the law too!

Honor 50 Lite: Google Play Services are back on Huawei's former stablemate but that's nothing to get excited about

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re: With effectively only two operating systems for phones,

If you buy a Huawei phone you get Android but no Google. That removes some of the serfdom.

Server errors plague app used by Tesla drivers to unlock their MuskMobiles

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Re: worse, having to actually turn a key or press a button to start the car.

Oh, the horror! You poor thing, just thinking about such terrible concepts must be traumatic.

Still, at least you have the love of your lord Elon to guide you through these dark times....

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Re: Neither does the keycard that comes with the Tesla (require a network connection).

So where was the 500 error coming from then? Why did Elon tweet about network verbosity?

Amazon tells folks it will stop accepting UK Visa credit cards via weird empty email

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Re: This tends to be my thought. I don't like Amazon.

Well that's fantastic news!! I hadn't realised they were convenient. Fuck the plebs, get me an account!

GPU makers increasingly disengage from crypto miners

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Re: miners

They're not miners. Miners dig up useful stuff, ore, coal etc....

These people are chancers. Crypto currency isn't currency, no fucker did any work at the start of it, it doesn't represent any actual value other than the electricity wasted to produce it.

But the promise of all that "wealth" for nothing though, eh?

Ubuntu desktop team teases 'proof of concept' systemd on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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WSL 2 users though have frequently requested systemd support.

You're holding it wrong.

Brit analysts formed pact to crash Autonomy's market valuation, ex-CFO tells US court

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Re: charming ladies like Angela Rayner and Claudia Webbe

And which one of them was it that burnt a twenty quid note in front of a homeless person to join a school club?

As System76 starts work on its own Linux desktop world, GNOME guy opens blog, engages flame mode

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Re: re: Context doesn't travel well in posts of 280 characters

I'm on windows. I saved the comment to a file and checked how big it was.

CRLF pairs ftw.

FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what

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Why shouldn't they do this?

This doesn't sound dodgy to me at all. The only people putting this edge prefix on urls will be microsoft. Why shouldn't they open their own domains in their own browser? If they started to intercept other peoples domains it'd be an issue but I don't see the need to go to MS sites on a non-ms browser.

Why do you need to follow the links that have this prefix? Can't you just copy the link, change the prefix, and go where you like?

This is MS, within their own domains, forcing you to use their own browser. It's not "all my sites open in Edge" or "they're ignoring the url and doing what they like".

Why aren't you using Linux?