* Posts by sabroni

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Senators urge US trade watchdog to look into whether Tesla may just be over-egging its Autopilot, FSD pudding

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Re: Such "cults" are usually perpetrated by secret services in the US.

Of course they are. Just send an FOI request to "the secret services, the USA" and they'll send you back a spreadsheet of all the cults they run (excel mind, not open office!).

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Re: surprised we don't have infrastructure designed to aid driving aids:

Really? Are you surprised by the lack of parking for hover cars too?

Asahi Linux progress: Apple Silicon OS works – though it's 'rough around the edges' and has no GUI acceleration

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Re: good Linux machines

Not sure what you mean by "good linux machine", shouldn't a good one have an open architecture to go with the open software it runs? How good can linux be on a proprietary multi chip system like this?

Surely it's better to work on hardware that has open specifications?

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Re: Good to see that the old saw about arguing with an idiot is still true.

Yeah, if all those rational rebuttals like "did you knock your head?" and "Smash up your computer" don't work then just take the piss some more, eh?

Magna Carta mayhem: Protesters lay siege to Edinburgh Castle, citing obscure Latin text that has never applied in Scotland

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Re: Latin has no definitive article

Good job we're conversing in English then.

Pi calculated to '62.8 trillion digits' with a pair of 32-core AMD Epyc chips, 1TB RAM, 510TB disk space

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Re: is knowing pi to a bazillion places useful for anything?

It generates a lot of "news" articles.

Dilligent research provides: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/17/new-mathematical-record-whats-the-point-of-calculating-pi

extract: Mathematicians have estimated that an approximation of pi to 39 digits is sufficient for most cosmological calculations – accurate enough to calculate the circumference of the observable universe to within the diameter of a single hydrogen atom.

Apple's iPhone computer vision has the potential to preserve privacy but also break it completely

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Re: It's like having a landlord coming over

No it isn't, read what you quoted:

"the checks are done on their servers, not on your local device"

It's like you sending some of your stuff to your landlords house for storage and him taking a look to see what you've sent. Very different to them coming round your gaff and looking at whatever they choose.

But we're discussing what google and MS currently do, not what apple are proposing, which is maybe where you're getting confused?

Microsoft fiddles with Fluent while the long dark Nightmare of the Print Spooler continues for Windows

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Re: for the dull of mind, think about it

"Now I have a new keyboard after the lauding of Pottering and his breaking of what was not borked, increasing complexity and creating multiple dependencies the author has a good point which all of us, bar the newbs, have heard over the millennia."

Yeah, get back to us when you're coherent.

Zorin OS 16 Pro arrives complete with optional 'Windows 11' desktop

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re: They always imitate the look, which is something no one cares about

Oh yeah! Remember when Windows 8 came out with that start page and everyone went "It's just the look, we don't care about that!"

Chocolate beer barred from sale after child mistakes it for chocolate milk

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re: That it is 8.5 per cent alcohol by volume doesn't hurt.

But, of course, we don't drink to get pissed, we just like the taste of it.

Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns

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Re: My son was circumsized shortly after birth, and there were no pictures taken.

Hiding the evidence of child genital mutilation. Good thinking.

Not as good as thinking "I don't need to mutilate my child's genitals" though.

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re: this seems like a sensible middle ground.

A third party scanning my personal device is a sensible middle ground?

No.

It's not.

THX Onyx: A do-it-all DAC for the travelling audiophile

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re: There's been little decent music created since 1998.

Ok Boomer.

Don't rush to adopt QUIC – it's a slog to make it faster than TCP

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Re: My solution was better

Of course it was, yours RANDOMLY CAPITALIZED text!!

Google says Pixel 6, 6 Pro coming this year with custom AI acceleration

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Google Tensor chip

With Google Analytics built right into the silicon. OOOOH, yes please!!!!!!

Privacy proves elusive in Google's Privacy Sandbox

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Re: since they own the biggest clients and some of the biggest destinations

And have analytics code on pretty much every other website. gov.uk use them for fuck's sake.

The UK is running on empty when it comes to electric vehicle charging points

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Re: Tesla are also fundamentally conservative and not a radical player...

Having a mouthy prick run the company is not radical, it's par for the course.

A bunch of apps will be able to bypass Microsoft's new store and use own update methods

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And if they'd forced clients to use their update mechanism?

Fucking Walled Garden Bastards!!!!

Survey of astronomers and geophysicists shines a light on 'bleak' systemic bullying

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Have a little think

If your reaction to this is to try and debunk it, ask yourself why.

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re: There happened to be a 30ish woman walking in front of me.

So we should believe your lovely story but but disregard an actual study?

How up yourself do you have to be to think that's a valid approach?

Money can't buy you love: Huawei continues to throw fistfuls of dollars at US lobbying efforts

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Bought one of their phones recently

Top spec, no Google, job's a goodun.

Can we keep them this way please?

Troll jailed for 5 years after swatting of Twitter handle owner ends in death

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Re: Cancel Culture and Doxxing..

Where the fuck did "Cancel culture" come from in that?

I understand people are outraged at GB News cancelling Guto Harri for not being racist enough but it's not really related to this story.

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re: And people say 'there is no justice'....... They're right!

Well I'd certainly take the opinion of a random internet poster over whatever the so-called "Judge" might have handed down. Surely all the detail we need is in the report we just read?

Why do we even bother with trials? We could just have a survey underneath a news report. Soon as we get 12 guilty clicks, job done!

Make-me-admin holes found in Windows, Linux kernel

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Re: The language has already evolved, too late to complain

It's never too late to complain.

It's never too late to call out bullshit management speak. Leverage is used when you want to say "used" but want to sound clever.

I'm quite happy to carry on complaining about that bollocks indefinitely.

Verified: UK.gov launching plans for yet another digital identity scheme

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Re: The left is driven by hatred. Nasty ideology.

It is. Hatred of injustice. Hatred of greed. Hatred of racism, sexism and other bigotry.

Those evil lefties.....

Windows 11: What we like and don't like about Microsoft's operating system so far

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Ctrl Shift Escape

takes you straight to task manager, has since 7. Does that not work on 11?

UK and chums call out Chinese Ministry of State Security for Hafnium Microsoft Exchange Server attacks

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re: The CPP is power hungry, unapologetic and oppression personified.

Like that hasn't been western international policy for the last 100 years.

Still, nothing like a bit of xenophobia to keep the plebs in line.

Three-dozen US states plus DC sue Google over Play Store's revenue cut, payment system, and more

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re: How is this any different, than say the Apple, Appstore

Android runs on a significant majority of phones. iOS runs only on iphones.

But you can't see why one might attract more monopoly attention than the other?

What is it with useful idiots defending mega corporations against "unfairness".

Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban

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Re: There are two possibilities on how it turns out.

You missed the third, far more likely possibility. This is nothing to do with sueing anyone, it's a cash raising exercise. His die hard fans will donate millions to this. The gullible media have been played and are promoting this cash grab like it's a genuine court case.

It's not difficult to work out if you think about the man, his previous behaviour, and what he stands for.

This always-on culture we're in is awful. How do we stop it? Oh, sorry, hold on – just had another notification

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Re: 24x7

It's all to do with control. It's easy if you can choose when to be available. You're happier on holiday knowing that emergencies will be raised with you immediately rather than waiting for your return. That's not the same as being contacted without your consent (or with your grudging "I need to keep my job" consent).

However, if I was a client of yours, I'd be wondering why there's only one person in the company who can handle the really important stuff...

I was fired for telling ICO of Serco track and trace data breach, claims sacked worker

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Re: it is they who need to be sued for wrongful dismissal

No, what "needs" to happen is this bullshit setup is made illegal and Serco is forced to employ people not use a fucking tax dodge to exploit the pandemic small business relief fund.

Serco bags £322m contract extension for Test and Trace, is still struggling to share data with local authorities

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If you think that is wrong...

...you're just jealous.

Linus Torvalds launches Linux kernel 5.13 after seven release candidates

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Microsoft’s Azure Network Adapter

That'll be the Extend phase, yeah?

Anyone still using cash? British £50 banknote honouring Alan Turing arrives

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trying to recall the last time I handled any cash. I can't remember.

Ask the government, I'm sure there's a suspicious break in your audit trail.

Google cans engineering diversity training scheme after alumni complain of abysmal pay packages

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Re: Clearly not. There peers were rejected outright.

There was me thinking they meant peers as is "employed to do the same job by the same company".

Pakistan's Punjab province tells citizens to get jabbed or have their SIM card blocked

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Re: I'm forced to pay taxes to support other people's kid's schooling.

Is that really the reason?

Wish I'd paid more tax now, they could've spent it on your education.

UK.gov's new single enforcement body does not cover rogue umbrella companies, contractor campaigners complain

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Re: IR35 hasn't 'just come in'

I didn't say that. I said "IR35 came in". The question was "did something change that makes people more exposed now than at any time before?" 20 years is covered by "at any time before".

Highly technical my arse.

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Re: did something change that makes people more exposed now than at any time before?

Yeah, IR35 came in, then loads of umbrella companies sprang up to fleece contractors who were trying to comply with the law.

These new companies wouldn't have lasted five minutes before IR35, everyone was working for themselves for a salary of £10,000 on a business with a turnover of £250,000 (with appropriate profit related dividends to the single director at the end of year of course). Why be an employee of an umbrella when you can be a director of a thriving business?

Why the government wanted to put a stop to that I can't fathom, sounds about as Tory as you can get.

Linus Torvalds tells kernel list poster to 'SHUT THE HELL UP' for saying COVID-19 vaccines create 'new humanoid race'

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Re: So much for giving away all his money.

It's almost like the system is rigged in favour of the wealthy.....

Bears shit in woods, news at 10.......

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Re: What does that mean?

It means that there's tons of data to back up vaccine science that's easily available to anyone with a rational mind.

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Re: Man makes idiotic statement on a mailing list...

That was too long winded as well, you twat!

Something like that?

Apple, it's OK. Seriously. You don't need to blind your iOS 15 engineers to prevent leaks

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Re: Apple is also believed to have an internal secret police force

Cool story bro!

Y'all ready to get back to the office this October, Facebook tells staff in the US

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Why?

These are all businesses, where's the business case for going back to the office? Is it literally "We spent loads of money on a building so we need to use it?"

Ohio Attorney General asks courts to declare Google a public utility

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Re: I search something like "WWII sea battles" and get products for hair restorer

Why would you think that comment was a sensible start to a discussion about government and tech giants?

If I didn't know better I'd think it was a deliberate attempt to derail the conversation by getting the nerds to talk tech instead of politics.

Sold: €15k invisible sculpture that's a must-see for art lovers

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It's art

If it also happens to be a con trick that doesn't invalidate it as an artwork. In fact, isn't that part of the work?

All works of art are objectively pointless, or at least the art bit of them is. A picture of a haywain can cover a stain on the wall but not because it's a picture of a haywain, because it's a square of canvas.

And the disbelieving comments are a lovely extension of the work, nudging it slightly towards reality.

Smashing!

Tiananmen Square Tank Man vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, other search engines – even in America

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Re: an influx of hard working grateful immigrants.

Lucky them. Don't get too comfortable though, eh?

Open-source JavaScript project Babel 'running out of money' after employing paid maintainers, sponsors pull out

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Re: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries

Ah yes, Jimbo's massive yacht fund. There's an example to copy!

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"We strongly believe that working in open source should be a viable and sustainable career path"

Look at the value you generate for others and look at the value you generate for yourself.

Google's diversity strat lead who said Jews have 'insatiable appetite for war' is no longer diversity strat lead

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Oh No!

They took him off the D&I team! What a nasty punishment. I can see why you're all clutching your pearls....

European Parliament's data adequacy objection: Doubts cast on UK's commitment to privacy protection

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Re: The Parliament is a bunch of self-elected, self-serving politicians

How does that work then? I'm sure when we were in the EU I got to vote in the European elections. How are the MPs self-elected, exactly?