Posts by sabroni

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.......

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

Cool story bro!

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.

Re: an influx of hard working grateful immigrants.

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

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

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

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?

re: When something is branded as an "experience" it is never going to be good!

Guess that explains Jimi Hendrix.

Re: why has the inquiry have been given more teeth?

Because they're milk teeth and will fall out as soon as Pritti Patel decides she doesn't want us to see the report?

Re: The bitcoin market is a classic tulip market

But even a tulip has some intrinsic value, it's a thing, it looks pretty. Where's the value in a bitcoin?

Re: But you have become Microsoft circa twenty years ago

A nice comparison, but MS of 20 years ago didn't have a tenth of the surveilance capability that Google do. They might have been sniffing around your work pc and your home pc but they weren't watching you communicate with your mates, they weren't following you around the country, they didn't have diagnostic widgets installed on pretty much every website you visit.

MS have always focussed on the bottom line, that means selling stuff. Google are a much greater threat than MS ever were. They've realised that if you give stuff away you can make it do whatever you like and the punters will lap it up.

re: An article on Spotify

No, an article on high definition audio streaming.

I notice you're not complaining about Amazon's mistreatment of their warehouse staff despite Amazon also being mentioned in the article. Are you sure you've got your priorities right?

Re: If you do know how to put text and a signature into a pdf

then post about how clever you are and berate others for not knowing a thing that you know.

Re: Google doesn't offer a phone in purple.

It also doesn't force apps to tell you that they're tracking you and why.

So they're definitely better than Apple on the accessibility front, but shit for your privacy and matching ensemble.

Re: Ultimately you can't protect people from themselves.

But can you protect people from twats in who put their cars in "autopilot" mode then crash into you?

I'm happy for these rich idiots to Darwin themselves but as a pedestrian/other road user how do I avoid becoming collateral damage?

Re: I know, that isn't so popular with the manufacturers, either.

I don't want another device to manage, thanks. That's work.

A consumer device should be a consumer device. If an "EOL" date becomes a common thing then manufacturers will have to compete on providing the longest lived devices.

Re: Flemish?

Corrections link, bottom right of the story.

Might take a while for them to notice a comment.

Re: It'll be great to see some frothy religious views on technology for a change

For a change? You've clearly never criticised the behaviour of one of their idols.

Say something nasty about Elon Musk or Linus Torvalds and you'll soon be getting sermons instructing you on correct behaviour.

Re: I don't see why people expect him to be any different now.

They don't. They want him to fuck off, not change.

Re: Should Stallman come out as a woman?

Imagine you are a woman born in a man's body.

Hilarious.

re: Isn't that the standard practice in IT?

As opposed to what? What industry is it that has senior managers who aren't greedy shits?

Must be lovely.