Re: There's no need for the MELODRAMA.
So you're not familiar with bob's work then?
Posts by sabroni
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Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2
Airbnb sees AI as its ticket to become a sprawling Big Tech giant
It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down
Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn't its problem to solve
Wednesday 14th February 2024 09:00 GMT 
Re: How do users go from having a new number to knowing the account iD?
My initial reaction was the same as Corin's, "How are they finding the user ID from a phone number?"
It's great that Alex has explained that you can log in to facebook with a phone number. Pity that fact isn't made clearer in the article though, seems kind of fundamental to the exploit....
Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all
Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases
Tuesday 13th February 2024 09:20 GMT
Re: Telling the computer what you want done •is• programming,
I respectfully disagree.
Programming is explaining to other humans what you want the computer to do. If your code isn't easily parsable by a human then it doesn't matter if it works correctly, I can't work with it. If your code is easily parsable by a human and it doesn't work then I can try and fix it.
Yes, your code tells the computer what to do, but if you're not programming in assembler then you're using a language that is primarily designed for humans to understand.
When it comes to working from home, Register readers are bucking national trends
Amazon Ring sounds death knell for surveillance as a service
Thursday 25th January 2024 09:23 GMT
It's a big noise over not much change.
The authorities used to be able to use the Ring app to send a public request to a user for footage. Now they have to go to the user directly and ask for footage.
So the app no longer facilitates asking publicly. Not sure why anyone thinks that is an improvement. It reduces visibility of warrantless searches.
(sorry, got bored waiting for someone cleverer than you to show up!)
SparkyLinux harbors a flamboyant array of desktops
Tuesday 30th January 2024 08:58 GMT
Re: I'm all for choice
Some of the options need to be good for choice to be worthwhile.
From http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/reports/pdf/creative_book.pdf
"I remember Hugh and I wrote a sketch in which I played a waiter who recognised a diner in my restaurant as a Tory broadcasting minister. I clapped him on the shoulder and told him how much I admired his policies of choice, consumer choice, freedom of choice. I then was horrified to notice that he had only a silver knife and fork for cutlery at his table. ‘No, no, they’re fine,’ said the puzzled politician. But my character the waiter raced off and soon returned with an enormous bin liner which I emptied over his table. It contained thousands and thousands of those white plastic coffee-stirrers. ‘There you are,’ I screamed dementedly at him, virtually rubbing his face in the heap of white plastic,‘now you’ve got choice. Look at all that choice.They may all be shit, but look at the choice!’" - Stephen Fry
Firefox 122 gets even more competitive with Chrome on translation
Friday 26th January 2024 08:45 GMT 
it always reports that it's running on Android 10
Why bother?
If you can't tell me the Android version then don't tell me the Android version, but don't lie about it being 10 when it isn't.
If you say "Not available" I can make a sensible decision about how to proceed, if you lie I end up treating that lie as truth my code potentially breaks.
How is this helpful?
Tesla Cybertruck gets cyberstuck during off-roading expedition
Burnout epidemic proves there's too much Rust on the gears of open source
Tuesday 23rd January 2024 09:21 GMT
Re: "Burnout"
Do you think Nestle had children's interests at heart when they promoted their baby milk over mother's milk? Using the free samples helps to dry up the mothers milk so she has to keep using the product.
Imagine being so full of hate and bile that an individual choosing to give you something for free is your enemy.
Imagine being so naive that you think people giving you stuff never have an ulterior motive.
Tuesday 23rd January 2024 09:11 GMT
Re: "Burnout"
Upovted for "Middle aged white males are the people who are going to bury time into building a career"
That was your premise, the priveliged work harder because thay are successful.
If you're upvoting that you need to work on your critical thinking, it's easy to spot the flaw in this "argument".
Tuesday 23rd January 2024 09:08 GMT
Re: They don't want excellence
Hmm. Or maybe they want someone who does what they need them to do?
"The code I wrote benchmarked at over 126 times as fast"
Either it's fast enough to do the job or it isn't. Once it is fast enough to do the job stop fucking around and pick up something that NEEDS to be done, don't keep polishing the job you've already finished.
Doesn't sound like burnout to me. Sounds like you decided to do some work that you found interesting. When someone is paying you to do a job you need to do that job, not whatever tickles your intellect.
Vast botnet hijacks smart TVs for prime-time cybercrime
Friday 19th January 2024 08:55 GMT
Re: Sadly they're also convenient.
Cool. If my experience is anything to go by then the APIs supporting that convenient front end will be EOL'd in the next year or so though, and at that point it suddenly stops being convenient and just becomes redundant.
I don't know what they don't keep the old APIs running.
Maybe because they want you to buy a new "smart" TV?
IBM Consulting is done playing around, orders immediate return to office
IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security
Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse
Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs
Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP
Wednesday 17th January 2024 09:03 GMT
Re: it's actually got a good record with its paid for product lines.
You've exceeded the limit for gullibility and will have to go on a new tier.
Wednesday 17th January 2024 09:00 GMT
Re: There are very few good reasons to put your data on someone else's server,
If you know what you're doing.
The vast majority of businesses aren't IT businesses so expecting them to manage data securely themselves is naive.
You remind me of people 30 years ago bragging about how they'd written their own encryption to make it more secure.
Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion
Elon Musk made 1 in 3 Trust and Safety staff ex-X employees, it emerges
Monday 15th January 2024 08:41 GMT
Re: And now let the downvotes begin ... what happens when you let fascists determine the rules
You know that each downvote is someone's speech, yeah?
Facism is when there is only an upvote button and you're compelled to press it.
Oh what a surprise, a free speech warrior who doesn't understand the first thing about free speech.
It's not all watching transparent TV from a voice-commanded bidet. CES has work stuff too
Friday 12th January 2024 09:19 GMT
Re: 3D? Again?
Stereoscopic 3d isn't true 3d, your eyes don't change their focal distance and that's why it only gives a impression of relative distance.
If someone can make a true 3d display where your eyes can't tell the difference from reality then they may be on to a winner.
(I fucking love super mario 3d land on the 3ds though!)
Drivers: We'll take that plain dumb car over a flashy data-spilling internet one, thanks
Office gossips beware – chitchat could choke your career chances
Friday 12th January 2024 08:59 GMT
Re: Women typically have a much more refined ....
Birds typically have a much more refined sense of interpersonal relationships and social niceties than Blokes. Blokes are just clumsy and tend to put their foot in their mouth when they open it. Blokes, in general, are also more direct. Got a problem with someone? Take it up with them directly. Birds comprehend a much more structured "pecking order". Who is allowed to dish dirt about whom. It's not that they don't do just as much of it. But not around the water cooler, where someone of the wrong social standing might overhear an inappropriate remark. I suppose that's what might be meant by indiscreet.
"implies that it's female blabbers who are judged harder"
Bloke gossip is judged pretty hard too. Particularly when it's done behind someone's back. Don't have the nerve to take it up with the person you have a problem with? Then just drop it.
If you're going to post from the 70s use the appropriate nomenclature, eh?
Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors
Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal
OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials'
Tuesday 9th January 2024 09:29 GMT
Re: Saying it isn't learning is wrong
LLMs don't learn, they shuffle and re-arrange exsiting stuff to produce output that appeals to humans. That's not learning. Learning involves understanding.
Do you think LLMs understand? Do you believe your brain is running an LLM?
Do you want to buy a bridge?
UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims
Need to plug in an EV? BT Group kicks off cabinet update pilot
Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come
Google Groups ditches links to Usenet, the OG social network
Tuesday 19th December 2023 08:56 GMT
Re: Nowadays, I'm not having any trouble with Duck Duck Go
Really? It's started putting Spanish language results at the top of my searches. I don't speak Spanish and I've never read a Spanish article or browsed a Spanish site.
TBH I've just about to give up on DDG, I've defaulted to Google at work because I was searching DDG then having to search again in Google every time.
YMMV.
Is it 2000 or 2023? Get ready for AI-anchored news. Again
Friday 15th December 2023 09:12 GMT 
all news it presents will be fact-checked by humans to ensure accuracy
So, this brilliant technology creates data that has to be checked by a human.
Do we even remember why we built computers?
Clue: It wasn't so we had some more stuff to check.
Shout me up when AI can produce output that's reliable. Like my ZX81.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
