* Posts by sabroni

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Amazon spies on staff, fires them by text for not hitting secretive targets, workers 'feel forced to work through pain, injuries' – report

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Unhappy

The saddest thing IMO

is that he could pay people a really good wage and still be coining it.

It's a personal choice he's made to treat people like shit.

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Re: But I'm sure you'll also find people who think it's great

Yeah, that's right! I see them in short informative clips shown between tv programs extolling the virtues of working for Amazon!

Must be true, they wouldn't be allowed to pay people to say "it's great here!" otherwise.

China trolls Trump with tech export rules changes that could imperil TikTok sale

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re: Which is rather different to specifically supporting one side.

But both equally wrong in terms of election integrity.

It sounds like you're fine with foreign interference with elections providing they're just trying to stir shit up rather than picking a side. Are you?

Zuck says Facebook made an 'operational mistake' in not taking down US militia page mid-protests. TBH the whole social network is a mistake

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Re: Can you say hypocrites?

Yes. And Straw man.

Whatever their motivation, watching that cunt sit in the street, shoot two people dead, then calmly stroll back past two massive police trucks makes me think you're on the wrong side.

It's not police brutality, it's the way your country works.

Brave takes brave stand against Google's plan to turn websites into ad-blocker-thwarting Web Bundles

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WTF?

Re: unlike the worlds freeloaders

I'm not letting insecure ad networks run JS on my browser. The Ad networks, the malware they fling and the privacies they violate are the reason I block ads.

Freeloading or basic self defence?

TikTok CEO quits after less than three months in the job

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Re: it is invariably a Microsoft Operating System

Seems you're not around as often as you claim either:

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/20/bork/

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/19/bork/

Facebook apologizes to users, businesses for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect its customers' privacy

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Re: Bad guy vs bad guy

I prefer the Bad Guy I have to buy stuff off over the Bad Guy who I've never dealt with but who follows me around the internet watching what I do.

Apple you have to buy from before they get your data. FaceBook get your data when you browse the internet.

Breaching China's Great Firewall is hard. Pushing packets faster than 1Mbps once through is the Boss Fight

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re: over more than 53 days

So 54 days then? If day counting is too tricky for them why should we trust their bit rates?

If you can't understand how Instagram 'influencers' make millions, good luck with these virtual ones doing even better

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Boffin

popular music has always been about the image more than the music.

No. Sneering at popular music has always been about the image more than the music.

Linux kernel maintainers tear Paragon a new one after firm submits read-write NTFS driver in 27,000 lines of code

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Re: feelings win.

The feeling being "I can't be bothered to help merge this, I enjoy moaning about MS stuff too much"?

PowerShell 7.1 Release Candidate is lurking around the corner, but first there's Preview 6 to poke and prod

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Re: there are so many other far more compelling tools out there...

With reference to Powershell passing objects where unix passes strings, what are these more compelling tools?

Shine on: Boffins bedazzle Alexa and her voice-controlled assistant kin with silent laser-injected commands

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Re: seems a bit of a stretch.

They were talking specifically about combining the light based voltage changes with the thermal diaphragm voltage changes being the challenge:

"The scientists theorize that there's both a photoelectric effect on the ASIC and a photoacoustic effect on the diaphragm arising from laser-driven thermal changes that move the diaphragm. Given that behavior, the team faced the challenge ......"

Splunk sales ace wins sex discrimination case after new boss handed her key accounts to blokes deemed 'flight risks'

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Re: flight risk

They pushed her out to prevent people leaving? Yeah, that's the kind of logic they were using.

Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops

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Re: then disable the least significant part of it.

The bit that listens to you 24-7 is clearly the most significant from a privacy perspective.

Amazon being notified when I use their tablet is not more significant than Amazon being notified when I interact with the real world.

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

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Re: Trump plans to use his Death Star in a democratic election

Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler: it's for children. Grow up.

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data

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Re: This REALLY shits me about Excel

The put the wizard on a menu so people who didn't understand it weren't scared off when they opened a csv while capable users could still run the wizard from a menu.

What a bunch of complete cunts.

Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail

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Re: Change one word for reality

The Americans have been messing with our (and many other nations') social, scientific, economic and political life for over 200 years. We should expect that as it's part of the culture.

Easy!

China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs

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Re: Don't worry, it's coming here soon too

Is it? Really?

Or are the bigots just fucked off that they don't have free rein anymore....

I certainly have access to all kinds of right wing nonsense via the internet, is yours not working?

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

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Stop

Having not played the game

your review means fuck all.

Someone made an AI that predicted gender from email addresses, usernames. It went about as well as expected

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Re: Sex and gender were the same until recently.

No. They've never been the same thing, just easy to conflate.

It's been five years since Windows 10 hit: So... how's that working out for you all?

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Re: But what do I know?

How to use Windows 7?

How to stick in the past?

How to get upvoted?

All of the above!!

Data-stealing, password-harvesting, backdoor-opening QNAP NAS malware cruises along at 62,000 infections

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Re: no use for anything else after the previous malware infection!

Didn't the factory reset work?

Microsoft tells AMD-powered Insiders they're unblocked in new Windows 10 Dev Channel build: 'Oh no we're not!'

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Re: What on earth is the point of such a thing?

It's to make it feel like you're making eye contact with someone when you look at their eyes on the screen. Like when you're talking to someone in real life.

Whether it works is another question.

Don't strain yourself, Zuck, only democracy at stake... Facebook makes half-hearted effort to flag election lies by President Trump

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Re: why aren't postal votes considered a fraud risk in the US?

They are. The results of elections have been very carefully analysed and there have been a number of studies that conclude the risk is fucking tiny.

You say "Plenty of fraud in the UK", any evidence of that?

Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now

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Re: Logic is still not one of your strong suits, is it Sabroni?

I post AC when replying to ACs. I reply to you as Sabroni when you post as jake. I'm not the person posting AC in this thread.

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So Linus is just a SJW then?

Lots of angry comments about how unjust this is. Funny how none of the bile is heading his way....

FYI: Someone's scanning gateways, looking for those security holes Citrix told you not to worry too much about

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Re: A file download API that allows access to any part of the filesystem?

An api that attempts to access what you ask it to? What's wrong with that? Shouldn't the file system be the thing that says "You don't have permission to look at that"?

The api should control who's allowed to call it, but it shouldn't be policing the file system.

Euro police forces infiltrated encrypted phone biz – and now 'criminal' EncroChat users are being rounded up

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You don't know who the users of this service were but because some were criminal you think it's ok to tar them all with the same brush.

Drug smugglers all arrive in the country by boat or plane. Should we apply your tar brush to all travelers too?

Microsoft has a cure for data nuked by fat fingers if you're not afraid of the command line

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Re: Windshit 10

Classic! How do you guys come up with this stuff??

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Re: Recovers your files in 10,000 tiny bits

That's segment mode, yeah? You have to request that with the /s flag.

There's lots of options https://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-file-recovery-tool/ depending on how much meta data is in the MFT and with the file fragments.

Looks to me like it can undelete whole files.

When one open-source package riddled with vulns pulls in dozens of others, what's a dev to do?

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re: that can't even get basic comparison operators right.

JavaScript comparison operators come in two flavours, one that coerces types and one that doesn't. If you pick the one that coerces and don't understand the results then you're a bad workman blaming their tools.

All languages require you to understand them before you use them.

One year ago, Apple promised breakthrough features to help iPhone, iPad, Mac owners with disabilities. It failed them

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Re: That is an assumption, and it is incorrect.

Oh cool, so they've managed to fuck this up even with staff who should understand all these issues.

That's an achievement!

Section 230 authors despair of Trump, Barr, Biden, US Congress’ aggressive ignorance of critical tech law

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Re: Thank you for this well written article.

Could you patronise that up a bit for me please?

Maybe there is hope for 2020: AI that 'predicts criminality' from faces with '80% accuracy, no bias' gets in the sea

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Re: is a fraudster, even if they don't know it.

It's only fraud if there is intent to deceive. The people you're describing are misguided but they're not fraudsters because they believe they speak the truth.

I won't comment on their critical thinking abilities.

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New York City police veteran

Left the force. Not racist enough.

Here's a headline we never thought we'd write 20 years ago: Microsoft readies antivirus for Linux, Android

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cool

Sounds like a good idea!

The incumbent President of the United States of America ran now-banned Facebook ads loaded with Nazi references

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Re: Eugenics - Sometimes a good decision - is what I think.

What makes you think an big IQ gives you more right to life?

It's your complete lack of emapthy that makes me think your genetics are flawed.

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I too will post a single line

A single line I posted

to post more wouldn't be a single line

so just one for me

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Re: Golly. Without Hitler.

Read as a bit of free prose that's actually quite moving, in a "documenting my mental breakdown" way.....

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Re: then tell me why the NSDAP has socialist slap bang in the middle of the title

The same reason Social Science has science in the name, to make it sound like something it isn't.

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Re: Trump will walk it in November

Only if he gets the military to clear the peaceful protesters out of the way with pepper spray and rubber bullets.

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Re: Eugenics - Sometimes a good decision - is what I think.

Well, would you do us a favour and remove yourself from the gene pool then?

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thugs from BLM

They didn't turn up, remember? Our thugs protect statues by attacking the police.

Try and keep up.

Full stack, C++, and backend developers in demand in this week's job openings

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Re: Wordpress accounts for ~60% of all CMS driven websites, but accounts for ~80% of hacked ones.

Wordpress is written in PHP. You don't know what you're talking about.

If Fairphone can support a 5-year-old handset, the other vendors could too. Right?

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Nice idea, but

Fuck the peasants. If they don't want to work in the mineral mines they should get a nice job in IT.

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To its credit, Google is trying to simplify the process of delivering Android updates for vendors.

That's the problem right there. Google launched Android with no thought for updates, originally claiming that it couldn't be done. They've dragged their heels over this for years, allowing billions of flawed devices to be distributed.

Some people will point the finger at the vendors but they didn't create an OS with no update mechanism, they just decided a free OS was too good a deal to miss.

'Boringly reliable': Red Hat architect thinks Kubernetes is 'mostly done' – but there are still plenty of bugs

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Re: Give this man a medal.

It's only open source where developers get to prioritise. In a business like Microsoft the management's focus on money dictates what gets priority.

If you're despairing at staff sharing admin passwords, look on the bright side. That's CIA-grade security

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Too right! That's why they're paid so much, because they're supposed to take responsibility.

Ex-eBay security execs among six charged with harassing, threatening bloggers who dared criticize web tat souk

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But from a customer perspective that's exactly why i like them.

I buy from eBay cos i know if something goes wrong they'll take my side.

(Sorry about the phone.....)