* Posts by sabroni

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After four years, Rust-based Redox OS is nearly self-hosting

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Re: It's also a lot more vague. "Everything has a location and a default handler" is pretty generic.

Rather than being explicitly wrong and saying everything's a file? The more generic the better, surely?

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Re: 3 seconds boot time?

"a time he says is "not fast enough"."

Googlers fired after tracking colleagues working on US border cop projects. Now, if they had monetized that stalking...

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Re: I can only assume that the stalkage etc moved into legal/crime territory

You missed this bit then: "The four just so happened to be involved in labor organizing at the internet goliath"?

Video-editing upstart bares users' raunchy flicks to world+dog via leaky AWS bucket

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Re: Amazon need to make it more difficult to use insecurely than securely

That's a great idea!

How do you achieve it?

Google brings its secret health data stockpiling systems to the US

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Re: It's about time patients got custody of their medical records

Personally, If I'm hit by a bus then I know next time I go online I'll want adverts for medical equipment.

Microsoft embraces California data privacy law – don't expect Google to follow suit

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Re: Take a third option

I've yet to encounter a site that allows you in with a single click with no tracking. So none that satisfy gdpr. They all take your "ok" as informed consent but that's against the regulations too

So can you point me at a site that genuinely satisfies gdpr?

ZTE Nubia Z20: It's £499. It's a great phone. Buy it. Or don't. We don't care

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the display doesn't sound very useful

But a touch screen on the back, so you can control a game without your fingers blocking your view, seems pretty useful.

Is AWS sponsoring Rust? Only a bit – and so is Microsoft Azure

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Re: "you're saying that Microsoft had credibility"

I thought the op was about aws.

On these boards there can only be one big bad....

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Re: flagship node project

Is visual studio code isn't it? Runs on Mac's, Windows and Linux.

Father of Unix Ken Thompson checkmated: Old eight-char password is finally cracked

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Re: Windows still uses NTLM, which is not salted

Windows can still use ntlm but defaults to more secure methods. I'm sure if you tried hard enough you could get old insecure algorithms running on Linux.

Stick to the domain you have expertise in.

GNU means GNU's Not U: Stallman insists he's still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out as leader

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ever heard of the bystander effect?

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re: the downvotes are probably just howler monkeys with no sense of humor

Or people with a wide enough circle of friends to know someone LGBTQ.

Windows 10 update panic: Older VMware Workstation Pro app broken

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it works on up to date versions

Why are people running the old one?

If this is ms pushing people to ms products why have they only broken the old one?

My first thought was "they've spotted a bug in the old version and want to push you to update.". Should i be more paranoid? The conspiracy theories are certainly more fun....

Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs

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Re: You are whinging about 70 errors in 70 thousand samples?

>those 69 vulnerable snippets show up in 2,589 GitHub projects

That's what they're whinging about. The number of times those vulnerabilities were copied.

UK Supreme Court unprorogues Parliament

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Re: ends never justify the means.

Like lying about proroguing parliament to "satisfy the will of the people"? Good job we have this judgement, eh?

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Re: Carry on the will of the people. #benefit.

Carry on the will of the rich betting on us crashing out. #soonyouwillbeonbenefits

FTFY!

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No herman. no.

What happened was we were told a deal would be a piece of piss. Then the people who told us that a deal would be a piece of piss wouldn't support the deal that their party got. Then they started pretending that if we don't have a deal by Oct 31st we won't have to get a deal.

We still have to deal with the EU.

If we leave without ratifying the deal we brokered the EU will be even less amenable to our bullshit and bluster.

BoJo's rich buddies have bet millions on us crashing out. They stand to make a pretty penny picking over the wreckage of UK businesses.

And here you are, throwing a chidish tantrum, pretending that the reasoned judgement presented yesterday was unfair and undemocratic.

Grow up.

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Just say whatever you like with confidence

Some suckers will believe you.

This bullshit isn't for people with the nous to see it's bullshit.

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Re: Summary

Keep going comrade, I think you're starting to persuade people!!!

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Re: Regardless of which side of the fence you are on.

How can you type "five weeks" repeatedly in the first paragraph yet have fogotten completely about the length of the proroguation by paragraph 2?

You twist and turn like a twisty turny thing, but you can't spin this as "the judges have taken over", however much you try. The verdict is "Go to parliament and govern" not "Govern as we tell you".

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Re: This judgement ... imposes new conditions dictated by the court.

No it doesn't. It makes the proroguing illegal and means parliament hasn't been shut down. That's not the court telling Parliament anything other than "Do your job".

You don't want that to happen? You think if Jezza is the next pm he should be able to shut down parliament while he privatises whatever he likes?

Time to check in again on the Atari retro console… dear God, it’s actually got worse

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Why not read the article and find out?

Chef melts under heat, will 86 future deals with family-separating US immigration agencies

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Re: A software engineer with any kind of moral compass would write a "destroycity(cityID)" routine

Bollocks. A moral software engineer wouldn't write either routine.

The engineer who wrote the one that takes a cityId has done a better job of engineering it but it's arguably less moral.

It wouldn't necessarily target the French.

Emergency button saves gamers from sudden death... of starvation

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Re: But not critical, snarky comments on said articles.

In what ways aren't your comments allowed/celebrated? The mods will take down posts that don't adhere to the forum rules.

Your posts are still up.

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Re: I guess I have higher standards for entertainment.

Or you're just a bit "up yourself".....

Chef roasted for tech contract with family-separating US immigration, forks up attempt to quash protest

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Re: Flaming idiot, social justice warrior and political hack

Yeah bob, the BIGGEST PROBLEM with your post is that YOU are DESCENDED from ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Is it really just the fact that it happened a few generations ago that stops YOU being CRIMINAL SCUM?

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Re: You decide whether ISIS is an improvement over a depot.

I know where I'd rather keep my busses.

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Re: I am _SO_ _SICK_ of FLAMING ASSHATS doing things like this.

Is it the over reaction that upsets you?

Calling all the Visual Basic snitches: Keep quiet about it and so will he...

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Re: Something that you're using might simply not work tomorrow.

Wouldn't want to spoil the bitching but the corollary of your point is that something that is broken today might simply be fixed tomorrow. That's also "cloud" and "progress" for you.

Call-center scammer loses $9m appeal in stunning moment of poetic justice

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Re: You know just as well as I do that... (people I dislike) ...can't be rehabilitated.

Citation? Or is this one of those points where your incredibly rich life provides enough anecdotal "evidence"?

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Re: They deserved it and I have no regrets to this day, only a sense of satisfaction.

Thank fuck your morals are unquestionable, otherwise that would make you sound psychotic.

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Re: Revenge and justice are very closely related. You'll learn that as you get older.

I know they're related. I know they're not the same thing. It's fine for the state to administer justice. It's not fine for the state to administer revenge.

There's no need to be patronising, particularly when your point is so feeble and you've no idea how old I am.

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Re: Danny 14

Presumably that's your age at the end of your handle.

The discussion is about justice not revenge fantasies. Especially not the stupid, offensive and frankly very tedious "prison rape" one.

UK taxman wins tribunal case against BBC presenters

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Re: re: You were badly advised

So your employer knows your register handle? I doubt it.

As for the rest of your post, you've been badly advised.....

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re: Is it similar over there?

It's exactly the same except "paid a lot less" becomes "paid a lot more".

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re: You were badly advised

No one advised me. I looked at how much I was making, it was twice what I was earning as a permie and the work was easier. I was quite happy contributing a bigger wedge of tax cos I was taking home more than enough.

You lot really are just greedy. That's all it comes down to. People with plenty of money desperate for more.

I think you've been badly advised.

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You decided to work for a company you set up that doesn't give you any employment rights. You think that means that you shouldn't contribute the same as other workers.

Where I disagree is with "without the individual being an employee of the other". We both know that most of the time that's exactly what you are, you'd just like to arrange it legally so you can make shit loads of money.

I can see there is an issue there. I don't think it's important. At all.

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The logical conclusion would be to treat all the workers the same.

I'm fine with that, it's you lot who want to have special treatment. When I was contracting I just went through an umbrella and paid the same rate of tax as everyone else.

Why are you all so greedy?

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Re: They have stopped being sheep

Oh good, the AC name calling part of the debate.

Why don't you fuck off and come back when you've got the nerve to put a handle to your post?

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Or, horror of horror, get a proper fucking job and contribute like the rest of us.

Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service – and we get the square root of nothing

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Ever get the feeling...

...you've been cheated?

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open-source code cobblers

Would've been a better name for the conference.

Scott McNealy gets touchy feely with Trump: Sun cofounder hosts hush-hush reelection fundraiser for President

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Re: It's the left who try to ensure their political enemies are prevented from speaking

It's the right who try and equate illegal hate speech with free speech. Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequence.

Besides which, from Trump and his hispanic rapists to BoJo's letterbox women the right aren't being silenced, their stupid, baseless hate is more readily available than it's ever been.

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Re: I just wonder the reaction to Elizabeth Warren would be in Midland, Texas.

Because, like in Charlottesville, both sides are basically the same?

People who discriminate against race and people who discriminate against bigotry. You don't see a difference?

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Re: I don't see why we need to single him out too much

It's in the article. He's hosting a secret fund raising event for Trump.

Do try and keep up.

You can trust us to run a digital currency – we're Facebook: Exec begs Europe not to ban Libra

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Re: Poor article

Poor comment.

You're not wrong of course, but I am right.

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Facebook remains just as trustworthy and reliable as it always was.

You guys!

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

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Re: Would definitely not willingly go back to gas.

You can burn gas under a pot or you can burn gas in a power station, convert it to electricity, ship the electricity to a house and then turn it back into heat to heat a pot.

How can the second ever be as efficient as the first, however good the final "electricity to heat" conversion is?

Just what we all needed, lactose-free 'beer' from northern hipsters – it's the Vegan Sorbet Sour

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Re: we rely upon readers to tell us what colour it turns your, er, you know.

Cheeks as your rage builds at the thought of these bloody snowflakes daring to make something that you don't consider right?

Brit MPs: Our policies are crap and the political process is in tatters, but it's Twitter's fault, OK?

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Re: No s##t Sherlock...

I think I'd rather see landlords lose a property or two than see famillies sleeping rough.

I'm a communist apparently.