Posts by Roland6

Re: Hello trackers, now MS knows more accurately where you are

>I am yet to check onto a flight or into a venue that requires an *online* version of anything.

Yes it is lovely when everything works and goes according to plan, but then the real world impinges...

>You can always, you know, try to plan ahead a little.

Obviously don't have teenagers, but in general, people don't plan ahead in the way you suggest and to the extent, we did 10~20 years back - they have brought the advertising that mobile is available everywhere and that the Internet just works - and the app will have downloaded the QR code and not require an online connection to re-authenticate you to permit display...

I like email clients that download messages and don't require a network connection to load and view the (previously sync'd) inbox, however, that now increasingly seems to be old school...

Re: Hello trackers, now MS knows more accurately where you are

>Good. Do yourself a favour and stop reading work emails on holiday.

Some people have managed to have separate work and personal email accounts.

With so much stuff going "digital" you need a working email box so you can receive the e-tickets etc. you need to gain admission to trains, planes, hotels, theatres, attractions ...

You might say you can use "the app", but it is surprising how many app's decide you need to reconfirm your security by sending an email to which you are expected to respond to within an hour or so...

Re: Theocracy

>God didn't have a clue how babies were made

I suspect God had a very good idea of how babes were made, also I suspect God had a very good idea of men's behaviour and correctly framed the problem as primarily being men being irresponsible with their seed...

It is probably noteworthy that this is different to some other religions which demand women to cover up etc. because it is women who lead (weak and defenceless) men astray...

Re: Democracy

Given who wrote the US constitution and the worldview that prevailed in the 1780's, it is not surprising that it would say zero about women etc.

What is concerning is that this case clearly shows the Constitution needs to be massively updated to reflect current worldviews.

Reading some of the Syllabus, I'm a little happier that the UK doesn't have a written constitution

Re: Swiss-Cheese Reassurances by Clue Co-CEOs

As I said to an MD many years ago who was overly focused on making money: If you want to make serious amounts of money then we are in the wrong business, I suggest we switch to drug dealing...

I suspect Clue (and other developers of apps for womens health) is one of those who wanted to make money and saw the resale of womens data as a niche she could exploit and thus developed an app to capture the data, rather than develop an app to help women...

Re: Swiss-Cheese Reassurances by Clue Co-CEOs

>Then there's the other risks. So there's a miscarriage (not just of justice) and the system might assume a termination.

So the slimeball looks again and finds the woman is a drug user or even a regular cigarette smoker and so initiates proceedings against her for manslaughter...

Re: Swiss-Cheese Reassurances by Clue Co-CEOs

The question that should be asked of Clue, is why do they need to collect and retain a woman's health data outside of the woman's own device and in a form a third-party (ie. someone other than the woman) can access. I suspect Clue doesn't have a clue.

Re: re: deleting data from backups

>Customer?

"The kitchen that we supplied to the builder of their 4 bed executive box on an estate somewhere."

Unless the customer (house purchaser) placed the order and thus was also instructing the builder, it would seem on what you say the customer (who brought the kitchen) was the builder. Not sure if delivery address, if that of a private individual, on a B2B transaction falls under GDPR.

Re: Baby and bathwater come to mind.

>"One of the central functions of X is that it works over a network connection, something that Wayland by design does not do"

This is THE deal-breaker for me.

Given when Wayland was being designed, access over a network was pretty normal - web browsers had been around for a decade or so, the absence of a sensible network connection solution does bring into doubt just what were the designers of Wayland thinking.

Re: "Wayland's privacy controls ...

>I use Zoom on Wayland (Debian 11) and it can record sessions just fine

I would expect Zoom to be able to record sessions just fine - its part of the app, so no privacy issues. The privacy issues arise when you want to do a Screencam recording of the entire desktop and thus all applications running.

So the privacy problems impact Teamviewer and other Remote Desktop style tools.

Re: Ironic

Not sure if water cooling was the primary suspect. Given what we know about the ventilation design, an increase in humidity could have its origin in a change of weather.

Re: QUIC can do what TCP cant

>QUIC is smartly designed so that intermeditate routers/switches cannot read the packet and cannot make a decision based on a specific bit within the packet

A question has to be asked as to whether QUIC hinders content filtering such as adblockers.

Also whether it can be used by users to give a better response and user experience eg. force a download priority on content: text first, article images second, third-party stuff such as ad's last or never. given Google sees adblockers as a "revenue sinkhole", I suspect QUIC makes content filtering more difficult.

Re: QUIC can do what TCP cant

>It looks like transport and smells like transport.

TCP and UDP definitely look and smell like Transport layer protocols, QUIC has the distinct smell of a Session layer protocol, even though it implements features (such as the orchestration of multiple transport sessions/streams) I don't remember reading about in the OSI session layer specifications.

Re: Optimisation...

>and it's difficult to justify "Use the OS one on Windows and Linux, and write our own implementation on macOS" especially when there are going to be different bugs in each.

That is why a POSIX style defined API is required, it will also reduce and simply the interop.

It will also mean the QUIC layer will more likely be maintained by systems programmers rather than application programmers...

Re: QUIC can do what TCP cant

But QUIC isn't a transport protocol as it uses TCP and UDP.

QUIC is a session management and transport orchestration procotol.

Re: Optimisation...

>It's an interesting subject for debate at what point any of these become sufficiently mature and ubiquitous that it deserves a stack of its own.

If I understand the benefits of QUIC and what is being suggested then we can expect the majority of client applications to have their own QUIC implementations, so looking at my current laptop and what I have running that will be multiple QUIC implementations concurrently in memory:

Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Outlook, Teams, Zoom, Onedrive, Windows native...

Re: Optimisation...

There is a lot to be said fo getting the transport layer out of the application and user space and back into the common/spared services OS space. It would help both with application bloat (remember Chrome already includes its own secure DNS service) and with fault finding.

However, for this to happen requires another POSIX style intervention and the definition of a QUIC API. This is not really within the scope of the IETF RFC process. Back in the 1980's X/Open stepped into the breech over Unix API standardisation; somehow I don't see The Open Group (which X/Open morphed into) doing similar now.

Re: having to go buy paper [is] heavy, very painful

>I do tend to go through periods of heavy print use to non-existent use.

Just hope that your period of "heavy print use" doesn't go over your subscription limit: Your subscription is for 10 sheets a month, so that s what gets delivered every month, obviously you can print more, by going into your account and changing the subscription level, but expect to wait 5+ working days before increased supplied are delivered...

Re: having to go buy paper [is] heavy, very painful

>Is it heck as like. You can buy paper cheaply from many high street stores or supermarkets.

Its HP suspect the paper it wants to supply is LETTER, a size not readily available outside of the USA...

Re: Paper isn't required due to the cost of ink

>Also HP's printhead cleaning routine utilises extra ink, that gets sprayed into a little reservoir/pad in the printer

The routine also doesn't actually clean the print head, just the nozzles if you are lucky. Many times it has been necessary - and is now my normal approach - to remove the printhead/cartridge and clean it and the contact pad with alcohol.

What I hate about inkjets is how manufacturers (not just HP) have buried the cleaning pad/reservoir so that it is inaccessible and not removable.

Re: Paper isn't required due to the cost of ink

>At this point I use the scanner function a lot more often than the printer function.

Expect for that to function there must be Instant ink and Instant paper installed...

Well given the basic editor functions haven't changed, the lack of "significant feature development" is to be expected.

However, having recently looked at the MS SwiftKey website, I see significant feature includes such things as the ability to add your own wallpaper...

This concept of "significant feature" goes a long way to explaining why MS have been doing what they have with Windows since they started developing Windows 8.

Re: Micro USB

Seen and encountered enough bent connectors, broken ports and cables with the broken tongue in the micro-usb connector ver the years.

The USB port on phones particularly is easily broken due to the connector sticking straight out of the bottom of the phone; usual cause of breakage is using the phone whilst on charge.

Re: Optional Chargers

>The next step is to make the charger ABSENT.

It always was optional; you just had to chuck it out of the window along with all the stupid packaging after you drove out of the parking lot

20+ years back it got me that my shiny new shop brought phone came in a 'huge' carton, but its couriered replacement (it got dropped) came in a box just big enough for the phone(*) - the network assumed you had a charger that fitted and worked...

(*) I think the replacement Nokia's also didn't come with battery packs...

Re: Optional Chargers

> I may have to get some of those glasses with magnifiers and led lights so I can read the microscript on the chargers before use!

Well I've found reading the microscript on chargers, laptops(*) etc. is a good test of phone's camera

(*) Don't you love laptop manufacturers who have made the service tag et al practically invisible (eg. Lenovo gloss black microscript on matt black case).

Re: Choosing to choose

> Unsurprisingly Linux is also dominant on servers since if you are firing up a VPS or dedicated server you tick the Debian/Ubuntu etc box on the datacentre webpage and it is all magically ready for use by the time you can login.

Linux became dominant because of Unix and the massive popularity of the Windows x86 server architecture. Even in the mid 1980's, putting to one side IBM and DEC, it was difficult to purchase workstations and servers that weren't running some variant of Unix.

The ease with which you can fire up a VPS with Linux is very much chicken and egg: Linux is dominant therefore providers will support it, because it is widely supported it is dominant...