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Posts by Jamie Jones
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Texan's alleged Amazon bombing effort fizzles: Militia man wanted to take out 'about 70 per cent of the internet'
British gambling giant Betfred told to pay stiffed winner £1.7m jackpot after claiming 'software problem'
Facebook says dump of 533m accounts is old news. But my date of birth, name, etc haven't changed in years, Zuck
Cryptic US Strategic Command tweet reveals dangers of working from home with kids in the way
Browser tracking protections won't stop tracking, warns DuckDuckGo
Sitting comfortably? Then it's probably time to patch, as critical flaw uncovered in npm's netmask package
Now that half of Nominet's board has been ejected, what happens next? Let us walk you through the possibilities
License to thrill: Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and the completed toolchain project that changes everything
Monday 15th March 2021 00:49 GMT 
Re: Faith no more
Totally. Linux people used to bang on about MS software incompatibility, but became silent when talking about stuff hardwired to linux for. no real reason.
Breaking API's, deprecating broken subsystems rather than fix them, and instead introducing a new shiny-shiny.
Spaffing files and directories all over the place, and as you highlighted, systemd.
Linux being based on a unix lookalike is of no relevance these days.
The old phrase "Freebsd is for those that like Unix. Linux is for those that hate Microsoft" is still true today.
Not that I'm saying "the unix way" should be followed religiously if it impedes progress (there are those who say ZFS isn't "the unix way" because it combines a filesystem with volume management - 2 things the purists claim should be separate.)
But Linux distros often go there own way to the detriment - not advantage. *cough*systemd*cough*
Sunday 14th March 2021 18:11 GMT
Re: Speed and OpenZFS 2.0
This is only related to the 32bit i386 architecture, and then only to the default shipped binaries (Building from source with i686 defined worked perfectly well)
Until v13, the binaries targetted the 486 instruction set. (A recent 12.X release switched to i686, but I think that was done in error) From v13 onwards, they target i686 (As someone on the lists has already mentioned, switching this back to i486 and compiling from source worked fine on his 486-based device)
I guess it's been targetting i486 for so long to maximize compatibility - if you were after peak performance, for a long time, you wouldn't have been running 32bit i386 hardware.. Or if forced to, you could have installed an i686 compiled version.
Sunday 14th March 2021 17:52 GMT
Re: FreeBSD has plenty of hardcore fans
You can now run a Linux diatribution in a FreeBSD jail - using the linux emulation, so like Debian/KFreeBSD it's a linux distro running using the FreeBSD kernel, but unlike Debian/KFreeBSD the userland binaries are native linux.
Google emits data-leaking proof-of-concept Spectre exploit for Intel CPUs to really get everyone's attention
OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable
Linux Mint emits fix for memory-gobbling Cinnamon – and future version may insist on some updates
Thursday 4th March 2021 02:14 GMT
Re: "In a few of them it might even insist."
It's the dumbing down and "consumerisation" that's everywhere. It's personally hit me with android, and google products in general, where they seem to believe that removing options completely is the way to make products more usable by Joe Public.. Ironic, when their UI/HCI/accessibility teams are clueless, and they keep making pointless changes that finally made my non-techie, partially sighted mum give up on them only last week, when I told her I couldn't revert the stupid changes they'd made to her tablet and her chromebook.
Netflix reveals massive migration to new mix of microservices, asynchronous workflows and serverless functions
Tuesday 2nd March 2021 20:13 GMT
My take on this article (and I have no inside knowledge, this is just my guess) is that this is related to the organisation and processing of media.
FreeBSD is used for the distribution, and from the FreeBSD commit logs, the netflix guys are still working on tcp and other networking tweaks.
Besides, they use their own FreeBSD cdn for distribution - the article is referring to their cloud stuff.
Pressure builds on Nominet as members demand to know leadership's contingency plans for when they’re fired
UK minister tries to intervene after Government Digital Service migration mangles Ministry of Justice webpages
Atheists warn followers of unholy data leak, hint dark deeds may have tried to make it go away
Sunday 21st February 2021 11:04 GMT
Re: Just like the Peoples Fronts and Judea
Absolutely. Have you seen how many Americans are disowned by their family for being gay, and are ostracized in the wider community?
Also, the large number of religious zealots who are allowed to home school.
You must also be pissed of at American religious state schools https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-religion-idUSKBN2412FX, not to mention all the tax free status the American churches enjoy...
But.. keep pointing out issues in the UK if you want, but don't expect to score points - if you're point of accurate, most of us here will agree...
Sunday 21st February 2021 10:57 GMT
Re: Just like the Peoples Fronts and Judea
""I admit there is a somewhat millitant movement in America, but this is Britain."Where the titular head of state is also the head of the Church of England.
Where senior Anglican clerics are guaranteed a number of voting seats in the making of national civil laws.
The anon coward made no comment on the state of religion in the UK, just pointed out that atheism as a "movement" is more prevalent in the USA. So, your butthurt reply was both irrelevant and unjustified. It's not a competition!
The USA is the most Christian country in the world. If you think the UK is more Christian, you've obviously not been to both countries, of even possess a small amount of knowledge on the subject.
US money has Christian comments on it.
Admitting you're an atheist for a political position will count heavily against you in America https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fvqpVCbdFnMJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/atheist-politicians-may-run-the-uk-but-they-remain-closeted-in-the-us/2014/08/22/bf147a3a-2a12-11e4-8b10-7db129976abb_story.html
As for religious school assembly's, we did have them weekly in junior school, but didn't have one in comprehensive school in the 80's.
Still, most of what you posted to criticise the UK, I agree with. It has nothing to do with the thread you replied to though.
Friday 19th February 2021 17:08 GMT
Re: Same could be said about religious people
Yes.
And what pisses me off is the phrase "Morality without God", expressed as if it's some kind of unusual act.
The more unusual act is actually "Morality with God" - whilst there are many moral religious people, doing "right" for fear of Gods punishment is not morality, it's servitude.
I was once talking to a hardcore religious person who believed that if you don't believe in a god, the only thing stopping you murdering someone was the worry of being caught by the police.
If that's his attitude, I'm glad he's religious, though it's probably the brainwashing he's grown up with that has restricted his ability to instinctively know right from wrong.
Nominet vows to freeze wages and prices, boost donations, and be more open. For many members, it’s too little, too late
Web prank horror: Man shot dead while pretending to rob someone at knife-point for a YouTube video
Microsoft suspends donations to politicians who backed attempt to overturn US presidential election
Monday 8th February 2021 13:30 GMT
Re: address the issues and policies that are important to the....
You probably know this, but for anyone else, a bi-partisan group to get money out of politics:
War on Section 230 begins in earnest as Dem senators look to limit legal immunity for social networks, websites etc
Saturday 6th February 2021 13:30 GMT
Re: user content generated sites
How often do you remove IP's from your blocklist?
Sorry, not directed at you personally, Steve, it just reminded me of an issue.
Permanently "dirty" ip addresses are a problem, especially as any abuser is likely to have moved to a differrent service or netblock after a week.
Witness the number of recycled IP's that can never be used for legitimate email, for example.
Or the whole bloody NHS site that isn't accessable if your DNS is on 2.0.0.0/8. (I reported this to NHS IT and nominet. Both ignored me)
Oops: Google admits failing to wipe all Android apps with location-selling X-Mode SDK from its Play Store
Saturday 6th February 2021 13:10 GMT
Google and Facebook weren't born yesterday
Both Google and Facebook have now blamed companies for collecting data that their systems allowed them to collect.
Are we really expected to think that they both were so naive when making such access available, that they trusted people "to use it for good only"?
The point is, what these people have done shouldn't have been technically allowed - yet it was done using official specs. not a hack.
It doesn't help that so many more apps these days need "precise location" when "coarse location" would be more than fine. No ad slinger or local news site needs to know the exact coordinates of my sofa!
It doesn't help that instead of mitigating location-revealing bluetooth techniques, they now require bluetooth apps to request "precise location" access.. Suddenly some bluetooth app is now able to request precise location at will.
If they allowed location access to be granted to apps with no storage or network access, most other uses of it would be unnecessary.. That GPS app you use never needs to send the data off-device, for example.
The whole issue is down to philosophy - these systems are designed/run by people with no concept or appreciation of personal privacy expectations.
Google QUIC-ly left privacy behind in its quest for a speedier internet, boffins find
Tuesday 2nd February 2021 11:00 GMT
Re: 57% accuracy? How about 100% on HTTPS over TCP!
ESNI
https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-sni/
Of course, with servers hosting only one or two sites, you can just look at the destination IP address, which is also why the original unencrypted scheme was no less secure than when you had one site per addr:port
In wake of Apple privacy controls, Facebook mulls just begging its iOS app users to let it track them over the web
Monday 1st February 2021 23:55 GMT 
If permission is granted, Facebook's app can access what Apple calls its Identifier for Advertisers – a unique per-user ID that can be used to identify and track you from app to app and website to website on iOS, allowing the antisocial network to build up an idea of your interests so it can target you with ads tailored for you
How can anyone read that, and think "that's good". If the governments attempted that... (well, if they admitted they did that), there would rightly be a privacy outcry.
Do they seriously believe they are providing a service?
"Agreeing to these prompts doesn’t result in Facebook collecting new types of data," Team FB noted. "It just means that we can continue to give people better experiences.
I mean, seriously, imagine a cold-caller asking for the same access, so they can tailor their cold-calling for peoples "better experiences".
I think these people are so stuck in their bubble, they actually believe they are providing some good to the world, and have some god given right to invade everyone privacy.
"Facebook insisted in a statement. “The Apple prompt also provides no context about the benefits of personalized ads.”
And that would be because.....
Chrome 89 beta: Google presses on with 'advanced hardware interactions' that Mozilla, Apple see as harmful
Monday 1st February 2021 23:34 GMT
Re: The opposite of MS
No, it's a password for the chromebook, that happens to be the same as the account one, and kept in sync with it.
That's how you can still login without internet access, and indeed, you can set it to allow you to "login" with a pin instead of the password if you want.
Granted, many of the apps within, (Chrome and android apps) are also tied to that login id by default, but that's no different than (say) an android phone - you don't have to have a password or pin to use the phone, yet your Googlie credentials will still be intact.
Monday 1st February 2021 21:42 GMT
The opposite of MS
MS were accused of absorbing the browser into the OS.
Google are absorbing the OS into the browser.
Stop it. The web browser is meant to be used to access websites, not be some great big security threat with access to everything.
When the only tool you have is a hammer....
And it's crap. Witness chromeOS. The only thing worthwhile on that is the Linux subsytem, and the android compatibility. Why did you add android capability, Google? So we could run an android BROWSER, or so we could run APPLICATIONS?
I have some intensive android-only stuff (don't ask!) and fed up with the slowness of the converted android-TV box to android-desktop box (http://www.welshgit.net/photos/computers/desktop/android/), bought the most expensive Chromebox I could find.... It doesn't get used much.. The android parts run brilliantly fast, but the chromeos shite keeps getting in the way.
Also, my mum's eyesight is very bad - she's legally blind. She tries to use a chromebook tablet because it's meant to have good accedsability features... So why do they insist that on a tablet that will never leave her house, she HAS to enter either a login password or PIN on startup?
Why does it force start chrome everytime, despite the fact she's using android applications?
Why can't the colour of the lower bar be changed so she can see it clearly? It's black - clashes with the color of the tablets case.
Why, when you change the default "screen size" (fonts, image scaling etc) does the setting go back to default after reboot?
As for Chrome, I had problems for a while debugging intermitently failing sessions on a site.... Turns out some of the links on the site (not mine) were linked to www.site.com and others to just site.com -- the session cookie was set for the exact domain only, and bloody chrome now doesn't show the "www" part of the address, so the 2 sites were reported as the same one... WTF?
Also for chrome, I continually manually edit URLs in the URL bar. Now, every bloody time, you have to hit an extra "edit" icon to do the same.
Youtube?? The recomendations page is now full of shite, and "stories" and a sorta crude tik-tok section. Oh, and the changes made to the "drag video position" bar are so brain dead, they have to be taking the piss.. Apparently it was because "people kept accidentally seeking to the end of the video when they wanted to actually hit "fullscreen". Yes, that was another bozo design cockup. The solution anyone normal would have done would have been to reduce the size of the seek-bar, so the fullscreen button is to the right of it, at a suitable distance, but no.. can't be logical, can we?
And don't get me started on the number of scam videos youtube seems to not care showing.... Most generally have something like "the government wants to ban this", or similar, and then go on to make up more false claims about some gadget they see for 10times what you can get elsewhere.
Phew, sorry, got into a bit of a rant there!
We've got some really bad news about Apple's privacy measures, Google tells iOS app devs: It'll hurt your Google ad revenue
Monday 1st February 2021 04:53 GMT
Yes, those are fair points.
However, personally, I want to use Google bookmark and password sync, especially as chromium isn't available in some of the devices I user Chrome on.
As for webrtc, isn't that the feature which can leak your IP address? Useful for fingerprinting if you use an IP such as 172.24.3 77
Thursday 28th January 2021 12:13 GMT
"Google on Wednesday warned iOS developers who use Google ad technology that they may see less revenue as Apple implements its privacy clampdown.
In other words, Googles drive to make Chromium more privacy friendly is a load of bollocks. If they want to restrict cookies, and user-agent fingeprinting, it's only because they have other methods of tracking....
Perl-clutching hijackers appear to have seized control of 33-year-old programming language's .com domain
Facebook finally finds something it thinks is truly objectionable and needs to be taken offline: Apple
Thursday 28th January 2021 16:23 GMT
Re: There is no free lunch
Yeah, a few people here have experienced the same thing.
However, that *is* what the industry calls targetted ads - they are targetted agains your personal history. The ads you expected are known as contextual ads.
To anyone sane, they would indeed target based on the site context, but the ad brokers have convinced advertisers they should advertise washing machines etc. to people that have just bought one!
I think they're scared that if advertisers went back to contextual ads, they'd realise how much more effective they are, and suddenly how useless these companies touting loads of personal data are.
P.S. I had to google "cherry red flying-V Ukulele"!
Thursday 28th January 2021 12:08 GMT
Re: There is no free lunch
No. This isn't about ads per-se, it's about so called "targetted ads", which is the supposed reason these companies gather so much information on people.
Some how, they've duped the advertisers into thinking this is something valuable.
However, the *proper* targetted ad targets the medium. Advertisers don't need to know a crap about you - if they sell motorcycles, pop the advert on a motorcycle forum.
It's not rocket science. But of course, there's the rub: It's easy to do effictive targetting this way. The big boys at facebook and google won't have the perceivied advantage if advertisers realised this.
"Let the one knowing a way to fund the billions to offer free services on a global level without deploying targeted ads, step forward"
TV
Tab minimalists look away: Vivaldi introduces two-level tab stacks
Thursday 28th January 2021 13:53 GMT
Re: WTF
As the other replies state, all the browsers I use restore tabs on startup (importantly, the tabs aren't rendered until they're clicked on)
As I said, I'm not proud of it, it's something I invariably back slip into after a sort out!
I suppose it's used a bit like bookmarks, but with the advantage that your position on the page is preserved!
Thursday 28th January 2021 11:59 GMT
Re: WTF
I have around 100 on this tablet, and around another 100 on my main desktop.
I'm not proud of it - each tab is basically a "TODO".. Before multiple saved tabs, I used to have my desk plastered with "todo" post-it notes. At least those have reduced now!
"A tidy desk is a tidy mind"? BOLLOCKS!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
