Posts by Teiwaz 4136 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011
And this is not really new, there is a similar study about watching TV at night with the lights off.
I always fall asleep with a video on, usually wake just after autoswitch-off.
But it's mostly the background noise, not the light.
I tried audiobooks, but they are either annoying due to the readers voice, or I don't get any sleep due to paying attention.
Software is the only engineering product that is accepted as created by entirely self-taught and unverified practitioners without recourse to ratified common standards.
Well, the courses I did all carried BCS accreditation....
I'd have to assume aviation carries a very high engineering standard, and certainly not patched together from whatever 'some startup' could scrap off of Github. If those can go wrong, and they do, then either Engineers engineering can go wrong as much as anything else, or civilisation is growing sloppy, feckless and easily distracted by twitter tantrums...
Oh, yes.
I'd like to mention that multiple desktops have been available in the Linux world since around 2006-ish (gnome 2 and KDE both had this feature as I recall)
Why would you like to mention that?
It's not True.
CTWM (1992) - based on TWM and extended for multiple workspaces. But there are earlier implementations reaching back to the 1980's, SWM (1989), the Amiga (1985)....
Arnold Rimmer once confessed he thought he was a eunuch in previous life as when he was in the presence of a group of women, he had the overwhelming urge to bathe them in warm olive oil. Lister stated he had that urge too, so it was nothing to do with past lives.
The Matt Hancock urge is a similar urge.
i.e. more likely a natural human urge, and not a personal affliction.
Plus, how much of the NHS Mental Health budget would be squandered trying to cure everyone of that...
The Wayland kids don't want to run XWayland. They want to distance themselves from any tech that they deem as old fashioned like X11.
Probably; considering the originator and most of the Wayland developers are also Xorg developers.
They know full well X11 is out of date, as they've been trying to maintain it.
It would appear that a significant proportion of Americans now believe that the Nazi Party was a Left-wing political organisation.
Perhaps understandable for the flag-saluters, given the long years of paranoia about communism.
'National-Socialist' National is all about patriotism, and they're ok with that, so the Socialist bit must be the problem.
Socialist = Communist and Communists = Evil
Evil = Nazis and Nazis = Socialists (because they said they were)
It's really confusing when people say they're something they aren't.
UK Govt & Tory tweets,
And Labour ones, and let's not forget the DUP and Sinn Féin, and Sturgeon of course.
Or maybe we should just exercise that most uncommon of skills, common sense?
We've needed an Advertising Watchdog (or more likely, an Attackdog) governing Political mrssages for some time. Spin was bad enough, but it's reached twist, verging on the fevered ravings of foaming madmen.
I've often boggled at why use a windows base for application such as this (or any platform based on a user interface premise - really not sure the likes of Xwindows would be any better, but possibly)
The basic premise that there is a user sitting in front to interface with when something unexpected happens is totally inappropriate.
It's not even as if digital signage is an edge use case at best and not big enough for more than a cobbled together make-do affair. They're all around.
Perhaps they're not cobbled. Yet if you see these, it just looks amateurish.
Is an algorythm that could be released that replaces all human faces in images with... say the guy fawkes mask.
Try that for a facial recog training set.
There'd be a few side effects though....
For one, all porn would become a weird fetish - it's why I didn't consider Trump-face or Zucker-gob (good gods, the recent Facebook article close-up portrait was unsettling enough, felt like the missonary position with 'stan laurel' himself.
Worst of all, of course, are the ads. Micros~1 seem to have worked out my age by spying on me,
Probably
They think I'm susceptible to local enthusiasms: "People in St Ives are going mad for this smartwatch | funeral service | life insurance". I assume this is a lie. And there's a bizarre category that shows a picture of some long-forgotten celebrity with a link that says "You'll never guess what X looks like now!". True enough, but why should I care?
Not sure that is Microfoot, per se. Unless they these are popping up in the start menu or status.
I get those sorts of ads occasionally, and I'm running Archlinux and Firefox.
How do.you know? Have you asked every single Linux user? No you have not.
You have PRESUMED because YOU don't want this no one else on the entire planet won't either.
I wouldn't call someone using Linux on WSL/2 a 'Linux user'.
I wouldn't call brining DirectX to Windows WSL2 component as 'bringing DirectX to Linux' either.
market share eroded by consoles and mobile,
I expect mobile has opened up a little more audience to the gaming market.
And Desktop PC gaming has always required a little more of a learning curve, so consoles, would have brought more audience to gaming than desktop.
Overall, I suspect both new platforms would have increased the market more than eroded the desktop.
Windows on Linux
Is the only sane option.
Even discounting the greedy nosey snooping, it's near impossible to turn off, the erosion of control on all versions but the corporate, and all it's other myriad and numerous flaws.
Linux is an OS that at least doesn't want to reboot every time you sit down to do something on it.
Linux on top of Windows is like trying to balance the pyramids on a bouncy castle.
People don't really care about the 'apps'
It's the functionality they want, presented in an easy to grok, easy to use fashion.
Apps are merely a convenient presentation that also serves to lock users into a particular product.
The greater IT world has so far failed to serve up a delivery that doesn't benefit one conglomerate.
We should be on a common browser base platform and some form of webapp. It'd open up more competition and innovation and providing services wouldn't involve upkeep of several app codebases.
I really can't believe it's 2020 and we're still stuck on apps and much the same theatre as the desktop MS or apple except it's Google or apple.
We've learnt nothing and are going round and round in circles, repeating history.
If its bursting at the seams with guns / similar weapons then not hateful.
* Based on reportage I have read, I don't use FB, but have read enough about it to be aware they are very much against love action, but so much a bit of assault rifle action
And this is a surprise to you?
FaceBook is just mirroring it's home location in this. The root cause isn't FB, it's USA.
It's important not to confuse Linux with Open source. logical syllogisms can only be partially converted. 'Steve Jobs is dead, but only part of the class of dead people are Steve Jobs'
Started out, offer something 'free' to entice - well, the user might understand nothing is free, and data gathering while you use the free resource was the payment.
That proved popular, and lucrative, so much so that companies that charged for their product already wanted some of that. The users had gotten used to the data gathering and let it slide.
So now we have every nose in the trough, thinking their users data is theirs for the taking. Telemetry and Slurp you can't sufficiently switch off & a licence fee?
Going by the amount of bear pit competition over our data these days, it should be clear by now that it's worth more than a few measly apps
but I'll wait a bit before agreeing that Microsoft is a champion of open source.
They embraced open source not because they believe in the philosophy, but because they could no longer hold back the tide.
They don't give a fig for the open source ethos or the philosophy, it's all about keeping MS relevant and market retention.
They finally do the right thing, but for the wrong reasons.
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