Posts by ExampleOne

Re: Problems and solutions not welcome

DLUHC could (and should) make this happen by offering the budget for the resources to define the process - in return for a cast iron agreement to adopt them from participating councils. This won't be easy or cheap, but nationally there's no excuse for hundreds of completely different systems and processes.

Most councils will see this as a recipe for getting forced onto a solution that is not fit for purpose and would run a mile from it. "Cast iron agreement to adopt" an unknown solution is an incredibly risky commitment to give, even if they actually trust the DLUHC.

I think they already have been warned, what we are seeing is the start of the process of actually fining them. A process that is going to end up in a court room, so they need to do their best to make it legally watertight.

Re: "We have received requests"

Which is to be expected if they have genuinely passed IP68 certification testing, but in no way invalidates the contradiction between claiming waterproof status while excluding water damage from the warranty.

It won’t be a popular point, but… if the reported gain in productivity of 40% is correct, this is the single best investment they could make.

Doing some basic math, $39 per user per month is break even for a developer being paid $1000 a month if it gives a 4% improvement in productivity. They are claiming a productivity boost 10x that. Though it isn’t mentioned, I suspect they are using developers paid a lot more than $1000 a month.

Re: Screw the Hoi Polloi!

Run a cable across the pavement? So who is liable when someone trips over the cable? We may not like the reality we live in with ambulance chasing lawyers, but it is a bad idea to ignore it when formulating national policy.

Ok, so you dealt with the lawyers… how about the copper thieves who come down the street in the middle of the night and steal all the cables?

Or the pram pushers trying to push a pram along that pavement? Are we really convicnced that making pushing prams and pushchairs difficult is really a great policy?

Re: confused

They lost against Apple because the judge ruled that the iPhone App Store was not a monopoly because the market should be defined as all smartphones.

The jury here have decided that Google Play Store is a monopoly, which at least implies they disagree with the Apple case judge on the question of how the market is defined.

Re: like video games localization

Is a wine/proton port a "native port"? I suspect for the ideologues, it isn't.

My take is that an officially supported wine/proton port is effectively a native linux port of the game, so long as the developer is willing to commit to addressing issues that arise only on wine/proton. I don't dictate the game engine, why should I refuse to accept a usable stable set of libraries over the API they speak?

Re: The title is no longer required.

Except the European Commission, by entering Apples own marketing material, turn this argument into “if it works, you face prosecution across the EU (and beyond) for false advertising”. Add to that, anyone who bought an Apple device since the false advertising now has a case against Apple as well.

So yes, there may be a 1 in 1000 chance it works, which is better than a 0 in 1000 chance, but that only holds if you ignore the risk of it backfiring.

This looks a spectacularly silly argument to advance.

Re: Translation

Yes, for a tiny minority of people, this is a feature worth paying a premium for. But it is a tiny minority. Most phone OEMs probably would prefer to wait for a working standards based solution than invest any effort into integrating a solution the overwhelming majority of their customer base don’t have care about. Once the working standards based solution arrives, they do the work, and they can be reasonably confident that work won’t be hostage to a single vendor.

Re: MS is a monopoly

The depends on how the market is defined.

The fact someone can choose to opt out of a market completely does not mean that market can't be a monopoly.

Re: OED

Transformative, possibly, but surely all the LLM output is derivative work of the training corpus?

The company tried to insist on arbitration, won, and got upset when the class retaliated by using an automatic arbitration filing system.

The company then went to court to try and set aside the enforced arbitration process in favour of a class action. The judge was not amused.

The potential problem is not the with-holding the code, it's terminating subscription agreements for of end users who exercise their GPL rights. This is basically exactly the same legal argument advanced by GRSec, and it was called out as GPL violation then. Why is it not being called out the same now? Or were all the claims then FUD?

Truthfully until this particular model is legislated, we won't know if it breaches the GPL. If it IS legislated, and it DOES breach the GPL, RH and IBM are in a massive world of pain, as anyone who contributed anything to any GPL component of RHEL would have standing to sue. Including Oracle and Microsoft. Essentially, this is potentially a massive gift to those opposed to Linux.

Re: It's in the employment contract

It does happen.

I worked for a company that had an office move constrained by staff pointing out that moving office was a material change to their contracts.

Re: Bug/Vulnerability or just bad implementation?

But Google should not be trusting the message headers.

In the scenario you outline, MS have allowed an account to relay for a sender domain that is not validated to the account. This would be a problem in O365, as it allows any customer to masquerade as any other customer!

Now we can argue that Google should have rejected because the DKIM signing key was wrong, but that is a problem with DMARC or BIMI, but if the policy is “one of two”, you can’t fault Google for correctly applying a one of two policy.

Re: Wouldn't this require

While the law of the land might not, in the U.K. at least it would probably fall foul of the FCA rules of conduct, especially if he is lying to do so.

Re: Salting IP addresses

That was pretty much my thought. 32 bits of meaningful information, less a bunch of IP addresses that will never be seen.

IPv6 address hashing might be more useful, but how much of their user base are IPv6 users?

Re: Unfortunately...

> An older engineer (rightly or wrongly) will always be more likely to push back against progress.

I am going to have to take issue with this. A good engineer doesn’t push back against progress.

A more experienced engineer is more likely to question “fad of the day” hype, which is not the same thing!

Did you miss I had reduced the total budget from 17.4 billion to account for that 5/48 factor?

Well, they can hardly continue to blame Brussels now we have left, so they need a new excuse to replace the one they used for the last 40 years.

Re: Sorry but where is the problem?

Best of your knowledge? Are you really sure you want to incentivise finding the worst possible certified auditors?

So, basically, an Assassins Guild?

Re: Free as in freedom

receiving code that misleads about its origins

Actually, doing that for financial gain may be sufficient to count as criminal fraud in some jurisdictions.

Re: We now have smartphones with lasers

Apparently to make Theranos tech work…

Honestly, it looks like a simple idea looking for cool applications: add it, and figure out what to use it for later.

Re: Why bother at all ?

I believe one of the UKs preserved destroyers solved the problem of the ships guns by buying a gun license and ensuring the turrets were locked when not giving tours.

Re: in line with agile delivery best practice

I am amused by your optimism... RHEL 5 anyone?

That $72/month is per user. For the family usecase, MS365 is going to be significantly cheaper.

I suspect that the "freeloaders" are not as freeloading as Google think. If they are often operating vanity domains, it suggests a level of technical competence and probable influence.

Re: In a surprise to nobody...

I think I trust the government to regulate it. Just like I assume they will ignore the regulations when it suits them.

I mean, it’s not like our governments don’t have form for breaking the law when it suits and they think no one will find out.

Re: Cost to buy - or cost to run ?

“ I'd expect a decent Linux desktop admin to be earning twice as much as a Windows desktop admin.”

Well, I note the “decent” qualifier is only applied to the more expensive one, so… yeah, incompetence is cheap!

Re: Judge found Apple is not a monopolist?

There is no guarantee Apple will get the same decision on monopoly in Europe, which ultimately depended on how the market is defined. The ruling here appears to be that the market is all smartphone users, and not just iPhone users. There is a definite vibe to the ruling that Epic shot themselves in the foot, repeatedly, by focusing on the wrong things. Without getting the market defined as iPhone users, everything else was inevitable.

Contrast with Europe, where the competition authority seems to be laying the groundwork for treating the iPhone and Android app markets as separate, in which case Apple are going to struggle to argue they are not a monopoly.