Re: 28.15 km: how are its wheel bearings holding up?
The roads are even betterer that the ones we have in the Mudway Towns
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Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey
To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess
Millennials, Gen Z actually suck at workplace security
Verizon prepaid accounts hijacked by SIM swap crooks
Thursday 20th October 2022 08:01 GMT 
Quite predicatable (and was some time back)
The more 'connected' everything is, the easier this sort of thing becomes - and it's not just money. There was a case a while ago where a man had his house 'stolen' and sold while he was on holiday.
The best security is multiple totally independent and DISconnected forms of verification - but that's more effort.
Moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.4 billion years, rocks reveal
Big changes coming in Debian 12: Some parts won't be FOSS
Monday 3rd October 2022 17:48 GMT
Be careful what you wish for.
Pipewire is a long way from competing with Jack. Apparently it doesn't like rt kernels, and in a pure audio creation setup it's difficult to direct audio from exactly where you want, to exactly where you want without anything else coming along for the ride. Oh, and you won't get anywhere near the low latencies possible with Jack.
Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling all-nighters just before deadline
FOSS digital audio workstation Ardour reaches version 7
Loathsome eighties ladder-climber levelled by a custom DOS prompt
Datacenter fire takes out South Korea's top two web giants
Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art
Qualcomm: Arm lawsuit motivated by greed, 'payback' for opposing Nvidia takeover
Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop
Sony, Honda collaborate on 'premium' electric vehicles that are born in the USA
Banks face their 'darkest hour' as malware steps up, maker of antivirus says
Fixing an upside-down USB plug: A case of supporting the insupportable
Friday 14th October 2022 07:22 GMT
Re: It was rumoured that local houses could light bulbs from the radiation.
There is a story (don't know if it's true) that some guy built a frame aerial in his loft space to power his entire house, and was creating a radio shadow. The only way he could be stopped at the time was by being prosecuted for using a radio receiver without a license (needed in those early days). Suitable laws were hurried through!
AI recruitment software is 'automated pseudoscience', Cambridge study finds
Thursday 13th October 2022 10:16 GMT 
Common Sense (not so common)
I think I mentioned it before, but what got me my last job against an equally qualified guy was my response to a question about Flemming's left and right hand rules. I correctly stated them but then added I could never remember which was which and would have to look them up.
I stayed with that firm for nearly 20 years - then retired at 70.
Arm job cuts hit UK harder than global rationalization
Infosys must face claims it told recruiter not to hire women with kids 'at home'
China spins up giant battery built with US-patented tech
UK hits Russia with British IT services ban
Linux kernel 6.0 debuts, Linus Torvalds teases ‘core new things’ coming in version 6.1
Tetchy trainee turned the lights down low to teach turgid lecturer a lesson
Monday 3rd October 2022 14:21 GMT 
The one I baulked at
A teacher who rapidly copied notes out of a text book to a roller blackboard faster than I could keep up with. Then I noticed he was copying verbatim from the same text book as all of us had been issued with.
The next time I was prepared. I wrote the first line, then quickly scanned through the text book to find it and wrote down the page number. I then daydreamed for most of the 'lesson' and when it ended quickly jotted down the last line on the board. I could now study the entire subject at my leisure.
Steganography alert: Backdoor spyware stashed in Microsoft logo
Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids
As Hurricane Ian hits, FCC rules cell carriers must help each other in disasters
How Citrix dropped the ball on Xen ... according to Citrix
Late but lustrous, a fresh remix of Ubuntu emerges
Wednesday 28th September 2022 15:30 GMT 
A word of warning
I've picked this up a short while ago. It's a quote from the Arch Linux people.
"
as you install APT updates, Snap becomes a requirement for you to continue to
use Chromium and installs itself behind your back. This breaks one of the major
worries many people had when Snap was announced and a promise from its
developers that it would never replace APT.
A self-installing Snap Store which overwrites part of our APT package base is a
complete NO NO. It’s something we have to stop and it could mean the end of
Chromium updates and access to the snap store in Linux Mint.
A year later, in the Ubuntu 20.04 package base, the Chromium package is indeed
empty and acting, without your consent, as a backdoor by connecting your
computer to the Ubuntu Store. Applications in this store cannot be patched, or
pinned. You can’t audit them, hold them, modify them or even point snap to a
different store. You’ve as much empowerment with this as if you were using
proprietary software, i.e. none. This is in effect similar to a commercial
proprietary solution, but with two major differences: It runs as root, and it
installs itself without asking you.
"
The Arch people have sensibly blocked default action of any package installing
snap. But if you really *really* want to do that manually you still can...
at your own risk of course.
P.S. I've just been told the same is now happening with Firefox
How one Ukrainian software maker planned for survival as invaders approached
Soaring costs, inflation nurturing generation of 'quiet quitters' among under-30s
Tuesday 27th September 2022 14:27 GMT
Re: Wrong!!
And it applies to the top of the age range as well. Both of my sisters have taken early retirement. Partly due to increased demands with insultingly small (below inflation) pay rises and partly due to back to the office mandates (so that's another effective pay cut due to commuting costs).
Consolidation looms for UK broadband providers
Tuesday 27th September 2022 14:16 GMT
Re: I knew it was fscked in 1993 ...
This is not new.
In the 1960s I remember seeing a major development near Reading built on top of a landfilled gravel pit that was only topped over 2 years previously. I sneaked inside one of them that was mostly built... and was horrified with what I saw. Pathetically thin joists badly fitted on cinder-block walls that had more cough ventilation cough than cement.
Is it a bird? Is it Microsoft Office? No, it's Onlyoffice: Version 7.2 released
A match made in heaven: systemd comes to Windows Subsystem for Linux
Mozilla drags Microsoft, Google, Apple for obliterating any form of browser choice
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