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A new Raspberry Pi takes a bow with all of the speed but less of the RAM

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Re: This is good.

I thumbs up using standard usb 5v to power a pi. Wish my phones all did that.

Fairphone 3 stripped to the modular essentials: Glue? What glue?

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Does it work with modules removed?

Ability to temporarily remove gps and wifi seems like a useful feature for the paranoid

Firefox now defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS for US netizens and some are dischuffed about this

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Re: Good and bad

Google dont care because they already know.

No matter how you resolve ips. Chrome has plaintext everything.

Intrepid Change.org user launches petition to make Jeff Bezos' space trip one-way

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Re: Never work

Space tourism should be internationally illegal due to its scandalous carbon footprint. Unless they don't come back.

Google offers privacy audit tool to app developers

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Re: Check your privilege

If only, the rule book is too big to read and changes on a nightly release schedule.

Twitter tweaks third-party app rules to ban third-party apps

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Re: Be Thankful because

Twitter's death is pretty close to world peace.

Probably a good thing for vaccination programs worldwide.

What did we say about Tesla's self-driving tech? SpaceX Roadster skips Mars, steers to asteroids

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tripping what

Can someone fill me in on the tripping balls thing? Some nee type of Californian microdots?

No top-ups, please, I'm a millennial: Lightweight yoof shunning booze like never before

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Re: IT angle?

Every fucker in the pub has a mobile phone with a hi res. Digital camera

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

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My nephew incorporated broken latice pieces as missile damage to his latest creation.

Dont bin the broken bits!

Safari's Intelligent Tracking Protection is misspelled, says Google: It should be Dumb Browser Stalking Enabler

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Re: Shock

Simple fix is a static list.

Perhaps...

google.com,facebook.com

and be done with it.

State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation

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Re: Been there

There is clearly a market migrating 30 year old mainframe systems to the raspberry pi.

84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement

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Re: Ha!

Septics are the ones with baseball caps _not_ made by Burberry.

Altho they are all ammosexual

Another Debian dust-up with Firefox dependencies – but there is an annoying and awkward workaround

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Re: Linus sums up Debian

Gotta love Linus' turn of phrase

N.B. 2012 was a while back

Alibaba launches collaboration suite for smart glasses

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Cool?

Re: VR-related cool factor

Hadn't we agreed to call the wearers of such device glassholes?

Amazon fails to overturn New York City union election

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Re: New motto for Amazon

Commercial prisons, Amazon can extend their labour force easily.

US still has slavery.

Automating Excel tasks to come to Windows and Mac

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Macro managers

I'd settle for managers that are capable of typing things into those little white boxes.

Oracle puts database, middleware, Linux on Microsoft Hyper-V, Azure

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effective immediatly

= lots of our customers do it already, it works, and we are missing out on support contracts.

Kids, look at the Deep Learnings! (We’re just going to slurp your data)

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Re: Understatement

Forgiven. I just had a "ow fuck what did I post on Twitter" moment with Evernote too.

Microsoft to run VMware on Azure, on bare metal. Repeat. Microsoft to run VMware on Azure.

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great idea

You sign up for that Microsoft can tell you exactly when its time to migrate off VMware.

Hey, so Europe's GDPR privacy deadline for Whois? We're going to miss it ... by a year or so

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Re: @ codejunky

Hows that sticking two fingers up at the rest of the world thing been going for ya?

Now that Kubernetes has won, DigitalOcean takes a late dip in K8s

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k8s has won?

Seems k8s == containers these days.

I find lxc much more user friendly for my containerization games.

Google open sources standardized code in bid to become Mr Robots.txt

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Re: Never mind...

I've got an idea, i wonder if they will listen

Google no

Duckduckgo yes

/sargasm

Police costs for Gatwick drone fiasco double to nearly £900k – and still no one's been charged

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Re: Hysteria

If you kiss the right frog (or lick its back) its pretty much guaranteed to start talking.

Windows 11 still doesn't understand our complex lives – and it hurts

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virtualization has not lived up to its promise.

in all fairness virtualization was never intended for that use case.

What does 2022 have in store for Asahi Linux on Apple chips? Drivers aplenty, but that GPU still needs tackling

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Je n'entend pas

What's with the piccy of the drunk Spanish and French sports fans?

No comprendo?

Intel drags Xeon Phi Knights Hill chips out back... two shots heard

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The knights who say Phi are going to be spending a but more time with thier shrubbery.

I'll get my coat.

Programming languages can be hard to grasp for non-English speakers. Step forward, Bato: A Ruby port for Filipinos

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Re: Nothing new here

if you use Microzoft conventions the rest of your code is in reverse polish with messed up Capitalisation

Sudo? More like Su-doh: There's a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)

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Re: I suspect that most didn't even know it was an option

SELinux gives you more than the basic unix system.

We're number two! Microsoft's Edge browser slips past Firefox in latest set of NetMarketShare figures

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Re: Am I a bad person

Merely short sighted. If you dont take care, very soon that browser will cease to exist.

Google Docs users, you are on notice: Code rewrite may break browser extensions

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Joke

Re: Hello?

If you want true wysiwyg use Mardown, and don't convert to html.

kiss is the golden rule with text.

Out of beta and ready for data: 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS is here

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Re: I'd just settle for being able to buy one

Still running 2x 32bit model B 500mb ram with useful workloads.

Outlook email users alerted to suspicious activity from Microsoft-owned IP address

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Careful what you wish for

You are asking for a balkanised Internet

Facebook loses control of its own Twitter account in hacker attack – and more news

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Love the hackers 1 pic. Hackers 2 did pardon the producers.

Like a celeb going bonkers with botox, Google injects 'AI' into anything it can

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Re: So in summary

tensorflow looks pretty cool and Google are using already so you know it aint all hype.

It was El Reg wot won it: Bing banishes bogus Brit bank banner ad

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Re: What worries me

The most common search term on Google used to be "facebook". I bet facebook love that.

Loose .zips sink chips: How poisoned archives can hack your computer

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Re: xz and bzip2...

good point, how could xz be subject to path based bugs? perhaps one for tips & corrections?

Excited about dual-screen laptops? Make your own with duct tape and the ThinkVision M14

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Re: Sleep is important

Porting synergy for a rooted ebook reader is on my never ending list of parked projects

Halfords invents radio signals that don't travel at the speed of light

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Re: Speed of light

They should have made it 1/300000000 and changed the meter, just to anoy the French.

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

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Re: The next U-Turn?

Let Brexit happen (with no deals) by doing nothing, is not quite "get Brexit done".

So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off

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If they can do that to staff

Stealing off artists is next.

World needs bandcamp this is a crying shame.

Heart of darkness: Inside the Osówka underground city

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Re: "A clear mandate for destroying the British economy, then."

@ teknopaul

That's because it's Brexit's fault.

Brit techie shows us life in Ukraine amid Russian invasion

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The sheer number is exactly why the UK should do its bit. Not the reason it shouldn't.

Pyrrhic victory: Co-Op wins £13m from IBM over collapse of £175m Project Cobalt insurance platform contract

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Re: Don't forget

How could we forget cenTOS cenTOS.

12-year-old revives Unity desktop, develops software repo client, builds gaming environment for Ubuntu...

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Re: What is there to say?

It's safe to assume that Bob is trolling.

News Corp outfoxed by IT intruders for years

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Devil

Introducing fake fake news

"aim of gathering intelligence" at News Corp?

Pull the other one.

Home users due for a battering with Microsoft 365 subscription stick

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Re: Shafting as a Service...

Google docs/sheets et al. Its free. Microsoft will find it hard to compete with that for consumers.

Up from the depths, 864 servers inside, covered in slime, it's Natick!

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Re: Orbit

Not necessarily a joke.You can hide satellites behind the planet if solar flares are predictable. They do this around Mars.

Machine-learning model creates creepiest Doctor Who images yet – by scanning the brain of a super fan

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Re: Very unlikely

this

https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/

looks like real mad ai science and the results are much more prittier.

Hero to Jezero: Perseverance, NASA's most advanced geologist rover, lands on Mars, beams back first pics

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Re: Repulsive!

I still find it wierd that some people can't see the funny side of late term abortion without a smiley.

A bunch of apps will be able to bypass Microsoft's new store and use own update methods

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Re: What could possibly go wrong?

Validating that content has not changed is trivial no need for ssl, as simple SHA256 will suffice.