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* Posts by sstroud

15 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Aug 2023

Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped

sstroud

Re: I swear at Confluence every day

Be careful what you wish for. Confluence is still by far and away one of the best products in this sector, other products are magnitudes crappier.

Concorde at 50: Twice the speed of sound, twice the economic trouble

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HS2 then

No difference.

£80bn to save 12 minutes between Birmingham and north London.

Think how much 80 towns and cities could have each done with £1bn

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

sstroud

If your company, product or brand is still on X...

You are actively endorsing what Grok and Musk are upto, and I want nothing to do with you.

That includes this site. https://x.com/TheRegister

Apple, Google forced to issue emergency 0-day patches

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I know why the call them brave users

Brave because they often have to wait weeks and months for patches to be pushed

Duck Duck Go? Hack Hack Gone more like...

Samsung reveals its first tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode

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Louis

I just want to see Samsung use Lous Theroux in their advertising..

sstroud

Re: There are countless millions of fools

That's really the point. Everything is rubbish in their heads, until the cult of apple releases one, and then it's the best thing ever..

It's all rather pathetic.

Android malware types like your gran to steal banking creds

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This is why I left

Lame clickbait stories about malware that affects literally nobody.

Sad to see this site hasn't moved on from posting this shite.

'Huge architectural change' to JetBrains ReSharper cuts Visual Studio freezes

sstroud

Rider is better pretty much all round.

Smart developers will have abandoned Visual Studio years ago. Even without Resharper running, it's a dog.

Rider is so much better in ever respect.

Good morning, Brit Xbox fans – ready to prove your age?

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Is Xbox still a thing in 2025

That's surely the real story.

I thought it died a slow and painful death since 2020.

If Google is forced to give up Chrome, what happens next?

sstroud

Re: This is madness

Google do a very good job of keeping Chrome secure and fixing security issues. Do you think anyone else will be this good? It took Brave 4 weeks to merge the upstream zero day, putting their users at serious risk. This doesn't get reported of course, as Brave and DuckDuckGo get protected status by the tech media, and Google are of course evil, as that is where the click $$$ are.

You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection

sstroud

Re: I use Brave

Might want to also warn them about how slow they are to merge upstream patches, 4 weeks for an actively exploited zero day in the chromium code

You would have to be a total fool to use these privacy browser's without looking into support, and who you are actually entrusting.

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The biggest suprise

Safari, it's clear apple owners are still the product, despite paying top.dollar and falling for Apples lies

Bluesky keeps growing, and so do its problems

sstroud

Re: Enjoy BlueSky while we can.

Try blocklist subscriptions.. you can filter out MAGA, NAZIS, content scrapers, churnlism and more.

https://blueskydirectory.com/lists

Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win

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No worse than Apple or Microsoft.

After injecting pop-up ads for Bing into Windows, Microsoft now bends to Europe on links

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EU should force Microsoft to make it possible to uninstall Edge

Job done.