Posts by richardnpaul

Google's unloved plan to fix web permissions gathers support

Re: How about no...

Well Google's Meet doesn't have dedicated app (that I'm aware of, but it has been a few years since I used it) because it runs in a browser, which means that it pretty much works on any OS with a browser and the various other supporting bits like JS and probably audio/video codecs etc.

That means that you get (mostly) full support on some truly esoteric devices because you don't need an app to join; mostly refers to background effects/blur not working under non-Chromium based browsers last I encountered.

I guess that they want to improve the browser experience for that product at least, which in my experience has been far better than Teams and Zoom (Slack Huddles being a standout here as well but only within the Slack ecosystem).

AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge

FFS always with the nuclear

We need to re-educate people so that when they think about a consistent 24hr energy supply they think of geothermal, not nuclear. It's likely a damn site quicker and cheaper to power up new geothermal sites than it is to build and deal with nuclear power projects, and they would likely come in closer to being on budget and even maybe provide useful by-products; well to be fair nuclear provides us with Plutonium which I'd like us to turn in the phalus shaped bombs with "get reamed" emblazoned on the side. We could then send photos to Putler et al.

Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

Can someone explain it to the politicians like this. Let's install microphones into all temporary occupancy rooms in the UK. Let's restrict the keys to decrypt those recordings to just the people who occupy those rooms. That's E2E encryption. Now, let's add the ability for the room owner to also hold a master key, that's what you have if you don't have E2E encryption. So if the hotel isn't any good at securing their master key or gets hacked or has someone working for them that's willing to sell the data that's the downside.

So, how many ministers or MPs or members of MI5 are going to be willing to stay in any room with a microphone in it with such a system (a lá 1984)?

Critical PostgreSQL bug tied to zero-day attack on US Treasury

Someone should respond to that tweet with "This retard doesn't think that the government uses SQL"

Microsoft won't let customers opt out of passkey push

Re: Passkeys are a bad idea, or at least badly implemented

Log into your microsoft account, from a new Win11 machine, when your account is protected by passkeys, and you don't have any passkeys on the device, yet.

Europe's largest local authority settles on ERP budget 5x original estimate

Re: Pretty much every large software implementation

I find that people always flee to regulatory or compliance as a shield to hide behind to prevent them having to change things that they're comfortable with.