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Posts by Gene Cash
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Not very sage rage over UK pay outage: Opayo says 'ohheyno' as payment processor's payments stop processing
Systemd 249 release candidate includes better support for immutable OSes and provisioning images
We've found another reason not to use Microsoft's Paint 3D – researchers
Say helloSystem: Mac-like FreeBSD project emits 0.5 release
UK competition watchdog begins probe into Apple and Google's total domination of the mobile landscape
Re: I'm typing this on a Moto G8 power
> Microsoft, not short of a few quid, have failed miserably to enter the market
Microsoft was short of a few brain cells. They jerked around the users of WinCE/Windows Mobile/Windows Phone/whatever the branding was that week, forgetting there was actually competition and alternatives. This resulted in a mass exodus. I heard the last few iterations were really nice until Microsoft dropped all support.
As much as I hate Google/Apple, this was more of a Microsoft own-goal.
> Can you launch your own app store for both OS.... Erm, not so much.
Actually, there's sites/apps like Fdroid, which houses open source Android applications. However, Google Play protests bitterly about allowing it, and pretty much suggests your house will burn down and your dog will be raped.
They have recently modified Play to complain every time you install/update something, not just when you enable it. This is not kosher, IMHO.
We've been shown time and again that strong encryption puts crims behind bars, so why do politicos hate it?
Want to keep working in shorts and flipflops way after this is all over? It could be time to rethink your career moves
Inventor of the graphite anode – key Li-ion battery tech – says he can now charge an electric car in 10 minutes
Do you come from a land Down Under? Where diesel's low and techies blunder
Excuse me, what just happened? Resilience is tough when your failure is due to a 'sequence of events that was almost impossible to foresee'
Pakistan's Punjab province tells citizens to get jabbed or have their SIM card blocked
Re: A better incentive
> have to go in an actively persuade people that their doubts are mis-placed. You have to win the argument
I'm not interested in arguing with them. I want them to get their damn medical treatment. I've lived with my mother and heard enough stupid arguments to last the rest of my life. That's enough for me.
FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips
The Eigiau Dam Disaster: Deluges and deceit at the dawn of hydroelectric power
Seven-year-old make-me-root bug in Linux service polkit patched
Ease of updating
I did an "apt update;apt dist-upgrade" and my system was patched before I finished the article. I wish Windows and Oracle were so easy.
policykit-1 (0.105-31) unstable; urgency=medium [ Salvatore Bonaccorso ]
* d/p/CVE-2021-3560.patch: Fix local privilege escalation involving polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync() (CVE-2021-3560) (Closes: #989429)
-- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Thu, 03 Jun 2021 17:06:34 +0100
EA Games looted by intruders: Publisher says 'no player data accessed' after reported theft of FIFA 21, Frostbite source
FLAG TAKEN!
YOUR TEAM HAS THE LEAD!
Seriously though, "It's worth noting that EA are so hated that they have twice won the award for being worst company in America against the sort of companies who's activities occasionally result in massive environmental damage and/or people actually dying."
According to the Vice article: "The representative for the hackers provided screenshots to help corroborate the various steps of the hack"
Damn, that's some serious in-the-face screw-you-here's-how-we-did-it
BT promises firmware update for Mini Whole Home Wi-Fi discs to prevent obsessive Big Tech DNS lookups
So how can we push this up the chain?
BT is obviously lying, and anyone with minimal technical background can figure it out. How does a customer push it up the chain of regulatory authority?
I know in the US, if you write a letter to the FTC or FCC with a modicum of grammar and spelling and minimum capslock, and some sort of complaint that has any substance, then it's taken very seriously.
McDonald's AI drive-thru bot accused of breaking biometrics privacy law
Re: Success Rate
85% is about 35% higher than the accuracy rate I've experienced with people... I'd take the AI any day.
Even before COVID, I was SOOOO happy to get the touch screen ordering systems. It was the only reason I went to McDonald's. The food is horrid but now I don't have to deal with explaining my order 3 times to people that are tired of people yelling orders at them.
I'd much prefer Wendy's or somewhere else where the food resembles something edible, but they don't have working touch screens.
Google wants to look like it cares about your privacy with Android 12 Beta 2, but note that's not how Google works
Pre-orders open for the Mini PET 40/80, the closest thing to Commodore's classic around
Samsung brags that its latest imaging sensor has the ittiest-bittiest cam pixels in the world
'Condolences on the death of your conscience' says card from Indonesian delivery drivers to local Uber clone after payments slashed
Re: Good on them
Over in the US, the taxi companies have licenses but they use them as a shelter against competition, and are still pretty much back in the last century. This is why Uber/Lyft/etc are so popular.
Their apps don't work. I had the app misreport my location several times, and I could not set it, so I got blacklisted and now I can't get a taxi.
Their cars are barely operable. The brakes and fan belt were squealing horribly on my last ride. Before that, the car stank of fuel fumes.
My driver actually read a paperback book while she was driving!
And of course there's the stereotypical racist bastard driver that won't shut up.
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The best time to build a semiconductor foundry is 5 years ago
No digital equivalent to the impulse aisle found as online grocery shoppers buy fewer sweet treats than in real life
Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer
Thanks, boss. The accidental creation of a lights-out data centre – what a fun surprise
That AI scanning your X-ray for signs of COVID-19 may just be looking at your age
Problem with "AI" in general
"but the association is unexpected and not transparent"
That seems to be the problem with all of the AI out there. It gets "trained" but not on what we thought it was training on. Kind of like the WW-II dogs that were supposed to deliver bombs to enemy tanks. They attacked friendly tanks because they didn't train on the shape the tank but the smell of the diesel.
Report commissioned by Google says Google isn't to blame for the death of print news
GOOD RIDDANCE
Ugh. My local paper is more sensational than The Sun. This is the Orlando Sentinel.
Fortunately they recently got bought by some vulture capital, who have fired all the employees (I can't say journalists) and are selling the bones.
They were worse than AOL. Every other day I'd have a wet mound of paper pulp in my yard, despite never buying a subscription, and despite calling them over 40 times in 10-15 years.
I'm SOOOOOO glad they're going to be gone soon.
Icon for how they should be flame-broiled. I hope none of their ex-employees find a job better than McDonald's.
Today I shall explain how dual monitors work using the medium of interpretive dance
Seagate finds sets of two heads are cheaper than one in its new and very fast MACH.2 dual-actuator hard disks
How to use Google's new dependency mapping tool to find security flaws buried in your projects
> the number of useful libraries
So how do you decide what's useful? I just wrote a Python library that talks the Bluetooth protocol from my Zero electric motorcycle. I mainly use it to monitor how charged it is from the other end of the house.
That's surely a library that's only useful to a handful of people on the planet, but it's still useful, and it's on GitHub in the hopes they stumble across it.
They're ALL "useful" because nobody would spend the time writing something without a use, aside from Microsoft and Oracle.
How many remote controls do you really need? Answer: about a bowl-ful
Got rid of the TV several years ago
I got tired of all that BS, plus "programs" that were 35 minutes of show and 25 minutes of ads. Tell me, why am I paying for ads, again?
Now I youtube-dl everything I find interesting and eventually watch the stack of files when I get time, with a video application that actually features working pause and forward/reverse buttons.
My stupid 4K monitor has gotten in on the bullshit by mounting the controls on the back, but it does do a cool trick of popping up a representation of the controls on the front when you touch them, so you can blindly reach back and actually do something useful and directed. I'm sure the engineer got fired for doing something so innovative and nice.
For the guy with a "TV so old Philips no longer make the remote" how about a Sears-badged Sony Trinitron from 1986 that only finally failed in 2018? It had a row of buttons on the original remote that nothing else ever heard of.
South Korea's first fully indigenous rocket now on launch pad, ready for tests
Re: From next to nothing to lunar orbiter in 2 years
"Blank sheet of paper" is not over stating it at all.
Rockets are rockets, but getting a living human into space and back, still living, was complete unknown territory. As was building mechanisms that worked in zero-g and vacuum. Astrodynamics was known, but actual techniques to track stuff far away in space, and methods of rendezvous and docking were non-existent.
Doctors argued over if it was even possible to swallow in space. Would they choke on their own saliva in zero-g? That's the sort of level of "unknown" it was.
Dealing with vacuum is it's own set of new challenges. Does your lube work, or does it boil uselessly away or harden into a lump? Does your paint outgas and leave a film all over your optics and instruments? That's just the start of it.
Edit: there was also a terror that the Moon was covered in a soft dust that would instantly swallow spacecraft, never to be seen again. The fact it was possible to softland a probe at all was a milestone.
Amazon warehouse workers are seriously injured more frequently than those at similar companies – unions
NHS GP data grab: Royal College of General Practitioners urges health body to communicate better
Xiaomi touts Hypercharge 200W charging tech, claims 4,000mAh battery goes from 0 to full in 480 seconds
Stupid lab tricks
This is great, but when you charge a Li-ion battery at faster than 1C, it roasts that puppy, and battery life goes straight into the trash.
> To preserve battery health, charging speeds typically decelerate as a device reaches full capacity
Not true. Charging speeds typically decelerate because the Battery Management System stops charging cells with higher voltages to let lower charged cells catch up and level out mismatches.
To preserve battery health, you simply don't charge faster than 1C, especially when the battery is hot.
Why did automakers stall while the PC supply chain coped with a surge? Because Big Tech got priority access
AMD teases '3D V-Cache' tech that stacks cores and SRAM, delivers 15% boost to today's Ryzen CPUs
Unfixable Apple M1 chip bug enables cross-process chatter, breaking OS security model
Contract killer: Certified PDFs can be secretly tampered with during the signing process, boffins find
Apple's iPad Pro on a stick, um, we mean M1 iMac scores 2 out of 10 for repairability
iFixit publishes teardown of M1 iMac, shows that making a determination of repairability is still hard
Re: Where are the old teardowns?
Well, for the S100 systems I used in my first job, "yellow wire" repairs (bugfixes) were something the owners were encouraged to implement. These were usually a wire or two soldered in, or a resistor clipped or replaced. Once it was replacing a hex buffer chip with a faster one.
More power for your Raspberry Pi: A new PoE+ HAT to sate power-hungry peripherals
Amazon continues its ban on allowing police to use its facial-recognition software
When humanity perishes in nuclear fire, the University of Essex's radiation-resistant robots will inherit the Earth
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