Posts by Captain Hogwash

AOSP on a diet plan as Google halves Android code drops

Re: Sovereignty

China would probably prefer that Harmony OS was more widely distributed.

HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations

Re: "Potential" Risks

Expect that to soon be seen as a problem, the solution to which is Just In Time bog roll drone delivery for a very reasonable monthly subscription.

Once enough people sign up expect it to be near impossible to buy it in a shop.

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

Re: Except

Culture exists in high, low and intermediate forms. Ballroom dancing sits somewhere on that continuum. If humans invented, rather than discovered, it then it's culture.

Re: Except

They didn't detect your VPN and tell you to sling your hook?

Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

This argument has been going on for at least the thirty years I've been in the industry. I have to agree with those earlier posters that those who call the shots seem to care about time to market more than anything else. So nothing will change.

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

Re: flogging overpriced own-brand groceries

Better that than peasants as in days of yore.

From pr0n to playlists and paperclips, trio of breaches spills data of millions

Re: Boomers think just having to create an account to access a web site is out of hand

So does GenX!

Roomba maker iRobot gets cleaned out in Chapter 11

They have had for more than a decade.

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

What happened to you Denmark?

You used to be cool.

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

Re: Great Firewall of Australia

Great Carrier Reef?

Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia

Re: Update

Indeed. Android used to have SIP calling built in.

UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support

Ahem ->

ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare

Re: IPv6 solution...

Damn Stonecutters!

VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India

Re: What to do??

MVNO

'Keep Android Open' movement fights back against Google sideloading restrictions

Re: "the next generation of tinkerers, hobbyists and eventually professional coders"

I'm sure they're all hoping that their AI software will obviate the need for such people.

Britain's Ministry of Justice just signed up to ChatGPT Enterprise

Re: modern-day tulip mania

Worryingly, what made tulips so desirable was a virus.

Clippy rises from the dead in major update to Copilot and its voice interface

Clippy

Have they done this to undermine Rossman's campaign?

UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI

age classification of videos streamed on demand

Mandated on all devices? Proceed to age verification to watch this video?

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

Re: The answer?

Mine runs fine on Proxmox.

The answer?

HOME ASSISTANT! HOME ASSISTANT! BESPOKE CONFIGURATION DOT YAML FILES!

Mobian makes Debian's latest 'Trixie' release pocket-sized

"This is a rapidly developing area."

Not rapidly enough. I wish I had time to help.

Literal crossed wires sent cops after innocent neighbors in child abuse case

Buttle, Tuttle.

UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest

Re: eliminates the tracking via the mobile phone network

Kind of. What it actually does is prevent the number appearing in the HLR (which is not supposed to be sold but clearly is acquired by tracking companies somehow.)

So, you can give companies you deal with a SIP number to contact you, but they can't use it to determine your location.

Removing the SIM is kind of pointless unless you're happy to only use the phone on wifi. The answer? Port your mobile number to a SIP provider, get another SIM, never tell anyone the new SIM number and never call with it unless the number is hidden. Use the mobile network's data connection for SIP calls when out and about.

Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide

Re: I think .....

Several options available on that link. Did you mean the V ones? I hope not as that's what I look like.

Many employees are using AI to create 'workslop,' Stanford study says

Re: So, 95% of firms see no ROI

"Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun." -

C. Montgomery Burns

Digital ID, same place, different time: In this timeline, the result might surprise us

Re: "how the system will work for those who can't use smartphones"

Assuming you have one. Nothing like that goes on my phone or any other device where I don't have root.

If you can't use AI then it's bye bye, Accenture tells staff

I'm one such programmer. Copilot produces garbage and so the whole exercise reduces productivity. Presumably I'm not using it correctly and should be dismissed. That's my worry.

UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029

Re: held on people's phones...yeah

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

Campaigners urge UK PM Starmer to dump digital ID wheeze before it's announced

Re: Paying

A fine piece of writing. Have a beer.

Ubuntu users left waiting after Canonical's servers take weekend off

I've heard good things about Debian.

Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register

Mature Linux Phones

can't come soon enough.

The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety

Re: "When the databases of the age-verification services get hacked..."

Rhyming slang?

McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

Re: How did they not see this coming?

Hamburglar!

Browser wars are back, predicts Palo Alto, thanks to AI

Re: Booking restaurants????

Or books you into a restaurant when you wanted to stay at home?

Minority Report: Now with more spreadsheets and guesswork

Precogs

...always were a metaphor for this kind of thing. Surely everyone understood that?

Marc Andreessen wades into the UK's Online Safety Act furor

Re: adult content that can easily be found on the internet

Such as age verification perhaps?

Re: The ReJester

Since the union of the crowns, he is a Scottish monarch.

Re: The ReJester

Indeed. A bicycle monarchy, a la Netherlands, is probably closer to ideal than what we have right now.

UK unveils plans to 'transform' the consumer smart meter experience

Re: "compliance engagement"

Wow! I've always believed surge pricing was the whole point of smart meters.

UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act

Re: Brirewall?

Hadrian's Firewall?

Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act

Re: How does this all work

It works by ensuring that 16 & 17 year olds see only the information required to decide to vote for the incumbent.

Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safety Act gets rolling

Re: Reform will get in and abolish this leakfest.

Our democracy. Our NHS. They've all been doing it for years. I saw right through it from the moment they started it. No doubt something dredged up from the bottom of the nudge unit barrel. They all make me sick, not in the Gen Z way.

Re: Does it really matter?

Not only Poland, https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide/

Probably every country they "visited".

Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

Re: Private or Work?

Do you believe them? I don't.

The tiny tech tribe who could change the world tomorrow but won't

Re: How...?

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs isn't just a bad idea, it's the law*

Re: End of the public internet, mostly

Sadly I think most people will just roll over and accept it.

Re: Farewell UK based web sites!

You can also host your own.

Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth

Sounds a lot like Briar

Did I miss something?

Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box

Re: Room temperature?

But not by much.

Fresh UK postcode tool points out best mobile network in your area

Re: " drawn from user experiences, plus predictive data from the UK's mobile operators themselves."

Might have worked in the Netherlands, but Switzerland?!