I've got a OnePlus 3 kicking around somewhere - might well give it a try; a few bits don't work, sure, but early days....
Posts by nichomach
817 posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Ubuntu Touch OTA-23 is coming: Do you have one of the older model phones that can test it?
Phishing operation hits NHS email accounts to harvest Microsoft credentials
Thursday 5th May 2022 12:06 GMT
Re: To be fare (pun intended)...
The 350m was supposed to be financed by Brexit savings, so it emphatically was not given *from the source described*. Having our taxes increased to fund increases instead was not on the side of the bus. Also, "if we include Covid funding"? Pull the other one. Covid was a national emergency; in the same way that actually fighting a war isn't in the defence budget (it's funded by contingency funding from the Treasury) neither is a pandemic in the budget for the day to day running of the NHS. That's leaving aside that billions of that funding was trousered by Tory donors through unlawful contracts - and that was so blatant that the government doesn't dare appeal the verdict.
Apple patched critical flaws in macOS Monterey but not in Big Sur nor Catalina
Have you tried restarting? Reinstalling? Upgrading? Moving house and changing your identity?
Friday 4th February 2022 14:10 GMT
Not identical, but...
We have a firewall manufacturer, let's call them...TonicFall. They also provide a host-based content filter, which is actually pretty good in itself, but the management portal for it has become increasingly unreliable. Reports don't work at all ("this content requires Adobe Flash..."), and increasingly has just refused to load in multiple browsers on multiple machines. If you want to open a support ticket, you are prompted to use their portal - which automatically registers the fault as a P3 ("We really don't give a toss, now go away"). To raise a P2 or P1 you are advised to call them on one of the local support numbers on <link>. Link goes to a page of phone numbers where the support number...is a link back to the portal you just came from. And this is one of the reasons we're changing manufacurers.
Thank you, FAQ chatbot, but if I want your help I'll ask for it
Government-favoured child safety app warned it could violate the UK's Investigatory Powers Act with message-scanning tech
Honor 50 Lite: Google Play Services are back on Huawei's former stablemate but that's nothing to get excited about
Trial of Theranos boss Elizabeth Holmes begins: She plans to say her boyfriend and COO Balwani abused her
BT to phase out 3G in UK by 2023 for EE, Plusnet, BT Mobile subscribers
Revealed: Perfect timings for creation of exemplary full English breakfast
IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say
Thursday 1st July 2021 07:01 GMT
Re: Dark, chaotic pit of not being able to access email or calendars
I know what you're getting at, and have experienced being in those interminable "I'd better cc EVERYONE" email chains, but there is little more annoying than being in the middle of a complex task that requires concentration and having someone rock up or phone with something completely unrelated that they expect you to deal with there and then. Make an appointment and I'll clear the decks for you and you'll have my complete attention. Rock up out of the blue, and I'll be less forthcoming.
The server is down, money is not being made, and you want me to fix what?
We'd love to report on the outcome of the CREST exam cheatsheet probe, but UK infosec body won't publish it
Fancy trying to explain Microsoft Teams to your parents? They may ask about the new Personal version
Don't be a fool, cover your tool: How IBM's mighty XT keyboard was felled by toxic atmosphere of the '80s
The Novell NetWare box keeps rebooting over and over again yet no one has touched it? We're going on a stakeout
Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there
CentOS project changes focus, no more rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – you'll have to flow with the Stream
Let's check in now with the new California monolith... And it's gone, torn down by a bunch of MAGA muppets
Xiaomi revenues up by a third due to strong phone sales and triple-digit European growth
Solving a big, yellow IT problem: If it's not wearing hi-vis, I don't trust it
Office 365 for the iPad will feel a little more desktop-ish now Microsoft has tossed it trackpad, mouse support
Unis turn to webcam-watching AI to invigilate students taking exams. Of course, it struggles with people of color
Monday 5th October 2020 11:22 GMT
Re: Why use the word racist.
And that's why reductio ad absurdum is treated as a logical fallacy. Scenario: You are developing a technology to invigilate exams. This depends upon facial recognition. The people being invigilated may be black or white, but you only test on white people. Your product discriminates against black people because it can't recognise them. You didn't *intend* to adversely affect them, but you should damn well have tested your product to make sure that it didn't, and if you were unable to ensure that it didn't, you should not have certified that product as ready for use. That is casual racism; you do not intend to be racist, but you are, because you either do not consider the issue, or ignore it.
With H-1B workers not exactly rushing to America this year, Uncle Sam plans to spend millions home-growing IT staff
Microsoft? More like: My software goes off... Azure AD, Outlook, Office.com, Teams, Authenticator, etc block unlucky folks from logging in
Single-line software bug causes fledgling YAM cryptocurrency to implode just two days after launch
BOFH: Will the last one out switch off the printer?
BOFH: Here he comes, all wide-eyed with the boundless optimism of youth. He is me, 30 years ago... what to do?
Judge Vulcan-nerve pinches JEDI deal after Amazon forks out $42m to pause Microsoft's military machinations
Day 4 of outage: UK's Manchester police deploy exciting new carbon-based method to record crime
Is it a make-up mirror? Is it a tiny frisbee? No, it's the bonkers Cyrcle Phone, with its TWO headphone jacks
ICO scammer Maksim Zaslavskiy to miss 2020 Tokyo Olympics over digital currency fraud
UK Info Commish quietly urged court to swat away 100k Morrisons data breach sueball
Wednesday 13th November 2019 11:52 GMT
Here we go again...
As I noted elsewhere: "That presumes that the ICO's role is to protect citizens' data. Observation would indicate that in most cases it's to explain that they're not going to."
Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it?
When the IT department speaks, users listen. Or face the consequences
Friday 8th November 2019 08:41 GMT
Yep...
We provide a batch file that does a backup of the stuff in users' documents/pictures/videos folders. They are told that anything important should go on the network (actually into our CMS). Do they use the former? Sometimes...but not often. Do they pay attention to the latter? Three guesses, but you'll only need one...
Radio nerd who sipped NHS pager messages then streamed them via webcam may have committed a crime
Thursday 31st October 2019 16:56 GMT 
Surprise surprise...
Not that I don't think this pillock should be prosecuted, I certainly do, but the contrast between their lightning-swift reaction to one guy on his own breaching RIPA as opposed to their glacial pace and unwillingness to act against a couple of big companies like, say, oh, BT and Phorm is somewhat noticeable.
Hell hath GNOME fury: Linux desktop org swings ax at patent troll's infringement claim
Lies, damn lies, and KPIs: Let's not fix the formula until we have someone else to blame
Monday 14th October 2019 11:23 GMT
Re: bigwigs had spent the last year working on ... "numbers totally unrelated to reality"
See, the problem isn't that you mixed the words up, the problem is that you attempted to lecture someone else who picked up on that and had a little (non-malicious) fun with it. Don't blame other people when you pwn yourself?
Former BAE Systems contractor charged with 'damaging disclosure' of UK defence secrets
Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn't use its software
Friday 4th October 2019 07:45 GMT
I'm wondering whether...
...Oracle are on the cusp of crashing; they are so abusinve to their customers (honestly the Redmond Beast is a fluffy teddy bear by comparison), and there are so many other options out there that they might be hitting the tipping point where people simply won't use them anymore. Oh happy day!
Three UK slammed for 'ripping off' loyal mobile customers by £32.4m per year
From pen-test to penitentiary: Infosec duo cuffed after physically breaking into courthouse during IT security assessment
Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein
HP Inc waves bye to EMEA president with 'immediate effect'
Monday 9th September 2019 12:44 GMT
Re: Home printers are rubbish
Couldn't agree more. Last "genuine" ink I bought was appallingly bad; loads of gaps, wouldn't print some colours. Bought some generic stuff off Mamzon and it works much better. I still get the "you are not using genuine HP ink" message, to which my response is "You're damned straight I'm not, you thieving %#@£s!".
