Posts by captain veg 2317 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
A while ago I inadvertently turned on the so-called voice "assistant" on my phone (LineageOS, but with Google "services" installed*), which turned off the on-screen keyboard.
I told it to (verbatim) "fuck off and give me the keyboard back". I was using the Google Maps app at the time. It responded by declaring that it was "searching for nearby pie shops" (possibly not verbatim, apart from the pie shops).
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*This was a mistake which I massively regret.
"At the core of O'Carroll's complaint are allegations that Meta is breaking data protection law – the UK GDPR"
The UK GDPR. Err, what's that?
The current UK government is pursuing legislation to terminate anything that came from the EU* from the statute book, whatever the consequence. That includes GDPR.
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* Rather a lot of supposedly EU-sourced legislation was actually just giving effect to directives from higher authorities, such as UNECE. Welcome to globalisaton.
Today, when I logged in to my employer's account management system, I noticed that it has been totally redesigned. And now bears the branding "Micro Focus". And it's total shit. So slow that people are giving up on screen content ever arriving and assuming that it's just broken. And, in parts, it simply is.
Should have stuck to COBOL on DOS. It didn't matter if that was any good (though I understand that it was), you had no alternative.
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No, gerrymandering is something else. And they have form there too.
I was actually referring to the well-documented fact that the specific proposals favour forms of ID that are most commonly held by socio-demographic groups that tend to vote Conservative. Here's a citation; grown up enough for you?
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What the Labour party* does for their internal processes is entirely their business, though I note you cite no evidence for that claim.
As for governmental elections, the specific proposals on offer from the Conservative government rather obviously favour Conservative voters over the everyone else.
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* What is "the left wing Labour party" supposed to mean? Is there a right wing one?
NUC's are great. The engineering is first class. It's a shame they are so ugly.
Alternatives from the likes of ASRock and Gigabyte look far nicer on a desk or shelf and seem to work much the same. This is definitely an area where Intel can revert to supplying the silicon and letting the Taiwanese do the packaging.
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Vivaldi is indeed my daily driver. It comes close, but it's a real shame that they couldn't have taken Presto with them. It is deeply unhealthy that there are just two usable browser implementations in the wild. (Three if you consider Webkit separately and ignore that it only exists on Apple systems.)
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Well, it's more helpful to people who have sold their online identities to Google.
To the rest of us, Chromium, Vivaldi, Brave, even modern Opera* are better choices.
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Though not much in the case of Opera. There was a time when I freely gave them money for the clearly superior Presto-based program. Last time I looked they're chasing click-bait. A real shame.
Quite apart from the fact that there is no such crisis, this rather overstates her attachment to principle rather than, say, pandering to the mouth-frothing crazies who might one day elect her leader of the party.
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> "that's because you vote for the party and not the people"
Actually you vote for someone to represent your constituency, so literally "the people". Not the party to which they belong, and certainly not for the leader of that party.
How you arrive at your choice is entirely up to you. My parents tell me that there was a time when party affiliation wasn't even mentioned on the ballot paper.
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So how do you square that with the statement that "none of these above browsers will be able to natively render JPEG XL images"? Surely they can just chose to add that functionality themselves.
Or is that word "natively" performing some unusual task that I had not previously suspected?
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Hmm, yes.
That was a really quite a long time ago. We are currently on ECMAScript version 13.
> horrors like the need for the === operator
I don't see that as a horror. It's just a syntactical feature, albeit one which seems to pass a lot of coders by. That's kind of my point.
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Pity those of us in France, where the Q, Z and M are in the wrong place, let alone all the symbols. And you have to shift to get numerals from the top row. And use Alt Gr to get such arcana as the backslash, which no one, especially coders, ever needs.
I haven't found a supplier of British QWERTY in the country, and importing from the UK is now a long and expensive business, if you can find a supplier willing to go through the rigmarole. If Logitech could do something about that, I might be more inclined to overlook the fact that they don't use proper clicky switch mechanisms.
Of course, it's worse if you want a laptop.
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I bought a cheapish Android tablet, branded Blackview (Tab 8 if you're interested), and its optional QWERTY keyboard case. When attached, it is very laptop-like. When not, it's a boggo tablet. Or slot in a SIM and it's a huge phone.
The keyboard is easily good enough to do useful work on. Android, less so. Linux would be a huge improvement.
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