Posts by Dan 55 14823 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
The problem with XUL and XULRunner was it was horrendously documented so nobody could write apps with it (I did try myself). If they had documented it better, they might have even done themselves a favour because apparently one of their reasons for dropping it is they didn't know how to maintain it any more.
The Australia Chrome-like theme in Firefox 29 annoyed users and was a driving force behind Pale Moon
That sentence was auto-incorrected... I remember reading a while back that Mozilla's UI mock-ups came before Chrome's UI change, but Mozilla took such a long time to execute that Chrome got there first with the same idea (either copied or independently), but don't ask me to find the source now.
Which is also Mozilla's problem today, they take such a long time to execute, probably due to lack of resources and having to dedicate the resources they do have to following Google's latest mad idea as it's the de facto standard. Other browser developers can make minimal changes to Chromium where most of the work is already done.
Over 16 reasons why Jira and Confluence suck
Jira is not as good as project management software for managing projects and not as good as bug tracking software for tracking bugs, it's just an event horizon of stupid user interface choices coupled with crazy backend design which makes it impossible to revert mistakes (and we do make mistakes because we're only human after all). Once a company realises their provider or end clients also use Jira then all bets are off, they connect up their Jira instances in the mistaken belief that it will make working with Jira easier and the fail grows exponentially as comments get sent externally that people didn't mean to send and workflows don't match up. The only thing that makes working with Jira easier is ripping it out and using better tools for the job.
Previously, I liked mobile Firefox on Android, but they yanked that out from underfoot and it's a shitty Chrome back end browser too now.
No, Firefox uses GeckoView instead of WebView or Blink.
Also, the extensions I was using with mobile Firefox are GONE (Can't do that Dave... not in this browser engine)
They're removing restrictions on Android extensions in December.
A few links from Mozilla's car survey:
It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
What Data Does My Car Collect About Me and Where Does It Go?
Here's the deal: Privacy at Volkswagen doesn't look very good to us. VW earns all three of our privacy dings for how they use data, for how people can control their data, and for their track record at protecting the data they collect and we could not confirm them meet our Minimum Security Standards. Not good. Our privacy worries are even more concerning when you consider the vast ecosystem of things VW uses to collect your personal information -- from your car, to the Car-Net or We Connect connected services, to the myVW app users can use to interact with the car, to the personal information your VW dealer can collect on you, even during a test drive, to the additional information they can gather or buy on you from outside sources like data brokers, to the inferences they can draw about your when they combine all this data.
But the company that brought you dieselgate is by no means the worst of them...
Zeros and Picos were less powerful, there's the CM versions, the 400 was a different form factor, and some updates to the earlier models were released with the same thing in a smaller size or sometimes with less memory or only added wifi or more GPIO pins.
The official power supply now delivers up to 27W even though Tom's Hardware could only make a Pi 5 use 7W when stressing it and changed the configuration so it drew 0.05W when in standby.
If you want a read-only Twitter without any need to open an account to follow "a curated set of tweets" as the youth say, try Squawker (chronological timeline with no "for you" nonsense) or Fritter (no timeline at all). They sometimes break for a while when the API gets messed around with though.
Unlike other commercial text-to-image tools, Getty's model is not trained on third-party images scraped from the internet. It was only fed data that the stock photo provider owns – meaning any pictures generated by the software shouldn't violate any copyright laws.
Unfortunately it also means all generated photos feature at least one woman laughing while eating salad.
How are Google going to implement emoji reactions with plain old HTML? Clearly the POH version has to go.
I suspect all it will take is the AFB to direct Google's attention to the Americans with Disabilities Act and Google will post a GIF on Twitter with a black border and very serious reply saying sorry, hopefully with alt text.
They are not particularly reasonable. They create a new problem (per-install fees), they come up with their own solution (DRM which the developer doesn't have any insight into), and they say to the developer "we're going to charge you this, trust us on this".
How does it deal with uninstalls? Computers not being used for months? Hard drives dying, being changed then a new install? Android app storage being cleared? Nobody knows.
If end customers have a licence to use their purchase on five devices as is usual now, they should just be more honest and raise their fee from x% of developer revenue on a game to y% from Unity 2024 onwards. That way the developer isn't trying to work out if they can afford the pricepoint vs average number of installs. There will be people grumbling of course but it still wouldn't be the mess we've just seen.
To start, your understanding of the scientific principle is wrong. Those theories that are proven and pass peer review become part of the scientific consensus, those theories that are proven wrong don't.
So the "view" that there is no such thing as climate change is not being suppressed, it's being proven to be wrong.
"View" is also the wrong word to use, as that implies everyone can have different views, but since this is about finding theories which explain facts there is no room for those theories that have been proven to be false.
I don't remember N-word user IDs being allowed on Twitter before Musk landed. After landing, certainly, just like Bluesky.
You receive an SMS message and idly assume that it is an encrypted Signal message and disclose sensitive information in a reply.
Signal made it pretty obvious in the UI that text messages were not encrypted, every SMS message bubble in a chat conversation had an open padlock in the corner and so did the send icon in the textbox where you write the reply.
In my opinion the app is less useful now, supporting SMS was another reason to install the app in the first place and unlike other SMS apps it's trustworthy, meaning the user base grows meaning there are more people who can use encrypted messages as well.
"[...] And of course, you're always in control of your privacy settings when deciding how you want to use these extensions. [...]"
Users are automatically opted in to Bard Extensions, and have to manually disable access to turn the system off.
Big Tech just can't help itself, can it? It has no real understanding of privacy.
I think the innovation was making French and German sockets compatible by coming up with plugs that worked with both types of sockets and making appliances work with polarised (French) and non-polarised (German) sockets. Now nearly all European and African counties can use the same appliances.
I wont be sad to see Lightning go as it does eat cables but switch cleaner sorts the blackened contacts and sockets, cant do that on usb C
Can't say I've ever noticed that happening with either Micro-B or C connectors. Is eating cables and blackening contacts and sockets a Lightning-only innovation?
Edit: Apparently so.
They also have to figure out a way of artificially limiting transfer speed as a product differentiator. As with the iPad, so with the iPhone.
And check out the price of Apple's cables. Of course there'll be enough idiots to make selling them worthwhile.
What are the El Reg comparators for temperature?
According to The Reg online standards converter the temperature range mentioned in the article is from 10.1111 Hiltons to -15.3333 Hiltons. I trust we all have a clear idea now.
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