Posts by Dan 55

When open source isn't enough: Fancy a de-Googled Chromium? How about some Microsoft-free VS Code?

Re: Vivaldi?

Vivaldi forum mod says just the extension updater abd chromecasting uses Google services.

"Replace many web domains in the source code with non-existent alternatives ending in qjz9zk"

I'm sure there's a new gTLD for that, or there soon will be.

What could possibly go wrong?

IBM quits facial recognition because Black Lives Matter

Re: Or...

Hey, if it gets results. This and masks means the panopticon's held at bay for a few more years.

Trump's Make Space Great Again video pulled after former 'naut says: Nope

Re: I made this

Let's make dementia great again! And again! And again...

Re: Nuts

There was a made-for-TV film version which started Leonard Nimoy about 20 years ago.

Re: 450 cities protesting racism

Do you think, with so many robocops around?

Still seems like a 50/50 coin toss on whether the country will be called the United States or Gilead by this time next year.

Moore's Law is deader than corduroy bell bottoms. But with a bit of smart coding it's not the end of the road

Re: DEC Fortran

There's nothing that says that BASIC has to be interpreted, Dartmouth wasn't and the ones running on the 1970s mainframes weren't. CBASIC on CP/M wasn't either. The late 1970s-1980s computer versions were interpreted (and Microsoft did many of those so you know where the blame lies) but then later on they became compiled too as home computers and PCs became more powerful.

Franco-German cloud framework floated to protect European's data from foreign tech firms slurpage

Re: "Europe has no notable operating system developers"

TFA said Europe?

Re: Megalomaniacal Europeans try to rule the World: GAIA means Earth (mother)

Not sure how you got from one of those acronyms which can be pronounced as a word to an attempt to rule the world, but each to their own.

Barmy ban on businesses, Brits based in Blighty bearing or buying .eu domains is back: Cut-off date is Jan 1, 2021

Re: We dont need .eu !!! :)

There is official advice to avoid washing chicken:

Why you should never wash raw chicken

This just mentions campylobacter, not salmonella (maybe because campylobactor is the most common form of food poisoning in the UK).

Not quite sure how we forgot from grandfathering .eu domain names for the UK and British citizens to washing chicken but there you go.

Re: While I believe that Britain would have been better off overall staying in the EU....

The policy being revised four times was mostly due to EURid setting a date than the UK kicking the Brexit can down the road meaning EURid's policy has to be updated.

Could we work out the relative dismalness of both the UK's can kicking and EURid's policy changes which are mostly a reaction to said can kicking?

Re: We dont need .eu !!! :)

As the guy said, "USA food poisoning is 10x EU".

Re: I always thought .eu was for European nations, not the European Union.

The EU has a habit of adopting European organisations that were created as independent collaborations prior the EU existing.

But that can't be claimed that about EURid.

Re: @codejunky

So much for the Chinese trade deal.

Why would the UK do that? What possible benefit does it give them?

Re: victim mentality

What irritates us is when a particular proposed arrangement is clearly of some benefit to both the EU and a non-member like the UK, but the EU refuses to agree because any apparent benefit to the UK post-Brexit is unacceptable, even if it also benefits the EU.

What would be the benefit for the EU in handing out .eu domains to non-EU organisations? Thruppence ha'penny in the grand scheme of things? I think we're overrating ourselves a bit, aren't we?

Re: The EU was not keeping you from doing more.

Do you mean Britain has absolutely no say in EU trade deal negotiations?

And even if the UK could negotiate completely independently and bilaterally while being part of the EU, could it ever hope to achieve the same leverage as it did when negotiating deals as part of the EU whole?

I think the answers there are no and no.

Re: We dont need .eu !!! :)

It's not the chlorine you need to worry about, but the bacteria it's temporarily hiding which will come back by the time the chicken is on your kitchen worktop.

Twitter thread

OK Windows 10, we get it: You really do not want us to install this unsigned application. But 7 steps borders on ridiculous

Re: travel printing

Should it matter? The name and the network address are two different things.

Re: does filter out friend&family support calls

Also, if you double click there is no option to override Gatekeeper, but if you right click then choose Open there is.

Whoever thought of that hadn't read Apple's own UI guidelines, it should have been something like shift-double click or holding down shift in the context menu to get Open Overriding Gatekeeper.

Re: Developers!

Whatever version of Windows 10 this guy is using must be missing the 'Settings' option.

I can't remember offhand which box(es) you untick to make all the stuff he's whinging about never appear.

[...]

You'd expect a 'computer savvy' person like a developer would know this kind of basic stuff.

So the choice for the average user is going into settings and clicking non-obvious places or responding to seven prompts, many in non-obvious ways.

Lucky we have you here to tell us it's easy, you just go into Settings and, er, oh. You can't remember off-hand.

Re: @MatthewSt - Colin Wilson 2 - Apple have got this right!

Ah, Corporate IT - where if the user has anything more complicated than Office and a My Documents folder then it's too complicated to administer in a way which isn't completely brain dead.

Re: I thought containers were a thing now

Each 'level' is really a different VM so try configuring it as you would on your own computer: Limit internet to one site.

Spending watchdog doubts UK is capable of managing Brexit and coronavirus info campaigns at the same time

Re: Didn't that happen already?

Indeed.

Our national failure to make the most of the opportunities when we joined the Community was part of a much more general failure.

In those days, Britain was in the forefront of those resisting change, in fighting to preserve the barriers.

Some in Britain still see it that way, but they are getting fewer and fewer.

But then they managed to convince 37% of the voting population that all their ills could be blamed on the EU. Oh well, let's rejoice as the barriers go up again.

Nissan wants to wind down the whole of their European operations, the only question is will they wind down Sunderland last or will they wind down France last. As Brexit is supposedly next year we will find out fairly soon.

"If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through."

Re: Didn't that happen already?

The EC?

Re: Didn't that happen already?

If only there was some way to get an extension to the temporary arrangement without the humiliation of having to ask for one.

If only there was a way to have Brexit without any Brexit?

Worst-all was a one trick pony who had the same answer to every question.

BBC voice assistant promises to summon streams even if you're just a little bit Brahms and Liszt

Re: Dear BBC

I know, it should never have expanded outside of "London and the Home Counties" in the first place, right?

Re: "The BBC is selling Beeb as a privacy-friendly option"

And probably linked to your iPlayer sign-on.

They missed a trick, they should have called it Auntie Beeb though. Makes a nice change from Big Brother.

Zealous Zoom's zesty zymotic zone zinger: Zestful zealots zip zillions

Re: Why?

In Skype's case, it's because you all need accounts to get started, MS have ruined the client, some people don't see other people's video, and if there's four or five people then there's constant feedback driving everyone mad.

In Teams case, it's because everyone needs accounts, results again can be pretty bad depending on how Azure feels like today, the client again is pretty poor, and until recently it wasn't aimed at individual people and it could only show video for up to four people.

As Twitter blocks white supremacists posing as anti-fascists, FBI appeal is flooded with images of cop violence

Re: not the colour of the people doing them.

I can only assume a goldfish with a seven-second attention span and no memory covering decades would agree that it's not a race issue, everyone else would beg to differ.

Re: naughtiness on all sides

What "naughtiness" have peaceful protesters done? What naughtiness have people just going about their daily lives done?

None whatsoever. There is no "naughtiness on their side" but you're tarring them with the same brush because the title is "naughtiness on all sides".

Why? Only you would know. At the very least, your title is completely wrong.

The campaign also allegedly used hacked legitimate accounts to push past Twitter’s monitoring systems. That was a riskier proposition – because people tend to notice when their own account suddenly starts tweeting messages they didn’t write

Not if they left Twitter ages ago. You can usually tell when it happens, messages that sound like they came from a normal person peter out, then a few months later they suddenly re-appear, only it's politics all day every day.

Re: naughtiness on all sides

There is no naughtiness on all sides, this is a false equivalence. You are mixing peaceful protesters with a bunch of opportunists and calling them one side, then when the police or National Guard on the other side attack peaceful protesters or just people going about their own business it doesn't matter because there were also opportunists. It also fails to take into account years of "naughtiness" from the police to get to this point.

It is also straight out of the Trump playbook, if you remember when he said that there were "very fine people, on both sides" and "hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides" over Charlottesville. It could be argued that it's technically correct, and yet it's complete nonsense.

Also after seeing things like the National Guard firing at residential areas I think the US is dangerously close to the edge. It only needs a small push to move from constant false rhetoric and the army firing on their own citizens to cancelling elections. Once there, how do you find your way back out of that?

I really do think an authoritarian such as Trump who can't stand losing surrounded by sycophantic yes-men that he's put in place could go there. All because of the nonsense rhetoric that he's whipped up over the past four years hasn't been challenged the way it should have been and the "bunker boy" taunt that pushed him over the edge.

Re: Confused

I believe Germany struggled with the same problem before WW2 (Weimar Republic) but they certainly don't struggle with it now. But would anyone like to argue that modern-day Germany isn't a democracy or is oppressive?

Icon is a history teacher.

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Re: TeamViewer....

Well they could make it reveal for just a few minutes by clicking on it, if you wanted to see it again after that you have to click on it again.

The bank's BOFH should have every remote PC saved in the TV account for passwordless access anyway (if the bank's paying for it).

(I didn't downvote.)

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

Re: "the concept of saving face"

They're all national-level politicians, the list of international-level politicians is vanishingly small.

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Re: Long Live Private interprise!

Don't mind him, he's a Ferengi. The rest of us moved to a new world economy.

Visual Studio Code finally arrives on ARM64 Windows. No, you haven't woken up in 2017, sadly. It's still 2020

Re: Oh, why do most people want Windows?

Well, x86/x64 on Win32.

Yay, ARM64 support is finally here

Now we need to wait another year for the C/C++ extension to be ported.

Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he's doing something about those Twitter twerps

Re: the US military should open fire on people on American soil

Odd how he manages to drop these 'dog-whistle' quotes (not for the first time) in his tweets yet somehow it's explained away as meaning exactly the opposite.

Where does the phrase 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts' come from?

"There is only one way to handle looters and arsonists during a riot and that is to shoot them on sight. I've let the word filter down: When the looting starts the shooting starts," Headley said, according to a New York Times report from 1970.

On Friday afternoon, Trump tried to defend his remarks, tweeting, "Looting leads to shooting, and that’s why a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday night - or look at what just happened in Louisville with 7 people shot. I don’t want this to happen, and that’s what the expression put out last night means...."

He probably doesn't want to see it happen in the same way that John Gotti doesn't want to your family get hurt, i.e. it's a threat.

I actually agree with Trump

He's doing it for all the wrong reasons, but social media sites pouring a constant stream of effluent into society has to stop somehow. If those helps that happen then I'm in favour.

Laughing UK health secretary launches COVID-19 Test and Trace programme with glitchy website and no phone app

Re: Did they actually

But third party Covid contract tracing apps still should receive stricter Play/App Store reviews. Google and Apple are supposed to go over them with a fine-tooth comb.

Re: Did they actually

I don't know if we should trust that much in Google's and Apple's app store review procedures that much:

Qatari contact-tracing app 'put 1m people's sensitive data at risk'

Did nobody tell them about the lockdown? Logitech releases new 'luggable' mechanical keyboard for LAN parties

Re: No numpad

Four keys longer makes it too unwieldy to carry?

No numpad

No sale.

Linux-loving Windows 10 May 2020 Update squeaks in with days to spare before June

Re: Fools, and I, rush in...

The only feature I'm interested in is WSL2, and even so I'm going to be waiting a few months.

Re: Oh, Thank God!

What Start Menu? I would have thought that to Open/Classic Shell or Start10 was an obligatory requirement to be part of the Reg comentariat.

Apple promises third, no, fourth, er, fifth time's a charm when it comes to macOS Catalina: 10.15.5 now out

There is no version that has no bugs, but some releases are lemons which are best avoided (Lion, Sierra, Catalina).

And Catalina is the gift that keeps on giving:

APFS Bug in macOS 10.15.5 Catalina Impacts the Creation of Bootable Backups