* Posts by sabroni

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Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary

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Re: I myself am not so averse to using the command line, but I know I am in the minority.

Not among the devs I work with you're not. All the cool kids seem to think command lines are ace and user interfacers are loser interfaces.

I've been doing this long enough to remember when the command line was the only option so I'm much happier with a UI.

Developers beware, Microsoft's domain shakeup is coming soon

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Jimbot bud, no-one wants to read a balanced and fair description of why this might actually be a good idea.

Read the room.

This is an outrageously stupid decision that is purely marketing led and designed to make normal users suffer.

See? Easy when you know absolutely fuck all about the subject!

Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant

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Thanks to privacy rules in Europe

Good job we got Brexit done, eh? Last thing we need here is extremists surfing the net securely!!

Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server

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Re: Aaron?

He became the first cit to be killed when Cal started to purge the entire population. The day the law died? Proper early 2000AD, double digit prog no, I still have it in storage!

How many bonus points?? ;-P

European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use

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Re: Go look with that!

Good luck with that?

Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway

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Re: I want you to pretend you are a bap in the baker's shop

Understandable. He was a contractor, not easy to pretend to be a bap when you know you're an eclair.

HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts

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Re: nothing more than smooth-brained, non-thinking, fucking sheep.

Takes one to know one, though I'm sure you think you are exceptional.

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Re: What works is what suits you at a price you're happy with

And as they gave you a year's worth of free printing you think it's a great price.

That isn't the deal that they are giving everyone else.

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Re: A fool and his money

So you're in here shilling for them because they gave you free printing?

Explains all your posts.

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Re: If they void it by breaking the terms

They're allowed to change the price, it doesn't void the contract. I'm guessing HP can afford better lawyers than you.

EU users can't update 3rd party iOS apps if abroad too long

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So presumably the opposite is the case too?

Non-EU iPhone owners who spend a month in the EU get access to 3rd party app stores?

I won't hold my breath for that bit....

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re: Why can’t updates be done from whatever “marketplace, the app originates from?

Because Apple don't want this to be a success. Do try and keep up!

Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little

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Why isn't it the year of the linux desktop?

Just read the comments here and find out.

The federal bureau of trolling hits LockBit, but the joke's on us

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re: Time for MS to start taking some responsibility here.

Of course! I fucking KNEW Microsoft would be behind this!

Electronic Arts frags hundreds of workers 'to grow fandom'

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We are streamlining our company operations to deliver deeper, more connected experiences

How do these motherfuckers keep a straight face when coming out with this bollocks?

We're going to make better games by getting rid of people. That only makes sense if you've been hiring people to fuck stuff up.

You're streamlining your company operations because it's the only way you fucktards know to make the share price go up.

Making better games so the price goes up is much trickier, the public might not like what you make even after you've spent millions on it.

But the market ALWAYS loves it when the plebs take a kicking.

It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date

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Re: THAT...would be an ecumenical question.

So close, but I think you mean an ecumenical matter.....

Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week

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So if a racist owns the company

it emboldens racist employees? Who would have guessed????

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

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re: It's not relevant

It's called context. That information allows us to understand how much the man really cares about stopping facism, which is "not at all".

Or do you take everything everyone says at face value and ignore all previous interaction you've had with them?

Today in tech layoffs: Sony Interactive and Expedia

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Video games are very lucrative

And yet the management don't seem to be able to make a profit without firing loads of people.

Almost like they are incompetent brunchlords who've failed upwards and are now fucking up the whole company.

Wouldn't expect El Reg to spot something like that, too busy licking the hand the feeds IT....

That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow's probably going to try again

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So whats the difference between the chinese or russians snooping and facebook or Google

People choose to give their data to facebook and Google.

Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else

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Security is hard because it has to be right all the time?

Security is hard because it's the one bit where you're making your system NOT work. All the other code is trying to make things happen and your security code tries to stop stuff happening but only for some users. Of course it's easier to fuck that up, we spend nearly all our time trying to make systems work, breaking them is special cases while still working perfectly for most is a much trickier ask.

Judge slaps down law firm using ChatGPT to justify six-figure trial fee

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Donvoted for missing icon.

get it right!

X protests forced suspension of accounts on orders of India's government

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Free Speech?

Absolutely!!

City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M

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Part of the council's financial troubles stem from historic equal pay claims

Oh really? Not from underpaying women for decades?

Those evil former employees, how dare they want to be paid the same as men for doing the same job.

More lefty lawyers causing shit for our noble oppressed English Men!

Crowning glory of GOV.UK websites updated, sparking frontend upgrades

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Re: For websites, wouldn't it simply mean uploading a new png to the path of the old png ?

Someone doesn't understand web caching....

A small Alaska town wants a big bronze Riker

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WTF?

And you thought that was relevant because?

Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

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Re: It proves climate change is a hoax

amanfrommars got a new data set? It looks like English but fucked if I know what it's supposed to mean.

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re: FTFY

Maybe the money isn't the only thing that people are looking for now?

To some having an enjoyable life is more important than having the biggest income you can get.

Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed

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Trust Space Karen to implant something in your brain?

If ever a technology needed dog-fooding it's this one.

Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

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A case-sensitive file system

Really handy for when you need readme.md, ReadMe.md and README.md in the same folder.

Your OS should help humans to use it, computers are fast enough to check lower and upper case now.

Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms

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re: Far too much worry in Canada and the US about the "rights" of the CRIMINALS

Are you realy that bad at thinking or just a shit stirrer?

Apple Vision Pro units returned as folks just can't see themselves using it

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re: Overall, once you've had the Watch, it becomes very difficult to live without it.

Good grief. If it makes you that pathetic I'm glad I don't have one.

Tell your missus to buy a stop watch. It won't need to be sent away for an upgrade.

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re: Did anyone actually ever figure what Apple Watches are actually good for?

My sister's partner got one as part of a deal when they bought a second hand iPhone.

He said it was "good at charging.".

;-P

Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

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Re: It's obviously going to get a ton of people to cancel.

You must be a youngster, you still have faith in human nature and you think because the deal is bad people will reject it.

The vast majority of people will either i) just put with the ads or ii) pay the 2.99 to go back to where they were.

Enough will pay the 2.99 that this is seen as a success and they'll try it again in a few months.

I would really love to be wrong on this but look at recent history. Netflix made a much bigger deal about password sharing than Amazon did about being Ad free, it was part of their original marketting that sharing passwords was good. And yet very few people cancelled their netflix subs when they started cracking down. I don't see why this would work out any differently.

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Re: Large DVD collection in the attic format shifted to a NAS for viewing.

And if you have the original DVD then you're not dissapointed like when you go to stream something you love (eg. the scene in Men Behaving Badly where Tony comes back from the pub and is shouting "Debra, I fucking love you!" in the garden) only to find some killjoy has beeped the swearing and ruined the joke.

Airbnb sees AI as its ticket to become a sprawling Big Tech giant

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Re: Big talk

Quality, have one on me!

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re: imagine an interface that is adaptive and evolving and changing in real time

Sounds fucking irritating and very, very stupid.

Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2

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Re: There's no need for the MELODRAMA.

So you're not familiar with bob's work then?

It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down

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unfettered access to the digital wallets in which he stored cryptocurrency.

Oh good, nothing of any actual value was lost then.

Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn't its problem to solve

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Re: How do users go from having a new number to knowing the account iD?

My initial reaction was the same as Corin's, "How are they finding the user ID from a phone number?"

It's great that Alex has explained that you can log in to facebook with a phone number. Pity that fact isn't made clearer in the article though, seems kind of fundamental to the exploit....

Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all

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Re: What exactly is the cybertruck for?

to make you think reality is rendered by a ps1!

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Re: Stainless?

A very expensive car ruined by the lack of a sacrificial anode? Those who don't learn from history.....

Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases

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Re: Telling the computer what you want done •is• programming,

I respectfully disagree.

Programming is explaining to other humans what you want the computer to do. If your code isn't easily parsable by a human then it doesn't matter if it works correctly, I can't work with it. If your code is easily parsable by a human and it doesn't work then I can try and fix it.

Yes, your code tells the computer what to do, but if you're not programming in assembler then you're using a language that is primarily designed for humans to understand.

When it comes to working from home, Register readers are bucking national trends

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downvoted but no rebuttal

You know you've hit the nail on the head.

Amazon Ring sounds death knell for surveillance as a service

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SparkyLinux harbors a flamboyant array of desktops

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Re: I'm all for choice

Some of the options need to be good for choice to be worthwhile.

From http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/reports/pdf/creative_book.pdf

"I remember Hugh and I wrote a sketch in which I played a waiter who recognised a diner in my restaurant as a Tory broadcasting minister. I clapped him on the shoulder and told him how much I admired his policies of choice, consumer choice, freedom of choice. I then was horrified to notice that he had only a silver knife and fork for cutlery at his table. ‘No, no, they’re fine,’ said the puzzled politician. But my character the waiter raced off and soon returned with an enormous bin liner which I emptied over his table. It contained thousands and thousands of those white plastic coffee-stirrers. ‘There you are,’ I screamed dementedly at him, virtually rubbing his face in the heap of white plastic,‘now you’ve got choice. Look at all that choice.They may all be shit, but look at the choice!’" - Stephen Fry

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Re: Not for the view, not because it's fun, but because it's very very difficult and few do it.

That just about sums up linux users.....

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Re: Why do people us this totally nonsense retort so often?

Maybe you should put together your own totally nonsense retort, to show us how it’s done....

Firefox 122 gets even more competitive with Chrome on translation

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re: For Romance and Germanic languages I don't *need* a translator

Could you contemplate getting over yourself for a second?

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it always reports that it's running on Android 10

Why bother?

If you can't tell me the Android version then don't tell me the Android version, but don't lie about it being 10 when it isn't.

If you say "Not available" I can make a sensible decision about how to proceed, if you lie I end up treating that lie as truth my code potentially breaks.

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