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Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy a beer: Beware the downloaded patch applied in haste
Oh SITA: Airline IT provider confirms passenger data leaked after major 'cyber-attack'
The 40-Year-Old Version: ZX81's sleek plastic case shows no sign of middle-aged spread
What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon
Thursday 4th March 2021 17:34 GMT 
Re: I'd like to admit....
Actually if you look at the full logo, as seen for example in the top-left corner of their main page... the arrow goes from A to Z.
Which I thought was clever when I spotted it, but then I’m a sucker for hidden elements in logos, like the Toblerone bear or the FedEx arrow.
Thursday 4th March 2021 03:08 GMT 
It looks uncannily like Hitler, no, really
This offensive app icon perfectly captures Hitler's whimsical, playful smile and brown skin, even if the hair tone is a little les blue than it was in reality. It's uncanny. How on earth did Amazon think that they could slip this one past us. They honestly couldn't have done a more convincing representation of him in any way. Thank goodness for the perpetually vigilant Twitterati for alerting us to yet another thing all Right^H^H^H^H^HCorrect-Thinking People should be offended by.
(Icon. Just in case this flies over anyone's head --->)
IBM settles £36m Direct Line insurance platform project lawsuit, after claiming Teradata tried to usurp its spot
Pressure builds on Nominet as members demand to know leadership's contingency plans for when they’re fired
'Incorrect software parameter' sends Formula E's Edoardo Mortara to hospital: Brakes' fail-safe system failed
Splunk junks 'hanging' processes, suggests you don't 'hit' a key: More peaceful words now preferred in docs
Tuesday 2nd March 2021 00:56 GMT
Re: So much wrong with this...
And in at least one film I've seen, it's the surname of a major character. "It's pronounced 'Thwaite'!"
Tuesday 2nd March 2021 00:52 GMT
Re: Belgium
Allow me to recommend an oldie but goodie... The Zompist Phrasebook. Take a few minutes to read it; it helps if you speak at least some French/German/Spanish, because as you go down the page, the translations start to diverge further from the original English (and indeed, from each other, and from good taste, reality, diplomacy...). It's laugh-out-loud hilarious.
My personal favourite is this helpful translation, from the "Cultural Exchanges" section of the page:
English: "Impressed as I am with the New Wave in cinematography, I must say that this particular film seemed both pretentious and unsatisfying, and that the director's imagery, though compelling, is no substitute for a true cinematic message."
French: "Mais c'est de la merde, ce navet."
Tuesday 2nd March 2021 00:24 GMT
Re: Ebony and Ivory
Well honestly these days, if you listen to the wokerati, you shouldn't even include any characters in your book that aren't of your own ethnicity/orientation. "Lived experience", "cultural appropriation" and all that shite. How can, they cry, a white heterosexual middle-class male possibly presume to write from the perspective of a different person who doesn't share those characteristics?
Stop the world please, I want to get off.
Linus Torvalds went six days without electricity, swears smaller 5.12 kernel is co-incidental
Monday 1st March 2021 03:27 GMT 
Wonder which part of Portland he's in...
Fair play to him.
I'm South-West of Portland, and lost power for almost 3 days. I was really, really lucky that it wasn't longer, because I'm in a rural location. Managed to get by with an open log fire and my generator. Unfortunately it's only a 4KW one - you know that scene in Apollo 13 where they have to power up everything in exactly the right order, to stay within power budget? Yeah, that hit close to home for me. "So, I can have the microwave and the LED shoplight, or the light and the dish heater, or the fridge and the kettle and USB charger... but no more..."
Just over the county line, there were many folks who were without power for 2 weeks or more. It was the ice-storm that did it; trees were coated with thick ice, bringing branches and limbs down everywhere. Kinda scary to go to sleep, listening to the CRACK and THUD of falling branches all around my house. I'm sure that the kernel release was not Linus' top priority for the duration.
Valheim: How the heck has more 'indie shovelware with PS2 graphics' sold 4 million copies in a matter of weeks?
Friday 26th February 2021 19:02 GMT
Steam? Deal-killer.
I really like the sound of this game and would love to buy it, but I have a strict no-Steam policy (don’t ask me to elucidate, my reasons are partly logical and partly incoherent).
Anyone know if there’s a way to (legally!) purchase and play this without going through Steam?
Chill out, lockdown ain't over yet – perhaps FUZIX on the Pi Pico could feature in your weekend shed projects
Pyrrhic victory: Co-Op wins £13m from IBM over collapse of £175m Project Cobalt insurance platform contract
NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video
Wednesday 24th February 2021 06:58 GMT
Re: Magnificent!
Rumor has it that there is additional audio that the probe captured, but NASA are keeping it secret. The audio, after post-processing and translating from Martian, is:
“It’s a robot! I’ve never seen one in the wild before! Where d’you come from, fella? Can we keep him, Roy? If he doesn’t belong to anyone?”
Nominet sets the date for extraordinary meeting where members could fire CEO
Tuesday 23rd February 2021 21:28 GMT
Re: “Approval of this resolution would plunge the organisation into the unknown,”
...otherwise he would be pestered by fans writing in telling ham that you couldn't get from the Broken Drum pub to Vetinari's Patrician Palace via short street because on the map...
To which the obvious response would be that the University's magical field leaks out into the surrounding area (for example, the Unreal Estate) and it's therefore not unknown for streets or whole neighborhoods to reconfigure themselves overnight...
Presumably Sir Pterry thought such a pat, cop-out solution beneath his dignity though?
Planespotters’ weekends turn traumatic as engine pieces fall from the sky in the Netherlands and the US
Monday 22nd February 2021 18:45 GMT
Re: Quick turnaround for the 777?
I saw a documentary years ago featuring Bruce Willis. From that I know that the fuel dump system is initiated via a handle conveniently placed on the edge of the wing. It’s super useful if you’re taxiing through snow and need to dump all your fuel before take-off.
Citibank accidentally wired $500m back to lenders in user-interface super-gaffe – and judge says it can't be undone
Microsoft announces a new Office for offline fans, slashes support, hikes the price
Cred-stealing trojan harvests logins from Chromium browsers, Outlook and more, warns Cisco Talos
Has Amazon finally gone cuckoo? Bezos' behemoth turns to crowdfunding for Alexa-powered timepiece
Thursday 18th February 2021 18:29 GMT
Re: "Amazon ultimately wants to become the Everything Store"
Honestly, what surprised me the most about this article is the revelation that there are still products on Amazon that aren't cheap Chinese tat with multiple listings under different unpronouncable names that all look like someone mashed a Latin alphabet keyboard, and phony reviews.
Amazon has been actively courting Chinese sellers for a few years now, even offering them a direct-to-the-West logistics service, and it shows. Shopping on Amazon is now just as much of a crapshoot as Alibaba.
'It's where the industry is heading': LibreOffice team working on WebAssembly port
Watch this space: Apple offers free repairs for the self-bricking Apple Watch SE and Series 5 wearables
Wednesday 17th February 2021 18:42 GMT
Re: Hah
Honestly, it gave me an unnerving blast of nostalgia, a real madeleine moment, cos it looks exactly like the kind of watch I used to wear back in the late 80s - you know, back when digital watches were the apogee of street cool (NB it's possible that my sense of style was as dismal then as it is now).
Fujitsu scrapping fuel card benefit to cut costs, threatens dissenters with fire and rehire
Wednesday 17th February 2021 18:16 GMT
Re: Sorry!
Agreed (and upvoted). It'd be nice to have a way to retract a vote. For those occasions when you see a comment that makes you think "I agree with your first few points, but why did you then have to ruin it by throwing in a gratuitous political remark at the end" - too good to downvote, too tricksy to upvote...
Another (exceedingly minor) niggle I have with the voting system is that - here on a desktop browser, at least - if the up/down arrows are just above the bottom of the browser window, in the location where the red "Thanks. Your vote will be recorded" banner appears, then you can't click the arrows at all. Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just me?
It's almost like that red banner is present-but-invisible-until-you-vote, blocking access to any arrows that would be under it. It's such a drag to have to scroll the page down by half an inch or so in order to vote, the admins have failed, I am disgusted and will be cancelling my subscription forthwith, general fall in standards, etc etc...
No egrets: Ardent twitchers fined for breaking lockdown after bloke spots northern mockingbird in his garden
Devuan adds third init option in sixth birthday release
Tuesday 16th February 2021 03:42 GMT 
PulseAudio?
I suppose it’s too much to hope for that the distro could remain completely clear of Poettering contamination. Still, PulseAudio, after many many hours/years of work by actual competent programmers, is at least functional.
Anyway, not my place to snipe, cos I haven’t done all the hard work of creating this distro - I’m just an armchair commentator. Fair play to the Devuan team, and a symbolic pint for their efforts!
(And thanks for bringing this to my attention Simon - great article. Feel free to share that pint.)
Forgot Valentine's Day? Never mind, today marks 75 years of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Tuesday 16th February 2021 03:56 GMT
Re: "fear of a battering with delicious cheesesteak sandwiches"
Whilst I don't doubt your account, I fear you must have encountered that rarest of species, the Uninformed Parochial American. Sadly, they do exist, albeit in ever decreasing numbers (stop sniggering at the back there, you cynics).
Here in my own quiet corner of the Pacific Northwest we're perfectly au fait with such furrin fancy-pants concepts as Camembert. Heck, even our regular Safeway grocery stores sell Ekte Gjetost/Brunost and California's excellent Humboldt Fog, two true Cheeses of the Gods (or at least, Cheeses of Nazareth, h/t Robert Rankin for that one).
Still can't find mulled wine anywhere, though, but at least Glüwein is readily available.
Machine-learning model creates creepiest Doctor Who images yet – by scanning the brain of a super fan
helloSystem: Pre-alpha FreeBSD project chases simplicity and elegance by taking cues from macOS
UK watchdog fines two firms £270k for cold-calling 531,000 people who had opted out
Monday 15th February 2021 23:30 GMT
Re: Caller Line Identification
Here in the US, I’ve had my current mobile number for almost 10 years now, and am still plagued with calls for the previous holder of the number. Used to be predominantly legit calls, from which I have deduced that Fred <last name redacted>: owed a lot of money to collection agencies, was elderly, diabetic, and subscribed to porn sites.
These days, now that I’ve called the legit pharmacies/insurers/bailiffs and explained the situation, it’s mostly pure scam calls and texts... “FRED we have a fedex package for you click here ://dherht.cx/fuehtc (ie totally shady looking URL)” or “FRED I am so horny for you now click here to see my cam” (and far worse than that... if I had a small kid who saw some of these texts pop up on my phone I’d be even more homicidal). Basically, the dozy old twazzock still seems to be giving out my number to all and sundry.
Oh, more recently I’ve had several texts addressed to “Ramon”, so I can only assume there’s a similarly-senile Mexican version of Fred out there too.
AT&T, of course, couldn’t care less and will not do anything about it. Horrible company.
Sorry, I kind of went on a rant there. Felt good to vent!
Voyager 2 receives and executes first command in 11 months as sole antenna that reaches it returns to work
Microsoft's underwhelming, underpowered dual-screen Surface Duo phone arrives in the UK this month for £1,349
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