Posts by Belperite

Google brings better bricking to Androids, to curtail crims

Re: Wrong place, wrong time, every time

and be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm.

Zen Browser is a no-Google zone that offers tiling nirvana

I'm the same (allbeit on macos). FF + ublock o + sponsorblock + pihole = an unsullied youtube watching experience :)

SETI boldly looks beyond the Milky Way in latest alien hunt

Re: how to exploit zero point energy

Indeed, even Rodney McKay knew to be careful with this stuff but only after destroying 5/6 of a star system.

Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails

A large and interesting range of PDAs in the late '90s / 2000s as well, until everyone just ended up with generic-looking smartphone slates.

Re: Ah, the Acorn Communicator!

Ah econet, my first experience of computer networking as a child in school. Room full of Beebs and a chunky Filer(?) and printer in the corner.

The Reg builds official Lego Artemis and Milky Way sets

Careful application of a hoover with the upholstery brush attachment would be my strategy.

Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else

School Archimedes

Fond memories of spending many hours of customising the look and feel of RISC OS (most of the widgets / window chrome were sprites that you could easily replace at runtime). And playing Lemmings of course.

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

They'll reap what they sow

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Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

Higher than 1080p

I also seem to have recently lost the ability to play videos at anything higher than 1080p on FF / uBlock / Intel mac. Coincidence?

EU lawmakers scolded for concealing identities of privacy-busting content-scanning 'experts'

Re: Aston Kutcher's startup Thorn has its finger prints all over this push for client side scanning

Or https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters for uBlock. This worked for me.

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

Re: I've always been curious...

Because the ads are targeted at different markets/people. They'd have to encode and store at least 10x the initially uploaded video, and then re-encode every time the ads get rotated.

Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

Re: Even YouTube has become usable via FreeTube

+Sponsorblock

Alien rock causes cosmic disturbance in New Jersey home

Do not adjust your televisions...

I'm sure I've seen an Outer Limits episode about this.

Debian-based TrueNAS Scale updated – and iXsystems wins a gong

Re: SCALE

Just to add for 1) - the host path is also still sharable via SMB in this case.

SCALE

I've been using it for the last couple of months as my home NAS on generic PC hardware - it's really very good IMHO. The only thing to note is that with 22.12.1, "host path validation" has been fully locked down for security / file integrity purposes - i.e. it is not possible to directly pass a host path through to docker containers and at the same time share it via SMB on the host.

The two options are:

1) Share the host paths as NFS and mount them as NFS in the containers (the standard Truecharts apps makes this easy as a GUI option).

2) Uncheck the (global) host path validation box (not recommended or supported). There are plans to make this option available on a per-container/app basis in a future release, however.

Re: Looking at the specs...

I use TN Scale and it definitely supports IPv4.

Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge

Warm desking

Still nope.

Google adds stronger encryption for some Gmail users, in beta

Re: Window Dressing -- Is it paid for out of the Fort Meade budget?

Multipass!

LG debuts thin malleable screens made from contact lens material

Re: Running it on windows

"Broadcasting beautiful views 24 hours a day: you're tuned to the Scenery Channel"

Google's Alphabet to review every project after $6bn decline in profits

Re: If that's an economic slow-down

Yep, ublock for Firefox does.

RISC OS: 35-year-old original Arm operating system is alive and well

des.

So many firsts for me (happy school memories):

Customising all the GUI widgets and icons

Full-window dragging (not outline)

Lemmings (the first port I had access to).

Zarch

The amazing ARTWorks

Cascade

Hand-held document scanners

Pineapple video digitiser (had a VHS and camera attached, I was blown away)

First experience of centralised file servers and printing (Integrex?) - via econet

The collection of samples from various films of Arnie swearing that was going around at the time

Instant creation of a ramdisk by dragging a slider

Anti-aliased fonts

Applications self-contained in a single !Directory with their own icon

Modes 31 (oohh high res icons) and 40 (oohh lots of colours)

Saving something by dragging an icon to a filer window

That demo where you could move a 3D teapot(?) around in real time

The list goes on and on!

We can bend the laws of physics for your super-yacht, but we can't break them

Re: Overinflated sense of self importance

Well it's obvious. A same-day courier isn't good enough. You should've helicoptered it to him personally.

Pop!_OS 22.04: New kid on the Ubuntu block starting to show real muscle

...uses systemd-boot to...

Bye.

Debian faces firmware furore from FOSS freedom fighters

Yes I'm not sure of the exact point of the article. The issue with Debian and firmware has been around for ages, e.g. wifi and graphics on laptops being the most annoying (although this has improved).

IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb

Re: Just checking.

> And my locks still working by turning a small metal device in a hole made especially for it.

"Gotta click out of one.. nothing one two..three..."

File suffixes: Who needs them? Well, this guy did

File extensions

This reminded me of years ago when I got asked to send a public SSH key to a contractor.

C: "It won't open"

Me: "What do you mean it won't open? Can you send me the error please?"

C, in a screenshot: "Publisher cannot open the file."

Me: See icon ---->

Sigh.

Real-time software? How about real-time patching?

Re: Site Acceptance Test

Lake Louise. Spent part of a holiday there (and Banff). Very pretty part of the world. Chance of me going on a business trip: 0

Apple, Amazon fined to the tune of €200m for colluding over Beats headphones sales

"an Apple spokesperson told The Register"

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Re-volting: AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization undone by electrical attack

Re: Really?

Or in the UK: Give us your passwords and passphrases or you're going to prison.

The coming of Wi-Fi 6 does not mean it's time to ditch your cabled LAN. Here's why

Re: Horses for courses

Another 'AP on the windowsill' person here. Covers the attic bedroom and the whole back garden below very nicely.

Wormhole encrypted file transfer app reboots Firefox Send after Mozilla fled

Re: CPU usage

100% it's the stupid background, generated via CSS. Disabling it in the inspector returns CPU to normal levels.

Tata Consultancy Services wins £4m deal to carry out Oracle 'reimplementation' for University of Manchester

Lol

Chance of completely successful implementation by the current deadline: 0

HP CEO talks up HP-ink-only print hardware and higher upfront costs for machines that use other cartridges

Re: The problems:

I'm only an occasional printer. My solution was to buy an office-spec colour laser at a decent price from an office-supply company, knowing full well that toner doesn't dry out and the starter cartridges would probably last me 10 years.

I did have to block the supply company phone number though as they kept ringing me asking how often I would be buying new cartridges...

Xiaomi Mi 9 owners furious after dodgy Vodafone software patch bricked their mobes

Ah, Vodafone ruining firmware again

They've got form on this going back a long way, such as reskinning the nice UI on the T610 to some dreadful red-themed bilge that you couldn't remove without the use of a Terminator cable to flash the stock firmware.

Chrome suddenly using Bing after installing Office 365 Pro Plus... Yeah, that might have been us, mumbles Microsoft

They've been naughty boys, haven't they Mr Flibble?

YES

It's a no to ZFS in the Linux kernel from me, says Torvalds, points finger of blame at Oracle licensing

So basically nothing has changed. ZFS development will continue, albeit with workarounds for things which are now using EXPORT_GPL. It will be Ubuntu which may prod Larry's lawyers into action as they're looking to include it in their installer.

No, Illyrian, Naqaỹa, Mastika, Automex aren't Hollywood's hottest baby names – they're new monikers for exoplanets

Disappointed that Ilus wasn't chosen. Was it the slugs?

Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much

Re: Two days ago, [...] Raymond Hill deployed a fix for Firefox users in uBlock Origin v1.24.1b0

Still in beta to ensure he's not broken anything I imagine.

HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry

This. I print infrequently and got fed up with inkjets drying up so I shelled out for a Xerox colour laser with 2k colour & 3k black page toner starter cartridges which will last me many years. Might have annoyed the office supply company I got it from though as they expected to supply toner a bit more frequently than that ;)

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

Re: 'Trash' is gone

"Bin" for my UK English installation.

Atari accuses El Reg of professional trolling and making stuff up. Welp, here's the interview tape for you to decide...

Re: You're in the wrong, not Atari

And yet, here we are, well over a year later, and still nothing.

Canonical adds ZFS on root as experimental install option in Ubuntu

Re: I smell profit

It may also be stuck in CDDL indefinitely (Oracle's IP hoarding aside) because of this:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/09/oracle_netapp_zfs_dismiss

I wonder what's in those private dismissal terms?

Go fourth and multi-Pi: Raspberry Pi 4 lands today with quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 CPU cores, up to 4GB RAM...

Re: Good stuff

I've got a single interface Pi acting as a firewall for low-level traffic between different VLANS, been working fine for years. Needs a VLAN-aware switch of course, but they're not too expensive these days.

DXC Technology exec: What should our brand be known for?

DXC marketing statement on their brand: Not great, not terrible.

Don't be an April Fool: Update your Android mobes, gizmos to – hopefully – pick up critical security fixes

Re: All done

Pixel 3 all updated here this morning. Samsung are pretty good with keeping phones up to date these days (normally about a month or so's delay after Google emits the patches).

Alexa heard what you did last summer – and she knows what that was, too: AI recognizes activities from sound

Alexa: "It sounds like you're about to have sex. Are you wearing protection?"

GDPR v2 – Gradually Diminishing Psychotic Robots: Brussels kills Terminator apocalypse

> 2026 December...a muddy and bloodied Jeff Bezos is discovered hiding in a cave.

As long as he renews The Expanse again I don't mind.

Raspberry Pi supremo Eben Upton talks to The Reg about Pi PoE woes

Re: Been running PoE Pis for years...

I have 3 Pis running 24/7 with these adaptors and have had no issues whatsoever.

A boss pinching pennies may have cost his firm many, many pounds

Re: Penny pinching boss

>Maybe the PHB wanted a large "departmental" printer or maybe even a colour one.

I remember installing a large departmental-size HP colour laser (can't remember the model) in '98 and seem to remember we paid about £5k for it.

Voyager 1 left the planet 41 years ago – and SpaceX hopes to land on Earth this Saturday

V'ger

I'm sure I saw a documentary about what will happen to that probe once. Perhaps we should launch a mission to retrieve it?