Posts by Graham 32 256 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2011
And the first field you send is called "method" or "action" or similar with a value of "put", "delete" or whatever. "But that's what the HTTP method is for!" I hear you cry. It is until you think of one action the HTTP designers hadn't thought of, and then you need the field to express it. So you just start with that design and POST everything.
Reminds me of Jay Rayner's final article for the Guardian which included "All new restaurants should employ someone over 50 to check whether the print on the menu is big enough to be read, the lighting bright enough for it to be read by" and many other gems.
Ref: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/feb/20/jay-rayner-final-ofm-column-buffets-clean-eating-what-not-to-serve-food-on
This is all in Firefox, noticed after about 2 minutes of usage:
- Horizontal scroll bar appears in Firefox because of the sub-heading ("Datacenter" [sic] / "Security" / etc). (Also there, but less so, in Vivaldi.)
- Can't get to comments page with Javascript disabled.
- Cannot upvote/downvote a post if the buttons are at the bottom of the screen. Have to scroll the buttons up a bit. Seems .forum_post_action_vote_msg element is there and transparent.
- Image "zoom" button shows the image at about the same size with some text on the right. Then actually zooming the browser with ctrl and + just makes text bigger. At least I can right click and open just the image to zoom (Reddit went to great lengths to make that not work in their last redesign). If it doesn't let me see the image any bigger it's a totally useless feature.
A FOSS solution is impossible because with FOSS the user has ultimate control over the software. The user can alter the software and make a new version that says they are whatever age they want it to say. Age verification only works if the verification comes from a trusted organisation. It works on phones because they are really controlled by Apple or Google. That's why all age verification (that I've encountered, at least) always makes you go verify on your phone. I assume age verification won't work if your device is rooted. So laptops and desktops will need to become like phones. At best, Linux will be treated as "too young to view this content" all the time.
That's my interpretation also. But the original quote says this, so I don't understand what is being corrected. Microsoft did not turn off the account, the ICC did. And, in polite and slightly vague terms, he originally said it was under threat of Microsoft closing down the whole ICC system when he said "So we were not... put in a position where we were terminating the agreement."
I agree with rg287. We need to see the correction, before and after, to understand.
Both forms are ok for Brits. It's a long running argument although the tide in recent decades does seem to be more towards -ise for British publications.
More worryingly (for me), that page also tells me I've been incorrectly spelling routeing without an e! Oh well. Back to shouting at youngsters who say they are off to the ATM, getting a take out and then going home to binge watch a season of some tv show..
I'm ok with charging for major version updates. You get something for that. But security updates are a must on any networked device. I've never paid for security updates on any OS.
The key difference with the Android market, versus desktop and iOS, is the vendors needing to supply the update. Imagine what Windows would be like if every time MS puts out a security fix it had to be repackaged by Dell, Lenovo, HP, Asus, Acer, etc.
Agree about the camera bump. One thing the Google Pixel gets right is having a horizontal lump so it will sit on a table ok. I guess most phone designers never test on-table usage.
As for the backs, something with a bit of friction would be nice. Glass-backed phones love sliding everywhere. Mine will not stay on the arm of my sofa, even if it takes a few minutes before it moves. Perhaps a "skin" will fix it. (I've never used a phone case because if I wanted a bulkier phone I'd just buy a cheaper one.)
They are all expensive. Sitting in a noisy office is expensive, writing documentation is expensive, muddling through is expensive. Which one is cheapest depends on the situation. The reason muddling through often wins over documentation is because it defers the effort until it's needed - how very agile(!)
Came to the comments with the same question. David 132's post above suggests it's the OS that pulls the file from UEFI. The article makes it sound like UEFI is pushing the file to disk. If it's a pull system then I'm less worried. Linux would have to implement it, the motherboard would have to ship with a Linux version of the file, and Linux would have to ignore all sensible security checks such as asking the user if it's ok. That's just not Linux's style. Some clarity about the mechanism would help.
If most of the commits are undoing earlier commits then the end result may be a small review. Although any change with lots of reverts along the way should be a sign that close scrutiny is required.
For new code, and even if following the lots of small commits strategy, 1m41 is a crazy short time for review. Seems Linus is a "if it compiles it ships" kind of reviewer. I hope there are others doing the real reviews.
The 3 column "vertical view" layout still thinks the email should cram the subject, sender, date and various icons on a single line. Many other mail apps split this across 2 or 3 lines to make it readable. Thunderbird's email list needs so much width it only works in "classic view" with the email list above the mail content, and that layout has been looking silly since people started using widescreen monitors.
The full sentence from the blog post is: "Launching a for-profit product that disrespects the FOSS community in the way Copilot does simply makes the weight of GitHub's bad behavior too much to bear."
So it's more the *nature* of the for-profit product, not for-profit per se.
It depends what your priorities are. Some may want the phone to run slower so they don't have to charge it more often as the battery ages. Others may be happy to tolerate more frequent charging as long as the apps continue run at the same performance level.
I think most users would expect the latter as that's a natural consequence of ageing batteries - they just don't last as long as new ones. The issue here is an iOS update changed that decision, was undocumented, and Apple took an active decision to degrade performance and by how much. If they'd just made it an optional feature it would have been seen as a great innovation.
Agree, but I'd be even more strict. If the program is bigger than one screen it benefits from typing. And if there's more than one developer it's essential. Find type bugs can be painful.
It's really the same argument as why you should use meaningful variable names instead of a/b/c/d: It is quicker to write a line of code if you have fewer key presses. It is not a quicker way to write code.
> In theory the value of each dollar (or whatever) should be backed by economic activity in the country, but because of the magic of fractional reserve (banks can lend 10 X as much money as they hold deposits), there is far more money than economic activity backing it up.
I see transactions as activity. A bank note itself doesn't represent activity.
Fractional reserve banking creates more activity without creating more money. In the same way putting a room on Airbnb can create more renting without creating more rooms.
Happy 5000 user here too. It's a big mouse which fits my (left) hand much better than the super tiny mice most people produce these days. Has a good weight to it too.
It does pick up some dirt on the side/back rubber part but hasn't gone sticky on me like some other devices. I've had a few of these mice too. The rubber on the wheel is what fails for me: one stretched and I had to cut it and glue it to the plastic wheel. Another the rubber just crumbled after a few years. Latest one about 5 years old and still problem free.
Re other comments here about sweaty hands causing the stickiness problem on rubberised surfaces: I had a rubberised cdrom drive that went consistently sticky all over, so the stickiness can happen on parts that are never/rarely touched.
