* Posts by Dave559

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PiStorm turbocharges vintage Amigas with the Raspberry Pi

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Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion... but what about Firefox?

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Re: I remember when...

That's not an altogether fair comparison, however.

Back then, the web was HTML + more basic CSS + a fairly small sprinkling of JavaScript (+ sometimes embedded blocks where various plugins or applets did their stuff, semi-separate from the browser itself, and sometimes being a particular source of browser crashes).

Nowadays, CSS has got more complex, JavaScript plays a much (much) bigger role in many websites and web applications (and JavaScript engines have got much more complex, in order to speed it up), we have SVG graphics, web fonts, built-in audio and video players, web sockets, web assembly [1], etc, and so browsers are therefore inevitably more complicated and much bigger than they used to be.

[1] I honestly don't know how much web assembly gets used in real life yet (I've never knowingly encountered it, or perhaps I just wouldn't know?), but it's certainly yet another very hefty chunk of stuff that has ended up in many browsers. (Whether it is actually justifiably useful or perhaps more really a "hey, we have invented moar cool stuff" experiment is very definitely another question.)

There is a certainly a question to be asked about how useful or essential all of these things are, but at least some of them definitely are properly useful and probably also reasonably justifiably seen as essential for what most of us now regard as "full-featured" modern contemporary websites and web applications.

I am definitely a great believer in sites being as simple as they can be, and in minimising added bloat, and while in some ways it would be good to go back to the sites of 20 years ago (but without all the tables-for-layout junk!), I am sure we would soon find the lack of many things that we nowadays regard as very normal (such as scrolly map applications, text editor components, etc) rather annoying…

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Manifest destiny

Oh, once GRUgle fully impose Manifest v3 on their cattle, sorry, users, I think that a fair number of them, well, those that care even a tiny amount about privacy and security, anyway, will come back to Firefox. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't care very much about privacy and security, and they make up of most of Google's herd of cash cows.

Many mobile users use Chrome because it comes by default on their platform, and because it ensnares them via their Google Account (and, of course, a lot of people just don't care). That lock-in then extends for the same users to their desktops, and, for much of the world that is potentially up to 80% of the user base.

Chrome further got lucky because it came to prominence during a period when IE was particularly crap (also helped significantly by lots of advertising/promotion on the Google search engine), and when, according to some, Firefox was allegedly also somewhat lacking and slow (although that's never a problem that I have experienced, maybe more of a Windows thing? (or perhaps a Windows + nasty too low spec craptop laptop thing?)).

And, as ever, because many Firefox users take their privacy seriously, many will block untrusted JavaScript and content via NoScript and the like, and so will simply never show up in the logs of JavaScript-driven usage analysis tools (only in the actual server logs, which tend not to be used by analysis tools so much these days), so usage is likely under-reported by probably at least half. Not that reports of Firefox browser share apparently continuing to decrease isn't rather disheartening, but I am sure that there are still rather more Firefox users out there than (often vested interests) would like to claim.

Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers

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You forgot something…

A bit strange that this article forgot to mention that The Register itself has a Bluesky account, although the vultures aren't using it as much (or perhaps as automatedly?) as they do their account on the decreasingly useful xparrot site. Which of the social network platforms (perhaps including Mastodon, where, perhaps a bit oddly for a proper techie publication, The Register doesn't have an account - come on guys and gals!) manages to pick up most of those fleeing in the xodus still remains to be seen, but it would certainly make sense to hedge bets for the time being…

Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to the Fairphone

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Re: Sniff

Similarly, I really miss my Nokia E7: on the surface seemingly just an ordinary touchscreen phone, but, with just a gentle magical nudge of your fingers, you could slide the screen back and up at an angle to reveal the keyboard underneath, and end up with something sort of like a modern-day Psion 5mx…

Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission

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Re: GDPR breach here we come

Yep, I'm pretty sure I can hear the EU and NOYB sharpening their pencils already!

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x

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Yes, they have overlooked the key usability factors of laziness and brevity! ".lan" is nice and short and quick for admins to type when needed, ".internal" not so much (and if they actually make it case-sensitive .INTERNAL, yuck…!).

I'd even go so far as to suggest why not assign .zz for this: it's a two-letter TLD not currently in use, and I suspect that it's unlikely that it would ever be needed for a real country (indeed, there are now slightly fewer ccTLDs (and countries) beginning with Z than there used to be)…

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.local

"Hello, hello. What's going on? What's all this shouting? We'll have no trouble here."

Well, actually, multicast DNS (mDNS, also known as Bonjour, Avahi, etc) requires quite a bit of shouting, otherwise none of the devices in a .local network will know how to find each other…

(I'll get my coat, and any other precious things, and leave…)

The rise and fall of the standard user interface

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Re: Torn

If it wasn't actually AfterStep that you were thinking of, then it was probably Window Maker or GNUstep, all of which I had thought(?) were relatively similar (at least appearance-wise, if perhaps not under the surface?) homages or rewrites of NeXTStep, but I hadn't really used any of them enough myself to say for sure? I had tried each of them for a while out of curiosity, but then KDE<4 and GNOME<3 seemed to be starting to get the most traction by then, so I then moved on (rightly or wrongly)?

I did think they all looked rather cool, and the way that the menus were always zero-distance away (activated under the mouse pointer, when summoned) was definitely quite nice.

If you look up the page for any of these on Wikipedia, they all seem to also have links to their other counterparts, if it helps to jog your memory…

(On a related note, I'm pleased to see that the xwinman site still exists!)

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Re: Hostname

Ooof, really sorry to hear that you have badly injured your arm. Hopefully with time it will heal as well as it can do.

Recumbent sounds fun, and hopefully less motion required for steering and controls, as you suggest.

I once met someone on a big mass bike ride, who had sadly lost one arm but who had set up their bike to have a back-pedal brake for the rear and a brake lever for the front wheel, along with both gear levers (old-skool thumbshifters, not the complex combo-gadgets common nowadays) mounted on the same side, and they had enough strength in their remaining arm to be able to control these and steer, and maintain balance/direction, carefully. I was very impressed that they had successfully found a way to keep doing what they loved.

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Window borders

Yes, this current fad for window themes with no borders (or only a barely perceivable ~1 px border), except at the top (and, even there, all these abominations of program controls eating into the titlebar as well [1]) really annoys me.

Is it really too much to ask for a desktop theme where you can have ~2 - 4 px (configurable) borders, perhaps even with corner grab handles, and where there is a clear colour differentiation between the titlebar and borders of the currently active window versus the other, inactive, windows, so that I can quickly spot which one I am currently interacting with? (And, yes, of course focus follows mouse…)

[1] Invading the titlebar is not the answer to the problem that this is trying to address: refusing to buy crappy low-res 'shortscreen' laptops is. 16:10 aspect ratio (or better) or nothing!

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Re: First time I have heard of the CUA for decades

"anything created before they were born is of no importance"

To be honest, I'm sure a lot of us thought a lot of fairly similar things when we were also that same age…

The trick is for any bunch of overly-exuberant recent grads to be supervised and mentored by older, wiser (but not yet wearier) professionals who can help to remind them that, while new ideas are certainly welcome, sometimes there are very good reasons for certain things to have evolved to be the way they are, and that often only minor changes, if any, are necessary.

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Hostname

I'm just very disappointed that Liam hasn't bothered to give his Linux laptop a proper hostname… ;-P

That's definitely a loss of one geek point there! Choosing a naming scheme for all of your boxen is part of the fun…

Japan's lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon

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Special Projects Bureau

Surely it's about time that The Register's Special Projects Bureau started up again, and launched a new generation of minifigs on brave new missions, to boldly go where no minifig has gone before!

(The beer accompanied with tapas, of course…)

Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

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Re: The Singer not the Song

If you want to search for something which you think is on Wikipedia, just cut out the man-in-the-middle and search on Wikipedia, or install the relevant search add-on in your browser and use that to do so, if, for some reason, it isn't already installed.

Because Wikipedia is edited and curated by humans (and, especially, humans keen to support its core purpose [1]), doing a search on Wikipedia works really well, and a "Do What I Mean" search usually gets you what you were looking for. The editors seem to have put in place redirects for most common ways to refer to a particular topic or event, as well as for many common 'informal', but commonly used, acronyms.

For example, search on Wikipedia for "iceland volcano ash cloud" and you'll instantly get pages returned about the eruption of that particular volcano that the rest of us can't spell (or pronounce). Note that there's even a redirect page from a less specific title to the canonical correct page for those of us who had completely forgotten the name of the volcano. That's really nice attention to detail, so, kudos to all involved.

[1] No, not the dubious begging mission, where the Wikimedia Foundation pleads for (and gets) considerably more money than it actually needs for Wikipedia and related genuinely core activities, but enough about that for now.

China loathes AirDrop so much it's publicized an old flaw in Apple's P2P protocol

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Re: AirDrop is a weird thing

The thing that was especially great about beaming files to each other by Bluetooth was that you didn't need to know each others' phone numbers (etc); not for paranoid reasons, just for the sheer practicality and simplicity: it solves the bootstrapping problem.

It rather defeats the whole purpose of beaming your contact card to a new friend (or new business contact) when you meet, if one of you has to tell the other their phone number or email address (etc) first (with all the laborious spelling out and double checking that this inevitably involves)! Yes, it maybe only saves a minute or two, but it's still a minute saved.

(Also, for all my sins (or perhaps lack thereof - how many apples do I have to eat?!), I do live within the walled garden: I'd just prefer that it had rather better gardeners sometimes, especially ones that won't stop you from sharing cuttings with people who live outside the garden…)

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Re: AirDrop is a weird thing

But you shouldn't need to know who someone is, or have them in your contact list, in order to beam files to each other. It should just be like scribbling a note on a piece of paper and handing it over to the intended recipient.

In the olden days, before Apple invented the interwebs, it was pretty commonplace to share your contact card, or a photo, etc, with another friend's phone just by using ordinary Bluetooth.

Alice enables Bluetooth on her phone, Bob enables Bluetooth on his phone.

Alice selects "Send file to [Bob's phone's name]",

Bob then gets a requester that "[Alice's phone's name] wants to send a [contact card|photo|file|whatever] to you: Accept | Refuse".

If either of you see other nearby phones with Bluetooth active (Chad, Mallory, etc), obviously you wouldn't select that phone for sending to or permit for receiving from.

Transfer the file, switch off Bluetooth again.

It should go without saying that if you get a connection request from a device that you don't recognise or weren't expecting, you should refuse it.

Nowadays Bluetooth is often mostly/always on for other things such as headphones, but the general principle should still apply. For starters, you have to be within 10 m of each other to actually beam a file, and if you are unlucky enough to have a sad perv wannabe-abuser somewhere nearby, a sensible interface would have the requester include an option "Refuse all requests from this device for 1 hour" (or similar) so that they couldn't just try to repeatedly harrass you by pinging your phone again and again until you accept their pathetic dick pic.

It's sadly typical Apple that they had to go and overcomplicate things by making AirDrop some horrible Bluetooth+WiFi lashup, and thereby making it impossible to beam files outside the walled garden (which I'm sure was exactly their intention, but also a sign of monopoly abuse).

WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused manager

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Re: I'm ok with a foul language every now and then on a rare error...

It's OK, they've got a solution for that: the Java EULA tells you (or it did at some point in the past) that the Software is not designed, licensed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility. Problem solved, job done, for sure!

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-ize

"We Scots use -ize"

That's (genuine) news to me, writing as a Scot. I'll admit that it has an air of plausible truthiness to it that it might perhaps have been the case at some point in the past before British English became more standardised [sic] (but back then spelling tended to be more variable, erratic, and less fixed in general), but I think I'll play the "citation needed" card nevertheless, if you would perhaps be so kind? I was certainly taught at school that "-ise" was the normal/preferred spelling.

(I had always thought that the reason for American English preferring -ize was because of that Noah chap (the one with the dictionary, not the one with the big boat) deciding that the "z" spelling much better harked back to the original Greek spelling/pronunciation of such words, rather than the "s" spelling acquired via French and Latin?)

The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April

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Re: IBM's doomed operating system

Apple haven't won, but they are certainly a noble second, although a second with a significantly smaller share of the market.

Apple Silicon certainly has the potential to take increasing market share, if only Macs weren't so damned expensive (my bank account still hurts) and, in many use cases, if only the software that some people would need to use were actually available for Macs. But for many people, the cost, and the non-availability of certain software, sadly make them not an option.

When it comes to phones, both iOS and Android owe an awful lot to Symbian (and perhaps also to Palm). Apple didn't really contribute very much other than polishing up existing phone interfaces a bit, removing the physical keyboard (I'd still prefer something like the Nokia E7, which had the best of both worlds), and creating a central app store. Oh, and an awful lot of marketing, to highlight that the product exists and to make it desirable. Unfortunately, Nokia, Ericsson, etc, more seemed to leave their smartphones just to sell themselves on their technical merits - being good isn't enough, you do also have to actively encourage people to want to buy your product. Marketing may be evil, but it is to some extent a necessary one; word of mouth alone often isn't enough.

And, although iPhones may be particularly popular in the USA (which, although it is also the choice I made, genuinely surprises me, as in most other countries many people are much more price-conscious, or simply less well-off), worldwide they only have around a 25% - 30% market share, again, sadly second.

RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth

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Re: USCD Berkeley?

UCB certainly exists (or existed) in at least as much as SUN put Berkeley originated programs into /usr/ucb (page stupidly requires JavaScript to even load, but that's sadly Oracle for you [1]).

I'm on the wrong side of the pond to be able to say whether Berkeley is ever referred to as UCB in the physical world, however…

[1] On the other hand, the page author includes a nice little easter egg with a link to this "The Joy of UNIX" button badge, with a SUN logo on it. :)

Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?

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too many keys

If I could go all meta for a moment, it sounds like you don't think this is a particularly super idea, and you'll be following Public Enemy's advice to "Don't believe the hyper"?

(On the other hand, perhaps this recreation of "everything old is new again" might raise a slight smile (and some ancient muscle memory) among the remaining old space cadet hackers… Me, I'm still impatiently waiting for the <compose> key to become standard on keyboards again, although at least this otherwise useless new key would give another choice of key to map it to!)

Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun

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Re: Wang WP

And, PointWang, only for sale to and use by users above the age of sexual consent?

Amazon on the hook for predictably revolting use of concealed clothes hook spy cam

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Re: WTF?

What are these "ad" things you speak of? (As ever, thank you, NoScript, etc…)

AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change'

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Re: "We don’t want to learn that this thing that’s really important ...

Get it right, Amazon-bod: it's a person [1] living in a basement in Nebraska!

[1] and not necessarily a "guy", either, although in one particular case of xkcd all too accurately reflecting truth, it actually was

AI threatens to automate away the clergy

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Electric Monks

Surely this process could be made even more efficient by having the AI priests proselytise their beliefs to Electric Monks, for them to believe, and then none of us humans would have to bother ourselves with any of this mumbo-jumbo at all?

(Yet another thing that Douglas Adams foresaw long before the rest of us…)

We're feeling pretty anti about these social networks

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Re: I'm currently perusing a thread

Well, obviously. That's what happens when you're not living in a material world…

Revamped Raspberry Pi OS boasts Wayland desktop and improved imager tool

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a stern warning not to try to upgrade

Hmm, so Raspbian Raspberry Pi OS still has that particular "Bug #1", does it?

Yeah, they have far fewer developers than Debian or Ubuntu, etc, but it's surely at least a little bit embarrassing (and not very newbie-friendly) that they have never managed (or bothered?) to get 'upgrade in place' working, which is very much one of the best features of Debian-based distros…

(Kudos for all that they do, nevertheless…)

Apple swipes left on the last Touch Bar Mac, replaces it with a pricier 14″ model

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Re: Shame it didn't work out...

Yes, but it's much easier to find (by feel) and use the brightness and volume keys when these are actual physical keys on the keyboard.

As an additional keyboard row, the touchbar could have had some useful potential, but, by replacing the physical function key row, it is sadly more annoying than anything else (my work Mac has the touchbar - not my choice).

Cybersecurity snafu sends British Library back to the Dark Ages

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Re: details on the services that remain available can be found via @britishlibrary on X

I absolutely agree that putting public information behind data paywalls is extremely irritating.

But, while too many organisations still persist with such stupidity, nitter is your friend. You can use one of the public instances that various people have kindly set up, or even host your own.

King Charles III signs off on UK Online Safety Act, with unenforceable spying clause

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Re: math doesn't bend

But "math" is also short for mathematics! It just depends on how you wrote your regexp (and, yes, now you have 'n' problems…). I can see a fairly valid argument either way.

(Although, yes, when referring to the UK the world outwith leftpondia, proper English spelling should be used: it will irritate the rest of the world far less, and the leftpondians don't care about the world beyond their borders anyway «ducks» ;-) )

CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon

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Re: Imagine an HP phone, or a IBM phone

I'm sure that at least a few more than 2 people in the world bought a QL.

They were somewhat eccentric machines, admittedly (but that was Sinclair Research for you in a nutshell, as we all know), the sort of thing that some random guy far away up in Finland might buy, for example…

[Edited to add: Ah, I guess that's the "PC give-away software" reference! :-D ]

GNOME Foundation's new executive director sparks witch hunt

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If certain illuminated manuscripts were read, the offspring might turn out to be The Luggage

That script I wrote three years ago is now doing what? How many times?

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Re: Indiana immediately owned up to … absolutely nothing

Am I the only person who thought that "Indiana" was going to be a somewhat abstract reference to (depending on how long ago these events took place) SUN OS or Solaris?

Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite

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Why not LibreOffice?

I'm very skeptical that Amazon actually needs squillions of copies of MS Office. Yeah, there might be a few people who have foolishly locked themselves into their own many-tentacled multi-dimensional eldritch horror custom Excel spreadsheets, but, given that Amazon is a network computing company with a bazaar attached, you would have thought that LibreOffice would be more than good enough for the vast majority of them, or that they could certainly offer enough development bonuses to make it so, for much much less cost than they are just wastefully pouring into the Sarlacc's maw…

Ubuntu unleashes Mantic Minotaur with 23.10 build

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You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike

You sadly didn't seize the very appropriate opportunity to use this phrase for the sub-heading! :-(

(But, indeed, a wise adventurer never forgets their ball of thread…!)

Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'

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Re: Excel

They really knocked themselves out with this one!

And now for something completely different: Python 3.12

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But in Python 3.14, will the python swallow and eat the pie, or will it be in the pie (perhaps four-and-twenty of them, although that would be a very very big pie)…?

Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed

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Ports and connectors

Hmm, I would have preferred it if they had replaced a couple of the USB-A ports with USB-C (as that is the way things are going now) and then that could have freed up space for standard-size HDMI ports instead of those awkward micro-HDMI ones…

Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor

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Re: The smart ones know.

Exactly. And those same security features and add-ons also keep you informed about what spyware a site would be trying to load, if it weren't blocked, of course. I haven't seen mention of StatCounter on any site that I visit for a good number of years, so I'd take their self-preservation data claims with an entire salt mine of salt and regard them as essentially meaningless and erroneous nowadays.

No joke: Cloudflare takes aim at Google Fonts with ROFL

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Re: GDPR compliant alternative to Google Fonts

Someone has developed a handy website which will let you easily download the fonts (etc) from Google's servers, so that you can host the particular fonts that you need/want locally and perfectly legally.

google-webfonts-helper: A Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts

Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm's Windows 7 rig

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fencing firm

Am I the only person who read the headline and whose first thought was wondering how a (sword) fencing training company was somehow bizarrely involved in all this (for the chaps in the officer class, eh, what, what?)…?

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Re: "the UK's Ministry of Defence [..] does not comment on security matters"

"yeah but you could use the redundant hardware combined with a trebuchet, and do some real damage to the enemy..."

Hmm, but wouldn't a proper heavyweight like Impact Extra Bold perhaps do so much more damage?

(Or even just Comic Sans, to send them running away screaming with madness…)

[I'll get my coat…]

CrowView: A clamp-on, portable second laptop display

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Only 2 screens?

Only 2 screens? Meh. This laptop has 7 screens… :-D

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Re: Was it usable as the display for a RaspberryPi?

Unless you have been given advance testing access to a new sekrit prototype Pi 5 with funky USB-C ports [1] (not just the power-in port of the Pi 4), you can't beam to a screen from a USB-A port on any computer as they are for data only, not video…

[1] which, admittedly, would be a very cool development from the Pi-bakers :)

USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

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scary devil monastery

I thought that The Register's forums mostly provided that sort of necessary outlet nowadays? ;-)

Certainly there are enough regulars here who have been around long enough. Tech evolves, and so do we!

(Just looked into asr and it certainly seems very much like a monastery of a nearly-silent order now…)

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Re: A great way to waste morning tea time!

Nah, slrn is the best. Its scorefile system lets you do much more fine grained tuning of subjects/people/etc of (dis)interest than a basic killfile does.

And that, sadly, is usenet's main problem nowadays: the need to configure your client even to get started and then keep editing your killfile to hide spam and other unpleasantness is just too much for the average non-techie person, sadly.

By the time that broadband was widely available it was clear that decreasingly few new people were joining, that the march of time was having its inevitable effect on existing group members, and that spam was just getting worse and worse, and so, eventually, I sadly bowed out and gradually moved over to web forums instead. But usenet's combination of 'everything in one place' but also being distributed and so avoiding a single point of failure was and is absolutely ingenious.

30 years on, Debian is at the heart of the world's most successful Linux distros

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Re: POLL anyone?

The problems caused by all the ever-changing licensing, costs and spin-off shenanigans of the Red Hat world only serve to highlight particularly good reasons (among many others) to pick something from somewhere within the Debian-based extended family. The Red Hat 'world' is a grove of trees now being strangled by its own creeping ivy, whereas the Debian world is an entire diverse and thriving jungle ecosystem.

If you can admin or use a Red Hat system, you can admin or use a Debian-based system, perhaps with a little bit of RTFM where needed. They're not really so different, at the end of the day…

Red Hat's Mexican standoff: Job cuts? Yes, but we still need someone to boot Linux

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'Legacy' support

'Legacy' stuff always hangs around way longer than people expect it to. I perhaps wouldn't go quite so far as to confidently bet that the requirement for BIOS-mode booting for virtualization will still be around in (to pick a not entirely arbitrary date) 2038, but, on the other hand, I wouldn't be altogether surprised if it still hadn't quite entirely gone away by then…

Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or maybe any cash

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I have a feeling that someone else may have already come up with something similar to your modest proposal to help impoverished Irish people, some time before now…

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