It's just not enough that flash goes away, it needs to be repeatedly stomped on, waterboarded and told its mother was a whore.
Posts by skalamanga
56 posts • joined 2 Aug 2012
Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech
What happens when a Chrome extension with 2m+ users changes hands, raises red flags, doesn't document updates? Let's find out
Ad blocking made Google throw its toys out of the pram – and now even more control is being taken from us
Vodafone: Yes, we slurp data on customers' network setups, but we do it for their own good
Mozilla says Firefox won't defang ad blockers – unlike a certain ad-giant browser
Uncle Sam wants to read your tweets, check out your Instagram, log your email addresses before you enter the Land of the Free on a visa
Lenovo kicks down door of MWC, dumps a stack of sexy new ThinkPads
The chips are down: Now Microsoft blames Intel CPU supply shortages for dips in Windows, Office sales
Florida man stumbles on biggest prime number after working plucky i5 CPU for 12 days straight
Google: All right, screw it, from this Christmas, Chrome will block ALL adverts on dodgy sites
Microsoft: You don't want to use Edge? Are you sure? Really sure?
Reported as a bug
Issue: the windows 10 web browser download tool is broken
Steps to recreate: open browser download tool, navigate to browser website of choice, run installer.
What should happen?: browser download tool should not be a whiny bitch about being ignored and not taken seriously.
What does happen?: browser download tool is a whiny bitch about being ignored and not taken seriously.
Xeon-bashing Tachyum claims its Prodigy CPU will run AI jobs as well as traditional apps
Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Runtime installers were built to fail
EU wants one phone plug to rule them all. But we've got a better idea.
Screw plugs, I want magnetic contacts
Something like hdbaset or thunderbolt, but using pogo pins and a magnetic locator. Make it flat and round with 4 pairs of terminals so it can connect in four different axes and handshake each pair on connection. Put a hole in the centre so it can be permanently locked in plac with a screw.
Windows is coming to Chromebooks… with Google’s blessing
Get drinking! Abstinence just as bad for you as getting bladdered
Samsung’s new phone-as-desktop is slick, fast and ready for splash-down ... somewhere
Wearable hybrids prove the bloated smartwatch is one of Silly Valley's biggest mistakes
Clean up this hot sticky facial-recog mess for us, Microsoft begs politicos
AR upstart Magic Leap reveals majorly late tech specs' tech specs
No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?
No one wants new phones – it's chips that keep Samsung chugging
Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR
Brit mobile phone users want the Moon on a stick but then stay on same networks for aeons
British egg producers saddened by Google salad emoji update
Microsoft gives users options for Office data slurpage – Basic or Full
NASA fix for Curiosity rovers's damaged drill: hitting it, repeatedly
Facebook Android app caught seeking 'superuser' clearance
Microsoft programming chief to devs: Tell us where Windows hurt you
Paperback writer? Microsoft slaps patents on book-style gadgetry with flexible display
What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs
Samsung’s DeX dock clicks the second time around
It's Pi day: Care to stuff a brand new Raspberry one in your wallet?
Microsoft's Teams lights solitary candle, hipsters don't notice
Google Flutter hits beta: Another go at cross-platform mobile dev
PC not dead, Apple single-handedly propping up mobe market, says Gartner
From tomorrow, Google Chrome will block crud ads. Here's how it'll work
Re: auto play videos
I find that ads don't happen on YouTube through the webpage, but are excessive in the app, with every second of third video showing a 5 second ad and long videos showing several at intervals.
This is why I disabled the YouTube app on my phone.
I'm still waiting for YouTube red in the UK, as this is supposed to come free with Google music and make YouTube ad free.
AD blocking policy
My policy on advertisers is that if I see an ad I'll automatically add the product to my own personal 'do not purchase' list and purchase from one of their competitors.
With this in mind, companies should be glad I run aggressive adblocking software as without, it would be guaranteed that I not purchase from them.