Posts by horse of a different color

Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas

Re: "An Agent"

Apparently it’s “trivially easy” too, so I guess that means you don’t need to explain anything then.

SuperHTML is here to rescue you from syntax errors, and it's FOSS

If you are using tables for layout, may I refer you to shouldiusetablesforlayout.com

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate

I use both tabs and spaces. Sometimes on the same line. It’s just white space... ;)

Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $12 USB Debug Probe

Re: Can a Pico debug a Pi?

@Liam thanks for the extra info!

Yes, I should have been clearer in my comment. I was asking if it's possible to debug a Raspberry Pi (Zero/3/4) using SWD. I have seen the same tutorials for using JTAG, but I hadn't seen any for using SWD, so I assumed it wasn't applicable for non-Pico Pis.

Can a Pico debug a Pi?

I think the article is a little unclear. As far as I can ascertain, Raspberry Pis don’t have an SWD, while Raspberry Picos do. So you can’t use a Pico to debug a Pi (you have to wire up a JTAG connector to the GPIO to do that). Please correct me if I’m wrong!

In Rust We Trust: Microsoft Azure CTO shuns C and C++

Re: ...been developing its own cloud-oriented memory safe programming language ...

v9 - install ask.com toolbar when changing wheel

Ukraine asks ICANN to delete all Russian domains

I wish namecheap would do something about all the fraudsters using their domain hosting for phishing scams. I swear every phishing text message I have ever received has been on their DNS.

Hacking the computer with wirewraps and soldering irons: Just fix the issues as they come up, right?

Re: Wire-Wrap Gun?

Telekinesis! Hark at you! In my day we relied on entropy to do the job, and thought ourselves bloody lucky!

Linux Foundation, IBM, Cisco and others back ‘Inclusive Naming Initiative’ to change nasty tech terms

Re: What is this heresey?

Can't we just acknowledge the beautiful spectrum of numbers between 0 and 1?

Big Tech's Section 230 Senate hearing was like Jack Dorsey’s beard: An inexplicable mess that needed a serious trim

Re: Move the word "Comment" down to the 2nd paragraph

Come on, those tech billionaires never catch a break. Jack Dorsey looks like he sleeps under a bridge.

Heads up: From 2022, all new top-end Arm Cortex-A CPU cores for phones, slabtops will be 64-bit-only, snub 32-bit

Re: Old Arm

Ooh, hark at him with his 15 registers! In my day, we had A, X and Y and thought ourselves bloody luck!

Something to look forward to: Being told your child or parent was radicalized by an AI bot into believing a bonkers antisemitic conspiracy theory

Re: Who needs a cabal of Satan-worshipping, child-eating pedophiles

The reptilian overlords only think they run the world. They’re dupes of the Satan-worshipping, child-eating paedophiles.

Fintech biz Wirecard folds into insolvency like two pair against a flush. Good luck accessing your chip stack

Speaking as a saver who was affected, Icelandic banks did have regulatory protection (by the Icelandic government), and even argued that the protection was superior to that offered by the FCA and other European regulators. The issue was that the Icelandic government refused to honour those protections, except to Icelandic citizens. I have some sympathy for the Icelandic government’s position, as I suspect the liabilities were larger than they were able to cover. It’s misleading to suggest that savers were putting money in savings accounts with no protection.

Stop tracking me, Google: Austrian citizen files GDPR legal complaint over Android Advertising ID

Re: ICO (...) pause our investigation because of COVID-19

It's also about generalising an issue to avoid holding specific companies to account. If Google has a unique tracking ID that users do not give consent to, then Google should be held accountable for *their* abuse of GDPR. Let's not bury this in an investigation of real-time bidding and the adtech industry.

EU court tells prudish IP office to fack off for balking at 'fack ju' trademark application

German comedy is no laughing matter!

Crazy idea but hear us out... With robots taking people's jobs, can we rethink this whole working to survive thing?

Re: I agree

Ayn Rand, is that you?

Shouldn't Uber freeze app accounts to prevent spread of coronavirus by drivers and fares? Oh, OK, it already is

Re: Well whaddya know

Pretty sure the reason is to protect the drivers from thieves, not viruses.

Pair charged with murder, manslaughter after IBM Aspera boffin killed in New Year's Eve laptop theft struggle

Re: A warning for us all.

Two wrongs don't make a right, as the saying goes.

After four years, Rust-based Redox OS is nearly self-hosting

Rust vim

I'm disappointed they didn't call their Rust-compiled vim rum.

'Sophisticated' cyber attack on UK Labour Party platforms was probably just a DDoS, says official

It’s the Russians, I tellsya.

Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket

Re: Red for stop?

Better a lazy asshole, than an asshole who races through amber lights...

Re: Red for stop?

If they changed the amber light for a BMW logo, I think everyone would understand what sort of driver goes through an amber light...

Computer says no: An expression-analysing AI has been picking out job candidates for Unilever

No one else spotted this?

algorythms - for computation with a musical beat, presumably.

Chef melts under heat, will 86 future deals with family-separating US immigration agencies

It's half-baked...

It's possible to reverse-engineer AI chatbots to spout nonsense, smut or sensitive information

Re: I personally don't understand

This is how we will spot the replicants when the inevitable AI apocalypse happens.

You're in a desert and you're walking along in the sand and all of a sudden you look down and...

MPs call for 'immediate' stop to facial recog in UK as report underlines bias risks in 'pre-crime' algos used by coppers

Also, insert joke about cold, humourless automatons at departure gates being replaced by robots.

I went through Gatwick on Monday. Isn’t it just automating passport control? I can’t see much harm in using AI to match your face to your passport photo. Trawling public spaces for faces is something else entirely. I hope they succeed in getting this stuff banned.

Another sign of the End Times: Free software guru Richard Stallman speaks at Microsoft HQ

Re: Stallman went there to preach the Gospel of Free Software

Google is a 'force for good', and they are a bunch of insufferable hypocrites!

Clutching at its Perl 6, developer community ponders language name with less baggage

How about Pearl? The next language iteration could then be called Peaarl. Future proof!

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament

Not sure why your comment has been down voted, but I agree - this is a technology web site, and i don’t want to see political stories.

As browser rivals block third-party tracking, Google pitches 'Privacy Sandbox' peace plan

Re: Liar, liar, pants on fire!

I had a look at the Washington Post link, and I got the impression it was more about how publishers can monetise user information, rather than advertisers. Not about protecting privacy at all, just about where the money ends up.

There once was a biz called Bitbucket, that told Mercurial to suck it. Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected

Re: That was a close call.

I'm always a bit suspicious of developers who don't like the command line.

Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

Re: High level GC languages increase productivity

In fairness, I was being facetious and not serious. :)

Re: High level GC languages increase productivity

You sound like a shill for Big Language!

Tor pedos torpedoed again, this time Feds torpedo four Tor pedos – and keep how they unmasked dark-web scumbags under wraps

Re: Keeping mum

I heard they used PDF files to catch the paedophiles.

As many as 100,000 IBM staff axed in recent years as Big Blue battles to reinvent itself from IT's 'old fuddy duddy'

I’d much rather work with a greybeard than a hipster.

Google settles a four-year age-discrimination battle with 227 engineers by dishing out... $11m

Turns out there's a lot of scope for evil when your motto is "don't be evil".

Facebook chucks 1.5 hours' profit at Citizens Advice anti-scam charity to defuse consumer champ's defamation suit

Perhaps we could crowd source some ads on Facebook with Zuck's face, warning about the prevalence of fake ads on Facebook?

Former UK PM Tony Blair urges governments to sort out online ID

Still, nice to see him take a break from prostrating himself before the nearest dictator with a cheque book.

In Rust we trust: Brave smashes speed limit after rewriting ad-block engine in super-lang

Re: Thank you for this article

''certain websites''

we need a sid james or kenneth williams icon!

Re: Probably rewriting it they rewrote it right...

I've started to learn Rust, and I disagree that it generates small binaries - from my experience the binaries are larger than corresponding C++ programs, and you have to invest some effort in making them smaller. Other than that, it is very fast and efficient.

Kids can be so crurl: Lead dev unchuffed with Google's plan to remake curl in its own image

Give it a REST!

They're not httpie about it.

The biggest uptick in demand for software devs by bosses is for... *rubs eyes* blockchain engineers?!?

Re: I got interviewed to work as a blockchain engineer,,,

was that the consensus?

tabs not spaces?!

seriously, how can any serious developer use tabs and not spaces?! TABS, FFS. next they'll be putting braces on a new line BY ITSELF, and calling braces 'curly brackets'. bloody heathens.

Bored bloke takes control of British Army 'psyops' unit's Twitter

Re: "We have always been at war with Eastasia"

Hasn't Terry Christian let himself go?

Want to create fake web profile pics? This creepy AI tool makes them on demand. Plus predictive policing, and more

Re: This Person Does Not Exist

Well, hopefully it won't lead to anyone getting framed.

Things that make you go .hm... Has a piece of the internet just sunk into the ocean? It appears so

It even uses tables for layout. That's some seriously old school HTML.