* Posts by fnusnu

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Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays

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The whole system of local government is too complex for the intellectual capabilities of local councillors.

What's needed is for them to do less and to leave money in the taxpayer's pocket.

You're going to do what to the feature? Microsoft defines what it means by 'deprecation'

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Re: Forced hardware upgrade? No thanks

Create a bootable USB stick with rufus.ie and the Win 11 iso from Microsoft. Select the option to ignore TPM requirements and off you go!

UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog

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Re: The conclusion is obvious, but...

I was £35m: https://fullfact.org/health/NHS-test-and-trace-app-37-billion-instagram/

Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home

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Option 3) Quietly quit

Rollable laptop displays to roll off the production line from April, says Samsung

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Embarrasingly for Samsung my Galaxy S10e (EOL) has just received Android 15 courtesy of Lineage OS 22.1, while my Galaxy S23 remains firmly stuck on Android 14...

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

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Ooh, is anyone working on a Raspberry Pi port?

Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships

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Tinme for the author to splash out on a new mac: https://endoflife.date/macos

DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury

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Ration by scarcity (NHS) or ration by price (USA). Pick your poison.

The latest language in the GNU Compiler Collection: Algol-68

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Re: Loved Algol68

This one? http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp10/TOPS10_softwareNotebooks/vol06/AA-0196C-TK_ALGOL_Programmers_Guide_Apr77.pdf

UK gives Openreach £289M for 4 rural broadband contracts in 'gigabit by 2030' push

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UK taxpayer gives Openreach £289M

Surely.

Admins can give thanks this November for dollops of Microsoft patches

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Re: And yet ..

Just use winget update --all

Public sector cyber break-ins: Our money, our lives, our right to know

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Why would they be attacked and humiliated? If they had done the right thing and the thing right there would likely be no investigation required.

Try reading some James Dekker or Erik Hollnagel on accident investigations. Such investigations look for causes not blame in order to remove the issues in future.

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What we need is an investigator with HSE style powers: that server is not secure - turn it off now and we will tell you when it can be reconnected to the Internet.

Just like they do on unsafe building sites

On-prem SaaS? ServiceNow will do it if you ask nicely, and really need it

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Focus on ^^^feeding its AI...

Thunderbird for Android is go – at least the beta is

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Re: No zoom and reflow

Thumbs down from those under 40 I'm guessing...

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No zoom and reflow

More useless rubbish from Mozilla :(

Firefox 130 lands with a yawn, but 131 beta teases a long-awaited feature

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You'll be changing your tune when you need reading glasses...

I'd drop Opera in a flash if Firefox did zoom

and reflow but for reasons best known only to themselves they can't or won't

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Zoom and reflow on Android? I'll stick with Opera

UK government can't kick consultancy habit despite promises

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If only "government" would do less they could save the taxpayer an awful lot of money.

Patch management still seemingly abysmal because no one wants the job

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Re: "That's not where you want to be from a compliance perspective"

Good luck trying to do that in an enterprise with hundreds, if not thousands, of applications.

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

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The CIA triad has nothing to do with security.

London council accuses watchdog of 'exaggerating' danger of 2020 raid on residents' data

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The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.

Uber ex-CSO Joe Sullivan: We need security leaders running to work, not giving up

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Re: What Caused the Uber Data Breach in 2022?

Anyone who calls users "the weakest link" is an idiot who should be nowhere near information security is any way, shape or form.

Capgemini to keep the legacy lights on at HMRC for £245.5M

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Time to slash the complexity of the tax code

This cost is a manifestation of our inability to simplify the tax code. No-one understands it any more. Not even HMRC.

Perhaps we should ask AI to review it and suggest an easier way.

RHEL stays fresh with 9.4 while CentOS 7 gets a Rocky retirement plan

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Has anyone used tuxcare.com? They offer extended security updates for CentOS7.

If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?

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Re: An idea

They've sold them to someone: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/23/leicester_streetlights_ransomware/?td=rt-3a

Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB

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Re: Rubbish in

Rubbish governance processes

Firefox 124 brings more slick moves for Mac and Android

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Re: Still no zoom and reflow

It's not being worked on. That issue has been there for five years

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Re: Still no zoom and reflow

This add-on is my attempt to provide the "reflow" option for text in Firefox Android. Warning: It is very limited. It will only reflow one paragraph at a time. You will have to tap/click on every single paragraph that you want to reflow.

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Still no zoom and reflow

Once again the only usable browser for mobile devices is Opera.

Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble

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Re: The saddest part of this story. . .

The "eternal datacentre" surely?

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

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It's garbage

You can't even drag and drop an email on to the desktop...

Bank's struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages

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At least that explains their piss poor website. It's a user experience abomination.

NIST updates Cybersecurity Framework after a decade of lessons

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Re: Finally, they've twigged

"a convincing paper trial" You are not wrong!

City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M

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Re: Why?

It wasn't the council, it was a court decision which allowed for comparitive work (NB not the same job) to have equal pay.

Alphabet just banked $3B by stretching life of its servers

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I'd suggest that they have an incredible amount of data on these costs and likely know the reliability of different servers (and internal components) to a level way beyond that of the manufacturers.

Wait, hold on, everyone – Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair

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Re: Amazed that FF isn't used more

Because it won't zoom and reflow like Opera does.

This renders FF barely usable on Android, especially for those with older eyes.

Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook

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FB on mobile unusable

If they are collecting all this data, they are doing a dreadful job of putting relevant info in the timeline.

Without the FB Purity plugin the site is unusable being well over 50% "recommendations for you". No wonder da yoof has moved on.

Red Hat greases migration to RHEL for CentOS 7 holdouts

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Tuxcare

Has anyone had any experiences with this? https://tuxcare.com/extended-lifecycle-support/

Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor

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Should release it for Android

They should move it to Android as a free piece of software for reading / minor editing of docx files on Android.

Mozilla CEO pockets a packet, asks biz to pick up pace the 'Mozilla way'

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Happened to 'her' ;)

OpenAI meltdown: How could Microsoft have let this happen after betting so many billions?

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Facepalm

Perhaps MS asked ChatGPT what to do and it started hallucinating

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean AI's not after you

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They just became a leisure activity. Like a load of IT people are about to find out...

British boffins say aircraft could fly on trash, cutting pollution debt by 80%

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Re: Meanwhile out in reality

Velocys: We provide patented technology enabling the production of drop-in, net zero, sustainable aviation fuel that can be made safely and effectively on a commercial scale.

No one believes them.

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Meanwhile out in reality

Velcocys shares have absolutely collapsed. That's the market telling you about the future value of the company...

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=573962864&q=LON:+VLS&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgecRozi3w8sc9YSm9SWtOXmPU4OIKzsgvd80rySypFJLiYoOyBKT4uHj00_UNjcoKMyzTStJ4FrFy-Pj7WSmE-QQDABKVkctHAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjd2-X82vyBAxXimGoFHbfRAPAQsRV6BAhKEAM&biw=1912&bih=932&dpr=1

City council Oracle megaproject got a code red – and they went live anyway

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Re: A drop in the ocean

^^^^ would have saved the taxpayer hundreds of millions.

Honey, can you shrink the plugin? Mozilla allows desktop extensions on Firefox for Android

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Mozilla.is irrelevant on Android

The reason Opera is doing so much better than Firefox is blindingly obvious to everyone apart from the Firefox developers: Opera supports zoom and reflow.

Caltech claims to have beamed energy to Earth from satellite

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Research ongoing in the UK too

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has been awarded £960,000 from the UK government to investigate wireless technology for spaced-based solar power (SBSP).

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2023/se/queen-mary-to-develop-wireless-technology-to-beam-down-solar-power-from-space.html

Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time

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Dear All,

I think we need to hit the ground running, keep our eye on the ball, and make sure that we are singing off the same song sheet. At the end of the day it is not a level playing field and the goal posts may move; if they do, someone else may have to pick it up and run with it. We therefore must have a golf bag of options hot-to-trot from the word 'go'. It is your train set but we cannot afford to leave it on the back burner; we've got a lot of irons in the fire, right now.

We will need to un-stick a few potential poo traps but it all depends on the flash-to-bang time and fudge factor allowed. Things may end up slipping to the left and, if they do, we will need to run a tight ship. I don't want to re-invent the wheel but we must get right into the weeds on this one. If push comes to shove, we may have to up stumps and then we'll be in a whole new ball game.

I suggest we test the water with a few warmers in the bank. If we can produce the goods then we are cooking with gas. If not, then we are in a world of hurt. I don't want to die in a ditch over it but we could easily end up in a flat spin if people start getting twitchy. To that end, I want to get round the bazaars and make sure the movers and the shakers are on-side from day one. If you can hit me with your shopping list I can take it to the head honchos and start the ball rolling.

There is light at the end of the tunnel and I think we have backed a winner here. If it gets blown out the water, however, I will be throwing a track. So get your feet into my in-tray and give me chapter and verse as to how you see things panning out. As long as our ducks are in a row I think the ball will stay in play and we can come up smelling of roses.

Before you bomb burst and throw smoke, it is imperative we nail our colours very firmly on the mast and look at the big picture. We've got to march to the beat of the drum. We are on a sticky wicket. we'll need to play with a straight bat and watch out for fast balls.

I've been on permanent send for long enough and I've had my ten pence worth. I don't want to rock the boat or teach anyone to suck eggs. We must keep this firmly in our sight picture or it will fall between the cracks. If the cap fits, wear it, but it may seem like pushing fog up a hill with a sharp stick.

Multi-tasking blunder leaves UK tax digitization plans 3 years late, 5 times over budget

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Just simplify the tax laws

There is no way they can ever be computerised in their current state.

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