Posts by bigtimehustler

You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection

Re: Legality

It collects contact data in that it remembers the data you fill into address forms. That's usually your contact details.

Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

Re: Make Aerospace Grotty Again

Some form of artificial gravity available? Why? The tech doesn't exist. Just because you go private doesnt mean things miraculously happen out of nowhere

New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029

If everyone who has to administer this just got together and refused to do it. It would be rolled back immediately as everything stops working.

If you don't like what the few force on you, get together and stop it.

Microsoft won't let customers opt out of passkey push

Re: "No password entry or 2FA step is required."

That is a fundamental misunderstanding of two factor authentication. The idea is that you authenticate with a separate device. Not the same one. If someone steals my laptop and they need my phone to authenticate, that is more secure than credentials stored in TPM, thereby accessible to a logged in single device.

It is total nonsense, every single provider that I've currently used a passkey for also accepts username and password login with 2fa. So, why bother? There is no more security than just using the password.

AWS boss: Don't want to come back to the office? Go work somewhere else

Well, he would obviously change his tune if all 95 percent that polled they don't like it just left. If enough people refuse, it won't happen.

Rival browsers cry foul after Microsoft Edge slips through EU gatekeeper cracks

Re: browser choice

As a developer working in the Web sphere, I'm really happy at the reduction in rendering engines, they are never implemented perfectly, which is understandable, but that means various workarounds for each browser when a customer reports a bug. They don't want the browser maker to fix it, they want you to fix it now.

San Francisco set to ban rent-hiking algorithms used by landlords

How do you ban it? If landlords use that tech behind the scenes to decide on a rent price, where is the evidence that they did?

EU AI Act still in infancy, but those with 'intelligent' HR apps better watch out

It may move to china.

Oracle Java license teams set to begin targeting Oracle users who don't think they use Oracle

And presumably they just say no we are not and hang up, where is the evidence? You can't take someone to court for a download matched by IP, especially without proving usage.

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'

Well, most people think giving sudo access means you allowing you to run "sudo su -" so at that point all bets are off.

Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time

If you don't buy any oracle, then you don't care do you. What possible suspicion could they even have to get a court case going.

Sue based on what? They have no evidence of even suspicion in a company that currently buys nothing from Oracle. It would be thrown out in the first hearing.

They have no legal right to access anything in another company, they are not law enforcement. Why don't these companies just ignore Oracle, or tell them they have no intention of wasting their time helping Oracle do an audit.

Tesla chair begs investors to bless Musk's billions or face an Elon exodus

Re: RE: "I have a funny feeling that Tesla might actually do better in his absence"

What? Apple didn't need a Tim type, they had to have one. They would still have Steve if they could raise him from the dead.

Some investors bet against Nvidia, expecting AI bubble to burst

Re: Curse these accelerator-only cards

LLMs are not going to go away, they will just be further refined, the chips will still be needed.

Google goes shopping for Indian e-commerce dominance … at Walmart

Re: Talking about Google

It's because UX engineers have to justify their existence.

When AI helps you code, who owns the finished product?

Given lots of code written stays firmly in the company who wrote it's data centre, who's actually making any copyright claims on this code ever anyway?

AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire

Re: This is just one example

I'm not entirely sure why you think an SME can afford to be offline for any amount of time. Particularly if they are a Web based SME snd it's not just an ad on website. That is their whole business offline. Also, you assume a simple switch over to a cold server, what about DB replication, how does that server have an up to date copy of the data being written into the hot server? All of this stuff can be sorted, sure, but not by someone running a solution on a couple of PCs

US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing

So you don't think they hack things? I guess you don't think Russia does either? I fully imagine we are up to the same things, if we arnt, we should be.

UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled

Kind of misses the point that even if devices lasted forever, there are many people who can aford to buy the latest tech anyway, because of whatever incremental improvement it gives them. They will buy new often, regardless of how easy repair is.

JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry

If one corporate user has ever logged in to their own AI enabled account, it's game over anyway. There is no way to avoid this, it's all already happened.

OK, been really bad for netflix, but clearly you know better. What have you managing?

Go ahead, let the unknowable security risks of Windows Copilot onto your PC fleet

Re: User free

Is Putin strong? I think he overplayed his hand, it's made him look weaker than before.

Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion

Re: Great ...

That's fine if what your being described is an error response, try working out what a QA means in a defect that is UI based. A video of what they were doing and what happened speaks a thousand words.

What I find most odd, you can just attach those as recorded content already.

How to spot OpenAI's crawler bot and stop it slurping sites for training data

Re: The risk with Robots.txt

If you are just blocking the root level you can safely do this. Nobody us assuming root doesn't exist and it tells you nothing of what is in the sub directories.

Another redesign on the cards for iPhone as EU rules call for removable batteries

I'm a consumer, and I prefer maximum Suze efficiency and batter size in the smallest size. I prefer this well over the ability to replace the battery. That's the problem with choosing for the consumer, you can't, every consumer is different.

Re: Repair shop?

Well that's in your opinion, personally I'll be replacing the phone either way long before the battery needs replacing, so I'd prefer it be as thin and small as possible with the largest capacity battery possible without any compromise to make it reoveable. So I'm totally against this mandate from the EU altogether.

Amazon mandates return to office for 300,000 corporate staff

Re: Commuting is dead

Too right, if my company asked, and they have not, why would I go in to manage a team where none of them are on the office I would go into. They are all axross Europe in different countries. So, we would all go on to remotely work together anyway. Never going to happen

Whenever I hear a company talking about "culture", all I hear is brainwashing. Nobody truly believes in a companies culture, they just keep their mouths shut and nod their heads in agreement while thinking, yea sure. If companies really believe their employees embrace their designated company culture they are just fooling themselves.

Also, how do they actually know its easier to get people to believe in a company culture from the office? How have they found out less people follow their culture while at home? How have they even measured how many believed in the culture while in the office?

Given the employees, collectively, have the power, they really should just not go back in.

AI cannot be credited as authors in papers, top academic journals rule

Good luck to them is all I say. The AI will continually improve and their detection software will alwats be just behind it. Eventually, the AI simply won't be detectable. A new answer is really required rather than shying away from it.

Software devs targeted as British tax authority makes fraud allegations

Sounds like they have been in contact with BBC TV licensing enforcement for tactical advice. Accuse everyone and scare them, hope they pay up.

Questions asked about Chinese takeover of UK tech company

Re: Everything for sale... or not.

How do you decide if its an investment vehicle? If I buy it a renovate it, then rent it out, is it an investment vehicle? What if I sell it immediately for profit once the renovation is done? If its banned who does this work?

Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut

Re: Tableu

If you think Tableau is simple you want to try managing a server installation, user account integration and embedding views. It's a total nightmare and anything but simple.

Elon Musk's cost-cutting campaign at Twitter extended to not paying rent, claims landlord

Re: 126 page PDF to get the overdue rent?

You do, but it's a relatively rubber stamped process. Even individuals have easily managed to get high court seizure orders on large companies. The high court enforcement officers just turn up at the head office and they either pay or they take things out of the office worth enough at likely auction sale value.

Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues

Why would a user put the question into this and post the response? The question author could have done that anyway. Also, how will StackOverflow know if an answer came from this tool?

Twitter set for more layoffs as Musk mulls next move

Re: Requirements

Why should the majority not get what they want because the majority was not big enough? Thst basically means the minority gets what they want far more often. Doesn't really sound right to me.

World Cup apps pose a data security and privacy nightmare

If you have a Samsung phone, just install the apps into the secure folder instead of the main phone. It will only have access to what else is in your secure folder. Just make sure when anyone us going to check, you already have the app open and don't go searching into the secure folder in front of them.

SpaceX reportedly fires staffers behind open letter criticising Elon Musk

Re: Careful what you ask for

So why has Elon not been removed? He's broken financial rules and been involved in a defamation case. I don't believe those are legal.

US must adopt USB-C charging standard like EU, senators urge

True, and the same problem will no doubt apply. The plugs are much bigger than some other designs, but we are stuck with them.

Plot to defeat crypto meltdown: Solend votes to seize, liquidate whale account

Very true, but it's hit really bad lows in the past. Lots of people will buy and hope for the next climb.

Telegram criticizes Apple for 'intentionally crippling' web app features on iOS

Really? Why exactly? I've never felt the need or want for a desktop Facebook or Instagram installed on my laptop. Any app can provide a very decent service on a browser if it's written correctly.

EU makes USB-C common charging port for most electronic devices

Re: USB-C, why not IEC C14?

You need to hook up with the guy who replied to another one of my comments relating this to a washer.

Re: Remember how well it worked last time...back in 2009.

This is a requirement on the device port. Not the charger. So it really has nothing to do with chargers, just cables. Pretty much all of them are standard USB anyway, regardless of what the device port end is.

Re: Remember how well it worked last time...back in 2009.

OK, so given this has been brought in to stop waste. If what you are saying happens, which obviously it will have to eventually. All new devices will have to follow the new standard and everyone that buys any new device will throw their cable away. How on earth does it stop waste?

You say that people will only throw it away when their device is no longer required, that's exactly what happens now. I've never needed to buy a different cable spec for the same device in its lifetime. Once two, maybe 3 standards are in force, you'll have devices of different ages snd again, different cables for all of them, that you throw away when you buy the new standard device.

What does that have to do with it? The issue here is the size the port takes up on the device. The innovation isn't going to be happening in the plug. It happens in the device. This is a mandate for a certain port size and shape in the device. Not in the wall.

Pretty sure with your dishwasher, you only want power going in, not data in and out as well. I am also pretty sure that unless your washing clothes for insects, size isn't an issue with the connection either. On top of that, I presume the cable isn't removable either. Any more smart comments?

It will either block innovation or it won't work at all. If they agree new standards due to improvements, once all the manufacturers switch over (imagine how long that will take to get through EU legislation) then everyone will throw their charging cables away again to adopt the new enforced standard. Either the tech never improves, or the waste continues. Just, at the behest of the EU instead.

Next six months could set a new pace for work-life balance

Yea, never worked a 40 hour week since graduating snd working in tech in 2006. So I doubt many are doing that much. Its 37.5 currently.

So, after conducting the experiment that saw such a massive leap in productivity, I presume they are now still on a 4 day week. If not, why not?