Posts by bigtimehustler

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?

Airbnb will let staff work from anywhere without a pay cut

The issue is, the company is still making the same amount of profit from my work wherever I do it. If they were fine with paying it in the bay area they should be fine paying it anywhere. If I leave, they may get a replacement from the bay area anyway.

Preview 9 of Visual Studio for Mac is out as GA approaches

Who actually is the intended user of this? If you are developing for the windows ecosystem then surely you have a windows OS. If you are not, why would you pick this tool on a mac rather than any other available one?

AI-powered browser extension to automatically click away cookie pop-ups now promised

Re: You need AI/ML for that?

I'm sure someone will say in a minute that they disable css while browsing.

COVID-19 was a generational opportunity for change at work – and corporate blew it

Not happened everywhere, I work for a company that embraced the option to choose flexible, which just means you get a desk if you come in 3 days or totally remote anywhere in your geographical region. So not every organisation has gone back.

Dev loses copyright appeal over forensic software after judges rule suite was owned by his employer

Re: From memory...

So, you'd sit snd stair at the wall? I presume they don't let you watch TV in your paid for time either. So what exactly eoukd you do?

EU digital sovereignty project Gaia-X opens its summit with the departure of Scaleway

Well, who else are they going to use? The whole idea of cloud is scale and multi region deployment. A small company simply can't compete at that and they never will. Much the same as I can't set up a water infrastructure company and suddenly start supplying the whole of the Midlands.

Server errors plague app used by Tesla drivers to unlock their MuskMobiles

Re: Internet dependency

You can go out and lose your real key. Stuck then too. Much the same as if you forget the keycard and presumably your wallet too! Then on the off chance that server also goes down, you can't drive. In my opinion it's much more likely you'll just lose your real key.

Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete: Time for the end game

Well, anyone would think you are judge and jury. Just looking for an executioner from your sumning up. Perhaps wait for the verdict first, you know, innocent until origen guilty and all that.

Microsoft under fire again from open-source .NET devs: Hot Reload feature pulled for sake of Visual Studio sales

Yea, but you obviously don't want to make it happen either as otherwise you'd just install it on your home laptop, see if it meets requirements and then get the PO raised.

US nuclear submarine bumps into unidentified underwater object in South China Sea

The South China is not Chinese though. It is actually international water so anything can sail or submerge there.

Judge rejects claims Cloudflare should be held responsible for customers' copyright infringement

Re: "We agree with the district court’s reasoning"

That's very true, the electricity thing is right on the money. Electricity suppliers have facilited most goods and financial crimes in the past 90 years. They should obviously be shut down.

Internet Explorer 3.0 turns 25. One of its devs recalls how it ended marriages – and launched amazing careers

The problem is, people just will never implement exactly to spec, which is difficult anyway with a continually evolving spec. They will introduce bugs by mistake, not have time to fully implement a feature to all of the specs detail. As a dev I'd rather one underlying browser engine to target, at least I know that if I write code that works, it will work in all browsers using that engine. Rather than having to find the common base of what works between 4 different implementations of the same language.

Re: Sadly, there were divorces and broken families and bad things

I in some respects agree. But a company doesn't exist in isolation. If they have been caught napping and have to get a competitive product out, that's time critical. It doesn't really matter if you have to replace a few employees who couldn't or didn't want to do it. The company might not exist at all unless the product gets out sooner rather than later.

The biggest problem from a devs point of view is that until the very last versions, the debugger was awful! How did they not realise that if you want things to look and work well in your browser, making it easy for devs to do so is the number 1 goal. It took them too many years to realise that. I have no idea why! They must have continously got feedback from devs who make websites within Microsoft!

It's time to decentralize the internet, again: What was distributed is now centralized by Google, Facebook, etc

Re: Bullshit article premise

They could be paying Google for that service, oh clever one. Do they get your sympathy then? Paid for or not, if a a company goes brankrupt, good luck getting your data out of them. I presume you are paying for two services? When for redundancy reasons only, two free ones would be just as good.

The old New: Windows veteran explains that menu item

I have to say I have never questioned why it is there. Its pretty obvious it's useful for creating files in a folder you already have open, especially if it's a system directory deep down a folder hierarchy.

House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder – the agony is there for a reason

Re: Why the hate?

If you are generating them from objects anyway, then why not just generate JSON? It is possible store whatever config state you want in a JSON, if you model the data correctly. Your DTOs can be commented to explain what the parts of the JSON are.

UK government gives Automated Lane Keeping Systems the green light for use on motorways

Isn't driving at anything less than 37 on a motorway unsafe in and of itself? So they are only expecting this to be used in a traffic jam? Hardly a great test of the technology.

Australian police suggests app to record consent to sexual activity

How romantic, mid passionate moment you say, hang on a minute I just need to get my phone out and record my consent. Can you do the same. Utter nonsense.

Search history can calculate better credit ratings than pay slips, says International Monetary Fund

Proof?

Another important consideration is how on earth does the financial institution know it is your real search history and not one curated especially for financial institutions to be presented with. While you keep your real search history to yourself.

'We've heard the feedback...' Microsoft 365 axes per-user productivity monitoring after privacy backlash

I presume that the lower the numbers the better the employee? Perhaps the problem was just the default sort order of the table.

Google tells court: Our rivals gave US govt confidential dirt on us to fuel antitrust case. Now we want to see it

Could they not get around this by saying they are defending themselves and using no outside council? It isn't a requirement, but you are still legally entitled to be able to defend yourself.

Let's Encrypt warns about a third of Android devices will from next year stumble over sites that use its certs

What does any of this have to do with installing a certificate? You can just do that on any a droid device. Problem solved, the information of how just needs to be made clearer