* Posts by croxed

7 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Nov 2014

LibreOffice 7.1 Community released with user-interface picker, other bits and bytes

croxed

Re: Lacks the Polish?

I think Dilbert captured the thinking behind the changes really well recently https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-01-11

Max Schrems is back... and he's challenging Apple's 'secret iPhone advertising tracking cookies' in Europe

croxed

Re: They just don't get it.

I still love this cartoon that captures why we find this sort of tracking to sell personalised advertising so creepy https://marketoonist.com/2014/05/personaldat.html

No surprise: Britain ditches central database model for virus contact-tracing apps in favour of Apple-Google API

croxed

Re: Had to happen

If they wanted the UK to be a world leader in... why did they contract with a Swiss company? The U.K. and London in particular have some very good (world class) app developers.

Centrica: Server fault on Wednesday caused Hive to crash on the Tuesday. Yes, yes, that's what we said

croxed

They will have answered the question tomorrow

Unpicking the Pixel puzzle: Why Google is struggling to impress

croxed

Re: Beta?

We had a boss who described this as eating your own dog food. It does make a difference if the management, marketing and engineering teams have to use their own product.

Info Commissioner tears into Google's 'call us journalists' trial defence

croxed

Re: Key Point

But if they are journalists, won't they have to abide by a whole host of other journalistic rules, such as not publishing anything libellous or defamatory etc. This means that they would no longer claim to simply be a platform. Seems to me they want to have their chocolate bar and eat it.

Reg mobile man: National roaming plan? Oh UK.gov, you've GOT to be joking

croxed

Re: National roaming can work

If the roaming charges are high enough it makes the business case for a new site much easier to put together. This plan could spark a raft of new small cell deployments to pick up all the available traffic.