Posts by matjaggard 193 posts • joined 22 Apr 2015
I'm in a village and have it. However the only operator available is Vodafone who are never getting my business back after a years long billing and service debacle with my phone contract which ended up with Ofcom demanding they give me all my money back and let me keep the phone - still wasn't worth all the hours I spent complaining to them though.
That's really not true, WSL opens a lot of opportunities, I'd be surprised if this even affects WSL2 and privileged escalation is already an issue in other areas anyway.
And even if it was true, Linux just needs to get better on the desktop because currently it's horrible. Makes the two windows interfaces look almost consistent when you run a GTK next to a QT.
I've given up now after a decade of Linux desktop and gone to Mac (which also has irritating parts like missing keyboard shortcuts but it's faster than Windows and better than Linux)
Your two statements are completely opposed to each other. On one hand you're saying "why do you make me change stuff" on the other you're saying "why don't they make more people change stuff?"
People in the open source world absolutely DO get it. They might have subtly different opinions to you on the importance of backwards compatibility vs speed of movement forward but they know that they are making those choices and that's why you only had problems when upgrading full whole version numbers.
What complete nonsense, it's perfectly possible to use a cloud service for hosting and not be locked in. The higher you go up the stack the harder it is but as a small company we've successfully moved databases and compute between clouds for better prices and/or performance. Much to my chagrin it was TO AWS not away.
Yeah, that's basically nonsense. Companies are rubbish at running their own infrastructure - moving from a big UK bank to a start up really proved the point to me. Just running a microservice in a docker container in the bank came with a 80% chance of failure per deployment - in AWS it just works fine.
The main reason I started wearing a watch again was an article I read, I think in The Register, saying that people with notifications on their watch spent less time looking at phone/watch screens. I've certainly found I less frequently take out my phone and get distracted from what I was intending to use it for. It did take a bit of setting up the notifications to make them reliable though. (I have a Mi Band 4)
As usual BOMBASTIC BOB you're talking nonsense in random CAPITALS.
Just a couple of points you're very wrong on - Windows 11 is not there to make money from existing Windows users because it will be a free upgrade. Also WSL competes (if you can call it that) for a very good reason, specifically that you don't need to compile the application for Cygwin or WSL - you just run Linux applications in it. It is thousands of times better than Cygwin.
Just for the record, I used Linux for 6 years as my development desktop but still used Windows occasionally too. Linux is better for filesystems - quite a bit faster compiling Java than Windows due to NTFS overheads but Linux is worse for quite a few things in the UI due I guess to the split between Gnome, GTK, KDE, QT or whatever. As another example nobody seems to have successfully made a UI tool for changing screen resolution that works.
There are some big businesses for whom that's true, but still they use tools like Veracode (cheaper and better tools may be available, it's not great) are used and issues found have to be fixed by a date or an exception signed off. It's not an unusual way of working by any means and it decreases that inertia you describe.
We used Veracode at my previous job. It's fine, not good but not awful either.
It is *completely* shocking that a study by Veracode tells us that using a tool like Veracode is worthwhile though. I can't quite believe we'd be reading it if the study had found that everyone keeps their dependencies up to date without a security tool.
The echo chamber has always been a problem, unless you took several papers with differing views, which almost nobody did. The extra articles are great and I read BBC The Times and The Grauniad to avoid echo chamber. I avoid The Sunday Times though because too often I get into a good article before the hate starts.
Agreed, newspapers have signed their own death warrant. So little digital innovation that it's painful, either move it all online and shove a million ads on it, or put absolutely everything behind a paywall and still shove ads on it.
That being said, there is still a problem that needs to be fixed and I think lawmakers should get involved in fixing it.
Just because it's commissioned by Google, doesn't mean it's not true. In fact I suspect they're completely right about the demise of print news - it started long before Google were around.
However, the last part of the article explains exactly why they did this - to avoid answering difficult questions now. Yes I agree that Google didn't cause the problem but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be the solution. We can't have a monopoly or even duopoly in such a big market, it's just not fair play.
It's not necessarily outcome of the report that you have to query - often its why is this the question to be asked and in this case the cause of the decline is irrelevant.
Moved on to what? I think it's fair to say that delivering content like webpages to browsers will be around for quite some time yet. Yes the internet is changing at a crazy pace but I think this is dealing with a problem that will be relevant for ages.
Other options: TOR? BitTorrent?
I don't think so
Whilst it's true that Google are keen on tracking for advertising revenue, don't go thinking that Apple are fighting it for moral reasons - they make almost all of their money from people selling apps. So the less app creators make from advertising the more they'll have to charge for the app and Apple are the biggest winners.
I don't see prioritising pedestrians over vehicles in all situations as a problem. Pedestrians produce so much less CO2, let the gas guzzlers and precious metal hogging battery mobsters wait.
And before you ask, yes I do drive but as little as possible and never in London.
1. We don't prevent people from getting meaningful employment for years in this country. Innocent until proven guilty is an incredibly important principal. We just don't know for sure who knew what when and what people did.
2. I don't think I've been a customer of the post office for several years.
I want to both up and down vote your post. I also have the same feeling and experience and get frustrated with those who seem to like changing nothing - but I think it's fair to say that on a system as widely used as Android, most bugs in old code have probably been found already
Requiring a valid number would be really stupid. All that's going to happen is that they'll start using valid phone numbers as the "from" and you'll get Aunty Enid phoning you to ask why you didn't leave a message when you called. Encryption on the whole network would help I guess but you'd have to implement it on a huge set of equipment for a communication method that whilst not dying out, is on the decrease.
Why is this even news? Chrome explicitly tells you that you won't be logged out of Google sites - so of course they can still track you, you're still logged in. Who cares if they forget to delete a couple more cookies or local storage than the ones they've already told you that they're not going to delete??!
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