Posts by excession

Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees

Re: Interesting approach

Other professors. It’s called peer review.

OpenAI is still figuring out how to make money, but wants you to believe in it

Re: So it's still

You missed:

1.5) ????

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause

Nah, with the right overcurrent you can melt the back of the plug, especially if it has one of those plastic fuse holders, way before the fuse actually pops.

Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move

Nah, that’s Bobby’s mum!

Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safety Act gets rolling

Re: Madness

“ woke teachers push left wing narratives and the justice mirrors the nation in being two-tier”

Tell me you’ve never worked in a school without telling me you’ve never worked in a school.

Mapping legend Ordnance Survey releases blocky Britain in Minecraft – again

Re: Out of date

It is certainly variable but I can confirm plenty of recent features are fully represented- for instance solar farms and wind turbines near me.

Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users

Oh my god this drives me INSANE

It’s nearly as frustrating as when an application which is entirely running on a secondary monitor insists on spawning a system modal dialog on the primary monitor…

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

Re: Econ 101

Please help me understand how a blanket VAT on all goods, whether domestically produced or imported, is the same as a tariff imposed only on goods which are imported?

VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software

Burning it down

Broadcom are really going for the scorched-earth approach here…

Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder

Re: However ...

Tell me you didn’t read all the way to the end of the article without telling me you didn’t read all the way to the end of the article

Burnout epidemic proves there's too much Rust on the gears of open source

Re: "Burnout"

“it’s illegal to volunteer for a for-profit company in the UK”

Absolute, unqualified nonsense.

https://legalvision.co.uk/employment/volunteers-workplace/

HeadCrab bots pinch 1,000+ Redis servers to mine coins

Sebastian!

Underrated subtitle on this article.

Xcel smart thermostat users lose their cool after power company locks them out

Re: if they're all coming on at the same time....

With respect, and regret, it ain’t quite that simple. The issue isn’t so much the amount of power being used, as is the rate of change of usage. Remember that generation has to exactly balance consumption. Generators of any type can not respond instantly - even the famous UK “TV pickups”, which Dinorwig is very good at managing, come on load over 5 minutes or so, rather than having NTP-synced clocks meaning the load comes on all within 10 ms.

Fitbit recalls Ionic smartwatch for burning fat – literally

Dang!

Wish I’d kept mine! Sold it a few months back for £not much!

Joe Danger rides to the rescue as ageing title tugs at the heartstrings

Re: “It’s sad that games slowly rot and many disappear.”

One particular example is OpenTTD where the updated game retains the identical look and feel to the original.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTTD

Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee

Re: And this is what happens when

Is it?

I can migrate my data easily enough.

What I can’t migrate are the services and functionality linked to that email address.

It’s those I’m worried about.

Plus addresses

This is a giant fucking pain in the arse!!

I am a big fan of gmail plus addresses… eg [e-mail]

Most services I have signed up for in the last few years use plus addresses with my custom domain email address. Odds of those getting migrated over to any other service??? I’m going for ZEROOOO

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally

Re: Wot anti-vax?

What is it you want your vaccines to be like? Edward Jenner style where the festering pustules of an infected individual are broken open and said pus scratched into your skin? That is, after all, the traditional way.

You’re right about the mRNA vaccines. They aren’t traditional. They are waaaaay cooler and way better than traditional. But to say they are “genetic therapy” grossly misrepresents the role of mRNA in protein synthesis. It’s quite literally the messenger. A datagram. Not persistent storage. God forbid we should live on a planet where technological progress takes place… and additionally, I’m sometimes surprised to find Luddites hanging out on a tech website.

IBM's z/OS update for mainframes about to land – on last day of predicted launch window

Lovely, but…

Can it send email??

Black horse of banking borkage revisits Lloyds

Re: Cashless

Well now I’m depressed, cheers for that

UK watchdog would cease to enforce data protection law if Supreme Court sided with Google, its lawyer tells judges

Absolutely. Carefully researched and constructed journalism, not cookie-cutter stories banged out as fast as possible.

Nominet ignores advice, rejects serious change despite losing CEO, chair, half its board in membership vote

Re: Put your money where your mouth is

How do I find out how my registrar voted?

(It’s Tsohost aka Paragon)

And if they voted against, anyone got any favourite providers for a very small business website?

Red Hat pulls Free Software Foundation funding over Richard Stallman's return

Conflation, much?

Nobody has to defend RMS’s choice to attempt to make excuses for dodgy shit with underage girls in order to use “his” software. We use science and technology every day which was created by questionable individuals and means. Nazi Germany invented the space rocket and the motorway. We use them quite happily.

So to complain that Big Tech isn’t allowed to disagree with his views seems a little selective.

It wouldn’t have been hard for him to keep everyone happy - acknowledge that the whole situation was shady as fuck, say he didn’t think his friend did anything wrong but he (RMS) knows a lot of people are upset about it, and say unequivocally that old men having sex with underage girls is wrong. But he didn’t do that.

Outage? No, phones are playing silly buggers, insists Sainsbury's Bank

Re: Well that's odd

Yep. I'm calling Giant Piles of BS on the "phone system upgrade".

As well as the banner above, it also says:

(!) Noticeboard

We're undertaking system updates overnight on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd June so online banking won't be available during these times

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Sally's new Yoga Pad proved challenging to use.

This new Yoga Pad is pretty hard to use.