Posts by shah27

The Automattic vs WP Engine WordPress wars are getting really annoying

It has been licensed as a free open source application. Th very definition of free means you don't pay. That is how WP became as popular. So why should one specific company pay for WP?

NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords

Brexit

The gift that keeps on giving

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide

Time to buy some Crowdstrike shares on the cheap?

Millions forced to use brain as OpenAI's ChatGPT takes morning off

Re: 06:59 4th June 2024 ChatGPT becomes conscious

But Nukes require manual authorisations to fire.

Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

Twice as productive?

Does that mean development timelines have been effectively cut by 50%?

It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365

Re: s/Internet Explorer/Teams/g

You are right. All browsers on iOS are effectively Safari or a craper version of Safari. Safari is designed to take direct advantage of the hardware on iPhones. All other browsers must use API's which Apple controls and the core of all of the brwosers on iOS is still the same as Safari.

UK watchdog blocks Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition

El reg is the new reddit

Check out all of the legal experts discussing the impact of the CMA decision and talking out of their asses.

Techie fired for inventing an acronym – and accidentally applying it to the boss

Damn it Sue, breaking computers and destroying careers.

Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months

I am still curious that it took 6 months for anyone to find out that this server disappeared and the app no longer worked.

Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home

What were people expecting?

Firstly no one wanted Musk to buy Twitter. But when he tried to bali out of the deal he was threatened with a lawsuit which would have forced him to buy the company. He's now the boss of a "tech" company that never made a profit and the staff are complaining they are being laid off?

I am curious to know exactly what value are these staff providing to Twitter a loss making company? Or is everyone just giving shit because their boss is someone they didn't like?

Isn't it somewhat disengenious to complain about Elon when all of ths staff were sold out by the previous owners?

It's official: UK telcos legally obligated to remove Huawei kit

Re: It's official

Never thought there would be a word which is not worth the letters used to spell the word.

Foldable smartphones crawl to one percent of global market share

Fan of foldable phone

There are two foldable phones form Samsung atm.

The Fold and Flip. The fold has a screen on the front you can use to access all of the functionalities of the phone without unfolding. It is a weird aspect ratio and other than websites displaying a bit weird majority of the apps I have tried work. You can also easily switch from using the front screen to tablet mode without any issues.

As for the flip however, there is a small touch screen on the front but to use the phone you need to open the phone up. My sister has the flip and really likes it.

Re: The modern flip-phone

I've had the Galaxy Z Fold 3 for over a year now and it's one of the best phone I have used.

I haven't had any issues with the phone other than the battery not being as long lasting as I'd like. I would describe the phone more of a mini tablet that becomes a phone.

The funny thing is the phone looks and feels bulky at first but after a while you get use to it.

Also having the larger screen space to browse web and read is amazing. On that it is extremely comfortable for me to hold while in bed.

I do have one complaint, there are not a lot of decent accessory for the phone. Which is offset by Samsung actually giving you a free case, stylus and one of their fast chargers if you show proof of purchase.

But I think people should go with what is comfortable for them, I don't keep my phone in my pocket (had my favourite Note10 pick pocketed).

Late but lustrous, a fresh remix of Ubuntu emerges

Wait isn't that

At first glance I thought this was Windows 10 white theme.

Musk tries to stall Twitter takeover trial following whistleblower claims

Re: Found some of the money

in HP vs Autonomy the owners made false claims on their books about their product. Here it is somewhat more complicated.

Elon made what could be considered a stupid decision (though I suspect his willingness to buy twitter and offering up to $1billion dollars was to stop Twitter exec board from using the poison pill method) but has the right to walk away from a company that is found to have broken the law. If however, these claims about Twitter are false then Musk will likely be compelled to pay the $1billion along with whatever additional fines there may be.

French telco tycoon Patrick Drahi ups Altice UK's stake in BT to 18%, says he is not planning a takeover... at least not yet

Re: Copper

So many people have no idea that their phones work when their electricity goes out. Suspect many will claim they have a mobile so why does it matter.

Amazon to cover 100%* of college* tuition* for hourly employees* in the US

Re: What is wrong with people?

Having worked with several large NGO I can tell you that they are significantly worse than any for profit organisation when it comes to managing money. On the flip side they did pay for me to travel all around the world for two years.

So what if I pay peanuts for my home broadband? I demand you fix it NOW!

When did telephone lines work via Fiber?

Citibank accidentally wired $500m back to lenders in user-interface super-gaffe – and judge says it can't be undone

Re: "six-eyes" policy

You'd think large values like this should ring a bell but it doesn't.

The whole reason why there was sign off was to avoid the whole bell going off. This is because there are transfers of millions happening on a single transaction.

What should have happened is the system should have been set up in advance where only specific accounts are allowed to get certain payments. But that requires more operational, system development and training costs. Why would you spend millions to create a system that does the job when the current one is cheaper and does the job. The human user should pick up on mistakes... right?

Slack serves up out-of-order messages, shaky comms as world goes back to work

Slack is doing a good job pushing people over to MS Teams

Slack services have been rather poor lately. At work we've been primarily using slack but more and more people are shifting over to Teams now. Today we had everyone working on Teams because slack just died on everyone.

If slack keeps this up there will be little reason to stick with slack in the future and soon someone at accounting will decide to save money and drop slack.

'Best tech employer of the year' threatened trainee with £15k penalty fee for quitting to look after his sick mum

Re: My masters degree

Computer Science and Software development was never a branch of Mathematics. This has always been a myth and an assumption those that had no idea.

I was always pushed down the Computer Science and Software development route when I was in college simply because I was singularly gifted in Mathematics. (later came to realise I was gifted at mathematics because I was a logical thinker and was able not only follow but understand maths examples).

Computer Science is totally different. Yes it incorporates mathematics just like physics or geotechnics but it is not just mathematics. It all comes down to if someone is able to solve problems. Once you start looking at it from that perspective you realise that a lot of people in every field possible are all problem solvers.

Apple wants privacy 'nutrition labels' on all new and updated apps in its software store from next month

Don't be silly, this is for Apple to demand all information that users give up to use app's must be shared with Apple for free.

Pakistan calls on Facebook to extend holocaust denial ban into Islamophobia crackdown

Re: Education, education, education.

What existed before the existence of the of the universe?

Atlassian pulls the plug on server licences, drags customers to the cloud

Re: All aboard the Gitlab train

I agree, the place I work at places a lot of importance in data protection. We are not allowed to store any information on any form of external devices or use any cloud services.

JIRA and confluence are critical tools for our day to day work.

Oh god even thinking of trying to migrate everything to a different platform will be a complete nightmare.

When the IT department speaks, users listen. Or face the consequences

Re: Beautiful

Oh my god this sounds beautiful.

Ever own a Galaxy S4? Congrats, you're $10 richer as Samsung agrees payout over dodgy speed tests

Re: I bought one at that time!

Just get the $10 dollar and buy yourself a very very large coffee.

Apple disables iPad for 48 years after toddler runs amok

It's fun to do this

I'll admit I have typed in wrong pin codes on my sisters iPhone just to see how long I can block it.

At last! Apple admits its MacBook Pro butterfly keyboards utterly suck, offers free replacements

Re: Nicely done.

"Besides, most of my posts develop errors when I hit submit :)."

I am going to use this for work now. Thank you :)

Brit retailer Currys PC World says sorry for Know How scam

Re: Set-up...

Curry's offered a service which a lot of people never went for. It was meant to involve a member of staff spending a hour setting up the laptop, installing all relevant software's and showing the customers how to use the laptop (I know of one elderly couple who bought it).

But Curry's staff started lying and claiming stuff like "laptop won't turn on", "you have to buy the Operating System", "only experts will be able to set up the laptop" etc... in order to force people who didn't know better to buy this service.

Saw staff at Curry's do this deliberately

I remember once visiting Curry's In Mile End London couple of years back.

I was waiting at the counter to pay for an Xbox 360 controller and listening to the guy behind the till lying to the customer "The computer needs to be set up with all of the software, if you take the laptop home as is you won't be able to use it as it will not turn on. We can do this for you if you pay £40."

The customer was confused and didn't understand (mainly because they had no idea what any computer jargon meant).

I paid for my controller 10 minutes later and decided to butt in. Will try and translate what i said "This guys is lying, you don't need to pay anything. Everything you need comes inside the laptop. If you want I'll show you how easy it is".

The clerk got annoyed and started telling me to leave the store and not to call him a liar. We argued until another guy in the queue got involved backing me up. The security guards came up to me and attempted to usher me out of the store.

The customer decided to leave the store without buying anything, I could hear the customer say "we'll just ask your brother to buy one tomorrow".

Thought i'd share my story,

Mud sticks: Microsoft, Windows 10 and reputational damage

Lots of hate for a small loud group group

After reading a fair number of the comments one simple trend started showing up.

This OS was better, I don't use this feature, that was fine, it shouldn't have changed. Blah blah blah

Let me give you an example of the people I've seen using windows 10.

Ooh windows 10 what's knew? Oh that's nice, can I do this or that like I did before?

After telling friends and family nothing really changed and if they need anything just give me a shout. I noticed they DON'T CARE about all of these customisation and what not people are banging on about.

In simple terms does it work? yes. Can I do what i want on it? Yes.

Seriously people if windows 10 was able to shit diamonds for everyone that used it you all will still find something to whine about.