Posts by Korev 6375 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016
> There are many reason why Threads might fail; privacy is not one of them -- unfortunately.
I remember a huge amount of fuss about the WhatsApp privacy changes. The end result is that I have a few friends who use Threema, Signal etc (hence having the apps on my phone) and most people still use WhatsApp.
> For those of us who use Twitter for work, it has been a decent way to discover a pretty good community
Yeah, it used to be great. You'd see loads of interesting stuff posted by the leaders in the field. In my line of work, the majority of the big players are academics, so when Trump & Brexit happened, the platform turned into frustrated ranting. It kind of recovered from that, but now when I log on I see almost no posts at all.
> But how hard can it be to design a new rocket? It's not rocket science ... oh wait ... it IS rocket science.
My previous employer had a fixed line from the business arm of an ISP mostly known for its home provision. The ISP didn't really filter port 25 so many places blocked its entire IP range. This meant the company's customers often filtered out our emails!
"All servers shall have only one keyboard layout and it shall be US International"
The problem with that is the enter key is horrible and also with US English locales you also get dates the wrong way around, temperatures in Farenheit etc. Using British or Irish settings would make much more sense in Europe...
Pre-Satnav my parents used have this conversation whilst giving directions:
"Go up the hill and then turn right at the crazy roundabout"
"How do which know which is the crazy roundabout?"
"Don't worry, you'll know when you get there"
After guest had arrived:
"Yeah, we see what you mean about that roundabout"
An interesting article in the Grauniad about what's become of Second Life and some people who still "live" there.
This week's raconteur, who we'll Regomize as "Murph," brings us a tale tying together two of our recent themes: security tech that doesn't behave as it should, and power points being used in ways they were not meant to be.
I think today's raconteur should have been "called" Jim for obvious reasons...
It's a story in which not one thing but several had to go wrong – but it has a happy ending. You see, that "B" rack of UPSes kept everything going. In spite of the alarms and alerts and whooping sirens (OK, there weren't whooping sirens) the system stayed up and worked as it should.
Looks like the cleaner showed that the IT setup was floorless
I once had to deal with an American who kept insisting that Africa is populated by "African Americans". He almost physically couldn't say "black" and couldn't seem to grasp the idea that there are multiple ethnic groups in every African nation, none of which (save for some Liberians) are anything remotely American.
What did he call black people from the Caribbean?
