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Posts by noisy_typist
26 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Mar 2018
Biggest Linux kernel release ever welcomes bcachefs file system, jettisons Itanium
California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots
Big Apple locals hire Russians to game New York's taxi system
You get the internet you deserve
Microsoft intros clothing line that is absolutely not leftover conference swag
The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs
i3
No clutter, completely configurable but works out of the box, works perfectly on multiple screens.
Yes, it's tiling, but you can use a mouse. You can resize windows with the mouse, select focus, you can have floating windows etc if you want.
I get that it's not the default for any distribution, and that a windowsy point and click is immediately familiar in some way to pretty much everyone, but like learning the basic key bindings for a text editor or IDE, once you have invested a week or so of slightly reduced productivity you get years of reduced friction and improved productivity.
Meetings in the metaverse: Are your Mikes on?
A tale of two dishwashers: Buy one, buy it again, and again
Two Dishwashers
I have always wanted to have two dishwashers.
I am very lazy with housework. With two dishwashers I would never need to empty one, just take the stuff out of one, use it and put it in the other one. When one is clean and the other part clean, leave things out on the side for a bit, and then once one is empty, start to fill it.
It would save literally minutes of housework per week.
Intel's mystery Linux muckabout is a dangerous ploy at a dangerous time
We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage
What if Chrome broke features of the web and Google forgot to tell anyone? Oh wait, that's exactly what happened
Thousands of internet-connected databases contain high or critical CVEs, says report by cloud security biz
Port scan results
So the universe if databases they have results for is those with an open and scannable port facing the internet... I would expect a basic security procedure in almost all cases would be to not do this.
So out of the set of databases exposed directly to the internet, just under half have critical vulnerabilities. I am surprised it's not higher.
UK's BT starts trials of new hollow-core optical fibre networks
Hard cheese: Stilton snap shared via EncroChat leads to drug dealer's downfall
Imagine things are bad enough that you need a payday loan. Then imagine flaws in systems of loan lead generators leave your records in the open... for years
The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised
Banking software firm tiptoes off to the cloud with MariaDB after $2m Oracle licence shocker
Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material to Facebook – after US-EU date confusion in IP address log
Humble-bragging ServiceNow CEO tells anyone who listens: 'Our destiny is to become the defining enterprise software biz of 21st century'
SNOT
Some people have taken to abbreviating ServiceNow to SNOW. Whilst I can see a similarity (in the UK all it takes is a little snow for everything to grind to a halt), I prefer to abbreviate ServiceNOw Ticket to SNOT, so when you assign a ticket to another team you "flick a SNOT" at them. Seems more fitting.
Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and cloud-based IoT gear bricked by vendors. Looking at you, Belkin
In Rust we trust? Yes, but we want better tools and wider usage, say devs
Yanking on the space supply chain: Rocket Lab goes Interplanetary with Sinclair acquisition
Facebook iOS app silently turns on your phone camera. Ah, relax – it's just a bug, lol!?
Not a death spiral, I'm trapped in a closed loop of customer experience
New builds
Try moving to a new build - for the first few months nobody’s computer systems recognise your address - it is either not in the Royal Mail database or they haven’t applied the latest updates, so in many cases you can’t change it online. Often, call centre staff can’t change it either.
My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)
It's more than just stuff
Sorry to hear what happened to you. When something like this happens it's not just the financial hit and frustration at lost data, but it can be quite unsettling for a long time that someone could physically rob you like that in what should feel like a safe place. I hope you are able to put it behind you quickly.
To the people saying "work in an office", I worked in an office in a serviced office building once, locked my laptop with a kensington lock to my desk, locked my office door, and it still got stolen. The serviced office company didn't trust the cleaners, so only gave them one set of keys; the cleaning company's solution - use the keys to open every door in the building (including the back door so their staff could go out and smoke), then lock them all again at the end. Unibody laptops may be better, but I came in to find the side panel of my PowerBook (this was a while ago) still attached to the lock and the rest gone. Apparently none of the security cameras were working. My insurance wouldn't pay because there was no forced entry, and the office denied all responsiblity (I fixed that by running up arrears to the tune of 1 laptop, then moving elsewhere with a letter explaining why).
I don't have stats, but I woud think daylight robbery like this is far less common than thefts from offices.