* Posts by KimJongDeux

24 publicly visible posts • joined 3 May 2018

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

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This only makes sense if you believe that Musk is a god. Or maybe he's the other fellow

Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments

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Re: Ok adding my not so consipracy take...

Untrue that "Brexit had harmed economic growth". Great news. Would be even more compelling if you had a theory about what had harmed it.

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Re: Ok adding my not so consipracy take...

"...none of these countries have Greggs..."

Long before Y2K there was a meme holding that McDonald's had civilised the world because "no two countries that have a McDonald's have ever gone to war". I happened to walk down Calle Florida in Buenos Aires a little while after the Falklands show and gazed at the McDonald's in some surprise. Just imagine.

WeBroke WeWork, WePromise WeFix it: How subleasing giant hopes to survive bankruptcy

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If you didn't read the risk disclosure, the other warning was Neumann's ownership of the word "We" and his decision to charge WeWork for the continued use of that word. On learning of this, experienced fundies concluded Neumann was plausibly a couple of desks short on the top floor, and passed.

Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess

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It's important to blow off Dysons regularly otherwise they just gather dust.

Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust

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Rust. As endorsed by Alec Baldwin.

ReMarkable emits Type Folio keyboard cover for e-paper tablet

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I got one in October 2020. Within a year it stopped taking a charge. There's no viable temporary workaround for ReMarkable unless you buy two; you have to go back to what you were using before you changed all your workflows. So I permanently went back to what I was using prior. Expensive kit behaving cheaply. There's not enough time left on earth to hope (a) this was a non-repeating glitch and so (b) I woudn't have to do it all again after some months with the replacement.

Salesforce's new hires are less productive, says CEO Benioff

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"Are we not building tribal knowledge with new employees without an office culture?" Have we replaced our CEO with a 1997 chatbot? Or did we simply take an extract from "From Worst to First:", google translate it into afrikaans then urdu and then back to English?

Warning: Microsoft Teams Free (classic) will be gone in 2 months

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Re: Oh dear, Microsoft

I've given up Zoom in favour of Google Meet. Now THAT's simple.

Microsoft switches Edge’s PDF reader to pay-to-play Adobe Acrobat

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PDF viewers are totally undifferentiated on most functions. All I want is to be able to preview a pdf as I flick through File Explorer, in the same way as an xlsx or a docx . So it's Adobe.

Scammers steal $4 million in crypto during face-to-face meeting

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Re: Who loves cryptocurrency?

If it sounds sensible giving someone your bank details and authority to charge an account in which you routinely keep money, then knock yourself out. I used them for a decade or so before realising that the beneficiaries were either dead easy to hack or took actual liberties.

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Re: Who loves cryptocurrency?

Do they get scammed though?

Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech

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Oh Alexa

From a couple of years back, a cartoon in Private Eye. Proud tech bro: "Alexa order two pounds of pork sausages and an armature" Alexa: "OK. Just a reminder there are now five pictures of your dick on the internet".

114 billion transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call

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Re: "it's too small for your cat to sit on"

If it can sit on a computer it can s#*t on it too.

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This chip sounds lovely. But computers transferring data inside themselves is very 1990s. What I'd really like is an internet connection that was at least a tenth as fast. Preferably one that worked as I walk between buildings or in the lee of a wooded hillside.

Windows 11: What we like and don't like about Microsoft's operating system so far

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File Explorer. Oh I wish. If I could select "Details" view and then see details. Like, for each folder, lie the number of docs and their total megabytery. You know, useful stuff. Presently there is "file count" as a column header, which doesn't count files, and "properties" for each folder. Just life the mid 1990s.

Samsung Galaxy A52 5G: Sub-$600 midranger makes premium phones feel frivolous

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Re: Decoy

Most phone users have given all their personal date, for free, to a really creepy American from Westchester County. I reckon if the Chinese government also wants my pictures of my dinner and my dog, it's probably a bit late for me to complain.

US Treasury, Dept of Commerce hacks linked to SolarWinds IT monitoring software supply-chain attack

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Bad news: only one in every seventeen of our customers ran the update.

Good news: only one in every seventeen of our customers ran the update.

Apple's M1: the fastest and bestest ever silicon = revolution? Nah, there's far more interesting stuff happening in tech that matters to everyone

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I've been trying to move to Apple since about 2005. Every time I or someone in my family takes a tentative step they get clobbered by unreliability. Usually absurdly short hardware lives. Current but not first problem is trying to get a 400Gb iTunes library to play on a phone. The Apple Music people are very sweet but as ignorant as I am. I doubt whether Apple is really any less reliable than anyone else, but their reputation and pricing says they're really good.

Samsung aims boot at Apple's decision not to bundle a charger in with the iPhone 12, foot ends up in mouth

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Hopefully they'll stop bundling expensively moderate cameras in their "products" and we can go back to buying real phones and PDAs. I have a US$250 camera which outperforms any smartphone and weighs half as much. My real camera costs four times as much as a phone and is a bargain because, as a free, high value extra you don't get Tim Cook or Sundar Pichai curating music and diluting photos.

Whoa-o BlackBerry, bam-ba-lam: QWERTY phone had a child. 5G thing's newly styled

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I loved my Blackberry Key2, best phone ever. You trade off being able to watch videos for a brilliant physical keyboard; you can't get both so don't whinge.

And then ... the space bar stopped spacing. F&*%$ me. Would never have happened back in RIM days.

Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot one crucial detail…

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Awkward

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Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait

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Re: Broken, yes... and not fixable.

Bring back Ballmer

Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain

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Re: Supre Cruise

Afterburner. Flight crew used to refer to them as "the re-heat".