Posts by Amentheist

From Brit telly presenter Eamonn Holmes to burning 5G towers in the Netherlands: Stupid week turns into stupid fortnight for radio standard

Re: The RF nutters

Hmm almost as if.. the issue is in the head of the complainee?

Philippines considers app to trace coronavirus carriers

Re: Wonder how accurate it would be anyway?

Play Store release notes:

"<slack-like tripe cheeky trendy opening>

- Fixed a bug that caused users to be shot in error.

- You can now send emojis to your neighbours as well as reporting them for breaking isolation.

Performance improvements."

Australian state will install home surveillance hardware to make sure if you're in virus isolation, you stay there

The Shock Doctrine

Governments finally got the real 9/11 they always wanted.

Like a Virgin, hacked for the very first time... UK broadband ISP spills 900,000 punters' records into wrong hands from insecure database

Over the years I've actually used the price increases as the point where I switch or threaten to, on the phone as soon as you tell them your contract is for such and such money and If those terms change the early contract termination clause does not apply they start giving you discounts and try to keep you, so it's a question of keeping customers informed more than anything.

Jeff Bezos: I will depose King Trump

Re: To be honest ...

Don't get me wrong I'm not saying it as a good thing, but as it could be a very likely outcome.

Re: To be honest ...

The impeachment didn't exactly do nothing, it gave Trump a second term on a silver platter.

Outlook more like 'look out!' as Microsoft email decides everything is spam today

Re: Windows Search is down, too.

That sounds more like a out of schedule improvement update

Euro ISP club: Sure, weaken encryption. It'll only undermine security for everyone, morons

Re: Not a moment too soon

I can't believe people still use the argument that it's ok as long as you don't do anything wrong.. Do you realise it's the authorities who decide what's illegal or isn't whenever they want (retrospectively as well if they wish), or did you just forgot the troll icon?

This AI is full of holes: Brit council fixes thousands of road cracks spotted by algorithm using sat snaps

Why need satellite images

When you can just as easily use disgruntled commuters.

Also what if there is tree cover (inb4 trees don't grow on tarmac, you know what I bloody mean!).

Unless it really is barren there..

BT: UK.gov ruling on Huawei will cost us half a billion pounds over next 5 years

Re: What is this mythical kit anyway

What are you on about? I wasn't implying anything about quality I was asking what's the specific 5G equipment they're pitching.

What is this mythical kit anyway

If wHoarethey are so good (cheap?) at it, is it radio ODUs or IDUs? Surely we're not arguing about mere switches and routers here right?

Star wreck: There's a 1 in 20 chance a NASA telescope and US military satellite will smash into each other today

Re: it would be like a car hitting a shopping cart

I imagine the 'car' ends up sliced in mesh hole shaped cubes?

Petition asking Microsoft to open-source Windows 7 sails past 7,777-signature goal

And in other news

Amber warning of ice for most regions of Hell

Hey kids! Ditch that LCD and get ready for the retro CRT world of Windows Terminal

Re: Not 3D...

Ah 'feel' as in feel the heat on your face, that's some 4th wall stuff right there!

Improved Java support poured into Microsoft's Visual Studio Code – will it be enough to tempt developers?

Re: I don't understand the attraction...

Huh who mentioned tablets? VS Code is a desktop application just ignore the cloud version?! Or keep using what you want?

London's Westminster Council wins appeal against phonebooth-cum-massive-digital-advert

FTFY

"surprise resurgence thanks to the ability to attach large digital advertising screens to them surging demand for space to cook up smack"

IT consultant who deleted every account on UK company Jet2's domain cops 5 months in jail

Re: He was stupid

Essentially, some people can't take their booze.

Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

I think we should focus on

Enabling people to embrace who they are so that they can live happily with themselves rather than try to bend the world to everyone's needs.

No, Illyrian, Naqaỹa, Mastika, Automex aren't Hollywood's hottest baby names – they're new monikers for exoplanets

Mastika

Aniseed flavour spirit, interesting choice, Is it also because the object named after it becomes cloudy when ice is dipped into it. Icon because imagine the same but 5 times as strong.

Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing

Re: Best "can abuse" I ever saw...

Re: throwing an open container; Aren't bars obliged to open canisters for you precisely because an open can makes a poor projectile (I imagine it's not as 'solid' since the liquid can now slosh about and spew out cancelling out the kinetic(?) energy you applied to it while hurtling towards your opponent)

Re: So many flaws

If it's a hand pump isn't it ale?

OK. We're off. Water ice found just below the surface of Mars. Good enough for us. Let's go. Impulse power, Mr Sulu

Wait a sec

"With so little air pressure, any solid ice evaporates to gas"

<disclaimer type="elevated levels of dumb possible">

if we knew that why were we hoping to find water on the surface in previous missions?

<disclaimer>

Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

If I had cases with them I'd mass re-open them as soon as. Not even re-open but reword it and send new with different wording to throw off any automation they have that will de-prioritise re-opened cases. Looks like they're hoping to clear all that and hope people forgot what cases they had with them to appear like they've improved their ratios.

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

Love the stock image

Reminded me of Folder Ross Kemp (image search it, SFW)

Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent

Re: From Experience (and In Hindsight)...

DC were doing generator testing a few years ago, while the DC was running on them some engineer leaned on the unprotected emergency shutdown button I shit you not. I was afraid we'd have some seized up hard drives as no one wanted to buy new kit for some years. Afraid/Hoping, could've had some investment if there was catastrophic failure tbh.

We lose money on repairs, sobs penniless Apple, even though we charge y'all a fortune

That's what I thought but he did it and it worked, there's tutorials on YT and everyting, it's mental!

He didn't say how much was the cost for the electricity but my mate repaired his iMac's loose GPU solder (or something) himself, by putting it in the oven.

Hi-tech apple care 'ere --->

That code that could never run? Well, guess what. Now Windows thinks it's Batman

"Have you ever [..]"

Yes. However mostly the error messages refer to the users' intellectual capacity.

London has decent 5G availability but speeds lag behind Birmingham and Cardiff – research

What nonsense

VM/BT who have fibre or whatever for the area still means super throttled connections during peak (as many commentards have attested to) how will that be different for 5G where there will be so many more subscribers (as everyone has a phone) with the added bonus of some of them being on the move on buses between tall buildings etc with frequent basestation handovers. What I'm trying to say is those quoted speeds are meaningless today.

Iran kills the internet for its people's own good as riots grip the Middle Eastern nation

Re: A nationwide internal internet.

We have nothing to lose but our daisy chains!

Like a BAT outta hell, Brave browser hits 1.0 with crypto-coin rewards for your fave websites

Brave's pretty decent but start up times recently have been declining and I've gradually reintroduced FF which seems to be performing pretty well. Good thing about brave is with the chromium engine it can fool sites its Chrome and so many web admins don't bother testing other browsers nowadays.

I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train

A lot of people on the tube arent locals and they're the more likely to read them being visitors and all, and also the more likely to do stuff that are not acceptable so it's not a terrible idea.

More on the subject my nose still remembers east Asian student colleagues in the lecture theater having their hot fish soup for lunch between lectures..

Judge shoots down Trump admin's efforts to allow folks to post shoddy 3D printer gun blueprints online

Re: Why a 3D printed gun?

To be fair you can see better in daylight so it makes sense!

Facebook iOS app silently turns on your phone camera. Ah, relax – it's just a bug, lol!?

Re: Now's the time to remove those little 'f' buttons on every page

No, the FB one is a tracky one, Firefox's Facebook Container extension (developed by Mozilla, and reassuringly offered after a fresh install of FF) flags it and blocks it (if uBlock doesn't scrub it 1st that is, sorry Reg <3).

There are other containers too for amazon and LinkedIn (I was surprised how many bits of the internet go back to those two). But I digress.

Without any apparent irony, Google marks Chrome's 'small' role in web ecosystem

Spaces Means Spaces!

#GetProgrammingDone

Bet you can't guess what I'm wearing, or where I'm wearing it

Re: Moving house

Re: narrowing the source down whenever I supply a gmail address I put dots in different places

It's dangerous to go alone! Take Uncle Sam and the Netherlands: Duo join naval task force into China's backyard

Re: I understand there's a nice harbour available

A LMGTFY later we learn that it was an amphibious assault ship meaning it might not need a dock.

Remember that competition for non-hoodie hacker pics? Here's their best entries

Re: Here's an idea

I thought it's something SEO related. Basically Google decided they'll rank the Web in a certain way and you bloody well better follow suit.

Remember the 1980s? Oversized shoulder pads, Metal Mickey and... sticky keyboards?

Re: Tobacco smoke

Well this was when the "nanny state" was in it's infancy so I'm sure everyone was in excellent health.

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

"If $govt_office has violated the law"

Erm and who comes up with the law? (I'm not speaking in USA terms only)

Smells like they're defo gunning for the chinise market.

Astronaut Tim Peake reminds everyone about the time Excel mangled his contact list on stage at Microsoft AI event

Re: Not defending Excel but

Only if excel could actually write out a properly quoted CSV let alone read one in without mangling the data immediately

Chef melts under heat, will 86 future deals with family-separating US immigration agencies

Re: All's well that ends well?

Yeah like all those court cases cropped up as soon some bosnian serb soldiers rounded up men and boys around 1995

UK Supreme Court unprorogues Parliament

Re: Just when you think UK politics can't get any weirder or messier.

Brilliant, however prices are set at silly prices like that to make the shop clerk open the till to account for the transaction because they'll always need to give change

Trump-China trade war latest: Brave patriot Apple decides to do exact same thing, will still make Mac Pro in US

Re: Point of the trade war

Can't they trade it for Mexico, or both countries build some factories around either side of the border creating jobs for your southern compadres and cutting on transport costs in addition to bringing the countries closer together you live on the same piece of rock anyway!

(P.S. I totally stole this idea from the Montezuma Strip)

Scott McNealy gets touchy feely with Trump: Sun cofounder hosts hush-hush reelection fundraiser for President

Re: A little dissapointed

McCarthyism back in fashion I see

"paying $100,000 to attend, with vetted attendees asked to meet at a car park in Palo Alto before being given the address"

Sounds like the sh1ttest illegal rave in history

Just what we all needed, lactose-free 'beer' from northern hipsters – it's the Vegan Sorbet Sour

Depends on the process of producing the alcohol that's what makes it beer. I've a mate who made 52% alc beer, wasn't wiskey as he used the same principle of brewing as beer.

Icon: for the sugar hangover from all that fruit stuff

Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein

Arcane indeed

It took me years to drill the wonders of the right-click in my parent's minds when they had to start using computers (modern ones anyway as mum used to be a programmer for a bit in an era long gone)

Geo-boffins drill into dino-killing asteroid crater, discover extinction involves bad smells, chilly weather, no broadband internet...

Re: Fahrenheit?

Funny as I've not seen a pub serving actual 568ml glasses of beer (maybe it's a millenial thing?)

They'd still gladly charge you almost a fiver in most places (that matter) for an inch of head in a imperialist EU glass with capacity of 500 though.

Mozilla Firefox to begin slow rollout of DNS-over-HTTPS by default at the end of the month

1.1.1.1

I notice 1.1.1.1 sometimes fails to resolve some really basic stuff for random lenghts of time, I wonder if their over-optimisation or whatever snazzy anycast they have in place is not as reliable as they think. I've found quad9 much better and that can already be used in Android for 'private dns' which seems to work, instead of being shown my mobile provider's landing page for content blocked I just get timed out connections - meaning that at least my provider is properly blocking network access to that content rather than just the domain names, which leads me to think what's stopping other content blockers to just work on network level like that. If they know and update what a domain points to and block traffic to those addresses you'd still wont be allowed to connect to the servers no matter how you resolved the domains to those same IPs.