* Posts by Blackjack

1906 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jun 2019

All I want for Christmas is a delivery address that a delivery courier can find

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All I am saying is, there is a reason I painted my house green.

Ad-blocking browser extension actually adds ads, say Imperva researchers

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Re: TFTFY

The Lynx web browser still lives, last updated last year and been around since 1992.

Acer expands its antimicrobial PC offerings – with caveat they may not offer any protection

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Re: Only the strong survive

And then the condom ends in tne sea and becomes part of the 1/3 of a microsoft branded mouse recycled plastic.

Amazon India accused of copying merchant products and juicing search results to sell its own knockoffs

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So basically the same thing Amazon USA does?

Oh my, Grandma, what a big meteorite you have right there on your pillow under that hole in the roof

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At least it was not a turtle being thrown by an eagle.

Want to support Firefox? Great, you'll have no problem with personalised, sponsored search suggestions then

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It should be in clear view, how many times a day you use the "about" thing?

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Honesty while I am poor I would have prefered a donate button.

There is a reason I am using Icecat and Iceraven and is because default Firefox had been getting worse over the years.

BOFH: You. Wouldn't. Put. A. Test. Machine. Into. Production. Without. Telling. Us.

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It doesn't matter if the trial takes a decade, with that kind of reputation no one would everr4 hire him again.

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Oh no, that would be getting him easy.

After all he not only lied to the BOFH but to the company.

Meaning they can get him in legal trouble and sue him to death.

And then he will jump out himself.

Air gaps have been 'shattered’, says new Indian policy on power sector security

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I have an idea, why not take things that actually didn't use to need Internet to work, like toasters, and make it so they can work perfectly fine offline?

Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps

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Only because something free like most Linux distros is not competition.

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"Research showed people wanted a cleaner and simpler Start, and that since so many people have smartphones, design paradigms from those devices could successfully carry over into a new Start – being able to pan different pages with touch, for instance."

Change phones for tablets and is almost the same freaking argument they used for Windows 8.

Microsoft's problem child, Windows 11, is here. Will you run it? Can you run it? Do you even WANT to run it?

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I don't even run Windows 10 but then again I do not have a job that forces me to use Windows like a lot of people does.

Microsoft's .NET Foundation under fire as resigning board member questions its role

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Python is not that hard or so I have heard.

US school districts blame Amazon for nationwide bus driver shortage

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Re: Uhh...

Amazon fires you using AI and an App, sure the pay may be better, but the work itself is worse.

Cheeky chappy rides horse around London filling station, singing: 'I don't need petrol 'cos he runs on carrots'

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Re: "He runs on carrots"

And once the carrots come from the other side, he either picks ups the "waste" himself or he will get arrested.

Horses do not need to do like bears, they need no woods, they leave their waste everywhere.

Internet Archive's 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist

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Re: "Google was a word in a dictionary not many people had heard of"

Of course not many people had heard the word, it was in a diccionary that misprinted "Googol".

For the nth time, China bans cryptocurrencies

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Re: If only I hadn’t seen through the 2009 con

Back in 2009 I still used Dial Up so I couldn't have got into it even if I wanted to.

Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams

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Re: Sad

Yeah, people is so lazy nowadays.

Someone I know of passed the computer class in high school due to cheating; and it was using the completely unsecured computer classroom local Ethernet.

In other words that someone copied the answers and work from other people because it was in the early 2000s and Windows 98/Windows 98 SE was still in use.

Airbus to help build Mexican Moon-mining automata

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Re: What resources on the moon ...

Also not sure if exploiting the moon minerals is even legal. The USA got there first and are willing to let others; like China go and take samples.

But who owns the moon anyway? Who can give the digging permits?

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah, it's just Windows suffering from a bit of vertigo

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Ubuntu LTS has like ten years nowadays, right?

So I’ve scripted a life-saving routine. Pah. What really matters is the icon I give it

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Eh, I would just make a switch that I can push with my foot that turns my Internet connection off. Crappy Internet has become quite common during lockdown.

You walk in with a plan. You leave with GPS-tracking Nordic hiking poles. The same old story, eh?

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I have two shopping styles, one when I go to the close Supermarket, a place I don't like, were I shop at the speed of "I need to use the toilet soon" and the other when I go to the supermarket I like , but that is freaking far away, were I take a long time looking to see if there is something in discount I may want because is really far away and I don't go there a lot

BOFH: You'll find there's a company asset tag right here, underneath the monstrously heavy arcade machine

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I am quite sure about a third of the readers would have fixed the Arcade machine or at least replaced it by a M.A.M.E cabinet, only it still takes money. Those lunch breaks are so long... and why play a freemium game full of ads in your phone when you can waste ten dollars for 15 minutes playing an Arcade game? After all we have to find a way for people to go back to the office... and it takes less space that a pool table!

Even better, make the thing a Coffee maker too. Play Tetris and get an expresso for the same price!

Microsoft does and doesn't require VMs to meet hardware requirements for Windows 11

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Hi, it looks you want me to keep using Windows 10, do you want help with that?

Apple, Google yank opposition voting strategy app from Russian software stores

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Living to the old Soviet standards it seems.

ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested

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Every VPN spies on you even those that say that don't. The business is in selling data not on the VPN service itself.

Lenovo pops up tips on its tablets. And by tips, Lenovo means: Unacceptable ads

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You could write a whole book with examples of Lenovo doing this in any of the things they sell.

Children of China, your state-sanctioned hour of gaming begins … now!

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So... Chinese kids will just do a lot of offline gaming instead?

Don't get me wrong, online gaming can be quite toxic but as someone who got hours of fun everyday from Animal Crossing on the DS for over a year, I can tell you that a game doesn't need to be online to make you expend a lot of time on it.

IBM sued again by its own sales staff: IT giant accused of going back on commission payments promise

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So... why are people still working for IBM?

Is that hard to get a new job?

When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers

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I have a box were I put any loose screws, nuts and bolts, once in a while I find use for them.

Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain

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All you need is ice-cream, milk and a blender. If is too cold for you just wait a few minutes for the milkshake to warm up a bit.

Sure you can add other stuff, if you want, but for me that ruins the flavour.

Playdate handheld game system torn to pieces, crank and all

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I still have my Gameboy but the screen is so scratched with use that's almost useless unless you play something slow paced like a RPG and even then you kind of have to guess what's on the screen. Thankfully I got a Gameboy Pocket that works just fine.

Live, die, copy-paste, repeat: Everything is recycled now, including ideas

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[It's the only way I can explain the rise, fall, rise, fall and rise again of handheld gaming consoles]

Nintendo never ever had a fall with them.

Since the Game & Watch to the Switch and Switch Lite; they have been making a lot of money out of them. Sure sometimes their sales slowed but then something, be it Pokemon for the original Gameboy, a price drop for the 3DS, make them rise like the Phoenix and make a lot of money.

In fact handheld gaming consoles is the one thing that Nintendo always good at and keeps giving them money.

The losers are the companies not named Nintendo.

Elevating bork to a new level (if the touchscreen worked)

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Honesty if there is one thing you DO NOT WANT to depend on an Internet connection to work in an elevator.

Internet Explorer 3.0 turns 25. One of its devs recalls how it ended marriages – and launched amazing careers

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Netscape installer had the bad habit on installing too much junk, like Winamp. That sure everyone liked Winamp back then but people wanted just a web browser.

Dallas cops lost 8TB of criminal case data during bungled migration, says the DA... four months later

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How expensive would be to have offline data in microfilm like some libraries do with newspaper archives?

BOFH: 'What's an NFT?' the Boss asks. In this case, 'not financially thoughtful'

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Re: I swear ...

The Rombas have never been the same since that last software update. The good news is that if you shit yourself they will get distracted and smear the shit everywhere so you have time to escape.

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Okay; does the BOFH want to deal with the accounting apartment ninjas again? Because all those fires are increasing the office insurance premiums.

And he is out of shinny hardware to bribe them with, the Windows 11 scam can't be done yet due to all Covid prep money wasted.

Chocolate beer barred from sale after child mistakes it for chocolate milk

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Usually vainilla, cream and chocolate. Other flavours may work.

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If you want something sweet with your drink just make a Don Pedro, that's ice-cream with Whisky.

Q: Post-lockdown, where would I like to go? A: As far away from my own head as possible

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You could visit the Valley of the Moon in Argentina... When traveling is possible of course.

Your Computer Is On Fire, but it will take much more than this book to put it out

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The solution is the same one that is applied to each "new thing" regulation and rules.

Implementation however is half the battle.

The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too

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Re: Maybe Windows 3.1 was a sweet spot?

I have over a dozen Windows 3 1 programs abd games that will only run on a VM but don't on Wine or Windows 7.

Splunk spots malware targeting Windows Server on AWS to mine Monero

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Since Monero keeps being used for stuff like this, how about banning it?

Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns

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Apple: We care about your privacy that's why we made Facebook and all those people whose revenue depends on tracking you angry.

Also

Apple: We will scan your photos, but is to look for banned content like people that abuse children. Do not worry, there is absolutely no way your photos that do not have anything that's banned content will be leaked and used against you.

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If this doesn't make people stop using Iphones... then what?