Re: "It was backed by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap"
And there I was thinking that your "Hyah!" was a response to the reference to "Minimum wage"... you did listen to the whole album, right...? ;)
Posts by CB__
19 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jan 2020
As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options
Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits
Sunday 21st December 2025 18:31 GMT
As pretty much everyone else has said, this article conflates "the internet" and "social media".
Young people have never experienced life without the internet, so if they were no longer able to use Apple/Google Pay, play network games, obtain an internet connection (usually wi-fi, sometimes mobile data, ever so occasionally ethernet) in any given location etc, they would soon cry foul. My teenage kids complain if they have to wait even a few seconds for such services to become available.
So they're not talking about the cables that enable/connect of all these services ("the internet"); they are talking about specific end-user applications - you know the ones. Many of these young people possibly don't even realise that "the internet" facilitates most of the day-to-day interactions which they now take for granted.
(I also agree with the poster who quoted a doctor as saying that young people themselves conflate "mental health" and "happiness". Life is stressful - deal with it.)
Meta's value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money
Thursday 25th April 2024 22:16 GMT
Re: "investors are unwilling to wait too long"
"people pouring money into Meta (and all the other new shiny tech stocks)"
-- very much reminds me of the heady days leading up to the millennium, when "people" were pouring obscene amounts of money into anything that had a ".com" at the end, with crazy pound signs in their eyes.
I wouldn't say that it all ended badly (although a lot of the sillier things did) -- but there was a > 5 yr dip before the more sensible stuff actually became viable/profitable. So like most good investments, it's definitely not for the short term -- and some due diligence on whether it's "sensible" would also be... er, sensible.
Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF
Tuesday 25th October 2022 17:52 GMT 
Is this a joke article?
Wrong side of the year, but is this a joke article? Or is Rupert Goodwins actually the work experience kid who's only ever viewed content on YouTube with the obligatory coloured subtitles and backing track? As so many other commentards have said, PDF is a great standard for ensuring that documents are viewed as they were meant to be viewed, and this article is just self-defeating in every way!
The Metaverse is the internet no one wants
Friday 14th October 2022 17:25 GMT
Completely appreciate DLSmith's comment, but imho the whole look and feel of a website shouldn't need to be compromised in order to satisfy the affected few -- as noted, there are built-in browser tools these days to improve accessibility, and the considerate website designer may also add such features by choice.
We could make everything black and white, but without meaning to sound inconsiderate, that's not much fun for everyone else.
Left-wing campaign group throws weight behind BT strikes
Wednesday 31st August 2022 20:33 GMT
I think I can tell which of Disgusted vs Boris are in the private vs public sector. Boris: an employment contract will dictate which days you work and how much holiday you'll get per year -- you get to choose whether you agree to that contract, or to negotiate it if you don't like what's being offered. Similarly, employment rights, and health and safety, have long since been statutory (written into law). I don't agree with exploitation in any form, but too many public sector workers expect the world on a plate, and don't realise that most of us in the private sector are not fat cat execs, but hard working folk. Those of us who are small business owners regularly work 60+ hour weeks trying to make a success of our ventures with very little help from the government, maintaining a payroll for our staff, and end up take home less per month than you do. So please do bear that in mind.
Former Microsoft UX boss doesn't like the Windows 11 Start menu either
Decisions on health data sharing should not be taken by politicians, citizen juries find
Wednesday 31st August 2022 19:49 GMT
I'm afraid it's endemic in the NHS these days, and if they don't get it to work this time, then they'll try a different way, again. Anyone remember care.data from a few years back? They'll get our health data eventually, whether we like it or not, and whether it's legal or not. The best thing you can do is to tackle it from a different angle -- buy your cakes and booze with cash, and don't use your Nectar/Tesco card when you do it ;)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
