Re: Um....
Thanks for adding to my "'European' institutions, that are not part of the EU" list.
Posts by GioCiampa
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Friday 17th January 2025 08:45 GMT 
Did you miss a part of Lina's quote?
Surely it should have been "a perfect opportunity for us to make a fortune selling 'solutions' that won't work as well as we told them it will, but we'll still tell them that it's a pivotal moment in the fight to make the internet a safer place, particularly for children."
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WhatsApp finally fixes View Once flaw that allowed theft of supposedly vanishing pics
Tuesday 10th December 2024 12:49 GMT
I don't know about iOS (I assume something similar exists), but on Android there's a setting the app can utilise to prevent the screen from being captured (be that a still, or a video stream).
Rooted handsets, of course, can be persuaded to ignore said setting - the cat/mouse game then becomes one of the app spotting root, or the module being used...
Not that this stops someone pulling the file directly from the folder in which it is stored before viewing it.
Google offered millions to ally itself with trade body fighting Microsoft
Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate
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Three and Vodafone: We need to merge because our networks are rubbish
Monday 7th October 2024 13:16 GMT
Been a while since I posted this...
Turn the mobile network (masts, bandwidth, etc) into a "national grid" in the same way as electricity or gas is supplied - then allow every telco to access every part of it, and charge them for the amount of data they carry over it.
Two benefits as I see it:
1) Coverage is not (for any given location) dependent on who happened to put up the nearest mast.
2) The telcos will have to compete on cost, or (if more expensive than a competitor) value for money.
NHS drops another billion on tech in the hope of finally going digital
Tuesday 24th September 2024 09:36 GMT
Re: In house...
What... like me? Glad to know my existence pisses off Daily Mail readers...
For the record, I work on an NHS in-house rule-based prescribing system that has, in one form or another, existed since the 90s. It talks happily to other systems using a standard message structure that has its origins even before then, and both have evolved over time as you'd expect.
Is it based on the latest (over-)hyped technology? Of course not, but it works as intended... not that this "minor" detail will prevent the fuckwits on high from pushing some pile of junk on us eventually I'll wager.
Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England
Tenstorrent's Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS
Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard
Google splats device-hijacking exploited-in-the-wild Android kernel bug among others
Wednesday 14th August 2024 10:20 GMT
It is possible to get bank apps to work, despite only achieving the second of the three security levels in Play Integrity (Basic, Device, Strong). Strong Integrity is nigh-on impossible to achieve after you unlock the device at the moment... there are methods to achieve it, but they involve faking a security keystore, and Google are shit-hot at blocking any such keys when they are discovered.
My old Moto (launched with Android 10, and recently updated to Android 14/LineageOS 21) seems to be OK with my bank apps, after much experimentation to get Device Integrity to stick (for the moment), but the one thing that seemingly *requires* Strong Integrity...? The RCS functionality in Google Messages... and I'll wager that the banking apps will go the same way at some point.
Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS
Tuesday 13th August 2024 09:22 GMT
Re: These comments are something I'd have expected to find on Usenet back in the '90s.
Some things never change - although my first (non-test) post over there was a response to a "our beer is better than your beer" comment, but that's much the same concept.
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.beer/c/dgjOPgQfyjo/m/eR8iiI0jJtcJ
Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union
Thursday 11th July 2024 09:28 GMT
(One Google later...)
"The UK law is based on the EU standard, with some minor changes. A speedo must never show less than the actual speed, and must never show more than 110% of actual speed + 6.25mph. So if your true speed is 40mph, your speedo could legally be reading up to 50.25mph but never less than 40mph."
(My car reads about 5% high, compared to GPS)
AMD predicts future AI PCs will run 30B parameter models at 100 tokens per second
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Hubble plays spin the bottle with last few gyros
Tuesday 4th June 2024 16:38 GMT
Re: Another refurb mission?
Paying for a mission is one thing (and NASA would happily have someone else save them millions of dollars to achieve a positive end result), but having the expertise to actually achieve it is another thing entirely.
"SpaceX have yet to perform a spacewalk from one of their capsules, and have only just developed its spacewalking suits, so NASA has no history on which to base future predictions of success." (paraphrasing Andrew Feustel, who performed three spacewalks to refurbish Hubble in 2009, and part of the NASA feasibility study team).
So, never say never, but it's not something that's going to happen any time soon.
Apple unveils M4 chip with neural engine capable of 38 TOPS, and some other kit
Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls'
Friday 26th April 2024 08:55 GMT
Re: "rogue insider"
Nothing new there...
Back in the day, I worked for a company that developed photos for Truprint (amongst others), and films with "interesting" photos were regularly being reprinted if spotted early enough in the process (usually by those operating the development machines letting someone in the printroom know what batch/film numbers to look out for). Legend had it there were multiple lockers in one of the corridors that were full of the stuff...
I'd love to know what modern-day GDPR sensibilities would have made of the fact that (during a period where my job was to ensure the printed output matched the negatives) I would, alongside the "holiday photos", also see photos processed for the police (crime scenes) or medics (including close-up gynaecological) - sometimes both (one specific case of a man with a rather large hole where part of his skull ought to have been comes to mind). I imagine that in this digital age that wouldn't happen, but I was surprised that it happened even then.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
