Posts by Beeblebrox

Thunderbird 91 lands: Now native on Apple Silicon, swaps 'master' for 'primary' password, and more

running Windows 7 and hit the update button for Firefox

... and, what about your Thunderbird experience from this effort?

Not a fan? ;-)

Didn't you read Devuan in the post?

... no longer be a "Master Craftsman"?

And just forget about that MSc, MBA, MA or whatever.

Elementary OS 6 Odin released on a 'pay what you want' basis

New users expect at a minimum to have a web browser, email, and an office suite when they first boot

Wimps.

When I was a young 'un, we had to install from floppies (5.25", not any of the new fangled 3.5") ....

no, wait, I mean mag tape, or was it punched cards?

Stone tablets, hewn from the mountain, that's it, I remember now.

Firefox 91 introduces cookie clearing, clutter-free printing, Microsoft single sign-on... so where are all the users?

> constant nagging to use "pocket" How did you manage to get that?

Right click on a link.

In the context menu, between 'save link as' and 'copy link' sits 'save link to pocket'.

I accidentally choose 'save link to pocket' around 5% of the time, and have to cancel.

UX designers

Perhaps if they didn't update the UX they'd be redundant.

Re: This is mine

Is that enough? Six domains?

I tend to go with the pi-hole type approach - i.e. a far larger number of blocked domains, updated automatically, for various devices.

Obviously still need an adblocker in firefox. Doesn't work against lots of mobile ads: avoid apps where possible, and use the browser instead; many apps aren't really necessary.

Seamonkey

I also use Seamonkey in an "open, visit site, close" manner for sites that are too bothersome to fix noscript permissions temporarily for (I try to avoid permanent) on firefox. I have noticed recently that less plugins work on seamonkey (ublock?) which is annoying.

"badgered by Google"

... and repeated "Critical security alert for ... Sign-in attempt was blocked" emails when I use an android phone running k9 mail or fair email to access a gmail account.

Since I popped a new sim into a phone I get this every time the phone leaves a known wifi network and is on the cellular network / other wifi.

Rocky Linux release attracts 80,000 downloads as ex-CentOS users mull choices

AnimalLinux

Unfortunately, throughout this article, I kept reading AlmaLinux as AnimalLinux, now there's no going back for me.

Richard Branson plans to trump Jeff Bezos by 9 days in billionaires' space race

Re: Sigh

Musk

Re: Am I evil ?

Are you short?

Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer

make sure that *similar* bugs get caught

Please do note that non-similar bugs will continue to be undetected under these updated processes as previously.

Would be so cool if everyone normalized these pesky data leaks, says data-leaking Facebook in leaked memo

How to check?

How can I check whether I feature in the leaked data?

I don't have a facebook account, although I'm pretty sure some contacts of mine have, so my details could be there.

Robocall bagmen admit they collected millions of dollars from victims scammed by bogus IRS officials, lenders

Re: Taken for a ride, twice

Mars should be coming online soon as a destination.

What about the First Nation people?

You want me to do WHAT in that prepaid envelope?

Who gives a shit?

"little spoon the German doctors prescribed last month"

Sounds a bit like the kit they sent me here in Oz. I couldn't face using the one I got shortly after turning 50; next time I did bother, it ended up being too messy for my liking.

How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use

Re: The death of Google search

"My reason for googling myself is to make sure I don't appear."

Now you are recorded in their search logs.

Not that hard to search

I just searched for 'pcr' on startpage - first result was wiki, second was a .gov page with somewhat reasonable info.

We'd rather go down in Down Under, says Google: Search biz threatens to quit Australia if forced to pay for news

"stop indexing news sites"

robots.txt?

After 11 years, Australia declares its national broadband network is ‘built and fully operational’

Please do bore us!

"I'll not bore you with the saga of getting my FTTN to be actually usable"

Our FTTN NBN is still usable for the time being; when it was rolled out we almost managed a 50/20 connection; around 2-3 years later we can't quite manage 25/5. Maybe we can soon look forward to 12/1 or whatever comes next.

Adios California, Oracle the latest tech firm to leave California for the wide open (low tax) Lone Star State

Re: improve our employees’ quality of life

I think that was IBM a year or two ago.

Internet Archive to preserve Flash content for posterity with Ruffle emulator

Merry Christmas

https://www2.b3ta.com/merrychristmas/

Works!

Google to end free unlimited online photo, vid storage, will eventually delete files if accounts go over their cap

Re: Another one bites the dust

'I take photo's knowing they will be safe in the future'

What future? The future where your custom is of interest to GOOG, or whoever? Your custom may be deemed to be outside of profit generating business areas, hence obsolete.

Magic! If you have an entry-level iPad, the Combo Touch could make it your workhorse

"Long ago, Perhaps in the jungles of Mexico,"

Should be, shurely:

Long ago, outside a chip shop in Walthamstow.

There, FTFY

Now that's a Finnish-ing move: Finland offers free 90-day tryout of Helsinki tech scene with childcare thrown in

Re: Finland

"restrictive approach to the purchase of alcohol"

Distil at home works quite well.

Nvidia unveils $59 Nvidia Jetson Nano 2GB mini AI board, machine learning that slashes vid-chat data by 90%, and new super for Britain

Re: Automatically constructing and animating your face

"How could that be potentially detrimental in any way?"

Better still, why bother? Live stream from Voyager I may have bandwidth constraints, but there's nothing with a face there.

Red Hat tips its Fedora 33: Beta release introduces Btrfs as default file system, .NET on ARM64, plus an IoT variant

keep the family on Windows

Why punish them?

British Army develops AI shotgun drone with machine vision for indoor use

dynamically compensate for recoil

Surely just firing something with equal momentum in the opposite direction would be easiest - another shotgun pointing backwards (towards your own expendable assets?)

The perils of building a career on YouTube: Guitar teacher's channel nearly deleted after music publisher complains

Re: Capricious abuse of power

"Why should a platform like Youtube not have the right to remove any content posted by users that it wants to remove?"

... exactly. Treat YouTube like any other means for generating publicity for your content, don't rely on it.

Easier done from the beginning: host your content somewhere you control, link to from YouTube (probably entails uploading to them too).

Epic, Spotify, ProtonMail and pals rise up as one against Apple's 30% cut, call for end to Cupertino-style markets

Re: Stairway to Heavenly Profits

Maybe Apple couldn't care less:

You don't need Spotify on your iphone, just use our music app instead.

We've got some games too.

Mail? wtf?

Elecrow CrowPi2: Neat way to get your boffins-to-be hooked on Linux from an early age and tinkering in no time

Re: Storage?

Obviously use the USB ports for the SSD. One can boot the Pi from an SSD.

I wanted to know whether it's possible to accommodate an SSD in the Elecrow CrowPi2 chassis, which seems somewhat spacious, rather than hanging it off the side.

Storage?

Presumably the kits include an SD card; is there space otherwise for an SSD in the chassis?

Russian hacker selling how-to vid on exploiting unsupported Magento installations to skim credit card details for $5,000

Why a video?

Give us clear instructions, and code snippets, with a few relevant images if necessary - we don't want a video!

0ops. 1,OOO-plus parking fine refunds ordered after drivers typed 'O' instead of '0'

Poorly coded app

App should validate input

a) for valid characters - perhaps numeric / alphabetic only allowed in certain positions

b) against vehicle registration database

c) allow input which fails validation only after a warning, so your foreign registered vehicle which may be hard to validate can still buy a ticket.

Vinyl sales top CDs for the first time in decades in America, streaming rules

... weren't using Memorex :-P

No, 'twas a C90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81c1L8SrXcU

Xiaomi what you're working with: Chinese mobe maker starts Android 11 rollout

"reducing the existing fragmentation in the Android sphere."

Ooh goody, I'll just see whether my 7 year old Android phone gets an update.

Unexpected risks of using Apple ID: 'Sign in with Apple' will be blocked for Epic Games

Maybe using those convenient options to sign in is not such a good idea after all.

But by not using one of these convenient options one limits the ability of Apple/Google/Facebook etc to use one's data.

If I don't use this to sign in to Epic, are they going to know how often I use the Epic platform? Will I miss out on some targeted ads?

Remember the Titans: Yubico jangles new NFC and USB-C touting security key

Standardise 2FA

There's no point buying one of these until all the providers one uses (e.g. banks) are required to offer a standards based, non SMS 2FA.

I have a multitude of 2FA devices lying around, a rare few of which are compatible to some degree between providers.

China trolls Trump with tech export rules changes that could imperil TikTok sale

So do we now have Vlad on one side of the US presidential election and Xi on the other?

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

"I removed the metal plate of the disk," said Luuk, "and pushed that in the diskette station."

Sounds to me like Luuk bullied the user - a degree of pleasantry might have sufficed.

Google creates secure file locker for countries where people often share smartphones

Google's penchant for denying access to your Google account

Uh, so someone else has had:

"Sign-in attempt was blocked. Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened."

I thought it was just me (not). Every time my phone (running K9 mail) connects to a wifi hotspot; thunderbird similarly. Makes me want to dump google email; I keep putting it off, but I have no strong attachments to my google email addresses. Must soon realise this laziness costs me more effort.

"Secure" to mask the fact that the whole platform is absolutely criminally unsecure.

insecure?

Wrap it before you tap it? No, say Linux developers: 'GPL condom' for Nvidia driver is laughed out of the kernel

But you get a free sandwich!

Nuh.

Recent BA codeshare MADLHR flight all I got was a cup of water, same as economy; did ask for and get second cup free.

Increased baggage allowance, "priority boarding", however.

Dynabook Portégé X30L-G: So light, you might even forget about its terrible keyboard

Cunts in airports

Let them get on with it - who wants to go through airports anyway these days? Apart from cunts?

World Health Organisation AI chatbot goes deaf when asked for the latest COVID-19 figures for Taiwan, Hong Kong

Re: Why FB?

What about Macau?

I can't be bothered to create an account to answer my own question.

Euro police forces infiltrated encrypted phone biz – and now 'criminal' EncroChat users are being rounded up

The reports also mention pictures

"encryption chips in the photos"

Pics, or it didn't happen.

Sounds like a crap / pricey messaging app anyway. Are all these lawyers and journalists just there to communicate with the criminals, or just because of the integrity of the platform?

I'm considering crossing this off my ways to pass information to WikiLeaks under the circumstances - sorry Jules. Back to writing messages on the back of a fag packet.

US govt: Julian Assange tried to recruit hacker to steal hush-hush dirt and we should know – the hacker was an informant

"Are we the baddies?"

If you don't know who the baddies are, then yes, you're the baddies.

Email innovator Hey extends an olive branch in standoff with Apple, tweaks code to make the iGiant appier

App?

"business where you use your phone to order your coffee but take payment via contact-less credit card."

Isn't that something that could be handled adequately by a website? Then no appstore is involved, so no cut.

To me there seem to be too many things that want one to use an app unnecessarily, when a website will do just fine; I do, however, think email is a worthy exception - I'm prepared to use an app for email that connects to any email provider that supports IMAP, pop3, SMTP, rather than use webmail.

Australian PM says nation under serious state-run 'cyber attack' – Microsoft, Citrix, Telerik UI bugs 'exploited'

amanfrommars movie?

?It is AI¿

!Mooronity Rapport¡

'Verily Mancunian'

Observed from afar.

Smartwatches win the consumer tech sector for Q1 2020 as locked-down folk take up fight against corona-carbs

All I require from a watch

Have you tried a sundial / sextant combo?