* Posts by rafikiphoto

6 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Aug 2020

Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme

rafikiphoto

Re: More control freak bollocks

"Then issue a credit-card sized summary of the passport's photo page and use that as your proof of age."

Where I live that's called an ID card but the Tories went down that route before, many years ago, Cameron then chickened out even after first adopters like me had paid £30 to have one! Here in Spain it's mandatory for citizens to carry ID. As a third country citizen (UK) I must carry my T.I.E. "aliens" ID or passport.

Britain's Ministry of Defence fined £350K over Afghan interpreter BCC email blunder

rafikiphoto

Government agency fines government agency. We are all fined then reimbursed! Wow. Was nobody fired?

AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10m

rafikiphoto

I guess there will be a huge increase in sales of camouflage pool covers in France!

FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what

rafikiphoto

Yep. MS makes the decision to migrate to Minty much easier than ever. I was doing a fresh install of W11 on my Surface Pro 3 the other day. The first time I was in a Windows environment for a few weeks. I was horrified at all the extraneous stuff and privacy-invasive stuff they hurled at me. As soon as the install was over I plugged in the Mint 20.2 USB and installed it over W11. I now just keep my main machine on dual boot with W10 for my photo editing software and that's it. I boot into mint every morning which is very fast and has a very stable feel to it.

Laptops given to British schools came preloaded with remote-access worm

rafikiphoto

It's always "A small number..." but then usually turns out to be a much larger number.

Putting the d'oh! in Adobe: 'Years of photos' permanently wiped from iPhones, iPads by bad Lightroom app update

rafikiphoto
Facepalm

"I do photography as a hobby so I never saw a need for backing up photos...."

Eh!?