Posts by No Relation

Thank the bots, your blue check is back on X

It's funny how right-wingers often seem to be the first snowflakes to melt.

In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem

Nope, utilise isn't the same as use, and it annoys me too. I'd say it's a dick move to be so certain about something as to correct someone yourself without even checking if you're right.

Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years

Re: @Hubert Cumberdale

Maybe it's because of the inherently flawed dualism in the idea that there are "criminals" and "good guys with guns" and its possible to tell them apart.

Data transfers between the EU and the US: Still unclear on what you're supposed to do? Here's an explainer

Re: Pointless

All of which, of course, ignores just how ludicrous it is to make such a major decision based on a very slim majority. The original (1975) referendum was won by a 2/3rds majority.

If there were 50 people at a party in my house wanting pizza and 26 of them (god forbid) wanted pineapple on it, that wouldn't be a reason for me to just order 50 pineapple-based pizzas and sod the 24 who hated it. Compromise is a thing, not that the present government seems to be aware of that.

Their all-or-nothing approach has left a huge number of people picking off pineapple while the rest dance around pointing and shouting about how stupid it is not to like pineapple on a pizza and we should just get over it because we're in the minority. Whichever side you're on, if you think that bears any resemblance to fair democracy, then you should be made to eat turd-based pizza for every meal for the rest of your life.

God bless this mess: Study says UK's Christian beliefs had 'important' role in Brexit

Re: AKA: People

Sounds to me like the stages are actually quite different, and you're going though the stages of being a tool. It may even be terminal.

Apple emits patches for iOS, macOS, Safari, etc to stop dodgy websites hijacking people's gadgets

Re: But... but...

Okay, first, your definition of 'virus' is iffy:

https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/security-awareness/ransomware/malware-vs-viruses.html

Second, Macs do get them. See these three previous articles, for example:

https://www.theregister.com/2008/12/02/apple_mac_av_advice/

https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/11/mac_malware_growing_malwarebytes/

https://www.theregister.com/2015/08/04/thunderstrike_2_blackhat_vulnerability/