Posts by Tim Chuma

Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN

VPNs being advertised on a falsehood

For some reason VPNs advertise that you can use them on streaming services but whenever I try they are blocked! I don't know how they are allowed to advertise a feature that does not actually work!

If you can't use AI then it's bye bye, Accenture tells staff

Customers hate the robot's guts

When you listen back to calls you can hear people just getting more and more angry at the IVR.

As soon as an actual person comes on call they usually calm down. People can actually solve things and not just follow a script. I know Centrelink Australia uses its AI to hang up the call as soon as possible. Every single option tries to get you to end the call.

After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'

I learned this working on my own site

Take a snapshot backup and then make changes. You can always rollback if it breaks things.

Also my webhost being 11hrs behind in the UK means I have often solved this issue myself by the time they get back to me!

My own website may not look too flash but after 22 years I am used to it and it is a backup as I have seen platforms rise and fall.

Commodore Amiga turns 40, headlines UK exhibition

Still being used in TV until recently

I believe RMIT and channel 31 in Melbourne still used Amiga software for video stuff until quite recently.

The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

Yeah sure, are you going to rewrite all the APIs?

LOL NO.

Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers

No alrogithm

A bit too easy for one person to take over your entire feed. Social media landscape now feels fractured. It is only the journalists who complain about Twitter/X going away as it means they have to do actual work and not just embed a tweet or take a screenshot.

X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety

The FIND OUT phase commences

The legal resources of the record company and Taylor Swift plus the Swifties finally made this clown take notice.

ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned

Still have the CRASH and ZZAP annuals to read

There are still new games being made for the Spectrum and C64. I generally only get the annuals as I am not in the UK but the magazines release bi-monthly.

Website maker Wix embarks on weird WordPress-trashing campaign, sends 'influencer' users headphones from 'WP'

WordPress can trash its own reputation thank you very much

It is 100% possible to be totally up to date with Wordpress and still get your site hacked. I did not believe my site was redirecting until I saw Google logs saying it was bringing up posts for "gay amputee porn" I didn't remember writing those articles. Had to install Wordfence.

Australian ponders requiring multiple IDs to sign up for social media, plus more crypto-busting backdoors

Yeah nah

I threw myGovID in the bin as the app wanted me to use my FACE to move the cursor around on screen, FAIL.

A government MP has been pinged for setting up 30+ face Facebook community pages to harass people so this is merely a distraction from people spoofing on desks in parliament house and such.