Posts by Tom Chiverton 1

Re: Better than real

ITYM better than life

Enshitification isn't a new thing

Re: Greenpeace is irrelevant and so is carbon dioxide

Say climate change is a lie. We do these things anyway, and end up with cleaner air and cheaper power.

Oh, they can, and are incentivesed too. Enshitification

Nah, JWT has solved the problem of one site passing it's attested claims to another.

Re: Those wheels

Where it's going, we don't need roads

Re: Chrome

You know it's on Channel 4 too, for free, right?

Re: Hands

Zen offer a simple "price for life" ...

Re: How about Theorium

And when it escapes the sandbox and ransoms the host ?

Re: I keep thinking

> generate a unique ID for each system

If ads shown depend on this, I can deduce if the key is one I've seen before by which ads are loaded. Congrats, you've invented a way to remove anonymity from the web. Tsk.

Re: A better alternative

You can easily do that with a solar sail and some patience.

Even putting it in one of the Lagrange points would be better than reentry

Re: Add random delay to error responses ?

Doesn't work because the random jitter all cancels out over enough tests

Re: NATS crashed.

Your error log fails to include relevant information, like the batch or plan number. Maybe much like the real code :-)

Re: Double keying..

Helps with a 'hostile environment' if your case never gets processed...

Re: sudo apt install slrn

Ahh, rast.b5... Happy times and drinking ...

Re: Good timing for me?

Or invest in your (and the world's) future with a frame.work ?

Re: Citation please ?

Most people didn't vote in the referendum ergo most people were happy to stay in Europe

Foof! I hope not...

Re: Dystopian

Don't tie it to a card with funds in it

Re: Too powerful ?

Much like laptops, mobile's became good enough for most people, almost all done the time, years ago.

I don't know anyone who upgrades for any reason other than breakage anymore

So their handling finance on a known insecure O/S ? Don't think that is as clever as you think

Tried to access mine yesterday. No 2FA SMS arrived. Navigated their god awful fake-person voice not-recognition IVR phone system, and got to a person after a long wait.

My phone number is wrong. They never asked me to confirm it was right or wrong before enabling 2FA.

Their fix ? Fill in a form on the website and wait for some dead tree to arrive in the post.

Re: Why is this news?

Now in it's second season and easily the best thing BBC have out right now

Re: Pulic money : public code

You could do a lot with 1k per user !

Re: Snap Is Crap

There's a bug about 4 years old for Snap not sharing /tmp for instance.

Re: A grade hacking

Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?

Re: Lets start by making all UK politician's calls and messages public.

> Nothing to hide, nothing to fear?

Please, we all have curtains; don't trot this out.

Privacy means being able to choose the audience, timing and manner of revealing something, or choosing to keep it secret forever.

HT Cory Doctorow

Artemis' job is to keep people employed, not to be useful.

Re: Firefox

Perfectly, yesterday, including sharing another browser window to the call.

Nope, read the write up on the android issue. The file open mode was changed from implicit truncate on write to explicit, thus foot gunning all the clients.

Re: 6 years?!

After an 8 month trial! What the hell was the defence?!

Re: Patent?

Not anymore in the US

Re: As a world spanning corporation...

Maybe it was just you :)

Re: there is still no official OneDrive client for the open source OS.

Nextcloud

Re: Am I being Dense?

Oddly, they've thought of that, and it's even quoted in the article. They only mess with a-zA-Z.

Re: What does this mean?

Sounds like it

Re: Work bomb scare

That was me (or my wife in the next door building) during the early 2000's AICM5UKP