Posts by Dan 55

Re: Only yesterday I wrote:

Also I would question the value of ISO27001 if it can be negated in moment by a 3rd parties actions.

And by 1st party actions. Some corps are going all into cloud, but the CxO's won't be there when the shit hits the fan.

Re: High Speed rail

As with the water companies, it's trickle up economics.

Re: the cuts will range across engineering, product, talent, and finance teams

No need for any talent in management.

Re: “turn off features that you aren't using”?

You could get an iPhone.

I could but I have more sense than money...

The fake IP address is really proxying stuff through Apple. I'd rather not.

Also none of what you said helps if your SMS client or other chat app downloads links given in SMS messages just to render a title and a postage-sized stamp web page.

Apart from possibly "lockdown" mode (I don't know) but that sounds like "Oh crap, we've just realised that a whole bunch of stuff we've done for ages is wrong, how do we get rid of it? I know, put it all under one toggle setting and let the user decide. That way it's not our fault any more."

Maybe not as ready as you think, watch out for tricksy endianness.

Re: So what was the passive solution?

You really need a heat sink stuck on top of the CPU, at least.

Re: A Poor Craftsman Blames His Tools

On the date and time formats.

Re: Whateve

The 2018 UK accessibility website law only applies to public sector bodies. The EU Web Accessibility Directive doesn't apply in the UK thanks to Brexit but if any company has a web presence which sells goods and services in the EU/EEA market then they will need to meet the same standards by 2025 anyway.

Only because he redefined the meaning of "extremely naughty/bad" and thought himself very clever.

Re: I see a LOT of software developers

That's a distribution restriction, not allowed under the GPL.

Ot so we were reliably informed after the RH saga.

Re: £108k

There's also the culture and work ethic - look at the problems TSMC are having in Texas, where Americans won't work hard enough apparently, yet it's a fact Americans work longer and harder than Brits. Could you imagine how TSMC would cope with the likely workforce in say Grantham, Kilmarnock, or Warrington.

I would bet it's more down to not being able to find local people with the skills which, as the US is not a great chip manufacturer any more, is unsurprising. The solution as always is for employees who do have the skills to work longer.

So if they were to rock up in Grantham there is no amount of employee overtime that could get them out of that pickle.

Re: ASPI

The survey was a surveillance propaganda exercise, the article was just a useful idiot in the wider privacy debate.

because he believes that the rule of law – and spread of civil society – follows the tech industry

Just look how well we're doing in the West (Europe + North America) after a decade and a half of big social media and disruptive tech...

A lot of bother could be avoided with the right build environment - all the warnings are errors unless for a very good reason, all the sanitisers on, as many static analysers as you can find.

Re: A cancel request?

This sounds like a feature created by an overly eager intern.

Well HTTP/2 is based on Google's SPDY so the only thing they really thought about was how fast they can serve adverts.

Re: Hanging on as long as possible.

rounded window corners which is a huge productivity boost because you can visually tell wherre one window ends and another begins. This alone is enough to make it almost as good as windows 7

It's almost as if making everything flat slabs of indistinguishable colour was a mistake but it's still too early to go back to a 3D look with colour hints as they'd lose face so they found another way almost as good which was copying Apple.

Re: nxworld

For some reason it wasn't too easy find, I couldn't find the file but it was referenced in a commit. I also stumbled upon a reference in the same commit to the big brother of the cut-down Nano-X build in Elks:

Nano-X AKA Microwindows: Github, Website.

It's a windowing system for small devices with three different APIs based on Win32, X11, and Xlib.

Re: Why, $deity, why?!?!

Dynamic typing is probably the last thing you need on a microcontroller. And of course it's JavaScript where 2 + 5 can be 25 and 2 - 5 is -3.

if you’re expected to produce a docx instead of a pdf, you can only guarantee uniformity if you put up with Word

But not uniformity between different versions of Word.

Re: My only question is WHY?

What the fuck major disaster could possibly occur which would require a national broadcast to EVERYTHING?

In case of in case of alien invasion, Will Smith would have got out of bed and kicked alien butt earlier if he had a phone with emergency alerts.

Re: Confusing naming?

This appear to have got worse over the last decade, it actually makes me miss the Microsoft of old.

I'm sure Lineage could spin up a version for Jamboard but they'd need time, and they're having enough trouble keeping up with e-waste being churned out by multinationals as it is.

Re: Kept for competition reasons

The real deal is Google will fund Mozilla to claim there's competition, but nobble Firefox on their own web properties to push people to Chrome where they're busy building in more and more tracking features (Google login, "privacy" sandbox, web attestation...).

Re: Would love to upgrade my RPi 400.

I don't see why they couldn't sell a bare motherboard which fits in the 400's case, apart from perhaps not wanting to have too many SKUs.