Posts by Dan 55

Re: Nobody's going to use it

People really are leaving Xitter apart from sports fans who maybe are just using it like RSS?

Re: What happened to Carbon?

This Rust project and Carbon both aim to bridge with C/C++ code and not require you to throw everything out and rewrite. Even if Google did want to hedge their bets, the fact that nobody trusts them to not kill projects and they've just thrown money at Rust means that nobody's going to want to spend time learning Carbon, making it's death a self-fullfilling prophecy.

Re: Trivia Question

720KiB * 2 = 1440KiB / 1000 = 1.44 "M"

Neither MB nor MiB. Obviously someone in marketing.

Re: It figures

And it's not as if they're not going to need cached data, they do need so they can actually offer search results... so they're just hiding it.

Re: I told you guys

I've just checked the original developer's biography - he moved to Germany when he was 11 and Mastodon is now a German non-profit. Your Red Scare dial needs adjustment.

Re: It’s not just C-Suite

All EU cookie banners did was make tracking more visible. Some people find clicking no (or yes) annoying, others find the tracking annoying. Personally I'm in the latter camp. There's no need for them if the website just uses first-party session cookies, but it seems sharing or selling data is too difficult for most websites to give up.

Surely the blame has to be placed at the door of the shrinkwrapped EULA which apparently allows any and all consumer rights to be overridden in the US and has a long ignoble tradition stretching back decades. Your only recourse is to not use the software.

Fast forward to today and now you find your software updates, your EULA is changed, and even if you were to click no your codebase is probably already uploaded and is now training data for an LLM under the expectation that you would have clicked yes anyway.

JetBrains of all companies should know about developer resistance to this bullshit, but it seems they're all drinking the same kool-aid. It's not the questions which are the problem, it's the entire industry collectively jumping on the same fucking bandwagon.

Re: Oh my

In other news World's Smallest Violin was not released by Universal.

Re: Does old Cory know what he's talking about?

Napster died because their business model was to steal other peoples' stuff and... Profit

So their problem was they were the one of the first and weren't big enough to survive the legal onslaught.

Re: I am Ignorant.

If userland expects unique inodes per filesystem, that's what it should get, shouldn't it? After all, isn't one of Linus' golden rules "we do not break user-space"?

Off the top of my head, find and tar need unique inodes.

It's all worth it for the blue chat bubbles, apparently.

Re: The Law Has No Teeth

This is Apple's proposal even though they've announced it as if it's a done thing, the EU still has to okay it and presumably they won't as it makes a mockery of the DMA and makes the whole exercise pointless.

I would say any course, CS, IT, or Software Engineering which does not cover the security of data in transit and data at rest is lacking a key part of what should be taught in the curriculum. We can't have graduates being told to put things on the internet or without any clue how to do it, or at least any clue about which questions they should be asking.

Re: This was a 101 how not to do a conference call

Tesla is stuck with really just two volume models, the '3' and 'Y'. Everything else is just window dressing.

I read somewhere that the Roadster and the S3XY models are pre-Musk era designs from before he got his grubby hands stuck into Tesla. Now we're on models designed by him and his yes men and we've got things like the Semi and Cybertruck.

Not sure if it's true or not, but it sounds about right.

Re: Mac User Interface Guidelines, the Ribbon Interface, and Changes to Interfaces

The ribbon interface is now on most kinds of Windows software. Pull down menus are gone for the most part. Money needs to be made by companies!

Now you can disable the ribbon on Office 365 so MS can make more money by renting you the thing they originally took away from you in the first place.

This option is not on Office 2021 though. Again, to make more money pushing you towards the rented version.

Re: Amazed that FF isn't used more

Install the Text Reflow WE addon.

Re: Correction for UK readers

Courts waved through warrants to forcefit prepayment meters

Courts waved through applications by energy firms to forcibly install prepayment meters in people's homes, according to internal advice from a top magistrate leaked to the BBC.

Previous guidelines required careful scrutiny of warrant applications, but new advice to courts deems those rules "disproportionate".

I hope we're all reminded of the law being changed in 1999 to assume that all computers and computer software operate correctly unless proven otherwise by the defence and the consequential shitshow that was the Post Office's Horizon and the effect that had on people's lives.

By the way, there was talk of social energy tariffs as used in other countries but that's been quietly dropped:

Social energy tariff plan that would have slashed bills 'quietly scrapped' by Government

Can we spot a theme about who the justice system is serving?

Re: @Kev99

Cars for steering assistance and even parking for you.

Tesla Vision Parking update (no parking sensors) does it work yet?

This title follows Betterage's law of headlines.

Perhaps he said tyre because wheel was too horrible to contemplate at that moment.

Re: What does CAMC run on

IIS doesn't run on Linux, so either it's running on IIS/Windows or it's running on something/Linux. Hopefully the second.

Re: HoloLens was successful?

And if El Reg was more interested in historical accuracy than erasing Apple’s achievements, the QuickTime VR panorama would have rightly been praised as paving the way for Google Street View.

Nope, that was Domesday.