According to the tweet, "Mais si vous utilisez le Backup FTP #OVH, vos sauvegardes sont dans un autre datacenter." Which seems relevant to the discussion.
Posts by Brewster's Angle Grinder
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OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable
So it appears some of you really don't want us to use the word 'hacker' when we really mean 'criminal'
Name True, iCloud access false: Exceptional problem locks online storage account, stumps Apple customer service
GPS jamming around Cyprus gives our air traffic controllers a headache, says Eurocontrol
'Incorrect software parameter' sends Formula E's Edoardo Mortara to hospital: Brakes' fail-safe system failed
"Except when the braking software fails and they headbutt a wall."
You're equating "safe" with "not crashing". That's not what it means. "Safe" means that when the car headbutts the wall or becomes involved in any of those other "incidents" that can happen in motor racing, the driver gets out and walks away.
Apple, forced to rate product repair potential in France, gives itself modest marks
Splunk junks 'hanging' processes, suggests you don't 'hit' a key: More peaceful words now preferred in docs
Google looks at bypass in Chromium's ASLR security defense, throws hands up, won't patch garbage issue
"Coincidentally, the WontFix bug also turns out to be a WontPay bug: Google's Vulnerability Reward Program reviewed it and decided not to offer any reward."
That's just stingy, isn't it? Fair enough, going forward, once you've made it policy not to pay for ASLR escapes, but it's as mean as HP to refuse to cough up because you're retrospectively marking a mechanism as defunct.
Qualcomm under fire for 'anticompetitive' patent shenanigans causing pricey UK smartphones
SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities
Facebook and Australia do a deal: The Social Network™ will restore news down under and even start paying for it
Big Bash...
As an outsider, it sounds like Facebook won. Splashing around some cash is the cost of running a successful international monopoly. But when some backwater government took the piss, Facebook reminded them who had the real power, and the locals backed down and modified their request to fit the line in Facebook's accounts.
The perils of non-disclosure? China 'cloned and used' NSA zero-day exploit for years before it was made public
Re: failure to take long view
"A 50,000 line program, a good developer has a reasonable chance of staying on top of threats."
And bugs appears as soon as 50-kloc programs start interacting with each other. If you have 10 then there are up to 10! (~3 million) potential interactions. The only difference between your approach and having a larger program broken into strong, orthogonal modules is semantics. If it takes half a million lines of code to solve a problem, then it going to take half a million lines whether you write it as 1 or 10 programs.
House Republicans introduce legislation for outright ban on municipal broadband in the US
VS Code acknowledges its elders: Makefile projects get an official extension – and VIM mode is on the backlog
Re: Key collisions - forced decisions
" If it was all you vi users would be touch typists. I know a lot of devs, I can't think of any others who can."
Touch typing doesn't work for `(::x->*d)()` and the innumerable other squiggles languages insist on. It's also handicapped by dodgy autoinsert implementations.
Yes, I grew up on an 84-key keyboard
The arrow keys, page up, page down, etc... are all their on the numeric keypad. You don't need them - unless some app insists on being pissy. (RESPECT THE NUMLOCK!) Get rid of them and there is space for the function keys down the side where the left hand can curl over. But, to be honest, I wouldn't care even if my keyboard was wider still.
Actually, it's Alt+2 in my editor, and has been since at least the 90s, because duplicating the current line is such a useful feature.
One of the things I still lament is the decision to move function keys to the top of the keyboard, rather than keeping them down the left hand side. Up there, they're out of easy reach and that restricts them to less frequent bindings.
Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan
What this shows is that Google isn't quite as irreplaceable as Facebook. I think Microsoft's Brad Smith was saying Bing would be happy to take up the slack, if Google walked away from the market. And there's probably truth in that - another search engine could be found. Block Facebook and there is nobody in the wings. And, as Facebook has shown, it doesn't depend that seriously on news; whereas Google failing to return news would be a much bigger dent in the service's functionality, and perhaps an existential threat to the Chocolate Factory.
FortressIQ just comes out and says it: To really understand business processes, feed your staff's screen activity to an AI
President Biden to issue executive order on chip shortages as under-pressure silicon world begs for help
Trickle down my arse.
I was about to have the same rant. The free market fundamentalists are classic bullies. When they're doing well, everybody should stand on their own laurels and government should be as small as possible.
But as soon things get tough, they're straight to government crying, "Pay for our R&D; subsidise our factories. It'll create jobs for all those people we've told you not to look after and who we said we'd create jobs for if you just cut our taxes (although, in reality, we used the cash to fund a share buyback so our directors' options became more valuable). BTW, did we say that last bit out loud?"
Popular open-source library SDL moving development to GitHub despite 'calamitous design choices' in git
War on Section 230 begins in earnest as Dem senators look to limit legal immunity for social networks, websites etc
Wrong analogy
Social media is a tool. We can point at the harm. But we can also find good - for example, a woman tweeting a picture of a school meal provided by a business that's pocketed half the payment. In fact, the whole campaign Rashford has run.
Even the harm is dependent on context. Resisting a legitimate election in the U.S. - bad. Protesting a corrupt election in Lithuania or opposing Putin - good. (It's telling that Myanmar has shut down the internet and that China strongly polices what people say about Winnie the Pooh.)
So regulating it is not like regulating asbestos. It's more like regulating knives or alochol. I'm not afraid of bankrupting firms that manufacture lead water pipes. But I wouldn't want to put fertilizer manufactures out of business just because it can be used to make bombs. Social media is closer to the latter. We need to find way of minimising the harm done while preserving much of the good.
Chrome zero-day bug that is actively being abused by bad folks affects Edge, Vivaldi, and other Chromium-tinged browsers
Chromium cleans up its act – and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60 billion
Re: hang on
Maybe I'm missing something, but "type address in the box marked 'address', and search in the box marked 'search'" doesn't sound all that complicated, and isn't something I've ever had trouble explaining to anyone.
"So you definitely typed it in the address box?"
"What kind of moron do you take me for?! I know the different between the address box and the search box by now, and it's still not working."
"Send me a screenshot."
*looks at screenshot*
"You've typed it in the search box."
Users have a goal: they want to access a resource. DNS addresses, like IP addresses, have become behind the scene gubbins that they don't really care about.
Missing GOV.UK web link potentially cost taxpayers £50m as civil servants are forced to shuffle paper forms
Re: I'm still mystified
"I don't think a government more competent than one containing Boris Johnson, Gavin Williamson, Mat Hancock and Liz Truss is a "hypothetical utopia" we can only dream of."
And what's amazing is they've achieved all this incompetence while leaving MVP Chris Grayling on the backbenches. You'd think any government without Grayling (reminder: he's a man who lost an election rigged in his favour) would be two orders of magnitude more competent than one with him.
We'll explore Titan with a methane submarine, a methane submarine, a methane submarine...
Re: At -179C
Well that's altitude control solved. Heat to the bottom: melt your way lower. Heat to the top: melt your way higher. Normal running means tacking up and down.
It probably works in the horizontal plane, too. Heat to the front: melt your way forwards. Etc...
I haven't thought about any pressure issues.
LowKey cool: This web app will tweak your photos to flummox facial-recognition systems, apparently
UK Prime Minister Johnson knows not when 400k+ deleted records from police DB will be back
Re: Not yet engineering
It doesn't matter if the code is verified if, despite all the thrashings, the standard it's verified against misunderstands the problem or is incorrect. Because an oversight or omission in the specification means the verification won't be worth the bold font its printed in.
Come on, we've all been round the block enough to see code perfectly implement a spec that contains a flaw no one has recognised. It happens even in standards that have been thrashed out by field leaders in international standards bodies.
And, also, what you're asking for requires management to respect IT and give them the time.
Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button
Look at that thing in the sky! *thwack*
"I'd still rather a drone fell on me than a helicopter."
If you're dead, you're dead. It doesn't matter if it was a 13kg drone or a 11 tonne chinook that did it.
And drones are demonstrably more likely to drop out the sky - because the pilots have less training, easy access to a kill switch, and aren't sitting in the beast putting their life on the line.
And because drones are cheap, we're likely to see far more deployed far more often. So overall, the risk to bystanders from drones, while small, will probably end up greater than the risk from helicopters.That said, drones will probably still be safer overall - because when a helicopter crashes, there are guaranteed humans in the accident.
Re: Do Thales make police drones too?
It was aquabraking, not lithobraking. And I don't know how big the pond was,* but if it was the back garden variety then the operator had a pretty good aim and the military should higher them.
*I've googled it, and it's bigger than a cul-de-sac. This is where too much information spoils a joke.
Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere
UK Space ponders going nuclear with Rolls-Royce: Hopes are to slice the time it takes for space travel
Apologies for the wait, we're overwhelmed. Yes, this is the hospital. You need to what?! Do a software licence audit?
IBM managed to earn the moniker of both "best" and "worst".
It was the best of audits, it was the worst of audits, it was the audit of wisdom, it was the audit of foolishness, it was the audit of belief, it was the audit of incredulity, it was the audit of Light, it was the audit of Darkness, it was the audit of hope, it was the audit of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to court, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest auditors insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Leave.EU takes back control – and shifts its domain name to be inside the European Union
Watt's next for batteries? It'll be more of the same, not longer life, because physics and chemistry are hard
Re: Why terrifying?
In my limited observation, it's because where parking is available it is for one car. But there's probably two adults with a car and possibly a teenager and/or post-university student each with a car. We've organised the UK so that most working adults needs one.
Disclaimer: I don't have a car.
Re: Best of both worlds
"Question, though, how do you convert the fusion end products into electrical current?"
That's the easiest task of the lot - you just capture all the neutrinos...
For pedants: yes, you can produce electrons - via reverse electron capture or neutrino absorption; it's a form of beta decay where a neutrino slams into a proton and converts it into a neutron and an electron. You see it in astrophysical environments, especially supernova.
Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It's all in the DNA
And now for something completely different: A lightweight, fast browser that won't slurp your data
Re: Not Free
*cough* <details></details> *cough*
:-P
But, in answer to the original question, consider something as a simple as an upvote: javascript can notify the server and tweak a text string in the page. The alternative is waiting for the server to rebuild the page (with any subsequent changes because it didn't record the state of the page when you fetched it) and then transmit it wholesale back to you, and then the browser then flickers because it's not the same page and the browser doesn't attempt to work out whether there are tiny changes or it's a 100% different.
Microsoft is designing its own Arm-based data-center server, PC chips – report
Developer beta for Huawei's Google-free HarmonyOS is here – but you may need to Google Translate the docs
Even if a truly excellent alternative to Android existed, history suggests the world would carry on using Android. (Look at that list of failed mobile OSes. Or look at the desktop and Windows.) Android has inertia.
And, as an app developer, two OSes are fine, thank you very much. If you're gonna faff around with another OS then I'm going to wait till it's an established platform with a clear pool of users safe in the knowledge that (1) you won't go all in but will also offer other android devices; and (2) that users will likely recoil from the non-android devices, even if they're cheaper, because they won't have all their apps; and that (3) every non tier-1 developer is likely to make the same calculation so I know I won't miss the boat.
Government intervention in the market changes that equation. This goes two ways: either Huawei collapses as a mobile manufacturer or they make it work. And, as a dev, I can see that straight away so I'm already paying more attention than I would if it was another upstart nerd fantasy. Even if China banned Android in China, they'd probably still be selling Android in the west and it would take a good while for China-OS to make inroads. But if Biden keeps up the pressure on Huawei, they have no choice but to make it work. And if they're succeeding, and play their cards right, other manufacturers might join them and try and throw off the Google yoke.
Unsecured Azure blob exposed 500,000+ highly confidential docs from UK firm's CRM customers
US nuke agency hacked by suspected Russian SolarWinds spies, Microsoft also installed backdoor
World+dog share in collective panic attack as Google slides off the face of the internet
Raven geniuses: Four-month-old corvids have similar cognitive abilities to great apes at same age, study finds
Don't give up on Planet Nine yet: Hubble 'scope finds just such a world a mere 336 light-years away
Re: Was I the only one...
"...it is hard to see how it can be known to have cleared the neighborhood around its orbit..."
Well, it's Marie Kondo moments are what suggests there might be a Planet 9. (Also, it's pretty steeply inclined so it won't have to do much cleaning.)
But clearing out an orbit amounts to a mass limit without anybody having to say exactly what mass a planet has to have. (Remember Pluto is less than a fifth of the mass of the moon.) A super-earth is going to make the grade.