Posts by Dan 55 15421 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
But Times are a Changing, merci Monsieur Zimmermann,and they will start to swing the other way, pendulums don't remain on one side forever.
Banned British far-right figures return to Twitter within hours of takeover
And remember, this is the side that the algorithm was proven to favour.
Looks like that pendulum is stuck.
Yes, I too would also like Musk to restore balance to social media algorithms.
Your problem is you believe the conservative talking point that right-wing views are not being recommended by social media algorithms as much as left-wing views, when in fact the reverse is true.
YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs
A similar effect has also been observed on Twitter. Its recommendation algorithm tends to boost posts from right-wing politicians and news publications more than left-wing ones. Political scientists from the same team at NYU previously commented that it may be because conservative content is more likely to generate more outrage and, therefore, lead to more engagement.
We've also, by the way, noted before that it's conservative talking-point that right-wing views are routinely unfairly censored or hidden away on the internet by Big Tech. That may be because conservative political communication gets seen and flagged as misinformation more often than the opposition messaging.
No, he's not disagreeing with the thing that was actually said, he's under the impression something else was said and now a year later he's upset that the thing that was not said has not happened.
Where did he get the idea that the thing that was not said was really said? Odds are it was a social nework upholding a free speech policy which allows anything to be said without any grounding in fact or reality.
Ah, America, where yelling "fire" in a crowded cinema is a daily occurence, and absolute right, and has absolutely no downsides to it at all.
So let's see how the great algorithmally-driven echo chamber social (media) experiment goes just before election time comes round again. Nothing could possibly go wrong at all.
If you run a £350 Chromebook (i.e. something like 2GHz MediaTek with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage) and install Libre Office or Visual Studio Code you're pushing your luck. One thing open at a time to stop stuff suddenly disappearing. Also the keyboard is non-standard enough to trip you over, there's fun to be had with caps lock and copy-paste.
Sure, it works great as a tablet with a keyboard for your nan to browse or as a way for Google to indoctrinate the next generation of schoolchildren, but don't kid yourself that it's anything more than that.
If you degoogleise it and put a lightweight Linux distro on it you might get more out of it, but then you're really just buying a chassis - hopefully the one you've bought will allow proper Linux to be installed on it, some don't.
I meant to say they lost interest in both of those before EOL, finding excuses not to release security updates that were released for 10.
Also I don't think they ever fixed that thing where you had to install updates in just the right order otherwise updating took hours in Windows 7, even though Windows Update updates itself first before anything else so it should have taken one update to put everything right.
It's a shell that _doesn't run in a terminal emulator_ so comparing it to maybe the oldest terminal emulator around is missing the whole point...
The point was if I run "xterm &" I get another window with another shell, and if I run "open" I get another window with music, an image, or a video, and it works both locally and with a remote X connection.
The real big thing here is not the shell, it's the display manager that permits it. This is also what permits a window manager that can be controlled from a shell.
Window managers and display servers are a dime a dozen in Linux, you can pick and choose whichever you want.
So a custom shell couldn't clear the screen, open borderless windows, fill them with text/images/video/whatever, and send events to them to control them based on commands the user types unless the machine is also running Durden and Arcan? Maybe I'm missing something but I have to say that seems like a bold statement.
Also if this new shell throws out the terminal emulator and depends on a display manager then how does this work remotely?
Finally there are also terminal emulators like Kitty that have taken a different approach, but still offer similar functionality to Cat9, using X11.
So it's a text-driven window manager, where new windows also show mostly text-based stuff. It's... different. The suggestions don't seem very useful, the user wants to type "find" and it suggests "forget" every time. It looks like it's a convoluted way of using "xterm &" and "open <filename>" from that video but maybe there's much more to it than that. Fantastic UI for the next Hollywood film though.
This entitled gobshite is now moving them on to the Extinguish stage. First with the systemd cancer, now this bollocks?
That's what he's getting out of joining MS, he can finally Poeterrise the kernel.
He'll probably trap it in some pincer movement between secure boot and systemd, requiring code of his at each step to verify previous and next steps, then once he's got his foot in the door he can start with the feature creep.
I dunno, just read a newspaper or something. It was in the news and everything. For some reason I CBA to Google stuff for you and repeat it here, I wish I had that much free time.
I do totally get you want to blame this guy for all the recent economic turmoil instead of the 5-week wonder IEA sleeper cell, so you can feel seen, as the youth say.
Well it looks like some agreement's between the little bits has been made somewhere. First four hits from Google:
Migration to AWS - GOV.UK Developer Documentation
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration and Implementation Services - consultancy wouldn't sell it in the marketplace if government weren't buying
alphagov/govuk-aws: The GOV.UK repository for our Migration to AWS
AWS for the UK central government | Amazon Web Services (AWS)
gov.uk already started a mass migration to AWS and this probably precipitated UKCloud's downfall.
I vaguely remember there was someone from Whitehall who went to work at Amazon or vice-versa a few years back and then the migration started, I tried to search for it for about 10 minutes but failed to find it so it looks like it's lost to the memory hole.
We do have unilateral free trade. Import controls are practically non-existent and when they were tried out for 24 hours, it wasn't a pretty picture.
The UK is known as a place to offload substandard food because it's known that there are no customs checks.
I can see that going down well with the conservative party membership, who would have voted anyone but Sunak if it came down to two finalists, same as last time.
Tice is probably already making plans to take the Reform party out of deep freeze to keep the tory party so far right that it would be impossible to make make migration any part of a trade deal with India.
Wikipedia has the final word on this matter (whatever that is).
If we claim purple and yellow as ours, the one true English language has surely won and El Reg has joined the minority.
As I understand it, if someone want an international audience you should use UK English, as all non-US English variants use UK English or very similar.
Likewise most of the world uses metric measurements, even in the UK which is hybrid metric measurements are understood by a science and engineering audience.
I think you've thrown the baby out with the bathwater here.
People who put off restarting to install updates don't have time to close down each program, wait for Windows to update, restart, wait for Windows to update some more, log in, and open all their programs again because they have actual real work to do. They're usually younger employees as opposed to older managers.
I'd like you to cite exactly what part of that pamphlet you found so fascinating and why. So far it seems you posted a link to... something. Nobody's got time for IEA nonsense, it just doesn't stand up in the real world. It's already costed the British economy far too much.
Does it explain why the UK pissed its North Sea oil and gas away and why Norway didn't and is now enjoying much higher standard of living as a result? Also does it explain how the UK is dependent on Norwegian gas to keep the lights on but out of the European Internal Energy Market?
Interested to see how the IEA could have the front to tell that as a good thing. Although if anyone could, it'd be them, as they're all about baffling politicians and businesses with bullshit to get them to implement policies which transfers wealth to their unknown clients.
You cite the opaquely-funded Tufton St-based IEA whose policies are literally so dumb when they meet the real world that the rest of us live in that there are people who are now paying £500 a month more on their mortgages when the then chancellor merely threatened to implement them.
Somehow you failed to join the dots and realise the market volatility came about precisely because of the sheer batshittery of what was being announced for the upcoming budget. Still, at least it helped hedge fund managers betting on everyone else's panic if nobody else.
we are looking at more of the same from those who brought us such a wonderful situation that we are in.
And yet that lamentable state of affairs is somehow a thousand times better than the Minford/Tufton St nonsense that Truss was going to inflict on the nation.
Really? There are people who pay monthly or yearly for Office 365 and then do practically nothing with them apart from open DOC and XLS files.
There are parents who put their credit card info into Android or iOS then get reemed when their kid buys DLC and loot boxes.
It will catch on because 99% of people will just shrug and say that's what Windows needs to work. They can barely tell the difference between their CC info in microsoft.com and their CC info in the Microsoft Store app as it is. Putting their CC info in Settings is practically indistinguishable.
Mandating a CC isn't going to last outside of a preview build.
That's what we told ourselves about telemetry.
You could not opt in if you just wanted to donate.
This is, after all, what is a paid-for distribution because it has added features (five more years of updates and Livepatch). Opting into advertising is a way to pay for them if you didn't want to/couldn't afford to donate. Would it be that much of an anathema to see a non-tracked advert for Rackspace once a day when you unlock your screen in the morning in return for them if you weren't donating? TFA even said asking for a donation on the download page was controversial as well. I don't know, sometimes pixie dust just isn't enough to pay the bills.
This doesn't mean I approve of sticking sponsor of the day message into apt. That's not above board because tomorrow we'll have rsync brought to you by AWS.
Baking advertising in existing functionality will meet resistance.
But if a window appeared which showed you adverts after logging in or unlocking the screen which you could easily dismiss or click on to open the brower, there was a slider which let you disable them or set the minimum time between window pop ups after logging in/unlocking from 1 hour to e.g. 7 days, there was no tracking involved, and the installation wizard explained why advertising supports Canonical and lets people opt in, I bet people would choose to support them.
He recently upset Ukrainians by suggesting they accept the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and then waded into the China/Taiwan debate by suggesting the countries work out a special administrative zone for the latter.
Amazing how his brilliant ideas coincide almost exactly with Russia's and China's current leaderships.
Perhaps he should stick with planet-burning cryptocoins rather than geopolitics, he seems to be better at that.
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