Posts by Dan 55 15450 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
Epic chose to set up their own games store on Android and then pulled it a year and a half later and went back to the Play Store.
They also have an Epic games store for Mac and PC.
If they had ever put two and two together they could have had a cross platform Android, Mac, and PC games store with cross-buy and cross-play which would beat Steam and they cound legitimately accuse Apple of locking them out.
But at the moment it seems they seem to want other people to do the work for them.
You an buy audio book from Audible, you get to access it on the Audible app on any platform it's available.
You buy an audio book from Apple, you get to access it on the iTunes app (I think) on any platform it's available.
You subscribe to Disney+, you get to access it on the Disney+ app on any platform it's available.
You obviously don't buy an audio book from Apple and get to access it on the Audible app on any platform it's available. You yourself said this as if you didn't have a problem with it.
And yet it's exactly what Epic want as well... buy Fortnite DLC from Apple and get to access it on the Play Store app from Google, Galaxy Store from Samsung, Steam from Valve, and other unrelated platforms.
On Android, NewPipe (add NewPipe's repository to FDroid to get the updates quicker) or YouTube Vanced (people say good things but I've never tried it).
On the desktop, not sure which add-on is doing this but between uBlock Origin and Enhancer for YouTube I don't see any ads.
Extending systemd Security Features with eBPF
That's right, the only place guaranteed free from systemd, the Linux Kernel, won't be any more.
By the time they got to the Spectrum it apparently wasn't that bad, at least as far as floating point was concerned.
You aren't owed an explanation for why a stupid idea is stupid from random people on the internet.
It's literally how pre-MS Skype worked (search for the section on conferencing) unless all calling participants were behind a NAT and firewall in which case a supernode (a high bandwidth server not behind a NAT/firewall) was chosen instead. Presumably this will not be so necessary with IPv6.
But anyway, downvote away, peanut gallery.
With ten on a group P2P call, each person would have to maintain connections to nine other systems, meaning a lot more bandwidth is needed.
The one with the best bandwidth is chosen as the lead server and the rest of the participants each maintain one connection with the lead.
There are two really free ones on F-Droid:
LG was caught snooping on LAN shares.
Vizio sent unencrypted analytics data and frame captures without explaining what use it was going to be put to.
Some models of Samsung TVs may have an always-on camera and microphone, others may make you press a button on the remote before recording from the microphone but all sent microphone recordings to a third party, sent unencrypted data, and have non-existent security.
ACR identifies what you're watching and when whatever the source.
The best you're going to get are weasel words privacy settings which allegedly give you options which anonymise your data or turn off tracking, but they're still going to slurp.
Best not to plug the damn thing into the Internet.
What the Google minion means is Safari's different to Chrome, and Apple haven't implemented so many slurpy APIs which Google sink millions of person-hours into developing.
If a Google minion doesn't like it something then that probably means it's a good thing.
So we have to tell them they’re on mute and then wait while they work out for the seven billionth time where the same old un-fucking-mute button is (hint: the same place it was yesterday, and the day before that, ad infinitum)
This is not true, at least on Teams. I think it must have changed places at least three times in the last year. And they still haven't cottoned on to space bar for mute.
And to improve things they've fucked up screen sharing in one of the latest updates, you press the screen sharing icon in the notification at the bottom right and instead of sharing the screen it brings the meeting window to the top and leaves you to find the screen sharing button in the meeting window.
Nobody can fucking design a UI these days, they've all been lobotomised. Rant over.
For the UK that means ensuring “a very small percentage of key technologies must be truly sovereign to retain strategic technical advantage – things like elements of the cryptographic technologies that protect the UK’s most sensitive information and capabilities.” Investing in such capabilities and “using statutory powers to restrict hostile foreign investment” will be needed.
No back doors but a wide open front door.
lf they really wanted sovereign technologies perhaps they should have advised the government not to flog off the ARM family silver.
Paula Vennells, who was awarded CBE in 2019 for "services to the Post Office and to charity”, moved on from Post Office CEO to the Imperial College NHS Trust in April 2019. From then on she went onto other things.
Strangely enough she is an anglican priest yet put many people through a lot of suffering.
"Surely you don't exepct us to check for all the possible error codes and handle them appropriately?"
How is it that IT has turned into a field so full of DHs?
It wasn't like that before ...
Before they were contained in Microsoft, and only their software contained the appropriate error messages ("An unknown error occurred"), now they're everywhere ("Oh snap dude, something's gone wrong! Guess what? We've lost all your work for you.")
US English keycaps on an ISO layout is a thing.
ISO layout is the one with the big enter key, but it's still not as big as non-standard layouts with a bigass enter key... maybe you need one of those?
I hear you're a Brexiteer now, Father? How did you get interested in that kind of a thing?
Yeah, it's not like the EU/UK could have picked a system that works and copied it. That would have been far too simple.
They did. Note the EU side is generally up and running and for imports from the UK and the UK side are waiving most checks for imports from the EU.
What there is is an inability to scale, using rules for third party countries (where things are loaded up on boats and planes and take hours or days to get there and any problems can be smoothed over in transit) on a JIT delivery network.
But the UK wanted this.
Due to the limited production run and overall scarcity, with many presumably trashed after they entered EOL in 2017, these have become sought after by collectors of vintage computers.
Software updates for the first generation Chromebooks are already on life support, in five years max they won't connect to Google's services at all and will just be a decorative brick.
Let Me Wikipedia That For You. Founded 100 years ago as left-of-centre and catholic. Currently centre.
Very few papers in the rest of Europe are like the Sun and the Daily Mail. Maybe there's some conclusion to be drawn from that.
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