Posts by wolfetone

Re: all cloud computing costs associated with R&D, including storage, will qualify for relief

"And the activity is called "computing" not "compute", and you don't sound all trendy and with-it with that loathsome bit of attempted jargony language mangling."

To be fair to that dickhead Rishi, he didn't get the term "compute" from Silicon Valley.

He got it from Red Dwarf, where Rimmer asked Queeg "What does compute mean?" when he's given a feck load of stuff to put in to his Commodore 64.

Re: They "checked for Safari on macOS and Firefox"

It goes beyond desktop browsers, and it would also likely have affected mobile users

Re: Had to stop my HP laser from getting to the internet

"Cannot for the life in me understand why people sign up for these subscription schemes, unless they arent aware of how nasty the printer companies are"

For the most part, the consumer buys a printer like they would do a fridge. They buy it and expect it to just "work". If the printer manufacturer advertises the benefits of paying per month compared to buying the cartridge when it runs out, the consumer will go for it as there is an illusion of a benefit to them by doing so. Say their kids are printing stuff for school, wouldn't it be great to get the cartridges every month so that you won't run out half way through on a Sunday night.

That's how companies get away with it. The great tech hive mind know HP/Epson's game, but in the grand scheme of things we're a minority in many ways. They don't care that we know they're gangsters, as long as Bertie Big Biscuits' kid can print their homework via a subscription service without questioning it.

Twevelty.

Re: "a website he says will allow anyone to donate cryptocurrency to Ukraine"

He's also demanding the closing of Ukrainian skies, which even my 3 month old baby boy knows would mean WW3.

So while I feel for him and his country, he needs to be realistic about the support that can be provided rather than the support that would be liked.

Re: "Russia will likely turn to Chinese vendors to bypass Western sanctions."

It would seriously hurt the Chinese economy if they did such a thing.

Why would they limit the products they sell to countries with GDP's higher in orders of magnitude to help one of their customers with a tiny economy?

Re: Your average person in the Russian street

The average Russian isn't as stupid as you're led to believe.

Over the weekend, a large factory went on strike as they were only paid half of their salary due to the collapse of the rouble.

The average Russian is fairly reliant on western services, and the more they are turned off, the more the babushkas talk to other babushkas about the text messages they've received from their sons detailing how utterly shit and depraved the whole situation is, you'll have more public pressure generated within Russia to put a stop to this.

Re: "General Motors has also suspended some business in the country."

Their injection system that they stuck on to the Lada Niva has absolutely ruined the car.

Re: Perhaps

South Park have it nailed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM&t=7s

Genuinely, if they had actually overdubbed it all with Trump, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

"I mean - leaving the Ukrainian airforce at least semi-functional (MiGs and drones); leaving the comms and power networks up; neglecting to ensure that logistics keep pace with frontline units, leading to those units running out of fuel & supplies; lining up your mobile units in a "40 mile long" convoy (according to latest reports) where they're a sitting duck for aforesaid drones; dropping clusterbombs on civilian areas... surely these are what might be termed schoolboy errors? OK, with the exception of that last one, because Putin has previously shown that he doesn't give a rat's anus about the Geneva Convention or international norms."

It's almost as if he wants to lose, isn't it?

I will give you the benefit of the doubt of it being a Monday for not getting the sarcasm.

"Reports over the weekend suggest that Putin is now threatening to invade Finland and Sweden."

They can't even give the young men they sent to Ukraine enough petrol to run the tanks or food to sustain themselves (leading to looting by the young Russian conscripts). They're not going to have the fuel, weapons or resources to have a pop at another country.

Re: keeping it to the tech

"It's in moments like these that we must be loud, vocal, and clear.

I stand with a free, independent Ukraine."

The thing is, being loud vocal and clear only works if the bully is listening. And like most bullies, he's not listening.

They only hear you when you kick them in the balls. Repeatedly. Until they bleed.

Re: we are all slaves now.

I think the issue is that various distributions tend to just say "We're doing X now" without any real consultation, and no real tangible benefits to the Linux ecosystem as a whole. Which then splinters their user base even further.

One such thing would be the use of Snap to install software on to our machines. Ubuntu, bless them, have gone all in with it. Linux Mint, quite rightly, abstained from such a decision. Ubuntu have form remember, with Unity, and have since dropped that altogether to go back to Gnome which they wanted to get away from in the first place.

What needs to happen, and to some respects does happen, is that an application should be installed regardless of the version or flavour of Linux it's being installed on. There are several applications that are available on the "Snap" store, but not as a .deb or through the command line using apt without having to jump through several hoops.

And that's all before we get on to the systemd bullshit.

But it's not a Gold card member.

It gets the free cup of coffee a month, and that's it.

Re: The press has really gone all in on these headlines

*their

Re: Paying and using student nurses

I've absolutely no idea, and I don't think the midwives would even know what I was on about if I asked.

It's hard to describe, I would say it was probably Microsoft Dynamics and tiny checkboxes and text fields littered the page. Imagine, if you will, a WYSIWYG program someone created a form with. It was that basic to the point of unhelpful.

I'm not sure what it is though. I could find out, but that would take 9 months!

Re: No Lawyer or backer here cares if Android users get a penny.

£2.50 is nothing to be sniffed at.

With the current price of energy, that'll charge my Android phone for a good 5 minutes.

When my friend started about 8 years ago, they found out someone had a fully built Land Rover Defender at their house. They had been lifting parts from the site and bringing it home. It was fully built too, minus some wheels, and it was the wheels that got him caught.

Not the engine, chassis, and other large items. No, the wheels!

Re: Let me fix that.

Worth remembering that the American BMI is a bit more relaxed about these things compared to the UK version.

Whats more, BMI is total bollocks anyway. It doesn't account for bone density and body shapes. It's far more nuanced than being X tall and Y heavy.