Posts by Bronek Kozicki

"restore" - from what? If your data had been encrypted, there are only two kinds of "restore" that make sense 1) break/payout cryptographic key or 2) restore from backup.

Re: Love the advertising around the titanium case

Well, both aluminium and titanium are relatively soft metals and they do get scratched easily. Anyone who ever had a titanium watch will know to avoid titanium phone, for this reason.

It might be the phone is coated with some variant of titanium nitride (e.g. TiCN) hence making it extremely scratch-resistant, but if this is so, they should say it.

Re: Applications are vulnerable?

"When I was testing 10, it also ran fine with Edge, Cortana, Windows Store, and all other unwanted junk forcefully removed"

care to share where you found the instruction for this?

Re: Happy with systemd? You won't be one day

I am currently running Arch with systemd (and some other systems). It mostly works and I cannot be bothered to replace it, but I do not believe it will always work. I have been around long enough to take failure for granted and prepare for it. Which is why I support Devuan (via regular financial contributions) and am happy that they reached milestone release. I need to have a choice when the time comes.

Re: GVFS sounds super dumb

"My impression of git is that it feels like something a programmer whipped up in a week or so to scratch an immediate itch, without any thought to user-friendliness or scaling"

It scales better than SVN and the design is pretty neat - if you bother to understand it. Which takes some effort, as it is indeed quite unconventional (think two-dimensional hierarchy, where one dimension are files and other is commit history). However you make a good point that it was indeed whipped in a hurry, hence upvote.

Re: It's not just diesels

@AC yup , for example Popular Volkswagen Polo more polluting than a lorry

"know", as used in authentication protocols, has absolutely nothing to do with education. Only with the ability to invent and remember a password.

Re: Kind of like the Darwin awards

After August 2015 the only way to continue using a Windows 7 system was to disable automatic updates. Those who failed to do this were (almost) sure to wake up using Windows 10 at some moment before August 2016 (or later). In the light of this, it is not surprising that most infections are on Windows 7 systems. There probably are not many Windows 7 systems left in the world which are being patched on the regular basis.

Re: Someone has repealed Amdahl's law?

The first step to solve a problem is to truly understand it. Once you have understood it, you might be able to reformulate it in such a way as to maximize the parallelization opportunities. If this does not happen then perhaps 1) the problem is inherently difficult to parallelize or 2) you are simply not good enough. I know which one it is for me, which is why I'm looking forward to watching this presentation.

Re: API vs Screen-scraping

I agree than common API is a good idea, but it will be probably decades before it is agreed - and proven to work well. In the meantime screen scraping should be allowed, IMHO

Re: I don't know...

"so I'm not sure that the I bit of AI applies" - agree, that's why I used "so called"

Re: Seems fair compared to banking etc.

irony icon is badly missed these days

Re: Is this the same Dyson who has no time for the EU ?

UK loses tax-free access to the single market hard it is quite likely going to cost him a pretty amount of sales.

Unlikely. The FX rate fluctuation have much bigger impact on import/export than tariffs do ; for example GBP fell more than 7% since June vote (relative to EUR; at one moment it was almost 15%), but the average WTO tariffs (i.e. the cost of export to EU in case there is no trade deal) are just 2.5% . That's how much FX rate of a major currency might move in a month, in the period of low volatility. Why do you think the Germans have not kicked out Greece from EUR yet? Because it would destabilise the single currency, which is the biggest aid to German exports both on the continent (removing FX rates entirely) and elsewhere (keeping EUR artificially low)

Re: @Voland

I have my SIP with A&A ISP, not a single nuisance call in past 3 years (i.e. when I moved to SIP). And the reason to switch was, you gussed it, an awful volume of nuisance calls on my landline. What annoys me now is that, landline or not, BT is still making profit from me, because they are the network operator.

Simplest profit model for an intermediary is to keep the money for a few days on a short term, fixed interest account.

Re: I am so happy I left them

Is that coffee machine available somewhere for sale of used office appliances?

Re: Time for "Signalling System No 8" ?

Well yes, perhaps it is time for "SS8". The trouble is that many engineers are necessarily conservative, which makes me think that any new protocol to replace old one will be about as popular as, say, IPv6.

Re: Faff

The answer is in the articule - because distro maintainers won't bother to prepare new package overnight for any application which just happened to bump to new minor version last afternoon. Application developers on the other hand, just might do that. And if you really really want to always run the most recent version of an application, then Flatpak will allow you to rely on developers rather than on distro maintainers providing the new version for you, overnight.

Re: Filezilla

"What has FTP been replaced with for uploading/managing a website?"

Depends on server software used, but if something relatively modern then webdav + authentication modules should be available. Or maybe setup a git repository for website files. Or use ssh and scp. I recon any of those would be safer and better performing that FTP, but I do appreciate the sentimental value of a very old protocol.

Re: contributing, a bit.

I've been donating few quid monthly since the start of the project, also without immediate plan on using it - I have systemd-infested Arch which, for my use, works well enough. So basically my motivation was not as much "displeasure" with systemd as exactly what Devuan promotes - init freedom, for others and perhaps for me (in the future).

Re: Juicing is bad

If you eat the fruit, you get filled not just with juice but also with fibre, thus aiding you to consume less of the sugar (because you get filled quicker). Also, fibre is apparently good for your digestive system.

Re: "Ghost keyboard" - Model M

I just recently bought second Topre Realforce (UK layout - but the wait was long) so I can have the same level of comfort both in the employer's office and my home office. If you like mechanical keyboards but people around are complaining about noise, give this model a try. In my very personal opinion it is sublime.