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Posts by Aussie Doc
719 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jun 2019
Linux Foundation, IBM, Cisco and others back ‘Inclusive Naming Initiative’ to change nasty tech terms
UK reveals new 'National Cyber Force', announces Space Command and mysterious AI agency
Billionaire's Pagani Pa-gone-i after teen son takes hypercar out for a drive, trashes it
BBC picks SiFive RISC-V chip for Doctor Who programming-for-kids kit – with Jodie Whittaker narrating
How Apple's M1 uses high-bandwidth memory to run like the clappers
When even a power-cycle fandango cannot save your Windows desktop
Saturday 21st November 2020 07:05 GMT
Re: If only it was just then
Yep.
Love of my life has an old Dell desktop setup ("It does what I want it to do so feck off with your games machines").
Big, round, bright logo on the front (the Dell, not the LOML), middle of the case .
Would be an obvious ON/OFF button but no.
That's a tiny black, round thing on a black background, off to one side, less than halfway up and not visible to the human eye.
Turning it on early in the dim morning light is always entertaining even if you haven't had one of those ----->
Not sunshine, moonlight or good times – blame it on the buggy
Police warn of bad Apples that fell off the back of a truck after highway robbery
YouTube is going to splash adverts all over your videos, and won't pay creators unless there's a big enough audience
Saturday 21st November 2020 04:57 GMT
Re: There are adverts on YouTube?
Same here - uBlock Origin, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, 4K Video Downloader and more.
Never see ads but I support my favourite channels (usually) via their Patreon stuff.
As for alternatives to YT, I'm no expert but historically I would suspect that as an alternative steps up to the plate, eventually somebody will say "We can make money here" and the cycle begins again, unless there is a decent open source/forked type of equivalent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Max Schrems is back... and he's challenging Apple's 'secret iPhone advertising tracking cookies' in Europe
Halt don't catch fire: Amazon recalls hundreds of thousands of Ring doorbells over exploding battery fears
Brit Conservative Party used 10 million people's names to derive their country of origin, ethnicity and religion according to ICO report
Swiss spies knew about Crypto AG compromise – and kept it from govt overseers for nearly 30 years
HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink
Google to end free unlimited online photo, vid storage, will eventually delete files if accounts go over their cap
Please, tell us more about how just 60 hydrogen-powered 5G drones could make 400,000 UK base stations redundant
You only live twice: Once to start the installation, and the other time to finish it off
GitHub warns devs face ban if they fork DMCA'd YouTube download tool... while hinting how to beat the RIAA
Facebook tells academics to stop monitoring its political ads for any rule-breaking.... on privacy grounds
Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done
The engineer lurking behind the curtain: Musical monitors on a meagre IT budget
RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it's used to slurp music
Sunday 25th October 2020 06:58 GMT 
Wow
Looks like I'll stick to 4KVideoDownloader instead - copy/paste link, download at highest quality available, can convert to mp3 or other stuff on the fly, no ads etc etc.
More than good enough for background music in the workshop.
Or just watch youtube with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Ghostery and <deity> knows what for ad-free enjoyable video ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'd better watch out - I could be next to get taken down...
California outlaws wording, webpage buttons designed to hoodwink people into handing over their personal data
Tuesday 13th October 2020 20:45 GMT
I run a business who's demographic is young mum's with toddlers/pre schoolers or mature (grandparents).
I rely on Facebook because that's where they are.
I can control what the Zuk gets to know about me personally but there are plenty of small, home based businesses in the same boat.
I don't like FB nor do I like doing business on my (rooted) phone but that's where my demographics live - they don't 'do the interwebtubes' because they use facebook instead - that's how they view 'tech'.
Just because we commantards here are all high and mighty and 'hates the faecesbook' or whatever other childish chant, doesn't mean I need to starve myself and family.
Sure, I have a website and all but I ignore my market on facebook at my peril.
Your mileage may vary.
Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search
Saturday 10th October 2020 04:56 GMT 
Wow
Must admit, as a budding writer I used to make sure I used a VPN and appropriate Tor browser etc etc when searching for 'how to poison somebody', 'how to hide a body', 'temperature bodies burn at' or all manner of stuff as 'book research'.
Now I simply do it blatantly and openly but making sure I have lots of stuff in my writing software research folders (Scrivener, if you're interested) that makes it obvious that I'm writing and not actually planning to be naughty.
But then, I guess, that's what I would want you to think, isn't it?
Can't win, really ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also "We vigorously protect the privacy of our users..." Did google really say that? For the lolz, perhaps?
Imagine running a dating app and being told accounts could be easily hijacked. How did that feel, Grindr?
Key-cutting machine borked sideways after visit from the BSOD fairy locks things down
Saturday 3rd October 2020 05:31 GMT
Re: I wonder...
Could be part of the 'not my job/above my paygrade' syndrome or possibly simply strict rules that the device can only be 'sorted' by the contracted techie.
I've had to sort out various equipment over time that was 'fixed' by the old turn 'er off and back on again but, depending on who and what determines the rules, some places come down hard on folks who do it if not 'qualified' (for various definitions of the word).
Strange world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing
Saturday 3rd October 2020 03:57 GMT
Re: Enjoying "I told ya so"
Came to say something similar.
Arrogant twat at a company I service always tries to convince the bosses that I'm too old to do tech and they need somebody younger who 'knows all about the cloud and stuff'. Turns out his best mate is 'into IT' or such.
Anyhoo, my suggestions are always to avoid those fluffy sky thingies that grab your data if you don't need to. Fridge? Toaster? Light switches?
Each to their own, I guess.
What would I know, just another old techie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Help! My printer won't print no matter how much I shout at it!
Monday 28th September 2020 09:16 GMT
Re: Out of tree error
Maybe slightly OT but I'm an amateur fantasy writer and my publisher/proofer dictates how I send my copy to be proofread - something like docx, double-spaced, 1" left margin (I think), so many words per page and other such requirements.
If it's not perfectly laid out as requested, it's simply ignored/returned even if you think you have the next Harry Potter masterpiece.
She used to have a magic about her ------>
Biting the hand that feeds IT
