Posts by Aleph0 165 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Oct 2007
The Patrician to Captain Vimes, in Guards! Guards!: "I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people," said the man. "You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides."
How long before some government tells Apple "since you have demonstrated you have the capability to scan for stuff on your users' phones, you will also search for objectionable content"?
"Objectionable" as defined by the ruling party, obviously...
Otherwise known as Tibet.
Seems like the CCP is looking to erase the name of the place in addition to its ancestral culture? I traveled there just before Covid, and it was heartbreaking to see the number of heavily armed police troopers surveilling religious festivals, or how newly built infrastructure defaced pristine landscapes (to which the new radiotelescope will do no favours also, I suspect)...
Eh I don't know, but bragging like this could be seen by some as a challenge...
Reminds me of the Discworld method of committing suicide by walking into the Mended Drum tavern and announcing your name as 'Vincent the Invulnerable' or any such nonsense.
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Odd, I distinctly remember changing my e-mail address some years ago from one at Yahoo! to one at Protonmail, and keeping the same Google account.
Perhaps it's due to some subsequent change? Or -my guess- maybe a benefit of NOT using Gmail when registering (yes, it's actually possible to create a Google account without using a @gmail address, it's just that 99% of users never bother to)... Or I may well be misunderstanding your problem with Google, in which case my apologies.
"I am prepared to lose any partner/friend/relative who does that"
Perhaps a naive question, but if they don't tell me and I don't use socials myself how would I even discover I've been tagged?
I mean, without compromising my privacy myself by giving away my PII or photos to dubious "people search" sites in order to ascertain whether that info appears anywhere on the Internet...
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Just as Microsoft mandated that in order to qualify for the Vista Ready sticker PCs had to have a GPU, only to then abandon the 3D effects that required it in the first place. Now on my company laptop the task manager is reporting that same GPU has been sitting at 0% utilization all morning...
"The European telecom industry recognizes that it needs to address low trade-in throughout the region, but it's still far off the pace of the US and Japan, which generate much higher volumes."
They would say it, wouldn't they? In Europe we're much more used to buying our phones outright instead of financing them as part of our phone bills, and as a consequence we're much less inclined to replace our equipment when rolling over the phone contracts. I'd bet that it's much less lucrative for the operators than the American/Japanese business model...
> it is possible to do some computer fettling on a couple of pints, it doesn't suddenly remove all your facilities.
As always there's a relevant XKCD: Ballmer Peak .
I think it was when Simon introduced the stack model of bosses' brain, namely that they could only keep max two technical terms in mind at the same time. After the third one their brain stack overflowed, and the bosses entered "dummy mode".
To me the crazy thing is that they've managed to spend nearly half a bllion dollars, and unless I'm mistaken what they've accomplished is adding logging to Chromium and clearing the clipboard on focus lost.
I suppose that they must be renting some seriously fancy company headquarters because that kind of money sure as hell didn't go into development...
Also because they have a valid prior art claim...
Yeah, dirty environments are notoriously the ideal place to put expensive delicate automatons in. /s
Call me when they can go into city sewers to dislodge fatbergs...
Pedant alert: if your uranium is sufficiently enriched as to sustain a chain reaction, it doesn't stay in a big pile for much more than microseconds. If it isn't enriched yet, then it isn't much use as a store of energy.
What you want is a number of smaller piles, depending on the level of enrichment. Citing Wikipedia: "The critical mass for lower-grade uranium depends strongly on the grade: with 20% U-235 it is over 400 kg; with 15% U-235, it is well over 600 kg."
The Windows app works under Wine in that it can find the files, but thereafter it breaks because it expects to talk to Explorer. Same problem as the Linux equivalent really, there are any number of different file managers so it can only cater to the lowest common denominator.
Kinda amusing how this thread has evolved like the old ones on Slashdot, complete with the reply "if you're having this problem you're free to write your own program to solve it"... Snark aside good suggestion @yetanotheracc, I'll look into it if I ever decide to try a third time with Linux.
"You right click on it, same as in Windows".
That only works if you're using a file manager and you're already in the folder containing the file you're searching for. There's no graphical application like Search Everything in Windows that looks up in multiple folders and then allows the same context options like in a regular file manager. The nearest thing to it is AngrySearch, but once it's found the files you're looking for the only supported actions are simple verbs, like "rename", "delete" and "open" but crucially not "open with" that presents you with a choice of suitable applications.
That's why I wrote "file searching tools" and not simply "file search". Also at the risk of attracting further downvotes, I don't think it's fair being downvoted for stating that an OS doesn't fit my use case...
For sure, for my next desktop PC rebuild I'm currently planning to obtain (most likely on the high seas -hence icon- since MICROS~1 doesn't sell it to end users) a copy of Windows 10 IOT LTSC 2021 that is supported until 2027 (mainstream, 2032 extended), since I cannot stand the modifications they've done to the taskbar in Windows 11.
Sadly I doubt I will be switching to Linux soon, I have tried twice already but each time I've come back to Windows because file searching tools in the land of the penguin have no concept of opening a file with anything but its associated application. Whereas there are times I need to edit a picture, but most times I just want it to open in a much-quicker-to-start image viewer for example...
> Tibetans traditionally prefer China style tea but with all the twiggy bits left in, to which they add a dob of butter.
When I went there five years ago, the "yak butter tea" we were served was invariably just hot water with a crushed very hard white substance (totally different from the yellow stuff we saw burning candle-like in the temples), with no trace of anything vegetal in it. It tasted quite salty, and just a sip was enough for me; it took all I had to not spit it out...
I thought the locals were playing a prank on us tourists, but some in our group that had previously traveled in the Little Tibet region on the Indian side of the Himalayas were very much appreciating that drink and kept on assuring us it was the real deal.
Methinks I've had enough salty tea for a lifetime, thank you very much. Icon is my reaction at the first sip.
Etymologically, anarchy is derived from the Greek: αναρχία, romanized: anarkhia; where "αν" ("an") means "without" and "αρχία" ("arkhia") means "ruler".Therefore, anarchy is fundamentally defined by the absence of rulers.
Calling for getting rid of leadership altogether is basically the textbook definition IMO. If you actually meant middle management that's totally another thing from what you wrote...
A doctor receiving a message from one of his patients about some embarrassing disease while he's streaming music from his phone to his car via Bluetooth? AFAIK cars can read aloud incoming messages from connetted devices, so they must necessarily have access to the text thereof.
Perhaps the car syncing the address book / calendar? Plenty of sensitive data can be stored there...
On the other hand, on the 3-year old LG TV that I gifted to my elderly parents it's altogether too easy to switch sources. Every few months I receive a call from them telling me "the TV has broken down" because my father inadvertently sat on the remote and it takes only a single butt-press to switch source from the TV aerial to the AV1 input, and now the TV only displays a "no input signal" message and they have no clue what it means...
Perhaps LG has made it more involved to switch sources because it was too easy to do inadvertently and with faded legends on the remote keys it wasn't obvious how to revert the change?
"King's Speech – when the country's monarch reads out a speech that is written by the ruling political party"
Disclaimer, being from abroad I'm totally unfamiliar with the British political system, but after reading this fine article I'm kinda curious whether the monarch has the option of saying to whoever is handing the text "Nope, I won't read this shit"...
Yes, and if you dare to turn off automatic updates in order to check whether an update is really a downgrade ("we're putting ads into the paid version of our app", my ass) the Play Store will pester you to no end, with a banner that takes up half of a phone's screen...
There are people born in that 30's that are still alive, and I guess more users have to input birth dates than bond/mortgage maturities...
BTW I'm pretty sure Excel has a setting for the century when the user inputs two-digit years, you may want to look into it. I recall having to tweak it on each reinstall, back when I used to work with securities on version 4 some thirty years ago...
Just to stress China's hypocrisy, burning coal releases radioactivity (Wikipedia, Scientific American).
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Kinda curious myself but don't think it's super-relevant, they sure aren't paying the trip out of pocket... And I must say, as an Italian taxpayer I sure am glad that my money went towards giving those three a joyride so they can brag about being "astronauts" with their peers. /s
I don't know about others' experience, but speaking for myself the only people I've heard refer to themselves in those terms typically went on to say/do something remarkably stupid in short order...
Same as when you see someone's online handle containing words as "king", "lord", "master" or the like, you can safely ignore anything they write as chances are it will be utter drivel.
Not being a "natural born" US citizen Elon Musk has between zero and negative chances of ever becoming president, unless there's a change in their constitution.
Were it not for that provision there likely would have been a President Kissinger in the 80s, or a President Schwarzenegger (icon) in the Noughties.
Edit: ah, ninja'd...
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