Posts by Captain Hogwash

Re: on-device age verification in that there was in the 2000s on computers

I've been using computers since 1979 and never saw that.

Re: So if the privacy display

As long as data continues to be extracted from the phone via the network this is just pure theatre anyway.

Re: I assume that Ring has been asked ...

My Tapo cameras are blocked from the internet at the firewall. My Frigate installation grabs the rtsp streams and records them, alerts me to intrusions by people, cats, dogs, birds etc. They needed net access for setup but after that just block them. I did use Raspberry Pi cameras initially but they didn't prove robust enough to handle being outside in all weathers.

Re: Your "Ham Radio" is powered by what?

Diesel?

Re: Russia as heir to the Soviet Union, went home without firing a shot

They were broke. They couldn't afford to stay. Now that they've had a couple of decades of oil and gas revenue...

Re: Brave New World

This kind of thing was a feature of both novels. I've said it before but I'll say it again, we are living in both visions simultaneously.

If you tow the line and do what you're told then you'll only ever see Brave New world. Step out of line and you'll see 1984.

Re: unalive

“It’s a beautiful thing, the Destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word, which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take ‘good,’ for instance. If you have a word like ‘good,’ what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well – better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good,’ what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words – in reality, only one word. Don’t you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B.B.’s idea originally, of course,”- Orwell

Re: Sovereignty

China would probably prefer that Harmony OS was more widely distributed.

Re: "Potential" Risks

Expect that to soon be seen as a problem, the solution to which is Just In Time bog roll drone delivery for a very reasonable monthly subscription.

Once enough people sign up expect it to be near impossible to buy it in a shop.

Re: Except

Culture exists in high, low and intermediate forms. Ballroom dancing sits somewhere on that continuum. If humans invented, rather than discovered, it then it's culture.

Re: Boomers think just having to create an account to access a web site is out of hand

So does GenX!

They have had for more than a decade.

Re: Update

Indeed. Android used to have SIP calling built in.

Re: IPv6 solution...

Damn Stonecutters!

Re: What to do??

MVNO

Re: modern-day tulip mania

Worryingly, what made tulips so desirable was a virus.

Re: The answer?

Mine runs fine on Proxmox.

Re: eliminates the tracking via the mobile phone network

Kind of. What it actually does is prevent the number appearing in the HLR (which is not supposed to be sold but clearly is acquired by tracking companies somehow.)

So, you can give companies you deal with a SIP number to contact you, but they can't use it to determine your location.

Removing the SIM is kind of pointless unless you're happy to only use the phone on wifi. The answer? Port your mobile number to a SIP provider, get another SIM, never tell anyone the new SIM number and never call with it unless the number is hidden. Use the mobile network's data connection for SIP calls when out and about.

Re: I think .....

Several options available on that link. Did you mean the V ones? I hope not as that's what I look like.

Re: So, 95% of firms see no ROI

"Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun." -

C. Montgomery Burns

Re: "how the system will work for those who can't use smartphones"

Assuming you have one. Nothing like that goes on my phone or any other device where I don't have root.

I'm one such programmer. Copilot produces garbage and so the whole exercise reduces productivity. Presumably I'm not using it correctly and should be dismissed. That's my worry.

Re: held on people's phones...yeah

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

I've heard good things about Debian.

Re: Booking restaurants????

Or books you into a restaurant when you wanted to stay at home?

Re: adult content that can easily be found on the internet

Such as age verification perhaps?