Posts by MatthewSt

Or "this line quality is really poor, I'll call you back" if you got a dodgy circuit. Or crossed lines.

Every technology has its issues, we just forget them when we stop using it!

Re: Is this some kind of joke?

They're not charging per CPU cycle though, they're charging per run duration. So an efficient sleep mechanism would let them over-utilise resources.

Re: How much is M$ contribusing to PostgreQL ?

They contribute code (with the source being open, that's the kind of thing you can check rather than assume that they don't) and run at least 2 developer conferences.

Re: Funny The Register Could Not Stay Up

Either AWS or Azure have equivalent services available on a (nearly) PAYG basis. They can be configured as your backups, switch over to them (maybe even automatically) when Cloudflare has a wobble.

Re: Who is the longest

> Though to me 15 years seems an awfully long time to stay on a release, support contracts or not.

In Microsoft years 15 years would get you Windows 7...!

Re: They call themselves engineers

Faster and Cheaper are both subsets of better. Your example about Google working on CPUs was an effort to make their infrastructure faster and cheaper.

Re: Has your tech team pranked colleagues?

We sent a project manager out to Dixons to get us some more virtual memory once

Re: Makes me wonder

Serious question here, but why does an Id card do that better than your National Insurance number, passport, driving licence, existing veterans card?

Re: bed is stuck

Just steer clear of Gopher

Re: HMRC

> it’s a sovereignty issue

We've exercised our sovereignty and chosen to store our data using a US provider.

Maybe ask your MP why they're not using https://crownhostingdc.co.uk/

We pretty much do have that, but the "busy signal" is an automated voice telling you that there's an unprecedented exceptionally high call volume, and your call is important

Re: And yet

Unless they understand workers - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API/Using_web_workers

Re: WTF

"Cut a check" is left-pondian for "write a cheque"

Yeah, Apple have principles. They'd never force you to actually listen to the U2 album that mysteriously appeared in your iTunes account.

Re: "Stray" bullet

Really hoping I'm misunderstanding something here, because it looks like you're saying that intentionally killing someone with a gun (what us foreigners would generally refer to as "murder") is something you're classifying as "responsible".

Don't know what bank you're with (or when you last cashed a cheque), but nearly all of them do do it overnight

Phones?

Considering that Android runs on phones I can't see it having any problems running on cheap laptops

Re: So does this affect little old me's PC

Chances are the code will only be running on the developers computer, _but_ if a developer deploys something and you are a user of aforementioned something then it's possible that it could be set up to harvest your credentials for that site, or anything linked to that site.

Re: It's okay

Sshh! I'm hoping to pick up a bargain!

Re: Critical thinking skills as dictated by your boss is an oxymoron.

I'm more than happy to keep myself sharp, but my employer needs to provide time and funding for it to happen. That might count as "taking steps".

Re: One place I was at

Exactly, a good manager moves everything out of your way and ensures you have the necessary items so you can do what you do.

Them understanding what you do isn't a requirement, as long as they trust you when you tell them what you need.

Re: "How we work has forever changed"

Nearly five years since it was last forever changed... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/09/22/pulse-employees-wellbeing-six-months-pandemic/

Re: Crapilot

And we only just got our sovereignty back! I suppose on the plus side we didn't really have it for long so most of us won't miss it...

Probably the latter, as the former didn't actually happen (as per the words written in the article).

It's like email: anyone using a matrix.org address is offline, everyone else is still online and can communicate with anyone else not on matrix.org

Re: after he installed malware on the company’s servers.

General policy seems to be capitalise 2 letter acronyms but treat 3 and longer as words.

What do you mean by "in practice it doesn't"?

Any device here (with the WiFi password or an Ethernet cable) can join the network and be given connectivity to the wider world through IPv6. If it's a Windows device it will create itself a permanent address (so that, if you know it, you can use it to connect from the outside world) and it will create itself a temporary address that it uses for making outbound connections. Both are firewalled by default at the device level (and in most home user's case, also the router level). I can use those addresses on the same network (so if I've got a DNS record set up for the permanent address that will work from any v6 network).

The link local device can probably be ignored if you have a public address. It has the same firewall that the external address has on it so I don't understand how it's an additional vulnerability. Whether your device has 1 address or 100 addresses doesn't affect how vulnerable it is. What the link local addresses allow is for most of your network to carry on working (eg file shares on a home network) if your router is offline (which would have traditionally been your DHCP) because the devices self-organise.

If you're managing a corporate network then you can treat it the same as v4 (using DHCP, static allocations etc). If you're relying on IP addresses to keep networks separate rather than VLANs then you already have a vulnerability that you don't know about.

> If it's sufficiently better than what we have already it will be adopted

I think history has demonstrated many times that that isn't the case

Re: Thanks Donald.

Cornhub?

The main difference (due to the way that things are implemented) is that to view restricted content online you have to prove your identity, not just your age.

Re: Why does a picture of your face need to be stored anywhere?

Aside from the token use, everything else you've described can and does already happen. Having a token doesn't change any of that. Sites could already require logins, fingerprint devices, etc. Nothing to stop someone using a different token per site. Tracking issuers would be unlikely to be helpful due to the limited number of them, but even that could be worked around.

Your 12 year old example sounds pretty straightforward. Aside from the fact that it's out of scope of this law, it would be a criminal investigation. The details of the token would be acquired from the website that accepted it (which wouldn't be at fault if the token was valid) and the issuer would be quizzed on who they issued it to. Quite who would be raising this I don't know though. The 12 year old isn't going to accidentally obtain a token so either they bypassed the system or someone provided them with one. The former is a parenting issue (or possibly the issuer if they're being negligent), the latter is potentially a safeguarding issue. None of that changes that the receiving website doesn't know the identity of the bearer, and the issuing website doesn't know where it was used.

By all means repeal the law, I don't have a problem with that because I believe the responsibility lies with parents to educate and inform. I remember when the method of age verification in games was asking you a bunch of questions about things that happened 20 years prior!

What I was trying to explain was that a system _can_ be built that satisfies all the (non-stalker) requirements. If we're going to not try because someone might, at a later date, change the requirements and abuse the system then we may as well give up now. Let's not ask for proof of age when buying alcohol in the shop because someone may have fake id, or someone may remember your name / where you live.