* Posts by Tim Chuma

6 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Apr 2021

The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

Tim Chuma

Yeah sure, are you going to rewrite all the APIs?

LOL NO.

Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers

Tim Chuma

No alrogithm

A bit too easy for one person to take over your entire feed. Social media landscape now feels fractured. It is only the journalists who complain about Twitter/X going away as it means they have to do actual work and not just embed a tweet or take a screenshot.

X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety

Tim Chuma

The FIND OUT phase commences

The legal resources of the record company and Taylor Swift plus the Swifties finally made this clown take notice.

ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned

Tim Chuma

Still have the CRASH and ZZAP annuals to read

There are still new games being made for the Spectrum and C64. I generally only get the annuals as I am not in the UK but the magazines release bi-monthly.

Website maker Wix embarks on weird WordPress-trashing campaign, sends 'influencer' users headphones from 'WP'

Tim Chuma

WordPress can trash its own reputation thank you very much

It is 100% possible to be totally up to date with Wordpress and still get your site hacked. I did not believe my site was redirecting until I saw Google logs saying it was bringing up posts for "gay amputee porn" I didn't remember writing those articles. Had to install Wordfence.

Australian ponders requiring multiple IDs to sign up for social media, plus more crypto-busting backdoors

Tim Chuma

Yeah nah

I threw myGovID in the bin as the app wanted me to use my FACE to move the cursor around on screen, FAIL.

A government MP has been pinged for setting up 30+ face Facebook community pages to harass people so this is merely a distraction from people spoofing on desks in parliament house and such.