Posts by Not Irrelevant

Re: Why are we blindly letting this happen?

Primarily, other countries aren't doing anything because it's not an international issue. Countries have the sovereign right to do whatever they want into their own borders. The Ukraine war, for example involves the invasion of one country by another, which is why other countries are taking action.

Internal issues are traditionally dealt with internally. Sure, people may speak out against actions like this, but they're going to go to war, even economic war over them. I think a better question would be why the Chinese people are letting this happen. The Chinese government tries to seem all-powerful, but they're not. They are in fact kept in place by the very people who are being oppressed. Oppressive regimes always collapse under their own weight eventually and this is just hastening that.

Re: @Richard Speed -- Wait...Wha'?

It starts up quickly but the RAM usage does the Chrome thing and grows, grows, grows.

Re: All parties

If you're going to try to whatoutism us you might as well actually mention something Pelosi did that was unethical if not technically illegal (yet) like how she's accused of giving her husband privileged information to buy and sell securities at an advantage, which looks a lot like insider trading.

BTW, that strategy is stupid anyway, burn all the corrupt politicians regardless oh which color their signs are!

Re: Not yet banned

They're banned in China, people still use them anyway. It's really hard to ban VPNs.

Re: As with drugs and Microsoft Office..

All the dealers... sorry, cloud service providers do it too.

Re: In other words...

The problem with that idea is that those CPUs have their own vulnerabilities. If you really care about that you'd be better off with a totally different architecture. x86 is either locked into platform security controllers or full of already exploited holes.

Re: App Store Pricing

Unless you've done a lot of legwork rooting your phone and removing apps you're still sending Apple all your data. iPhones and Androids are data capture devices.

Re: "lack of common sense and inability to be accurate "

How do you know that that's not how you think? Maybe you're statistics all the way down.

Realistically, we're simulating intelligence the best way we know how, but if it's related to the way WE think is rather tangential because a reasonably accurate simulation of something is good enough to be perceived as that thing and once you get to that point it doesn't matter much. We haven't gotten there yet, but it doesn't make the approach bad.

Re: (eventual) refund?

When the organization that owes you money is an arm of a government that feels free to invade its neighbors on a whim, you can just kiss those payments goodbye.

Re: 2FA problem

That's actually 1FA, only SMS is only one factor.

They make the Linux-compatible X13 if you're really burning for a Linux version.

Re: Is Slack still a thing?

My employer is using Slack, the competitors don't have as good an API.

Re: re: Application exit (TypeError: Cannot convert "undefined" to int)

That's why people use Typescript.

Definitely, there will be no choice. That's the way OSes are these days. Use the new one or get stuffed.

Re: The first OS I could say "Microphone off" to, and it would switch it off.

I disagree, my Linux notebook breaks on updates much more often than my Windows desktop. I've never had Windows update the kernel and then refuse to boot to desktop right afterwards as just one example.

TLDR Linux breaks a lot, stuff doesn't stay fixed.

Re: Alas poor SOAP!, I knew him

I think it's because of JavaScript. Consuming SOAP in JS is painful. At least OpenAPI sort of, kind of, blunts the biggest issues with REST.

Re: Do not have a poll with a negative in it

yes, especially since different English dialects disagree as to how double negatives work.

Re: Macros are the only real differentiator left between MSOffice and LibreOffice, bar one.

I used to years ago, but Microsoft launched a library to directly read and write Office files in the Open Office XML formats (docx, xlxs, etc) and it integrates with .NET very easily so I've been using that for years. It's much, much, much, much faster than VBA ever was because you're not scripting the UI, you're just modifying the files.

Your experience may differ, I do realize that not everyone is a software developer for whom writing a program to do something is normally faster than doing it manually.

Re: Shiny

No such luck here.

Apple is only concerned about the perception of security, that's why their zero days stay open so much longer than anyone else's.