Signal suckage is a different problem. Where I live in Europe I switched to digital because it had better coverage and static while okay in emergency situations absolutely sucks for trying to listen to music.
Yeah. There's quite a lot of different containerised systems now to chose from that each offer different features and benefits, flatpak, snap, appimage, and some that take on more virtualisation like docker. Some require installation, others can run standalone, some have command line tools, others not. etc.
I wish I was smart enough to fuck up at my 7 figure job, then quit and make a start up utilizing my fuck ups to get rich.
This is literally what the entire consulting industry does. I've seen countless people leave companies only to form consultancies and bill themselves back to the companies they left at triple the price to fix the problems they were never able to.
The irony is that this is supported by upper management who don't listen to employees bitching and moaning, but are all to happy to listen to someone after they ask for their opinion with a wheelbarrow full of money.
Just because a guy does a job doesn't mean that he knows everything there is about the job always and instantly. If it did then we would need this thing called "research".
Now that Google doesn't have it in their code of conduct how will we raise this as hyperbole at every opportunity?
Google ate a baby. Evil! Google gave info to the NSA. Evil! Google stopped releasing updates to a 6 year old phone. Evil! Google tracks my location. Evil! Google street view took a photo of my house. Evil! Google changed the colour scheme in gmail. Evil! Google didn't donate 100% of its profit to charity. Evil!
Jokes aside, the phrase has been utterly meaningless for many years, not because of the company's actions, but rather because the phrase is so ambiguous and meaningless in the first place.
Yes and no. DLNA is basically an alliance that formed guidelines on how all devices should implement a common set of already existing standards in the hope to make them work. E.g. It says all these devices need to support UPnP with configuration W, supporting media formats X, Y, and Z, and if it falls into the device category A then it needs functionality B and C.
It just hobbles together things that should have been interoperable in the first place to be actually interoperable. For instance, if you enable Media Streaming in Windows 10, the fact that it's DLNA certified guarantees that it will be setup in a way that is discoverable by a Playstation and stream media in a compatible format.
UPnP as a protocol supports a lot of things which may not be supported by various devices e.g. HEVC. DLNA is supposed to take the guess work out of how to set up servers and clients in a way that everything is supported, so a DLNA v2.0 server disables HEVC streaming because DLNA v2.0 clients can't receive the stream.
Any user who is creative enough to mix the word Ubuntu and Windows 10 but is too stupid to write "man systemctl" or understand why snaps and deb files are two different things.
Personally I don't associate myself with serious Linux users. They are intolerable.
Then why can't he (we) just say that? All the pseudo-tech marketing horseshit reminds me of Ballmer's squirting Zune. ffs.
Actually it's the well known names describing accurately the very specifics of what is available and to whom. The simplification which you support now includes the possibilities of multiple different browsers and multiple different package installation methods (snap not being the only containerised package system).
Or maybe we should abstract it all the way: You can do computery things with your computer! Slashdot: News for grandmas who don't Google.
Whoa. Your translation _is_ super long compared to the original text!
Just be happy he doesn't explain the following terms: running, Ubuntu, Google, web, web browser, self-contained, package. The resulting explanation may have words like computers, software, and applications in it requiring further clarification. It's explanations all the way back to the dawn of the universe.
Digital Living Network Alliance. It's been around for almost 15 years now. It's the reason your TV probably shows up in your Windows networking screen. It's a zero configuration system for sharing media and playback capabilities between devices. It's also flaky as crap and only works on a full moon.
I can't imagine DLNA support is really much of an accomplishment in 2918.
Typo aside I'm looking forward to 2918, maybe DLNA actually works smoothly by then. I have a mixture of open and closed source DLNA servers, players, and renderers in my house. I'm sure that one seeing the other is based entirely on some random number generator in each.
Their website says "13 YEARS AND FOUR BILLION DEVICES LATER". A good accomplishment, but I'd be happy enough if even 2 of those devices would actually just work. Zero Configuration Networking has to be the flimsiest concept invented since the first "election promise".
I think the Windows Core is more complex then the Linux kernel and Windows 10 is more complex then say Ubuntu
Are but is it? I mean the result is sold as one single piece of software, but the reality is they are multiple different stacks sitting on top of each other providing all manner of interactions but each independent.
So what makes something independent? Just because it has a different project name? Or maybe it's a functionally different piece of software developed by a different person?
I would actually think the Linux Kernel is more complicated than Windows' due to the insane amount of hardware support baked right into it along with what I think is a far more complex and built out network stack.
That said I think the Windows 10 userland is far more complex than say X windows, or Gnome, or even both combined, but for all the wrong reasons:-)
What bothers me is that this is something that has to be explicitly coded. Why would an app -ever- request this by accident, is beyond me.
Apps do a lot of things when developers are working on it, and it wouldn't be the first time a wrong version has been pushed out to publish. To be honest it sounds like an oversight given what this is capable of: accessing additional permissions on a rounding error of a percentage of phones out there that actually have superuser capability enabled.
The alternative to an accident is quite bad. If this was done on purpose then someone decided to target a group of people specifically likely to NOT want anything to do with data collection (those who are techie enough to root their phones). This would actually represent active warfare.
The fact that the shitty FB app is preinstalled on many android devices (and cannot be removet without root) is far worse.
That is a giant "meh". Just disable the app. A disabled app in Android literally can't do anything. It can't even be updated let alone run in the background sucking up data.
Apparently, Facebook are now saying that the message is clearly a bug.
It was either a bug or active warfare against the tinfoil hatters. It doesn't make sense for it to be a general hoovering of data as per normal since this permission would only affect the 0.001% of phones that are actually rooted,... most of which are rooted because people distrust the likes of Facebook in the first place.
You know what happens when you try to force people to use products/services they have no interest in? They go elsewhere.... Another 5 years
In another 5 years you may well be saying in another 5 years just like cold fusion. If Facebook has shown one thing it's that you can force an incredible amount of shit down your user's throats and they'll say please sir can I have another! Myspace was a relatively small platform that got replaced by a huge alternative. People have predicted the death of Facebook and the Next Big Thing (tm) social network for the past 10 years now. It hasn't happened.
Side note: Never heard of your Facebook storage issue. 9 months since I bought this phone and it's using barely over 300MB of storage and most of that is the initial bloat it comes with.
I'm most surprised that someone with enough technical merit to root their phone, would install the FB app to begin with.
Why not? What does technical have to do with using a service? Being technical doesn't mean you go all tinfoil hat private. Being non-technical doesn't mean you share every breathing second of your life on a Facebook post either.
We can flip this on its head. Having a rooted phone that provides you the fine grained controls to fake your data may be the only way to safely use Facebook.
Disclosure: Have rooted phone, have Facebook. Though have not seen a superuser request from it.
I heard a hilarious German advert today involving a phone assistant that went feral. Among other things it threatened to send the owner's dick picks to their parents.
Stupid thing about that advert was I can't remember what it was for other than many a philosophical commentary on modern life.
It's just expected everything will be free of charge. GPS, military protection, US Navy keeping the sea routes open for wealthy nations like Germany to make a mint on exports, American citizens dying from hyper expensive medical costs while the world benefits from cures we develop, the list goes on
- What's GPS. Personally I use GLONASS and looking forward to Galileo too. - Military Protection? From whom? Most of the world needs protection only from the USA. - Sea routes? German exports to where? About the only place of note that Germany exports to via sea is the USA. Take away the USA and Germany's other top 9 export destinations are land based neighbours. - Medical costs? Look, grabbing your ankles for the pharmaceutical industry is your own fault. No one is forcing American companies to sell overseas, but for some reason they do so anyway and without fucking over the people. Maybe we're just smarter than you. - The list goes on? I'm sure it does. I can come up with many ways clueless people think they are top shit and only expose their own ignorance.
It's bankrupting us to carry all these free riders along.
Is it? Well that makes you double silly since you're all doing it voluntarily.
It's about time everyone learned to ride the bike without training wheels and pay for themselves. The transition period will be painful but ultimately beneficial for everyone.
Yeah I know. If America up and disappeared a whole world of stupid copyright and IP bullshit will die the death it deserves and the world will be a better place for it. Hell if you did it a few weeks ago maybe there wouldn't be yet another crisis claiming lives in the middle east right now. I have to hand it to you though. You are far more self aware than most Americans.
What's next, an optical illusion that looks like a vase, no, wait, it looks like two faces, no wait, it looks like a vase...
Well we all know that one and it was a well understood phenomenon. This on the other hand..., please show me a long history of materials going back through the ages of how these two words can be misheard.
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Signal suckage is a different problem. Where I live in Europe I switched to digital because it had better coverage and static while okay in emergency situations absolutely sucks for trying to listen to music.
It might sound ridiculous to you
Yes complaining about a few 10s of MB of the default image being used does sound ridiculous to me.
Yeah. There's quite a lot of different containerised systems now to chose from that each offer different features and benefits, flatpak, snap, appimage, and some that take on more virtualisation like docker. Some require installation, others can run standalone, some have command line tools, others not. etc.
I wish I was smart enough to fuck up at my 7 figure job, then quit and make a start up utilizing my fuck ups to get rich.
This is literally what the entire consulting industry does. I've seen countless people leave companies only to form consultancies and bill themselves back to the companies they left at triple the price to fix the problems they were never able to.
The irony is that this is supported by upper management who don't listen to employees bitching and moaning, but are all to happy to listen to someone after they ask for their opinion with a wheelbarrow full of money.
Just because a guy does a job doesn't mean that he knows everything there is about the job always and instantly. If it did then we would need this thing called "research".
Now that Google doesn't have it in their code of conduct how will we raise this as hyperbole at every opportunity?
Google ate a baby. Evil!
Google gave info to the NSA. Evil!
Google stopped releasing updates to a 6 year old phone. Evil!
Google tracks my location. Evil!
Google street view took a photo of my house. Evil!
Google changed the colour scheme in gmail. Evil!
Google didn't donate 100% of its profit to charity. Evil!
Jokes aside, the phrase has been utterly meaningless for many years, not because of the company's actions, but rather because the phrase is so ambiguous and meaningless in the first place.
. How many times have you cracked open a section of code and was just amazed that what seemed like a simple process could be so complex?
Here, here! Just getting a USB endpoint descriptor working was a lesson in just how complex something conceptually simple can be.
Yes and no. DLNA is basically an alliance that formed guidelines on how all devices should implement a common set of already existing standards in the hope to make them work. E.g. It says all these devices need to support UPnP with configuration W, supporting media formats X, Y, and Z, and if it falls into the device category A then it needs functionality B and C.
It just hobbles together things that should have been interoperable in the first place to be actually interoperable. For instance, if you enable Media Streaming in Windows 10, the fact that it's DLNA certified guarantees that it will be setup in a way that is discoverable by a Playstation and stream media in a compatible format.
UPnP as a protocol supports a lot of things which may not be supported by various devices e.g. HEVC. DLNA is supposed to take the guess work out of how to set up servers and clients in a way that everything is supported, so a DLNA v2.0 server disables HEVC streaming because DLNA v2.0 clients can't receive the stream.
I would be horribly angry if I didn't originally steal this from someone else's Slashdot post a few years ago :-)
I'm not sure what a 'serious Linux user' is
Any user who is creative enough to mix the word Ubuntu and Windows 10 but is too stupid to write "man systemctl" or understand why snaps and deb files are two different things.
Personally I don't associate myself with serious Linux users. They are intolerable.
RPATH is just a way of loading specific libraries from a different directory.
Snaps are self contained apps delivered with all dependencies in a dedicated filesystem sandboxed from the main system.
Then why can't he (we) just say that? All the pseudo-tech marketing horseshit reminds me of Ballmer's squirting Zune. ffs.
Actually it's the well known names describing accurately the very specifics of what is available and to whom. The simplification which you support now includes the possibilities of multiple different browsers and multiple different package installation methods (snap not being the only containerised package system).
Or maybe we should abstract it all the way: You can do computery things with your computer!
Slashdot: News for grandmas who don't Google.
Whoa. Your translation _is_ super long compared to the original text!
Just be happy he doesn't explain the following terms: running, Ubuntu, Google, web, web browser, self-contained, package. The resulting explanation may have words like computers, software, and applications in it requiring further clarification. It's explanations all the way back to the dawn of the universe.
Digital Living Network Alliance. It's been around for almost 15 years now. It's the reason your TV probably shows up in your Windows networking screen. It's a zero configuration system for sharing media and playback capabilities between devices. It's also flaky as crap and only works on a full moon.
I can't imagine DLNA support is really much of an accomplishment in 2918.
Typo aside I'm looking forward to 2918, maybe DLNA actually works smoothly by then. I have a mixture of open and closed source DLNA servers, players, and renderers in my house. I'm sure that one seeing the other is based entirely on some random number generator in each.
Their website says "13 YEARS AND FOUR BILLION DEVICES LATER". A good accomplishment, but I'd be happy enough if even 2 of those devices would actually just work. Zero Configuration Networking has to be the flimsiest concept invented since the first "election promise".
I think the Windows Core is more complex then the Linux kernel and Windows 10 is more complex then say Ubuntu
Are but is it? I mean the result is sold as one single piece of software, but the reality is they are multiple different stacks sitting on top of each other providing all manner of interactions but each independent.
So what makes something independent? Just because it has a different project name? Or maybe it's a functionally different piece of software developed by a different person?
I would actually think the Linux Kernel is more complicated than Windows' due to the insane amount of hardware support baked right into it along with what I think is a far more complex and built out network stack.
That said I think the Windows 10 userland is far more complex than say X windows, or Gnome, or even both combined, but for all the wrong reasons :-)
What bothers me is that this is something that has to be explicitly coded. Why would an app -ever- request this by accident, is beyond me.
Apps do a lot of things when developers are working on it, and it wouldn't be the first time a wrong version has been pushed out to publish. To be honest it sounds like an oversight given what this is capable of: accessing additional permissions on a rounding error of a percentage of phones out there that actually have superuser capability enabled.
The alternative to an accident is quite bad. If this was done on purpose then someone decided to target a group of people specifically likely to NOT want anything to do with data collection (those who are techie enough to root their phones). This would actually represent active warfare.
The fact that the shitty FB app is preinstalled on many android devices (and cannot be removet without root) is far worse.
That is a giant "meh". Just disable the app. A disabled app in Android literally can't do anything. It can't even be updated let alone run in the background sucking up data.
Apparently, Facebook are now saying that the message is clearly a bug.
It was either a bug or active warfare against the tinfoil hatters. It doesn't make sense for it to be a general hoovering of data as per normal since this permission would only affect the 0.001% of phones that are actually rooted, ... most of which are rooted because people distrust the likes of Facebook in the first place.
You know what happens when you try to force people to use products/services they have no interest in? They go elsewhere. ... Another 5 years
In another 5 years you may well be saying in another 5 years just like cold fusion. If Facebook has shown one thing it's that you can force an incredible amount of shit down your user's throats and they'll say please sir can I have another! Myspace was a relatively small platform that got replaced by a huge alternative. People have predicted the death of Facebook and the Next Big Thing (tm) social network for the past 10 years now. It hasn't happened.
Side note: Never heard of your Facebook storage issue. 9 months since I bought this phone and it's using barely over 300MB of storage and most of that is the initial bloat it comes with.
I'm most surprised that someone with enough technical merit to root their phone, would install the FB app to begin with.
Why not? What does technical have to do with using a service? Being technical doesn't mean you go all tinfoil hat private. Being non-technical doesn't mean you share every breathing second of your life on a Facebook post either.
We can flip this on its head. Having a rooted phone that provides you the fine grained controls to fake your data may be the only way to safely use Facebook.
Disclosure: Have rooted phone, have Facebook. Though have not seen a superuser request from it.
I heard a hilarious German advert today involving a phone assistant that went feral. Among other things it threatened to send the owner's dick picks to their parents.
Stupid thing about that advert was I can't remember what it was for other than many a philosophical commentary on modern life.
It's just expected everything will be free of charge. GPS, military protection, US Navy keeping the sea routes open for wealthy nations like Germany to make a mint on exports, American citizens dying from hyper expensive medical costs while the world benefits from cures we develop, the list goes on
- What's GPS. Personally I use GLONASS and looking forward to Galileo too.
- Military Protection? From whom? Most of the world needs protection only from the USA.
- Sea routes? German exports to where? About the only place of note that Germany exports to via sea is the USA. Take away the USA and Germany's other top 9 export destinations are land based neighbours.
- Medical costs? Look, grabbing your ankles for the pharmaceutical industry is your own fault. No one is forcing American companies to sell overseas, but for some reason they do so anyway and without fucking over the people. Maybe we're just smarter than you.
- The list goes on? I'm sure it does. I can come up with many ways clueless people think they are top shit and only expose their own ignorance.
It's bankrupting us to carry all these free riders along.
Is it? Well that makes you double silly since you're all doing it voluntarily.
It's about time everyone learned to ride the bike without training wheels and pay for themselves. The transition period will be painful but ultimately beneficial for everyone.
Yeah I know. If America up and disappeared a whole world of stupid copyright and IP bullshit will die the death it deserves and the world will be a better place for it. Hell if you did it a few weeks ago maybe there wouldn't be yet another crisis claiming lives in the middle east right now. I have to hand it to you though. You are far more self aware than most Americans.
What's next, an optical illusion that looks like a vase, no, wait, it looks like two faces, no wait, it looks like a vase...
Well we all know that one and it was a well understood phenomenon. This on the other hand..., please show me a long history of materials going back through the ages of how these two words can be misheard.
Understanding how someone can react differently to different things is not foolish, it's due diligence.