It doesn't let you connect in Incognito/Private Mode *AND* it won't allow archive.org to cache stories off it. This should NOT be on slashdot since it may not be there in the future for historical reference. Fuck urls that aren't mirrored!
^ This.
It is at least viewable in Firefox private browsing mode, but no-go with Chrome incognito.
I'm looking to switch from Ubuntu (18.04) to Mint soon. Ubuntu just seems to have far too many issues, and things that no longer work as well as they used to.
I can fully appreciate why someone who uses tooling to get stuff done, and has already taken the time to learn and understand that tooling, really doesn't need to be wasting their time to switch to something else that does the same thing.
But, the flip side is, some of this stuff is so arcane.
I can't speak as an even vaguely "good" developer, because I'm not. But what little tinkering I've done with various Debian packages, it's been sodding hard work. Typically, something I'm doing isn't quite what I should be doing... e.g. I've downloaded the source packages and tried recompiling, except I'm doing it under Raspbian and some of their packages aren't quite in sync (e.g. debhelper is slightly older).
So then, because things are not working as per the instructions I'm looking at on how to build Debian packages, I'm faced with _trying_ to grok what is being done.
Now, this is in large part because I'm not an experienced *nix user or C programmer. So for example, whilst I broadly know what make does and what a makefile is (the person who decided that using a space or a tab in the wrong place would break things really should suffer in the next life however), the syntax is pretty hateful and I don't want to have to try to understand the whole thing. Plus, this is Debian, so it's probably generated by some other tool and to try to read and understand it will take me a huge amount of time alone.
Plus there's absolutely loads of other bits of tooling all glued together somehow. Any time I've looked at it, it's just a bunch of rabbit holes I go down, leading to another, and then to another, before eventually I have to call it quits because I can't invest the time, for what is typically some minor issue that I might hope to be able to fix.
I know the above is a bit unfocused and ranty... and I would understand if people wrote it off as being down to my lack of understanding. My concern is that if newbies want to jump in and contribute, the barrier to entry is very very steep, and as a result, it's likely people won't bother.
A few months ago I encountered a problem with file / libmagic (or something) where a file beginning with "80" would report as being mime-type "application/zlib"... in my case, I had a text file that happened to start with "80" and should've been reported as "text/plain".
Turns out this only happened in Debian Jessie and not Stretch. And reporting involved using the Debian reporting tool... and I dunno, it just all looked too much like hard work. And I knew I'd be updating to Stretch soon anyway and I could work around the immediate problem so... I didn't bother.
My initial reaction also. But the obvious retort is surely to then ask said MS Project Manager when Microsoft themselves will climb off their high horse and switch to GNU/Linux?!
It's such an obvious counter argument, that if I worked at MS, I'd question whether said MS Project Manager should really be working there and maybe they should at the very least, stay away from social media.
It needs to be free (as in beer at least) otherwise why bother. I can't understand how they can charge for Windows now. Charging for support I get, but otherwise... nope.
Plus you haven't factored in the time it take him/her to drive to where the router is and then somehow sneak in, hook up a laptop and to the fix and then sneak out!;-)
and eventually be moved into an AppX application with a tiled interface with ribbons and Cortana build into it.
I only skimmed TFA, but this update *does* include Bing integration. Because, for the last 30 years, that's exactly what people have consistently been asking for!
Maybe the browser should keep quiet unless it is instructed to submit information?
Use-case: The proverbial "little old lady" searches for knitting patterns. Clicks on the link. Whilst it _may_ be a concern that an evil party may insert/replace content, I'm not certain that telling her that the site isn't secure really helps her.
Why would she expect the site to be "secure"? What does it mean to her that the site is deemed "insecure"?
I can see the utility in warning users not to use insecure forms, particularly ones that appear to collect personal information... so search forms don't count, but I think HTTPS everywhere is OTT. It simply doesn't help not least because there's still so many risks even if a site does use HTTPS.
Sounds like a lot of British stuff in so far as, there's some great qualities to it, but it'll be fucked up by someone winging it a bit on one or two critical features *AND* totally fucking up the marketing.
This kind of functionality is only available to paying customers who want the latest and greatest Microsoft can deliver. This feature will likely get it's own bullet point on a "list of what's new in Windows 10-foo" power-point presentation that someone, who works for MS, probably in sales, and is very very sad, will have to sit through. There's a whole 'nother world out there. And it's awful. But, I can ignore it because I don't use Windows.:)
I can almost BET they have already squandered a ton of taxpayer dollars from which they will get kickbacks one way or another
Plus there will be costs for court cases where people are injured by this... even assuming it *really is* human safe, what happens if someone's smart-phone/tablet/laptop explodes?
Slashdot Mirror
Wouldn't it be nice if the world could sign mutual extradition treaties for certain types of crimes that ruin the internet.
Unnecessary. Just make blindly downloading and opening executables, illeg^H^H^H^H^H executable!! :D
I mean, I think we all know what the real problem is don't we?!
It doesn't let you connect in Incognito/Private Mode *AND* it won't allow archive.org to cache stories off it. This should NOT be on slashdot since it may not be there in the future for historical reference. Fuck urls that aren't mirrored!
^ This.
It is at least viewable in Firefox private browsing mode, but no-go with Chrome incognito.
I'm looking to switch from Ubuntu (18.04) to Mint soon. Ubuntu just seems to have far too many issues, and things that no longer work as well as they used to.
I can fully appreciate why someone who uses tooling to get stuff done, and has already taken the time to learn and understand that tooling, really doesn't need to be wasting their time to switch to something else that does the same thing.
:D
But, the flip side is, some of this stuff is so arcane.
I can't speak as an even vaguely "good" developer, because I'm not. But what little tinkering I've done with various Debian packages, it's been sodding hard work. Typically, something I'm doing isn't quite what I should be doing... e.g. I've downloaded the source packages and tried recompiling, except I'm doing it under Raspbian and some of their packages aren't quite in sync (e.g. debhelper is slightly older).
So then, because things are not working as per the instructions I'm looking at on how to build Debian packages, I'm faced with _trying_ to grok what is being done.
Now, this is in large part because I'm not an experienced *nix user or C programmer. So for example, whilst I broadly know what make does and what a makefile is (the person who decided that using a space or a tab in the wrong place would break things really should suffer in the next life however), the syntax is pretty hateful and I don't want to have to try to understand the whole thing. Plus, this is Debian, so it's probably generated by some other tool and to try to read and understand it will take me a huge amount of time alone.
Plus there's absolutely loads of other bits of tooling all glued together somehow. Any time I've looked at it, it's just a bunch of rabbit holes I go down, leading to another, and then to another, before eventually I have to call it quits because I can't invest the time, for what is typically some minor issue that I might hope to be able to fix.
I know the above is a bit unfocused and ranty... and I would understand if people wrote it off as being down to my lack of understanding. My concern is that if newbies want to jump in and contribute, the barrier to entry is very very steep, and as a result, it's likely people won't bother.
A few months ago I encountered a problem with file / libmagic (or something) where a file beginning with "80" would report as being mime-type "application/zlib"... in my case, I had a text file that happened to start with "80" and should've been reported as "text/plain".
Turns out this only happened in Debian Jessie and not Stretch. And reporting involved using the Debian reporting tool... and I dunno, it just all looked too much like hard work. And I knew I'd be updating to Stretch soon anyway and I could work around the immediate problem so... I didn't bother.
Anyway... thank you (anyone) for listening!
Eve (S01E11)
If life continues to imitate art, we can expect the twins to develop superhuman intelligence and strength, as well as homicidal psychoses.
It would be like the Belcerabons who were sentenced to telepathy. Everyone would have to go around talking continually about inane trivia.
> OHHH, YOU'RE VERY TALL AREN'T YOU?
>> YES I AM VERY TALL. LOVELY WEATHER TODAY ISN'T IT?
etc etc.
What a jackass.
My initial reaction also. But the obvious retort is surely to then ask said MS Project Manager when Microsoft themselves will climb off their high horse and switch to GNU/Linux?!
It's such an obvious counter argument, that if I worked at MS, I'd question whether said MS Project Manager should really be working there and maybe they should at the very least, stay away from social media.
Field marshal MIDI?
Probably... whatever, they were both in NAMM together.
It needs to be free (as in beer at least) otherwise why bother. I can't understand how they can charge for Windows now. Charging for support I get, but otherwise... nope.
Plus you haven't factored in the time it take him/her to drive to where the router is and then somehow sneak in, hook up a laptop and to the fix and then sneak out! ;-)
Inside job.
You take that back! Right now!!
It's certainly a challenging time to be me, but me... but I shall get through this!
So this "trivial subdomain hiding" thing... it's a crap idea right?
The name "Yleem D.S. Poblete" sounds like the type of name a race of alien lizard people would choose as sounding nice and inconspicuous!
And that's coming from me!!
and eventually be moved into an AppX application with a tiled interface with ribbons and Cortana build into it.
I only skimmed TFA, but this update *does* include Bing integration. Because, for the last 30 years, that's exactly what people have consistently been asking for!
Maybe the browser should keep quiet unless it is instructed to submit information?
Use-case: The proverbial "little old lady" searches for knitting patterns. Clicks on the link. Whilst it _may_ be a concern that an evil party may insert/replace content, I'm not certain that telling her that the site isn't secure really helps her.
Why would she expect the site to be "secure"? What does it mean to her that the site is deemed "insecure"?
I can see the utility in warning users not to use insecure forms, particularly ones that appear to collect personal information... so search forms don't count, but I think HTTPS everywhere is OTT. It simply doesn't help not least because there's still so many risks even if a site does use HTTPS.
Cheers!!! :D
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Off-topic I know, but what does "APK" stand for?
Sounds like a lot of British stuff in so far as, there's some great qualities to it, but it'll be fucked up by someone winging it a bit on one or two critical features *AND* totally fucking up the marketing.
oi m8 a tree nicked me foamie
And what accent would that be?
Or will this be backported to Windows 7?
This kind of functionality is only available to paying customers who want the latest and greatest Microsoft can deliver. This feature will likely get it's own bullet point on a "list of what's new in Windows 10-foo" power-point presentation that someone, who works for MS, probably in sales, and is very very sad, will have to sit through. There's a whole 'nother world out there. And it's awful. But, I can ignore it because I don't use Windows. :)
News Flash From The Future
Financial melt-down due to developer pulling NPM packages for some arbitrary reason; economists inconsolable!
...or first post?
I can almost BET they have already squandered a ton of taxpayer dollars from which they will get kickbacks one way or another
Plus there will be costs for court cases where people are injured by this... even assuming it *really is* human safe, what happens if someone's smart-phone/tablet/laptop explodes?
It really looks great... image here > Spectrum Next