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buffoonon Android 6.0 Marshmallow Reviewed

Definitely.

I wrote a mental note that that when I have to start thinking in this manor and tread carefully in a minefield then the technology does not serve me any more and I don't want it.

Time up.

buffoonon RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan

This immediately came to mind when I read this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGi6j2VrL0o

buffoonon Taurinus X200 laptop now FSF-certified to respect your freedom

Most stuff is like this. If you pick up an HP, Casio or TI calculator these days you'll find they are all Kinpo calculators with slightly different firmware.

buffoonon Taurinus X200 laptop now FSF-certified to respect your freedom

Yep.

I paid $170 (in UK money) for a 2.4GHz i5 520M X201 with 4Gb of RAM...

buffoonon Taurinus X200 laptop now FSF-certified to respect your freedom

You forgot the ridiculous price tag for a refurb X200. My stacked X201 8Gb of RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 pro, new 9-cell, ultrabase with DVDRW, keyboard, mouse, 22" TFT cost about the price of their bottom end model in total (via ebay)

I assume it hasn't got a hard disk in it as well as they are technically standalone computers with closed source firmware as well these days.

Freedom is expensive.

buffoonon Rise of the Synthesizer

The Juno 106 is absolutely glorious.

Not everyone's type of music but this track is basically a Juno 106 pad, strings and lead demo and my angry driving music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsLYwR9Jp-Y

I myself drive a Korg Triton which I paid equiv $90 for because it was broken. Turned out to be a shorted cap in the power supply that took 10 mins with a multimeter to find.

buffoonon Google's driverless car is brilliant but so boring

They need a London nutcase detector for the UK. That's a whole different case. I was on a bus a couple of weeks ago and a completely naked man proceeded to walk in front of it and take a selfie of the bus and himself with his phone.

buffoonon Has London succeeded at the expense of the rest of the UK?

4) have three kids, work on crappy enterprise crud apps, live in a house in a nice area near good schools.

It's fine. Seriously.

buffoonon GitHub supports Universal 2nd Factor authentication

Just a warning with the yubikeys. I had to use a solution that had these for a few months. The USB port of my laptop (2011 MBP) was pretty much worn out due the physical insertion and removal - other stuff would just fall out. Eventually this port blew entirely stopped working.

This is not specific to the MBP as a colleague's ThinkPad had the same problem.

buffoonon Has London succeeded at the expense of the rest of the UK?

Financial wit is a killer definitely. A lot of people spend a lot of money on things that they don't need then complain about their life collapsing around them. I've done this before and spent 5 years digging myself out of it. Everything I'm saying is because I've learned about it the hard way.

I'm glad to say that they teach this in secondary schools now. I have hope for the younger generations.

buffoonon Has London succeeded at the expense of the rest of the UK?

I was brought up on a very rough London housing association estate in the 1970s and 1980s.

Most of the people complaining do not know poverty or have anything to compare it to.

Poverty for me was being sent out at the age of 5 to nick milk off people's doorsteps at 6am because the local food canteen was empty the night before and no one would dare kick a child in because the police might actually give a shit then...

buffoonon Has London succeeded at the expense of the rest of the UK?

She has a mortgage that the benefits are paying interest only on and disability benefit as well for her children. She bought the house in 2002 so the mortgage isn't terrible. I think she breaks even every month on a good month.

I will add that her husband died from bowel cancer in 2006. If ever you think your life is a bitch, it's a good comparison point.

buffoonon Has London succeeded at the expense of the rest of the UK?

Carer. My neighbor is one for her two disabled children. She sells art and things on ebay to make ends meet.

buffoonon Has London succeeded at the expense of the rest of the UK?

I'm not super-rich and I'm doing fine in London. So is everyone I know and that includes nurses, programmers, artists and carers perhaps ironically. None of them are moving away.

What is a big problem is hyperbole, media and vocal whiners.

Social mobility is bollocks as well. It's perfectly possible to do it and it is easier than it has ever been due to the sheer piles of education available for little to nothing and the thousands of opportunities. Motivation and time are the only constraints.

Edit: everyone I know has moved up the social ladder, if there is one. We all appear to be in the same shit at the end of the day.

buffoonon Windows 7 Update appears to be compromised?

No we go "hmm that might fuck something up; let's try it on a test VM" or at the very least google and see if anyone else has any problems.

buffoonon Windows 7 Update appears to be compromised?

This was Oct 2014. KB2949927.

buffoonon Windows 7 Update appears to be compromised?

No no no no no. I've watched entire networks of machines downed with auto-updates. Always read, always test.

buffoonon Windows 7 Update appears to be compromised?

That might have been the only text that allowed the updated to be signed.

buffoonon Windows 7 Update appears to be compromised?

Appeared on WSUS as well...

NEVER turn on auto updates on windows. Read all the KBs, then choose to install, ALWAYS. If you have a corp network, use WSUS and stop all updates and check them. If the KB is content-free like the new ones, no install. I avoided the whole CEIP bag of shit and Windows 10 upgrade notification hell thanks to that.

buffoonon Links between coffee and health

You're right but if I'm honest, for me it was because I pissed all my cash on a powerbook instantly and forgot to budget for stuff like food ;-)

I still own that powerbook and it still works and thanks to it I learned to cook so it was a good investment in the long run.

buffoonon ThinkPad P50 and P70 Hands-On

I really didn't like my old Mac trackpad (2011 MBP). It made my fingers very sore.

buffoonon ThinkPad P50 and P70 Hands-On

I'm not sure I speak for the masses here but I really want a new high end ThinkPad that doesn't have a touchpad at all like my X201: http://i.imgur.com/oOiyl32.jpg

I only ever use the trackpoint when I'm out with it and the rest of the time it is docked and I have a cheap wireless Logitech mouse.

buffoonon Links between coffee and health

“That first cup of coffee in the morning is happiness.” Chopra said. “It’s a real joy.”

That's what I thought. The I went through a rough patch with no money as a student and couldn't afford it. The first two weeks taught me that it was actually a monkey on my back. I can't think of a better term but I felt like boiled shit.

I only drink water now.

buffoonon New Chromecast 2015

This. My Bravia no longer works with iPlayer. That was the first and last time I got burned by that.

buffoonon Amazon Flex

I was paying for prime but dumped it. Turns out if you pick the free option and the stuff is dispatched by amazon it tends to turn up within 48 hours anyway so fuck it.

Also, I live 100 yards from Currys/PC World and they're actually cheaper on a lot of things (which was a bit WTF when I discovered it)

buffoonon Amazon Flex

Same here. They throw the shit on my doorstep on the street in London, ring the doorbell and walk off.

One day I lost a 512 gig Samsung 840 Pro to this as someone walked off with the package as I was out. Amazon sorted it next day but that's not the point.

buffoonon Google Nexus 5x and 6P

£160 gets you a nice handset these days in the UK sim free. I couldn't put down £500; too painful.

buffoonon Apple’s approach to privacy

Definitely. There was a story a few years ago about the South African postal system delivering 99% of all letters over a period of time. Turns out when you aggregate that across how many they sent they only lost a couple of hundreds of thousands of letters.

Percentage is a convenient con used in some contexts.

buffoonon Your DI framework is killing your code

This is pretty much how we deal with this in a DI framework anyway. The constructor of the transport takes the host and the send method takes the message.

   emailSender = SMTPSender(host='localhost') # in container
   emailSender.send(message)                  # in implementation

The consumer of the SMTPSender only interacts with the send() method.

buffoonon Your DI framework is killing your code

The anemic way is modeled correctly anyway.

An email doesn't send itself nor does it interact with the transport. The transport (MUA/MTA for example) is responsible for delivering it via whatever method it happens to support. The container delivers the transport to the code. The consuming code doesn't care what the transport and method does, merely introduce the two and let them make sweet email love.

The article stinks of circa 2002 purist babble.