So now that this powerful user is gone and the software is still out of convention, we are stuck with an unfriendly behavior on an extremely popular software because of.... Inertia and this makes a cool story?
Readit Newskuzko_topia commented on Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find devblogs.microsoft.com/ol... · Posted by u/morder
geizhals.eu is in fact not in english (I never visited it before and it shows in German by default). I can't immediately find a language selector. I don't have german in my preferred languages browser setting.
I am getting german, on the eu version, from France, with an english default browser setting...
kuzko_topia commented on Is that ship still stuck? istheshipstillstuck.com/... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Yeah because what we really need to fix this situation is several hundred giant blenders exploding in mid air fireball of high velocity steel on top of the jammed ship
Absolutely glorious, though I'm wondering what recent synced drones could do for that instead of faking foreworks.
kuzko_topia commented on Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair reasonstobecheerful.world... · Posted by u/janvdberg
SIM/operator locks have been already rare (in Europe) for a while, and that's great!
But there are Android phones that come with bootloader/OS lock, which often means old device is stuck with some ancient OS version (and some bundled bloatware), instead of being able to be reflashed to a recent LineageOS.
Xiaomi's phones are locked like this, requiring a mi account to unlock the device to allow flashing thé device...
Review sites also allow you to post things that are positive.
The whole point here is to not have those shady positive reviews, so why ask for them?
kuzko_topia commented on Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees courdecassation.fr/IMG/20... · Posted by u/Aissen
They moved responsibility for determining whether a person is acting as an employee or a vendor in the vast majority of cases to the client, who must demonstrate a bunch of factors (I'm not a tax guy), not least
- the "vendor's" right to substitute himself for a replacement they subcontract (via employment or otherwise) to, irrespective of the client's deemed suitability of the chosen replacement
- the "vendor's" right to a significant level of autonomy, such as the ability to choose their working hours and lunches, and have high level control over their workflow
- the process of determination 'employee' vs 'vendor' must be significantly documented and can be challenged in retrospect for years after completion of the contract
Falling on the wrong side of a determination could leave the client liable for mandatory national insurance and pay-as-you-earn tax deductions. Now HMRC need not prosecute individual contractors, but instead clients (who may hire hundreds of contractors), making the enforcement process much more efficient for them, and much higher risk for the clients.
Net result for companies: building big overnight temporary teams out of contractors e.g. for 6-12 month projects are vastly less likely to do so, for fear that at some future date, the tax man could claw back a year's worth of tax for e.g. 20 contractors on the same project, with non-compliance and late payment penalties lumped on top (which themselves increase with respect to how long it took HMRC to get around to investigating you). It could be the case (hypothetically) that it would only require one member of a team to report the inability to substitute, or the presence of a line manager, for an entire project team's worth of tax to get a question mark placed next to it.
Net result for contractors: anyone who understands what's going on has either pivoted into becoming a permanent employee, avoiding the whole mess, since contracting is an expensive activity to begin with, and the premium has now been removed, or has banded with a few friends and attempted to set up "micro agencies". I've already encountered these, where substitution was advertised very early in conversation.
Net result for the market: it will be all but gone by April 2020.
Well, from your feedback, the law seem to have had the required effect combining supression of disguised employment, assigning the right responsibility to parties involved and avoiding dilution of said responsibility.
Gosh, this website is one of the worst cookie consent implementation with the oath familly...
kuzko_topia commented on AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review anandtech.com/show/15043/... · Posted by u/neogodless
Factorio is also limited by single core performance, with the developers saying they have no plans to implement multithreading.
This is unfortunate, and I'm saying this as an AMD owner and factorio player. Do you have a source for this?
kuzko_topia commented on Create FreeBSD Current OpenStack Image on OVH Public Cloud fralix.fr/posts/create_fr... · Posted by u/fredericalix
(i think) you could use virt-sparsify instead of qemu-img to make final image even smaller
You can, we do this to reduce instance creation time. Though doing this by hand is tedious, that's nothing a good CI pipeline couldn't help with
There is surprisingly little info available on how to do code signing for Windows now. I don't want to use a physical device - with fully remote teams it's not feasible. Eventually settled on Azure KeyVault with Digicert (I don't like Comodo aka Sectigo). There is really little info available on how to get it all to work together, and you have to spent around $600 before you can even try and see whether it can work.
Now that it's all configured, the setup works well. The new setup of doing the signing via Azure is more secure than storing the private keys on the CI system. But I never thought that signing an app for Windows would be more difficult than signing for macOS or iOS.