Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Still works for me. (Chrome).
The lonely tech post thread.
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souljacker
innit
Weird. I've got ublock now instead which is blocking fine now.
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
Can I back up an old MacBook (c.2010) via Time Machine onto an external drive then connect that drive to my current MacBook and transfer specific files over (music/films/photos)?
Been having a clear out and coaxed it to life & realised it's got lots of photos I'd like. It runs so glacially slowly that I can't transfer the files though.
Been having a clear out and coaxed it to life & realised it's got lots of photos I'd like. It runs so glacially slowly that I can't transfer the files though.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Can anyone tell me why a Microsoft App suddenly refuses to load?
I have IPTV Smarters Expert. When I tried to fire it up, it didn't.
I restarted the PC, no joy. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app, no joy.
Can anyone help please?
I have IPTV Smarters Expert. When I tried to fire it up, it didn't.
I restarted the PC, no joy. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app, no joy.
Can anyone help please?
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
OK, I downloaded another IPTV client, however, I can't drag it from screen one to screen two, any suggestions?
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Store apps can be a pain the arse, but not much experience as Plex does all my needs. Sorry.
I wonder if we need a new thread as it's also being talked about on the fire stick one and you might get people see it who don't read this one?
I wonder if we need a new thread as it's also being talked about on the fire stick one and you might get people see it who don't read this one?
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Looks interesting:
venturebeat.com
Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4
Nvidia has released NVLM 1.0, a powerful open-source AI model that rivals GPT-4 and Google’s systems, marking a major breakthrough in multimodal language models for vision and text tasks.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Looks interesting:
Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: Its new AI model is open, massive, and ready to rival GPT-4
Nvidia has released NVLM 1.0, a powerful open-source AI model that rivals GPT-4 and Google’s systems, marking a major breakthrough in multimodal language models for vision and text tasks.
Isn't Open Source a bit of a red herring with AI? As in the value isn't really the model, but the model trained on data? And it's training isn't and can't really be Open Source. At least that was the takeaway I took from 2.5 Admins podcast I listened to when they were discussing it?
I might be being dense but if it's just the model they're offering then how does it rival OpenAI. Without the training it's not useful to you or I and to train it your going to need a shit load of Nvidia GPUs...
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Update:
This morning I uninstalled (again) my IPTV client and reinstalled it.
It is now working.
This morning I uninstalled (again) my IPTV client and reinstalled it.
It is now working.
PTK
Paul Kegan
Question.
If someone clicks on a link in an email, does the website that they thereby access record their email address?
I received an email from an organisation that contained a link to the website of another organisation. When I clicked on that link, did that other organisation automatically record my email address?
If someone clicks on a link in an email, does the website that they thereby access record their email address?
I received an email from an organisation that contained a link to the website of another organisation. When I clicked on that link, did that other organisation automatically record my email address?
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
If you hover over the link you’ll usually see a load of crap generated after www.sitename.com - so it’s www.sitename.com/email/xjurhhxhshshhxh1737!
/£&(3 Or something - that tracks the email referral, sometimes it’ll capture the email as it’s unique other times it will just capture the source of the referral and tell the company where the referral was from - in this case an email marketing campaign
PTK
Paul Kegan
It is not an email marketing campaign. It seems to be an organisation - a charity - referring clients to a website that it should not be referring them to.If you hover over the link you’ll usually see a load of crap generated after www.sitename.com - so it’s www.sitename.com/email/xjurhhxhshshhxh1737!
Or something - that tracks the email referral, sometimes it’ll capture the email as it’s unique other times it will just capture the source of the referral and tell the company where the referral was from - in this case an email marketing campaign
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
When you click on a link in your email client, what happens is the client opens your default browser and passes the hyperlink to it as a string. The browser understands what this is and goes to the website. The website also gets passed the full string as part of the process of calling whatever program runs on the website and does whatever it may do with it.
As Artaxerxes pointed out in his example what has happened is that Site A has passed some details about you to Site B with a reference number which is in the hyperlink you've been sent so Site B can then find those details about you which will definitely include your email address.
If you're asking can the website harvest your email from the PC because you've clicked from within your email client then the answer is No but they almost certainly have it already.
As Artaxerxes pointed out in his example what has happened is that Site A has passed some details about you to Site B with a reference number which is in the hyperlink you've been sent so Site B can then find those details about you which will definitely include your email address.
If you're asking can the website harvest your email from the PC because you've clicked from within your email client then the answer is No but they almost certainly have it already.
PTK
Paul Kegan
Why do they almost certainly have my email address already?
PTK
Paul Kegan
I'm not following you.
If I email you a link to The Guardian, and you click on it, does The Guardian now have your email address? I would not have given The Guardian your email address, but you seem to be suggesting that I would have.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I think we're talking at cross purposes here? As the email been forwarded to you from someone you know? or a company? If it's from someone you know then no the company at the other end of the link will not have your email address.
If it has been sent to you from a company (Site A) then clearly they have your email address because they have sent you an email. If there is a link to a different company's website in that email then that company (Site B) can't get your email address from your PC but Site A has likely forwarded it to them and as in Artaxerxes example anything after the first / in the URL is data that Site B's computer will process and can use to lookup whatever data Site A has sent them. It doesn't have to contain your email address but there is little point in it otherwise.
PTK
Paul Kegan
Thanks.
I am on the mailing list of a charity. It sent me a link.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I'm putting together unused hardware to give us an additional screen in the spare room. Much to my surprise, the unused BenQ monitor I was given has speakers and I've still got an old Chromecast from before I got a smart TV.
Maybe aspirational, but I fancy doing some early morning Yoga without disturbing my partner. The monitor has a 3.5mm out so I've been looking at very cheap Bluetooth adapters, first on Amazon and now Aliexpress. Has anyone used one and are they going to be a fucker to pair with headphones?
Maybe aspirational, but I fancy doing some early morning Yoga without disturbing my partner. The monitor has a 3.5mm out so I've been looking at very cheap Bluetooth adapters, first on Amazon and now Aliexpress. Has anyone used one and are they going to be a fucker to pair with headphones?
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
An academic friend of mine was using university computers to work on her book. She lost the last chapter because onedrive deleted it or doesn't recognise it or something. None of the computers have actual hard drives so there was no possibility to make a local backup - so she has lost the last chapter and has been trying for 3 days to get it back - and now they don't think she can 
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
The number of stories I've heard of people losing stuff on OneDrive is...interesting. I've not heard similar stories about Dropbox, Box, or the others. For the company I run, I've set up a "private" cloud-sharing service (Owncloud), and that's as solid as a rock, much as the idea of that amount of irreplaceable data gives me the occasional sleepless night.
A Microsoft product, being flaky? Surely not!
A Microsoft product, being flaky? Surely not!
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
OneDrive is a helluva lot better than Dropbox. Believe me it still has issues, but it's generally Least Worst. Source: moving 20,000+ students from one to the other. You can engage Microsoft over lost data, and users can recover old copies themselves using the "Previous Versions" tab in Explorer. DB was more like "Oopsie. Now fuck off."
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
There’s a problem with certain versions of Word where if you edit a document and go to exit, when it prompts you asking whether you want to save the file, if you say yes it deletes the file instead. Nice huh?
www.techradar.com
Microsoft Word is accidentally deleting documents rather than saving them
Microsoft flags embarrassing issue with Word for Windows
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
With my programmer hat on, I can see how a screwup like this is quite easy to make. But it also betrays something else - where's the testing regime, where's the QA? Something like this ought to be quite straightforward to build a test case for, and you'd have thought, with the wealth of experience MS have with that product alone, that they'd be in a position to have a very comprehensive testing suite for the application.There’s a problem with certain versions of Word where if you edit a document and go to exit, when it prompts you asking whether you want to save the file, if you say yes it deletes the file instead. Nice huh?
Microsoft Word is accidentally deleting documents rather than saving them
Microsoft flags embarrassing issue with Word for Windows
But then I know from experience elsewhere that even quite polished, professional software can easily be a completely disorganised mess underneath, and plenty of software houses prioritise the glossy marketing side of things a long way above the boring business of testing them to within an inch of their lives.
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
[gets on soapbox]
All these stories about people losing files using OneDrive are almost certainly just that: stories.
OneDrive doesn't lose files. People, however, lose/delete files all the time and then love to blame the tech for their mistakes.
OneDrive - in addition to a file's version history - at least has a recycle bin (and then a second-stage recycle bin!) to allow people to recover from accidentally deleted files.
Speaking of stories, here's an example of a scare story.
No. Word doesn't routinely delete files despite the impression the article headline gives.
Word for Microsoft 365 (i.e. the cloud-based version, not desktop Word) version 2409, build 18025.20104 might delete a file if the title* contains a capitalized file extension (.DOCX, .RTF) or #".
If that happened, you can still get the file back from the Recycle Bin.
And, being the cloud-based version, MS gets to fix the bug without you ever needing to install updates, etc.
*not sure if the quoted article actually means title or file name. Obviously file extensions, when created by the relevant app, wouldn't have a capitalised file extension.
[/soapbox]
All these stories about people losing files using OneDrive are almost certainly just that: stories.
OneDrive doesn't lose files. People, however, lose/delete files all the time and then love to blame the tech for their mistakes.
OneDrive - in addition to a file's version history - at least has a recycle bin (and then a second-stage recycle bin!) to allow people to recover from accidentally deleted files.
Speaking of stories, here's an example of a scare story.
There’s a problem with certain versions of Word where if you edit a document and go to exit, when it prompts you asking whether you want to save the file, if you say yes it deletes the file instead. Nice huh?
Microsoft Word is accidentally deleting documents rather than saving them
Microsoft flags embarrassing issue with Word for Windows
No. Word doesn't routinely delete files despite the impression the article headline gives.
Word for Microsoft 365 (i.e. the cloud-based version, not desktop Word) version 2409, build 18025.20104 might delete a file if the title* contains a capitalized file extension (.DOCX, .RTF) or #".
If that happened, you can still get the file back from the Recycle Bin.
And, being the cloud-based version, MS gets to fix the bug without you ever needing to install updates, etc.
*not sure if the quoted article actually means title or file name. Obviously file extensions, when created by the relevant app, wouldn't have a capitalised file extension.
[/soapbox]
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