A few site updates

Become 21st century for real.

Yes, spy on users. Report loads of “telemetry” back to the mothership. Lock people into a walled garden and throw tantrums when international regulators say “don’t”. Plaster invasive advertising all over the place. Screw everybody over because inflating your bottom line is far more important than user satisfaction. Drop everything into the cloud “because” and shrug when a whoopsie makes all of it temporarily unavailable. Shoehorn AI into everything even though there’s no such thing as the I in A, just endless hype and promises. And, most of all, teach a generation that there’s no such thing as privacy.

Yes, brilliant idea. Let’s all join the sh*tshow that is 21st century computing.

The fact that Computer Concepts hasn’t done anything RISC OS-related in around 25 years

The fact that someone has nothing better to do with their life than spout tosh about how an OS with zero 64 software, and most of the 32 bit software with embedded reliance on features of the 32-bit environment, would somehow be much better, instantly is pretty symptomatic of their life.

Myself, just popped in to see what news there was about any ROOL site tweaks might have happened as part of an escape from work related IT. Answer, zero

One should ask, from an overall logistic perspective, what is less hassle of doing 32-bit RISC OS multikernel/thread on a single CPU (there’s a thread here to that effect) versus rewrite it in C and compile it for 64-bit multikernel/thread and multi-CPU systems. The latter would certainly make RISC OS processing much faster, and real-time emulation of 26/32-bit software too. Apart from the OS the SDK would need updating too. Then RISC OS could claim to be a modern operating system worthy of the 21st Century which it patently isn’t in its 32-bit state.

Let us know which was easier when you’ve done it.

Silly me, thinking this topic might be about the site crashing all the time.

I’m not sure how many UK/EU people will have noticed, but it fails at around 3:00 AM GMT with a generic error message. It gets automatically rebooted at 4:30 and comes right shortly afterwards.

The site habitually goes down around 5am UK time (I notice at 6am European time, so it might be a little earlier) and comes back about an hour later.
I’m not sure why (I’m not the admin). Backups, perhaps? Or running all the autobuilder stuff?

Recently, however, I’ve noticed that instead of not responding, it gives an error message. I don’t know if this is intentional (better than a simple no response), or if whatever is supposed to be happening fails…

[and, yes, it did it again this morning]

…and earlier today, but we’re back so I think somebody greased the hamster wheel. ;)