Simon Ritter

@speakjava

Deputy CTO. Java Champion, member Java SE Expert Group, JCP EC, OpenJDK Vulnerability Group and Adoptium SC. AMA about Java and JVM.

London, UK twiends.com/speakjava Joined March 2012

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Latest posts 5

Simon Ritter @speakjava Nov 1

My weekend @ubuntu experience is not a pleasant one.
How does curl not get installed by default, FFS?
What perverse logic makes a default install non-POSIX-compliant?
Next year certainly won't be the year of the Linux desktop if this is the best that can be offered.

Simon Ritter @speakjava Nov 1

I just upgraded my Linux box from Ubuntu 22.04 to 26.04.
The experience is very much like going into a supermarket and finding that everything has been moved around for no apparently good reason.
I'm sure there is some reason, but it's incredibly annoying.

Simon Ritter @speakjava Oct 21

Why is Windows and Windows applications so shockingly bad at cleaning up after itself?
I can find upwards of 50GB of cache files, patches, log files, none of which are necessary.
Do developers really think that disk space is unlimited?

Simon Ritter @speakjava Oct 20

I have to say the AI assistant on the @WesternDigiCare website is missing the "I" in AI.
I just typed, "How do I get a receipt or invoice", and its response was, "I think you want warranty, is that correct?"
How does that possibly make any sense?

Simon Ritter @speakjava Oct 16

@RoyalMail clearly exists in a different temporal dimension from the rest of us.
My package, which was dispatched as 48-hour tracked delivery, still hasn't moved from where it was dropped off after four days (which, by my calculation, is 96 hours)...
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