Posts by anonymous cat herder

Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements

I still can't shake the feeling that requiring the TPM is a trojan horse tactic. Once every PC is running windows with a TPM, the screws will be turned, signed drivers will be a non-negotiable requirement, and anything not approved by Microsoft can be hard blocked. It feels like a move to be more like Apple where you don't really control your own device any more.

Andrew Tate's site ransacked, subscriber data stolen

Re: Buried in the lede

Anyone can start a cult, but only the ones with a money angle seem to last. What we're seeing here is survival of the fittest at work.

Re: Hurrah

+1 for markdown support in reg comments ;-)

Keir Starmer tells regulators to chill as Microsoft exec takes wheel of advisory council

I remember when we used to say that the other way round. Ahh, happy days, things were always better in the past.

Microsoft veteran ditches Team Tabs, blaming storage trauma of yesteryear

Re: Jeez who cares??

If only there was some way the formatting style could be saved along with the files themselves, then every editor would be able to convert whatever keystrokes you use into the preferred representation for saving. Some sort of platform-independent editor config file perhaps?

Every (decent) code editor in existence can support .editorconfig and it makes the code look consistent whoever edits it. I find myself writing custom editorconfig files for all sorts of imported projects, just to preserve their historical, sometimes arcane, tab/space conventions.

Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App

Re: Can you not just fuck off?

If they priced it at $100 (online distribution only, no media costs) they would sell millions and make the same money back.

There is no honor among RAM thieves – but sometimes there is karma

Those heatsink clips that need a quarter turn to release have caused me problems too. One time the tool I was using slipped and cut several tracks on the surface of the motherboard; caused a fun afternoon repairing them with a soldering iron that was far too large.

New Outlook set for GA despite missing some key features

Re: "Block extract text"

I'd heard that was because doing a ring 0 transition for every GDI call was too slow. I never noticed it myself, but maybe they were looking to solve performance problems running games on nt/win95 when the platforms were merged.

Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage

Re: they may offer a worse experience on Google sites

I think there's something even more fundamental going on. Every field of human endeavour puts up barriers to keep out the uninitiated, you also see it in doctors, solicitors, biochemists, all the way back to witch doctors and religion.

Singapore's banks to ditch texted one-time passwords

According to BBC scam interceptors program, establishing a remote connection to the phone with e.g. anydesk is a fairly standard part of the script. OTP authenticators on a phone can be set to require a fingerprint before they generate the code; this is much harder to obtain without the local user's interaction and unlikely to be enforceable on a pc. The scammers then presumably use social engineering to bully the user into providing it anyway, but it gives the bank a plausible excuse to claim the user is culpable.

If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately

Re: That's why I hate java script

Just because everyone has done it for years doesn't make it right. 100,000 lemmings can't be wrong.,..

Australian billionaire wins right to sue Facebook in the US over scam ads

Re: "won the right to sue Meta"

they should compare notes with "Led By Donkeys" - satire in the same vein :-)

Return to office mandates had senior employees jumping ship

Re: Skimming the paper didn't help, it still sucks

HR's sole purpose is to protect the company from its employees, and legal liability arising as a consequence. Providing that data could give the employees ammunition against the company so HR will never willingly provide it.

Blue screen of death or Eurovision's Windows95man performance – what's less annoying?

Re: Not the sound issue.

I only caught parts of the semi final, but to my ear several of them sounded gemini-class flat, too. Is it a common problem in big events?

Re: Can anyone offer us a serious explanation

According to grammarly, retch is a verb that means “to vomit,” and wretch is a noun that means “an unhappy or unlucky person." Even Merriam Webster agrees with this UK speaker that they are separate words with different meanings. The sense here is definitely retching.

Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real?

I use comskip on recordings, which detects adverts and generates a cut list so the player automatically jumps them. It's getting a bit long in the tooth though, and some broadcasters have learnt how to game the clues it uses to decide. Sounds like a perfect problem for deep learning; has anyone done one that can be used?

European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits

That's a fairly standard "security torx" pattern. The usual trick is to then put them at the bottom of a long narrow hole so a hex drive screwdriver with a torx security bit cannot be used, but you can get long reach security torx bits which solve the problem nicely.

Microsoft claims it didn't mean to inject Copilot into Windows Server 2022 this week

Re: Rename it to "CrapPlot"

Could that be because github copilot which does that is charged separately? Why make them pay for one product when they will pay for two?