Posts by hohumladida

Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds

Re: Just goes to show that they always could remove this crap...

Well its not really funny once you realize that the 'fake' Linus is a paid shill for the biggest bidder.

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond

Re: FUCK! Just FUCK!!!

This is precisely why they are injecting AI into it. Notepad has always been a very popular app. Microsoft was too dumb to know that until they started collecting user data using the trojan horse that is Windows 10 and up.

Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’

Re: Government sponsored faraday cages

Yes they do if you want 100% shielding and don't want the inside of of the cage inducing an electric field with you in it.

Re: Government sponsored faraday cages

You will be wishing for earthing in a thunderstorm!

Stop Pakistani content at the border, India tells media, tech biz

Ahem, it's NettinYahoo to you.

Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

Re: It's the bug bounty

People are not paid for blood because then it will attract drug cartels to start trafficking blood or even worse.

This is a false equivalence. The effort required to find bugs can be significant (can take thousands of hours). Donating blood is just an hour spent at the clinic.

Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

Re: Sceptic

Ah it's open source but C# is only supported on Microshaft's own IDE VS code which is also open source.

IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette

Re: "thousands of US jobs have been cut"

True, they still have mainframes with their z series. But they used to be in so much more than main frames. And who uses their mainframes anyway? HPC is the trend these days and nvidia leads by a long shot. And IBM has been dabbling in the AI since antiquity, DeepMind, Watson. Whatever happened to Watson? They were selling that as a know it all but the emergence of transformers and LLMs has made Watson an old timer has been.

Re: "thousands of US jobs have been cut"

You haven't read the many a lambasting of ATOS, InfoSys? And IBM deserve the most lambasting. They are the trail blazers of offshoring. They asphyxiated all their hardware divisions to turn into a crappy IT service company. They are probably numero uno for why we are in this tariff hell anyway.

Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised

Re: EU fines

That would take the wind out of his sails for sure.

Infosec pro Troy Hunt HasBeenPwned in Mailchimp phish

Re: He does NOT work at Microsoft

The MVP should have been another give away for me. Although Microsoft employs 'MVP's, most of them are just as you said, 'influencers' that are not on MS payroll.

I saw that. But why is he using his corporate Microsoft account for this? Is HaveIBeenPwned a Microsoft sponsored or his own pet project (I believe it is the latter)? There is a corporate persona and there is a individual persona and never shall the 2 meet.

Exactly. Also I just looked at his blog and the first thing I noticed in the phish was "Hello, ". This is the first give away right there. Phishers almost never address you by name (because they don't know your name, unless targeting someone specifically, i.e. public figures). I get it he was tired and all but this is a very rookie mistake. But kudos for him blogging about it and sharing the details.

Yuck, why use anything Outlook, outside of a corporate environment where you have no choice.

GNOME 48 lands with performance boosts, new fonts, better accessibility

Re: Built-in Javascript engine?

That is still problematic. How many API layers you have there before you get to C. On linux, the shell is the most commonly used program. Having that written in JS is a no go.

P.S. Looks like we have quite a few JS lovebirds here. I am very familiar with JS and web development in the browser. Just because a language is so ubiquitous does not mean it should be adopted in areas where it makes no sense.

Re: Built-in Javascript engine?

It was a play on German nein.

Re: Built-in Javascript engine?

"GNOME Shell is implemented in Javascript."

NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN! That reason alone is enough to disqualify using GNOME. I can only imagine the performance hit (and the memory foorprint) for using that.

Re: Built-in Javascript engine?

Absolutely! JS has no business existing outside the browser, from whence it came.

23andMe's genes not strong enough to avoid Chapter 11

Re: The court will now oversee the sale of 23andMe's assets

Yes it is his alone. A DNA sequence is unique to every living thing. You would share a large subset of that sequence with your blood lines but you need both family member's dna sequenced. Having a single person's DNA sequence tells you nothing about your family members if you do not have the said family members DNA to compare it with.

Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

Re: From cool school, back to old school, or closed school.

Actually MS prefers Recycle Bin.

Unpaid beta testers.

Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims

One Quark.

Framework guns for cheap laptops with upgradeable alternative

Re: $899 is not cheap

Not at all comparable. The bloody thing has a Celeron processor. The display is not even 1080p. And with 4GB RAM and Windows 11, It is basically obsolete as soon as you open the box.

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

Because Microsoft discovered how effective those "Your PC has a virus" pop-up call centre scams were, that they decided to use those themselves.

Re: Goodbye Windows 11

And a kernel is someone in the army.

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

HP. The tour de force of dark patterns

The funny thing is that HP has been employing dark patterns even before the term dark patterns was coined. More than a decade ago I was having an issue reinstalling HP printer drivers on XP. I called tech support and his advise was just to buy a new HP printer! And they have never stopped innovating in shady practices. An absolute dumpster fire of a company.

Re: You May Experience Extended Wait Time for My Payment

The worst part is they have been doing these dark patterns for more than a decade. Almost 20 years ago, a lot of laptops came with a 'free' unsolicited HP printer (that is how they used to try to hook consumers as they already had enterprise). You would find out the pain when you had to replace the cartridge that HP wanted payback for the 'free' printer.

Re: Yeah I had this cobblers with my bank yesterday...

Give me HUMAN!

Re: Farking bastards...

Anything but HP.

Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think

Re: And have these idiots...

Yup, having dark mode is nice. Techies claiming some feature saves the planet by reducing green house gas is delusional at best. The amount of JS on websites for several years now is just sucking the CPU cycles dry and CPU power consumption is comparable to a monitor's power consumption (generally speaking as CPU power usage can vary significantly by the model and or make).

Re: And have these idiots...

Bingo!! My first thought was were they talking about LCD/LED or OLED. They are either idiots or paid actors with some agenda.

The ultimate Pi 5 arrives carrying 16GB ... and a price to match

Exactly. The GPU is actually initialized at boot up even before the CPU.

Infosys founder calls for 70-hour work week – again – claiming it creates jobs

Re: How much work is Infosys going to get when software quality takes a dive from its current level?

No that is Murphy's law. Murthy's law is if it goes wrong, let it.

Cost of Gelsinger's ambition proves too much for Intel

Re: Shifting ever more production to TMSC

Saying it as one see's it is a good trait and lacking in most corporate double speak. However his statement was very poorly worded. Why even mention Taiwan? He made it sound like there was something wrong with a fab being in Taiwan (maybe there is a risk coming from up north). Steer clear of politics. Running his mouth like that when Intel does not even have their new nodes to stand on is extremely short sighted.

Re: I hear Broadcom is hiring

Yeah, they need a VP for their VMWare division... wait a minute!

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

Re: Wintel Reckoning

True, Solaris is the OS. I should have said Sun's SPARC which was their own microprocessor. Sun Microsystems had to contend with competition on both the hardware and software, SPARC against x86 PowerPC and Solaris against Linux, BSD (you could also argue Win NT which would be Wintel).

Competition is the name of the game. AMD cannot sit on its laurel even though, frankly they are far ahead of intel at this point. They have a new challenger in the name of ARM to contend with. They have time since Qualcomm just faltered their entry, but others will follow MediaTek/Nvidia.

Wintel Reckoning

Intel's whole model was reliant on the Wintel hegemony. They benefited immensely by this lock in. If you are really sympathizing, do not forgot all the chip makers that went bust because of this monopoly. (DEC, SG, Cyrix, Motorola's x68000, Solaris, Amiga, Atari). Intel only thrived while Moore's law was applicable. That law has broke down many years ago, Intel is coasting at this point. It is too late for this behemoth to correct ship. Pat's parting sob love letter is just his nostalgia kicking in.

Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz

Re: History of Erratas & bugs from updates ia a big disincentive

But but but, Copilot is our savior! We sacrificed our devs/QA at the AI altar!

Re: Maybe Microsoft should go back to making just an O.S.

They should go back to making an O.S. instead of a P.O.S.

Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him

Re: Emails are relatively 'free'

A better and more punitive approach would be to down vote this moron's mobile apps to "deep under" oblivion.

Re: X marks the spot

Where you ask? DEEP UNDER!

D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify

Re: D for Dud?

The D is for Dead.

Re: Not Surprised

D-Link stands for Dead-Link so they are just 'living' up to their name.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Oh yes! The irony is through the roof!

Re: How unfortunate

Is this an out of season April's fools joke?

Deja vu

Re: Obviously...

Wait a minute?! You mean MS is accurately simulating Boeing air crafts with all their flaws? That is some next level simulation!

Pakistan's tech lobby warns that slow internet is strangling IT industry

It would make more sense to direct your grievances towards your employers instead. Corporate America has been offshoring/outsourcing for decades and killing STEM in the process in favour of useless MBAs PMPs etc.

Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC

Brought to you by Microsoft's DOA department.

Bring back the Zune and Hololens! Oh wait Microsoft is not in the business of listening to consumer wants and demands.

Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy

Mistakes Indeed

This co-founder is doing a good job in helping job applicants with filtering out nonsense companies. You don't even need to see the Indeed reviews for this company. Just read the articles on The Register (with comments) to know what the company rating really is.