Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty

Re: Euro RISC-V

The EU is far from "broke". Stop listening to Drumpf's lies.

Bye-bye, Intel. It wasn't the greatest knowing you...

HPE revenue outlook feels the thump of Trump tariffs

Der Fuhrer Drumpf is just doing what he does best - running things into the ground before declaring bankruptcy...

Uncle Sam mulls policing social media of all would-be citizens

Nah, they retreated along with the Nazi rocket engineers to the US and flipping bred!

Re: LOL, with what?

The ones they're firing, obviously... Zieg Heil! *LMAO*

Oracle outage hits US Federal health records systems

Agreed - at least half the problem is actually the Muscoid's crew of kids screwing things up.

Trump says US should kill CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt

Re: What Trump talks about

It's easy to "get things done" when you just flat-out ignore the laws, rules, and regulations saying "you're not allowed to do that as President."

Re: Sooo

I was thinking of the "Joy" in https://store.steampowered.com/app/320240/We_Happy_Few/ - a brainwashing drug the government uses to keep the masses in line.

I'm just stunned that the American population and politicians are putting up with this Pumpkin Hitler tossing the entire game board and pieces of international politics and laws out the window for his own amusement and entertainment.

Good Universe, what does it take for you Americans to wake up to the factor that this disasterous decision you've made to elect this clown is destroying the nation and actually DO something about it, starting with initiating impeachment... and followed with prosecution for high treason and failure to abide and support the Constitution of the United States of America as he swore to do mere weeks ago!

Microsoft goes native with Copilot. Again

I had an Ubuntu 24.04 installation for a few weeks, but Friday I began the switch to LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition.) Took no time to set up everything on it - CUDA stack, Ollama. AnythingLLM, Zonos, Java stacks, Python stacks, Docker with CUDA enabled, etc.

The only issue I had was caused by a recent VirtualBox update - 7.1.6 won't run Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04 VMs, which I need, so rolling that back and freezing 7.1.4 was fun.

Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes

And how much per month is this "guarantee" and hosting service costing people?

They could probably buy a spare computer along with a primary to host it locally with a cross-system drive mirroring setup like banks use so they'd have instant failover like a bank, never mind this pathetic 30 minute bullshit.

Downtime is money. Especially if your business is profitable enough to make AWS Hosting affordable!

Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

They don't "get it" because we haven't made a habit of beheading the ignoranuses who make such proposals after explaining for the umpteenth time that it is mathematically and socially impossible to have a "secure" back door.

If we were to do so, it would warn the remaining population of ignoranuses in the world, and after a mere dozen beheadings I'm sure they'd finally shut up.

Microsoft warns Trump: Where the US won't sell AI tech, China will

Re: How dare MS fact check the Orange one…

Pretty much. Drumpf the Pumpkin Hitler thinks the world owes him personal "gratitude" for anything usefull the US has done for decades, even though the Nazi only seized power a few weeks ago and proceeded to throw around the game pieces...

"You're interfering with our profit model! Haven't you heard of the 87th Rule of Acquisition? Thou shalt pillage all who lie before thee..."

Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims

Re: Consequences will never be the same.

Boy would Musk finally been be in some serious trouble then with all the bullshit he's spewed about so-called "FSD" on Wankpanzers.

Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke

Well, seeing as they couldn't pay their hosting bill due to lack of income, I'm not surprised they had to switch course. Idealism doesn't pay the bills.

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

Re: Oh dear

I checked out LMDE after reading some comments; my Ubuntu system is being reinstalled with that distro instead. Too many weirdities to Ubuntu nowadays, and too many borken pieces of software because of their SNAP-happy nonsense.

Re: Oh dear

Windows what?

Oh yeah, I deleted my $300 spyware and went all-in with Ubuntu 24.04...

Intel slows its roll on $28B Ohio fab expansion, pushing production to 2030s

Stick a fork in 'em. They're done...

Cash torrent pouring into Nvidia slows – despite booming Blackwell adoption

Re: Recently started selling new cards for gamers

Worse - with modern game prices compared to my retirement budget, I'm out of the market unless we're talking 80% offf. Simple fact of life - one AAA new title is 25% of my monthly budget now - I refuse to pay such prices even if I did have the money to spare.

So I don't need a new card until my 4070ti dies...

Regardless of who is producing the LLMs, NVidia scores a sale... they benefit from an open source Chinese LLM the same way that they do one of OpenAI's proprietary ones.

Yes, Slack isn't working properly right now – enjoy your internet snow day

If it involves a computer, it will fail, five-nine's "guarantee" or no.

Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

Getting Apple to drop support for UK users is a "victory," is it? I suppose this is like "increasing" the chocolate allowance from 3.5 grams last week to 2.5 this week ala "1984."

Windows 11 24H2 goes back to the drawing board over AutoCAD 2022 glitch

Microsoft "Quality Control" - the gift that keeps on giving - whether you want it to or not.

Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel

"...so in the meantime we're going to stuff it in everywhere, turn it on by default, and charge you for it unless you can figure out the wizardry required to shut it off for each and every application we stick it to you in. *ahem* I mean anything we stick it in..."

Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

Re: I dont know, this seems pretty simple to me...

Good old fashioned bulletin boards with threading of the discussion was the peak evolution of the online forum in my books. Even when multiple sub-discussions are spawned, it all ends up organized, give or take the occasional cross-posting spammer (which must get nipped pretty quickly around here because I can't say that I've ever noticed a spam problem on The Reg.)

Re: Anti-fines not just anti-taxes

Drumpf apparently thinks it is the "gawd given right" of America to rape and pillage the world for every last possible dime with no restrictions or issues in their way.

Well, screw that. We have our own industries to protect from the American rapists and thieves.

Re: The orange dude is crazy

"Crazy" doesn't even begin to describe Drumpf's detachment from reality. Even a meth head has a greater grasp on the real world than him!

Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD

Intel's idea of "aggressive pricing" is usually as laughable as the performance of their nodes...

SpaceX has an explanation for the Falcon 9 bits that hit Poland

I blame the Muscoid's "genius" for the problems.

Maybe clown boy should face up to the fact that he's just a lucky barstage, not smarter than everyone else, and in fact often far more stupid than everyone else...

Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud encryption for UK peeps

The UK is doing a wonderful job of crippling their populations security. I hope protecting the "child" of missing black market tax revenues is worth it... 'cause we all know that the concern isn't flesh and blood children...

Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code, says its rise is inevitable

Formal specifications are highly overrated during the initial development of a new language, and Rust is barely out of infancy at this point. While it has been around for a few years, it is very much a "junior" language compared to C, C++, COBOL, et. al. But it is a better planned and intended language, for all the gaps and holes in the current implementations there may be. It is only now that things have been stable enough to even begin a formalization process.

Remember: Waterfall/spec-first development hasn't been an "in" thing for 30+ years...

DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project

Re: Disastrous Public Sector Oracle Project

Somebody is going to get fired at Oracle - standard practice is to double the price, not to pad it by a mere 50%!

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

Re: Farking bastards...

AKA "we already have your money so piss off!"

Trump teases 25% semiconductor tariffs that will go ‘substantially higher’

Under Drumpf, it is becoming abundantly clear that the Americans have NO "friends" in the world, just victims to plunder and rape.

GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin

Let me be blunt: I'll use whichever desktop will support my library of games.

As soon as Gnome messes with that NVidia stack, they're gone in favour of someone who supports it.

For the whole library, not their idea of which titles are worthy.

Face it, Gnome: Your fate lies not in your own hands, but in those of the third-party developers at Valve on the Steam/Proton team and NVidia on the driver side.... if they fail, you fail, and you get deleted.

Bank of England Oracle Cloud bill balloons – but when you print money, who's counting?

Re: Oracle ? WTF?

Not to worry; Oracle will have a new excuse for ripping them off by the time the next bill comes out!

February's Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft offer just 63 fixes

Aw. I feel so bad. I'm missing out on the monthly bug-fests... *LOL*

Yay Ubuntu!

Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber

I've started just calling Drumpf the "Pumpkin Hitler" for short. I hear people with big egos just love being laughed at...

Most likely you are correct on that, unfortunately. When a prior politician made an asinine comment about the Internet being "tubes", they at least had the advantage of it being relatively new, so it was somewhat excusable for them not to know. But this is 2025, not the 90s - even my parents have more grasp of technology than that nowadays.

Musk is little better. I've been programming in the corporate and banking trenches for 25 years out of the 60 I've lived, with sporadic periods of unemployment along the way for health reasons and lack of foresight when contracts were ending. But I do know programming and computer technology rather well at this point in my life. And I know a bullshit artist trying to flummox their way through an interview like the back of my hand!

And Musk is talking crap. That man would not know a data structure from an algorithm if it jumped up and semaphored him, but he's going to "fix" the government IT systems like he "fixed" Xitter. May the Universe save the former United States of America from permanently being the New Nazi States of America under this pair of clowns!

US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK's order for Apple iCloud backdoor

I have to agree with the Americans on this. Encryption can not have "safe back doors." There IS no such thing. It is mathematically and organizationally impossible!

So the UK can quite rightly screw off with such demands, and if they insist, they'll have to be cut off from support by the vendors and the UK's iPhone users left dangling with a brick in their hands...

After clash over Rust in Linux, now Asahi lead quits distro, slams Linus' kernel leadership

Man doesn't get his way, leaves in a huff from the project, slamming the door and yelling gibberish on his way out.

Film at 11...

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

Re: "Friend of Elon Musk"

I'm a Canadian and I most emphatically can and do label that trio as "Fascists" and "Nazis" and "The Pumpkin Hitler."

With Oracle as the database engine?!?!?!?!

*BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Damn. That was a good one, Larry!

Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow vulnerabilities

To Drumpf, CISA, FBI, CIA, Musk, et. al.:

Either pay me a shedload of money or screw off.

I'm CANADIAN, and not subject to your tyrannical rule.

Thank the Universe for that lucky break in life! I came to my senses post 9/11 and abandoned my pursuit of an H1-B and Green Card when you turned paradise into a police state in response to a terrorist attack. The terrorists killed the American Spirit that day, and set a festering poison of mistrust, fear, and hatred in it's place that has resulted in the deep divides and the rise of a Pumpkin Hitler that shouldn't have even been eligible to run after trying to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States during the previous election...

Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP

You'd think that by now SAP would clue in that 40% of their user base is not interested in paying annual cloud fees and licensing instead of buying in-perpetuity software!

In fact, I expect most of those customers to try to move off SAP entirely in the end of it all rather than put up with the blatant cash grab.

A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap

I don't understand why it is necessary for the individual cases to play out and maybe get appealed to the Supreme Court rather than the Supreme Court declaring the 30-odd cases to be a federal class action between multiple claimants and defendants, and render a preemptive ruling on this vital matter before any more billions are spent building out "Generative AI" (*cough* Bullshit!) projects and data centers.

'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters

I'm pretty sure Rust is here to stay, but as with systemd and with the NVidia shim there are going to be those who gnash their teeth and scream their fury for years, if not decades, to come.

The status quo is not good enough. It requires too much manual care and attention to code structure and behavior, and is far too prone to mistakes.

Judge says US Treasury ‘more vulnerable to hacking’ since Trump let the DOGE out

Most of what Der Fuhrer Drumpf is attempting to do is at least as illegal as his previous attempt to overthrow the duly elected United States government when he lost the last election.

No wonder he didn't put his hand on the Bible while "swearing" to "defend" the Constitution of the United States. He knew full well if the Devil's son did that, his hand would burst into flames!

Does DOGE have what it takes to actually tackle billions in US govt IT spending?

DOGE is a simple minded "solution" for complex problems far beyond anything that South African Pinheaded Nazi has ever imagined...