Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

Google is very sorry for pulling down COVID misinfo and pledges never to use outside fact-checkers

Suck the Nazi in office harder - you aren't 14 so he's having trouble getting off...

AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs

"It's not gaining us much for all those millions we spent."

"Well, clearly we need to spend even more money on retooling our entire development technology to use this failing technology to see benefits."

The sunk-cost fallacy combined with perpetual Artificial Ignorance propaganda and management greed and ignorance is a sure path to failed businesses...

Stop runaway AI before it's too late, experts beg the UN

Altman doesn't give a rat's patoot about anything except raping your wallet.

Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs

I trust the current American Fascists even less than I do China.

You can now test drive Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10

Re: Here Comes F43

Wayland drags it's ass at rendering Steam games, making many of them unplayable and doesn't let you use DLSS at all.

Hard "no" to the Gnome/Redhat crack fest!

American distros with the current political climate? Not for this Canuck! I trust their megacorp's "black box"/non-free and their spy agencies as far as I can kick their asses down the street! I regret that I even "had" to install the NVidia graphics drivers and wish I'd opted for a more open vendor for my video card a couple years ago.

I realize that there will be a lot of downvoting "offended" Americans. YOU elected the psychotic clown in charge; your lost reputation as a nation is entirely your fault.

Make Windows 11 more useful and less annoying with these 11 Registry hacks

If you want to make Windows 11 really useful, wipe your hard drive and install Linux...

Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

As a coder I simply point you to the clause in virtually any software license that basically says "use at your own risk. No guarantee of results"

Dreamers always fantasize about getting things for free. You want 15 years of updates? Be prepared to pay for 10 of them....

Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry

Another suicidal move for the US economy courtesy of Der Pumpkin Fuhrer. I can't believe how fast the US is turning into an absolute fascist hell hole...

BOFH: HR discovers the limits of vertical mobility

Unbelievable - for once the boss got on board. Not until the end, but he did get on board!

The Notepad that knew too much: Humble text editor gets unnecessary AI infusion

How can dead end technology ever develop a killer app? If Artificial Ignorance worked as advertised there would already be dozens of killer apps for the technology. But it's all statistical smoke and mirrors, not actually intelligent.

It's the final countdown: Windows 10 hits end of support in less than 30 days

I abandoned Windows 11 soon after reading about "Recall " I'm not interested in running spyware so that the Americans can "request" copies of my running desktop screenshots.

I didn't even switch to Ubuntu or Redhat because they're American distros that are likely to follow windows down the spyware rabbit hole. Nope, Debian 13 here, with a Gnome desktop with dash-to-dock and and Desktop Icons NG added on to make it usable.

Highly recommended as a Windows 10 upgrade.

Trump backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea

Drumpf claims he wants to support foreign investment, then he arrests all the workers with his ICE goons and locks them up.

What's next? You're going to start shooting tourists to encourage them to visit, you moron?

Half of tech firms plotting restructures as AI hype bites

Artificial Ignorance systems will never pay off because they're statistical snake oil pretending to be a viable technology.

Inventor who encouraged Elon Musk to make Optimus says most humanoid robots today are 'terrifying'

Re: You are looking in the wrong direction

I'm amazed that perpetual stock pumping bullshit is apparently legal in the US provided you don't dump too often....

Idjit.

They're "terrifying" because they threaten everyday lives and livelihoods so that the Uber Rich can pocket even more of the GDP while shafting people who used to be doing the work (their ultimate dream is, of course, to get rid of the salaried employee on the bottom line of the spreadsheet.)

'Questing Quokka' enters UI freeze as Ubuntu 25.10 nears release

I opted for a Debian 13 host and VMs with this round of system updates. Like the Gnome team, the Ubuntu and RedHat teams have been very busy indulging in high-potency pharmaceuticals and having fantastic "visions" of how computers "should" work instead of paying attention to what the users and developers want. Despite that, this Debian 13 host is running Gnome, because I want to give a thorough test to the Wayland display stack for Steam gaming and, when it is released, CUDA support.

The core requirements are already met for my host OS - PostgreSQL, Oracle VirtualBox, and Docker. Stuff like Java et. al. are just standard amd64 debian utilties and installations, and seem to work just fine without host-OS specifics. VSCode and the Adoptium JDK builds come to mind in particular.

Granted it has only been 48 hours the host has been running this stack, but I only decided on Thursday morning that I was going to shift from LMDE 6 to Debian 13 native.

Fork that: Three alternative kernels show devs don't need Linux

Research operating systems that try to maintain ABI compatibility with Linux are interesting from a practical approach, but not so much from a theoretical approach. I find systems that try to build a whole ecosystem that is only source code compatible with Linux, the BSDs, et. al. but which uses entirely different philosophies to be a far more interesting read. I've even tried spinning one or two up in VMs, but for the most part they don't support the VirtualBox "hardware" environment, so I haven't had a lot of luck (rumour has it that those paying through the nose for Broadcom's virtualization stack have better luck with such cases.)

What I would like to see is a serious modernization effort for the venerable POSIX APIs. So much has changed in the decades that have come and gone since that stack was crafted. Maybe it's time for an update and possibly a re-think in light of modern massively parallel cored systems.

Atlassian's move to cloud-only means customers face integration issues and more

It always boils down to "and pay more", doesn't it?

Mega-and-MAGA deals position Oracle's Larry Ellison to overtake Elon

I take Oracle's "order sheet" with a HUGE grain of salt - they've been fined before for booking fake sales and wrong-year sales...

Everyone needs an AI phone. No, don't hang up, it's true

Complete and UTTER bollocks...

US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid

Welcome to the Nazi States of America

Salesforce sacrifices 4,000 support jobs on the altar of AI

Re: Do a proper audit.

Bingo! "Ask not what is good for the company; Ask whether you'll be gone before the shit hits the fan..."

The only thing I want an "AI chatbot" to do is connect me to a human being!

EU court's dismissal of US data transfer challenge raises privacy advocates' ire

He-said, She-said, and the only ones who win are the lawyers...

Microsoft readies Windows 11 25H2 while Windows 10 circles the drain

Suckers!

Linux rules!

Trump's gold-plated smartphone can't seem to decide which design to copy

Re: OEM identified based on specs?

Rest in Peace. She was one seriously imposing human being!

Der Pumpkin Fuhrer spoke more nonsense and you still believed him with his track record?

How many grand have you spent on buying the Brooklyn Bridge?

Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations

Repeat until bankrupt:

"We are all going to invest in all things Artificially Ignorant because It Is Da Future according to the people who make the most from it... We do NOT have the 'wool pulled over our eyes!'"

China’s KylinOS Linux takes a great leap forward to v11 and kernel 6.6

Re: "...and of course it has AI inside"

You're delusional if you think the NSA doesn't have similar hooks into American-based distros and operating systems. There are far too many "black box" kernel modules nowadays for me to believe otherwise for so much as a second. I even have my doubts about debian.org, the tentacles of the spy agencies of the super powers reach so far and wide....

Bingo.

In my case, that meant LMDE 6 for now, and we'll see if I'll be running a Debian 13 Xfce stack or a future LMDE 7 release on this hardware, but the Debian 12 core under LMDE 6 is pretty long-in-the-tooth. It is also very, very well supported by all the projects and third party tools and products I rely on for my own development and use experience. I'm leaning towards a native Debian 13 experience once NVidia updates their CUDA and video driver stacks and repos to support debian 13, and docker and docker containers have followed suit. Oracle's VirtualBox is also required for my environment, and PostgreSQL/PgAdmin repos.

The main reason I'm leaning towards a native Debian stack next is that running LMDE does provide a very nice UI through the "Cinnamon" desktop, but it also means having to perform all kinds of surgery on commands used to install third party repositories and products because it isn't native Debian 13, just potentially based on it, as LMDE 6 was with debian 12 "bookworm."

European based project management is a much safer alternative, both politically and economically at this time, as least from this Canadian's perspective. Why trade with a few hundred million Americans under Der Fuhrer when we could be trading with billions of democratically led-by-election people around the world?

FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam

Any "political" missive that is comprised of easily-disproven conspiracy theories and falsehoods, especially slanderous ones blaming a minority group, are not only sent to my spam folder, they are submitted for investigation by the authorities as potential hate speech distribution.... Canada sanely puts limits on "freedom of speech."

Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

Personally I avoid the "Agent Mode" features of VSCode and Microsoft's LLM extensions for the Github Copilot services. It is far too prone to modifying working code because it "doesn't follow standards", and breaking it with the changes.

So I tend to stick to "Query" mode, and selectively apply most of the changes by hand using multiline replace-in-file substitution across a set of affected bean files if they seem useful and relevant. I don't trust Artificial Ignorance LLMs any further than I can throw them. They're based on reddit and other sources among others, which means there are plenty of bad suggestions from the 'web loaded into them as well as good. And the LLM has no idea which is which...

DOGE accused of duplicating critical Social Security database on unsecured cloud

*shrug*

They raped your data offline, now they raped it offline at the government offices.

Haven't you clued in yet? Muscolini thinks he's entitled to anything he wants... or he'll claim it's some bullshit "freedom of speech issue" and sue for an obscene amount of money, as if he didn't have enough already.

Apartheid funded wanker...

Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech

*Undoes belt, pulls down left leg of pants to expose a butt cheek*

Pucker up, Donny!

xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok

I'm upset that apartheid funded assholes have it so good, but you don't see me crying in court about it like the toddler in charge of Xitter!

Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative

Ever get the feeling they're throwing around the word "quantum" like an advertising campaign for a "quantum" dishwasher detergent, or the way Science Fiction and Comic Book based movies always resort to explaining things as being "quantum" or "multiverse?"

BOFH: HR plays checkers, IT plays 5D chess

Re: he's not enough of an idiot to wander too close to a full-height window that opens out ...

Testing? I remember when ISO9000 feedback from failed tests was supposed to result in changes to and creation of policies and procedures to prevent the issues from occurring again.

Don't see much mention of it any more; I guess it wasn't "profitable."

Re: he's not enough of an idiot to wander too close to a full-height window that opens out ...

If the various user communities IT services internally for a business are supposed to be examples of "intelligent life" it is no wonder that the board thinks that they can be mostly replaced by Artificial Ignorance bots.

That's a pretty low bar, the typical corporate office drone.

Re: The PFY still has a lot to learn

IT Dad Joke of 2025 to date ..

*Whoooosh!!!*

I do believe the low-flying joke jet just singed your hair off... :)

AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya

I've got a fix for it:

Mandate that all AI data centers must be self-powered. No coal, wood, gas, petroleum or hydrocarbon based fuel at ALL allowed; license the German molten salt battery technology to stabilize wind and solar power feeds. And without taking away valuable crop land. Get creative with the roofs of existing structures.

Molten salt batteries are not a fantasy, and they were first mentioned quite a number of years ago, so I've no doubt the technology has reached at least an early-adopter/test installation by now. I'm not sure I'm ready to believe it's mature enough to take on the needs of entire German cities, though. That's an awful lot of megawatts...

AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders

Put a fee on your site and paywall it, and BILL OpenAI and Meta for their access.

Access is access, whether automated or not, and any decent lawyers can ensure that bill is eventually paid - with interest and damages to boot.

Don't cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms

The Americans just flat out don't "get it." Your providers are subject to European law and authorities when they do business there.

Do grow up and clue in you damned morons. It's been over 200 years you've been trying to pull this crap...

Not again! Microsoft blames config tweak for 365 outage in parts of North America

Testing? That's what users are for!

Voice, vision, pen: Oh dear. Windows boss says Microsoft is again reshaping OS

I was able to live with Gnome until the most recent release DROPPED X-11 support and broke CUDA as a result.

Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess

Here's the "out of band reset" you should be doing: wipe Windblows from your system and install a Linux distro. Debian 12, LMDE 6, and Ubuntu all run Steam like a champ if you have an NVidia card with the CUDA stack installed, and your Docker instances get FULL ACCESS to it, unlike under Windblows where it's limited to pre-compiled data types, not dynamic data typing used by modern LLMs.

So far only 3 of many dozens of games won't run under Linux: you don't need Windblows for gaming any more, and that had been the only reason I was still running Windblows up to a couple or few months ago.

Softbank bets $2 billion on Intel having a future

Re: despite Intel’s myriad troubles it still produces fine processors

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Intel processors. You just need twice as much cooling and power as their AMD equivalents... :)

End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs

Agreed. The UK is taking far too many pages from China's and India's internet playbook lately...