* Posts by ReggieRegReg

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Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts

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Re: Shaking

Well Democrats were pretty quiet about Bidenflation, ignoring the fact that the burst in oil and gas prices were driven by Biden giving up energy independence in the US (which gave Russia an unexpected windfall). He literally turned off the taps as he turned up in office, combined with the weak/botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the "limited incursion" comment about Ukraine. Plus the lack of action under Obama/Biden when Putin took Crimea - surprise, surprise Russia invades Ukraine. Then Biden begs the Saudi's to pump oil a couple of weeks after canning an arms deal with them, so they gave him the finger and cozied up with China instead. Three Biden-related reasons for the global energy price explosion which lead to inflation well above the fairytale indexes. Add on top of that the inflation causing "inflation busting" infrastructure bill - and a trillion dollars worth (replacement cost) of strategic oil reserves burned for reasons directly caused by Biden's geopolitics - still nothin' to see here... Trump's the problem.

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Re: That's the point

And yet the US was in remarkable shape during his last administration - well, until... events in the fourth year of someone else's making.

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Perhaps they are terrified of being held to account for years of malicious anti-trump disinformation? They ought to bow down - in shame.

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Re: That's the point

What we saw in Trump's original fourth year is already happening immediately - the globalist system kicking into action to run the anti-globalist out of office - they cannot risk Trump + two terms of Vance trying to bring production back to the west - if the west crashes and burns - so be it - the project must survive. This isn't about money - the billionaire globalists can print their own - it's about power and control. We have been fooled into giving our means of production away, so our well-being is no long the super-riches' concern - they don't need us - we have turned ourselves into useless eaters handing total control over to them.

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Trump is doing what he promised – putting US citizens first. These tariffs are not all about money – it’s about forcing countries to sort out borders, people smuggling, drug trafficking. Trump is saying enough is enough, stop abusing us or we’ll fight back. It’s also to change the behaviour of US companies. The tariffs on Mexico are not only drug and people trafficking related – its to stop what’s left of “Made in America” being pushed across the border it’s also become a proxy route for Chinese goods to escape tariffs by being assembled in Mexico.

Tariffs are vital whether you like it or not – you simply cannot compete with a country of a billion+ people happy to work for $5 per day – the western advantage was industry and tech – now the rich have given our secrets away for short term personal profit - how can the west compete? You have to hit the cheap labour countries with tariffs to give your industries any chance of survival. It’s that simple – or it become a living-standard race to the bottom.

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Re: You better stop ...

Putin had better use Trump's arrival as an excuse to end the war - if his armed forces become any weaker and more stretched they'd have to start looking south. China would love its own oil reserves - and the west would stupidly sit back gleefully watching the Ruski's taking a kicking - the worst mistake we'd ever make. China + guaranteed oil supply would be the end of the west - and it will certainly be the end of the 1% who think they control China - they are the biggest threat who the CCP would take out first.

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Re: Shaking

The biggest damage to the US dollar as a reserve currency in the last 100 years was thanks to India (a supposed ally) China, Russia and Saudi Arabia trading oil outside the petrodollar - this would have been war in times gone by, but they knew Biden is weak and went ahead with it - Biden and his lapdog press ignored it as they expected. The president has now been set for the demise of the petrodollar.

Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral

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Re: So Putin's presidential candidate

51 ex-Feds signed a letter which we now know was disinformation (at best!) about something they KNEW to be true - the sort of crap Trump is falsely accused of all the time and yet you still expect him to have confidence in the installed deep state to not be working against him? I'd be sacking people left/right and centre too - they ARE out to get him - if this isn't blindingly obvious by now then you have your eyes shut. Just as federal sharp shooters failed to see a man in plain sight on the only rooftop for miles armed with a long rifle! The past 6 years has proven beyond doubt that the globalist deep state exists and that Trump is a threat to it. This is 100% why DeepSeek has suddenly appeared – they want to ruin the economy before Trump gets a chance to put his anti-globalist measures in place – the US economy, recession, your future and US investments mean nothing to these people – they have bigger fish to fry – it’s not about money – they can print all the money they want. It’s about power and control, they are so blinded by their power they think they own the CCP - and that’s the real threat. China is playing along and playing the long game.

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Re: Trump ate my hamster

I'm not aware of it - but unlike the Bidens I bet he actually did something for the money - it's called business. Not raw influence peddling which is all Hunter got up to.

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Re: So Putin's presidential candidate

If Trump is threatened by competent people - how do you explain Vance? Thrice as bright and a hundred times more articulate than Trump.

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Re: Is 'learnings' a word?

However genetic studies show that British citizens as of <1948 stock shared a 75% common ancestry ooing back thousands of years - even the Romans only left a single digit genetic footprint - similarly the Normans tended to breed amongst themselves. One of, if not the most genetically homologous groups in the whole of Europe.

Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge

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And the damage to property investments - an accidental bit of self-harm. The value of commercial square footage starting falling off a cliff - it has stabilised now.

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Re: blah blah

Yes that's a big part of it - companies fell over themselves to reduce office space during C19 thinking they are saving money. Then it probably dawned on them their capital investments, pensions, lending, everything is tied into the real estate market - they were cutting their own throats.

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Most companies are starting to enforce at least three days in the office - being cynical I suspect there's something else going on - perhaps someone is asking the obvious question:- "if home is that person's usual place of work - when was the last time a work area assessment was done? Are the lighting conditions correct? The chair? The desk? Would companies become liable for maintaining the standard home "office" (kitchen table?) working conditions?

How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software

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"You're only looking at it from your PoV. Microsoft's is that if they let you just upgrade to W11 you don't give them any money."

But you pay with your privacy and data instead. If that wasn't valuable then Microshaft wouldn't be giving the OS away.

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Re: Summary....from way back then......

Token ring was also much more secure - easy to sniff Ethernet.

How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history

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"This is how Microsoft ended ruling the Computer market because it keeps compatibility going on way longer that anyone else."

z/OS says "hold my Program Status Word"...

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Re: Happier Days

Yep, loved Windows 2000 - rock solid too. And you could rerun the hardware discovery retrospectively so changing CPU and motherboard was possible without disturbing your files and apps.

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Windoze

I remember using Word for work under Windows 3 - what a backward step it was from using Quill+Spellbound on my Sinclair QL. Real-time spellchecking (multitasking) in 1986. Took years for other word processors to catch up with that feature. As for Windows in general, only casual users are faster with a mouse, tab key and keyboard was (and still is) king for efficiency if the software is developed to allow the flow.

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Post breakup IBM then rewrote OS/2 increasing efficiency massively, OS/2 Warp and Merlin would run nicely in 4Mb of RAM. Job done - memory guzzling NT (would hardly boot with under 24Meg) Microsoft would have its work cut out to complete - er, 'cept memory became cheap and plentiful overnight! 32Mb becoming the norm - Doh! Sometimes events aren't on your side.

India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit

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Re: Well done

Why is Indian climate expenditure UK taxpayers' problem? There are roughly 40 Indian power stations under construction this year alone while we are closing ours, the Indian population is expected to grow by more than three times our total population in the next 40 years - how good is that for the environment? You could wipe the UK off the face of the earth and the additional environmental damage caused by India alone would completely consume the "saving" in under a decade - and they are nowhere nearly as bad as China.

DeepSeek stirs intrigue and doubt across the tech world

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Re: Isn't it funny?

Who said they were? But they did open the door to the globalists - probably didn't realise that free market capitalism was about to be owned.

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Re: "the globalists' project"

Have you read any of Charles Schwab's work? He makes no secret of the WEF's intentions and what is in store for us useless eaters - and it just so happens the policies of the entire western world over the last 25 years seem to be edging us closer to what he predicts for our future.

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Re: Isn't it funny?

A 12 year run at the White House (Trump+Vance+Vance) is enough time to bring down the outsourcing model, crashing the Chinese economy - this will put the globalists' project back 40 years - or even end the CCP giving the poor Chinese people freedom at last. The irony is if China carried on its pre 1970s slow-growth isolationist model it would have survived a crash pretty unscathed, the people have tasted the modern world and are connected enough to know what's happening when it all goes horribly wrong so the CCP couldn't blame their way out of it - we think we are completely dependant on China - but they have 1.5bn mouths to feed, not enough food and no domestic oil - this could unravel VERY quickly. However - if Putin goes in some sort of coup, my money is on China invading Russia for oil - we'll sit back gleefully watching the Ruski's taking a kicking - the worst mistake we'll ever make. China + guaranteed oil supply would be the end of the west - and it will certainly be the end of the 1% who the CCP will take out. Anyone who's foolish enough to think they control China is beyond deluded, unfortunately the 1% have bet our lives on globalism winning too. When the British Labour government gave the USSR the jet engine, Stalin said "only a fool gives their secrets away to their enemy" - we've given everything to China. Their size is their only weakness and denying them oil is our only hope of keeping the west intact. The west could yet win - if we can keep China from taking Russian oil.

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Re: Training data

That's how AI works - there not a billion lines of BBC basic to "learn" on the web so AI will get it very, very wrong.

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Of course - it's no different to ChatGPT. this is why ChatGPT follows the standard narrative - the web is censored by the globalist tech industry. so ChatGPT follows the same narrative. I wonder if the model gets a feed off X these days? I bet it doesn't - or it's only allowed to store it but not use it to seed new neural pathways in case the model becomes diseased with wrong-think.

Tesla's numbers disappoint again ... and the crowd goes wild ... again

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Re: an alleged Nazi salute

And there is and was plenty of support for the IRA within Labour - just as there's plenty of support for Hamas.

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Absolutely, the more sensors the better.

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Re: Sigh.

Have you seen the electric car issues in China? We have safety standards, we have scruples, we have liability laws. The CCP have no such burdens.

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Musk's AI would probably lead the rest if he would swallow his stupid pride and put LIDAR or something similar on the car. The fact it's up there whilst relying totally on machine-vision is pretty impressive. The problem is AI is – well – artificial, (the clue is in the name) Humans can make do with flawed old vision on its own – computers need extra sensory input to compete. Yes that really is a stranded truck – now stop FCOL! Ain’t ever gonna do that reliably on machine-vision alone.

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Re: Car sales, an entirely unscientific survey

That is exactly why we are being forced into hated electric cars - to end private car ownership - and the freedom they give us. Give it another ten years the government will be able to decide whether YOUR journey is acceptable and instruct your car on whether it’s allowed to carry out the journey or not. Run out of carbon credits? Geo-fence you. Going to see the wrong person? Geo-fence you. Wrong political opinion? Geo-fence you. You get the idea – the technology is here – it just a matter of contriving the right political climate to enforce it. Petrol and diesel cars are a problem to big-state – you can store fuel and command them fully as the driver. That will never do.

Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users

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Re: M$ good, Linux bad

Haven't had any driver issues with Linux for years - any PC I happen to have - it just works. I was a PITA 15 years ago. Not now. .

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Re: "an ever-lengthening list of known issues, many of which remain unmitigated or unresolved"

Zorin and Mint on about 10 machines here - can't remember the last issue. It all just works - flawlessly.

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

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With most distros you can boot from a USB stick to test your PC running Linux before you commit - making it even more risk free.

BT fiber rollout passes 17 million homes, altnet challenge grows

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Re: BT Whatnow?

"West Taiwan"! :D I'm nicking that!

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Re: There a starman....

Wires are great, but how long before Starlink is added to your mobile phone and runs off the same package? Even if it's different technology they'll package it up somehow or have Starlink towers everywhere (near Tesla chargers?) to rival 5G and it's future offsprings. Perhap Tesla cars will forward the signal around acting as mobile transmission stations? It's called progress - Musk will find a way, BT aren't too good at that! Still, could be worse - if it was still the Post Office we'd only just be upgrading off 56K modems by now.

White House attempts to 'explain' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em

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Re: "directly from the President"

BIDEN Town hall: “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek

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Re: Remember kids

And over time you give up all your legacy knowledge of infrastructure and how to look after your data (or systems) - outsourcing IT of any sort is a long drawn-out suicide - and every time you change providers you lose another chunk of what you once knew. Banks for instance are IT - that is your business and its entire value - IT is not a cost to be chipped away, without IT you do not exist. If you are better at IT than your competition - you will have a better and more profitable business - even if (gasp) it costs more.

Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs

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Re: Rubbish!

>"TSMC is a wholly Taiwanese founded and owned company, and has been since it's inception 37 years ago."

Sort of - but the basic infrastructure their tech know how and everything that came from it was a gift from gormless Europe. Looking for enhanced profits from cheap fabrication, Phillips plus partners set up shop in Taiwan with big ideas and a clean slate, they developing state-of-the-art lithographic fabrication techniques in Taiwan, some US fabbers jumped on the bandwagon, recession saw Phillips falling on hard times trying to maintain their mostly out-dated and over-stretched European tech empire and they sold the whole fabrication shooting-match off – which essentially became TSMC and a couple of other smaller concerns. To their credit the Taiwanese continued to pump in the R&D dollars through thick and thin to stay ahead of the competition with plenty of government (and US military!) assistance. Phillips are now a nothing company worth 0.5% of the industry they spawned - they devised and hatched a golden goose and then gave it away.

Trump is right though – the entire west is too dependant on Taiwan, if China invaded we’d have to bomb Taiwanese factories to atoms to stop the Chinese getting hold of them, a kind of a score-draw which would set everybody back technologically – which, ironically, might not be a bad thing. It's clear the 1950s vision of robots enabling luxury lives of leisure for ordinary people is nonsense – we were robots v1 for the rich – the AI revolution will enable robots v2 which will impoverish and replace us. We will become useless eaters – we all know how that ends.

Welsh woman fined for flatulence-fueled cyber harassment

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Re: Evans was later arrested at her home

sc--w your family member - there might be someone praying silently 200 yards from an abortion clinic! Hold my donut...

Intel sinks $19B into the red, kills Falcon Shores GPUs, delays Clearwater Forest Xeons

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Re: Sleepy Shores

Correct - Intel have been one big fustercluck who simply used their unearned position to bully their way to market dominance - yes there were some class-leading IA64 Intel products along the way (mostly due to fab advantages) but I have steadfastly bought AMD - even in the dark days of Bulldozer etc - out of principle! AMD did RISC core decoding x86 before Intel too - although thinking back it could have been Cyrix who did it first (with IBM's help) even so - it wasn't Intel!

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>I'm going to put you in IT because you said you have a lot of experience with computers.

I did say that on my CV yes, I have a lot of experience with the whole computer, thing...

You know, emails, sending emails, receiving emails, deleting emails.

Erm, I could go on.

>Do

The web, using a mouse, mices, using mice... Clicking, double clicking. erm, the computer screen of course, the keyboard, the bit that goes on the floor down there.

>The hard drive?

Correct.

>Well, you certainly know your stuff!

>Settled. Got a good feeling about you Jen.

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Re: "You saw that you're approaching the end of the line

If only a small British company could come up with something as amazing as Arm - a world-beating super project - Nah, they'd probably throw it all away for tuppence at the first sign of a profit - no, wait...

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Do they still have a server share? Is there a single customer not actively trying to ditch POWER at the first opportunity?

You're going to do what to the feature? Microsoft defines what it means by 'deprecation'

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Status quo.

If Microshaft truly ends Windows 10 - won't that just make people who don't want to play join the Linux revolution? MS's market share is held up by the number of dodgy users who didn't quite find their way to buying a licenced copy. I bought my last copy of Office when it was still better than the free alternatives. My only Windows machine left is for music production – everything else is Linux. I have a server farm of mini PCs, even though they came with Windows pre-installed I blatted them before I even powered them up. That’s right, I’ll no longer use Windows even if it’s free to me and that’s from taking a look at my firewall log for a Windows 11 machine, I’m not using a PC that calls home that often! 10’s telemetry was bad enough – 11 is a joke – and if anyone says “if you’ve got nothing to hide – blah blah blah” - they should be banned from having locks on their front door - no, make that banned from HAVING a front door! ;)

Fear of the unknown keeps Broadcom's VMware herd captive. Don't be cowed

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Broadcom only need to keep 20% of their customers and they make a profit from the huge hike in prices. Unless there's a set of global regulations which bans companies buying other companies and then profit gouging - what are you going to do? Broadcom have done what other companies have done but just turned the screw much, much harder.

Check out all of your contracts - if you have an eye-watering retail price on the contract with a huge discount specified you could be next. That's how they get you - I'm not putting the price up - just removing a discount...

Another banner year for ransomware gangs despite takedowns by the cops

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Sloppy buggy products made badly on purpose to keep all the usual gravytrains in motion.

Even Windows 10 cannot escape the new Outlook

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It was Hotmail when I set it up - a week after Hotmail went live! It not a trivial endeavour to replace your main email address when it's knocking on three decades old! I do split out email duties now - trying to wean myself off hotmail...

First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works

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Re: India is an intelligent country

You’ve got to hand it to them.

A country who can invent a religion where the rich land owners can allow two tonnes of yummie meat to stroll around unhindered - despite millions starving – so the said rich don’t have to spend a fortune fencing off their Wales-sized estates – it's genius - that's what it is!

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