Posts by HellDiverUK

EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform

I wish AI would just go away. It's a total waste of money and energy, and produces nothing of use.

Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another

I moved to iPhone to get away from the Bixby/Gemini clusterf*** that exists on Samsung/Android.

Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong – machines were already on Windows 11

First off, .gov.uk just doesn't just use the Office suite. Most of the daily work is done on various home-brew applications and even more legacy stuff that's been out there before Linux was a thing.

Secondly, .gov.uk relies on mostly third party support for those applications, which won't even tender for a contract if it isn't MS Office or the likes. First line support is in-house, but they'd all need retrained, which isn't going to happen becuase budgets and staff shortages.

Thirdly, the Karens, Karls and Jemimas on the .gov.uk world who have been sitting at a desk for 20 years doing the same thing with the same software wouldn't have a clue what to do. I mean, I've seen an AO with 30 years experience totally lose it because IT came in and changed the resolution of her screen - she was using a 24" monitor at 1024x768. When the tech changed it to the proper 1920x1080 she literally couldn't find her icons or know how to navigate the systems she'd be using for 3 decades.

Seriously, there's a snowball's chance that .gov.uk could move to Linux on the desktop.

UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server

If OBR is like the rest of uk.gov, then it'll be horribly understaffed with high churn. Person publishing the files probably was doing it for the first time, with scant notes from their predecessor, who also had only done it once or twice. Chinese whispers sort of thing.

I'm a civil servant in post for over 20 years, and there's stuff I do once a year and I've forgotten how to do it by the time it rolls round, as I've so much other mudane nonsense to do the rest of the year.

AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite

Is Fortnite still a thing? I'd have thought it was "uncool" like Facebook by now.

Apple’s lousy AI didn’t stop it beating Samsung’s smartphone sales for the first time since 2011

Hur hur, 1995 is calling, it wants it's joke back.

Blinded by the light: Tesla fixes glaringly bright Cybertruck headlights

Re: FFS...

That's poor programming by the manufacturer. My old Mk5 Astra (~2008?) had auto lights and wipers. If you were driving and the auto wipers went to "wiping all the time" rather than automatic intermittent, then the dip lights came on. The lights also came on if you drove at more than 80mph (according to the manual).

My recent Seat Ibiza, incidentally, keeps its rear lights on with the DRLs - why this wasn't a thing with every car, I don't know. So many folks driving around in the pitch dark with only the dazzling front DRLs showing their path.

Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers

Apple were panicking about the prevelence of Hauwei phones globally, and the fact they were severely eating in to sales of the iPhone. Hauwei phones like the Mate 10/Mate 20 were much better built, better performing and had WAY better battery life than anything out of Cupertino. Someone in Apple complained enough to someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave that the ban was enacted.

Same with the 5G infra. Huawei was dominating ADSL rollouts, other players complained bitterly, got Huawei banned.

Still miss my Mate 20...

AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says

Re: Was the heatsink mounted correctly?

Registered to say the same thing. Not only did they admit the heatsink was under-specced, it's also clearly not mounted properly. If that picture is indeed the heatsink, then it would only be touching the side of the IHS.

"User fits wrong heatsink incorrectly, CPU burns up twice, more details at 10!"