Posts by deive

Now Windows Longhorn is long gone, witness reflects on Microsoft's OS belly-flop

Re: A company with virtually limitless resources ... can get in over its head

Is there 11 people on here that think FAT > ZFS??

Capital One cracker could be sent back to prison after judges rule she got off too lightly

"She caused an estimated $40 million in damage" by copying stuff from unsecured S3 buckets??

Euro businesses flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions

Re: About that RtO mandate....

No one is perfect, therefore let's not bother trying...

Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament

Lead by a Green Party, the only sensible choice.

Open Source Initiative defends disallowing board candidate after timezone SNAFU

Are thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units ?

You can find the long winded reason for UTC at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time

Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o

"it's got a central good-evil discriminator" - what a crock o :poo

it's statistical anyalysis, just because they don't know what parts of the training data it is using to answer the given questions doesn't mean it is alive.

Techie cleaned up criminally bad tech support that was probably also an actual crime

Was the DB in question Equinox?

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

War on C incoming...

'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages

Re: Noisy rooms

ML isn't just used on mobiles.

e.g. would be useful for robots, could also be used in in-ear heaphones.

Re: Noisy rooms

You can get binaural microphones for that :-)

Crack coder wasn't allowed to meet clients due to his other talent: Blisteringly inappropriate insults

Can telling the truth really be all that rude?

UK farm ministry offers £27M to support legacy systems for another three years

2 billion / 90 000 = 22 222.22

Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?

Re: Plus the effects of thousands of reentries burning up metal in the stratosphere and above

Heres one effect we know: https://phys.org/news/2024-06-satellite-megaconstellations-jeopardize-recovery-ozone.html

FYI... Renewable energy sources behind 30% of the world's electricity in 2023

Re: Too Bad....

Funny how wind-subsidy haters never seem to mention that the fossil fuel industry is the largest worldwide reciever of subsidies.

From the FT "Global fossil fuel subsidies and costs hit record $7tn in 2022" https://www.ft.com/content/fa607c72-7810-4ed5-98a3-d27d004c15bd

BBC "COP26: How much is spent supporting fossil fuels and green energy?" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59233799

IMF "Fossil Fuel Subsidies" https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies

Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon

Re: Next step....

Brutal deluxe :-)

US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V

Re: Switzerland's nice

Not sure why you have a downvote... https://riscv.org/about/history/ clearly states "In March 2020, the RISC-V International Association was incorporated in Switzerland."

CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power

Re: Is it just me...

Plenty of ICE do the same, that has nothing to do with if it is an electric car or not.

Re: More energy needed?

Heat pumps can be controlled... have you not seen the little dial on a fridge that can make it cooler or warmer?

Judge demands social media sites prove they didn't help radicalize mass shooter

Re: No clean hands

Don't remember the Rohingya incident?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage

Caffine Turbo!

Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant

Do as we say, not as we do.

Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models

Re: My, what drama

M.L. isn't flawed, it's a tool that can be very usful when used correctly on the right problems.

If anything it's the people who keep calling it A.I. that are flawed...

Home Office’s shiny immigration system glitches causing delays

Re: IR35

Because that never happened before IR35?

AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change'

Re: "We don’t want to learn that this thing that’s really important ...

"We’re doing that so we know that they’re paying attention to it. We don’t want to learn that this thing that’s really important is maintained by a guy living in a basement on public assistance. That is not acting in the best interests of our customers."

Indeed. So what is their approach to this situation? Do they help the original person... or do they just go ahead and copy it? I hope the former, I suspect it is the latter.

Honda cooks up an electric motorbike menu, with sides of connectivity

Honda make electric scooters... They've not got anywhere near an electric motorbike yet.

Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle

More of this, please:

The final part of the motion was designed to hold ANRO's senior management to account for the debacle. "Not the junior tasked with manually copying and pasting from sheet to sheet: we don't need more copy and pasters. We need senior management that know what they're doing, who realize that this is not, and never was, the way to run an HR system," he said.

Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard

Re: Don't get it

Something like half-hour slots with pricing directly tied to the wholesale price, plus an API so you could automate?

https://octopus.energy/smart/agile/

I don't like shilling for a specific company but this exists in the UK already :D

First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online

Re: ROI?

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspects/economics-of-nuclear-power.aspx

EU: "Nuclear energy averages 0.4 euro ¢/kWh, much the same as hydro; coal is over 4.0 ¢/kWh (4.1-7.3), gas ranges 1.3-2.3 ¢/kWh and only wind shows up better than nuclear, at 0.1-0.2 ¢/kWh average. NB these are the external costs only. If these costs were in fact included, the EU price of electricity from coal would double and that from gas would increase 30%. These are without attempting to include the external costs of global warming."

Prices of gallium and germanium rise as China export controls loom

Re: Germanium trash?

From last Fri: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/28/infineon_recyclable_circuit/ :-)

Weird radio pulses could be coming from new type of stellar object

Re: Two faced star

That's no two-faced star... this is!

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-two-faced-star-exposed-unusual-white.html

UK's proposed alt.GDPR will turn Britain into a 'test lab' for data harvesting

Re: Thomas Claburn.....You Need Some Help!!!

Without GPDR you wouldn't know what Google or GCHQ were doing.

Re: Freedom

By happy, I assume you mean dead?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64242217

Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine

Re: Jerry-riggedness?

From the article: "According to Pogue, the waiver he had to sign stated: "This experimental vessel has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, emotional trauma, or death.""

Multi-tasking blunder leaves UK tax digitization plans 3 years late, 5 times over budget

Re: Just simplify the tax laws

How would tory MP friends 'n family pay 0 tax then, though?

Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out

Re: Sadly not tempted for now

Tried some /e/ on the FiarPhone?

https://www.fairphone.com/en/2020/04/30/keeping-your-data-safe-with-e-os/

Re: Renaming and discontinuing

"The Earth is round"

- Pythagoras ~ 500 BC, Aristotle ~ 350 BC

- Eratosthenes ~ 250 BC

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/who-was-the-first-person-to-accurately-measure-the-circumference-of-the-earth.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumference_of_the_Earth

Cosmic rays more likely to glitch out water-cooled computers

I wonder how the oil-based submersion coolants fare?

Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly

noscript ftw.

NASA wants a telescope on the far side of the Moon

We have Webb at L2, wouldn't it be good for a second at L3 for large stereo or the start of a massive virtual telescope?

What's really up with data disconnects in the deep blue sea?

"Whatever it is, you can't get away with it if the world is watching you do it."

Nord Stream 2?

Unless things change, first zettaflop systems will need nuclear power, AMD's Su says

Re: late stage capitalism

What do you mean by major?

https://fintel.io/so/us/amd/vanguard-group

Latest Disclosed Ownership 367,013,798 shares

Ownership 8.89%

https://fintel.io/so/us/amd/vanguard-group

Latest Disclosed Ownership 136,198,548 shares

Ownership 8.45%

Microsoft's .NET Framework gets one less update reboot

"one less reboot" for a feramework... that defo has no hooks deep in their OS at all, that no-one else could get access to.

Biden: I want standard EV chargers made in America by 2024 – get on it

Re: Of course chargers must be standard

ChaDeMo is the new Betamax.

The Balthazar laptop: An all-European RISC-V Free Hardware computer

It's probably just me, but I do wish there was an open hardware laptop for the high end.

This ancient quasar may be the remains of the first-gen star that started us all

Re: "the so-called Population III stars"

https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/P/Population+I

"The classification system is based on the metal content of the stars"

Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!

"That means the land underneath could still potentially be available for agricultural use."...

https://www.wired.com/story/growing-crops-under-solar-panels-now-theres-a-bright-idea/

Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art

M.L. is not A.I.

Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights

It is right that "Corporations with a turnover higher than $25 million a year" should have to pay for some of their core technology.

Japan reverses course on post-Fukushima nuclear ban

Re: Wind and solar

also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

Broke? The UK rich have increased their wealth by £274 billion over the last 5 years.

https://equalitytrust.org.uk/wealth-tracker-18