Posts by Pascal Monett

Alibaba mimics Amazon by slashing jobs after poor results

"6,000 fresh university graduates"

Or, to put it bluntly, 6000 minimum-wage slaves to replace 10000 experienced and expensive employees.

Can't deny that Chinese companies have well learned from American companies just how to keep costs down.

Tesla Full Self-Driving 'fails' to notice child-sized objects in testing

Re: You're supposed to...

Oh of course not.

And they're definitely not going to go take a nap on the rear seats while leaving the car drive itself.

Right ?

I mean, how stupid would you have to be to imagine that that would be a good idea . . . oh wait.

Re: It just proves that a hell of a lot of people are just plain STUPID

And, in other news, bears shit in the woods.

Sorry, but you're not exactly revealing a scoop here.

Microsoft's fix for 'data damage' risk hits PC performance

Bite the bullet

What an apt expression.

Like give your handgun a blowjob.

Same result.

Ah, Borkzilla. Will you ever stop borking ?

Probably not.

How TSMC killed 450mm wafers for fear of Intel, Samsung

So, who's up for a 700mm wafer ?

Size is everything, right ?

Google hit with lawsuit for dropping free Workspace apps

The lesson is :

If you want something reliable, roll your own.

Yes, it costs money. If you have a company, you're supposed to make money.

So host yourself, or be subject to the whims of multi-billion dollar behemoths who change their minds without you having any say in it.

I wish you luck with your complaint. I'm pretty sure there's some small text in there somewhere that will get Google off scott free.

Clean up orbit first, then we can think about space factories, says FCC

"has the potential to [..] mitigate climate change"

Mitigate climate change ?

How exactly is setting fire to a gigantic, $100+ million firecracker to fling something in orbit going to help mitigate climate change ?

Have we decided that space now replaced fairy dust ?

Remember the humanoid Tesla robot? It's ready for September reveal, says Musk

"this year, I swear."

Didn't your mother teach you that swearing was not a good thing ?

Honestly, with all the stupid things you've said for the past twenty years, one would think you'd have learned to shut up by now.

But no, obviously you don't learn a thing.

By the way, how's that Hyperloop going ?

Oh, yeah, it's not.

Somewhere south of Brussels.

Either that, or check the nearest disco.

Enough with the notifications! Focus Assist will shut them u… 'But I'm too important!'

Re: Windows System Sounds - office hell!

Nope, sorry.

You can turn the sound off.

It's pretty easy, there's an icon on the taskbar.

What you can't turn off is the marketroids making their phone calls in an open floor.

One of these days, I'm going to murder one of them.

Lane warnings

I'm 56 years old.

I have already driven 1.5 million kilometers ( I counted ).

I know how to stay in my lane, thank you.

I completely agree, and I am quite fed up with this situation.

I work in Luxembourg, I live in France. I am what is called "frontalier" (trans-border worker).

I am waiting for the day when a gendarme will stop me and say that I was 10kph above the 80kph limit.

I will then make it my duty to point out that the panels at the border on the highway still specify that the speed limit on national roads is 90kph.

You want me to do 80 ? Put up a speed limit or fuck off.

Re: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should

Words to live by.

That's hilarious.

Thank you for the laugh.

I put my mobile phone in airplane mode after working hours.

I like sleeping at night.

Apple tells suppliers to use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing

"we were only following orders."

Yeah. That argument worked so well in Nuremburg.

So it's official now : the fruity company has no balls.

Oh well, join the herd I guess.

Because the bully happens to be making 90% of what you buy.

So bend over and take it.

Russia: Hey, don't act surprised if we're still on the ISS in 2030

"built and ready to use until 2028"

I think 2028 is massively optimistic for Russia to build its own space station.

Mir apparently took 10 years to be fully assembled, and that was back when Russia had a space program that wasn't running on fumes.

I am very sceptical about Russia being able to launch and assemble a working space station in the next 6 years.

Very.

Warning! Critical flaws found in US Emergency Alert System

"patching has been known to cause problems"

Yeah.

Especially when patching Windows.

Mine's the one with the one-month delay on installing new patches.

Nomad to crypto thieves: Please give us back 90%, keep 10% as a reward. Deal?

"we took some additional time to make sure we considered the complexities"

Too bad you didn't take additional time to consider complexities when you set up your useless infrastructure.

Return the money ?

So, not only are you incompetent, but you also believe in Santa Claus ?

Go ahead and file a complaint. I wish you luck.

Too little, too late: Intel's legacy is eroding

Subsidies for multi-billion dollar companies ?

Honestly, I would think that, if your company has passed the billion dollar mark at Wall Street, you shouldn't be taking handouts any more.

You're a big boy now, you can manage on your own.

The Government needs to keep its funds for, oh, say, education, for example. Or healthcare.

Things that don't make money, but are sorely needed.

Claims of AI sentience branded 'pure clickbait'

"AI chatbots are not sentient"

Well duh.

Good that they're saying it though, maybe some marketing people will sit up and take notice.

Nah, they'll keep shilling their "AI" for all they can milk it.

Be careful where you install software, and who installs it

Installed a product in his private libraries, eh ?

Too bad. Really unfortunate.

Should have given the job to someone who knew what they were doing.

And it was a mainframe. Wasn't there an admin available, or was "Bob" the admin ?

Because if he was, he should have been fired.

Nvidia releases first Jetson AGX Orin module for production deployment

"enable AI acceleration for [..] edge computing"

How exactly is that supposed to work ?

We're talking about edge computing. You're not connected to the central server at the edge. What is called AI these days is hosted on a central server.

There's a contradiction there. Can somebody explain this to me ?

One to watch: Open-source code that measures your exposure to CCTV

"In London, for example"

London is not an example, it is an exception.

US-funded breakthrough battery tech just simply handed over to China

"Whether the manager or anyone else at the lab or Department of Energy thought to check"

Welcome to modern management.

It's only after the horse has bolted that they think of closing the gate.

Thank God we have all those MBAs.

Bloke robbed of $800,000 in cryptocurrency by fake wallet app wants payback from Google

Pearlman

Another name to add in the Hall of Idiot Fame, subsection Everyone Else Is Responsible.

GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

Surprised ?

You shouldn't be.

Remember who bought them.

China's internet companies are decelerating cloud consumption, says Alibaba

Sunrise industries

It's interesting to note just how dependant the world is on the Greenwich meridian. I would have thought that a Chinese company would not feel the need to reference the very Western idea that the Sun rises in the East. They are in the East. For them, the Sun rises, end of.

But no. Here we have a Chinese businessman referencing his own country as the sunrise kingdom.

Interesting.

Chip startup alleges Cadence sabotaged processor rollout

Well they were able to find out in time to present the data in the complaint, so they could have found out earlier and saved themselves the pain.

"These positions held by Mr Tan presented clear conflicts of interest"

Well maybe you should have done your due diligence and find that out before signing a contract.

The Mafia has its faults, but not scouting out someone before dealing with them is not one of them.

India scraps data protection law in favor of better law coming … sometime

Well, 81 out of 99

It's unfortunate, but if the Indian Parliament felt that 81% of the proposed law was to be changed, then maybe it should indeed be retired and a better law proposed instead.

Hopefully, the new law will take into account these modifications and bring them into the law's body from the start.

Or not. IANAL.

Student crashes Cloudflare beta party, redirects email, bags a bug bounty

Good for him

It's good to know that intelligent people are not always working for the bad guys.

I wish him the best of luck in finding, and reporting, even more bugs.

One way Bitcoin miners can make money: Selling electricity back to Texas

"the company voluntarily curtailed its energy consumption"

Shame it didn't shut down completely.

UK Parliament bins its TikTok account over China surveillance fears

"Chinese law allows Beijing to compel local companies to produce data"

Funny how nobody ever mentions that US law allows Washington to compel local companies to produce data.

Remember National Security Letters ?

Oh, right. Washington are the Good Guys, so it's all right.

Education officials urged to curb student snoopware

They're learning the hard way

You do not do what you want with company hardware.

If you want to surf the web and express yourself freely online, get your own laptop. Plead with your parents. Go mow the neighbor's lawn. Save up and buy your own.

But company property is to be used following company directives.

Welcome to your future.

GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

"projects disappear before users have the chance to archive code on which they rely"

And ?

Maybe that'll finally teach them to have their code on their production servers and not download it on the fly as they continue to do now.

Bandwidth costs are not an excuse to avoid securing your production server.

Solana, Phantom blame Slope after millions in crypto-coins stolen from 8,000 wallets

"There is no evidence the Solana protocol or its cryptography was compromised"

Okay, first of all, you probably don't have the required expertise to be 100% sure.

Second, you don't have enough experience managing financial transfers to secure the platform properly.

Once again we witness a bunch of people who think they can just go and create a banking environment without the required experience or the required rules.

And once again, it falls flat on its face.

How long is it going to take for your kind to realise that a banking charter exists for a good reason ?

Financial exchange's efforts to replace core systems with blockchain founder – again

Interesting

Nice to see that somebody is trying to make something useful out of blockchain.

Interesting to see that they're struggling.

That might be because blockchain does not scale.

Mine's the one with the SQL database that scales perfectly . . .

'Nobody can control TSMC by force': Exec dismisses fears China could seize fabs

"if you take it over by force, you can no longer make it operable"

Well, that should be quite reassuring, really.

I have just one question : would you say the same thing with a QSZ-92 to the head ?

Yes, it's true: Hard drive failures creep up as disks age

"their failure rate over the past four quarters [has] now reached 3.42 percent"

Okay, I will acknowledge that 3.42% of over 200k drives hits the 7000 replacement mark, which is non-negligeable.

Except that it is just one model, not the entire park. Why replace the entire range of the model for just a 3.4% failure rate ?

That seems a bit wasteful to me.

That said, Backblaze is a treasure trove of drive reliability reports and can't stop saying thank you to them.

I now know that the 6TB Seagate drive is the thing to buy at the moment. I'll be thinking about it.

We'll get you that Wi-Fi 7 laptop by 2024, Intel says

Re: Intel is a legacy company

Really ?

When it ain't goin' away any time soon.

Have fun with your "I'm holding it wrong" equipment.

Apple sued by French media over App Store power

Thank you for the update.

"not French or European law"

There are a number of things I don't get in this action.

1) Why the hell is it a bunch of newspapers that are suing Apple about this ? How exactly are they impacted by the Apple Store's requirements ? If I'm not mistaken, in France (and pretty much everywhere else in civilized countries), in order to sue, you need to be wronged, or you need to prove that you represent wronged people. I fail to see how those newsies are wronged, and they are certainly not representing French iOS developers.

2) How can you possibly sue in your country for rules that are not followed in another ? I wait with baited breath to see how a judge is going to consider him/herself competent to judge that.

3) Why isn't it the French Chamber of Commerce, or some other governmental institution, that is handling this ? It's August, so they're all on vacation ?

This whole thing is a mess. An April Fool's prank that is 4 months late. Or, a marketing gimmick.

I expect the courts to throw it out summarily.

Microsoft thinks there are people on 2G networks who want to use Outlook

2G ?

I can't begin to imagine how slow that can be. Is it any better than Edge ? You know, when you're on the Edge of having a connection ?

How is it going to work for people with Outlook Lite receiving a full-fledged Outlook 365 mail with a 2MB attachment ?

Because that happens.

WhatsApp boss says no to AI filters policing encrypted chat

Indeed, you are right.

I just linked to the article for which I posted a response, forgetting that it linked to that article.

Thanks for the refresher.

Actually, I do.

US regulators set the stage for small, local nuclear power stations

In a sane world, it would be thrown into a Thorium reactor to eliminate most of the waste.

But this world is insane.

Apple ends corporate COVID mask mandate

"until everyone else shows up"

And why should they ?

They've been working from home for two years and things have apparently gone swimmingly.

In 2021, Apple made $365.817 billion. Why do the peons need to go back ?

It's the Foxconn workers who can slave away. Cupertino can stay empty, it has zero impact.

Chromebooks are here to stay thanks to COVID, even though shipments crashed: IDC

Sorry, but I have also read, in these hallowed pages no less, that Chromebooks EOL does not depend on when it is sold, but when it is made.

I'l never buy one of those.