Posts by Avalanche 151 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Apr 2008
Given I successfully fixed the previous occurrence of this issue *on multiple machines* by deleting and recreating a larger WinRE partition using those instructions, your claim that it was just a blame-game, and not the actual problem is clearly false. However, with Microsoft, it is entirely possible that there are multiple causes of this issue...
The thing you're missing is that natural language processing is a hard thing to do and to derive that query from customer input, and some types of AI are good in interpreting human inputs and transforming it to a usable form for querying a back-end (whether a database or some other form of storage). In addition, you're assuming product data is uniform and standardized, which it is usually not (and even if there are standards, suppliers are very good in putting the data in the wrong fields, etc), again, something that AI can help with.
The OpenJDK project is under the stewardship of Oracle, but also has other contributors. And those contributors represent companies and projects that deliver their own OpenJDK builds, like Azul, Microsoft, Eclipse Adoptium, Red Hat and others. Switching to OpenJDK does not necessarily mean switching to the Oracle build of OpenJDK, especially not if you actually want support, because Oracle does not provide support for their OpenJDK build, but (some of) those other companies/projects do for their builds.
Why did it need to be "rewritten"? In my experience, unless you do very weird things, or relied on specific libraries included in their Java (which is generally just a matter of including that library yourself), an application running on Oracle Java will run just as well on Java from a different vendor.
One argument against Recall I've missed in this discussion, and I haven't seen in the media, is one I came across on Mastodon (https://infosec.exchange/@chrismerkel/112495797916386580). Warning about privacy, and against cyber criminals, etc. is all nice, but probably actually something that most people can't easily identify with, unless they were hit before.
A much stronger argument against this feature is that lawyers, competition authorities, justice departments, etc. are going to have a field-day with this in discovery process. They can require a company to send all recall data as part of discovery and require that it remain switched on as long as the legal proceeding or investigation is going on.
Higher ups might not care about or think much of the privacy and cyber criminal angle, but they and the legal department will care about the potential for exposure to discovery requests.
It will probably do so by default for users who have allowed OneDrive to sync their user profile (and it is pretty easy to enable that by accident, as I seem to have done on my secondary machine without realising it until later). Given the volume of space required, this will quickly gobble up your "free" storage space, prompting them to ask you to pay for your OneDrive space. I wonder if that is one of their motivations for this insane idea.
About 20 years ago, I worked at the help desk of a software company. One day, a colleague took a call from an employee of a customer. That person thought he was being pranked by his colleagues, because every time he logged into our application, he was greeted with a message that he was a dick, and he wanted to know how he could undo it.
After some panic on our side, and asking around the company, it turned out it was an Easter egg one of our developers had created after he had become annoyed with (or by) one of our software testers, and entirely forgot to remove it before release. Unfortunately, the employee of our customer had the same login name, triggering the condition for showing the message.
The customer could laugh about it, and the developer got a stern talk from one of the owners, and I believe he had to audit our software for similar Easter eggs...
Maven Central is effectively write-once. Once deployed, artifacts are not removed (except maybe in cases of copyright violation). They don't want to break reproducible builds, and people rely on this. Removal of artifacts with (security) bugs can have all kinds of knock-on effects, including problems for people trying to reproduce problems with a specific released version.
> Repeat after me. ChatGPT IS NOT AI. ChatGPT IS NOT AI.
You seem to have a gross misunderstanding about the scope and meaning of the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Computer Science. This definitely falls within the scope of that field. You may want to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence and other resources.
You seem to think that AI only refers to computer-based human-like intelligence, but it does not, it ranges from simple knowledge systems that are basically a complex "if-then-else", through systems synthesizing information (like ChatGPT), all the way to the holy grail of AI, computer-based human-like intelligence (which is probably decades away, if even feasible).
You need to take those numbers from Litmus with a bit of salt, because they rely on information obtained from remote images (tracking pixels) shown in your mail client. And Thunderbird doesn't show remote images by default (I think, or maybe I just configured it that way a long time ago). On the other hand, users of mac and iPhone are not so privacy sensitive, instead usually opting for a graphic rich experience which will include those tracking pixels.
Second, they are only tracking information from clients who test and publish their emails through Litmus (i.e. so those tracking pixels get added), which somewhat limits demographics (by the customer-base of those Litmus customers, and privacy-sensitive users opting out of the type of emails which are generally tracked by Litmus).
"The problem appears to be related to POP3 and IMAP access; if you're connecting to Google's servers using those services, then sending and receiving email could be a challenge."
Especially sending email would be a challenge that way, as neither POP 3 nor IMAP is for sending email. That would be SMTP.
You do realise that this 'consortium', is a research collaboration between university research groups: they work together on projects and to obtaining funding. They decided they didn't want to bother with the headaches of the brexit, and they therefor decided to kick the UK-based scientists out of their collaboration.
So this isn't about EU funding tiself and some 'unelected' bureaucrat deciding that the UK doesn't get funding. It is about researchers deciding they no longer want to work together with researchers in the UK because of the uncertainty of the timeline and the effects on the cooperation and funding.
I watched the movie last night in a marathon with the previous two movies. I entirely disagree with this review.
The pacing was good, the story clear and well-told, with the right humour at the right time, and it was a lot more "Star Trek" than the previous two movies (maybe even the previous four).
I might just go and watch it again next week.
That is quite simple: inertia. Having to move your project(s) to another hoster takes time and effort that you can also spend on developing new features. If your project is relatively large it requires coordination (which adds discussion). If you don't have a good reason to move (or the reason is not urgent enough), then you stick around until it does become urgent enough.
Languages running on the JVM are not an issue, as they are **using** the API and implementation as provided by the - licensed - JVM implementer (for example Oracle itself, or IBM). As such they are not in breach of copyright.
Google on the other hand **copied** the API and made an unlicensed implementation. That is the issue at stake here.
In other words your post is FUD.
Usually, talking about cable, the potential bandwidth is larger than the bandwidth provisioned to your account. The bandwidth for these free wifi hotspots are usually provisioned separately from the bandwidth of your account.
So apart from potential increased congestion in the local area, or signal problems degrading the available total bandwidth, these free hotspots do not have any impact on the bandwidth of the subscriber.
No, according to https://twitter.com/020centrum/status/538643078157193216 he was a custodian or maintenance tech (the word used is "beheerder", which translates to administrator but in the context it is probably maintenance tech, or maybe a street-supervisor/custodian).
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