Posts by Piro

Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’

Nobody wants it

Everyone wants smartphones from a few years ago, just way cheaper.

They've been more than good enough for years.

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match

Re: Minor quibble with charts

True, and the JPEG artifacts are the icing on the cake. Graphs, in JPEG? Inappropriate compression.

Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands

Re: If you're interested in what the Claude Code leaks reveal...

Agreed, it's interesting.

AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

But in future, people will lack the ability to

Distinguish between good or bad code spat out by AI, because they lack the real world knowledge.

Right NOW the boffins might be able to filter correctly, but that ability will quickly deteriorate.

Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11

Windows 10 LTSC is the last real LTSC, 11 is still full of junk no matter what.

Re: I have an idea

Rollback to Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC IoT 2021, make the interface entirely look like Windows 7, including the start menu, and then dive deep in to the code to optimise every last thing for speed and stability.

Then let the public buy that version with 10 years of support, no telemetry and no ads, no changes in hardware requirements in that time.

Is what they should do.

What we'll get instead is more cruft on top of cruft, artificial restrictions and "agentic" bollocks not a single soul on the earth asked for.

HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware

Re: from

Morpheus MVM entered beta in 2024. I'm not remotely talking about the previous products.

Morpheus MVM is a newer product from a company that has other existing offerings, a company called Morpheus Data.

Although there is no such company now, as it's all Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

from

The company they hastily bought it from (in Beta!) last year. It was originally "Morpheus MVM".

The company is called.. was called.. Morpheus Data.

Windows 11 Start menu makes unscheduled stop in Saint Moritz

Windows 11 just to play a video?

Terrible solution

If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?

Re: Trabant!

That's now become very popular on certain new cars. Makes me laugh.

Quartic is now modern. I guess Austin were ahead of their time.

Notepad++ hijacking blamed on Chinese Lotus Blossom crew behind Chrysalis backdoor

Don't forget

That notepad++ stopped signing their releases years ago. The most simple and obvious thing that could have helped

Splash-screen memories from a Bangkok ticket machine

Re: Windows, again

To be fair, it's likely to be failing hardware

Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China’s TCL

How to destroy a respected brand, 101

See article title.

Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea

Re: Synthetic Take: Why Vibe Coding Isn’t “Just for Toys”

Em dash? I see you, llm. You're no human!

All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup

If they thought for a second that renewables would be reliable enough and cost-effective, they'd do that.

The fact they don't is a clear condemnation of solar, wind and battery storage.

Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin

Re: Seriously...

What? You've got this the wrong way round. The correct way for cars to handle this IS to support Apple Carplay and Android Auto, so the systems don't rely on software that never gets updated, but instead defer everything to the phone.

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

Deadnaming it

Is what Elon would want anyway. Strange conflict.

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

Re: This makes a chsnge

To be fair, the reason is much worse - to protect copyright holders. Seriously, to stop streaming netflix and the like from other countries.

They also want to destroy end-to-end encryption. There's nothing noble about any of this, remotely.

Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban

Re: Wrong way round?

Exactly. The argument is terrible, if the kid could just click "log out" or use another browser to bypass a "block".

US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains

Re: No, no, no, you've got it all wrong

Mike Judge nailed it, all other sci-fi was way off.

From the degeneracy and coarseness in advertising, to the absolute non-stop, in-your-face nature of said advertising, to the AI-led medical diagnosis, to the people who couldn't answer simple questions; the lot. It was accurate.

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

Re: Damn.

Mushkin? But, I think they use Micron. Oh well.

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

I didn't realise my simple opinion was

Mindblowing. We never needed this junk, we'd be better off without it, and it's consuming very real resources at a crazy rate.

Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives

Re: Ditch the emotion

Some of us literally will not be allowed to renew under any circumstances, as in, Broadcom won't sell a VCF license to you if you're too small, and the White Label program is going away.

Re: I'm hopeful

Great to hear experiences with it, sad they can't get the most basic things right.

Re: I'm hopeful

So upload the PDF.

Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI

Found these, implemented them straight away

about:config - set all to false

browser.ml.enable

browser.ml.chat.enabled

browser.ml.chat.page

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

extensions.ml.enabled

sidebar.notification.badge.aichat

I've no idea what Mozilla was thinking. The last Firefox hold-outs are on Firefox because it's supposed to have an old-school philosophy. They're not going to attract new users in a million years by adding slop features, that ship has sailed, they're all on Chrome or at least on a flavour of Chrome.

Microsoft Task Manager now tasking PCs with running multiple copies of itself

Taskmgr -d

Launches the previous task manager.

Windows 11 is really, really bad. I have found nothing at all to like.

Chinese gang used ArcGIS as a backdoor for a year – and no one noticed

Re: Pots and kettles

Not a fan of Microsoft these days, but what matters is the truth, not who came with the truth

Brits sitting on £1.6B gold mine of Windows 10 junk as support ends

"Microsoft is not the baddie here," he concluded"

Wrong, very bad take.

They could easily allow bypassing the restrictions, but they don't.

Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

Re: Untested workarounds

Win 10 2021 ltsc iot. Accept no substitutes.

Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

Missing an r there

US Navy: I can't quit you, Azure

Re: Cloud...

If you enjoyed that, press win+ctrl+shift+alt+l

Windows 11 update leaves Blu-ray and TV apps stuttering

Re: But I need EVR?

Sorry.

Re: But I need EVR?

EVR is old news, and since you use MPC-HC, use MPC Video Renderer. It's the dogs danglies.

It's time mobile devs started to think seriously about foldable smartphones

Don't care much for the foldable

But the flip format, that's interesting. I'm just too particular when it comes to practical features on my devices, so I haven't seen one yet that does it for me.

1) dual physical sim

2) AND microsd

3) headphone jack

4) big plus is quickly removable battery.

It's why I have an xcover 5

Windows 10 turns 10: Dying OS just worked, lacked compatibility chaos

Still no good

Search is still broken and terrible, and the interface lacks any of the charm from 7.

7 is still where they peaked, but there are admittedly, and naturally, some advances in the 10 codebase that help with support for newer hardware, for example.

Still totally unloveable, but they're making it more attractive every day that passes due to the forced transition to something even worse (11).

Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords

Re: KeePass

Exactly, just stick to the classic and avoid "cloud" based distractions.

Struggling to sell EVs, Tesla pivots to slinging burgers

Yeah, definitely.

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

Nice try, Google

But although it might not be the best, you don't have other choices.

You have Chromium based browsers, or Gecko based browsers. I choose Gecko. Firefox has better plugins (although it used to have even better ones.. sigh).

Cisco president says dredging coding syntax from wetware memory wastes engineers' expensive synapses

wrong

The less we understand, the more fundamental errors we will make

OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?

Re: Hmm

The abandonment of nuclear is criminal.

Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

I know why people say Windows 2000, but I can't ever agree 100% because I have memories of a remote exploit vulnerability that ruined one of my 2000 boxes.

I simply can't say the "best" is one with no built-in software firewall, that's an absolute requirement.

AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday

AI needs to die.

End of.

Pentagon kills off HR IT project after 780% budget overrun, years of delays

Re: Awful piece, you'll regret this genuflecting

Not even close. Credit where credit's due.

Let's not pretend before doge we all thought governments were perfect and never wasted money.

Raspberry Pi Power-over-Ethernet Injector zaps life into networks lacking spark

Buy a poe splitter

I have several from "revodata" on amazon, I have a usb-c 5v/4A one for my pi 4b.

Job done.

VMware splats guest-to-hypervisor escape bugs already exploited in wild

Re: can disable VMCI ?

If VMware by Broadcom say there's no workaround, it's best to assume there's more to this.

Plus, a vm reboot is way more disruptive than a rolling upgrade of hosts in a cluster.

Framework guns for cheap laptops with upgradeable alternative

Re: $899 is not cheap

That absolute piece of crap is e-waste from the moment it came out of the factory.

BUT, I do agree that $899 is not cheap, and there needs to be a middle ground between those two prices.

Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?

Re: Marketing

I've run 95 on a 386SX with 4MB of RAM. 4 MB is not something you'd ever want to bother with, it's unusable on win95.