Posts by Piro

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.

HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware

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.

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.

Does this thing run on a 220 V power supply? Oh. That puff of smoke suggests not

Hm

But the Dreamcast has an internal mains psu, with a figure of 8 input. The internal psu defines the voltage input, there is no wall wart.

FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket

Meh

I want smaller phones, and the wife wants another qwerty slider or clamshell.

Google Timeline location purge causes collateral damage

So.. people wanted Google to track them?

News to me. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

I didn't have this feature enabled.

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

Wrong argument. AMD has managed to advance things significantly in all aspects. The architecture is not holding them back.

D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify

Maybe it's similar to the NAS vulnerability

Where you can include shell commands in a url that get executed, as a create account function passes everything to system

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after update labeling error

Re: I have to wonder if M$ does any QA testing at all anymore.

I thought it was pretty well known that they don't, they fired that group back in 2014.

They rely on basic testing in VMs, and then largely feedback from people testing early builds.

Absolute amateurs.

The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin

First, the 9800X3D is a pure gaming CPU, it's absolutely not a productivity CPU, no-one would have recommended it to you for productivity, only gaming.

Secondly, you don't have a 9800X3D rig.

Thirdly, are you guy that runs userbenchmark.com ? If so, please seek help.

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

my alarm goes off at 5:30

Still, I get more evening after work, so that's something.

Fujitsu claims 634-gram 14-inch Core i7 laptop is world's lightest

Looks nice, bring it out elsewhere

Japan always has the best laptops, and they don't forget to add ports!!

Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em

Nasty. All the stuff I've got is locally controlled, and the house I'm building will be wired for KNX.

I have remotely controllable sockets, but they're ZigBee and I use Home Assistant to talk to them through my Hue Bridge. No sub, no internet connection required, and the wifi could even be down.

Best you can do is Home Assistant. There's an image for Raspberry Pi.

If someone's written an integration for Home Assistant, you're doing OK.

If something needs a subscription or relies on external (remote) services to function, it's an absolute no go.

Arrow Lake splashdown: Intel pins hopes on replacement for Raptors

Re: Not what I want in a desktop

Best I can do is recommend AMD.

You're right not to rush into running AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs

Re: Reliability?

Rightsizing is something that never really happens.

There are several reasons, one of which is that the system administrator who wants to optimise is not the one deploying VMs