* Posts by Tom Chiverton 1

1464 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009

How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes

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And this is somehow better than chatGpt4all because?

Raspberry Pi OS 5.2 is here, with pleasant tweaks to Wayland-based desktop

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Re: No way-land

> rsyslog wasn't installed by default - there is no excuse for that.

Except it being a systemd based system. So it doesn't need rsyslog.

UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles if they can't lay cable underground

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Re: I had the opposite problem...

> Still worth it as Zen are charging £32 for 300Mb

It's 40 quid with VAT etc. And in a year and a half will jump up to who knows what when the fixed period ends...

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> How fast is your ADSL?

Solid 80 (min 60) by 20. Easily fast enough for two people working from home. And I'm on their fixed price for life, which is a few quid cheaper than their basic entry level FTTP which is only 100 (min 50) by 18.

Not worth it for us, ymmv etc etc

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Got my "you want FTTP, you really do" email from Zen today, after OpenReach have been all up and down the poles around town for months, and I got to plug my phone into the router a few months ago (oh, the fun !).

The cheapest package is more expensive and slower than my current ADSL.

So screw that. What's the point ?

Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC

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Yup, Framework 13" AMD gets 6/sec on CPU or double that with Vulcan accelerated. More than enough.

VMware urges emergency action to blunt hypervisor flaws

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Nice on-prem virtualization you 'ave there.

Be a shame if anything were to happen to it.

Did we mention our Cloud?

Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China's help

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Re: In combination with Russia's recent promise "we will never put nuclear weapons in space"

Why would you hoist nukes up there to fire them down again, when you can just throw rocks ?

Logitech MX Brio 705 – where Ultra HD meets Ultra AI

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Linux

Does it work fuss-free under Linux?

NASA's Mars Sample Return Program struggles to get off the drawing board

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Re: 50% of the missions don't make it TO Mars...

Are you saying the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one?

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Re: Seems a bit short sighted

It would seem NASA can't...

Hold up world, HP's all-in-one print subscription's about to land, and don't forget AI PCs

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Re: AI? Subscription? NOPE!

"HP's own Linux drivers to behave"

Ours uses the standard CUPS drivers, with no issues at all. IPP is a thing, and means you can stop caring.

Google debuts first Android 15 developer preview without a single mention of AI

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If they can't even make this years monthly release notes come to the top of https://support.google.com/pixelphone/community there's not much hope for their AI so best left out!

Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server?

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FAIL

"non-standard form factors"

Vendor lock in achieved !

European cloud providers locked in talks with Microsoft over licensing complaint

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Why is this hard? Force MS to allow bring-your-own-licence regardless of bare metal or virtualization platform.

Done.

Windows 10 users report app gremlins after Microsoft update

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> cock-up rather than conspiracy seems more likely

Which part of their track record makes you think this ?

Zen Internet warns customers of an impending IP address change

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Snap. First I knew about it was here!

Though I have noticed I now have an IPv6 block, and running an IPv6 only web server on it seems to have worked so far, if you can find anywhere that gives you an IPv6. Most of Manchester O2/GiffGaff seems stuck on IPv4 only, for instance

Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission

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Google should treat leaking tabs without explicit user action as a CVE?

NASA lost contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity, then managed to find it again

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Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Zuckerberg wants to build artificial general intelligence with 350K Nvidia H100 GPUs

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Re: AI

Yarp. Wake me up when they can define this intelligence they claim to be building, A, G or otherwise!

JPMorgan exec claims bank repels '45 billion' cyberattack attempts per day

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They presumably count a connection attempt or port scan in that number. Which is why is so lubricous

Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

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Re: Wot, no comparison between search engines?

I think OP meant this should be in the article

It's not all watching transparent TV from a voice-commanded bidet. CES has work stuff too

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Trick with those transparent displays is how black the black is, guessing the whites are fairly easy...

Nearly 200 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes grounded after door plug flies off mid-flight

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Yet another reason to always wear the belt if you are sat down in a plane.

British Library: Finances remain healthy as ransomware recovery continues

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Re: Backups

Anything, as long as it's patched this time ?

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Re: Backups

I think so. Sounds like they are just rebuilding from the ground up. Including from-scratch rewrites of things like lending and booking !

Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?

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Their afraid to touch the actual Windows code base in case they break WiFi or install printer nagware you don't need again.

NASA's VIPER is half-built, with launch plans for this year

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Great. Now go order ten of all the corrected parts, build another half dozen rovers for next to nothing, then ship them all up so your not stuck if this one throws a wheel after 100 yards or fails to arrive.

Or is NASA still not set up to work with production, not experiment?

Mozilla CEO pockets a packet, asks biz to pick up pace the 'Mozilla way'

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"Better integrate advertising"? Like hovering an ad for some other service over every single text input field, all the time, forever?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1870661

A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not

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Congrats, you've broken end to end encryption, so never get to handle sensitive PII. Tough luck if that's your business?

Broadcom to end VMware’s channel program, move partners to its own invite-only offering

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Take over results in worse outcome for customers, shock

Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more

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So, it's IBM i then?

Penguins get their Wayland with Firefox 121

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Feel free to ask them who did it and why... and who on their UX team thought it was better to ask every time instead of once, not include any link to follow up ("WTF is this"), ...

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Flame

It also comes with built in adverts that float over forms. for some other Mozilla services.

...

https://qoto.org/@falken/111602319913744006

Asahi's Fedora remix dazzles and baffles on Apple Silicon

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Re: Why?

Such as... frame.work

National Grid latest UK org to zap Chinese kit from critical infrastructure

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"Tests had been carried out by engineers to scrutinize security standards of the network but these had yielded no issues"

What does this mean ? That they have not actually run any tests so can't say ? Or they've done some but there are no security issues ?

Ofcom proposes ban on UK telcos making 'inflation-linked' price hikes mid-contract

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Re: Hey, there's an idea...

Every single telco? Nah. GiffGaff seems to be sticking to simple monthly prices.

The 15-inch MacBook Air just nails it

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Re: Cost as reviewed?

I expect it's upwards of 2k. For a lot of people, a Framework is going to be better for the environment and as good or better for them.

Raspberry Pi OS goes goth

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You might be able to *order* one before Xmas, but it isn't going to arrive...

Atlassian security advisory reveals four fresh critical flaws – in mail with dead links

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Their a management tools company.

Tech renders iconic rockers Kiss genuinely immortal

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Re: Better than real

ITYM better than life

Do we really need another non-open source available license?

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Enshitification isn't a new thing

Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble

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Re: Greenpeace is irrelevant and so is carbon dioxide

Say climate change is a lie. We do these things anyway, and end up with cleaner air and cheaper power.

Broadcom re-orgs VMware into four divisions – none of which mention end-user compute products

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Oh, they can, and are incentivesed too. Enshitification

Google Chrome coders really, truly, absolutely ready to cull third-party cookies from 2024

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Nah, JWT has solved the problem of one site passing it's attested claims to another.

4,000 days of Curiosity: Rover still 'strong' despite worn joints, vision issues

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Re: Those wheels

Where it's going, we don't need roads

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

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Re: Chrome

You know it's on Channel 4 too, for free, right?

Mid-contract telco price hikes must end, Ofcom told

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Re: Hands

Zen offer a simple "price for life" ...

Theora video codec to be coded out from Chrome and Firefox

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Re: How about Theorium

And when it escapes the sandbox and ransoms the host ?

APNIC close to completing delegation of its final /8 IPv4 block

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Yet another reason to keep ignoring ipv6 then