Posts by Tom Chiverton 1

A dip in Alder Lake with an HP Elitebook is spoiled by avoidable mistakes

Re: Bother

Framework?

AWS gives older EC2 instances a legacy lifeline

So they virualised their virualised platform?

The great semiconductor drought may be about to break

Re: Meanwhile in the real world

One of my Pi's died. Great, excuse to get a Pi4.

Ha ha ha, no. Come back in 3 months or pay hundreds of quid on ebay.

Plop. That's the sound of a boot manager booting PCs off media they can't start from

And if not, just use a live CD. Strange little project...

Loads of PostgreSQL systems are sitting on the internet without SSL encryption

*even if* they are non-prod, *why are they exposed to the internet*.

What if there's a pre-auth RCE or something ? Now they have a bastion inside your network.

Beggers belief anyone does this intentionally.

USB-C iPhone, anyone? EU finalizes charging standard rule

Hurrah !

Firefox 105 is here, and it's faster and more memory-frugal

Yes, with some fiddling, so things like Tab Mix Plus for multi-row horizontal tabs work again: https://github.com/onemen/TabMixPlus/#readme

Though not via Snap, but Snap FireFox has a ton of problems, like saving downloads to '/tmp/' actually being saved to some other folder under the real '/tmp/', so I've moved all our Ubuntu machines off the Snap and onto old school .tgz installs direct from Mozilla.

Climate change prevention plans 'way off track', says UN

Re: Thought about using nuclear?

A post by someone who's never heard of pumped storage. Nice.

NASA reshuffles dates for Artemis I launch attempt

"critics will renew calls for NASA to retire from making rockets"

Depends, do you think Artemis is intended to actual build a functioning rocket, or just provide reasonably cheap employment for thousands of thousands of people who'd otherwise be out of a job and costing (more) money ?

You can never have too many backups. Also, you can never have too many backups

Re: Stack popped reading that procedure....

I think it copied the live disk to somewhere, then it overwrites it, by design? Without knowing the constraints more, really hard to follow

Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier

Re: Ok, i'll bite

Still serving content, but no longer updated

Re: Alternatives?

Nah, Lambda caches the started application as long as it's in use, or you can buy some reserved always on capacity

UK's largest water company investigates datacenters' use as drought hits

I expect once you've used it to evaporative cool, it takes more energy to re-cool and extract it again, so they vent it ?

BT demos 4-carrier 5G aggregation – on a live network

So this will be marketed as 6G right ?

ESA declares the Sentinel-1B mission over after payload resuscitation ends

The PDF notes this is no longer allowed, so they'd already realised the mistake but the kit was already on orbit

Google, Oracle clouds still affected by UK heatwave

Re: Idling

Their not drawing much power till switched on. Why do you think AWS is always banging on about how quick their VMs boot ?

Amazon sues 10,000 Facebook Group admins for offering fake reviews

Then there would be less reviews, reducing share holders value, so illegal

Crypto lender Celsius in Chapter 11 deep freeze

And no one was surprised

Tuxedo Pulse G2: Linux in your lap

So it's on a par spec and price wise with a Framework ? Someone should do a compare...

If you can find and fix this subtle Chromium bug that breaks some extensions, there's $8k waiting for you

Re: XUL

Because your Chrome version X could be running any number of experiments or feature roll outs, so is very different to my Chrome version X.

Testing this in any traditional way is probably so bad they've stopped.

NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030

Re: Space 1999

Didn't end well for a few people in For All Mankind either

GitHub's AI code assistant Copilot takes flight. And that'll be $10 a month, please

"developers would do well to review Copilot-generated code no differently than if it was written by a teammate."

Fuck that, I'll just write it myself rather than risk some weird bug from code I didn't want.

Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI

Re: Stopped clock is correct twice a day

We're half the researchers conversation with the computer and half a person? Which ones did he rate as being sentient?

Vivaldi email client released 7 years after first announcement

Re: Why is it so hard to find a good email program?

Thunderbird not an option?

GitHub drops Atom bomb: Open-source text editor mothballed by end of year

Re: VSCode is great but...

All grist for Sublime's mill I reckon.

Payed for it during lock down, not looked back

Next major update of Windows 11 prepares for launch

Re: I'm surprised that it's not appeared on more ordinary people's machines

Have you tried to find the "no, I don't want a Microsoft account" option on a fresh install recently ?

The Register talks to Microsoft's European cloud rivals about getting a fair deal

I don't think anyone would disagree, but the complaint here is that if you are dominated in one area (say, operating systems) then you should not be able to offer your other, incidental, services like user directory or cloud drives in a preferential way.

This is exactly what happened with IE and the browser choice screen that was eventually forced on Microsoft, who then kept accidentally removing it with no other repercussions. MS will stall and stall and stall, and hope the other providers go out of business.

Amazon’s Kindle bookstore to quit China

Re: Is "The Brick" a modern Tarot card?

Kobo devices show up as plain USB drives and read just about anything you dump there...

Keeping your head as an entire database goes pear-shaped

Re: Backups

Doesn't NetFlix have a Chaos Monkey script that does just this?

Workday nearly doubles losses as waves of deals pushed back

Such as ?

Campaigners warn of legal challenge against Privacy Shield enhancements

Re: Colour me confused

I'll settle for them stopping selling me behind my back :)

Microsoft revises software licensing, cloud policies amid EU regulator scrutiny

Re: One can dream

Don't forget

* falsely claiming their product only works with another of their products (again) : https://twitter.com/thefalken/status/1521834999376494593/photo/1

* shipping OneDrive by default

* BONUS - with private integration far better than what Dropbox or even NextCloud can achieve

Your snoozing iOS 15 iPhone may actually be sleeping with one antenna open

Re: It appears to be difficult

Nothing like that here at Jodrell. Hell, they have music festivals!

Microsoft warns partners to revoke unused authorizations that drive your software

Why is this even a thing?

Just create "support user" in AD and enable when needed?

Rocket Lab is taking NASA's CAPSTONE to the Moon

"verify simulations that the interaction gravity of the Earth and Moon will make for a stable orbit"

Their not *sure* already ? Their whole SLS stack and habitat, lander concept etc is all based on an *assumption* they are only checking out just a few months (allegedly) before launch ?!?

Fedora backs down on removing BIOS support… for now

"booted from a Ventoy key – which tries BIOS boot first – and updated one of the installed OSes. "

What did you do ?? You must have some how nuked EFI Grub with BIOS Grub ?

ZX Spectrum: Q&A with some of the folks who worked on legendary PC

Re: Outrun for the win!

Ice cream! Ice cream!

Sorry, Speedball 2 was a bit later

Fedora starts to simplify Linux graphics handling

"requiring UEFI"

Yikes.

I have machines that have marched forwards for decades. They don't do UEFI boot, and even if they did but they were in BIOS mode it's non-trivial to swap over.

So one day I'll update to Fedora N and it will break at reboot ?!?

Oracle to release on-prem software usage tools to prep cloud switch

It's a trap!

Debian faces firmware furore from FOSS freedom fighters

Confused by the subject line. There's nothing new here, right ? This is just click bait (or less gate-keepery, a primer) ?

Microsoft details how China-linked crew's malware hides scheduled Windows tasks

TM more like TLA amirite

The march of Macs into the enterprise: Demand is on the increase

+1 for JumpCloud - single control panel, all 3 O/S. Awesome tech support (we had an issue with KDE, update in works).

Okta acknowledges 'mistake' in handling of Lapsus$ attack

Re: standards

Most SME would struggle to run a remotely accessible globally redundant SSO host themselves, so what's the choice other than outsourcing to the cloud?

Mozilla creates paid-for subscriptions for web doc library

Wfm. Did you file a bug or just to yourself?

'Enterprise' browser maker Island valued at $1.3bn out of the gate

Like the whole NHS...

Alphabet still can't kill off Google+ insecurity lawsuit

Re: Don't forget : this lawsuit will not benefit Joe Public

Bollocks will it. Every filing from every company will just include some standard "there might be vulnerabilities in progress" statement for the rest of time

Ubuntu applies security fixes for all versions back to 14.04

Re: Your scheduled bit pedantry whenever shell commands are mentioned

Or set up unattended-upgrades and forget about it.

WFM

Google offers privacy audit tool to app developers

Ah ha, so this is how they understand what SDKs are doing so they can (auto)build a sandbox for them in the next Android...

KDE Community releases Plasma 5.24: It's eccentric, just like many old-timers

Re: Would love to see it has a gvfs equivalent

Dolphin's network panel does exactly this

Arm's $66bn sale to Nvidia is off: Deal collapses after world's competition regulators raise concerns

Re: Worthless?

Probably shouldn't have sold 51% of the company if they wanted to retain control then