Posts by Alan_Peery

NASA management wants a word and won't say why

How is this a high risk mission? The rocket has flown before, it has a proper launch escape system, it doesn't have known faulty O-rings or wings particularly exposed to shed ice at launch, the capsule design has survived a much higher return velocity than will be seen in the Artemis 3 mission...

NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash

Firefox's report on their 271 bugs pretty much says that Mythos has been much better about finding bugs from source code.

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Data stream useless without attention tracking

I generally scan across multiple parts of a GUI before I interact with any part of it. Only tracking the click/typing doesn't replicate this, even the AI is doing text/image matching to find the right part of the GUI to click on.

So when is Meta issuing the special glasses to watch the eyeballs of their employees?

Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo

Re: Short cuts make long delays, but at least nothing shorted out

Disregarding direct instructions about how to operate equipment would certainly qualify.

Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files

Re: Criminalize paying ransom

Those CEOs would then be funding continued destruction, and thus guilty in the next attack.

Ubuntu Unity hanging by a thread as wunderkind maintainer gets busy with life

Re: Forced Child Labor in the Linux Mines

Equating focused time attempting to maintain a bit of software (and learning in the process) with "screen time" is a massive stretch.

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

Re: Thinking about corruption

I've seen $40 & $70 million as figures for the cost of the film-making to Amazon, but not $20 million to the Trump family. Not doubting because it would be in line with their grifting tendencies -- but could you point me to a source for the $20?

Re: Not a Trump thing.

States that followed anti-vaccination "thinking" and blocked anti-epidemic precautions suffered quite significantly more deaths. This can be seen clearly if you compare the groups of states before and after the availability of the vaccines:

https://x.com/ablueview/status/1601072491593859072

Re: Not a Trump thing.

Particularly when you're the one who's got the wrong of the stick.

Re: Not a Trump thing.

Shady in allowing major fraud I'll give you, both in the UK and the US.

If instead you are advocating for reckless ignorance of science in opposing masking, social distancing, and vaccination in the face of a contagious disease with unknown short and long term consequences, please go and be hermit somewhere and stop endangering others near you.

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

Re: the ugly american face of SaaS

Did you miss that the Italians were telling them to block DNS resolution for the name *worldwide*? Which is Italy being the world police you just objected to...

Re: the ugly american face of SaaS

And that's why *IP* blocking is a bad idea. Multiple people can sensibly live under 1 IP, and shouldn't be hit for the one bad apple.

HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations

Re: Banking App Developers should be shot

If you don't include the name of the misbehaving bank, we can't avoid them.

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

Re: "Sovereign".....Exactly What Does That Mean?

In my view it also means that the DC must operated by a corporate entity not under legal control of an external government. This AWS, Azure, and Google don't qualify.

You seem to have a reading problem, or you are unaware of typical European gender and name conventions:

"Catherine Jestin, Airbus's executive vice president of digital"

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch

Re: What about OpenStack?

When you're creating a VM on ProxMox you can specify where those files go, at least for ZFS replicated storage. Or you can move them there post-creation.

Fork that: Three alternative kernels show devs don't need Linux

Re: Managarm

A rename as Moonhound would seem to be a good step.

Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady

Re: Lawsuit culture

You've missed two big things in the DieselGate comment:

1. Resale values of the cars were significantly affected.

2. People made a choice that they thought would be less polluting, and this was something they valued. VW cheated them of this.

Junior sysadmin’s first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company

Re: sysadmin ... become a developer

Why waste syllables?

Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo

Motorways typically have 6-8 foot wide shoulder lanes. Non-motorways might have 3 feet of space. Makes a big difference in the likelihood of an collision.

Try camping in Cornwall...

What to do once your Surface Hub v1 becomes an 84-inch, $22K paperweight

Linux drivers?

It's running Win10, so X64 compatible. Seems that some driver work would get it working under Linux...

Thunderbird is go: 128 now out with revamped 'Nebula' UI

Which data file?

Re: Do you still need

The clues given by appropriately wide scrollbars are anything but redundant. They give a visual indication of how far you are through the content, something your "just use a scrollwheel" completely ignores.

As Chromecast outage drags on, fix could be days to weeks away

Re: Newer ChromeCast

The newer Chromecast devices are HDMI rather than audio, so you'd need to split the audio channel out or have a speaker device that accepts HDMI.

Bluetooth + Chromecast a bigger win

I really prefer streaming my music to my speakers with Chromecast because that's a separate channel to Bluetooth. I can leave the Chromecast device quietly streaming music when I join a Teams call from my Android tablet using a Bluetooth headset.

Windows now has a native ability to send send separate audio streams different places, BT+Chromecast is a useful half-step...

Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book

Re: @Wang Cores

The misinformation you mentioned? Quite a lot, given that it's shared by the same people, and often invented by them.

LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab

Re: All you need

Outlook also copies your non-cloud email into the cloud.

Dropbox to shed another 500 staff, CEO takes 'full responsibility'

They can keep the work device, but what about the data cleanse?

Sure, the company doesn't need the devices and maybe the employees can use them. Seems good.

Until you remember that these same devices had access to corporate data, and for people who had been doing more detailed troubleshooting maybe even some customer data. What is Dropbox doing to make sure that these devices are wiped properly before they are wandering free in the world, no longer secured and patched by the corporate toolset?

Datacenter CEO faked top-tier IT reliability cert to snag $10.7M SEC deal, DoJ claims

Elevators large enough to take the equipment to upper floors...

Rack of the right dimensions to fit your preferred supplier, and all the other suppliers...

Re: Genius

"Oh, it will be OK. We'll fix it al up after the contract signing."

"What do you mean I can't have my bonus if we do the necessary upgrade? I worked really hard to land that sale..."

Kyndryl follows in IBM's footsteps with rolling layoffs likely affecting thousands

Re: Quit Proactively

The constraint of multi-year contracts signed before the cloud services gained full function plays a big part.

About that Windows Installer 'make me admin' security hole. Here's how it's exploited

Re: msiscan in github

The point of Python being an additional attack service is true regardless of the need to read and verify *either* script.

Microsoft decides it's a good time for bad UI to die

Yes, Settings is missing bits

Like the ability to forget a WiFi Network you connected to previously, but are no longer around.

(Or at least that was missing, maybe it's been added.)

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

It wouldn't have been the same sexualization -- because it would be lacking the depersonalization from the lampshades.

Not really keen on either approach, but the lampshades clearly made it worse.

Texas sues GM for selling driver data to analytics, insurance companies

Returning profits of data theft not enought

It seems to me that calls for a significant penalty multiple. I'd suggest 20x, in symmetry with the school speed limit and GM's lack of basic knowledge they should have gained in grade school.

UK minister recalls two planning decisions which blocked datacenter investment

Failure to consider uses of waste heat

One big frustration I have with the planning around data centres is that sensible use of the waste heat isn't a requirement. A DC using 96 MW could heat a neighborhood, or can a lot of food with some heat pump concentration to get up to the required temps.

Latest Ghostscript vulnerability haunts experts as the next big breach enabler

Re: It's either open a file or click a link

So you think clicking on links is stupid?

Saying "just don't visit dodgy sites isn't an answer, as legitimate sites can be compromised.

Microsoft tells yet more customers their emails have been stolen

Re: They're Welcome

Including the password reset messages?

Raspberry Pi stock surges after London IPO

Re: Downvoters please check the definition of "fiduciary duty"

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2024/06/11/raspberry_pi_stock_surges_after/#c_4877640

Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher

Re: My Bullshit Meter Just Exploded

Very wrong. Take a look at everything launched post 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_probes

Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

Re: Time for an Emulator?

IIRC the Android development tools from Google used to include something.

Re: There goes......

You are somehow immune to Microsoft telemetry?

VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with KVM conversion tool

Re: Meeeh....

"Put" was the verb chosen for a reason. If your wife has *chosen* to be in the kitchen rather than being there by force or by a purposeful lack of options it's a different situation.

How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer

Re: Oil secrets - disinformation proven

To the downvoters:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/18/the-forgotten-oil-ads-that-told-us-climate-change-was-nothing

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/09/politics/big-oil-disinformation-record-profits-climate/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/oil-industry-documents-disinformation.html

It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs

Re: I can see two cases here

The phone or the PC is the primary device on which the message is created. The car is only acting as a relay, and would not normally be expected to retain a copy of the message.

It's also an additional possible point of IT vulnerability.

It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18m settlement

Not nearly enough, before and particularly after the lawyers fees

IANAL, pretty obviously.

Kyndryl bags short-lived HMRC mainframe contract

Re: Why the cloud ?

The workload is not as stable as youi might think. Consider even just the changes to your personal taxation over the last 5 years.

Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss

Re: "you have to wonder how they get home each night

There are theoretically schedules for London's tube lines, but to expect adherence to them at a fidelity close enough to matter is unusual. Was the person Swiss?

Re: I need my Trash

Years ago I was bitten by the discovery that HPUX *didn't* clear /tmp at each reboot. :-D Can't remember now what exact failure that triggered in my homebrew sort-of-Ansible...