Posts by Steve Davies 3

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

Re: the Grauniad or the i.

surprisingly, the Guardian is well respected amongst serious journo's in the USA. A lot of their in-depth articles about Trump and his bunch of clowns are way better than the US MSM who in the main, cow down to Trump in case he sues them for $10B each.

I was watching C-Span a few months ago (that day, I wasn't watching paint dry) and one Senator quoted extensively from a Guardian article when questioning a US Treasury minister. The minister was way out of his depth and clearly failed to hold up Trump's end.

However, I have to admit that the last time I read an UK paper was in 2019 when I picked up a copy of the 'I' on a train. It wasn't Daily Mail rabid that's for sure but it was downmarket from what the old Indy would put out.

Re: Pushups

Is part of the Tate Cult signature. Two members were outside the Miami jail and did half pushups in honour of their saintly leaders who were so rudely incarcerated in the jail.

Re: Drums

the Trump dictatorship has declared that musical instruments are a threat to national security.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FguneWZrQcM&pp=ygUabXVzaWNhbCBpbnN0cnVtZW50cyB0aHJlYXQ%3D

Is there no limit to the madness of King Donald?

Re: 1954

sadly no.

Emperor Trump wants the carriers to look more like battleships. He loves battleships (the real thing, not the game). His move will cost the Pentagon hundreds of billions of dollars and that's not including the 'Trump Class' Battleships he wants built ASAP.

I hope that the next POTUS cancels all this doodling of a demented toddler.

There is an excellent post on all this on the Meidastouch youtube channel.

There are more important things for the USN

to work on,

How about providing proper food for those on those super carriers?

How about providing clean showers?

Oh, and moral is at an all time low. because of the length of deployments, lack of sleep and just about everything else.

But with Donald Trump in charge .... He's more concerned about building his copy of the Brandenburg Gate than the USN.

‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec

Brilliant

but you have to be of a certain age to appreciate that joke.

For you youngsters out there, there was a Comedy Series on ITV called 'On The Busses'. The 'enemy' was the Inspector who had a line in almost every episode that went 'I'll get you Butler'.

'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

Re: LLMs are nowhere near sentience

Yet people believe in them like the word of their God (or Elon etc).

Humanity is getting dumber and dumber. Yes Donald we know it has a 'b' at the end. It is only you who just discovered that like you did with the word 'Groceries'. Sigh.

Re: Terminator

Ditto. 1984

Ditto: Fahrenheit 451

Ditto: Animal Farm

Ditto: Catch-22

etc

etc

Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict

Re: Don’t Put the PLC on the Internet for Iran to find /s

Change that to "Don't put the real PLC on the internet...."

Make it seem real and then turn the whole thing into a honeypot to lure the hacker into a trap.

Don't forget to remove it afterwards though.

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

Re: "design is complete when there's nothing more that can be removed"

You have perfectly described the 'Clive Sinclair' approach to Product Design.

The early Sinclair Radios were infamous for having components still on the PCB but with one leg cut.

Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner

Re: "targeted synergies."

That's 1990's MBA Speak 101.

Been there, got the cert and used it to help customers decode the MBA BS that was spouted at every opportunity. AI slop will only make it worse. 200 words instead of 2.

To all those who think that AI as currently implemented is the best thing since sliced bread.... Eat This --->>> see icon

Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much

Re: Awkward.

Only if you are [redacted] enough to allow ssh root access to a non local connection.

Here's a tip for you.... Run a firewall and don't open any ports that you don't need too. My website server has three ports open. Two for http/https and another for a VPN and a batch job controls the 2 hours a day that the VPN service is active and the port is open. No root or sudo access from outside. you have to login to an account first and then then access root commands. That's only the tip of the iceberg.

Other users will have different solutions. It is not rocket science to secure a Linux system.

Windows is another matter entirely. With all that phoning home of your data.... Just air gap every Win10/Win11 system. you know it makes sense.

Re: Not just their golden pensions

but their post civil-service directorships.

Hey Nick Clegg... I'm looking at you for starters.

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

Re: 77 MW of IT capacity

and a heck of a lot nosier with all those cooling fans. Nasty.

GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions

Make it look like Windows 7

then you may well get more takers. Making it like the POSOS that is Windows 11 is a [see icon]

POSOS == Piece Of Shit Operating System

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings

doing math?

The last person capable of that was made redundant in 2008. Since then, the government sums have never added up. That a big part of why we are in the deep, deep, deep hole that we are in today.

Re: A moment of your time, if you please

Some of us have been complaining about the USAification of this site ever since it moved to the USA and suddenly US spellings were the norm.

Until Trump throws this site out of Trumpistan, we are stuck with it. FSCK Trump and everything he sits down for.

Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs

re: The workload...

Perhaps that is the point? They want you to trust nanny Microslop and just install it without testing... Testing, that thing that MS seems unable to do.

Re: So...

Please give specific instances where Apple is not fixing its software. We love to slag off El-Fruity here but we need ammo. Your post is devoid of Ammo.

Just to state, Apple regularly releases updates to its software. MacOS is currently on 26.5.2 and 26.6 is in beta testing. MacOS 27.0 has just gone into Public Beta. That is all well documented on Apple forums and sites.

Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing

Suddenly, the sun is not always shining...

out of AI's arse.

I hope that this is the first sign that the AI bubble is about to pop (bigly)

Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old PC another year

Re: Wallet voting

It might not be a question of refusing but being able to afford the IMHO totally unnecessary upgrade to W!1.

With the US Economy in a recession thanks to Donald 'No more wars' Trump, and his inflationary policies including tariffs, many people are living from paycheck to paycheck, if they have a job.

AI is throwing a huge spanner into the works. Many companies are laying off workers in order to be able to afford this nebulus thing called AI. I'm just waiting for a big Fortune 500 company to go TITSUP because AI fails to deliver for its bottom line.

Microslop can FSCK itself. Proudly MS free since 2016.

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

re: The overwhelming feedback from customers ...

Until the likes of Microslop and google decide it is AI with everything and you have no way to opt out.

Hmmm....

On another site, they were ruminating over the move by Apple with the next iPhone range to do more locally on the device.

That sort of tallies with what this article is about. Bigger isn't always best or something like that.

IMHO, not tying yourself to the big AI models, might pay dividends when the big AI bubble goes pop. not having costly contracts with OpenAI etc might save you a heap of money in a few quarters.

I won't be using AI for my writing unless it is to generate some images. Everything else is a big No-no.

Interesting

Perhaps the approach that Apple has taken to make AI work on the device rather than in some monster power guzzling DC is right?

Only time will tell I guess.

Outlook for Mac bug makes font choice a purely decorative feature

Have an upvote

for mentioning that pile of junk called 'Sharepoint'

Re: An MS app that won't work right on Non-Windows OS?

The old saying from MS land is still true...

The day ain't done until the Mac don't run.

FSCK Microslop.

Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows

Re: I'm not sure why you got the downvote

Because there are a few people around here who hate Apple with a vengeance that makes them close to basket cases.

Apple isn't perfect. Not by a long chalk but some things, they get right and have done for years. I'm thinking of:-

- TimeMachine (something that Microslop still can't get right OOTB)

- System transfer to new mac's

- etc.

Their level of snooping is IMHO several orders of magnitude less than MS's. Their stated aim to do as much locally as possible is in this 'Cloud is great, Cloud is all you will ever need, etc' world a good move.

Then, we don't see the monthly 'Patch Tuesday' drama episodes. It must be years since Apple have really FSCK'd an OS update.

Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses spat

Re: "Microsoft doesn't help their customers

Wrong....

The help their customers empty their wallets/.bank accounts into theirs.

"We can't have all those customers hoarding money now can we?"

Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble

Re: Was the US government this involved in the Dot Com bubble?

Don't you mean...

Was the Trump family involved in this Dot Com bubble?

Then the answer is yes, a BIGLY Yes. All those non compete contracts.... Perfect for filling their Qatari bank accounts.

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

Not this again...

As has been said already this was chronicled on Groklaw is gory detail. The contents of 'errno.h' was analysed ad infinitum and SCO failed to convince judge after judge that their claim was valid.

At the end, the [cough][cough] trustee made millions from the case flogging a dead horse.

Personally, the 'we own Linux' horse fled 20+ years ago and is in a different galaxy now. I home this new bunch of chancers get sent packing pronto along with a hefty legal bill that they must pay on the day.

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

re: or anything else

ESPECIALLY predictive text.

IMHO, MS lost the plot with Windows 8.0 and have done nothing positive of note since.

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

Re: Canal Building

the workforce who had been building them transitioned into Railway Navvies. Many of the same skills applied.

I don't see this happening with AI. All it seems to me is that there are millions of fewer workers needed which will in turn reduce purchasing power and company bottom lines will suffer as more and more people live in abject poverty. Meanwhile the likes of Bezos, Zuck and Musk get richer and richer. May they all end up sucking on this ----> [see icon]

No shit sherlock

Many of those of us who were around for the dotcom bubble have been saying that the AI bubble will burst and this time, the stupid amounts of 'other people's money' involved it might cause a worldwide depression. It 'The Donald' was not POTUS and has been tanking the US economy, the AI Bubble could make it a worldwide depression that will make the 2006-08 financial crisis a walk in the park.

May your god help you through the tough times ahead.

Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees

Re: Oracle promises to open up

It is almost as real as Trump is at telling the truth about everything.

Avoid at all costs like Oracle Java.

Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads

Obligatory....

The day is not done unless Apple don't run.

SOP for Microslop these days.

OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too!

If you work in AI, better get that CV polished

Even Oracle are slimming down their headcount due to AI. More money for the boss to waste on rockets to the moon/mars/pluto.

2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud

Re: EOL Hardware has to be opened.

Apple laptops that use X86 processors (ie pre M1 CPU's) run Llnux very well. Apple M* series is a work in progress but so far none of them have been EOL'd.

My 2018 MBP runs Rocky Linux nicely. It will be EOL'd with MacOS 27 later this year. I bought an M2/Apple adapter and tried it. It worked.

Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck

re : Daddy needs a new yacht?

Not a yacht, a new planet hopefully just for him and the other tech billionaires to live and fight each other.

Palantir's NHS data deal called in for a second opinion

Re: NHSE Failure

Farage is saying quietly,

"Hold my Beer'

followed by:-

"You ain't seen nothing yet."

I'm glad that NHSE is a failure. It sends a message that the politicians got it wrong (like an awful lot of things). We, 'the people' don't want the privatisation of the NHS and especially the arrival of the American so called Healthcare Giants. But, Trump has told Farage that single payer healthcare is a huge NO-NO and it needs to go.

Vote Reform (and to a lesser extent, Restore) and wave goodbye to the NHS and state pensions should the form or be part of a government.

Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks

Re: Dump SNAP and Flatpak

I'd do it in an instant. I've learned to live with SystemD but SNAP is a definite NO-NO for my systems. Flatpak is a PITA and should be consigned to hell along with SNAP..

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

Don't forget...

That using AI in the processing of evidence is gods gift to the defense. Unless you can guarantee that it is 100000000000000% accurate and nothing has been invented or altered it may well be ruled as inadmissible.

Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts

Re: next week's production ????

Do you think that there will be more than one week of production?

If there is, most of the second and subsequent weeks will go (to us a US term) straight to Landfill.

The [redacted] who signed up for this will be smarting from the slap in the face when they discover that they have been taken for a ride (on a gold covered train naturally)

LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy

Why?

Why would anyone want an equivalent to the POS that is LookOut is beyond me. for starters, it is produced by Microslop.

I use Thunderbird as my email client and have done since around 2007.

Why do you need an email client as part of a Word Processor, Spreadsheet etc package? Just because MS bundled it as part of Orifice does not mean that it is a good idea.

Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform

Re: Windows gets things wrong about 10% or the time?

Wot! only 10%? nearer 50% in my book.

History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system

Nice article

I used RH linux back in the day and even became RHEL certified (I needed it for one job) but at home, it was always CentOS.

Then Red Hat FSCK'd up and clones like Rocky and Alma were born thanks to the power of Open Source Software.

These days, I use a mixture of Rocky and Alma Linux on servers and desktops with either XFCE or Cinnamon. I suspect that I'm not alone in that sort of choice.

Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security

You forgot that...

The Orange Jesus believes that windmills give you cancer and that coal is good and clean despite it giving you black lung.

My grandfather died of black lung. it is not nice. FSCK Trump

Re: Many US billionaires are going to make even more

Trump will have his snout in the trough through [cough][cough] campaign contributions (WTF can he be campaigning for? He can't run again for POTUS so the money will end up in an offshore bank somewhere) and through his plethora of stock purchases that are running at about one every 7 minutes during trading hours.

Perhaps that is how Ivanka and Jared can afford to pay billions for that island in Albania? Does Albania have an extradition treaty with the USA? Asking for not a friend.

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

Re: Panopticon

They are all in a race to become the AI 'Big Brother' and send all of us to Room 101 while they strip us of all privacy, decency and humanity.

Bugger off. Buy an island and become its King.

I encountered one of these agents today

The sad thing demanded an 8 digit UK postcode. Doh! Some are 5 digits (L1 2AB) Six Digits (M10 3AF), Seven digits (RH12 0AB) etc. but no, sorry, Computer Says NO when entering a 7 digit Postcode.

EFF the lot of them. AI? Dumb and Dumber LLC.