* Posts by Youngone

1586 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jun 2009

Oracle CEO says more tech can help offset tech's worst effects

Youngone

Re: Tech douche bros

In this case, after a quick look through her Wikipedia page I'm wondering how she knows? She's a money person and probably needs help changing her password.

Undersea bit-barn biz offers 90-day trial of submerged server system

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Sorry Guv, the team manning the pump are off on smoko. Just hold yer breath they won't be long.

Cyber-bastard jailed for stealing psychotherapy files, blackmailing patients

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Re: Psychotherapy: a bit like confession only with the God bits taken out.

Based on the A/C's comments I'm going to go right ahead and assume the therapy was court-ordered.

UnitedHealth CEO: 'Decision to pay ransom was mine'

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Odd

It's a weird Americanism that CEO's of corporations get called up to explain themselves in front of Senate committees like they're naughty schoolboys and nobody else seems to think it's odd.

I wonder what would happen if this CEO tells the Headmaster that how he runs the business is none of theirs?

Huawei wants to take homegrown HarmonyOS phone platform worldwide

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Re: "expand its native HarmonyOS smartphone platform worldwide"

I live in a 5 Eyes country, and this message will have arrived to you over at least some Huawei gear, as all our ISP's use them. America knows and doesn't care.

The Huawei sanctions are for economic reasons.

FBI and friends get two more years of warrantless FISA Section 702 snooping

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Secret courts sound a little Soviet don't they?

Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show that there's room to innovate

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Re: Snaps still don't work

I'm happily using Linux Mint which is Ubuntu (kinda) without Snaps but I'm not sure if it's lightweight or not. At least it's boring which is what I'm looking for.

Snaps are the only reason I don't use actual Ubuntu.

IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay

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IBM would have to be stupid to not steal wages from their employees. As we all know there won't be any real punishment, and if they decide to make an example of this woman they'll tie her up in court until she runs out of money or dies.

It's the system working as designed.

Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again

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Re: A solution?

While you're not wrong, every time I read a piece about how Americans have to pay for this or that thing which the rest of us get as part of the whole taxpayer experience in the country we inhabit, I ask myself who the government of America is set up to benefit.

I don't think its you.

FCC to reinstate net neutrality in the US until someone decides to scrap it again

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Good lord! Crickey!

Youngone

I'm not sure what the downvote you received denotes.

You're not wrong, so I'm going to guess it's from someone who thinks you are but can't argue their case.

Sun Microsystems co-founder charged with insider trading

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He's worth something like $16 billion. He hasn't been punished in any real sense.

Microsoft gets new Windows boss as Start Menu man Parakhin 'to explore new roles'

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Re: "Start Menu man Parakhin"

Vast amounts of empty space seems to be part of Microsoft's design philosophy.

Congress votes unanimously to ban brokers selling American data to enemies

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Re: Good luck...

Good luck defining enemies too.

The extremely wealthy people who make billions from their assets in China (just a random for-instance in this case) have different enemies to those of us who have to get up early every morning and shlep across town to work for a living.

Euro-cloud consortium CISPE calls for investigation of Broadcom

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Re: Capitalism at work

If you read the New Testament book of Mark's Letters to the Developers, it's pretty clear that Jesus warned of the dangers of using closed-source tools for your vital infrastructure.

Google brains plumb depths of the uncanny valley with latest image-to-video tool

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Re: But … why?

The goal is to have AI generating all the stuff that humans might, but without the costs of actually employing anyone. It's an MBA's wildest dream.

How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model

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My assumption was that Oracle would be happy to outspend anyone who tried this in court.

US accuses Army vet cyber-Casanova of sharing Russia-Ukraine war secrets

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Re: I wonder how he got caught

I'm assuming that despite being a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel he's thick as pig shit and boasted about the "hot Ukrainian" he had as a girlfriend and was turned in.

Youngone

Re: Depends more on the cause of your fines

That all sounds weirdly Soviet.

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

Youngone

Re: After eleven - Mint

I've been living entirely with Linux Mint for about a year now. Civ VI runs fine and it's the only game I still play.

The only thing I do miss is Photoshop but everything else has a Linux equivalent that works just as well (or better) than whatever I was using under Windows.

Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

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Re: voluntary redundancy?

In my country, the number 2 ISP in the country asked for volunteers to be laid off and 100% of the staff applied. Hilarious.

The guy I dealt with wasn't accepted, probably because they couldn't contact him. Goodness knows I couldn't

Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs

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Re: "arguing that the labor agency is unconstitutional"

Smedley Butler complained about the US Marines being used as the enforcement arm of United Fruit in 1935.

So yes, quite a long time ago.

Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

Youngone

America has had several "federal subsidised push(es) for a national fiber infrastructure." The corporations took the money and didn't do the installs, then they asked for more money which resulted in not much more fibre.

Then they sponsored laws to prevent communities building their own fibre networks.

Duo face years in prison over counterfeit iPhone scam

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A bit harsh?

20 years seems a bit harsh to me.

I'm happy they should be punished, fraud is fraud, but 20 years seems a bit over the top.

Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

Youngone

It was his use of "females" that tipped you off wasn't it?

Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up

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Re: Mrs Henry Ford will be turning in her grave

Neither Ford nor GM are going to fail, because American taxpayers are waiting in the wings with a huge pile money to hand over as soon as they need it really badly.

What's more, management at Ford and GM are well aware of it.

Yay capitalism!

It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety

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Re: Just AI?

I'm sorry, but her "her obvious creative and business talents." are completely unobvious to me.

She's the child of multi-generational wealth who gained her first recording contract because her father bought a large stake in the company.

The Grammys have no integrity and never did. They're an award for whoever sold the most records last year.

I have heard her described as "the McDonalds of pop music" which sounds about right to me.

Youngone

Re: Just AI?

The rapid princess. I love it so much I'm pirating it.

That's mine now.

Top Linux distros drop fresh beats

Youngone

Re: Style is optional

I agree with you about MX. I use Mint at home as my main machine and it's boring.

I mean that in the best possible way too.

Apple has botched 3D for decades. So good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim

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Re: No Love For QuickDraw 3D?

Thanks, I really enjoyed that story.

It makes my own situation feel a little less unique. I too work for a vast American corporation that has lost it's way. We however don't care enough to attempt to subvert the corporate bureaucracy in an attempt to actually do good work, so everything is circling the drain.

I would also disagree with his assertion that the powerpc Macs were great machines. As an end user at the time, we put up with them an no more.

Youngone

Re: No Love For QuickDraw 3D?

I thought the bit where he wrote "...the first successful spatial computing device, the HoloLens." was the giveaway that doesn’t actually know what they’re talking about.

CISA boss swatted: 'While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique'

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Re: Some light relief

It seems odd the none of that was raised by Fox when Dominion sued them and they settled for $800 million.

Youngone

Re: Thought Experiment

Not where I live, and I'm struggling to find a single UK resident killed in one of these incidents.

Youngone

I'm not sure how the police shooting people so often that they're used as an instrument of revenge makes it the phone companies' problem.

Youngone

Thought Experiment

Can anyone name another country where this happens?

As Broadcom nukes VMware's channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix

Youngone

That's a very interesting article. Thanks.

Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing

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Two Things

Two thoughts came to me.

The first was that this new city will be "socioeconomically integrated" because the servants need to live somewhere and the second was that State Senator Bill Dodd seems to not understand how America works if he thinks this whole project will be decided "based on facts, not slogans, misdirection and massive campaign spending."

More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are exposed to old denial of service bugs

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Re: They're missing the real reason so many SonicWalls are unpatched

I don't think anyone is thinking that Cisco are less scummy than Sonicwall.

Youngone

Sonicwall?

I thought they died years ago. We had a couple of their firewalls at one place I worked at, but the support was so poor we got rid of them.

Windows 12 fan fiction shows how Microsoft might ladle AI into the OS

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Re: Windows OSXII

I thought it looked a bit like Gnome. Not as good though.

Daughter of George Carlin horrified someone cloned her dad with AI for hour special

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7 downvotes?

It's not like you're wrong.

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

Youngone

3D? Again?

I love the way tech companies keep trying to foist 3D onto people despite failing to create a market repeatedly over the past 30 years or so.

I suppose I admire their persistence.

US Navy sailor swaps sea for cell after accepting bribes from Chinese snoops

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Re: Only $14K?

That's pretty much what I thought.

It may be an indication of the quality of management in the US Navy.

Swarms of laser-flown bots visiting a planet light years away – and more NASA-funded projects revealed

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Re: A couple of issues to be sorted?

Though I wonder if it would be possible at that speed to enter a hyperbolic orbit with the star, and re-enter that system every few years/decades to collect more data.

That's a great idea.

China's GPU contender Moore Threads reveals card that can cope with Nvidia’s CUDA

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Re: > China are not going to invade Taiwan, because they can't.

How is sending drones going to achieve anything useful?

Youngone

Re: Commodity tat

China are not going to invade Taiwan, because they can't.

The last time any significant amphibious invasion was attempted, the invaders had been fighting for 4 years (most of them anyway), they had 2 dress rehearsals and the target did not possess satellites or a significant ally who could intervene.

China would need to get 1,000,000 men across the straights of Taiwan and supply them. Taiwan and the US would be able to watch the build up in real time and would know exactly where the landings were going to be. Imagine China's casualty rate.

China could destroy Taiwan of course, they possess nukes. That's going to cripple their own economy, so they won't do that either.

Halley's Comet has begun its long trek back toward Earth

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Re: Disappointing

I was working night shift in semi-rural New Zealand at the time, and walked home every night under Halley's. I can confirm, it absolutely was spectacular, not "...more of a dim smudge in the sky that could not be seen with the naked eye." as the article says.

Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org

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Re: KDE on X

Canonical and Debian don't make decisions about default anything without thinking it through, and Debian definitely listens to technical people before implementing a thing as important as a display manager.

I'm yet to see a really coherent criticism of systemd. It has certainly made my life much easier.

Plex gives fans a privacy complex after sharing viewing habits with friends by default

Youngone

I paid something like $25 (local money) for a license for Serviio several years ago and it does everything I need.

It's worth a look if you're in the market for that sort of thing.

Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

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Re: Tesla should deal

I've seen some statements that claim the world is flat. It doesn't mean I should believe them.