Posts by bigphil9009

Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

Re: Many vital open source resources rely on the devotion of a few individuals

It seems few people are aware of this gem! (Although I have to admit that I did come to post it too but was beaten by your good self!)

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

Re: Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

C'mon, we don't need rad hardened hardware we'll just make the datacentre walls out of multiple-meter thick lead! Have some imagination here! Starship will be able to launch exactly one wall of the DC per launch so it will only take 1,000,000 launches! Where's your sense of adventure? You realists have no sense of fun. -Musk, probably.

'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour

"Ralph Wiggum" it is not

Having read the linked-to blog, I can't work out if it's intentional or a fine example of AI slop that the image of Ralph in the article looks absolutely nothing like the actual character.

Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive

Re: M$ Exceeding expectations

"Micro$oft" come on man, what are you, 12?

JLR: Payroll data stolen in cybercrime that shook UK economy

The attack seems to have been so comprehensive that I'd have been surprised if sensitive data wasn't taken...

AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns

Re: It is!

What an incredible business to be in!

Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban

Which site are you referring to? Reddit's share price has gone up ~40% in the past year, not 500%

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

Re: Damn.

Not to be that guy (actually, who am I kidding, I love being that guy), but did AliExpress even exist 25 years ago?

Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs

Re: Labour

"Organize."

That is all(er?).

Ransomware gang runs ads for Microsoft Teams to pwn victims

"It's worth noting that earlier this month, Microsoft said it revoked more than 200 certificates that Vanilla Tempest used in fake Teams setup files to ultimately deliver Rhysida ransomware. " So these, err trusted certificates can't actually be trusted then? The whole supply chain has become so complex that bad actors can purchase genuine certificates. What's the point of them any more?

This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet

Unacceptable!

I ran this clearly-flagged-as-dangerous exploit and my browser crashed! This is unacceptable! Who can I sue?

MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech

Re: Repairable? or Theft-Proof?

>They've often "shoulder-surfed" your PIN before snatching it.

I'd wager that the vast majority of phones these days are unlocked via facial or fingerprint recognition. Very very few people are using their PIN while walking down the street. And besides, these thefts happen over a matter of seconds - moped pulls alongside, pillion passenger nicks the phone, moped is gone. All in the space of 3 seconds. They're not watching you for 30s beforehand...

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Re: Beyond satire, beyond parody

“M$”. That’s original!

Got a source for this? If true, it would be interesting to find out more about this.

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist

Re: The Online Safety Act is not just law, It's state censorship.

"The UK is over"

Stop getting your "news" from X and Musk, you hyperbolic simpleton.

How your mouse could eavesdrop on you and rat you out

Re: Why make a mouse that sensitive?

It's for teh gamerz, innit. Can't no scope that headshot with at 1000DPI mouse now, can you? :)

The first rule of liquid cooling is 'Don't wet the chip.' Microsoft disagrees

Surely you’ve got better things to be doing with your life than making this shit up all the time? Don’t you?

Oh look, he's back.

Where's the chip? Why are you using GoDaddy to host your site? Surely you have a team of people who could actually etch the bits onto a piece of silicon to run your own web server?

SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC

I can't help but marvel at how neat everything is there. Someone very fastidious was involved in this...

NASA panel fears a Starship lunar touchdown is more fantasy than flight plan

Re: Tipping over? Again?

Hi Elon!

Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server

Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?

Blah blah fucking blah

Probably because of this particular commenter’s propensity for spewing total bullshit.

Mars says hello as NASA's Europa Clipper warms up radar

Re: You can test radar indoors

Thank God that the boffins at NASA have people like you to tell them what to do! I take it you didn't read the article?

Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

Terrible Journalism

Basing an article on a fucking Guido Fawkes blog post is a really terrible thing to do. Unless you just wanted clicks, of course...

Microsoft CEO feels weighed down by job cuts

Imagine...

"Just imagine if all 8 billion people could summon a researcher, an analyst, or a coding agent at their fingertips, not just to get information but use their expertise to get things done that benefit them,"

Shame that most won't be able to afford the computer to run it on given that they lost their job to an AI system. Our entire economy is predicated on the fact that people do work to buy things from other people who do work to make that thing. If people stop being able to buy things the whole thing collapses like a house of cards.

How do these ridiculous companies not see this? Or sadly maybe they do, and they don't give a fuck as long as number go up in the short term, and fuck the long term - that's someone else's problem.

The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i

Don't Look Up turns out to have been a documentary.

Trump official warns they're putting the squeeze on CHIPS Act winners

You gonna replace the stock photo on your website any time soon? Surely a company of your obviously significant means could take its own photo?

Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war

Oh look! Another pile of complete horseshit!

Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests

Re: Alternate approach :) ... otherwise known as Stupid Idea No. 2.

My god why do you persist with such obvious lies and bullshit? I'd be impressed at your dedication if it wasn't for how much horseshit you spew.

Arrr! Can a sailor's marlinspike fix a busted backplane?

This isn't Penthouse and I'm imagining a lot of saliva was spilled during the authoring of this imaginative script!

What might a second term of Trump mean for the US space program?

Launched your website yet you massive liar?

Classic Outlook explodes when opening more than 60 emails

Just tried this

For shits and giggles I just tried this - it was quite fun watching Outlook take longer and longer to open each email as the open count hit the 20s, 30s. 40s, 50s and then crashed on the 60th item.

I think I need to get out more.

It's about time Intel, AMD dropped x86 games and turned to the real threat

Re: "amid growing adoption of competing architectures"

Why is it going live in "a few weeks" and not immediately? Surely a company of your immense and undoubted technical ability could spin up such a basic thing as a website in under 10 minutes using the huge computing resources at your disposal? It almost sounds like you're kicking the can down the road (again!) and there's no reason for you to do that, is there?

Apple quietly admits 8GB isn't enough in 2024, M4 iMac to ship with 16GB as standard

Re: Apple should be honest enough to say that

Many people here on El Reg will have bought their phone on a contract and are fundamentally not mugs, therefore you have also made a verifiably untrue statement.

Office 2024 unveiled for Microsoft 365 refuseniks

Re: Office 2007 \ 2010

On my fairly humble Core i5 laptop with 16 GB RAM Excel (latest version whatever its called) opens in about 3 seconds.

Earth's new mini-moon swings by, then ghosts us by late November

Re: Not a moon

That's no moon! etc etc etc

SBF's right-hand woman praised for testimony – and jailed for two years

Question to the knowledgeable

Once she's served her time I'm sure there will be a bunch of filmmakers wanting to pay her for her knowledge so that they can produce a series about this whole saga. Would she be allowed to keep the money from this? Would it be classed as profiting from crime? Not sure on the law here.

250 million-plus unused IPv4 addresses should be left alone, argues network boffin

Re: Efficiency meets luxury in this audacious tech fantasy ;)

Thank you - another voice of reason around these parts. Every time I see this chump post his insane nonsense I wonder where his super duper mega chips that are faster than light and can transport us all to Andromeda in 3 seconds are...

iPhone 16 dubbed Apple's most repairable model in years

Re: Most Repairable...

I knew that was a Hugh Jeffries video even before I clicked the link :-)

Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App

Re: Will searching for "rdp" still find it?

"rdp" works fine for me - one result and it's the Remote Desktop Connection application.

Apple AirPods Pro 2 can be sold as hearing aids, says FDA

I hope that is a typo, if not, then please accept my condolences.

Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI

Datacentres will emit CO2?

I'm slightly confused - isn't it the electricity generating station that will emit the CO2 rather than the datacentre? What sources of CO2 emission exist in an actual DC?

To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk

Re: Prison

The problem with these conspiracy theories is that they give waaaaay too much credit to people. People are generally really crap at putting a plan together and executing on it. None of what you are saying is actually a thing.

Buying a PC for local AI? These are the specs that actually matter

All those "brains" and still can't use an apostrophe correctly.

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

Re: cue the wailing

You are so edgy!

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

Re: Yeah except no: Obvious bs.

It doesn't have anything to do with the women who are dressed up - as you say, they are probably happy to take the job and get paid for it.

The issue is that you have a group of people who are under-represented in the cyber-security field. That group of people being women. Now, let's say you have the ambition to increase the number of women in the field, because you have decided that this is a good thing, to bring in fresh perspectives, to train and develop skills in that area, to improve their lives. All pretty admirable stuff. Now, the women that you are trying to encourage into this male-dominated space suddenly see that the only other women in the room are there purely for decoration - the message is, women are to be employed solely for their looks and bodies, not for what they bring to the space. Anyone can see that this is a massive own-goal.

Now, you may disagree that it is a worthy ambition to bring more women into this space, and you are free to do so. If you do disagree, I'd be very interested in hearing your reasons why - genuinely.

Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed in 48 hours

Re: Brad sent "a quite angry email" to [e-mail]

I suspect you're being facetious, but that email address has been in the open for quite some time now :)

Re: Excel is still rubbish

Excel isn't rubbish - however the uses that people put it to can very much be rubbish. That isn't the fault of the software though.

Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar

Re: Parsing free text input has laways been an exacting problem for developers to solve

SEX ACTING? Where do I sign up?!