Posts by sabroni

The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out

Re: Since when have these been part of the metaverse?

Roblox, Minecraft and Fortnite are all virtual environments that can host multiple people at the same time. Would doing that through glasses rather than a monitor make much of a difference?

Can you really not see a difference between single player offline and multi-player online or are you just nit-picking over vocabulary?

All the article is saying is that the physical technology isn't as important as the experience it enables.

The reason the Zuckaberg metaverse failed isn't "VR is shit" it's "the metaverse is boring".

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs

Windows Update Blocker

I have my windows pcs set to show me that updates are available but to not install them until I let it. I never find updates running when I've not told it to. When I go to power off I get extra options in the list to allow me to install the updates if I want. When I boot the PC it might flash up a message to say updates are available but it NEVER tries to install them without my consent.

So what does "Windows Update Blocker" do? Because it sounds like your problem is you don't know how to configure Windows Update.

France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead

Re: Sorry, do not know how to create hyperlink on this site

You just type an html hyperlink. Angle bracket a space href="target url" close angle bracket. text of link closing tag.

https://youtube.com see!

Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year

Coal?

You mean Beautiful, Clean Coal™?

Who could have a problem with that? It's clean and beautiful now, weren't you listening?

Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands

Um, no.

If you want to stop your AI from using curl then you run it as a specific user and block that user from running curl.

You don't secure your estate by asking everyone to not do naughty things.

You secure your estate with authentication and authorisation.

Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead

"issue tracking is dead."

"it has a chat user interface and examples of usage are things like "make issues based on the discussion here and assign them to me,""

Why, issue tracking is dead?

Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds

Re: mandated AI

"quotas which are used for bonuses, reviews, and presumably performance plans "

"counts badge-ins at corporate offices, with a mandated on-site quota "or else""

" the "unlimited PTO" scam"

AI isn't the problem.

or get their PA who is no painting their nails

Can you explain why you felt the need to add that little bigot brain fart into your comment?

Hate AI but also can't get a shag?

Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access

Re: Anyone who's not prepared to do this is being a dick.

Ah, you've met the management team.

Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens

I'm not used to seeing fems

Fems? Female Humanoids?

I think the word you're looking for is women.

Female humanoids implies that you don't think they are human beings.

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

Re: What happened to the Trump mobile phone?

The verge post about it every week. They even got to talk to talk to two people from the "business" a couple of weeks ago!

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/843498/trump-phone

Telling an AI model that it’s an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer

Re: Clever programmers

"Debugging your code is at least twice as hard as writing it - therefore if you write the cleverest possible code that you can, you are, by definition, unable to debug it"

Common mistake for young players!

Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary

Re: if this publication wants to have mature discussion on the matter

Then there are many other articles discussing AI. I suggest you post thoughtfully under one of them.

This article is just a bit of fun.

Learn to read the room, eh?

Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown

VSCode uses more memory that Notepad++

No shit Serlock!

VSCode is an IDE, Notepad++ is a text editor.

An IDE is a text editor with a bunch of other features added.

Think it through.

BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops

Re: And at that time they also gave out contracts for £50M to various market research groups

Citation needed.

Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place

Re: someone obviously brilliant

Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Wait? You were serious?

SMH.

Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds

When he declared the tarriffs

people sued saying they weren't legal. The government response was "It's fine, if they turn out to be illegal we'll just refund the tariffs."

Now, they have been found illegal, the government response is "We can't refund all that, there's millions of transactions!" (Actually, 1.6 billion appaz....)

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/09/the-government-told-courts-it-could-easily-refund-unlawful-tariffs-now-it-says-it-cant/

Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality

Re: They're just saving time. Making this stuff quicker and easier.

Having a firefox dedicated way of doing split screens instead of using the OS isn't easier. It's more complicated, gives you two methods of doing very similar things and raises questions about how it works with the existing, OS based tiling.

It's not very linuxy, either. Do one thing well? Window management is a desktop thing. Every app deciding on it's own tiling mechanism is pointless duplication and unnecessary complexity.

OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic

weasel words

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/02/openais-red-lines-are-written-in-the-nsas-dictionary-where-words-mean-what-the-nsa-wants-them-to-mean/

"Why would the Pentagon seek to destroy one company over the same terms it agreed to with its largest competitor just hours later?

There’s an answer though: the words in OpenAI’s contract likely don’t mean what most people think they mean."

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

Now I can't even buy it.

Maybe take some cash with you? They seem to handle that fine.

IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast

Re: I'm no AI fanboy by any means

Really? Then why are you suggesting we use AI for a task that can be handled more quickly, more accurately and more reliably by a regular transpiler?

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

re: I have never been charged by a hospital or museum for their services.

And back when I was a kid you were entitled to an education for nothing too. Almost like we understood that educating people was a benefit to society in general.

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

Re: Because that's an instance of punishment being meted out unilaterally.

Is having your name flash red a punishment though?

Re: Palestine Action are a violent neo-Nazi terror group

Really? That's not what the courts say. But then, they were looking at the facts, not trying to excuse genocide.

The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware

Really?

"For as long as software has existed, it's been normal to distribute the source code along with the binary."

No, that stopped being the norm in the 80s.

The norm now is not to ship the source with the binaries, even for open source projects. I have libre office installed, I don't have the code for it. I very much doubt I have the toolchain to build it and I wouldn't want the grief of trying. I run ubuntu on the front room pc (which is a right pita but still better than windows 11) but it didn't come with the source and I don't want it.

It's the norm for interpreted languages because the source is the executable but even that tends to be obfuscated and unreadable without a decompilation tool. (I notice el reg still uses some readable js, go you!)

For everything else it hasn't been the norm for 40 years.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler

Agent teams show the possibility of implementing entire, complex projects autonomously

Agent teams show the possibility of implementing entire, complex projects badly.

Provided you've trained them on multiple, well written versions of near identical projects.

And you have 20 grand to piss up a wall.

Where do I sign up?

Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder

Re: the bed wetters at the BMJ

aren't so embarrassed by their opinions that they hide their names.

Get back to us when you're "brave" enough to actually post with your handle.

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

Look at what's happening in the US

Richest men in the world shutting down any criticism of them and their pedo mates. Pointless mergers that destroy popular media while fail upwards brunch lords line their pockets with massive payouts and the plebs that do the work get the boot.

Is that what you want? Because that's what'll happen.

UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything

Re: Why are calls to Heaven so cheap in Yorkshire?

I think you mean Hebden.

Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted

Re: Honest question

Sweet, thanks, I'll have a read!

And more thanks for not being a dick about it!

Honest question

I asked google "what popular linux distros use systemd?"

it said:

Most major, mainstream Linux distributions use systemd as their default init system.

Popular Distributions Using systemd

Ubuntu: Switched from Upstart to systemd in 2015.

Debian: Adopted systemd as the default starting with Debian 8 "Jessie".

Fedora: Was the first major distribution to implement systemd as its default.

Arch Linux: Officially supports only systemd for its default installation.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL): Uses systemd for service management and booting.

openSUSE: Implements systemd across its Leap and Tumbleweed releases.

Linux Mint: Based on Ubuntu/Debian, it uses systemd by default.

Manjaro: A popular Arch-based distribution that uses systemd.

Pop!_OS: Developed by System76, it relies on systemd for system initialization.

So, if it's so awful, why does everyone use it? It's not like the CEO of the corporation told them to. All I hear on here is people complaining about it, you seem to have a valid point (it does too much which isn't in line with linux philosophy) so why is it everywhere?

Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work

They've had a play at The Verge

as underwhelming as it sounds.

https://www.theverge.com/news/869726/google-ai-project-genie-3-world-model-hands-on

EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images

Posting Stupid?

Post AC.

Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice'

Trump returned to the theme of defending Western Culture

Remember when this place wasn't afriad to say stuff that was true, even if it made rich people uncomfortable?

Maybe stop sanewashing his demented racism?

Child safety or age-gating for all? UK social media ban plan draws fire

What does the science say?

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/21/two-major-studies-125000-kids-the-social-media-panic-doesnt-hold-up/

According to science the best outcomes occur when people have a sensible use of social media. Those who indulge too much, or not enough, both have worse outcomes than those who use it an average amount.

Not as pithy in a headline though.

Anyone remember Video Nastys? The terrible rise of Horror Comics? Rock and Roll dancing?

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around

It's a good feature, stop your whining.

I don't know if they've changed it in the new release but the pop out video player is really useful and nothing to do with Autoplay.

If you end up on a site where the video player controls won't hide or don't work properly, pop the video out and it gets firefox's controls.

If you end up on a site where after 10 minutes the video is blocked by UBlock because the site wants to switch to an advert, pop out the video. The ublock scrim sits on top of the browser page and blocks the advert stream while the pop out video player continues, letting you watch the video in peace. (tubi.tv I'm talking about specifically)

I often watch videos like this, it's a neat feature and exactly what firefox is about. Letting me control the browser experience.

All the AI shite they're adding is another thing entirely, but no need to throw the baby out with the bath water.

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

Re: Do you need America to liberate you from your government yet?

Aren't you too busy shooting people in the face to worry about us?

Don't tell me, you're one of the "When they came for me there was no one left" lot?

Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists

re: the psyche of someone who’s still there after 27 years.

Gemini says: Amazon executives get standard benefits like health/401k but their unique perks are often tied to massive stock grants (RSUs), signing bonuses to lure them, and significant costs for executive security (like Bezos's), rather than typical perks like free meals or Prime for warehouse workers; their compensation is heavily skewed towards long-term equity, with few short-term cash bonuses, focusing on wealth building via vesting stock, not immediate cash perks.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/05/09/march-to-the-beat-of-your-own-drummer-amazons-executive-compensation-practices/

So hang around or lose lots of money. Seems pretty straight forward.

DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in

Re: It's been a disgrace for years

Yes, the rich should get priority! What a fantastic idea, it works so well everywhere else.

It's why the world is a good as it is today!

AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans

Re: until some fwit removes comments to "save spacce"

If you need comments to explain how the code works you need to rewrite it.

Coding is explaining to humans what you want the computer to do. Making the computer do what you want it to do is relatively easy, making it clear to other people is the tricky bit.

Re: a project which was written by a poor programmer using Copilot

What, you mean that if you don't know what it to ask it then it does stupid stuff?

Here's a suggestion, try a project written by an experienced developer using Copilot.

Your argument is basically "I saw an idiot crash a car so I'm sticking to horses."

Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life

Users have tacitly agreed to weave AI into the fabric of their daily existence

Like fuck they have.

10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet

developers' rush to adopt AI

Developers aren't rushing to adopt AI, they're being forced to use it by management. They might like the fact an "AI" can generated some tedious code for them but the idea that most developers are thinking "What this system needs is the ability to get things wrong!" is deluded.

Yes, I'll let it go through the code base and add this new property in the 50 places it's needed. No, I won't link my accurate, tested code with a system that's only unique feature is "making things sound plausible even when wrong".

Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday

Re: a big change in how the Linux kernel assigns CVEs

That's called "getting your excuse in first".

Re: I've patched a couple dozen Win servers (2016 -> 2022) and Win 10/11 machines today. No issues.

Ahh, but you're trying to patch them, not fishing for upvotes from the linux crowd.

Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA

Sponsored Content or Promotional Feature

Article needs a label.

Microsoft won't fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say

"They soon found that its SOAP API method could be accessed with no authentication"

Ok. I notice the article kind of just skipped past "User didn't set up authentication and authorisation on their endpoint kind of making the rest of the article moot".

Plenty of linux lovers posting that this is MS being evil again though.

So easily manipulated.

I hope you're not on Twitter.

Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software

It's not vibe coding when you know what your doing

Vibe coding is a non-developer with no development experience driving an LLM to make code.

Re: Mixed opinions

The journalists here actually have different opinions so articles can contradict previous ones. That's a useful attribute that prompts debate and discussion.

Read both the articles and make a decision for yourself.

(also, use an anchor tag and you'll get an actual link in your post: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/opinion_column_vibe_coding/)

'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole

Oh just do html, css and JS!

Tell me you haven't worked in web for the last 25 years without telling me you haven't worked in web for the last 25 years.

I'll roll my own crypto as well, shall I?