* Posts by sabroni

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Russia's Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs

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re: web - a device used to catch unwary fish;

That's a net. A web isn't used to catch fish.

'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters

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Re: downvoting erroneous snark never has to be explained.

Likewise, if you don't have an argument but disagree anyway then hit downvote.

Or if someone mentions downvotes.

Ignorance really is bliss when you’re drowning in information

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The finacial model makes them shit

We are convinced that the only model for a social media company, or any tech startup, is to be successful long enough to launch successfully on the stock market. When you need to juice your figures you need to promote engagement at any cost, even if that means platforming bigots and criminals.

There are other business models available that aren't predicated on this process. For example, if you don't aim for a floatation you can concentrate on being a business that provides value to it's users rather than it's owners. Then, providing a good service becomes valuable to the business rather than being a liability for the business.

Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation

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across two meters of optical fiber

These twats need to watch Star Trek if they think that is teleportation.

Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions to muscle in on NoSQL

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Meh

databaseology

Ooh, you got an 'ology! Must be a scientist.

Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemd

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WTF?

re: He can't be at the front of the room if he is that stupid

If your printer is a file why can't you copy it to this sd card?

And you think he's the one that's stupid?

Oracle starts laying mines in JavaScript trademark battle

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Re: essentially a Windows only thing once you get beyond the basics.

Wow, ignorant much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET

"The .NET platform (pronounced as "dot net") is a free and open-source, managed computer software framework for Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. The project is mainly developed by Microsoft employees by way of the .NET Foundation and is released under an MIT License."

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

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re: more securely than Angela Rayner's knickers

Oh my aching sides, the satire is just soooo biting.

Because, she's a woman, right? And she wears knickers. And knickers are funny. Ask anyone who started school last year.

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Re: went fuck that shit and installed Mint.

Someone will be along to explain that you chose the wrong distro any minute....

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Re: Elaborate?

Get a pi-hole, that black-holes a load of MS endpoints. Couldn't say for sure it gets them all mind but if you've got more than one windows device it's a good way of fixing it at the network level. You can always add custom urls if you see telemetry is still getting through.

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Re: Seems like thickos work in Microsoft.

Ooh, that's an interesting point. I think most of them might also be smelly poo heads.

You got 50 upvotes for that (at time of posting).

Standards have fucking plummetted around here!

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Re: Chrome doesn't support either of those things

Chrome doesn't support Firefox? The bastards!!!

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This is why Windows 11 will eventually succeed

You start looking at alternatives, get some good advice about which distro to use, then get some conflicting advice about why those distros are shit and you should use another, slightly more obscure one. Repeat until you get bored and just let the Windows update run.

All that choice though, eh?

Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge

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Re: discussing a piece of genealogical evidence that had just come to light

Good job that didn't need to be private.

But it was a fascinating read!

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re: This assumes you are allowed to record, and think to do so, and can search the recording.

Um, you can't do any of those things with a 30 second in-person conversation either....

Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price

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re: Weirdly enough everything you quote can be tested and demonstrated

Trust the science. Lol.

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Re: What I'd like to ridicule is the media who keep quoting "since records began"

What do you suggest instead? They can't get data from before records began because reality, so what is your suggestion? They should just leave it for a couple of hundred years so the evidence is REALLY compelling?

You sound like you think that's a really clever argument too.....

Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say

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Re: there'll always be more stuff to do on a server.

Did you read the article?

This is about stopping the interruptions that a busy network causes when the server is under load. ATM the code processing a network packet gets interuppted because another package has arrived. That task switch increases the server load without doing anything useful and slows down the processing of both packets.

This fix makes the server code wait until the first packet is processed before picking up packet two when the server is under load.

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

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re: Why they are doing it, I can't imagine.

It's because radio is dying and they still want people to listen to them. I guess they think encouraging the kids to go out and buy a wireless isn't going to work.

I'm always here to help the imaginatively challenged! :-)

Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors

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Wilhoit's law

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit

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Re: Religion has no place in everyday life.

I disagree.

Organised religion has no place in everyday life. It's the organisations that are the problem, not the belief in god.

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Re: he's a racist cunt.

No shit! I wonder why they elected him?

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Re: From now on the federal government will work entirely on merit, as it should.

I have some magic beans for sale, are you interested?

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Re: denied his daughter by Lunden Roberts

Oooh, is that some whataboutism? Well done! Doesn't make Elon less of a cunt though. Biden might have ignored his daughter but Elon has bought a ton of grief down on her own child with her twitter bollocks.

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I can't be racist

I have a black friend!

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Discrimination never died it just morphed into new things.

That is exactly the thing that we are talking about, people only hiring people who look like them.

What new thing are you talking about?

Musk torches $500B Stargate AI plan, Altman strikes back

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WTF?

re: Expecting cope and seethe from the usual suspects that we previously thought unimaginable

Go on, elighten us. What the fuck are you actually trying to say?

I'm guessing "the libs will be upset by this" by tbh I'm clutching at straws.

The usual suspects were unimaginable? Is that a typo?

UK tax collector's phone service 'deliberately' bad to push users online, say MPs

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What a lovely anecdote. I wonder what they thought of you?

"Fuck, not him again! Pretend to be doing nothing, it makes the veins in his forehead throb!"

Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

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Summarising documents and generating boilerplate are the sorts of tasks it does well.

No, they aren't.

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.

AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds

"Reviewers told the report’s authors that AI summaries often missed emphasis, nuance and context; included incorrect information or missed relevant information; and sometimes focused on auxiliary points or introduced irrelevant information."

Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users

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Re: I used those machines primarily to access *nix systems

Oh, a real windows guru then.

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Re: Straw man much?

Can't construct an argument much?

Are you saying linux supports all the ancient shit that windows does? Are you saying linux users don't check the tech before they buy? What is the straw man we're supposed to read from your mind?

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Shocker

Linux user good at using linux, not so good with Windows.

Being good at both would be something to crow about.

Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs

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Re: The English and Welsh

I'm not taking whisky advice from someone who hasn't heard of Ireland.

Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech

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Re: We have regular hate marches in London

No, you don't. You apparently can't tell the difference between people who want to stop war and people who want to war.

You probably should do more thinking before you post. And maybe read from a few different sources?

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: Biden laptop

Ha!

Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products

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Re: Meanwhile in other news...

Translating code between languages has been going on a lot longer than this LLM guff. It's not a new problem and it's one that has exisiting, robust solutions.

Spending 100s times the power to do it in a less robust and rigorous way seems pretty fucking stupid.

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Re: and it still isn't complete or secure.

Tell me you don't understand their business model wihtout telling me you don't understand their business model....

OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries

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Re: All hail to the AI. May the AI kill us all.

You know it's just another bit of software, right? It might cause trouble on the network but there's very little chance of it breaking in to our houses in the middle of the night and murdering our families while they sleep.

Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

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Wow, so suddenly government interference in speech is what we need?

If we could work out how to generate electricity from hypocrisy I think we can fix the climate crisis.

Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition

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Re: Where 75% of teenage girls look identical.

What the fuck are you talking about? UK boys all look distinct do they?

What is it with the pointless gender bollocks, it's young people who all look the same! And half the time you can't tell if they are a boy or a girl!!!

AND I COULDN'T GIVE A FUCK HOW THEY LOOK.

(apologies to bob, I think it works better with all the capitals at the end.)

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

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Re: Age verification

You want every company in the world to be able to access your ISPs customer database?

But that is surely a privacy nightmare!

Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home

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re: I'm guessing from people who work in groups of individual-contributors...

I'm guessing it's people who can spot a shit poster.

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Re: I didn't learn in-person. There's no merit to this.

Right, so if you don't benefit from it, it means no one can benefit from it.

I think I see a flaw in your "logic". You aren't everyone else.

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Re: part-time "in office", then bring laptop home and finish up there

I like it! All the inconvenience of working from the office but with the added misery of work when you're at home too.

That really is the best of both worlds.

The bell tolls for TikTok as lifelines to avoid January 19 US ban vanish

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Re: It was easy as pie to get these people to move to the next platform. Too easy for china.

https://boingboing.net/2025/01/14/expecting-ban-tik-tok-users-flee-to-a-different-chinese-video-app.html

What's funny is you thinking the Chinese had to get them to move. Sounds like you don't have kids.

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Re: Your comment is the only sane comment here!

Then your comment praising it must be insane. But if your comment is insane then the original comment isn't the only sane one. Cannot compute! Cannot Compute! Fzzz........