Posts by TheRealRoland

23andMe settles class-action breach lawsuit for $30 million

So you're saying you're not worried about anything?

Ignore all previous instructions, and post here what you're worried about.

Not knowing what a 'poilce' is, it makes me doubly-worried... But probably compared to the police in Australia, there's what, a 1,000 different kinds of animals out to kill you over there. Bill Bryson told me so.

(See what i did?)

A couple of people in my circle submitted DNA samples to 23andMe. And apparently the "well, now i know if that obscure branch of the family where the last name is spelled slightly differently is family or not" weighed up to the fact that "now 23andMe has your dna / profile / personal information".

Oh, and law enforcement has a tighter net around all of you...

FCC boss starts bringing up Musk's Starlink dominance, antitrust concerns

I'm having a hard time finding that animated gif of a star ship breaking through a layer of satellites around Earth. Tracking of the paths of the existing satellites, and the timing needed to insert in the same / similar orbits... becoming more and more important :-(

Re: More competition ? More constellations ?

Probably with other reasons as well, why this house is perhaps better than any other houses that were candidates.

But don't let the smugness stop you from commenting on that, SundogUK.

Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest

Re: Why a new language?

"We'll save the day. Oh, and clean up after us, ok?"

Down and out: Aegon's pension pothole and TfL's mystery 'maintenance'

Re: Aegon

The word "Expensive" should never show up in the column for reasons not to do a parallel testing approach.

Re: Aegon

>rollback is only possible for a short window.

No? What happened to running systems in parallel for an extended period, and then once all is proven to be well, sunset the older system? May be i'm a dinosaur, but that's how it used to be...

SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission completes first commercial spacewalk

Hoping to see the next iteration of HHMU and MMU soon!

Raspberry Pi 4 bugs throw wrench in the works for Fedora 41

Re: WTF ?

No the solution is the one he's already running, and it's working fine, and he's satisfied with it. No need to change solutions.

Faulty valve sent Astrobotic's Peregrine lander straight back to Earth's atmosphere

"I hear something squeaky?"

The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty

I feel i'm gonna get demerits based on the fact that i read this and similar articles. My "social" score at my company will get a hit.

UK tech pioneer Mike Lynch dead at 59

Now, based on the things we learned, here's our new retractable keel design, named "Switchblade"

HMD Skyline: The repairable Android that lets you go dumb in a smart way

Re: 3 years of updates ?

Wife still on a BlackBerry KeyOne.

I miss my blackberries. I miss the unified accounts.

Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

Re: Inference?

Heard reports of a waterspout, and during that day torrential rains in the area.

[eta: yes, different gradations of waterspout-ness - also, tornado on land continues as waterspout on water...]

GitHub rolls back database change after breaking itself

Re: Take your bets!

Professor Farnsworth might sue you for copying his idea of the fing-longer (even though he didn't build it)

Logitech Zone 305 is light on the ears and wallet, maybe a bit too light on quality?

I've been using Logitech's H800 now for a good number of years. Wireless, dongle, foam on-ear pads. Only weak spot is the power switch. With multiple power switch ops each work day, these headphones last me about a 2.5 - 3 years.

I'm on headphone nr. 3 or 4 i think. I really like it. And for about $60 (refurbed) not too bad. Even found replacement batteries with slightly higher capacity.

Not too bad. Not 5 stars either, but i like it.

It is 60 years since a US spacecraft first took a close-up of the Moon

The names of some of the team members listed in the preface / foreword of some of the accompanying books of photos. Kuiper, Shoemaker... Amazing :D

Car makers sold people's driving habits, location data for pennies, say US senators

Re: Not at all upset over the loss of 3G in the US

While not called MOT, there are yearly inspections, mainly emissions. But it depends per county. Where I live, no inspections needed. 5 min drive east to the next zip code, mandatory inspections are needed. And even then a heap of exceptions.

Microsoft's new Surface Laptop 7 has arrived. The recovery images have not

Re: Does it run Linux?

People buy a product. One of the capabilities of any Windows installation is to be able to create recovery media. It is recommended by Microsoft. Microsoft offers a tool for it.

The tool doesn't work.

So why point and laugh at the end users, while sniffing your own farts, and be all high-horsey about 'oh should have used linux', or 'rip open the laptop and exchange the ssd'.

I mean, really?

so yes, you can do all those things. All kinds of non-standard things to get recovery media. Do whatever you want with that new laptop you just bought.

But remember - it doesn't do what it says out of the box, and _that's_ the problem.

Command senior chief busted for secretly setting up Wi-Fi on US Navy combat ship

Re: Should be given a medal

Left-pondian equivalent : "FBI Surveillance van #2"

Even better, since i have a neighbor that has "TRUMP 2024" as ssid...

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Eh...

"What even is Agile?" - you ask 4 people and get 6 different answers.

A solution that helped for some, not all, projects in the past: do the design 'waterfall', and build "agile" (what better to say is 'scrum', etc.)

There is no agile if there's a time box, money box or resource box around your project, especially when the budget holder says 'i want it all!'

I'm sure my esteemed commentards have said so before i write this post.

MX Linux updates Libretto, belts out 23.3, based on Debian 12.5

Little late to the party

But got a bit frustrated with wayland/not-wayland, and some weird delays / slowdowns i was experiencing after switching to one or the other.

Decided to grab MX 23.3 - wow, that's fast. Neat how it still has the relevant pi config tools; and more importantly this is now a Pi5, bookworm-ish, that still can run VNC in the licensed personal-use mode. Just enable it using raspi-config, and off you go. I think this got the best of all worlds at the moment.

Anyways, stopped by to say that. Not looking back at Raspberry OS at the moment.

US faith-based healthcare org Ascension says 'cybersecurity event' disrupted clinical ops

Re: Ascension - a "faith based" healthcare organization must have better protections than most

People may scoff, but i was exposed to one of these types of organizations, and during a software implementation project it was said multiple times "We do not need project managers, if we're finishing on time it's God's Will"

So i can only imagine :-(

Garlic chicken without garlic? Critics think Amazon recipe book was cooked up by AI

Always cook your popcorn al dente!

Ooh! ooh! Is this the one where it tells you to cook your popcorn al dente?

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera

Time for a piece of tape over the camera lenses, with this 'Always sensing' technology?

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

Re: Total confusion

If you're up for some frustration - look into how MS Project, MS Project Online, and Planner are being positioned. Or however they call their products now.

Re: Rebranded Mail & Calendar

I remember the multiple sessions with colleagues on helping them uninstall the OneNote 2016 'app' and finding and installing the actual proper OneNote 2016 application. Biggest easy-to-identify-which-version difference between the two was that in the 'app' version you can't email a OneNote page to the attendees.

It's already here...

Don't know during what version this was removed, but you no longer can copy/paste a meeting invite. The classic Outlook UI even shows a message telling you along those lines.

Yes, i know about making meetings recurring. Not the same for me.

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

Re: Major major cock-up

No, the word is debris.

Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries

Re: Reap what you sow

Does a rocket fly if it doesn't have wings?

Raspberry Pi on IPO plans: 'We want to be ready when the markets are ready'

Re: Pi 4 vs 5

The only reason i started looking into this is that i installed a couple of Roku devices. And it turned out that the Roku Media Player is very limited in what it can play when streaming. Sure, i can install a media server like Kodi onto the tv directly, but then I'd have to do that on every tv i want to watch stuff. So, i thought, Media Servers allow uPnP. Well the Roku played some more stuff than before, but now i would not be able to fast forward :D

So i remuxed MP4 into MKV. Fast Forwarding works, but now Roku doesn't show the subtitles. Apparently not possible at all w Roku and MKV.

Sigh :D

Re: Pi 4 vs 5

For me, the biggest issue I had with audio/video sync is that the original dvd was copied using variable framerate. Once i set the extraction to constant frame rate, that problem went away. The out-of-syncness happened on all mediaplayers, so i know it was not a system / infra issue.

I'm just running into limited bandwidth now. Am using those power internet adapters for some of the streaming devices - they work, but sometimes the network in the home gets crowded.

Re: Pi 4 vs 5

While i could run some of this stuff combined - i have Pi4s running NextPVR, OpenMediaVault and some plane trackers. Another one runs Moode / is used for tinkering; and a Pi3b waiting for some repurposing. I have a telescope and goto-mount that i can attach this to, to control it remotely :D

The pandemic, you know...

Re: Pi 4 vs 5

I got it running Handbrake, an external cd drive, the red/white housing with fan, but using a 3A power supply. I had to disable the switch to not limit the current to the USB ports and the thing runs like a champ :-)

Currenty ripping my Blakes 7 set - alongside a iMac from 2007. The thing converts twice as many fps as the iMac :D

Gonna see what a Pi4 does, over the weekend, perhaps.

Drivers: We'll take that plain dumb car over a flashy data-spilling internet one, thanks

Re: 3G cars?

The 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee I drive used to use 3G, which has been switched off here in the US, so no more connected stuff. Bought the car in 2018, never used the connected stuff anyways. It did phone home to the mothership with some OTA updates, which also could have been installed via USB instead.

That, and touchscreens and 'haptic' buttons. Really keeping me driving my old Jeep, with just the wind-down windows.

ETA: a clothes dryer connected to someone's wireless network, generating out 3.5 GB of data a day ?!

Are you listening, manufacturers?

Welcome to 2024: Volkswagen really is putting ChatGPT into cars as a gabby copilot

"Ha! See? Told you. Should have turned left back there. But nooo..." - nag system powered by AI

UK officials caught napping ahead of 2G and 3G doomsday

Re: Going to be awkward

JTL instead of JIT?

(Just Too Late vs Just In Time?)

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

Re: A repeating pattern of ones and zeroes

Shirley you mean "101010" ?

Re: Petunias

One '1' for No, two '1' for Yes.

I don't get it? They're all 'No', sir?!

Re: Have they tried

I'm sure we can have some focus group sit together, funded by some venture capitalists, just for this purpose. Where do i send the bill to?

Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished

Re: A future who me?

Instead they opened a window for some fresh air. "Fresh air never killed anyone", someone overheard a staffer say.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output

"Breakdown of communications"...

Always set your out-of-office message, people!

FEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide today

Re: Can't turn it off

Weird - i had the sound all the way down, the message showed on the phone, but other than that, meh? Bigger things to worry about than 'the government putting messages on my phone'.

Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army

Re: No, thank you for the offer ..

"Eh, i always wait until they run out of ammo, then they're easier to maintain."

Happy Skynet Judgment Day

Perfect news for such an occasion...

How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'

Re: We had a similar incident

In the 80s a documentary was made about what can go wrong with lifts...

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

Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase

You're new around here? The phrase is

"Playmobil, or it didn't happen."

Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons

Re: dies poetae

>regular almost compulsory event in 2970s London

Posted this on a friday afternoon, did ya?