Posts by DanceMan

Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus

How is the substation power produced?

Oregon State University's Open Source Lab is running on fumes

Re: Try Japan or the EU.

The Fraser Valley votes right wing Tory.

Hydrotreated vegetable oil is not an emission-free swap for diesel in datacenters

Endurance sportscar racing series WEC (LeMans etc.) and ELMS are using a fuel made from the leftover debris from wine making.

How do you explain what magnetic fields do to monitors to people wearing bowling shoes?

Re: Ones Aurora

I use an oil filter wrench on jar lids it fits and still have to wrestle. Late 70's and cancer.

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

Re: Re:The UAW fully support The Grand Cheeto.

The Stellantis plant in Canada that has just shut down for two weeks is organized by Unifor, not UAW.

Tech suppliers await final grade as Trump prepares to flunk Department of Education

"I love the uneducated."

US stocks slip as Trump pulls trigger on Canada, Mexico, China tariffs

MAGA is the American Great Leap Forward

with ugly red baseball caps instead of Little Red Books. Remember how that worked out?

Trump says US should kill CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt

Re: Brain Damage

Brain Damage were a BC band of the 70's, a very good one. Yes, I was a fan.

First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies

Which rocket used?

None of the news reports I've heard have mentioned this.

Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber

Re: common sense

Canada's Conservative PM wannabe's talking points made use of that term. Common sense once said the earth was flat. Reality is generally more complicated.

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Welsh woman fined for flatulence-fueled cyber harassment

Smartphone? No -- Fartphone

As to all the contortionist comments, I assume a head to thigh shot, not a closeup of her ass -- simple.

Intel pitches modular PC designs to make repairs less painful

Laptop screw trick

styrofoam meat tray

turn upside down to mimic laptop bottom and push screws into it in the same place as on the laptop.

Styrofoam here in Canada has now been replaced by recyclable hard plastic. Corrugated cardboard is probably the best replacement.

Trump 'waved a white flag to Chinese hackers' as Homeland Security axed cyber advisory boards

Re: Daily Trump

Felon-in-chief

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

Re: incomprehensible that they didn't seem to understand

Search for Rick Mercer's Talking to Americans for more in that vein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUWas-yQSw

UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard

Re: camera flashhead

Alkaline batteries in a photo flash increase recycling times with use while nicad recycling times stay short until they run out.

Zen Browser is a no-Google zone that offers tiling nirvana

> - Adblocking that works (YouTube adverts especially)

MX Linux gives you this with Adblock in the menu list, blocking via hosts file. No PiHole needed.

To crew, or not to crew – that is the question facing Boeing's stricken Starliner

Saturday update?

Will EL Reg post an update on Saturday after the announcement?

Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

Mozilla's switch to WebExtensions

Firefox with UBO and NoScript. Former user of Pale Moon after Australis but code changes eventually killed my extensions so back to FF. MX Linux has in its menu "Adblock -- blocks adverts via /etc/hosts file" Between that and the browser I see NO ads.

Frustrated with code changes that blow up the customisations I've set to make the browser work the way I want. I really miss Tab Mix Plus.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund aims to zap Musk's monster Tesla pay deal

Re: Norway better prepare itself.....

Same situation in Alberta, Canada. I'm short in details, not being an Albertan, but a previous Premier Peter Lougheed set up a similar system that subsequent (Tory of course) govts have raided for their low taxation agendas..

HP BIOS update renders some ProBook laptops expensive paperweights

Re: What happened? Who to use next?

Happy user of MX Linux on old laptops here, currently on T510/520. This appears to be a hinge point where keyboard and other changes on subsequent Lenovo Thinkoads make them less desirable. Any comments from those similarly inclined as to alternatives? Dell? or stay with Lenovo since HP si shooting itself in thr the foot.

High-flying drones on a leash could blow traditional wind turbines away

Go fly a kite

Benjamin Franklin is smiling.

Computer sprinkled with exotic chemicals produced super-problems, not super-powers

Architects

Architect designs theatre, visual masterpiece. Stage crew arrives. "Where''s the loading dock?"

Architect -- "Loading dock?"

Story is made up but close to thr truth.

Congress told how Chinese goons plan to incite 'societal chaos' in the US

Re: if Russia negotiated in good faith

If pigs could fly.................

Is this the ghost of Neville Chamberlain speaking?

Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China's IP theft program now at 'unprecedented' levels

"whole other level of dangerousness."

dangerousness -- is this worse than danger?

Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11

Look on the bright side

In two years there will be a bunch of good usable computers for sale to happy linux users.

Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor

Re: Why I Use Vivaldi

Big upvote for Tab Mix Plus. It allows the browser to work the way I want. Several other extensions also disappeared with the code change and much good work was lost.

EU right to repair updates pass latest hurdle

Re: That's Phillips screwed then.....

Phillips make replacement cutters for their shavers that they price at nearly the cost of the shaver. And they make them in a myriad of incompatible sizes to discourage us from repairing or parts swapping.

High severity vuln in WinRAR could allow code to run when files are opened

Proprietary is the word you were looking for.

Pack of GM Cruise robo-taxis freeze, snarl up Friday night traffic amid festival crowds

a consequence of crowds overloading cell networks

This happens all the time in the venues I work in. In the theatres connectivity disappears backstage when the audience comes in. I'm no expert but I put it down to the routers overloading with all the hits from audience phones despite the phones not having the username or password to connect. In a small arena they installed a new led houselight system, part of which connects wirelessly. At least it does before the audience comes in. We have major problems getting the houselights up at the end of shows, necessitating using an override switch.

Anything depending on connectivity in the presence of crowds cannot depend on wireless.

Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon

Vertical taskbars can grow on you

Another grumpy old git here, using MX Linux with XFCE. Decades of horizontal taskbar on Windows made me averse to the vertical. Could have changed it but didn't and now prefer the vertical, at least as configured by MX, which I also prefer to Mint.

False negative stretched routine software installation into four days of frustration

Re: I seem to have a vague memory of some US rock/pop star

Jerry Lee Lewis

Beams from brightest gamma ray burst ever seen were pointed directly at Earth

They're coming to get you Barbara

I was going to ask how far gamma rays travel in space, but it appears to have been answered. That far, eh.

North Korean spy satellite launch ends in sea smash

Japan's response

Japan's NHK World tv went beyond the usual warning crawl and replaced normal programming with a full screen "take cover" page for something like 40 minutes.

Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 just has this certain Macbook Air about it...

A complaint about complaints

Liam is the Reg's Linux Desk writer. If you don't want to read about Linux, look elsewhere. For those of us who do, especially those using older Thinkpads on Linux, these are valuable reports.

Keep them coming, Liam.

Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great

Rogue's Gallery

Russia, Cambodia, Belarus, China, Iran, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Syria, Venezuela, and India

US chip sanctions may push Brazil, others right into China's arms

Old jokes about Five Year Plans aside, the US thinks ahead to the next 2 year election, but China thinks a decade or more ahead.

Defunct comms link connected to nothing at a fire station – for 15 years

Re: Internal system

Shook hands with Lauren Bacall once after a lecture appearance. I agree, remarkable woman, unforgettable scene in that film.

Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid

Toshiba support

Decades ago I found that support for Toshiba computing was non-existent. Nothing online, just take in to Toshiba Service representatives. So their corporate ethos has always been suspect for me.

Electronics market shows US-China decoupling will hike inflation and slow growth

Cheap Chips or Freedom?

I think of the isolationist movements in the US prior to WW2.

Humanoid robot takes a retail job, but not one any store clerk wants to do

I thought I knew the location of this trial but my suspected choice is just inside Vancouver, a Canadian Tire store with a Mark's underneath off a lower parking level. What made this interesting for me is that I won't use this CT store. instead driving further to one in North Van. The Vancouver store has put many items off regular shelves and out of view behind a service counter and has few staff in the public areas to provide directions or assistance. The North Van store is well staffed and well run. People matter and good employees and good management pay off. A robot can't fix this.

OpenAI CEO heralds AGI no one in their right mind wants

I think the important issue with AI is how and where it's used. To use the example of driving aids I fear the reliance of the current younger drivers on those aids diminishes both their skills and the necessary attention driving requires. The broader use of AI comes with the same risks. Be careful what you wish for.

PC tech turns doctor to diagnose PC's constant crashes as a case of arthritis

Not just a Brit complaint

I wince when I hear on radio an interviewee use "like" eight times in a sentence or say "eckcetera". I suppose it's a price of the universality of English as a world language. That and indifferent education.

Telus source code, staff info for sale on dark web forum

Telus customer

On Telus fibre for internet and tv. After a power outage the internet comes back but the tv, which I think is built on Windows, can take nearly a week to resume. So I''m not surprised they were vulnerable.

China's spy balloon barrage earns six of its companies a spot on US entity list

Pot and Kettle

In 2019 China shot down a balloon accusing it of spying. Now they are crying foul over the US doing the same thing. Who do they think they are, Faux News?

Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language

And Coq is the abbreviation for Coquitlam, a major suburb of Vancouver.

Self-driving car computers may be 'as bad' for emissions as datacenters

Wrong target

The research and expenditure is going at the wrong target at this stage. It should be focused on traffic controls at this point instead of the cars. This may already be the case in areas of freeways and carriageways but my experience and intent is on city driving. My route to work and shopping goes through an urban area with a mix of traffic light intersections and pedestrian lights (also with cross-traffic induction loops). During rush hours the pedestrian lights should be synced to the intersection lights in the main direction of travel and the pedestrian and loops disabled. But this would mean expenditure by the city rather than a venture capital self-driving outfit so it does not happen.

in general work on making the cars communicate with the traffic control systems would yield more immediate results at this point in development.

Apple just cut Tim Cook's pay by 40%. How ever will he get by on that $50m?

Nobody is worth $50 million a year.

There is something wrong when the worst jobs such as bent over picking veg or mopping up vomit in a hospital are paid the lowest wages.

Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole

Re: the 'extreme' weather we're supposedly destined to get.

What fantasy world are you living in? The world I'm living in is experiencing it now.

Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce

Re: Please help me here

This is not merely an IT site. It's also a community.

China could use Digital Yuan to swerve Russia-style sanctions

Re: Last week the cheers this week the Tears

Try learning from history. Chamberlain negotiated with Hitler. How did that work out? Putin is using the same playbook --- I want a piece of that country where they speak our language. Then he wants the reset of it.Then it's more countries.

The daunting lesson from WWII was the total defeat necessary over Germany and Japan to reform them into the democracies they are today. Russia is a vast country. Not a simple task.