Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs

Re: Go Cloud!!

>Other jobs would find it nearly impossible to successfully implement

What are the odds that they have carefully air-gapped all the developers, who only work on internal tools that would be no use to anyone else, in case they click on a dodgy link.

But all the finance / marketing / HR / reception / sales / office staff have internet because they need it for their jobs, and they would never click on spam and all they have access to is HR, finance and sales data so nothing worth stealign.

>where even my temporary code needs to reside on a remote server,

Except if your remote server is Google cloud and the Google cloud is in the same room - you are OK

Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal

Re: And the haemorrhaging continues

The government has targets for net migration. By getting scientists to leave they can bring in fruit pickers to replace them.

It's like sending the intellectuals to the countryside. with extra steps. The Tories have achieved Maoism

Re: Good old Brexit

>all you ever achieve is propaganda not truth

Although to be fair propaganda is a lot cheaper and more effective than truth

Re: And the haemorrhaging continues

Bloody emigres going over there taking their jobs

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

Re: If ChromeOS is Linux...

It's not the real Linux experience unless after booting from the boot floppy you need to swap to the root floppy to use the system.

Unless you were fancy with a dual floppy machine - kids today with their hard drives

Re: If ChromeOS is Linux...

>Mid 90s, during the first year of my degree. Wednesday afternoons, in the big computer lab.

Late 80s but we ran to get one of the few amber screened serial terminals with the nice separate keyboards rather than the ancient green screen VT100s

25 students running of a Motorola 68020 powered Sun 3 with less compute than a Pi-zero

Re: @Zolko - If ChromeOS is Linux...

>a configuration might destroy hardware

A massive programmable DC power supply (made in Germany)

A command line interface

A config that assumed a comma specified decimals and a dot specified 1000s (see above)

Re: I'd just like to interject for a moment

It's not the real GNU operating system unless it doesn't run Hurd but they promise that it will one day

Re: ChromeOS is a fake linux

The one group we hate more than Microsoft is the fscking "Power Users of Linux"

Whatever happened to Slackware anyway ? He's over there !

>Chromeos is complete trash.

Chromeos is very good at what it was designed for

Re: ChromeOS is a fake linux

Plastic case designed to be dropped, keyboard that is junior school drool proof, no fscking touchscreen

No I don't use it for doing protein folding while international jet-setting from my business class seat - but for watching youtube or browsing reddit on the settee it's great

Re: @Zolko - If ChromeOS is Linux...

And you spent days getting the xorg config correct and have the monitor make a worrying bang every time you got it wrong

Re: If ChromeOS is Linux...

It's only real Linux if you have to install from floppies

Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff

Re: A toast

Been using mint as preferred laptop/home distribution for a while.

Is it still worthwhile now that there is an Ubuntu Cinnamon ?

Serious none sarcastic question - if Mint was just delayed Ubuntu with a nicer desktop, why don't I just use the newer Ubuntu with the same desktop ?

Re: "Pretty" Considered As Unimportant!!

My only complaint with xfce (at least on previous mint) is that the file manager seems to only do one thing at a time. If you do a drag and drop of a big bunch of files, it freezes on browsing any other folders until that finishes. This is on a reasonable (by 10year old standards) i7 box

If you're going to train AI on our books, at least pay us, authors tell Big Tech

Re: There's another risk: repurposing copyrighted data

>Things will get very interesting when someone uses a LLM to create the lyrics to a song, the record companies will ensure this goes to court…

Or you can use this vast corpus to find out which song lyrics have occurred in previously published books

I'm guessing most pop songs don't consist entirely of brand new sentences

Some of the larger record companies are going to be a little reticent about going to court to claim a fragment of a song re-appeared in a LLM, especially after they spent 70 years claiming that their artist precisely copying a riff from some unknown artist wasn't an issue

Someone just blew over $190k on a 4GB first-gen iPhone

So it's probably worth opening to remove the battery if it's going to become a heritage item

Otherwise one day you're going to open your bank deposit box and discover a charred block of melted plastic

So what you learned was that a fancy demo was more important than the software actually meeting the spec - and as a result you are now a billionaire ?

Re: What strikes us as odd...

>Cool! That makes me 38 and not 58!

Dark Side was 50 this year and Nevermind was more than 30 years ago

Re: Historical iPhone

>Perhaps the EU would have eventually saved people in Europe from that carrier control,

But the phones wouldn't have internet because the telcos would also have been the national post offices who would have worried that email was going to reduce demand for letters and so job losses

Re: What strikes us as odd...

>..is that 2007 doesn't even feel that long ago

Well 2007 was only a couple of years ago

The 90s were only 10years ago and the 80s were only 20 years ago

Re: A fool and their money

>buys Apple?

If you had bought Apple in 2007 ,with a share price around $3, you would only have made about 65X your money to today

Meet the guy trying to drag HM Treasury's data strategy into the 21st century

Re: google on Synapse data warehouse:

Their business card simply says "we're not SAS"

Chips ahoy! US and China locked in self-destructive battle of trade restrictions

Re: Caution: Mad MEN at work

We should go further. If ASML are prevented from selling machines to foreigners then the Netherlanders will become secure in their chip supply *

* assuming the suppliers of wafers, chemicals and light sources don't apply the same logic.

First of Tesla's 'bulletproof' Cybertrucks clunks off production line

>Mirrors are cheap

A certain Bavarian motor car company would like a word

Re: Save the Champagne

>This is what I'm curious about, ie how well it'll actually perform as a work truck. I

How many people are buying this as a work truck ?

I'm guessing slightly fewer than those buying a Merc G-Wagon to drive troops around the black forest

1 in 4 Brits are playing with generative AI, and some take its word as gospel

I call bullshit

>Some 52 percent had heard of the technology,

They asked an average person in the UK between 16-75 and more than half had heard of generative AI?

Either their sample was taken in the coffee shop nearest their office in Shoreditch or they are throwing out all the "tha what?" , "I have the facebooks on the telly" and other confused looks

Boris Johnson pleads ignorance, which just might work

You expect the opposition to trust encryption supplied by the government?

You expect the backbenchers to trust encryption supplied by the cabinet office?

You expect the cabinet to trust encryption supplied by the chief whip

You expect the PM to trust encryption suuplied by the security service ?

Re: WhatsApp encryption key?

If they are implementing what they claim to be implementing Whatsapp's encryption is rather good

Re: Boris pleads ignorance

That's the sort of code an idiot would have on his luggage !

I'm prepared to kick in $5 for the wrench

Re: Forgotten phlebotinum

>or having a file of random numbers that the police believe is encrypted information is punishable by two years in prison

But when the Police came to give a talk to our university and we asked about storing data from our experiments, with a SNR indistinguishable from random, we were told not to be silly because these laws would only be used against terrorists

Re: Forgotten phlebotinum

Unless the judge believes he is lying about forgetting it - then it's contempt of court and he goes to jail until he decides to remember it

Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money

Re: Press <enter> to continue

No, the <enter> key has been replaced by an arrow symbol that is copyright MSFT and can only be shown on a Microsoft keyboard

Why do cloud titans keep building datacenters in America's hottest city?

Re: ... a capacity of 32 million megawatt hours....

KWh = energy, does make sense to talk about capacity. You quote the capacity of your laptop battery in Whr not Watts.

In these days of intermittent supply alternative power sources it makes sense to consider power plants in total energy over a year rather than instantaneous peak power output

Re: Cooling needs to run in winter "because it's not evaporative"

In winter you can cool with regular heat exchange AC if the outside temperature is low enough. Or even just directly air cool with outside air if you design for that at the atart

Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200

Re: @Grunchy

>: it does a load of analysis and generates a mathematical "fingerprint"

if mean_skin_level(image) > 128 {

criminal = True

}

Re: Generate Extras for free

> attuned to the subtleties of a human face.

Is there anybody appearing in a major Hollywood movie in the last 10 years who had a human face ?

The Silicon is probably more realistic than the Silicone

Re: "address concerns of being replaced by AI"

There's a lot to be said for replacing the star actor with software.

Get Andy Serkis to do the actoring covered in dots and then render any real or virtual actor over the top.

You can add/remove skin tone to suit different markets

If your leading man gets caught "bumping into choirboys" you can just re-render the Usual Suspects with less problematic leads

You can regularly update old good movies rather than having to remake them or make shitty sequels

You can sell special editions: Raiders of the Lost Ark with Tom Seleck, Jaws with Robert Redford and Steve McQueen

Re: "address concerns of being replaced by AI"

Well in Phantom Menace the background 'artistes' in the pod racing scene were replaced by Q-tips

Senator trying to force Uncle Sam to share everything it knows about UFOs

Re: Let Mulder and Scully check this out!

>Sadly, I know people who think that badly scripted and worse acted show was a documentary.

There are people I know that think they are both actors and all of their footage was faked in a movie studio

Re: True stories...

> "we're legally obliged to inform you that we test using rabbits"

I misread that and expected to see a bunch of guys in beards and big black hats typing away

Re: Give aliens some credit

>explains that 'v' is spoken as a 'w',

Anyone got any recordings to verify this ?

I know you can do pronunciation of ancient languages by looking at rhymes in songs and poems but W and V would seem to rhyme the same

Re: Start drafting the legislation

Unless they come from a long time ago in a galaxy far far away

After Meta hands over DMs, mom pleads guilty to giving daughter abortion pills

Re: I'm sure some will suggest it is her fault for using Facebook Messenger to communicate

Or you are simply relying on being forgiven later by the same government you are spying for supreme_court_telco_spying_immunity

Re: I'm sure some will suggest it is her fault for using Facebook Messenger to communicate

>writing instrument and paper, discard in a public waste bin, or tear in pieces and discard in several

Nebraska rules Mr Smiley ?

Re: I'm sure some will suggest it is her fault for using Facebook Messenger to communicate

>Peer to peer means the message is sent directly from my phone to your phone

Via apps that you can't inspect, through a phone system you don't control and routed through servers you don't control.

China succeeds where Elon Musk has failed with first methalox rocket

We have a much better system where UnitedLaunchAlliance own the government, rather than the other way round

Judge shoots down FTC attempt to stall Microsoft-Activision merger

Re: Is the judge blind...

>Is the judge blind...

I hope not, US $ bills don't have any features to assist the ocularly challenged.

So I hope they didn't incentivise him with a brown envelope full of single bills

BT CEO Jansen confirms he's quitting within 12 months

Re: Praxis

He's just a comrade bringing down the capitalist system from the inside