* Posts by seven of five

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Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship

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There will never be a rocket large enough to fit his ego.

'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city

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Re: WTAF?

Only when someone looks. But then while maintaining eye contact.

Linux for older phones postmarketOS changes its init system

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Re: proof

Systemd is beyond right or wrong, it has become a cult somewhere between tupperware and tesla for almost a decade now.

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Re: what's left of the commercial Unix world [...] Solaris 10

Just because YOU say its dead, does not make it true.

And calling AIX dead while maintaning Solaris being alive is ... well ... bold.

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what's left of the commercial Unix world [...] Solaris 10

*cough* AIX.

Still on init.

How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model

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Re: Oracle Cloud

OCI is the by far best way to maximise cost and lock-in.

Apple may have made itself a target before the EU's Digital Markets Act comes into force

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Re: Not a good week for evil is it?

Same same...

Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS

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Admitting failure

> 100GB a month of data egress at no cost, which it says is more than enough for "90 percent" of its customers.

So 90% of their hostages are (a lot)smaller than 100GB. Ouch.

Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

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Re: Microsoft wasn't really committed

good.

They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut

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Re: Depends on your definition of growler I guess.

Depending on the waitress, the answer to "wich one" could very well be: "yes".

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

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There is no ruling party in germany. Its chaos for years now, worthy of Italy.

"They" [who intend to ban] are "all the others", and it takes them years and years of discussion and consultation of the hightest courts. All the wile said "political party" continues to provoke with outright nazi jargon, xenophobia, antisemitism, holocaust denial (illegal in Germany. Because of reasons) and barely hidden agenda to abolish democracy, as soon as in power.

I can view them across a border, but *that* "politcal party" won't stop at borders. Don't feel safe behind my fence in the zoo.

FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix serious safety shortcomings found in report

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Re: so why not just shut Boing (sic) down ?

Airbus would hate it. They would not be able to buy a new teacup without some antitrust agency all over them

Capita wins uncontested extension to mega millions Northern Ireland Education contract

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Impressive.

So they finished first in a race of one. Time for a healthy bonus, isn't it?

China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes

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Headmaster

Re: I thought we learned...

That was DVD. CD-R was about 74, 80 an 90 Minute Media (or the respective capacity in Megabytes)

Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

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Re: Well that's interesting...

Yeah, greatest, oldest, wisest, strongest, yadda yadda.

Overinflated egos from shiny, shiny look-at-me make you blind for the decades of decay your country is in.

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Re: Well that's interesting...

No point in invading, the US are on an excellent trajectory to destroy themselves. At least in respect to what they were founded for a few years ago.

Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks

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> While I accept that I may be an outlier in the management sphere (I don't have an MBA for a start, but I do have an Engineering degree)

Then you are not one of "them", you're one of "us".

Bumblebee malware wakes from hibernation, forgets what year it is, attacks with macros

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Trollface

quarlesaa domain owner

> We've asked to see if the owner is aware that its email system is being used to send malicious emails but haven't heard back.

Have you checked your voicemail?

SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal

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Joke

Re: Image

on your foreskin, I'd presume :P

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Re: Image

Claus Wellenreuther is the oldest of the five founders of SAP. He was born in 1935, so theoretically could have been involved in Nazi war crimes.

Hector, Tschira and Hopp were born in 1940, being four and five at the end of the war. Hasso Plattner was born in 1944.

Also not a difficult fact to check, really.

In its tantrum with Europe, Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta, still hasn't fixed them

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Re: I love Apple...

Doh... actions speak louder.... oh my. Time for bed.

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Re: I love Apple...

Words speak louder than action. If they behave like dicks, it most probably is because they are.

Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up

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Re: Mrs Henry Ford will be turning in her grave

You might want to see a doctor about your obession with Hitler.

IBM Cloud is upgrading a datacenter and users will have to halt their Power VMs

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Re: IBM Live Partition Mobility

>The source and target systems have to be managed by the same HMC(s)

not correct for several years now.

> They also rely on OS, firmware and management software being kept up-to-date.

As with most jobs.

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They have - LPM. For.. .ages. Most probably fired everybody who can use it, though.

Meta accused of enrolling undecided EU users in ad-sponsored platform

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Re: Ha! I won! I won!!!

If this is supposed to be a victory, I dread to see a defeat.

DARPA's air-steered X-65 jet heads into production with goal of flying by 2025

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Re: F-104 experience

> Standard procedure for an engine-out landing in an F-104 is "eject"

For additional "fun", the F-104 ejects downwards.

Biggest Linux kernel release ever welcomes bcachefs file system, jettisons Itanium

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Re: Depends how you look at it

> and Oracle is pretty much guaranteed not to sue itself.

Don't give them ideas...

...otoh: do. Maybe they can force choke themselves.

Office gossips beware – chitchat could choke your career chances

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Re: II always remind my staff

T-Shirt front: "I could read your email."

T-Shirt back: "But I'd never be bored enough to actually do so."

As pointless as going through paychecks - This would only frustrate the reader.

SEC Twitter hijacked to push fake news of hotly anticipated Bitcoin ETF approval

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Re: When will the bros learn?

Sure, Russia. At least - maybe even PUTIN himself (shock horror!).

No way pure greed and narcisim might have brought this all onto themselves...

and sex tapes. Oh, so naughty, fnar fnar...

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

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Re: Good Moaning

Ha. Given the state current Volkswagens are delivered, any Invasion could probably been cut short on the next onramp.

Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees

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Re: Not difficult

Or have a chat with your spouse...

Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability

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Re: Gaslighting

The main module can not be replaced as it contains the IMEI.

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Re: Nice! Too bad about the price.

I have a FP3+, now four years old. Got Android 13 this fall. This will certainly be the last update, no matter how many Fairphone might offer: The CPU is beyond its useful life now, performance fell off a cliff with Android 13.

This will be the same fate an FP5 will suffer five years down the line. Latest, given the medicore Processor at launch. Google will make sure of that.

IBM takes a crack at 'utility scale' quantum processing with Heron processor

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Plus ca change

And soon, we have mainframes again. Funny thing IBM will build them. I wonder what happens to the young ones designing these new machines when they have become greybeards themselves.

Either the FBI is recruiting in Iran – or some govt Google ad buyers are getting a lousy deal

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Joke

Re: I can just imagine...

This reminds me of a movie I have seen...

Google Photos' AI Magic Editor won't change pictures of IDs, receipts, faces, or bodies

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So can Mossad.

Airbus takes its long, thin, plane on a ten-day test campaign

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Devil

Re: in a 3-3 economy class configuration.

Interesting. I am more the 666 kind of person. :)

Sure, give the new kid and his MCSE power over the AS/400. What could possibly go wrong?

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Re: Umm. Mainframe?

Most certainly not. Citation needed.

Criminals go full Viking on CloudNordic, wipe all servers and customer data

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Re: Where are the backups?

We (and many others) actually have bought a slave just to handle the slinging around of tapes. We tend to call them "library". But yes, tape size has not kept up with disk size, a large (enterprise) drive is around 15-20TB capacity, while tape is only about the same. Uncompressed, which tape drives can do better than disk controllers.

Controversial Chinese drone maker DJI debuts a cargo carrier

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Re: A market for an anti-drone drones?

A kilometer is more than enough. Move away from the launcher (to keep your position hidden), then pop up, maybe some more maneuvering, deploy missle. Afterwards maybe some scouting, would not even bother with recovery. Downside: you^ll probably need an operator on the launcher, so MBTs are not an option.

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Re: A market for an anti-drone drones?

40kg is a Hellfire missle. Making them a viable option for a sacrivial mount.

Nikola recalls electric truck fleet over battery fires

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Re: I didn't know they had actually managed to sell these trucks.

Just because it is still around does not neccessariliy mean it is still alive.

Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites

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not "like", "or"

[...]with a trusted third party, like Google,[...] should read "with a trusted third party, or Google,"

No need to thank me.

I'll have to arrange myself with them and their services provided, yet I do avoid them wherever possible. They are as thrustworthy as amazon is a benevolent employer.

Google's next big idea for browser security looks like another freedom grab to some

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Handily eliminates adblockers as well

Of course, any form of ad-blocking would alter the "user experience" and therefore can not be tolerated.

Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs

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Re: Suggestion

running everything you have on one server would require your software to be written to a higher level of stability than anyone would be willing to spend in order to achieve.

Back in the 70s/80s this would have been possible, but these days there is so much shitty code around somehow still essential, no way monolithic server would be able to cope.

Australia's 'great example of government using technology' found to be 'crude and cruel'. And literally lethal to citizens

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Re: @Natalie Gritpants Jr - Hey, we're talking about governments and their public workers here.

heh... yes, that was a good one - certainly worth keeping.

Europe's Euclid telescope launches to figure out dark energy, the universe, and everything

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Re: I don't like Mond days

Or the heart of my wife...

Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner

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Re: Is there a Gartner-Cycle for Gartner-Cycles?

Orgasmatron? Ain't that from Motörhead?

Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

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"support" the API and hardcode topics?

How about mozilla makes a sorry fault when implementing and will always return topic 1, 2 and three in that order, should a website dare to ask?

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