Posts by cd

Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban

Re: Maine

But yet another reason to.move there...

Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online

Google stuff is manager-class, like microsoft. Not for smart people.

Re: You could block JavaScript or use Tor

On android there's Orbot for TOR VPN, works with Rethink.

US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally

Claudia the welfare queen.

Claude is getting worse, according to Claude

Re: Clod

Clod plus Fraud...

Claude Code cache chaos creates quota complaints

Claude, please meet your new pet, Algernon

NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats

Why not float some Space Bonds?

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future

EU should have its own distro. Every member nation should have its own distro. Now even Hungary.

Those can be used as OJT tools for the upcoming resurgence of on-prem.

Different apps, fine, but standardised doc formats. Which process can be started right now.

Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh

Try heading over to domain registrar Dynadot for yourself, purportedly HQed in California... their site has an embedded javascript from Baidu. And of course Facebook, the definitely for sure American company.

You can buy a domain and have your info filched by Meta AND a Chinese company, both of which you probably wouldn't voluntarily deal with. Are they working together?

Dynadot used to be a good registrar with a good site, now it's a marketing viper pit.

The paranoia may be somewhat correct but the actions taken are pitifully naive and limited and only for news bites.

Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla

And...mozilla won't trust android users to arrange shortcuts themsrlves...gotta have an algo do that for them the way we want, for the 2 miserable lines of icons they're allowed.

And they can't understand why people leave firefox..small project like Vivaldi does ths way better, and has the equivalent of uBlock built-in.

Like other commenters have said, they're the :"good guys"...but with fronds like these, who needs anemones?

Even worse is the retail hosting industry's wholesale adoption of the evil ad agency's "standards"..."<shrug> we're making money."

Looking at you cPanel/WHM and your greedy MBA-enhanced owners.

Relentless uodating equals planned obsolescence.

Growing void between enterprise and frontier AI puts open weights models in the spotlight

"The models underscore a stark reality: the gulf between enterprise and frontier AI has grown considerably over the past few years, and the mower powerful models are beyond the means of many enterprises."

In which The Reg subtly suggests touching grass.

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

Re: ...But Wait....There's More....

Can one mount the file system on another device with those? Or does Apple helpfully block that for security and AI-stuffing-via-cloud purposes?

Also, external bluetooth keyboard?

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers

Re: 100 %

Need money for AI

Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard

No mention of Framework lappies.

Interdependent javascripts required to even read the PIRG site. Who's being educated here, and about what? Google, about the reader's privacy?

Business as usual in teapot-land.

AMD's AI director slams Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier since last update

This whiffs of competitor piling-on. The Reg, being what it is, might want to know which competitors have a lighter in their pocket.

The Jonny posts on the leaked code are funny and interesting, and have lead to non-fediverse people swamping his Masto instance. Which, according to

https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2

has 210 members.

Quite a lot of traction from such an humble and obscure source.

Not defending any shitbags, merely noting their apparent recognition of declining resources on the event horizon.

Anthropic sure has a mess on its hands thanks to that Claude Code source leak

Re: Build pipelines have no respect for IPO timelines

Almost like they asked their own product for advice...

AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup

Remember not to help when it blows up.

Researchers didn’t want to glamorize cybercrims. So they roasted them

Sounds like Ubuntu...

Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4

Good to see MoE still working, and cURLy...don't mention Larry. I don't like Larries.

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

Re: I'm always dismayed by the tribal wars in the FOSS projects...

cd's Law of Humanity #1...

Every human organisation will eventually betray its founding cause in order to save itself.

Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images

Like Amazon Basics, then.

Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

Well, at least they're both named Matt.

One in seven Americans are ready for an AI boss, but they might not trust it

Re: 15 percent of Americans would be willing to work for an AI boss,

Wharton is the root of all evil.

'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K

Next up, learn to moo...

"As the steers approach, Chris first checks the ears. The right ears have been marked by being halved down the middle. (The heifers’ right ears are notched.)"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/12/20/irons-in-the-fire

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up

"The natives of that group, before Mr. Smith’s time, are popularly said to have eked out a precarious livelihood by taking in each other’s washing."

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

These are the folks who left OpenAI because it was too immoral?

AI server farms heat up the neighborhood for miles around, paper finds

Re: Didcot Weather

Yup, those hundreds of dead trees I pass walking in forests are just a liberal fantasy. Stupid trees are just trying to shame the oil industry, which doesn't have any shame.

Just stay indoors and listen to podcasts.

UK manufacturers under cyber fire with 80% reporting attacks

So that's what all the British Leyland managers segued to...

Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid

Excellent!

Self-chaffing wheat...

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures

Windows Dogfood Edition...

Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead

Re: Waiting for the lawsuit and the consultancy clean up work

Speaking of customers, what happens when they figure out how to make changes themselves by interacting with the "agent"?

Maybe their kid comes back from school and an "internship"...

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

Re: Repair shop bodge

To match the hole in the head...

Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit

Make gambling, drugs, and and porn legal in space and on the moon. Drop hints about huge rare earth deposits.

Then step aside so as not to be run over.

BOFH: Are you ready to raise our expense account limits now?

Nm

OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become

In order to forge a clear path, one must act from integrity, from concept to finish.

Netscape was afflicted by VCs and so is OpenAI. VCs are only interested in profits. The misdirection of "improving things" always sends the bus off the road.

Google seems to be suffering from internicine struggles about this very thing, all big tech is.

I know the answers, as do many of you, but they aren't paying us and money is the only commonality they get and they just have to hang on to all of it. "Price of everything, value of nothing" people.

We can put glass roofs on the abandoned data centers, when the VCs finally exhaust themselves, and grow food.

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

Stealing intellectual property?

An outrage!

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

Re: Yup....This root user was born on 1-Jan-1906!!!!

Linux needs a random-dob-inserter

SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of AI-driven growth

A great new name for this company would be TailSpin. AI will assist them, for sure.

Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban

Re: Sometimes it is better to be out the loop

A family member wasn't receiving Signal messages for a while, the calling function also didn't work, then they updated and it did. Perhaps Signal had been aware...

Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to

The trick is to buy a way-outdated phone and never let it update. The worst malware is the updates. Which are never going to fix stupid-user moving targets.

"Security" plus more aggravating Skinner-box interface changes riding along like bedbugs.

Turn Play off completely. Note how after v10 they included location in Play so it's a Pyhhric victory.

FBI director leaves open the possibility that it's buying location data again

Re: Remember...

I've been troubled by it. But other choices have been primitive or Apple-unusable.

Furi OS phones look promising, seem to be getting to DD status. They sell a "convergence hub" now to use it as a desktop as well.

Meanwhile, software switches, sociopaths, and promises...

Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary

Re: Kudos to Mrs Sawers !

Better to code while sailing...gybe-coding.

Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market

Good AI/bad AI...want a cigarette?

Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave

To Serve Man...

Ohio citizens tell hyperscalers to take their supersized datacenters elsewhere

43 years ago...

"I went back to Ohio

But my pretty countryside

Had been paved down the middle

By a government that had no pride

The farms of Ohio

Had been replaced by shopping malls

And Muzak filled the air

From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls"

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

Re: re: AI still doesn't work very well

Brother, can you spare a token?

Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers

Re: Um….

Decades ago, last century, there were anibiotics for dire use-cases where survival or death of the patient exposed to that concoction was a coin-flip.

Locked away very securely albeit by the protocols of that era.

Models that work at one level don't always scale.

Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years

Pentalobe screws are easy, just use a small flat-blade and span two of the lobes. Works better than the pukka bit.

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

"You know, morons." Also Blazing Saddles.