Posts by A Non e-mouse

Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro

Re: No Pi support

That's a third party firmware replacement. The Pis don't have an out-of-the-factory UEFI firmware.

Re: No Pi support

It's because Raspberry Pis don't support UEFI. UEFI allows the kernel to ask the computer what hardware it has, rather than the machine's configuration being baked into the kernel.

MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs

Just goes to show that prediction about the future really is very difficult.

Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered

Re: Ah, the tax man

There's a story highlighted by Private Eye whereby if you go over the threshold by £0.01, the government can claw back thousands of pounds in benefit payments.

Re: Condo

Round these parts it's called a "Flat"

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

Re: What’s worse

Because fans are paying shed loads for autographs on eBay, et al. So the "celebs" are trying to take a cut of the money.

FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another

Re: M$ has killed email

I like to bash MS as much as the next person but DMARC isn't an MS-specific technology. Gmail and other email providers use it too. It's a tiny step in preventing the spoofing of email addresses.

If DMARC is rejecting your messages, either your organisation’s DMARC settings are wrong or you're trying to side-step the system. If the DMARC settings were wrong, your local IT helpdesk would be drowning in tickets so I'm inclined to think you're trying to side-step the system.

For individuals & probably small businesses, it's probably easy to use another tool.

The ubiquity of MS-Word is no longer the file format: It's the integration into SharePoint for live document editing and all the business systems that have integrated with Word.EXE

Those are the harder features for open source to replicate.

HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

Re: Idempotent

Maybe some people don't speak English as their first language and might not have come across that word before?

Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great

I thought Zuck was all in on using his employees as guinea pigs?

Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form

Re: Wow I feel old

Was it uncommonly good?

Britain plots digital bedtime after kicking under-16s off social media

When I was a kid, it was illegal for me to buy cigarettes, alcohol, pr0n or petrol. It didn't stop us getting access to any of it.

Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR

Do the files eventually wear out too?

Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into surveillance devices

If someone thinks spying on me is going to get them something useful, they really need to get out and get a life. My posts on kitten videos and cake making tips are not going to help anyone win a nuclear war.

Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks

Re: A lesson for the class

Why does this seem to be so hard for companies to learn?

Lawyers.

I've seen a couple of cyber attacks at close quarters and lawyers are the ones calling the shots. Not the techies, managers or communications people.

All the lawyers are interested in is preventing lawsuits. They don't care about the future of the business.

Datacenter builds could be shielded from judicial review in UK planning reforms

The problem with data centres is they suck resources (Electricity, water, land) but supply nothing back to the local community. Few jobs, nothing to the local economy, etc.

Transport (Road, rail) and power generation (Solar/Wind farms) provide something to the local (& wider) community.

AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can’t currently buy

Re: In the post-consumer world we will own nothing...

Average Joe doesn't need the power of these high-end systems anyway.

dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years

I wonder if the commentard is confused with the Amstrad PC1512?

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

There's spotting bad design but there's also giving constructive feedback without abuse.

Things have changed. Some people hate it. Some people like it. Some people are just "Meh"

But the vitriol coming from some of the commentards. Jeez... I thought many of us were IT professionals. If that's the level of feedback you provide, good luck in life.

Bring back the Moderatrix.

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule

If they'd renamed it the "Donald Trump Super Awesome Telescope" it wouldn't have been under risk.

Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet

And if that sounds like a lot to pull off at once, Musk appears unfazed

It's why he's worth billions of dollars.

Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date

Re: Great!

Why do you need access to a cloud service to use a passkey? I can store passkeys in my browser or 1Password which are stored locally on my machine.

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot

Over on LWN there's an article about a similar story of using AI against Python. The AI found around 500 bugs and 10-15% were false positives.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1067234/

Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit

Re: Applause for the subhead

Having seen Blue Origin's recent attempt to put something in orbit.

Re: “Delivery Attempted”

I don't know your situation, but my experience from chatting to some of the delivery drivers is that the apps lie.

Re: “Delivery Attempted”

The drivers get given insane schedules by the bean counters for minimum wage. It's no wonder why they sometimes cut corners.

Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031

Re: Did Trump and his lapdog...

Is Trump capable of thinking?

White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record

Re: $1.5 trln for the military

A better use of that money would be on universal health care and increased spending on education. But the last thing Dump and his ilk want is a healthy, educated populace.

The problem with the American space program is that it can only really plan one year at a time and it's at the whim of politicians. The end result is an over-budget vanity exercise with no real end goal (Other than being a feeding trough for politicans)

Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed

TBF, it's not just Windows that has this problem. How many network engineers have rebooted a switch or router after a firmware update only to find it not responsive because someone didn't save the last config update?

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference

Re: Lazy by design.

It's why ticketing systems have the option to auto-assign tickets to agents to stop them cherry-picking easy tickets.

AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

Re: Nobody's fault-tree analysis includes "building hit by drone."

But isn't the solution in the Amazon case that the customer fails over to another AZ or region?

The comparison with the petrochemical industry is irrelevant as you can't just flick a switch and move your processing in an instant to another facility thousands of miles away.

The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope

Quantity has a quality all of its own.

Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'

Re: Yeah.... right...

I always wonder if he is smoking some weird shit

Ketamine.

Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots

Re: over 300?

384 would meet both criteria.

Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI model – so built its own slop filtering system

It all depends on contract between the parties.

Typically, anything a full-time employee does is the property of their employer. (Although academia usually doesn't follow this)

If you're just a contractor/consultant, it definitely depends on the contract about who owns any generated IP.

But employing meat bags doesn't give your stock price the same jump as getting on the LLM hype-train.

We asked LLMs for an answer. They gave us bad answers, so we now pipe the output of multiple LLMs through another LLM.

West Sussex's Oracle rollout pushed back again as costs balloon 15 times

Re: Property?

No. Blame central government. Central Government has been reducing the funding they give to councils, telling the councils not to raise council tax and telling the councils to do more. The councils are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

The councils are having to do whatever they can do to get cash today, knowing full well that down the line they're going to be even more screwed.

Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes

Human life is precious. The premature ending of another person's life must never be devolved to a computer.

Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy

Re: Toasty

water-cooled busbars

Those are three words I don't want to be anywhere near in real life.

The current/power levels we're talking about are, to my mind, insane.

Would we be better off just taking a plasma feed direct from the warp core?

Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations

Re: Stop globalising the USA

In the past, the US & EU used to have good relations so the EU may have appeared weak because it trusted the US. The past year has shown the EU that it can't trust the US.

Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download

Re: Isn't this announcement / discussion

> They know who they are

From the fine article:

"In one case, a department store's team of 60 developers generated more traffic than global cable modem users worldwide due to misconfigured React Native builds bypassing their Nexus repository manager."

So, no, they don't they're doing it.

NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs

The problem with thin clients is that most of them cost cost almost the same as regular PC. The closest to a cheap thin client is a Raspberry Pi.

NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing

Have you seen renders of SpaceX's HLS on the moon? It's so fecking tall it's going to have a crane to get astronauts in & out.

(Disclaimer: I think SpaceX's design is a very bad idea - but I'm not rocket scientist)