Posts by David 132

Toyota resumes autonomous Paralympics buses after vehicle hit judo competitor, forced him out of match

You sick, sick individual.

Have an upvote.

When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers

Re: Haynes Manuals

And at the end of it all, you reassembled everything, carefully tidied up your tools, and with a deep sigh of satisfaction looked at your handiwork and realized…

…that you still had a Vauxhall Viva.

What soul-crushing disillusionment must have then set in.

Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs

Re: 2.75TB

Funnily enough, I was only thinking earlier today of the time back in my final year of university (‘95 or so), when a friend got a shiny brand new 1GB hard drive! My, how we all ooh’ed and aaaah’ed at his extravagance. Funny to think that these days that would be a puny amount of memory, let alone primary storage..

Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick

Re: The "inspector"

It was a Tom’s Hardware Guide video. I still have a copy saved somewhere. Upon removal of the heatsink, the Pentium MMX soon locked up (but was fine after heatsink replacement and reboot); the Pentium 4 slowed down but kept running; and the Athlon locked up and released the smoke.

After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

Which one? I haven’t heard of that.

Start or Please Stop? Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'

Re: Guessing the 11, in Windows 11 represents two dominos...

Oh, sweet summer child.

There’ll still be nag screens, but they’ll be along the lines of “This version of Windows will soon be unsupported, and your PC is too old to run the amazing Windows 11. Here’s some full-screen, unskippable adverts from Dell, HP, Lenovo…”

Re: starting Task manager change is a disaster

I agree, but FYI, can you not just run taskmgr.exe directly, or put a shortcut to it on the desktop of the target VM?

Re: Loss of the ability.....

Have a very appropriate Thumb up for the references. Oh, it’s blinking and beeping? And what are those things hovering in the sky in the same way bricks don’t?

Samsung: We will remotely brick smart TVs looted from our warehouse

Re: "You need a Pi-Hole on your network."

Ah, thank you. I am enlightened. And that accords with my brother’s sense of humour.

Re: "You need a Pi-Hole on your network."

I run Pi-Hole on my network, and tbh the only problem I've found with it - and it's a big one - is that the online "what's currently on tap" page of my local pub's website doesn't work when Pi-Hole is active, and I have to drop off my wifi onto cellular to see if it's worth my wandering down to pick up a growler(*) of anything.

*Note to Rightpondians - this is a glass/metal/thermos-type 64oz beer container. For some reason my brother in the UK sniggers uncontrollably when I mention the term. I remain innocently puzzled as to why.

Given that we’re talking about “mango’s”, I think it was more likely the local gre’engr’ocer’s.

Ah, but remember, they're not stuffing adverts onto your TV. That would be sleazy and disreputable. No, no, no. They're "leveraging their rich ecosystem of consumer-focused technology to bring you an unrivaled and carefully-curated selection of exciting offers from valued partners and major brands, at no extra cost to you, their valued customer, to keep your experience with their products fresh and dynamic".

I could go on in that vein, but honestly, I've thrown up twice over my keyboard already.

Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye

<div>I find your pedantry disturbing.</span>

(with due acknowledgment to XKCD)

Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain

Re: Milk Shakes or just Shakes?

“Nothing wrong with dogs’ milk. Full of vitamins. Full of goodness. Full of marrowbone jelly. Plus, of course, it lasts much longer than cows’ milk.”

“Why is that?”

“Cos no bugger’ll drink it.”

Re: Perhaps

"In Paris, you can buy a beer at McDonald's. And you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?"

Re: "UK restaurants had run out of milkshakes"

I suspect that in the specific case you mention, the issue is more that no McDonalds, anywhere in the world, has anything that Luxembourg (and Belgium, and France) would deign to recognise as "chocolate". Didn't the chocolatiers of Belgium lobby a few years ago to get Cadbury's finest re-designated as "cocoa-based vegetable solids" or something equally accurate-and-unappetising? (as to what they think of Hershey's and other mass-market American "chocolate" facsimiles, I'm sure it's something rude in Phlegmish, and no that's not a typo)

Re: Border Bureaucracy?

You have stumbled upon the truth behind Nordstream 2.

Building a pipeline to transport gas, just as the world transitions away from fossil fuels? Why, that would be ridiculous! Not even Putin & Merkel would be that dumb! There must be another purpose to it!

Re: Border Bureaucracy?

Calling those places Little Chef should incur the wrath of Trades Description people. Most of those places, the people operating the "cooking" facilities are not even close to being chefs, most are barely able to be described as cooks.

And most of them are at least 5'6" tall, too. False advertising!

GitHub's Copilot may steer you into dangerous waters about 40% of the time – study

Re: it tries to conjure blocks of code that function as described

Personally I’m waiting for the day when I can amble up to a computer, pick up the mouse, say into it “Hello computer” and have it display a wireframe rendering of the formula for transparent aluminum.

Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years

Re: I've got a suggestion...

You helped your uncle do WHAT to a bicycle?????

Chinese auto-maker accused of altering data after fatal autonomous car accident

Re: Somewhere there is a dog saying…

I prefer the cartoonist's updated version: https://www.salon.com/2016/08/04/this_is_fine_cartoonist_on_why_its_not_fine_after_all_its_a_response_to_how_weird_and_bad_2016_has_made_me_feel/

Apple didn't engage with the infosec world on CSAM scanning – so get used to a slow drip feed of revelations

Names are "released" and vigilante groups will go out of their way to discover and ensure that information is spread as widely as possible on Social Media.

"She's a paediatrician! She even admits it!! Get her!!!!!!!!!!"

And so on. Didn't Private Eye run an ongoing series of "Things That Aren't Paedophiles" back at the time of the last paedo-hysteria a few years ago? Pedalo, Pedagogue, etc etc...

Anyone storing notes about cryptography algorithms on their iPhone should be very worried, if there's any reference to Nonces in there...

Apple says its CSAM scan code can be verified by researchers. Corellium starts throwing out dollar bills

Re: Look, Squirrel!

Excellent example, but I have to point out that ever since the Glorious Proletariat Revolution of '77, the country's official name is the Socialist People's Democratic Republic of Tyranny. People who question the validity of that name are given complementary re-education and training at the People's Happy Learning camps in the interior of the country.

US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Autopilot driver assist system after spate of crashes

Re: About time too

Plus, somewhere around Barstow the drugs begin to kick in and it’s bat country…

Tired: What3Words. Wired: A clone location-tracking service based on FOUR words – and they are all extremely rude

Re: Oddly..

…well, the Western side of Craggy Island at least, which drifted off in that big storm!

Re: a bit late to the show in featuring this site

Awww. I got really excited when I saw your link, and hope rose in me that NTK had resumed publication and was no longer on hiatus.

Nope... last instalment still from 2007. Bah.

Father Jack

So was Father Jack actually trying to tell everyone where his vast wealth was hidden?

Arse.Feck.Drink.Gobshite?

Edit: Bah, no such location. However, gobshite.gobshite.gobshite.gobshite and feck.feck.feck.feck bookend the southern and northern coasts of Eire respectively, which indicates that someone at FKM is at least partially a Father Jack fan!

Fancy joining the SAS's secret hacker squad in Hereford as an electronics engineer for £33k?

On the plus side…

…the successful candidate would at least find out what colour the boathouse door is.

United Nations calls for moratorium on sale of surveillance tech like NSO Group's Pegasus

Re: Oi!

Let's get tough. The time for talking is over. Call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit them hard and hit them fast with a major -- and I mean major -- leaflet campaign, and while they’re reeling from that, we'll follow up with a whist drive, a car boot sale, some street theatre and possibly even some benefit concerts. OK? Now, if that's not enough, I'm sorry, it's time for the T-shirts.

Elevating bork to a new level (if the touchscreen worked)

And of course the ever-hilarious manufacturer of said elevators, Schindler.

As in, “Schindler’s Lift”.

Perl's Community Affairs Team chair quits as org put on ice by code language's foundation

Re: Lack of originality in curse words.

Yeah, I do wonder about people who use the f and c words habitually....what do they say when they're really annoyed?

“Belgium”

“Semprini”

(That latter is definitely one for the Python community.)

Re: FFS

But the nice thing about PERL is that you can type one line of anything and it will do something

Let's be honest - the nice thing about Perl is that you can capture a random burst of line noise into your editor, or have a cat walk over your keyboard, and the result will compile and do something.

:)

GitHub's npm gave away a package name while it was in use, causing rethink

In this case I think the correct decision was made.

I can't speak for the general situation, but in this specific case I have to say I think the owner of the original Bebop package (Kelling) was at fault, for not ensuring that the correct email address was on file for his package. I don't think it's asking too much, if you're publishing a package to a public resource, for the onus to be on you to keep the correct email address.

Yes, I feel bad for him that he lost control of the package name, but some of the blame does lie with him. In the circumstances I think Github and the new Bebop owner handled it well.

Woman sues McDonald's for $14 after cheeseburger ad did exactly what it's designed to

popes are allowed to eat beaver on Fridays

But if they do, they’ll be dammed.

Flushing roulette: Southern Water installing digital sewer monitors to prevent blockages

Re: It's 1984 - but with toilets

Captain's Log?

Re: poor residents of Hampshire

Mind you.. the isle of wight is even worse off....

They should declare unilateral independence.

Re: It's 1984 - but with toilets

In my youth, the phrase "that'll be a danger to shipping when it gets out into the Channel..." was often said with hushed pride/reverence when flushing the WC. I've never done one of those online genetics tests, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that I'm part Clydesdale Horse.

Re: overflowing manholes

Indeed.

Re: overflowing manholes

Their grasp of etymology is niggardly at best.

THX Onyx: A do-it-all DAC for the travelling audiophile

I must admit to membership of the Old Crusty club too, because looking at my carefully-curated music collection there's a LOT from the 60s/70s, plenty from the 80s and 90s, then the quantity tapers off as we hit the aughts, 10s and this decade.

Having said that, there's been a few tracks in recent years that have appealed to me. I'm going to be massively self-indulgent now and inflict a short list on you all. In the hope that it'll lead you to pleasant discoveries... ah, who am I kidding, I'm just going to get sarcastic comments and aspersions about my musical taste. Bite me.

Tom Petty - Big Weekend [2006]

Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues [2010]

Groove Armada - History/Shameless [2010]

Plan B - She Said [2010]

Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks [2012]

Thea Gilmore - This Is How You Find The Way[2013]

Saint Motel - My Type [2013]

Nathaniel Rateliff - S.O.B. [2015]

Stone Roses - Beautiful Thing / One For All [2016]

Blondie - Long Time [2017]

Jack Johnson - My Mind is For Sale [2017]

The Decemberists - Severed [2018]

Chris Stapleton - Starting Over [2020]

Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns

Re: Actually it's a cunning Apple marketing ploy ...

Apple Watch: monitors your exercise level and number of steps taken.

Apple iPhone: Is a Paedometer.

Given that the CCP have passed laws that basically mean criticizing them, anywhere in the world, is an offence, better never ever have photos on your phone of Tiananmen Square Tank Guy, or the Tibetan national flag, or Uighur cultural imagery, or the flag of the independent nation of Taiwan.

Or hope that those at Apple responsible for this get beaten with the Cluestick.

Re: Won't Someone Think of the Children?

"We're only using it to scan for images of kiddie porn. Are you on the side of the kiddie fiddlers?"

"We're only using it to scan for images glorifying terrorism. Are you a terrorist?"

"We're only using it to scan for images of serious crimes. Why do you sympathize with murderers?"

"We're only using it to scan for images of banned ideologies. What, are you a neo-Nazi?"

"We're only using it to scan for images of racist or TERF nature. Such thought is wrong and is banned."

"We're only using it to scan for images showing support for Antifa."

"We're only using it here in China to scan for images showing you support the Hong Kong democracy movement."

"We're only using it here in Spain to scan for Catalan separatist imagery..."

I won't stoop to repeating the old Pastor Martin Niemöller quote cliché, but there's a definite slippery slope argument to be made here.

Full Stream ahead: Microsoft will end 'classic' method of recording Teams meetings despite transcription concerns

Re: Technology

It's just ghee-whiz technology.

Re: Technology

I can’t stand this constant feature churn.

Facebook takes bold stance on privacy – of its ads: Independent transparency research blocked

Re: I envision a fix...

Now all we need is to find a Vogon willing to read poetry to torture for torture's sake...

Given that a Vogon wouldn’t lift a finger to save his own grandmother from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Trall, I don’t think you’d have any difficulty finding such a candidate.

Just be sure to fill out the appropriate Poetry Reading Request forms, Volumes I-XIX, in triplicate, initialling all sub-clauses, and then wait in line for a week to submit them…

International Space Station actually spun one-and-a-half times by errant Russian module's thrusters

Re: Like a broken record, baby, round round

Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff - Dizzy

Who? Never heard of him, or Bob Mortimer. I think you mean Tommy Roe!

Microsoft suspends free trials for Windows 365 after a day due to 'significant demand'

Re: elastic?

Obligatory XKCD.

84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement

Are you right there, Father Ted?

All these comments and I can’t believe no-one else has mentioned the first thing that came to my mind… the acquaintance of Father Ted who had an even more complete collection.

Microsoft's Cloud PCs debut – priced between $20 and $158 a month

Re: Adrian Mole

Curse you, now I have Ian Dury’s theme song going round and round my head.

“I’m profoundly in love with Pandora…”