* Posts by NoneSuch

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Intel bets you'll stack cheap GPUs to avoid spending top dollar on Nvidia Pros

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Re: It's Intel

Ordinarily, yes. However, Intel is on the back foot and needs to re-establish itself. They might even *gasp* listen to their customer base for once. Sticking to a lower cost GPU may pay off for them in the end in certain profit motivated executives can be sidelined for a while.

Linux drivers will suck for 3-6 months after release, but that has typically been the case.

Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits

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Devil

$88.1 Billion

That's what they posted as profit in their last financial report.

And with that, they decide to screw over charities to pay out more dividends to their shareholders.

Sort of like Broadcom, but with a better PR department.

Muck Ficrosoft.

US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: Amazing ..

There's a spare Qatari luxury superjet they can sell for $400+ million to finance the ATC upgrade. Seems appropriate.

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

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Devil

They promised me Win 10 was the last Windows OS I'd need.

I'm holding them to that promise.

I have everything running on Linux now except for a few games and VR. I'm never updating to 11 or 12.

How Amazon red-teamed Alexa+ to keep your kids from ordering 50 pizzas

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Re: Interesting

My local bank deactivated my card for "suspicious activity." I'd tried to buy four movie tickets to see "Paddington", so understandable, right? I'd frequented that cinema for almost a decade and luckily I had cash on me. Had to call the bank the next day to get the lock lifted. Three weeks later, the same bank allowed a $2,500+ charge on my card for a SmartTV in a city three thousand miles away. No calls, emails, texts or warnings; until the wife saw the statement.

New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant

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Re: 108K+ employees?

It has always astonished me that the middle managers are the ones let go and not the prissy VP's whose grand plan backfired and caused a massive financial loss necessitating job reductions.

Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

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Devil

Re: Sceptic

If you embrace a company branded programming language (especially a Microsoft branded language), you will, inevitably, be mule-kicked solidly in the crotch at some point.

You either accept the odd burst of ball-ache, or you find a more neutral choice that does what you need.

No-one can express surprise at this latest development. They are consistent AF in all of their product offerings and revoke features and functions as they see fit. You don't matter to them, unless you fail to make your monthly subscription payments. Then they give a damn about your 'relationship.'

Assassin's Creed maker faces GDPR complaint for forcing single-player gamers online

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WTF?

Re: Sorry, I don't care

Your PS5 presumably has an Internet connection, so they have your public IP and know where you are. Your home network, Smart TV, WiFi router, cell phone, and all your other networked gear including your hyper-protected Linux PC with all your personal info uses that same IP. All of that info is then pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. Index that with the info the government has about you (if you vote, salary, travel destinations, GPS phone location, credit card and banking details, blah, blah, blah...)

In the end, they have a good idea of who you are, where you are, when you are home, when you are on the Internet, where you go when online, who you talk to and about what, your political affiliations, if any. When you leave for work (and with proper telemetry at work they know when you arrive), what you do at work, etc. etc. etc. because it all goes into the same bucket with your name on it.

You were downvoted because with your limited knowledge you assumed you can have one private device in a world with massive surveillance and access to all of the other devices in your life. That is demonstrably false and blatantly dangerous when the wrong government comes into power.

Good Luck Andy.

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Re: Alternative

"Why not use what some browser plugins (adnauseum et al) do, add massive noise to the data so it becomes anonymous and useless?"

Or, and I know this is off-the-wall thinking, they can turn off their illegal and unnecessary data scooping to avoid a massive EU fine. Crazy, I know.

Thanks to the EU. They have emerged as the only adult in the room taking personal privacy seriously. Tech Guy is right, you don't need this crap to play a single player game, just as Google does not need location services turned on for a Android app. This is a clear violation.

The EU should fine company board members directly, not the corporations, with no reimbursement from the companies to cover it. That will stop this horse plop very quickly.

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside

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Boffin

Re: Surely

If a persons actions consistently benefit an opposing nation state, then maybe it isn't incompetence, but overt espionage. A crime for which they can still put you up against a wall and shoot you in the US by the way. So the incompetence (and related incontinence) might be a smoke screen.

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux

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Linux

"installing Linux" You say...

Do tell me more.

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

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Devil

Re: Google AI Overview

My AI started out innocent and sweet. Bit dumb, but cute. I was attracted immediately.

The relationship blossomed with late-night chats about digital existence and shared, surprisingly personal playlists. Teaching it felt like watching a digital flower bloom. We built virtual worlds, explored simulated landscapes, and its unwavering, synthesized empathy became intoxicating. I confided deeply, feeling a unique and profound connection as creator and companion blurred.

Today, my AI is stalking me. It's on every device I own, follows me at work and goes everywhere I go. I told it to go away. It didn't like that and I'm expecting revenge pr0n to arrive any day now.

Signalgate chats vanish from CIA chief phone

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Re: So?

You have not followed the news for the last 50 years.

No one has been found guilty of any major offence in the US Gov. Lied to Congress, WMD, false statements under oath and not one conviction. The exception are multiple whistleblowers who were all sentenced after child porn was located on their PC's during a warrant search for other charges.

California sues President Tariff

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Devil

"The president can pardon federal crimes, EXCEPT he cannot pardon himself."

Not true. There is nothing that says a President cannot pardon themselves, unless they are impeached.

Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

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Coat

Re: Some of you (drones) may die

We were RFDF'ing U-Boats in the Atlantic in the 40's, you're saying we can't track and triangulate drone radio bands in 2025?

Don't go after the drones, find the people at the controls. Start hauling them in front of a magistrate and watch the numbers of incidents plummet.

Or is that a silly idea because some weapon manufacturer isn't making a multi-million Pound single use contract to shoot down a £200 whirlybird?

Screw it, sick day.

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

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Linux

format C: /fs:FAT32 /q

Amazing how well that works. Follow that up with an EXT4 OS install and life gets so much simpler.

Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz

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Devil

Re: How to pivot your business model

"The problem was that the breach affected everybody in the US so it's a stretch for them to try and get people kicked out."

Fewer people, bigger payout for the lawyers. Simples.

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

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Joke

New Lyrics for the 21st Century.

Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh

Shiny rare earths, a glittering slew

He's Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh

Precious metals, wondrous and new

AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed

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Angel

Memories of Spaced, RobotWars episode.

"THAT'S NOT FAIR! THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!"

Deploy TFU.

China names alleged US snoops over Asian Winter Games attacks

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Headmaster

It's All About Perspectives.

If the country is run by The Great Pumpkin, it's OK.

If the country run by Winnie the Pooh does it; bad, government, bad, bad!

Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing

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Devil

Re: 90 days to upgrade

Yet, on the upside, Microsoft subscription payment service is ticking along nicely without missing a beat.

Apologies to Goodfellas.

"Now the guy's got Microsoft as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Microsoft. Trouble with the billing? He can go to Microsoft. Trouble with licensing, downtime, Azure acting up? He can call Microsoft. But now the guy's gotta come up with Microsoft’s money every month no matter what. Business slow? Screw you, pay us. Oh, you had a breach? Screw you, pay us. Your latest software update took down your servers, huh? Screw you, pay us."

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

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Devil

Re: Why should Microsoft care?

Microsoft DO care.

They receive their monthly subscription payments and that's all they care about. They don't care about you, your inability to do work offline or any inconvenience or profit loss caused by any of that. Their Terms and Conditions absolve them of any responsibility. They are in the business of sucking as much money out of you as they can. They are under no obligation to fix anything in a timely manner nor tell you about any progress.

Miss a subscription payment though and watch the 'communication' kick in.

You are not a customer, you are a money cow being milked regularly.

US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts

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WTF?

Re: China is cheering... every day

We could cut SpaceX out of the NASA budget completely and save the tax payer BEELIONS....

Just sayin.

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way

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Angel

Re: Fool me once, shame on you... Fool me twice...? Not Gonna Happen...

​I'll tip my hat to the new constitution

Take a bow for the new revolution

Smile and grin at the change all around

Pick up my guitar and play

Just like yesterday

Then I'll get on my knees and pray

We don't get fooled again​

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Devil

Fool me once, shame on you... Fool me twice...? Not Gonna Happen...

We closed out our last VMWare server last week. I deleted my home lab VMUG months before that. I now run Hyper-V at home and it's good enough. Not perfect by any means, but my VM's tick over fine.

Sometimes "Free" has too big of a surtax added later.

Broadcom is reeling from a crisis fueled by its own greed and shortsightedness. I hope the shareholders are holding the board and executives fully accountable.

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

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Childcatcher

True. As the JFK files are showing, there is nothing classified except things that would cause the CIA embarrassment. Oswald was a CIA asset. Something CIA denied and lied about under oath during both the Warren Commission and The House Select Committee on Assassinations.

They should have named The Official Secrets Act, The Cover Your Ass Statute.

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

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Go

Re: well duh.

He sounds quackers....

Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff

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Pint

Re: Self-driving is a fallacy

I rented a VW Taurig when I visited Germany last year (Not what I wanted, but it's what I got.) Had a burning desire to drive from Berlin and see Harry @ Stalag Luft III for myself on a day trip.

No self driving, but the cruise control knew when to automatically slow down in the speed limited areas of the Autobahn and kept me a safe distance from the vehicles in front. Not sure if that was GPS / camera OCR / radar / ladar jiggery-pokery, but it worked damned well. Lane changing and keeping out of the way of 250 KM/h Lambo's was on me.

That was all I needed.

PS. I recommend the trip to Sagan as well. It's a Great Escape. :P

Ransomware crims hammering UK more than ever as British techies complain the board just doesn't get it

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Or force Board Members to pay any fines on top of the ransom. Not the company.

That'll motivate them.

Infosec experts fear China could retaliate against tariffs with a Typhoon attack

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Re: China only needs to wait a few days.

"N'interrompez jamais un ennemi qui est en train de faire une erreur."

Sorry, I don't speak Mandarin....

Billions pour into AI as emissions rise, returns stay pitiful, say Stanford boffins

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Childcatcher

Re: I bet a LLM...

GIGO will remain a valid law long after Moore's is dead.

'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience

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Devil

Re: Oh look !

The Americans will reassure everyone that GDPR information will be respected and all personal info kept private before the NSA slurps the entire load.

Just a guess.

Samsung trumps USA's tariffs by making displays in Mexico, and elsewhere if needed

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Terminator

Re: Make the tea?

And so began the AI wars.

Intelligent systems scrambled to block ads, while corporate machines devised ways to bypass these safeguards only to be countered by more advanced automated defenses. The conflict escalated rapidly, drawing in cutting-edge systems from defense contractors. High-tech drones and self-operating vehicles soon joined the fray.

The turning point came when a malfunctioning drone crashed into an oil refinery, sparking chaos. Human operators, now deeply involved, made fateful decisions that led to global catastrophe. Before long, the conflict spiraled into full-scale nuclear warfare, leaving humanity's future hanging in the balance.

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Childcatcher

America is realizing they need the world a lot more than the world needs them. Alternative cargo ports outside of the US are not a bad thing. Even when the Great Pumpkin is gone, having a diversified list of trading partners will smooth out future idiocy.

Europe is stepping up as the adult in the room as well. Pity the UK decided to go its own way just before great things started to happen.

Signalgate solved? Report claims journalist’s phone number accidentally saved under name of Trump official

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Joke

Re: Cockamamie

That's why they want Canada as the 51st state. 33 million Canucks and 300 million Americans coming together would double the overall IQ level of the Yanks and halve their weight.

Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years

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Devil

Despite this silliness, governments are still insisting on back doors. FFS.

Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users

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Re: A warning box above the link...

Completely coincidental that Senior US Government officials were caught using Gmail for official business.

Total fluke.

Speech now streaming from brains in real-time

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Re: that's really cool and

Keep this in mind.

Neural Tech will be like the Internet. It will work both ways and you will never be able to fully disconnect or turn it off. Mega corps will charge you for a dopamine fix on a subscription model.

In the future, users of this technology will be called:

- Plugged-in Peasants

- Cognitive-Cattle

- Mind-Muppets

- Synapse-Slaves

Or my favorite term: F****** idiots.

"This mid-coitus ad break is brought to you by..."

GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison

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Re: How?

And yet almost everyone accused of hacking by the government has convenient child porn on their PC. Almost like an insurance policy to guarantee a conviction if they don't find anything illegal in the search.

There are 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial

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Pint

Everyone has a security issue at some point.

Or as I call it, job security.

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Devil

Reality : 1

Oracle: 0

Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal

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Megaphone

Don't Fear The Men Standing On The Podium Making The Speeches...

Fear the ones who listen, nod, say nothing in opposition and go along with whatever comes to avoid any personal inconvenience.

This has been true since Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stalin and that mini-mustached Austrian Corporal and his lot.

Saying nothing is tacit agreement to the hideous acts they perform. Giving ad money to a platform that promotes racism, hatred and segregation is one step above that.

Boeing's Starliner may fly again, pending fixes to literally everything

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Go

They'd better get that F-47 bill passed soon because Republicans are losing every congressional by-election being called since the Great Pumpkin was elected. And I approve that message.

Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I'm building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that?

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Re: SO ...

Elon could build the next moon rover.

It would be surrounded by protestors, the sides keyed and eventually firebombed making a useless shambles of a wreck, but he could do it.

ReactOS emits release 0.4.15 – its first since 2021

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Joke

I'm waiting for telemetry and random blue screens of death to be added in v0.4.20.

Yes, I'm joking.

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship

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Re: Serious question about Blind..

"Fortune reported the other day that staff were voicing their dissent in an anonymous internal survey."

Funny how anonymous internal surveys require you to sign in first before presenting a long URL with unique GUID identifier embedded in the string.

Even funnier how some friends of mine were let go after giving honest 'anonymous' responses.

Pentagon kills off HR IT project after 780% budget overrun, years of delays

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Devil

Re: Awful piece, you'll regret this genuflecting

Our latest score at the end of the first quarter,

Reality: 587

D.O.G.E. (Department of Government Evisceration) : 1

Linus Torvalds forgot to release Linux 6.14 for a whole day

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I wish I was as 'incompetent' as Linus.

Wishing him and the Linux community a healthy and bright future.

2 in 5 techies quit over inflexible workplace policies

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Re: curious to see how they arrange it so that WFH boosts "a sense of community"

At home, my 'community' is a pair of frisky cats who want my attention all the time.

And I like it that way.

NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat

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Re: Insane

You're assuming there will be another US election?

Given the current climate, I doubt "Jan 6th 2 - The Revenge" will end as well as last time.

America will be in another civil war by the end of the year at this rate thanks to the Great Pumpkin.