Posts by Sil

Make Windows 11 more useful and less annoying with these 11 Registry hacks

Thanks, I will try most of the tips.

only the one related to the login screen isn't needed when you use windows hello authentication, since it starts immediately .

Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees

I bought a Yoga i7 Pro laptop, which happens to have an 'ai' chip.

I already had to opt out of Copilot for Microsoft 365.

The day it will be forced on the paid subscription is the last day I will use it.

I never use Copilot nor any other ai crap, and I pray that Recall will never infest Windows in the EU.

I wonder if an NPU can be used advantageously for non Ai-related tasks, such as real-time audio processing ?

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

Striking a deal with a CIA front is surely the best way to protect the UK.

It's time mobile devs started to think seriously about foldable smartphones

I have yet to see a foldable whose screen stays flat.

Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need

my main wish would be the ulramodular ultralean refactored windows Microsoft was supposed to work on for the cloud,but ould equally be welcome on laptops and desktoos.

my second wish is improvement /optimization of the audio stack partially underway as is midi 2 support.

my third wish is to keep the promise of minimizing restarts for updates .

A Linux alternative? Debian/Hurd shows microkernel Unix dream is alive

Re: Performance hit

is the performance hit really only 5-10%?

any benchmarks or real life examples to back it up?

I would be astonished if such a low performance hit were the main reason for the lack of adoption of microkernels,except in performance critical domains .

Ex-White House cyber, counter-terrorism guru: Microsoft considers security an annoyance, not a necessity

If someone is big enough to pressure Microsoft into more security, isn't it the US government and federal procurement?

Also not to defend Microsoft in any way, but what are the chances that the Chinese and Russians aren't also prepared with Linux and other popular software?

If someone is big enough to pressure Microsoft into more security, isn't it the US government and federal procurement?

Also not to defend Microsoft in anyway but what are the chances the Chinese / Russians are not well prepared with Linux and other popular software too?

Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crooks

The only sensible option for Microsoft is to enable users to not have any Recall binary installed on their systems and storage.

Otherwise they should be liable to EU-wide emergency class action lawsuits, should any private information be leaked by Recall.

Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox

I've looked at Libre wolf and waterfox but none is compatible with Android.

So unless someone has a suggestion for a secure privacy oriented browser that's compatible with both windows and android, I'll continue to use Brave.

What if we said you could turn any disk into a multi-boot OS installer for free without touching a single config file?

Does Vento offer options such as bypassing the need for a Microsoft account when launching the Windows setup?

Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about time

I still think Gelsinger was the riyman for the job and when Intel gets better, it will be because of the decisions he took.

À monkey could fire tens of thousands of employees, sell assets, stop R&D marketing and whatnot to jack up apparent but fake profitability.

What Intel needs to relearn is fortitude : stop launching a product or service to systematically abandon it 3 years later. Why should your customers, partners and developers trust you and invest in so risky techs?

Qualcomm says license fight was because Arm wants to make its own server chips

Was ARM poisoned by finance shenanigans expert SoftBank?

Huawei's farewell to Android isn't a marketing move, it's chess

Overwhelmingly negative

Any new mobile OS is welcome, adding much needed competition to the duopolists.

The article is overwhelmingly negative.

The west, for reasons that were never proven, launched an extensive warfare against China.

All it got for it is the acceleration of China's own tech. The catchup is a matter of years, not decades.

Just look at EVs. Chinese EVs are objectively way better than anything from Europe or North America.

Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland

Kudos

Kudos to Alexander Hanff

Without people like him and Max Schrems, corporations would continue their illegal surveillance 24/7.

ASUS's Zenbook S 13 is light, fast, and immediately impressive

Looks interesting.

I would prefer a bigger autonomy though, even if it means a 1 mm less thin body and 100-200 g more.

Post-IPO, Arm to push purpose-built almost-processors

If the success in Linux in the server market and other markets is any indication, RISC-V could crush ARM within perhaps a decade or two. And maybe quite faster.

'Small monthly payment' only thing that stands between X and bot chaos, says Musk

A subscription model makes sense to kill X faster.

Also, kind of funny that fElon invited another convicted felon to discuss antisemitism.

Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 just has this certain Macbook Air about it...

Not sure what you're doing, but you're probably not installing Linux correctly - or Windows 11 makes life much harder than 10.

I've never had any issue with a Linux/Windows 10 dual boot,

Quantum computing: Hype or reality? OVH says businesses would be better off prepared

Yeah Yeah

I remember in 2018, Microsoft Ignite ended on the promise of quantum computing for tomorrow.

I also remember the coming of virtual reality for the last 3 decades at least.

Microsoft switches Edge’s PDF reader to pay-to-play Adobe Acrobat

Re: Not time to "opt-in" but to bale out

Not necessarily another browser.

But companies and everybody can install a different PDF reader on their computer and define it as the default one.

Intel, AMD just created a headache for datacenters

Isn't it even worse with GPU accelerators?

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest

Still not convinced

I re-evaluated a possible upgrade to Windows 11 due to Windows Update harassement, but I came to the conclusion, again, that Windows 11 is still Windows 10 --

The main bar can still only appear at the bottom of the screen, whereas one could choose any of the 4 borders for as long as I can remember.

The games still seem to run slower than on Windows 10.

For pro-audio, the jury is still out whether Windows 11 is quicker than Windows 10 or the opposite.

I couldn't care less about Android apps on Windows.

So Microsoft, give us real reasons to upgrade.

Begin by firing fully delusional Panos Panay, who already became insufferable as Surface Boss the last couple of years, out-bullshitting Apple on each and every product presentation, self masturbating with design and whatnot.

The world was promised 'cloud magic'. So much for that fairy tale

I kind of agree: cloud computing is way too expensive.

The net earnings of AWS are the best proof of it.

Even OVH drastically increase its price pre and post IPO.

However, the cloud is still a major change for the better in many situations - or will be if prices become more reasonable.

'Chief Twit' Musk delivers bathroom furniture to Twitter HQ ... but not Tesla results

Incorrect

Your article is incorrect.

Musk never cofounded Tesla. He invested in it then overtook it.

Also don't forget to mention that he was fired from PayPal.

Systemd supremo Lennart Poettering leaves Red Hat for Microsoft

Re: Depart, I say, and let us have done with you.

Still, if systemd is so universally despised, why is it so universally integrated into linux distros?

Misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott brings attention to FOSS archiving tools

Fully agree

I fully agree with the author.

I've been using 7-Zip for years, it's a great, reliable tool.

His developer does what he wants to do, what's wrong with that.

Intel details advances to make upcoming chips faster, less costly

What a joke. If everything goes as planned, Intel will offer 7 nm when competitors go 4 nm.

Surefire way to regain leadership.

AWS puts latest homebrew Graviton3 Arm processor in production

The price differential between graviton3 & EPYC is so low, I would not even consider it.

Ad-tech firms grab email addresses from forms before they're even submitted

Best protection

Short of disabling JavaScript, which will probably cause havoc with many sites, what's the best way to neutralize these session scripts?

Intel acquires graphics tech biz founded by ex-AMD, Qualcomm engineers

The link for Siru doesn't work.

Windows 10 still growing, but Win 11 had another bad month, says AdDuplex

I'm a consumer who can upgrade, but don't.

I do not accept Panos Panay telling me where I should put my taskbar.

Qualcomm closes $4.5bn deal, will acquire autonomous driving assets

Not $4.5 bn

Can you please point me to any document that states that Qualcomm will pay $4.5 bn to SSW Partners for just the Arriver part of the business?

I re-read the merger documents and can't find the amount paid by Qualcomm to SSW Partners.

FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what

I don't condone Microsoft's decision, but it's been years since it was dominating the browser industry, so, given its market share, it can probably do whatever it wants.

.NET Foundation boss apologizes for pull request that sparked community row

Dumb

That's not the best way to manage an open source foundation, unless you don't want any contributor.

Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past

I'll believe it when I see it

Just like the quantum computer we've been hearing for decades, or the autonomous cars that were already supposed to be here, I'll believe it when I see it.

If you're not sold on the benefits of 5G, Ericsson suggests you keep an eye on gaming, home broadband

The problem with 5G

Here's my problem witrh the 5G as a dream picture: unless I'm wrong, it'll take a lot of energy to move 60 fps from the cloud to a smartphone and controler data from the smartphone to the cloud with minimal latency. Thus destroying autonomy.

This will seriously limit the appeal, at least on the go. And in a fixed environment, fiber-based wi-fi will probably be much cheaper.

And it's pretty much the same with all the other "5G is not an evolution scenarii" such as automated driving coordination, telemedicine and whatnot.

BTW the console lifecycle is still 5 years.

Microsoft does and doesn't require VMs to meet hardware requirements for Windows 11

Re: Interesting link to the Photos App...

Whith Panos Panay,

Microsoft is unfortunately going full Apple on the marketing BS.

Microsoft fixes flaw that could leak data between users of Azure container services

Mitigate not fix

Microsoft did not fix the flaw, it "mitigated it".

Latest patches show Rust for Linux project making great strides towards the kernel

Re: 70% of CVE Exploits Are Related To Lacking Memory Safety

No, it's using C/C++ incorrectly without the available tools to detect and remove these classes of bugs, refusing to use libraries and langage facilities and well known patterns explicitely made to avoid those bugs, and repeating ad nauseam the same errors, that is like refusing to use ABS.

That said, the competition with Rust is very welcome, and will force the C/C++ ecosystem to address the issue of incorrect code.

What you need to know about Microsoft Windows 11: It will run Android apps

Limited compatibility

Here's my problem with Windows 11: Graphic card, DirectX 12 & WDDM 2.x

I bough components to build a brand new computer in December 2020, except a graphic card, since modern ones were, still are, and will be probably until H2 2022 impossible to purchase.

I installed my old NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 in my computer.

Hence, it is NOT compatible with Windows 11.

I'm pretty sure I won't be alone with this issue, unless bitcoin value goes to $0.

Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)

Re: What is an OS for?

Windows 10 is a very fine OS and has mostly improved with time.

I'm super happy it is compatible with hardware I'm still using, launched in 2003, with last firmware in 2007 and newest available drivers from 2010 and using an interface long forgotten: FireWire.

Pretty sure this wouldn't be the case on a Mac, nor on Linux for lack of driver.

Huawei could have snooped on the Dutch prime minister's phone calls thanks to KPN network core access

1. These are still no more than allegations.

2. The US is known to have hardware modified IT/communication systems ordered by external foreign parties.

3. How many times have there been flaws found in Cisco systems giving full rights to the system?

Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond

Wishful thinking

Microsoft has to make sure Windows won't break systems written decades ago.

So the chance of Windows becoming an emulation layer on top of Linux are 0 % imho.

There is no value to Windows otherwise, and Microsoft would be much better off writing a new os from the start.

Also, people have been underestimating the revenues of Windows for a long time.

Windows profits paid for (failed Windows Mobile), for Azure and for Staya's other whishes.

Yes, Azure is becoming increasingly important for Microsoft, but not important enough that it discloses its turnover, much less its profits.

Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches for a 'complete virtualization stack' with Linux and Hyper-V

Re: The way forward?

IT trends don't last forever.

Azure won't be a cash cow forever, and assuming Windows was eradicated from earth tomorrow, there's no guarantee Azure total profits over the years will beat those of Windows.

In the frame with the Great MS Bakeoff: Microsoft sets out plans for Windows windows

Re: They still don't get it do they?

In my opinion, they get it and that's what they mean by:

"He also promised that Microsoft will not alienate developers with "yet another solution".

Win32 devs who aren't missing anything will continue with win32

Win32 devs who are missing something, and this should be most devs developping modern applications compatible with touch and so forth, will get extended APIs that for all intent and purposes look like an evolution of Win32.

Those who may loose a little are the UWP devs, if the upgrade to the new API isn't as automatable as forethought. However, they also win since everybody knows the divide is unsustainable and things had to evolve.

Facebook apologizes to users, businesses for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect its customers' privacy

To be fair, choice is always better, and some people do prefer targeted advertising at the cost of their privacy.

I really don't understant why Facebook isn't awaiting the result: 5 % of people opting in is better than 0 %.

Unless it is sure Apple rigged the question so that nobody would continue to accept use of an IDFA.

Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost

Lots of negativity here.

People could actually like it, let's wait and see.

Microsoft frees Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 from the shackles of, er, Windows?

Re: Or bigger still..

Not a good idea.

Windows supports vastly more drivers and equipments and has a huge backward compatibility.

Consumer reviewer Which? finds CAN bus ports on Ford and VW, starts yelling 'Security! We have a problem...'

Ford refusing to read the report shows Which is definitely not wrong.

It's just like the absolute joke of the security of medical equipment: it interests nobody, until some organization will give us a nasty wake-up call.