Posts by werdsmith

NASA names astronauts picked for next Artemis Moon test flight

Re: Forget about everything else.

And Australia is a member of Eurovision :)

Re: When the Apollo crews were always all white men

I don’t think they need to be super test pilot types anyway. They won’t be doing much flying, they have a representative job to do.

Much like Gagarin, reputedly chosen above other candidates because of his broad warm smile.

Tesla Semi, out since December, already facing a recall over brakes

Re: Trucked

*Battery EV.

EVs with an external energy supply like overhead wires or a local diesel generator are pretty good at hauling loads over distance.

Parisians say au revoir to shared e-scooters

Re: Spin class ...

The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator

Re: "I am very smart"

My organisation is using random phishing emails on its staff as part of training. I spotted most of them, but during one particularly hectic moment, circumstances combined and I fell for one of them.

Kicked myself hard, really disappointed but it feels like very effective training.

Re: "I am very smart"

When somebody drops in their academic achievements or their years of professional experience to back up what they are saying online, it’s fairly safe to assume they are liars.

And I know this to be a fact because I have a PhD in online behaviour and I’ve practiced in this field for more than 20 years.

India flies – and lands – reusable autonomous spaceplane

Re: No, it doesn't look like the Shuttle or Buran

If the landing gear is from the parts bin then it’s close to its design max if it is meeting the runway at 220 mph.

Virgin Orbit lays off 85% of staff as funding deal falters

But why develop a space port limited to high inclination? One that couldn't launch to the orbit used by ISS?

Build one that can do anything. Like the French did.

Daftness. Geographically not positioned for launches apart from limited high inclination stuff from north Scotland.

Find somewhere equatorial with a marine down range to the East and do it there. Like the French did.

Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins

Re: I, for one, would be honored!

I know that. The bit I am missing is that we should all know that register takes great pride in using tabloids puerilsims.

He should know that, as he has one of those grey shields things against his name. He should also know that anyone with a grey shieldy thing has not just stumbled onto Register.

Re: Schoolyard Education, Yeah?

In school you just learned to “own” any name you didn’t like. Instantly undermining it, effectively disabling the motivation and ending the problem.

Those that whined about it only encouraged it.

Re: I, for one, would be honored!

You can assume that I don’t know what you are on about.

Re: Whereas

Professor John I.Q. Nerdelbaum Frink Jr.

Re: I, for one, would be honored!

I've always felt it was a puerile tabloid word used by people who are without a clue about what they are talking about.

Re: Hmmm

84% of primary school teachers in the UK are female. 63% of secondary school teachers in the UK are female. Yet in SLT and head teacher roles the numbers are much more even.

Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out

Re: Only two Serious Contenders

Jolla Sailfish, the continued development of Maemo/Meego Linux phone OS is a very well executed phone OS and under appreciated.

On the supported devices, like the Sony Xperia range up to 10 III it has the UI very well integrated with fully working phone functions. It uses android components like libhybris to get over the driver problem. If you want to drop into a shell and build apps with GCC or G++, or grab python from the repository then you can. It also provides support to run Android apps.

Re: Renaming and discontinuing

It was created using a modified Linux kernel and those modifications are not contributed to Linux development so it is very much diverged from Linux.

Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records

Re: Sshhhhh!!!!!

Statins, ace inhibitors, beta blockers and the like all handed out for free by the NHS have driven down mortality from some causes but led to an increase in other debilitating illnesses as more people live on past where they might otherwise have reached.

Moon's glass beads contain enough water to support a mission

Extracting water and oxygen from Lunar regolith is not really a new idea. Loads of work already done. ProSPA experiment carrying lab-proven experiments to trial on the Lunar surface was supposed to go in 2025 on Luna 27, but I guess a new plan is needed now certain countries are on the naughty steppe.

Eufy security cams 'ignore cloud opt-out, store unique IDs' of anyone who walks by

Re: Disappointed

I have Eufy Roomba clone. It is truly excellent and works without cloudy connections .

Though I choose to use the cloudy stuff.

Forget general AI, apparently zebrafish larvae can count

Re: More bars?

Zebra fish capable of using pedestrian road crossings.

Any aquarium people here recognise these fish as danios?

RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94

Re: And I had just bought some more Xeons, too…

The might Toshiba T3100 in 1986 through to Toshiba T5200 in 1990 T $13,000.

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Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years

Guns are just not seen in day to day life: we need to go to an airport or some kind of terrorist target to see one.

Consequently, young school kids don’t shoot their teacher.

Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review

It’s what works for you. Not what works for the reviewer.

Started in the UK by the irascible Phil Askey. I remember those test shots of mundane UK locations and the weird resolution test pattern.

These equipment review sites have always been a bit to anal for me, having learned to avoid seeking perfect. I get along some stuff which is not considered to be the best on the market.

But it has been interesting to watch the whole thing as a lifecycle born out of someone's hobby.

Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware

There’s no reason to expect or assume anything. No reason to assume the project used friction fit headers. No reason to assume the students that were involved in engineering the sail part of the project were also involved in the electronics. No reason to assume that anything more than an arduino was required. No evidence of anything apart from superciliousness. The supercilious rarely see themselves as such.

Do you know if they used an arduino board without headers and soldered directly?

They are doing a rapid one off project for a test.

I don’t see the need for the superciliousness.

Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop

Re: Now hand it to the FOSS desk....

I was thinking the same until I reached the £1258 part.

Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped

Re: The iSolution for people who hold their phone wrong(ly)

Outer surfaces of phones are virtually irrelevant when almost all phones live inside protective cases.

Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes

Re: Good Old Propaganda

What beef ? I have mine with black bean sauce.

UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is a… what user now?

Re: Joshing or not - I couldn't tell

I also have a little Pi Zero (2W) on the network for testing. It's currently running node/express. I have it set up so it mostly emulates my cloudy hosted website. It's about the same spec too.

Re: Good luck...

June 2020 was when it was last called "Rapsbian".

Re: Where, exactly, does it say ...

I think it is time to interject with a nurdy pedant comment about Raspberry Pi OS being the name for the Pi hardware version linux since 2020.

The desktop version is called Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop, I think it's still only 32bit.

Re: ...on the feeble pretext that he designed the C language.

I've witnessed a trainer at a certain place within site of Tower Bridge taking every opportunity to humiliate people on his course. Some kind of ego trip.

Alarming: Tesla lawsuit claims collision monitoring system is faulty

Re: New car?

Just switch off the radar cruise. I’ve learned when to use it and when to not.

Re: What do you expect?

My wife’s 2022 Honda needs lane keeping to be switched on by a button on the steering wheel before it will self centre in the lane. Lane departure warning is on but I think I can only turn down the sensitivity. Forward emergency braking can’t be turned off, but auto cruise control (radar) can.

Re: What do you expect?

Lane keeping is not on by default. Not on any car I've driven.

Lane departure warning might be. I'll check next time I drive it.

Re: VW too

Where a multi lane highway curves and there is slower trafffic in a different lane and the lane divider markings are a bit faint, I have learned to to use 100ms of my time to interrupt the self drive with a button on the steering wheel.

Otherwise the car can’t tell if the vehicle directly in front, because it’s further round the curve, is not in the same lane.

Enter Tinker: Asus pulls out RISC-V board it hopes trumps Raspberry PI

Re: Look up StarFive 2

Yes, on the StarFive. It's all a bit ropey.

I use a headless Ubuntu, which was also not directly optimised for this board, but it's a bit better.

The support and the linux ports will improve over time.

Re: where some high speed SRAM is located

It’s early days yet, these things are for early adopters to mess about with. These things will feedback and improve the real implementations that will come in the future.

Re: Wrong

Bit of wishful thinking there perhaps?

Why? Foundation are an education charity. They do education including computing, not necessarily on Raspberry Pi. They are platform agnostic. They are funded by a number of supporting orgnaisations, including Raspberry Pi Limited.

They don't develop, make or sell Raspberry Pi hardware.

Here's a fun idea: Try to unlock and drive away in someone else's Tesla

Re: But physical keys can be hacked

If only there were some sort of index number easily visible on the vehicle... I mean, particularly if you're parked next to an other similar car, wouldn't you check which was yours?

It wasn't parked next to it. It was in a very similar adjacent car park. I mean, wouldn't you just assume they were next to each other even though the comment never mentioned them being next to each other. ? FFS what a thicko.

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Re: But physical keys can be hacked

But here, the driver broke in the wrong Tesla without intending to, without even noticing. It's a whole new level of crap lock.

Nothing new about it. I recounted this event right here on Register comments not too long ago. I drove several metres before I realised the interior trim on my car had changed colour. Decades ago, my first company car. I had got into another Ford the same colour and drove it away. Using the good old fashioned key, which nobody ever lost, or bent. In a good old fashioned lock that nobody ever turned using a screwdriver blade, or half a tennis ball.

Capital crunch: Virgin Orbit confirms all ops on pause until Tuesday

Re: Thoughts

First two were suborbital test flights, one failed one success. Third and fourth launches were orbital attempts, one failed, one success. Four total, then with the impressive vision and foresight we have come to expect from British governments, it was cancelled.

Re: Thoughts

It's a US rocket that attempted to begin its journey to orbit from a UK runway.

In other words, launching the zero stage from Cornwall was just a stunt.

Black Arrow was a British rocket that achieved orbit from an Australian launch site. That was a genuine effort by Westland and others.

ReMarkable emits Type Folio keyboard cover for e-paper tablet

Re: Good reasons, or just reasons

My Gemini is of the original indiegogo campaign early bird batch and it hasn’t had any problems at all, despite regular use.

Re: I have a Remarkable 2

Seems there's a remarkable 3 on the way.

Re: Good reasons, or just reasons

Sailfish developed out of Meego which was Nokia and Intel development of Maemo linux. Its'a linux kernel but one some devices, including Gemini, it uses libhybris to adapt to hardware where only android drivers exist..

Re: Good reasons, or just reasons

Sailfish by Jolla on the Gemini’s still fully supported and has the two updates this year alone.

Sailfish is extremely good on the Gemini, i am still using one today. It does have a Linux shell and an active repository. I can write and compile with GCC and g++. I can write Python on it.

I disposed of Android immediately and went with Sailfish, this wasn’t available for the follow up devices Cosmo and the disastrous Astro slide so I stuck with Gemini thankfully. Gemini was peak Planet.

They are now attempting to fund the outstanding Astro production with a campaign for a mini Linux desktop with ARM SOC which is neither price nor performance complétive with the M1/2 Mac Mini.

It’s not going well.

Re: I have a Remarkable 2

Yes, it is tempting to chew the top.

The Noris pencil stylus uses points that are soft and wear down. It comes with three spares. I’ve lost my spares!

I use one with the Onyx Boox 13. This is a bit clumsy in e reader mode but comes into its own with pdfs of academic papers.

Then it really excels on nice summer days when I want to sit outside and work because it has a hdmi input and doubles as a monitor.

It also has Bluetooth so any BT keyboard and mouse can drive the Android OS directly.

Distraction free is great but I need the web at hand for research. I drive it with a Raspberry Pi 4, it’s as close as I can get to my ideal e-paper or e- ink laptop.

I am going to check out the remarkable again though, keyboard entry is making it interesting.