Posts by druck

Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands

Re: Its Trump's version of the nine dashed lines

At least both McKinley or Denali are pronounceable by the majority of the entire nation, unlike whatever Wales has called Mount Snowden and the Brecon Beacons.

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

Re: So far so good

That's why we all use Linux Mint; Ubuntu without the snaps and gnome 4.

Enlightenment reaches 0.27, continuing its quiet but persistent journey

NetworkManager and systemd can certainly be replaced.

CDNs: Great for speeding up the internet, bad for location privacy

Re: Finding your location within 100 miles

Well if you are claiming to be All American Bob posting from the Good old US of A, and someone finds that all your posts are coming from UTC+3... just like with quite a few of our commentard trolls.

Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key

Re: Pretty obvious

Come on Jake, you are old enough to remember FORTRAN, COBAL and BASIC?

Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?

Re: Prisoner's Dilemma!

In 4 years you'll be enjoying the coronation of Trump Jr.

Biz tax rises, inflation and high interest. Why fewer UK tech firms started in 2024

So if I have to move house to get a new job, I lose 80% of the rise in the price of the house I bought 10 years ago, and now can't afford to live anywhere?

Samsung Galaxy S25 is so smart it wears Crocs, allegedly resists quantum decryption

Re: Spare parts for TWO WHOLE YEARS?

The battery in my old S7 the kids use is still going pretty strong after 9 years.

WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference

Wine...

...Windows Apps without Windows Whining.

AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads

Re: SEP

HGVs don't tend to use residential streets.

On the other hand SUVs and especially electric SUVs do, and with 4th power rule and those being 30% heavier then a standard car, that's causing almost 3x as much damage to the road.

This is particularly noticeable in Surrey which is infested with the things.

Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?

If the test cards are used with a normal payment processor, the transactions will just come back as not authorised.

Re: Bats..

Yes, some other countries are much better at the sport of glorified rounders.

In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy

Re: He could of done

Once Trump The Felon has gone, watch the GOP implode (hopefully they implode before his 4 years are up).

The felon has children and grandchildren, and in 4 years you'll realise you have a monarchy again.

Google reports halving code migration time with AI help

AI? Bah!

Sound like the sort of thing that could be done with a Perl script by a half decent programmer.

Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings

This --->

FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from thousands of Windows PCs in America

Re: Scary

If the FBI really wanted to protect people, they would wipe Windows while they were at it.

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

Re: Extra checks please!!!

Or just don't allow anyone tainted by SatNad's growth cult anywhere near Linux.

UK floats ransomware payout ban for public sector

Ban Crypto...

...and you automatically ban the payment of ransomware and many other scams.

Anything else is just pissing into the wind.

In AI agent push, Microsoft re-orgs to create 'CoreAI – Platform and Tools' team

Cultastic

Looks like there is a new favoured caste in the Microsoft growth cult.

Raspberry Pi hands out prizes to all in the RP2350 Hacking Challenge

Test the fix too

I hope the $20,000 comes with the caveat that they have to try again when the revised version of the silicon comes out, which is supposed to mitigate whatever technique they used.

Tesla recalls 239,382 vehicles over rearview camera problems

30cal or 50cal surely?

Unless you mean a 40mm Bofors, which would certainly deal with even the heaviest of traffic.

UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation

No more than a few bit barns of bullshit

All this AI revolution actually is, is giving planning permission for a few bit barns for US companies. It will result in a few thousand construction workers being temporarily taken away from house building, and result in a handful of permanent security and maintenance jobs.

While the companies put in the investment for the bit barns, the vast majority of which is purchasing equipment from US hardware companies, with only a small percentage in building materials from the UK, the UK will be left with the cost of providing all the electrical requirements with an energy industry already at breaking point. Luckily the government has designated bit barns as critical national infrastructure, so they will keep their lights on, while those lovely smart meters selectively blacks out homes and other businesses when the ever increasing proportional of renewables fails to deliver.

On the AI usage side, laughable headlines about pot hole detection, but of course no money to actually fix them pretty much sums up the lack of priorities. In reality all it will be used for is paying the increased AI premiums on Microsoft subscription services. Working from home civil servants will be able to get away with spending even less time generating useless paper work, and productivity will continue to decline.

TLDR; spend billions, get bullshit, accelerate decline.

UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive datacenters

@Oneman2Many just put one server rack in your house and see how long your panels can keep it going.

New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left

Re: Steaming pile of turd

It looks like the AI dependent generation of programmers working for the growth mindset cult of Microsoft can't even reproduce all the features of a 29 year old email program.

Trump China tariffs to 'overshadow' the 'progress' of AI PCs

The year of the Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi 5 is now available with up to 16GB of memory.

* Manufactured in the UK, so lower tariffs.

* No unwanted NPU (26 TOPS AI hat add-on if you really want it).

* Runs Linux, so no insecure Windows clamouring for an upgrade.

The ultimate Pi 5 arrives carrying 16GB ... and a price to match

Re: Viable as a desktop replacement?

That's what I've got connected to the big TV's in the house. I can sit down in any room, pick up a wireless mini keyboard and do just about anything I can do on my powerful Linux Mint laptop, albeit slightly more slowly. All the data is on a NAS which is another Pi 5 with a larger SSD. I'm using 8GB ones are the moment which seems to be sufficient for desktop type use, where as my the 4GB Pi 4B I bought just before the 8GB ones came out struggled with lots of tabs open.

I'm pondering whether to get a 16GB Pi 5 to replace an 8GB Pi 4 which acts as my data collector, gateway and webserver, or wait for the 16GB compute module and put together a system based on that.

Re: Cost is a thing...

The Pi 5 can be used with a passive heat sink, and can also use the Pi 4 PSU, unless you want to fully load the USB ports and add a hungry PCIe device, in which case you need the 27W PSU which only costs a few quid more.

We did warn you – 2025 may be the year AI bots take over Meta's 'verse

Re: Anyone who advertises on metà is an Idiot

You can always blame AI for making up the source.

Quantum? No solace: Nvidia CEO sinks QC stocks with '20 years off' forecast

Re: Right

The specular failure of the billions invested in quantum hasn't stopped every snake oil salesman and his dog selling post quantum encryption algorithms to protect against the threat that is "just around the corner".

DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research

Re: Security 'research'

It's not the device itself they are interested in, but a way to gain a foothold on the network, so they can access other stuff.

The channel stands corrected: Hardware is a refresh cycle business now

Re: Money dear boy

I've just put a Pi 5 and a wireless keyboard in every room with a TV (a much tidier solution than Pi 500s), there isn't much they cant do at a decent speed, and the dark Mate desktop looks beautiful in 4K, especially on the 75".

Zuck takes a page from Musk: Meta dumps fact-checkers, loosens speech restrictions

Re: Request

You still think you are getting another election in 4 years?

John Deere boasts driverless fleet - who needs operators, anyway?

Re: Harvesting automation

"the worker could be paid 3x" --->

Intel debuts laptop silicon that doesn't qualify for Microsoft's 'Copilot+ PC' badge

Intel Low bar

13 TOPS? That's the same as the $70 Raspberry Pi AI hat, and the $110 model does 26 TOPS.

Eutelsat OneWeb blames 366th day for 48-hour date disaster

Re: out by 11 days by the mid 18th century?

Wales?

Or to put it another way; not Scotland.

AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025

AI: You better get used to writing names on coffee cups.

"AI offers not only new tools for people's work but also new ways to help people learn almost anything. We have the opportunity as a country to equip all Americans with the skills needed to use AI to pursue higher-paying jobs and more successful careers.

If your job is a meaningless pusher of paper, or low quality junior coder and you've learnt you can bunk off early by getting AI to churn out something that vaguely resembles what you are supposed to be doing, you are going to be in for a shock if you think you'll be paid more or have a successful career. If you can get away with this, it won't be long before the company realises and replaces you all together.

Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery

Re: 10 years !!!

I'm still using my 2013 11" i3 laptop with a fixed 4GB of RAM to read The Register and BBC News while watching the TV. It was originally shipped with Windows 8, but is faster than the day it was new running Linux Mint.

How datacenters use water – and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible

Re: Here's an idea

At no point during evaporation is steam involved.

With 10 months of support remaining, Windows 10 still dominates

Unpatched vulnerabilities

Many editions of Windows 10 are due to drop out of free support on October 14, 2025. Affected users will then have the option to purchase Extended Security Updates (ESU) to keep the lights on a little longer or keep using the operating system and risk falling foul of unpatched vulnerabilities.

Hardly worse than falling foul of the unpatched vulnerability that is Windows 11.

Trump's tariff threats could bump PC prices by almost half

Alternatively

You don't need a new AI PC, and you don't need a Windows 11 forced hardware upgrade. Install Linux on your existing machine, it will work better than it ever did before, and easily last another 4 years until the triple clusterfuck of AI, Windows and Trump are history.

Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid

The Energy Crisis model is the only realistic outcome.

We just don't have the resources to waste on statistical bullshit generators.

Naïve Reg hack thinks he can beat Christmas food comas once and for all

Re: Walking in wet weather

Great advice.

I was going to mention the accompanying pictures all look like they were taken at far more pleasant times of they year, and not the dull grey drizzle which we experience at Christmas every year now.

What do ransomware and Jesus have in common? A birth month and an unwillingness to die

You know the solution

As the article mentions ransomware only really took off with the advent of payment by cryptocurrency, remove to that from the equation and 99.99% of the criminal enterprise will disappear over night. I'm sure someone will still attempt to get paid by a suitcase of cash under a bridge, or a Western union transfer, but the chances of many payments reaching remote criminals sitting pretty in sanctioned countries without extradition are infeasibly small.

Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays

Re: Of course there's a backup plan!

No, not like you said on either point.

And the sustained 8G re-entry force lasted for over 60 seconds.

There were plans for inflatable personal re-entry shields, which would protect a suited astronaut from the high temperatures when aero braking down to speeds low enough to survive the declaration from deploying a drogue parachute. Quite how the astronaut would initiate the de-orbit delta-v without a substantial retro rocket, I'm not sure.

Re: Of course there's a backup plan!

Thank you for demonstrating your complete lack of knowledge on this subject too.

Soyuz re-entries have experienced up to a sustained 8G on several occasions, and a momentary 12G if the retro pack fails on ground contact. That requires a seat liner to prevent serious and potentially permanent life changing injuries. And no you cannot make it orbit with spray foam.

Russian capsules have no commonality or interoperability with western ones, for either docking adaptors or spacesuits. Spacesuits are not even compatible between SpaceX and Boeing capsules.

AI's rising tide lifts all chips as AMD Instinct, cloudy silicon vie for a slice of Nvidia's pie

Re: Rather than numbers of AI processors

Name, shame, and string them up from the nearest (LED) lamppost.

The Automattic vs WP Engine WordPress wars are getting really annoying

Text Squeeze?

When old Microsoft codenames crop up in curious places

Re: No need for memory

Yes Windows 93 94 95, was released in that year.

Ireland fines Meta for 2018 'View As' breach that exposed 30M accounts

Re: Greed vs. Greed

It allows Ireland to run a budget surplus, while the rest of Europe swims in debt.