Posts by druck

Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11

No, every version of Windows is bad, it's just that each new worse version makes you nostalgic for the last but one version your fading memory now looks back on fondly.

Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for 'uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure'

What is this, 1958?

I'm expecting "The Whole world is in his hands" to back at the top of the charts any day now.

Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is

Re: “lack of funding to support later stage growth … to scale up and become globally competitive”

we don't have any meaningful high tech industry

You really don't have any clue as to what this country produces.

We have plenty of high tech industry, you don't seem to be able to tell the difference between that an low tech manufacturing.

Flying car biz Alef claims 3K preorders, still hasn't done a proper demo

Simple economics

The reality is that if you can afford to fly your own aircraft, whether it be an aeroplane or a helicopter, with all the training that involves, and the substantial costs of purchasing the aircraft, maintenance and fuel, you can afford to drive a very nice conventional car to the airport, and hire another one at the other end. Having a combination vehicle which is horribly compromised in carrying capacity, range and speed in both the in the air and on the ground, doesn't make any sense practically or economically.

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

Re: MS is like a certain candiate for POTUS

You've already found the light, now stop worrying and let Microsoft carry on the way they are. The world will be a better place when the AI hype runs out and they've faded in to insignificance.

Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little

Re: Repeat after me:

If you think Outlook is any good at email, you really don't understand email.

Ransomware ban backers insist thugs must be cut off from payday

Re: Payment options

Exactly, you don't need to ban payments, just the method used in 100% of payments.

The federal bureau of trolling hits LockBit, but the joke's on us

The most sensible thing I've ever read on crypto currencies

You can't trade cocaine futures on commodity exchanges because it is a destructive drug that enables crime. Why tolerate Bitcoin?

This ^^^^

Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is

Re: Heading off after completion of a task

Runways don't have any such marks on them, the "point of no return" or more accurately reaching V₁ seed, differs for each type of aircraft, it's take off weight and atmospheric conditions.

French cloud Scaleway starts renting Alibaba's RISC-V SoC

Those are very slow for cloud systems. For two months rent you could buy your own Pi 4B.

Incoming wave of AI is making buying PCs riskier for businesses

Re: Simple Question..

So you get charged exactly the same monthly fee for Co-Pilot, but you have shelled for the NPU hardware and the electricity costs - Microsoft thanks you from the bottom of their wallet.

Stack Overflow to charge LLM developers for access to its coding content

Re: "traffic to Stack Overflow has steadily dropped over time"

Usenet misses you - it is still there.

OpenAI sued, again, for scraping and replicating news stories

Re: How Long?

The sooner the better.

What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand

Re: Fighting claims that it cribbed code from humans.

No what they are doing is stealing other peoples code and using their vast profits in to bullying the owners to giving up their rights when faced with an army of layers and an indefinite appeals process.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns

Re: That's not what he said

He said CODERS would be replaced by software.

That I can believe (eventually, some future generation of AI well beyond the current one) because that's basically rote translation of a concept into code. That's easy, a lot more people can do that than the truly difficult part of programming.

No, it is not rote, and while it might be easy to do it badly, it requires some skill to do it well.

I've seen code knocked by outsourcers from the sub-continent, and while it seems to meet the requirements, it was a horrific mess of bloated cut and pasted code, completely unmaintainable and inefficient. We ended up not using a singe line of it. The code produced in house, was elegant, efficient and maintainable.

When you use an AI which code do you think the training set will contain? Vast quantities of low quality shovelware, or a much smaller set of well written code?

Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0

Re: According to Portage...

Mine came on a set of 4 ROM chips.

KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion

For me it was the en-flatso-ifcation that drive me away. The screen shots of the Q4OS look much nicer than Plasma version including 6.

Qualcomm inserts GenAI into smartphones at industry's mega tradeshow

Battery Life

Just how long is the battery going to last on a phone running a 7 billion parameter model locally?

Lenovo debuts AI PCs that have specs a lot like vanilla PCs with this year's accelerated CPUs

Re: "enabling the interaction with physical objects"

Well when there are actual AI PC, capable of running those models locally rather than on Azure, it will allow Microsoft to charge you $30 a month for AI but not have to pay out any of that for the cloud infrastructure or running costs, as you'll be providing the AI chippery and paying for the electricity.

Oh you wanted to know what it was going to do for you.

Gen AI and cloud optimization help Asian SuperApp Grab turn a profit

They've introduced an AI powered clickbait generator, which may get more views for a short period, but even app users will eventually tire of hallucinating gibberish.

Microsoft trying to stop Copilot generating fake Putin comments on Navalny's death

Re: Autonomous cars and other road users

Such as the noise made by an engine increasing rpm pulling away? - But of course that is being phased out in favour of whiny electric sounds.

AI comes for jobs at studio of American filmmaker Tyler Perry

Re: Piss poor planning etc

...it will be his children, so you are correct.

EU wants to make undersea internet cables more resilient

Re: Satcom

@fg_swe you are trolling from the wrong account, you normally only use this one for spouting nonsense whenever Rust is mentioned.

Ubuntu, Kubuntu, openSUSE to get better installation

Re: Non-issue

And after 10 days it deletes Windows.old out of spite.

Boeing-backed air taxi upstart Wisk plans to fly you across town at UberX prices by 2030

Re: Safer than self-driving cars

Right up until you put thousands of air taxis going in all directions in to air space over a city, which currently only has at most a couple of dozen conventional aircraft on fixed routes at any one time.

Judge slaps down law firm using ChatGPT to justify six-figure trial fee

It makes up the citations too, and be honest, you don't bother checking them.

Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026

Impression Publisher or Ovation Pro.

Square Kilometre Array precursor looks to filter out satellite interference

Re: By the time SKA is finished

I think the solution is eventually going to be moving radio observations in to orbit above the satellites. Hopefully we will develop the technology to make enormous dishes in space, so a square killometer would be small fry. You never know, if it were big enough and positioned at L1, it might block out a small amount of sunshine down here, and attract some climate change funding.

LockBit ransomware gang disrupted by global operation

Re: Well done, lads!

Pints all round.

Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G

Re: “ we expect the impact of this research will be most notable on Earth”

It's far easier to have a real surgeon on hand at the Antarctic base, and that would not test the robot in microgravity.

Pentagon launches nuke-spotting satellites amid Russian space bomb rumors

Was with you right up to the last line when you attempt to lump in the Tories who are way to the left of even the Democrats with the insanity of Trump.

IT body proposes that AI pros get leashed and licensed to uphold ethics

Re: Racket

But then you have commissioned an unlicensed illegal AI model, and I'm sure the penalties will be severe.

Southern Water cyberattack expected to hit hundreds of thousands of customers

Re: As a Southern Water customer*, When they said "Sorry we leaked your shit"...

I'll give you some anecdotal evidence; one day I was walking through the village and suddenly I had intense memories of my childhood beach holidays in Devon, it was a particular smell that triggered the association, and as I walked around the corner I saw a large hole in the pavement with a barrier around it bearing the words "SEWERAGE WORKS". That made me realise what I had been playing in as a kid, and that was years before privatisation, and I've never smelled anything like it since, well up to that point.

Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago

If you haven't powered it up in that long, you are likely to see the problem as it will think it is still 2012.

If it is rebooted regularly Raspbian will fake a hardware clock by writing the current time to a file at 17 minutes past each hour, and use the value in that file when it next boots. That's why syslog always shows it booting at XX:17 and incrementing until NTP kicks in with the correct time.

With $1B to burn on green tech, HSBC seeks Google’s help

We should be glad that Labour are now only planning to give £4.7bn a year to potential scammers rather than the full £28bn.

And I bet they won't even google firtst.

Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up

There are lots of cheap used engines around as a chassis bending prang can leave a perfectly good engine which can be resold. Any damage to the chassis of an EV which contains the battery, will result in it being scrapped entirely, as there is too much risk that a short circuit could develop and we all know what happens then ->

Re: Purchase cost is one thing

No rechargeable battery technology will maintain 100% capacity over a large number of charges.

You are obviously going by what some display in the car is telling you, and it is lying - as have gauges in ICE cars have for the past 20 years (coolant temperature and oil pressure gauges are no longer anything of the sort, the needle will sit in the middle and only ever move when there is a major fault, dealers were feed up feed up with stupid people complaining their cars were broken if the needles weren't perfectly centred).

The only way to tell is to have determined the range to empty when new, and reproduce this after 5 years under the same environmental conditions.

@MachDiamond

The use of AC posting needs to be throttled back.

I'm afraid people are still going to say things you don't like, whether they are posting as AC or not.

You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse

Re: Magnetic storage

My primary storage on my Raspberry Pi based NAS is a Samsung T7 flash drive, but I have several layers of HDD backup drives on other Pi's both in the house and in other places, that replicate daily, weekly and monthly. I haven't had any problems with the HDD that spins up monthly despite it being the oldest at about 8 years old.

The single bit flipping issues affects JPEGs but also compressed files. I used to have lots of compressed files of various formats, but after finding some on an old drive were corrupted (luckily I had copies), I decompressed everything on the NAS. Storage is cheap enough not to have to zip everything like we did when discs were only MB or GB.

It isn't the same cells. It's a slow 4-cell drive with a faster 1-cell cache, as long as you don't write more than the cache at any one time it appears to be quick.

EU repair rights bill tells manufacturers to fix up or ship out

Re: meanwhile in the UK....

That means it will be cheap, so you can buy two instead of waiting for it to fail and getting it repaired.

When it comes to working from home, Register readers are bucking national trends

Re: Abrreviations only vaild in

Oh I see the yanks are still getting upset about getting the date wrong.

Re: Abrreviations only vaild in

"No one says Day Of Birth, they all say DOB"

No they say "date of birth", as people normally want to know the day/month/year (or some half backwards combination in the US), not which day of the week it was.

Faraday plots a 64-core Arm chip with Intel inside

Re: Not news

The Intel XScale ARMs were never produced on the same process node as the x86, being aimed at PDAs and low power I/O applications, and in any case were horribly crippled by Intel not understanding the architecture.

With this proper ARM developed Neoverse being produced on a current node, it will be very interesting to compare it with 18A x86s, and see if wipes the floor with them.

Oracle database deal in Azure comes with a health warning from licensing experts

Re: Typical Oracle

Slup'n'gouge the on stop shop for rip-offs.

IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS

Re: Stuffed Turkey

PlusNet are still relying no one noticing their complete lack of any progress on IPv6 in the last 20 years, and hoping it will just go away.

That's not the web you're browsing, Microsoft. That's our data

Re: MS ready! Apple set! Google go! Queue Arnold! And action!

BBC Micro's at the ready, sir.

US starts 'emergency' checks on cryptocurrency power use, citing winter power demands

Re: Crazy power consumption

How many kWh does the typical ransomware payment take, including subsequent transfers and the use of mixers, etc?

Re: Straw man

So we are saying the banking industry which services the entire world's economy only uses 3x more energy than a crypto currency mainly used for the payment of online fraud, extortion and bypassing international sanctions?

JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry

Re: Bad expectations (was: Bad code)

If you admit it writes crap code, are you sure the tests it writes aren't crap too - or is it just a tick box exercise to satiate management.