Posts by druck

Amazon bankrolling industry lobbying against Microsoft Azure should surprise no one

Re: most of the time Azure is the better option

Whoever downvoted the above, really does have their head in the clouds...

...and Microsoft's hand up their arse.

Software is listening for the options you want it to offer, and it's about time

Re: Not just Apple

That's for putting in the drawer and never using again, as luckily they still supply a proper remote with lots of buttons on it.

HOWEVER, my Samsung Q90 puts up a message asking why aren't you using the magic remote about 20 seconds after switching on, and during the 10 seconds it is on screen, you can't use the standard remote - WTF?

Control Altman delete: OpenAI fires CEO, chairman quits

Re: Scandalous revelations coming out in 3...2...1

That's what I thought, they'll be looking to take control of the company on the cheap, or put it out of business and run off with the technology as they did with Sendo.

Bug hunters on your marks: TETRA radio encryption algorithms to enter public domain

Re: Quantum-proof ?

The post quantum snake-oil salesmen have jumped on this bandwagon too.

48-nation bloc to crack down on using crypto assets to avoid tax

Getting down votes for comparing real money to a crypto bubble which is already rapidly deflating.

But you have to pretend it has some legitimacy, and it is not just for scams, extortion and other criminality.

Re: Four years!

It's almost as if the 48 nation block is happy for crypto scams and ransomware attacks to continue, as long as they can skim off some tax from the crime coins, before they end up in North Korea.

As the Top500 celebrates its 30th year, with a $5 VM you too can get into the top 10 ... of 1993

Re: But can it run HPL?

You get to keep the Pi 5 for roughly the price of the VM for a year.

Introducing the tech that keeps the lights on

Re: But how?

Even if the diode only allows tiny request packets for instance, how do you know there isn't some undiscovered vulnerability in that software?

There have already been attacks where data has been exfiltrated a byte at a time tacked on to a small response packet.

Poloniex crypto-exchange offers 5% cut to thieves if they return that $120M they nicked

Crypto and scamming; a marriage made in heaven

We will give you 7 days to consider this offer before we engage law enforcement."

Even if they went the whole hog and married the police, they wouldn't be interested in the whole mess of pretend money thefts.

Microsoft hits Alt+F4 on internal ChatGPT access over security jitters, irony ensues

Which...

...low level government employee has fed the nation's entire trove of secrets in to ChatGPT?

UK signals legal changes to self-driving vehicle liabilities

Prescott's bloody M4 bus lane all over again.

Re: only the driver – be it the vehicle or person – is accountable

1 1/2 tonnes

And the rest, if it is some hideous over-sized electric SUV.

Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store

Re: Snap usefulness

Stuff in my home directory is there for the applications I run to access, so definitely not an advantage.

As for distrohopping, maybe I run a limited set of software, but it is all present on every distro I've tried.

DDoS-like attack brought down OpenAI this week, not just its purported popularity

Well I did say...

...here.

Fedora 39 waves goodbye to modularity, but has enough spins to make your head spin

Money isn't everything

Maybe Debian only having half a million in the bank is why they have never paid anyone to write stuff as shit as systemd and gnome 4.

Monero Project admits thieves stole 6-figure sum from a wallet in mystery breach

Pick one

The question of how Lazarus is breaking into these wallets remains unanswered.

It's either:-

1. Crypto bro's can't code for shit.

Or more likely:-

2. Wallet emptying is an integral feature of the crypto-scam.

Either way the Nork's win.

Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections

Re: trust them to deliver the goods after you paid them

These days they seem to be very adept at throwing the package at a random front door and photographing it before it has even hit the floor.

Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle

Discount

I'm sure Larry will have offered Microsoft a hefty discount - NOT!

Quantum computing next (very) cold war? US House reps want to blow billions to outrun China

Fear of missing out on Quantum is just the same play as the fear of missing out on the Strategic Defence Initiative, and look how that worked out for the evil empire - spunked trillions and collapsed economically, we then found out it was all bullshit. The same is going to happen again with quantum, but who is doing the bullshitting this time?

GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening for the Linux loyal

Re: BSD, Linux or ... Linux

Shame there's no ARMv8 version to give a spin on the Raspberry Pi.

UK may demand tech world tell it about upcoming security features

Re: Password: ICanStillDoThis

And I'm going keep posting this every time this bloody stupid topic comes up.

No, it will just make you look like a twat, especially if is all double spaced lines instead of inside pre and code tags.

Re: Password: ICanStillDoThis

And commentards.

GPS leading your phone astray? We can just fix that in code, startup claims

Re: And I need this why?

The accuracy of your car sat nav is nowhere near 10cm, 3m if you are lucky. It only appears more accurate because it can snap you to not just the road, but the correct side of the road depending on the direction of travel - most of the time.

I had an early sat nav where you could turn off snap to road, it was interesting driving along and seeing its apparent position wandering off over fields.

Microsoft warns it may ‘throttle’ its generative AI services for ‘excessive’ users

Comming soon...

...DDOS against AI

NASA and Boeing try to chase the contrail clouds away

Re: Vapour trails

This steam is then rolled up into the trailing wingtip vortices

The contrails get nowhere near the wingtip vortices, you can quite clearly seem them start a short distance behind the engines, with 4 engined planes producing 4 of them, although the pairs quickly merge.

Windows CE reaches end of life, if not end of sales

WinCE did actually fly

I had been using WinCE since I bought my first Medion PDA SatNav from Aldi, which was just as capable as the competition but a fraction of the price. I went on to develop for WinCE devices which made it very easy to port over Win32 applications. I got to try out a large range of WinCE / Pocket PC devices such as HP iPaq's and the early Windows Mobile phones. My favourite device was the Dell Axim X50 (as pictured in the article), with it's 480x640 screen (when most were still 240x320) it made a great general purpose PDA, and could be paired with a Bluetooth GPS puck to act as my updated SatNav. I took this a step further, buying an extended battery and aviation chart software so I could use it when flying. I still navigated primarily using paper charts as that was more fun, but it was great for planning the route and wind corrections using a spreadsheet I developed, and recording the tracks of where you had been for displaying in Google Earth in 3D on a PC. I took my future wife flying on our first date, and later found the flightpath went directly over the island which was our first home.

Intel's PC chip ship is sinking with Arm-ada on the horizon

Re: Sounds like someone's holding a bag

Arm is getting eaten alive by Risc-V in the micro controller space

You forgot this -->

Seriously there is wishful thinking, but that is full on delusional.

Re: "Intel's deep history of innovation failure"

Intel did have an architecture licence, and look what they did with it; XScale - the worse ARM core ever. They took all good work DEC did on the StrongARM and threw it away, coming up with a chip with a hideously slow memory system, a core they clearly did not understand, littered with unnecessary barriers crippling the pipeline, and a huge number of bugs - the errata was larger than the entire manuals for any of ARMs own designs.

It wasn't that Intel sold off the ARM division because it didn't know what to do with it, but I think it was more the embarrassment of doing such a bad job.

Fujitsu public cloud to be absorbed into main biz, then refreshed

MACS

Microsoft and signals intelligence agency the Australian Signals Directorate last week announced plans to create the "Microsoft-Australian Signals Directorate Cyber Shield (MACS)".

The best way the Australian Signals Directorate can shield their cyber operations is to ditch Microsoft and get MACs.

Russia hustles to fill impending void left by the ISS

Re: Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a project to build an Orbital Station

The quality of trolling has really gone down hill since Prigozhin's little accident.

Firefox 119 unleashes PDF prowess and Sync sorcery

Re: Name one

I'm very much a fan of "every tool does one job and does it well", but the vast majority of PDFs I come across are on the web, and I want to display them in a tab along with all the other web content. For example bank statements, they appear in an FF tab rather than launching another application on top, or worse having to save and open then from a file manager. Should I want to do more than look at the PDF, I can always launch a separate application at that point.

Microsoft creates a new kind of credential: the 'Applied Skill'

Re: Digital certificate not worth than the paper it's written on

All the certificates mean is; you've paid.

Wayland heading for default status as Mint devs mix it into Cinnamon 6 bun

Re: No MATE

Hopefully MATE's gnome 2 look and feel is seen as so old fashioned by the we must change everything generation of devs they will just leave it the hell alone, and we can continue to enjoy it as it is on X11, doing things exactly as we want it to.

CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon

Re: Windows Mobile 6

I ported a full desktop screen reader to PDAs running Windows CE and later phones with Windows Mobile 6, but I had left by the time WM7 broke everything. It had support for magnification, speech synthesis and Bluetooth keyboards, which gave visually impaired users the ability to use standard applications on the move, which was quite revolutionary.

The big advantage of the platform for developers was the back-end code was very easy to port from the desktop version. The few NT and later APIs not supported by CE could be substituted with older Windows 9x code that was still in source control. The difficult bit was the user interface on the tiny low res screens of the time, I just converted all the big dialog boxes to tall thin scrollable ones, and passed it on to someone else to make usable.

The big disadvantage of the platform for the users was it was trying to be a miniature desktop device which didn't stand a chance of succeeding against the touch focused UIs designed specifically for mobile devices.

AWS says it wants in on the European sovereign cloud game

Re: Contradictory

And while they are at it, they can ensure that the profits from the enviably higher prices this sovereign cloud will cost EU customers, are funnelled back to the US as tax efficiently as possible.

The Raspberry Pi 5 is now available ... if you pre-ordered

Nurse!

Re: Might be lucky

I ordered from Pimoroni literally a few seconds after midnight on the 29th, so just missed the first batch.

Former IBM Canada worker wins six-figure payout for wrongful dismissal

Re: Behind every mean termination

I bet she was out the door shortly after you though.

'AI divide' across the US leaves economists concerned

Non-jobs become AI non-jobs

They found that fewer than 6 percent of businesses used any of those AI technologies at the time. But many large firms with more than 5,000 employees were doing so – when weighed by employment, average adoption came to more than 18 percent.

The larger the company, the more people in non-jobs there are, so it's hardly surprising that even hallucinating AI can churn out the same type of useless crap they do. Of course instead of eliminating these non productive and moral sapping positions, the C-suite can allow the dross to continue, but at a reduced cost with AI.

Your ex isn't the only one stalking your social media posts. The Feds are, too

Some comentards better hope these forums aren't on the GOST's radar.

GNOME Foundation's new executive director sparks witch hunt

Re: Probably off-topic, but ...

Congratulations and we look forward to the patter of little office furniture in the future.

There's no Huawei Chinese chipmakers can fill Nvidia's shoes... anytime soon

Re: If these sanctions are such a good think for Huawei...

@Avon B7

The comments automatically word wrap, stop pressing the bloody return key at the end of each line.

Boeing gives busy billionaires unbothered about bespoke beds a cheaper BizJet

Re: Did I read that correctly?

The plane with the paint job is just another working A330-MRTT tanker transport when no one is in the small first class area, so it's not money wasted on some vanity project.

Take Windows 11... please. Leaks confirm low numbers for Microsoft's latest OS

That's a great selling point; you have to extract an executable from a decades old version of the operating system to replace a less functional component of the current one.

The design of Task Manager might be an improvement, but the functionality is downgraded - it no longer runs as a high priority task, so is useless to kill off something borking the machine.

Nokia to erase up to 14,000 employees from payroll

Re: add cost

I think your tinfoil hat is too tight.

Boris Johnson's mad hydrogen for homes bubble bursts

Re: A daft idea from the beginning

14 hours, make that 14 days during cold windless Winter high pressure events.

Microsoft starts offering advice in how to code for Arm

Re: Microsoft offering advice on how to code?

It's a bit rich Microsoft giving advice on ARM coding. Maybe with 64 bit ARM things are a bit different, but back when they first started supporting 32 bit ARM on Windows CE, their compiler was SHIT. I've never seen code generation as bad or as buggy as that. Even versions 3 or 4 of gcc could run rings around it, and they weren't a patch on Norcroft.

LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 staff, engineers to suffer the most

AI is completely adequate...

...to drive the low quality spamfest that Linked In is now, so who needs employees.

As it prepares to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much

Re: Reasonable Compromise

You really think stand-alone Office has any future?