Posts by druck

AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone

Differentiation

At least there is now a clear differentiation between Alma and Rocky Linuxes.

Re: Decisions, decisions

If there are no exact RHEL clones, then should I even bother testing on RHEL equivalents or should I just delete that VM and save some time and disk space?

Don't bother with RHEL testing from now on, if a RedHat customer wants to run your application and there are problems they should get on to RedHat support and it will be up to them to fix and submit patches - the customer is paying enough for it.

India Big four outsourcers all have people problems

Re: Pandas on the moon

How many dashes will the line have to take in the moon too?

Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss

Re: I need my Trash

Never used any sort of trash / recycle bin on Linux - I only delete stuff I want deleted - and on the rare occasion I've cocked up, that's when you find out if your backup system works.

Celsius feels the heat: Ex-CEO arrested, watchdogs line up to sue bankrupt crypto biz

To sum up

%s/Crypto/Fraudo/g

China succeeds where Elon Musk has failed with first methalox rocket

Re: Not apples to apples

The whole idea of methalox is not off world production, it's primarily the reduction of cost compared to RP-1 right here on earth.

SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro... again

Re: A question of trust in an uncertain world

Whatever the reason for customers using RHEL, SUSE offering them a pathway to escape the death spiral of RedHat within IBM, may well be welcomed.

OECD finds 27% of jobs are under threat from AI

Re: Wanna take my job...?

I'd love to see AI replace my job

No you wouldn't! You would have to find somewhere else to hide from IT,

Judge shoots down FTC attempt to stall Microsoft-Activision merger

Is the judge blind...

...to 40 years of clearly documented Microsoft behaviour? A convicted serial monopolist that has broken every remedial agreement, has put dozens of companies out of business, and just buys it way out of wrong doing by paying up $billions in fines, and carries on the same.

Microsoft's 10,000 job cuts didn't quite do the trick

Re: Massively profitable company

but then see a long term reduction due to loss of knowledge and skills

Have you not see Microsoft products in the last decade? That's already come home to roost.

Lamborghini's last remaining pure gas guzzlers are all spoken for

Re: Gas guzzlers

Im pretty sure lambos would still be fun to drive with a regular engine.

They really wouldn't.

Re: Lamborghini going EV ?

Classic jealousy.

BTW a Lambo can't haul as much stuff as a 38 ton truck either, but no owner has ever given a shit about that.

Nobody does DR tests to survive lightning striking twice

Try SCE to Aux

MariaDB sent dollar dip warning from NYSE

Re: What are the consequences of being delisted ?

They could do a reverse stock split to get the price back above $1. But that is only a temporary remedy, whatever the underlying pressure that has been driving the stock down is likely to continue, and probably accelerate.

Yahoo! comeback! continues! as! fresh! listing! planned!

In the spirit of being fair to Yahoo, lets not forget that their entire 3 billion accounts were hacked

https://www.theregister.com/2017/10/03/yahoo_says_one_beeelion_user_hack_figure_wrong_its_three/

IBM kills its Education Cloud after just two-and-a-bit years

Re: Who can we trust?

I'm sure they'll be a call from sales soon, classic bait and switch.

Microsoft puts out Outlook fire, says everything's fine with Teams malware flaw

Re: They call it Monday

Over the past few years, the worse they've made their products, the more profit they make.

A trend continuing by infesting everything with so called AI.

Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!

Re: Only ever used the middle button on CDE desktop on Solaris!

9 assignable buttons and 2 scroll wheels!

The MX Master 3 is not a gaming mouse but has god knows how many buttons and two scroll wheels. I use the second scroll wheel to zoom in or out, it is a real time saver, to almost the same extend as the forward/backwards buttons. Works on Linux too.

Re: RISC OS always used three buttons

If you were trying to scroll a window a line at a time by using one of the buttons at the end of a scrollbar and went too far, you didn't have to move all the way to the other end to correct it, on RISC OS you just used the adjust button to move in the opposite direction to the arrow.

This Windows update is snarling up some endpoint security tools

Redmond/Reading surely?

If not before.

Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon

Re: Thank you!

As the RISC OS icon bar (circa 1987 if you count Arthur, otherwise 1989 for RISC OS 2) was clearly the inspiration for the Windows 95 taskbar, then 30+ years of muscle memory is appropriate.

Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT

Should sue them for...

...the full $10bn invested in OpenAI, and every penny of profit from AI based on data scraped without permission.

TCS bags £234M Teachers' Pensions deal as Capita set to end 29-year run

Re: Crapita vs TCS

They will.

US export ban drives prices of Nvidia's latest GPUs sky high in China

Re: the best bits of a tennis match

If the commentator of the Tennis / football / F1 / whatever, would STFU occasionally and realise you don't need to jabber away for every single second of air time, we might actually be able to enjoy the sport - if AI could lean that, it may be some use.

Existential dread time: One day Earth's oceans will boil. This exoplanet might reveal when

Re: "Earth's far future"

Give it 1 million years from the start of the tipping point and surface pressure will be about 90bar and surface temp will be about 900C .. life as we know it is dead

I'm sure some cockroaches will survive, so you'll be OK then Boris.

Inclusive Naming Initiative limps towards release of dangerous digital dictionary

They've gone far beyond El Reg's favourite epitaph of cockwomble, leaving no other place to go other than utter utter fuckwitts.

'We hate what you’ve done with the place – especially the hate' Australia tells Twitter

AC: Economic migrants are not refugees.

Nick Ryan: You have aptly demonstrated the repeating of racist statements.

Exactly which race is AC referring to? Or are you just claiming any policy which you don't agree with is racist to make it appear unacceptable for anyone to support?

Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT

As the saying goes around here...

Training data:

• are NOT available to other customers.
• are NOT available to OpenAI.
• are NOT used to improve OpenAI models.
• are NOT used to improve any Microsoft or 3rd party products or services.
• are NOT used for automatically improving Azure OpenAI models for your use in your resource

...if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you. This is hosted on Azure after all.

And shouldn't are be is? Although data is a plural, that just looks so wrong.

Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud

Once a convicted monopolist...

...always a convicted monopolist.

Guess what happened to this US agency using outdated software?

Did copilot slurp fake zero days?

The fake zero day repos may have been removed fairly quickly from github, but was that before of after copilot slurped it, and how long before it starts spitting out malware verbatim?

Whose line is it anyway, GitHub? Innovation, not litigation, should answer

Re: Playing by the rules while making things better?

The LLMs do not keep large chunks of recognisable code, that could be tagged with an appropriate licence. The information[1] from any particular input is smeared across thousands of the nadan[2] values and gunged together with all of the other inputs. At best you could manage "This character of output came from a% triggering nadan(2006) and b% nadan(7361) and .... nadan(2006) is x% this licence, y% that licence... multiply together and tag the character. On to the next character[3].

An easy way to do it would be to partition the training data by licence, effectively giving a separate LLVM for each licence, and only serve up suggestions from the LLVM(s) compatible with the target project's licence. e.g. If the target project is GPL, only the GPL LLVM can be used to generate code snippets, then attributions are preserved by default.

Partitioning may affect the LLVMs ability to generate useful output (ymmv), particularly for licences with smaller code base, but it would avoid this can of worms, and also allow the possibility to have licences which specifically bar the code from used to train AI, which must be respected.

Google searchers from years past can get paid for pilfered privacy

Google does!

Not even Dynamics 365 ERP is safe from Microsoft's Copilot splurge

A match made in hell

Microsoft and AI go so well together; an insidious collection of data, unverifiable and untested logic, frequently misleading and incorrect, and then there is the AI.

Oracle Cerner bleeds jobs as Veterans Affairs project stalls

A revolutionary new health management information system in the cloud

In October, he told computer conference attendees: "We're gonna bankrupt Western civilization..."

At that point Oracle compliance department left in to action and started an audit.

UK smart meter rollout years late and less than two thirds complete

Do Fujitsu make smartmeters?

Re: I'm not sure why you've got so many down votes

The wind tends to drop at night.

It’s official: Vodafone and Three to tie the knot in the UK

Plus the national security issue of allowing what would be the second largest UK mobile network to be part owned by a Chinese company (CK Hutchinson being Hong Kong based).

Out with the old, in with the new – Accenture declares AI is 'mature and delivers value'

Quick!

Hire some more snake oil salesmen

Surprise! GitHub finds 92% of developers love AI tools

Microsoft owned

It's only to be expected from anything Microsoft owns given the amount they've spunked on AI.

Have you seen the number of not even thinly disguised PR drivel promoting AI on LinkedIn - and I thought it was bad when it was just a cess pit of recruitment spam.

Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time

Re: Gus from Drop the Dead Donkey

Upvote for DDD - oh the Joy!

These Microsoft Office security signatures are 'practically worthless'

We've come to expect nothing less than half-hearted and ineffectual security implementations by Microsoft, but more worrying is the stodges they stuffed on to ECMA and ISO committees to get the crock of shit non-specification that is OOXML adopted as an official standard - what else have they rubber stamped since?

Unsealed: Charges against Russians blamed for Mt Gox crypto-exchange collapse

No Crypo, No Crime

BTC-e was "one of the primary ways by which cyber criminals around the world transferred, laundered, and stored the criminal proceedings from their illegal activities."

"For years, Bilyuchenko and his co-conspirators allegedly operated a digital currency exchange that enabled criminals around the world – including computer hackers, ransomware actors, narcotics rings, and corrupt public officials – to launder billions of dollars,"

Without crypto, just how much harder would it be for these criminal to extract payment without getting caught?

Beams from brightest gamma ray burst ever seen were pointed directly at Earth

I'd be more worried about it's affect on meatbags than computers. Anyone know what side of the planet it hit?

Hold it – another vulnerability found in MOVEit file transfer software

Re: RFQ

They used an honest developer, rather than the usual suspects; government suppliers that provide truly criminal services.

North Korea's Lazarus Group linked to Atomic Wallet heist

Re: Ban crypto now

You tell me how most computer based fraud would work, if the only way to pay was in cash.

Ban crypto now

Crypto blenders are legitimate tools that can be used for illegitimate means.

NO THEY ARE NOT!

The only reason they exist is to launder the proceeds of digital crime.

Idiots loosing money playing with make believe crypto coins can be a source of amusement, but helping to fund NK's ability to chuck nuclear weapons at the rest world is where the fun stops.

AI weapons need a safe back door for human control

Re: AII upgrades?

Lets find a description that doesn't include the word "intelligence" in any way shape or form - only then will it be accurate.

Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation

Re: May??

I'm sure people will start campaigning to prevent anthropological global magnetic field change, before it decreases by 5µT and ALL LIFE ON EARTH IS TOTALLY IRRADIATED.

Malwarebytes may not be allowed to label rival's app as 'potentially unwanted'

Maybe the judge can determine the answers to the following three questions:

1. Does the program perform a useful and accurate service, or is it's primary reason to create fear and extract payment?

2. Is any payment system reasonable and transparent, or does it use deceptive practices such as auto-renewal?

3. Can the program be removed from the machine easily, or does it require specially software to eradicate it?