Posts by druck

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Re: Hey Trump

It was the same when we few back from Auckland to London via New York (16 hours on a 787, but luckily with sky couches), had to go through immigration to get to another terminal, which took so long we almost missed the connecting flight. Canada next time, no matter what the extra cost.

Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after the horse has bolted

Re: NVIDIA develops tech to curb AI chip smuggling

Well at least they will be able to track where all the units the UAE have bought are being shipped on to.

Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents

I'd rather it became more like Somalia than Switzerland, where any AI agents are gunned down and their blooded corpses dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.

Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix

As any pet owner knows

The best way to clean up after you pet has shit all over the carpet, is to dump even more shit over the top.

No? Well...

Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool

Re: Swiss-cheesing the infrastructure

Why are you posting as AC these days?

Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA

Re: What is so bad about SMS

That does happen, but it's more likely to be snatched out of your hand on the street while using it, so unlocked, and with lots of options to use account recovery.

Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another

Re: So Apple. are regarded as laggards

Even Apple can't polish this turd.

London grid crunch delays new housing amid datacenter boom

Re: You have a choice:

It's Ed Milliband who's responsible for this nonsense (and the bacon buttie), his brother David had the sense to escape UK politics many years ago.

Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence

Re: This is what you call an "Agent?"

The name correlates quite well with what you would expect of an agent of a hostile power.

Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole

Zork/Lander? You mean Zarch?

HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

You don't eat them, feed them to pigs and eat those.

The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC

Three other equally as shit articles on AI in the last two months by this "author", also need to be taken in to account.

Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain

Microsoft recently bought the ThreadX RTOS, their only contribution will probably be to kill it.

Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

Re: Regulatory Compliance

For the A330/A340 all documentation, design, every revision of the source code and associated test results were printed out, put in A4 box binders and take up an entire hanger in Hamburg.

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Wordsmith's comment has as much validity as hearing some speaking a foreign language you don't know and saying, "yes that sounds foreign", without any clue as to what is being said.

Russia-linked crooks bought a bank for Christmas to launder cyber loot

Re: What a surprise

At last - a true dual-use technology!

CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out

Re: Nothing to see here

@AC Muppet

Python 2 to 3 is not a point release.

Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation

Not the case of short lifetimes with ASUS routers, I have 3 generations (the older two repurposed as a mesh network), and their firmware is all updated regularly.

Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new ‘Digital Signage mode’

Re: Well there it is

All those QR codes worked for me using a 5 year old Samsung phone 12ft away from a 43" bedroom TV, so the requirements aren't that rigorous.

Brits to help foot power bill for datacenters under government AI plans

Re: Yikes! Can we afford to stay here?

A cluster of tealights under a ceramic pot gives a small but noticeable radiant heat.

There are a number of idiots that have burnt their houses down trying that one.

Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some

Re: You know I almost wonder

They laid off the QA staff a decade ago. You can't hallucinate up quality.

Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut

Half arsed

Rust commands silently accept all the same switches as the C versions from the GNU coreutils.

Half arsed fuckers. If they can't be bothered to implement all the options of the date command, leave it the fuck alone.

OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft

Re: It's the same money caught in a loop.

Rose tinted glasses. Microsoft have always been money grabbing shits, it's just far more obvious you aren't getting anything useful in return with AI.

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS

There's the tribbles to contend with too.

'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it

Re: I watched the video. He's basically describing Linux.

Linux isn't even free - it's proprietary software.

WTF are you on?

Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters

What have they been smoking?

That aint tobacco.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Re: Too much in us-east-1

As I wrote in the small print you can export keys to other HSMs wrapped by a key only known to the HSM, which again is never present memory of the computer so can't be stolen through the same route.

Re: Too much in us-east-1

What you have described is a hardware key store.

A HSM doesn't just store keys to be brought in to memory, the keys should never leave HSM* and the HSM does all the encryption and decryption.

_{* Except when they are exported, encrypted by a HSM key, for importing to another HSM.}

England's local government shake-up promises to be a massive tech headache

Re: This is crap.

I'm in Surrey Heath and we are having to bail out Woking's hideous tower block misadventure.

The same council which wont give their only 1/2 billion pound a year engineering company permission to add a few extra spaces in their massively oversubscribed car park.

Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land

Re: Political instability nixes it

They set fire to the cable to burn off the insulation leaving the coper, but only to find a puddle of melted glass.

ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare

Re: CGNAT is more widely used than you may think

Where you are, you should be grateful it's not still an analogue mobile.

Re: IPV6 over my dead salary

PlusNet are now in the midst of another IPv6 trail, and there seems to be no problems so far.

Hopefully this time they will follow up by rolling it out, rather than waiting for another decade or so.

India to dethrone US for dev numbers as AI reshapes coding, says GitHub

I hope you've created an agenic AI bot to create forum accounts and post shit like that, and you aren't wasting your own time.

Nvidia adds AI peanut butter to Nokia's 6G network chocolate, throws in $1 billion

AI circle jerk

Sounds like another AI circle jerk investment.

Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences

Re: Slung Out?

Not after seemingly buying their way in to dilute any criticism, and prevent future legal action.

New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails

Re: Email Swamping...

Just set the outgoing email size limit to 25K. With HTML email by default, they'll never get further than sending; What the f

Shield AI shows off not-at-all-terrifying autonomous VTOL combat drone

Re: AI-written PR slop?

Not just AI slop text, but AI slop pictures too. Look at the disproportionate size of the vehicle compared to its erector transporter in the first picture - it should be about 1/3 of the size.

New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process

Re: Linux Hibernation and Windows Fast Startup

That's sleep not hibernate which powers down the RAM and other hardware.

SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition

You can't bang your head on a VR model.

Like Apollo before them, ESA astronauts hone lunar landing skills in helicopters

Re: Hmmmm

Or suffers from vortex rings.

Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030

Re: So 2040 and it will be expensive.

BYIC - bring your own inflatable cushion.

Japan tells OpenAI to stop spiriting away its copyrighted anime

Re: They are too rich to care about financial penalties

Capital, surely?

Brit watchdog slams Microsoft as it clears $69B Activision Blizzard buy

Another monoply handed to Microsoft

Don't say you weren't warned when in a few years time when they are breaking the restrictions they agreed to, completely without consequence.

US PC shipments hit the buffers as Trump’s tariffs take their toll

Re: The voting system prevents a third

There is still only one position of president, you can't vote 40%, 40%, 20% split of 3 different candidates.

Bank of England smells hint of dotcom bubble 2.0 in AI froth

Re: Hmm

It's not the bank's choice, Gordon Brown instructed them to sell.

As real life banks close, network operator starts a Scam School to stop Granny getting mugged online

Re: Fascist Britain

FFS get a grip.

The plethora of scammers is completely unrelated to any notions of fascism in Britain.

Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units?

Re: Interesting idea

Even with those most heat a small amount of water to a much higher temperature and mix it down.

Low grade heat really isn't much use, except for large volumes at even lower constant temperatures, such as heated swimming pools.

Re: Interesting idea

All hot water systems need to reach at least 60C to prevent legionella, you the mix with cold water to your desired shower temperature.

Big money is nervous about AI hype, but not ready to call it a bubble

Re: It's like heating a pressure cooker beyond its design temperature

It's getting to the scale of worrying what it takes with it. Is Oracle too big to fail? Or Microsoft?

The world would certainly be a better place if AI and those two died a death.