Posts by druck

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.

Re: Interesting idea

CM4 is nowhere near 20W, it is at most 7W and usually 2W-3W.

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.

Ex-US cyber boss slams politics getting in the way of preparedness

Re: I can offer some tips for free

Both and then some.

Microsoft confirms it found a way to make Crocs even uglier – with Windows XP and Clippy

Re: Err.. No useful title

That wouldn't distinguish them from every other Microsoft product.

Export controls now a key factor in AI chip development – adding risk for the whole industry

The paragraph is a wonderful invention to prevent having to scale an impenetrable wall of text, please try some.

Fake North Korean IT workers sneaking into healthcare, finance, and AI

Re: The way this whole issue is framed seems utterly bizarre

You've posted this same nonsense several times now Kim.

Logitech's MX Master 4 mouse buzzes with haptic feedback but lacks lefty love

Re: Obsolescence

Both my home and work MX3 mice are coming up to 5 years old, and the coating hasn't degraded at all.

The only issue I've had was with my home mouse where scroll wheel was not spinning as freely as the work one (probably due to eating at the desk). I took it apart and cleaned it out, just needed a set of new feet after peeling off the originals to get at the screws, cost about 4 quid, and then as good as new again.

Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

Re: Really!

That wouldn't surprise me with some of the nonsense you come out with.

Re: Really!

You've not heard of calm cloudy weather affecting the whole of northern Europe for days and sometimes at a time in the Winter?

Windows 95 was too fat to install itself so needed help from the slimmer 3.1

Re: Nothing ever changes

At the time it came out Windows 95 felt like a quantum leap from Windows 3.x and DOS to the average consumer.

Only because they hadn't seen RISC OS in 1989.

Re: Nothing ever changes

That was due to EU regulations designed for left hand drive cars on the continent. Japanese cars have the correct arrangement for a right hand drive car of the indicators on the right, so you can indicate with your right hand while changing gear with your left.

Incidentally they do other things correctly such as a single exhaust being on the right, away from the pavement, and fuel cap on the left next to the pavement (filing stations used to be on the side of the road).

OpenNvidia could become the AI generation's WinTel

Nobody (who had eyes to see) ever had any doubt that PCs and the Internet would be a history-shaking global revolution.

Microsoft almost missed it, then had to quickly use it's monopoly to try to destroy it with IE.

Submarine cable security is all at sea, and UK govt 'too timid' to act, says report

Please don't repost AI slop.

If you can't use AI then it's bye bye, Accenture tells staff

Discrimination

This is pure discrimination against those who via their own skills and experience can do the job efficiently without the use of AI.

It seems the Accucentre would rather employ those who due to either incompetency, or laziness have to rely in random slop generators to pretend they can do the job.

The sweetest slice of Pi: Raspberry Pi 500+ sports mechanical keys, 16GB, and built-in SSD

Re: The distinctly long-in-the-tooth Pi Zero 2

There are lots of the older Pi's available on the second hand market. Including Pi 1 if you need to interface with an old 26 pin device.

Tree-hugging hippie datacenter runs entirely on green hydrogen and wastes zero water

You mean the liquification of hydrogen, rather than liquefaction which is what causes buildings to sink into the ground during earthquakes.

iPhone 17 Scratchgate is real, iFixit warns – buy a case for your fancy phone

And what does that sort of case do for the thinness obsession?

Nvidia adds more air to the AI bubble with vague $100B OpenAI deal

It can't happen too soon.

then Nvidia owns part of what could become the most valuable software company in history

Or a whole heap of worthless shares when the bubble bursts.

Two heads better than one? Oracle gives the co-CEO model another shot

Re: Lost opportunity 69

Whoosh!

NASA panel fears a Starship lunar touchdown is more fantasy than flight plan

Although the storyline features anti-gravity and nuclear power, the design of the main engines and the lift thrusters are obviously 60s era chemical rockets.

Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns

Or take that weekly spend and go on a programming course, so you can write some crappy smartphone app yourself.

Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25

Re: a long-term threat to Java usage

Seriously, those LLM's are not trained on curated data, they've just shit shovelled in any code they could scrape.

Re: a long-term threat to Java usage

they are trained on well-curated data for pretty much anything that isn't obscure

You forgot the icon -->

Microsoft Surface 7 laptop: Nice hardware, shame about the OS

You can blame Microsoft

The Arm-native version of Chrome, for example, is noticeably slower when switching tabs or responding to input compared to the Intel version. Several times a day, it stops responding for a few seconds, even with only a few tabs open. This cannot be blamed on Microsoft,...

Arm-native Chrome on my modest 64 bit Debian Pi 4's and 5's never does that, so you certainly can blame the shitty Mircosoft OS it is running.

Linux Mint picks up the pace with LMDE 7 and Wayland-ready Cinnamon

Re: GTK3 and the Gnome team........

Gtk2 is still sort of alive and things in wide use are built in it.

Mint's MATE desktop was Gtk2, Gtk3 now but X11 only - and log may it last.

Hack to school: Parents told to keep their little script kiddies in line

I did the same thing at university back in the 80s on a UNIX mini using a csh script to mimic the login screen and record passwords of the whole class including the lecturer. They eventually found out after noticing I was logged in to every terminal in the room, and weren't pleased as they hadn't even started teaching us any programming languages at that point. But at least it encouraged me to drop Physics and switch to pure Computer Science at an even more prestigious university which appreciated my ingenuity.

Huntress's 'hilarious' attacker surveillance splits infosec community

Re: That sound you are hearing is a Whoooooosh to beat ALL Whoooooooshes !!!

If you are running a Microsoft Operating system or commercial antivirus software you should already know they have access to everything on the machine if they so wish.

Intel talent bleed continues as Xeon chip architect heads for the escape hatch

Re: Chickenzilla?

They way they keep messing up new process sizes and introducing speculative vulnerabilities, Turkeyzilla is very appropriate.

Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets

Re: Good luck using that exploit..

With attackers comprising machines and remaining undetected for many months, even a couple of bits per second is fast enough to exfiltrate a significant amount of secrets.

VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years – some to its friends at ‘proper clouds’

Re: moving from VMWARE to AWS

No, Azure should be at the bottom of your (and everyone else's) list. You are unlikely to ever find a more fetid collection of security vulnerabilities and incompetent management.

Microsoft inks AI infra deal with Yandex cofounder's biz for nearly $20B

Why wait for Trump? The EU (and everywhere else) needs to wean itself of Microsoft as soon as possible anyway.

Atlassian's move to cloud-only means customers face integration issues and more

Re: Fantastic news

Welcome back Bugzilla, all is forgiven.

Bot shots: US Army enlists AI startup to provide target-tracking

FPS

Come on, it stands for First Person Shooter doesn't it?

Europe’s Jupiter supercomputer hits exascale threshold at inauguration

Re: Not bad...

The question is; how many copies of Elite (on a BBC B emulator) can it run at once?

Linux Mint 22.2 polishes the desktop, but kernel updates are the real deal

Re: Upgraded successfully from Mint 22.1 to 22.2

If you aren't using the HWE kernel, it stays on 6.8.

Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown

Correct, but of little consolation.

If you allow a node to become so big it serves the majority of your users, they aren't going to give a frig that it is a decentralised system and a few other people aren't affected when it goes down.

Decentralised should mean lots of small nodes.

Tech talent biz Andela trains up devs in GitHub Copilot

No, No, No

"The power of these tools is that it makes you a superhuman developer and it's supposed to make your job easier, but you don't actually see a lot of developers going and embracing this," said Chang, "because there's this shock and denial that happens with change."

The resistance to change is due to marketing bullshit about how forcing an hallucinating slop generator into your workflow is somehow going to make you "superhuman".

FreeBSD Project isn't ready to let AI commit code just yet

Re: Isn't it ironic

FTFY: Rule of Generation: Developers should avoid writing ^machine^ code by hand and instead write abstract high-level programs compilers that generate code. This rule aims to reduce human errors and save time.

No AI ever!

'Huge architectural change' to JetBrains ReSharper cuts Visual Studio freezes

Duh

Historically, the core strength of ReSharper has been its refactoring features, arguably needed more than ever given the tendency of AI coding to increase near-duplicate code and generate poor code structure

Very simple solution to that - don't use AI.

AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders

Re: Rate limiting

If they are kind enough to announce themselves as the same bot coming from thousands of different IP addresses.

DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America

Re: Wind mills

They are very much a problem, whether it affects a particular location is very much down to the topography and placement of the primary radars.

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

Re: If everybody is compromised

You really think people aren't killed in thefts that net them a few dollars to spend on drugs?

Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

Re: been there, done that ...

Ok, should have said the Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS, which the vast majority do.

If you are going to install another OS of course it may work differently.

GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months

Which community?

The intent is for a "community-based executive" to take over

Which community? I suspect they don't mean the community of users who are have to put up with the appalling design choices, but rather the community of developers who are determined to carry on doing their own thing despite the users.

Biden stopped ICE from buying Israeli spyware, but Trump admin allows it to proceed

Re: ICE rebrand

I GNU you were going to say that!

Goldman Sachs warns AI bubble could burst datacenter boom

Re: 576 GPUs into filing-cabinet-sized racks consuming 600 kilowatts – enough to power 500 US homes

Post AI bubble we will be talking about dark GPUs as we did about dark fibre after the dotcom crash.