* Posts by itsborken

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Musk torches $500B Stargate AI plan, Altman strikes back

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Three card monty is back in vogue

Of course, the three will take side bets.

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

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Industrial strength dreaming

If wishes were fishes...

New York Times lawyers claim OpenAI accidentally deleted evidence in copyright case

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Woof

My dog ate my homework.

ULA nears second launch of Vulcan Centaur in pursuit of US Space Force approval

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It's more of a scandal that they didn't push the destruct when the motor's nozzle ring blew off. Does NASA now fly on the hope that it holds together enough to make it to the next stage? Boosters cannot burn into the booster stage?

Microsoft resurrects Windows Recall for upcoming preview

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How many Windows default behaviors have you turned off to only get reactivated by an update? When the DOJ/FBI uses their backdoor to activate the latent code because you are under investigation, your rights disappeared via a hocus-pocus trick.

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Show me the man and I'll show you the crime. Microsoft

FBI, CISA remind US voters that DDoS attacks can't touch election systems

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Maricopa County AZ was hit with cloudstrike issue for primary voting. Absolute Rubbish.

Maricopa County Elections Department wrote on social media platform X that it was experiencing an “outage at some voting locations” due to the global tech outage on Friday. The department continued to open more voting locations throughout the day after starting with “a few” open.

Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall

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Windows 365 desktops in the cloud

Microsoft will disable this feature so data isn't stored in the cloid? I think not. Moreover, this concept cuts against OneDrive, where all you data is accessible on all platforms you use. Recall will be hosted in the cloud eventually and our wonderful governments will have access to it with the smallest request.

What they did to the Canadian truckers will seem trivial by comparison to what this will do to free speech and freedom of association. FU MS.

AI PC hype bubble swells, but software support lags marketing

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NPU

The NPU will have the fastest and most used nop loop ever.

HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies

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Re: Security

Somebody should remind HP that a printer is an output device.

Oracle disappoints market with revenue miss as Ellison hints at Azure database move

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Low code application development platform

Should anyone be surprised when the performance turns out to be garbage? Shades of the Itanic optimizing compiler that was to save the day.

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest

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Win 11 isn't great

Installed and used it for over a year. I wanted to help test the next version. However, their adjustments to start, taskbar and context were a coat of paint. The snap to was annoying.

What broke me was MS wasting my testing to install emojis. Their focus is on games and consumers; the android emulation is useless too with few non-game apps. They make way too big a deal od light/dark mode too.

Reverted back to Win10 to get a better-optimized stable version without the annoyingly useless feature updates. Good riddance and waiting for Win12.

Biden administration earmarks $13b to modernize electric grid

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Great opportunity

Hopefully they can make the network more resilient to geomagnetic storms/EMP. If not, we are throwing good money after bad. Let's do it right.

Twitter is suffering from mad bro disease. Open thinking can build it back better

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Re: Vote A.O.!!!

This is an announcement from Genetic Control:

"It is my sad duty to inform you of a four foot restriction on Humanoid Height."

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"It's said now that people will be shorter in height. They can fit twice as many in the same building site (they said it's alright)...

Peter Gabriel/Genesis was ahead of it's time.

Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs

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Re: As a Win11 user myself, don't bother if you don't have to!

Use a tablet and take the Win7 PC off the net for PC related needs.

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Re: As a Win11 user myself, don't bother if you don't have to!

I upgraded to W11 last year, was irritated by feature rollback and the fresh coat of paint approach, and rebuilt my PC back to W10 after being too annoyed at it. I'll be happy to stay there until MS fixes the start and context menus and provides a better reason than light and dark modes.

Basecamp decamps from cloud: 'Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal'

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It never ceased to surprise me

MBA management buying into the cloud, thinking that On Prem, then COLO is too expensive, but renting a COLO and their Hardware was going to somehow save more money in the long run. The mythical "other companies" were going to cover all that HR/bonus/profit of the host company because "our team" is such wonderful negotiators. Nope--they are complaining about the high costs of cloud and why they spent so much money for hypothetical expandability their established customer base never needed. They massively overpaid for what they got, in ways they were too blind to foresee.

USB-C to hit 80Gbps under updated USB4 v. 2.0 spec

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EU will love this

New round of cable purchases sends the old stuff to the landfills. New hubs/docks obsoleting gear...

Underwater datacenter will open for business this year

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Brilliant

Tsunamis in the ring of fire coupled with them residing in shallow water where the wave velocity accelerates. What could possibly go wrong. Then again, the mangled containers will be easier to examine when moved a mile or two inland.

You can never have too many backups. Also, you can never have too many backups

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Re: Stack popped reading that procedure....

Tapes were of the IBM Mainframe Open Reel variety, probably not even available at the time. There were 8" floppies; mainly useful to import or export a dataset for another system. These systems started out as cost effective data entry environment vs. expensive mainframe terminals. Eventually they grew with the 10meg disks and later 60meg multiplatter storage options, enough to run complex apps in their own right.

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Re: It is a very simple idea

Physical reasons. The drive units were combined fixed and removable controlled by a processor. For performance reasons it was better to add a new set rather than daisy-chain another storage unit to the controller and have it struggle managing 2x storage. Processor memory was sparse back then. You couldn't back up across two controllers for network speed reasons, but disk to disk on one controĺler worked reasonably fast.

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Re: Stack popped reading that procedure....

The drive units consisted of a fixed drive and a removable drive pack. On Datapoint, we put the indexs on removable and data on fixed. At backup time, shutdown app, remove index pack, install backup pack. Copy fixed data to backup pack. remove backup pack, reinsert index pack and restart app.

If fixed fails, copy from backup pack to new fixed. install index pack, run a reindex script to regen all index files on the removable pack. Start app.

On large systems, there were multiple drive units that were backed up in parallel. Backup/restore times were consistent. Run out of storage, add another drive unit and storage processor. Redistribute data and indexs across all drives as required.

Easy money.

The DG issue is they had data everywhere making backups a lot more complex and time consuming.

Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

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Re: Speaking facetiously

Have to love WinCE for the self-goal.

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Re: Garbage Take

Almost as bad as the folks at Windows Central--gamer fan bois they are.

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Re: Microsoft ***es Linux

W11 thanks for nothing MS. Paint job on stilts.

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Just curious

Did they ever embrace NFS for what it is or is it still bastardization on top of AD or kludges?

Systemd supremo Lennart Poettering leaves Red Hat for Microsoft

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seems like a waste of talent

How does he fit into a corporate mindset that has produced eyecandy Windows 11? It seems that he is joining a bunch of graphic designers--who is he going to have a technical discussion with?

SpaceX reportedly fires staffers behind open letter criticising Elon Musk

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Re: Never directly criticise the person paying your wages in public or work time ...

Fair or not, owners get to do this.

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Re: Careful what you ask for

Sloppy analysis.

How many crashes total are there in 10 months. Not a couple hundred, thousands, or tens of thousands. Millions and we are splitting hairs on a fraction of accidents?

If a human was driving would it have still crashed? How many accidents did the autopilot prevent over those 10 months?

How is the crash attributed if a non-tesla crashes into a tesla. I bet it's a crash. People can't read minds but the autopilot is blamed when it doesn't?

Aren't people driving the cars specifically warned they need to pay attention and react if the tesla autopilot misjudges the circumstances? It is the autopilot code's fault the operator is negligent?

Who thinks that tesla self-driving mode is perfected at this point. Even if it was, doesn't human error still occurs?

It is OK to be critical of Musk and his company's products but calling out flaws when no companies are trying to achieve that level of achievement is just trolling.

NASA's 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain

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Wrong power source?

Perhaps solar panels are not the correct power source for Mars on longer running missions? Ignoring weight, would a smaller nuclear core with a robot power hookup work better for the helicopter or perhaps multiple helicopters to provide redundancy of loss? Fly one while the other recharges, etc?

Start your engines: Windows 11 ready for broad deployment

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Re: Oh shit.... Not agian

Active Directory account.

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Bite the bullet and reinstall W10.

A good opportunity to reorganize your data so it resides on a separate D: ssd/disk so that apps can be quickly reinstalled and repointed to your intact data.

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Hated Win11 so much I reinstalled W10 from scratch

Dealt with almost a year of its nonsense, using Start11, Files etc. to gloss over its weaknesses. The emphasis was on a fresh paint job, dark/light modes and dumbing the OS down. The Store repeatedly reoffered updates such as People etc. that have no actual store app despite trying all the fixes. The Android app changes were lame via Amazon and frankly not worth the effort. Linux, well, there's other ways besides WSL to host it. All very pretty, not at all useful. A big step back. I figure W12 will be in the pipes soon as W11 is a swing and a miss.

Don't hate on cryptomining, hate the power stations, say Bitcoin super-fans

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Re: Bitcoin miners have no emissions whatsoever

If we have progressive taxes where the rich pay more than their share than the lower classes, why are there not progressive electric bills where those using vastly more electricity pay progressive rates? The cryptominers are clearly making a bad situation worse.

Sungard files for Chapter 11 in US, keep eye on restructure

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Forecast cloudy

Sungard is less and less relevant with every business project offloaded to the cloud.

DARPA to build life-saving AI models that think like medics

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Ahh Deep Blue plus fairy dust. How can it not work?

C: Everyone's favourite programming language isn't a programming language

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Rust can go its own way, develop its own interface to the hardware and even develop its own OS to their specifications if they want to be purist. Time will tell if the approach is work the effort. Stop bitchin' and start doing.

Fujitsu confirms end date for mainframe and Unix systems

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Re: Support for five more years ?

Alpha and Itanium come to mind.

China to upgrade mainstream RISC-V chips every six months

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Re: RiskV

Yes, IP is such a bother -- providing payment for other people's hard work and investments. Those patents are so problematic. Much better to outright steal IP or tack on onerous terms to do business in China.

Microsoft makes tweaks to Windows 11 Start Menu for Insiders but stops short of mimicking Windows 10

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Re: Is that a feature or is it a bug?

I wonder how many resources it took MSFT to dribble out this 'incremental' change. Who did they promote to Director of Eye Candy, and what has happened to the 'real' programming staff?

Sweden asks EU to ban Bitcoin mining because while hydroelectric power is cheap, they need it for other stuff

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Re: I second that request.

e̶s̶s̶e̶n̶t̶i̶a̶l̶ >> ineffective

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Re: I second that request.

Let crypto miners build their power generation systems--solar, wind, battery banks, LPG generators if necessary. They should be entirely off the grid as their profit margins can absorb the cost better than homeowners, and they could afford to lead the way to cost-effective local power generation.

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Re: I second that request.

It is a rational response to a limited resource being distributed by a monopoly, sanctioned by the State. The citizens should be first in the queue for household needs; business gets the remaining resources since they have the capacity for alternative measures.

Amazon hasn't launched one internet satellite yet, but it's now planning a fleet of 7,774

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Perhaps it is more prudent to get the two prototypes into orbit and observe their capabilities before talking about scale.

AI algorithms can help erase bright streaks of internet satellites – but they cannot save astronomy

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And yet the States just passed a bill to do so. It is all but guaranteed there will be some group raising environmental concerns when trenching up the countryside to accomplish this.

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A new generation of telescopes should be orbited outside the range of the internet satellites. This would provide more impressive scientific returns given time. It is sad to decommission the venerable land-based telescopes but that is a feature of progress. Frame it as a win-win opportunity.

Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze

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Re: Oh no

Wall Street rewards mergers of market leaders handsomely and continues to reward the squeezing out of costs over the years due to the merger. The union of the companies becomes stolid, so they pick a fresh target to restart the cycle and gain notice and future rewards. The fish rots from the head.

Get ready to make processes fit the software when shifting to SAP's cloud, users told

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Re: This is not news......just old news re-written in a "cloud" wrapper......

Tell it to Elon Musk that the NASA engineering approach is the one true way. I look forward to your game-changing TED session on doing only what you are told is possible.

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Re: Limiting innovation

I supported SAP at a previous employer; their in-house and consultants did not customize and build products on a whim. They spent that time and capital to differentiate their services from the competitors who said it couldn’t be done. If every company is pidgeon-holed into the same result, companies can only compete on price and personality guaranteeing a race to the bottom. This is not something any C-suite is going to accept.

Systems engineer community laments demise of much-loved LISA conference

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I liked the San Diego trips

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