Posts by Tomato42

'Beyond stupid': Linus Torvalds trashes 5.8 Linux kernel patch over opt-in Intel CPU bug mitigation

Re: funny security

oh you haven't heard about attacks that exploit the limited size of MAC table?

Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on personal PC

Re: $$$

and how do you hide it in the bank statement?

Re: AMD Dreams

well, to be honest, current CPUs are RISC that emulate CISC, so to some degree his wish did come true

DEF CON is canceled... No, for real. The in-person event is canceled. We're not joking. It's canceled. We mean it

Which DEFCON

Does it mean they entered DEFCON 1 or DEFCON 5?

enquiring minds demand to know!

Bye, Russia: NASA wheels out astronauts, describes plan for first all-American manned launch into orbit since 2011

Re: Way Cool...

$79 million won't buy you a single engine on the SLS, so getting people into orbit for that kind of money is a comparable bargain

Microsoft decrees that all high-school IT teachers were wrong: Double spaces now flagged as typos in Word

Re: Isn't it just a historical anachronism?

LaTeX correctly formats spacing with just one space after the dot. Good enough for LaTeX, good enough for me.

We're in a timeline where Dettol maker has to beg folks not to inject cleaning fluid into their veins. Thanks, Trump

Re: "Orange Man Bad!"

"Orange man bad"

ah, yes, the Russian operative and fascist favourite: psychological projection

yes, I'm referring to the 8 years of "black man bad" (see also: "Dijon mustard" and "tan suit")

What's vexing Linux-loving Gophers? A few things: Go devs want generics, easier debugging

Re: Package Management and Versioning are a joke currently

lack of backwards compatibility and API stability is a bane of all the "hip" new languages: Go, Javascript, ruby

it's much better with older established languages (as in, some developers behave as if they actually heard of the concept) like Java and Python

but it's wide-spread basically only in C land, shame really

Hana-hana-hana: No it's not your dad trying to start a motorboat... It's Northern Gas, renewing its SAP software

who on earth uses exchange rates with 7 significant digits?!

Vodafone chief speaks out after 5G conspiracy nuts torch phone mast serving Nightingale Hospital in Brum

Re: You Can Report Hate But . . .

but, but, but, engagement

sowing discord in western democracies is enough for Putin to get involved, so that he can say "yeah, Russia is not in a great shape, but just look at the lunatics abroad" while amassing another trillion dollars

Forget toilet roll, bandwidth is the new ration: Amazon, YouTube also degrade video in Europe to keep 'net running amid coronavirus crunch

Re: Bandwidth like Bank Reserves?

sure, but also an HD stream is not maxing out a 150Mbit connection

so maybe they should be regulated like the utility they are to ensure they have extra capacity for situations like this (or bad weather)

Watching you, with a Vue to a Kill: Wikimedia developers dismiss React for JavaScript makeover despite complaints

Re: Tab width

actual 4 space characters in a file, how you get there I don't care, be it space on keyboard, tab key or Ctrl+Alt+butterfly, but the file on disk better have spaces, at worst have tabs and be consistent

but if you use a mix of tab and space characters in your files... see icon

Re: Front-end development is a complete mess

popularity has huge impact on the bus factor, when you're doing the project the size of Wikipedia, those things matter a lot

Microsoft's GitHub absorbs NPM into its code-hosting empire: JavaScript library vault used by 12 million devs now under Redmond's roof

Who would have thunk it

The company behind Internet Exploder hosting almost all of JavaScript projects. Bonkers I tell you!

After blowing $100m to snoop on Americans' phone call logs for four years, what did the NSA get? Just one lead

Drug addiction...

Literal drug addicts are more reasonable than this lot

The Wristwatch of the Long Now: When your MTBF is two centuries

Re: Beware survival bias

one issue is getting the thing working, true, there survivorship bias does apply

but consider this, I have an working 8" floppy drive and a bunch of 8" disks, how would you connect them to a modern laptop?

(protip: 3.5" floppy-USB converter won't do you any good)

Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design's silent arrival

laptops don't fare well for long term runs: the cooling coupled with small fans make it a deadly combination

(when you use it yourself you can feel the temps rising and clean it, unattended use makes that far less likely)

Re: Dodged the bullet

exactly, the point of universal standards is that you shouldn't care what's on either side of the cable

not to mention the stuff the muggles will get themselves into by plugging stuff in as soon as they see a compatible socket

Maker of Linux patch batch grsecurity can't duck $260,000 legal bills, says Cali appeals court in anti-SLAPP case

Re: No actual damage

hahahhahaha

oh, wait, you're serious

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Gin and gone-ic: Rometty out as IBM CEO, cloud supremo Arvind Krishna takes over, Red Hat boss is president

it's messaging to investors, of course it needs to be buzzword compliant

Apple: EU can't make us use your stinking common charging standard

oh, then how many different standards there were to charge their laptops?

'I am done with open source': Developer of Rust Actix web framework quits, appoints new maintainer

Re: PL and TL

ya see, you should have used wool carpet, not synthetic one!

Having trouble finding a job in your 40s? Study shows some bosses like job applicants... up until they see dates of birth

write "over 10 years of experience of software development"

Snakes on a wane: Python 2 development is finally frozen in time, version 3 slithers on

Re: Apple's walled garden

the version used by system tools will be supported for the lifetime of the distribution, irrespective if it is used by system tools or by user apps, but if user wants to make `python3` point to newer version, they can, without fear of breaking anything in the system

and things may break because of deliberate incompatible changes _in python_ like the recent promotion of `async` to a keyword

VMware warning, OpenBSD gimme-root hole again, telco hit with GDPR fine, Ring camera hijackings, and more

German telco hit with fine for lax login protections

Today's a good day.

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Re: Good job Arizona!

except the current crop of US conservatives want to return to at least 1950's, with no "silly things" like lack of segregation and women's suffrage

Gravitons, Neoverse... you'd be forgiven for thinking AWS's second-gen 64-core Arm server processor was a sci-fi

Re: All Amazon CPU include a integrated microphone as standard

shielded ones do

Bose customers beg for firmware ceasefire after headphones fall victim to another crap update

Re: Criminal Damage

I don't know about situation across the pond, but in EU no EULA can override local laws, especially one that's so one-sided.

Stand back, we're going in: The Register rips a 7th-gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon apart. Literally

Re: Glossy screen?

The X1 is a Macbook Air of the more to the ground world. If you want a normal ultraportable, get a T480s or T490s

After four years, Rust-based Redox OS is nearly self-hosting

Re: redox

well, it does make 3rd party review easier, as then you need to look at only the parts that are marked unsafe

but yes, any kind of hardware access needs unsafe keyword

Re: He's completely missed the point of everything being a file in unix

how many songs have you written to criticise the music you don't like!?

his point is that there isn't one...

Googlers fired after tracking colleagues working on US border cop projects. Now, if they had monetized that stalking...

Re: I can only assume that the stalkage etc moved into legal/crime territory

ah, yes, a crime more horrible than arson and murder: unionising

at least to shareholders

Take a Big Blue cheque and go: IBM settles 281 UK age discrim cases

I sure hope that it was in the upper 7 digits, per person, given it included no admission of wrong-doing on IBM part.

That code that could never run? Well, guess what. Now Windows thinks it's Batman

Re: Assume the worst

and also the atomicity may be dependent on the size of operands, it may be atomic for 32 bit and 64 bit register, but not for 16 bit or 128 bit register

From July, you better be Putin these Kremlin-approved apps on gadgets sold in Russia

Re: I know this is article just part of the anti Russia propaganda

for it to be whataboutism it would need to say that it's not bad because the others are doing worse

while the OP is condemning both governments

oh, and I'm sure that those apps are perfect in every way (after all, they have been written For The Glory of Motherland), and as such will not expose users of those devices/phones to foreign hacking attempts /s

well, what can I say, CIA is definitely very happy about it

Questions hang over Gatwick Airport after low level drone near-miss report

Re: Drones

but if there is a test and licence required, people will be aware of it and people that don't have the licence will try to not stick their head too high

Re: Pointless Statement

1. some people don't know it's illegal

2. some people don't understand how extremely dangerous it is

yes, actual evil-doers won't be stopped by telling people it's illegal to do, but more regular people will

Pack your bags, you're going to America, Lord Chief Justice tells accused Brit hacker

Re: He's screwed

> The UK just snaps to attention and obeys orders....

as expected of Airstrip One

Apple's latest keyboard travels back in time to when they weren't crap

Re: Post Jony Ive, maybe Apple products can work again

> will also mean larger batteries for future iPhones...

well, I won't hold my breath for it

Labour: Free British broadband for country if we win general election

Re: Everything will be FREE!!

> FTTC cabinet is inside the exchange which is over a mile away

you keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means

(this is in relation to the clueless damned working the helldesk, not the AC)

If it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is: Nobody can decrypt the Dharma ransomware

Re: Surely decryption is possible...

oh, but the Sun can collide with a more massive star, merge, and then go supernova!

so technically, there is a chance for it happening

One man's mistake, missing backups and complete reboot: The tale of Europe's Galileo satellites going dark

Re: if there are any questions

> without adequate or accurate release testing and with no backup to restore the system to a working, previous build is one hell of a set of "kinks".

as if most IT systems couldn't be brought down with one wrong person getting sudo access on a domain controller or such – yes, you can protect against maid pulling the power cable of the root DNS server, can't protect against the authoritative root server advertising empty or wrong root zone – there needs to be a single source of truth, but you need a good process/syste how it is updated, which appears to be lacking in Galileo. So, yes, that's a minor kink compared to overall complexity of the system.

and it does look like they did have backups to restore, but because of the precision necessary, and given that the satellites are in in non-inertial reference frames, it does mean that getting it all back synchronised isn't a matter of seconds

Re: And we wonder why people want to exit the EU

yes, no big, technologically complex project started by UK government ever run out of budged and all of them were delivered on time and with complete feature scope

and we can read about this successes daily on this very website /s

Senior GitLab exec resigns over plan to stop hiring engineers in China and Russia

That would exclude Russia then, wouldn't it?

YouTube mystery ban on hacking videos has content creators puzzled

Re: Lockpicking is fine then

...and a click out of one, and a click out of two...

Re: Direct their followers elsewhere?

well, if there was at least one video-sharing website a fifth the size of YouTube, then they likely wouldn't stay

but there basically are no alternatives (and no, vimeo isn't it, you pay to have your videos hosted)

The .amazon argy-bargy is STILL going on – and Uncle Sam has had enough with ICANN

Re: Here's a crazy bat shit idea...

but this will not make money for ICANN!