Posts by diodesign 3533 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011
Hey - it's because Qualys focused on Ubuntu Server as it has the tool by default, and it's a widely used flavor. Yes, needrestart is present in other distros but not necessarily installed. It's not on my El Reg office Debian Linux workstation.
Still, we've tweaked the piece to appeal more to everyone who has the thing installed, by default or by choice.
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FWIW the issue with the NRC is true, and happened in 2022, though the upstart is getting along at least a little better with the government lately.
That said, as much as we like nuclear power, we are maintaining a healthy skepticism of this SMR project, and in future coverage about Oklo, we'll include some more history of the startup. I've added the above links to the piece.
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Hi -- just to say, yes, if you see something wrong with an article, please contact corrections@theregister.com at least so that us editors are aware of the problem and we'll act on it ASAP.
Leaving a comment is like putting a bug report in a GitHub issues comment, when really, you should be opening a new issue (emailing us in this case). Cheers,
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Because you're trying to find holes in the piece but it's pretty simple. Starlink boasted it was offering free service in the area. Everyone got excited. It was a PR coup. That was nice of SpaceX.
When people on the ground, struggling to recover from the storm, looked at the offer in hope of using it, though, they found they had to shell out $400 to get going with it.
And then they got mad, and then they told us, and then we told you.
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Yes, and? Only now is Starlink sheepishly saying you need to already have a dish before you get this free service.
It's cool to offer 30 days free. Just be upfront that this applies primarily to those already with Starlink. Otherwise it's just seemingly a sly way to draw people into a subscription.
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It's "far left" to mention that the world's richest person is asking for subsidies? We're not even passing judgement on whether he should or shouldn't get them. Hell, we're reporting that Congress is looking into why the subsidies weren't granted.
I guess we're at the point now where printing information is "far left."
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There were concerns the potential impact of the title may have been lessened for the very reasons elaborated by the open source figurehead, as well as possibly attracting unfair allegations we had failed to understand their arguably well-elucidated point.
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You consistently don't read articles; just jump to conclusions. How on Earth is an article saying Geico isn't going to drop coverage of Cybertruck bashing Elon?
This is like when you said a review of a Meta model in which we said it was brainless and inaccurate was an AI puff piece. I don't mind critiques of articles, I just ask that you actually read and understand the things.
Or more simply: Lurk moar.
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FWIW it was said that DrayTek had released updates for all affected models, which is true. But it turns out the EOL ones only got a fix for the super-critical vulnerability that's needed by the RCE proof-of-concept exploit.
We've added that detail to the article.
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Thanks a lot - it is a team effort, honestly.
It helps that some of us have been here 10+ years though, and that we have the freedom to poke fun.
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I had no involvement in the writing of Crime and Punishment, but I sure read it cover to cover.
Unlike me and Dostoevsky, though, Donald and some of the P2025 guys at least knew each other, worked together, have met, and know each others' aims.
> Trump also spoke highly about the group's plans at a dinner sponsored by the Heritage Foundation in April 2022, saying: “This is a great group, and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.”
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I think there are various to look at it, and I'm having a hard time deciding which way. It would put reasonable restrictions on big models (ok) but left the door open for problematic but capable smaller / open source models.
I am also in two minds about censoring or restricting models anyway. I think the rules should start at the training side. If you train a model largely on creating bio-weapons, and it falls under the limit, is the law working as intended?
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Obviously, the fab isn't going to pipe the outside supply, no matter how clean and stable, into the machines direct. It's going to be conditioned and buffered along the way, but that's the infrastructure they're talking about.
Edit: As I've commented elsewhere, yeah there are two issues that are separate but related - the supply, and the regulating of that supply - and I can see that talking about them at the same time is confusing some people. So we've rejigged the piece to clearly split those apart.
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