Posts by Pinjata

Women in IT are on a 283-year march to parity, BCS warns

Re: But, but, but...

Even more obvious solution - pay men to identify as women. This will solve both the number of women in IT and differences in pay.

Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11

Re: not happening

I cannot imagine regular users opening up a black console window and running commands to make the OS it's things.

In short: Linuxheads need to accept the GUI fully.

No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final

Finally a stable version

I dread Windows update as it might break things that has been working for years.

Google kills forthcoming JPEG XL image format in Chromium

Re: Confused

Patents killed JPEG 2000... However since 2019 it's safe to use. Probably.

And it's pretty crappy with only 20% gain on lossy compression. Compare that with the lossless transformation from JPEG to JXL that offers 15-20% improvement. JXL lossy is better in all regards.

Finally the implementation I tried were glacial slow.

Re: too bad

That's not what you said.

AVIF is out of the picture as well? There will be now technological development from this point forward?

Re: too bad

This is plain misinformation.

I have not experimented with this but according to some docs it's faster than AVIF.

https://jpegxl.io/articles/faq/#single-coredecodespeed

IMO the killer feature is the lossless transformation from old JPEG to XL. This means that web sites / hosts can convert images without considering quality loss.

Still terabytes daily I recon.

Lossless conversion from JPEG to JXL with a 20% reduction in size would be a feature guaranteeing implementation in all browsers. Massive savings for web providers, I'm guessing multiple terrabytes of JPEG data is transmitted daily.

The problems IMO is the slow progress finishing the format. No progress in two years, not able to build source on windows (I've tried).

Germany orders Sept 1 shutdown of digital ad displays to save gas

In other words...

Russia is winning or Trump was right. What ever whatever tickles your fancy.

Complaints mount after GitHub launches new algorithmic feed

Pointless space filler atm

For my part all suggestions are irrelevant and uninteresting but I guess community building might be interesting especially if you want to own the open source market cough cough Microsoft.

Developer creates ‘Quite OK Image Format’ – but it performs better than just OK

Re: JXL is the future of all image formats

JXL has no patents so that won't be a problem. It's based on "older" technologies so the risk of any surprises should be small.

JXL is the future of all image formats

JXL, the new JPEG format, support lossless compression a la PNG and efficient lossless transcoding from JPEG (files shrunk 10-20% without any loss).

The source code is huge but why would anyone really care about that...

https://jpegxl.info/

Anonymous: We've leaked disk images stolen from far-right-friendly web host Epik

You just posted hate speech against old white guys ....

Java 17 arrives with long-term support: What's new, and is it falling behind Kotlin?

Web development still Java 8

Until web servers such as Glassfish or Tomcat that can run newer versions of Java all my code will be Java 8 compatible for reuse purposes.

Maybe there are alternative web servers or work arounds? Am I missing something?

With that said I've also reviewed changes from Java 8 to 16 and see no real killer feature, and I'm not impressed by syntactic sugar or lazy shortcuts that reduce readability of the code.

Windows 10 to hang on for five more years with 21H2 update

Re: Last security update for Windows 10, when?

Based on the sheer number of computers with Windows 10 installed, MS history and customers unwillingness to upgrade I'm guessing security updates will be coming til 2035.

Firefox 91 introduces cookie clearing, clutter-free printing, Microsoft single sign-on... so where are all the users?

Re: If only ...

They changed tabs into buttons... That developer could have spent their time on something useful.

Third time's a harm? Microsoft tries to get twice-rejected encoding patent past skeptical examiners

Arithmetic compression in JPEG is another example

The original JPEG standard support arithmetic compression that IBM patented. This patent has expired now but because of the patent pretty much no software support arithmetic compression. IMHO a major historical blunder that should be used to highlight the problems with software patents.

All existing JPEG (Huffman encoded) can be transcoded losslessly to arithmetic compression resulting in approx. 9% smaller file sizes.

Windows fails to reach the Finnish line as Helsinki signage pleads for help

Re: Is Finland part of Russia?

Linux, like Communism fails on the fact only a small number of ideologues believe and spread it while the masses wonder what kind of stupid sheiit this is.

(PS. Consoles are for nerds hence only a fraction of all people will ever use Linux)

Re: Sledgehammer, meet nut.

Really? Trivial as in something your granny can do?

GitHub to replace master with main across its services

Pure insanity

I can't fathom how some white people think so low of black people think they cannot deal with words like "master" and "slave". Apparently blacks are so low IQ and emotionally disturbed that society need change language just for them.

Can we discuss the one BILLION slaves that exists today in the Middle East, Africa and Asia? Oh sorry I mean the one billion "dependants"...

Had a bad weekend? Probably, if you're a Sectigo customer, after root cert expires and online chaos ensues

I'm guessing there are a lot of people who still own and use five year old Android 5 devices...

Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?

Re: Fascinating, captain

In a liberal democracy the authorities should ensure media platforms don't censure political speech. This is not being authoritarian you dimwhit.

Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'

vital?

I'm a bit bemused at the idea that a LGBT advocacy site can be "vital". Thing is, children will discover these things the natural way and no DNS will stop a curious teenager.

That upgrade from Java 8 to 11 you've been putting off? UK fintech types at Revolut 'quite happy' after a year in production

-XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures

"Grzesik also praised the open source and free-to-use Java Flight Record and Mission Control"

Not sure if this is correct but looking at the Java Flight Record it seems to be a paid for service.

https://docs.oracle.com/javacomponents/jmc-5-4/jfr-runtime-guide/about.htm#JFRUH172

<quote>

Enabling Java Flight Recorder

By default, JFR is disabled in the JVM. To enable JFR, you must launch your Java application with the -XX:+FlightRecorder option. Because JFR is a commercial feature, available only in the commercial packages based on Java Platform, Standard Edition (Oracle Java SE Advanced and Oracle Java SE Suite), you also have to enable commercial features using the -XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures options.

</quote>

London's Metropolitan Police arrest Julian Assange

Keep in mind that the so-called victims of these sexual assaults never agreed to the arrest and a trail of Assange. The arrest warrant and allegations come from a politically assigned special prosecutor that want to "test" whether or not it's sexual assault to have sex with a sleepy person, this after an ordinary prosecutor dismissed the case.

Looming EU copyright rules – tackling Google news article scraping, installing upload filters – under fire from all sides

Re: Damages

You described the practice of YouTube. Someone make a video, someone else make a copyright claim and receive the money generated. Even if the copyright claim is dismissed they get to keep the money. Hence why the huge amount of false DMCA cases on YT.

The Java release train is moving faster, but will developers be derailed?

Re: Ugh, another Java bashing thread

Different experiences I suppose, I've been developing Java past 20 years and had zero problems with compatibility between updates and versions. Only when Java 1.5 was introduced "enum" became a keyword and required changes on my part, no effect on users.

A Java program written with u45 is 100% compatible with u162. Not sure what you refer to, care to explain?

Here we go again... UK Prime Minister urges nerds to come up with magic crypto backdoors

"She then threatened to use her pulpit to apply social pressure: "No-one wants to be known as 'the terrorists’ platform' or the first choice app for paedophiles.""

Not sure May get how the world really works. Pedos are like canaries in a coal mine, if it's safe for them to use then it's safe for the rest of us as well.

Phone crypto shut FBI out of 7,000 devices, complains chief g-man

Re: Weak Logic

Correct me if I'm wrong but why I've heard in the UK people are jailed indefinitely if they don't surrender their passwords.

'Dear diversity hire...' Amazon's weapons-grade fail in recruitment email to woman techie

Re: What's the problem?

Giving said employee a complement may get you fired... No thanks.

Re: If they only were trying to solve actual problems...

People choose poverty when they disrespect the free education they receive, when they get pregnant before marriage, when they commit a disproportionate amount of crimes.

What more can society do? The "reverse discrimination" in the education system appear to have made things worse, blacks are let in into higher education only to fail the courses and end up with huge debts. "Reverse discrimination" in hiring practices brand blacks and women as diversity hires pulling down those who actually qualify for the work.

"Surviving" both the bias in education and hiring practices I know for a fact that the white and yellow male coworkers have what it takes.

Unloved Microsoft Edge is much improved – but will anyone use it?

Re: Memory Utilisation

It's probably your network driver leaking memory. Check if you have the "Killer Network Manager" installed and look for a replacement.

Profitless Twitter starts rumour of paid-for Tweetdeck option

Disabling the censorship, blacklists, filters and all other goodies they've introduced recently might entice some people to pay for Twitter.

Trump vs. Clinton III - TPP looks dead, RussiaLeaks confirmed

Re: Trump should not be on the ballot paper

If you recall Al Gore had some objections about election results...

Microsoft to Windows 10 consumers: You'll get updates LIKE IT or NOT

Re: Seems reasonable

Windows already download and install updates by default and these "illiterate children" are hardly changing that setting.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't know how to use HTML5

Re: Maybe ElReg could hire these guys to make the videos work on The Register's site

My experience is that you always have to open the Vimeo site to play the video, i.e. not limited to El Reg.

Fear and slow loading: Eclipse celebrates 10 unsettling years

Not possible to select file using control+tab == epic failure...

Have everything. Own nothing. Learn the difference

To be property or not

So will the mafiaa go to court and claim that IP isn't property? They have all along claimed that IP should be considered property in all previous file sharing trails. This will be interesting...

Firefox devs mull dumping Java to stop BEAST attacks

re:Jason Bloomberg

And then someone finds a way to do the same hack using Flash so we block that to. And then pure Javascript so we block that to... not very clever right?

The problem has been know for six years at least. The concept of altering data in an encrypted stream much longer. Mozilla has f-up doing pointless UI changes instead of making a secure browser. Implement TLS1.2 and show a nasty warning for any server requesting old/broken solutions/cipher is what they should do.