Posts by nijam

Europe's largest local authority settles on ERP budget 5x original estimate

Re: Care

All bureacrats produce is bureacracy. How is that surprising to anyone?

Re: Pretty much every large software implementation

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Or Oracle's version of that: If it is broke, don't fix it.

Altman to Musk: Don't go full supervillain – that's so un-American

Re: re: people who irritate Musk's fragile ego

To quote (approximately) from a UK current affairs program a few weeks back, in respose to the Florida Man's shitshow:

We should just sit back and enjoy this election, because there won't be any more of them.

Windows 11 24H2 rolls out to more devices – with a growing list of known issues

> "new stage of availability."

Really? More like a new stage of disability.

Google DeepMind touts AI model for 'better' global weather forecasting

We might feel more confident if it could explain how the forecasts were acheived. But it can't.

Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements

> This is lining up to be the Windows Phone 7 debacle all over again.

If only...

ISTR that TPM is simply a new set of insecurites anyway.

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for

Re: Some use cases

> Doesn't Windows itself change some of the UI behaviour between each major version?

i.e. Doesn't Windows itself change lots of the UI behaviour between each version?

Are Copilot+ PCs really the fastest Windows PCs? X and Copilot don't think so

Re: Got the daughter a Lenovo "Copilot+ PC"

> "... and she does not use it"

She'll soon be forced to, I suspect.

> "Microsoft changed computing history by inventing a new category: the Personal Computer or PC."

Well, long before all those little personal computers, PC (in the computing world at least) meant Plug-Compatible, as in mainframe products from IBMs competitors.

Security? We've heard of it: How Microsoft plans to better defend Windows

Re: "security is our top priority,"

> I do wonder how many 'top priorities' there are, and how swiftly they get replaced by the one next in line

There can be only one (as somebody once said). It lasts only until the end of that PR presentation.

Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC

Re: But but but

> Good luck with that - "speaking to Microshite directly".

To paraphrase Shakespeare (in The Tempest): You can speak to Microshite, and so can anyone - but do they listen?

> sounds like they've put a fair amount of effort into preventing them from being repurposed

Hmmm... "sounds like they've put a fair amount of effort into preventing them from being used", surely.

Trump's pick to run the FCC has told us what he plans: TikTok ban, space broadband, and Section 230 reform

Re: Tiktok ban

Not least the commentards on IT news websites ;)

Et tu Brute!

The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

Re: The issue with rust

> ...rust is memory safe...

Rust is mostly memory-safe. But not entirely, of course.

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

Re: Leave the clocks alone

We used it to go round the house changing all the clocks.

The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD

Re: 10k lines of code?

> ... if you forego flexibility, systems can be MUCH smaller ...

if you forego functionality, systems can be MUCH smaller.

AI 'bubble' will burst 99 percent of players, says Baidu CEO

> hallucinations produced by large language models are no longer a problem...

... they're a feature, because we don't want anyone finding out the truth.

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete

... but doing so could cause issues when the next set of updates arrive.

So could the new updates.

Microsoft veteran ditches Team Tabs, blaming storage trauma of yesteryear

Re: Does it matter?

> ...but oddly the tabbed indents aligned but the spaced indents didn't.

Surely that's exactly what you'd expect.

> The problem is that it's exceedingly difficult to get consistent on-screen size of <tab>, yet trivial to get a consistent size of <space>.

No, the exact opposite is observably the case.

GNOME 42's inconsistent themes are causing drama

Re: Surely the Unix desktop is alive and well

> purely and simply because desktop/PC hardware always ships with Windows

Purely and simply because MS "encourages" suppliers to always ship hardware with Windows, I believe you'll find.

Feel free to ignore GenAI for now – a new kind of software developer is being born

> Is that bullshitspeak for "use"?

Either that, or "here, pass me that crowbar".

Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it

Re: Or less gov is better

> Governments spending means taxpayers paying.

Tax credits means taxpayers paying.

HPE CEO: 'Best interest of shareholders' to pursue $4B damages from Lynch estate

> * none of this "tax efficient" approach from me

Liar. Unless you somehow managed to avoid claim your personal allowance, for example. But I doubt that.

> .... they surely would've separated the deaths a bit more to make it less suspicious

No, it's HP, remember.

You know, the company that failed to do due diligence in a recent takeover, offered way more than everyhbody already knew the company was worth, then blamed somebody else for their own mistake.

Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line

Re: Dangerous needs To Be Stopped NOW !!

> ... not in the ... UK thankfully.

Dream on.

Top EU court crushes Google appeal against $2.65B Shopping antitrust ruling

Out of interest, since I've never encountered it (despite using Google from time to time), what is "Google Shopping"?

Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest

Re: Screw this, Let's Rewrite Everything in Cobol

> Nah, let's go for Forth.

Coward! APL is the answer.

Re: Why a new language?

> But C was obsolete by 1983.

Or, by most measures, C is not obsolete yet.

Re: Why a new language?

> It takes a lot of discipline to write anything sufficiently worthwhile in it.

It takes a lot of junmping through hoops to write anything sufficiently worthwhile in it.

Re: Why a new language?

> In the entire history of "high level" language evolution, the innovation has nearly always been to make the language "more" ...

Except when the industry collectively turned it's back on Algol68 in favour of ... well, anything really.

Re: Why a new language?

> Rust is more safety net than tightrope.

It's the kind of "safety net" that operates mainly as a strip hazard.

Chinese boffins advocate nuking nearby asteroids – it’s the only way to be sure

ISTR that Larry Niven wrote a SciFi story about blowing an asteroid up. Gist was that instead of a very huge impact, you got lots and lots of huge impacts.

Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

Re: Other problems

> When something no longer has the means to evolve fast enough...

What claimed gains Rust produces seem to increase the effort of making incremental changes by an order of magnitude. It's less evolutionary, in other words. Or more constipationary, to provide another word.

Zen Browser is a no-Google zone that offers tiling nirvana

> You can manually block sites in UBlock Origin, you know.

But it still leaves them cluttering up the original search-results page. If you're interested in more than one result for the search, that's relevant.

Faulty valve sent Astrobotic's Peregrine lander straight back to Earth's atmosphere

... "singular helium pressure control valve"

Grrrr. They mean "single". "Singular" means something quite different.

France charges Telegram CEO with multiple crimes

> ... real consequences other than a small fine against the high-level person ... who makes the decisions and is ultimately responsible for their product and any harms it causes

Wow... that covers every politician in the world! Excellent.

Crypto boss finds fraud trial a serious pain in the neck

Re: No kidding

> Government guarantee that I will get my capital back.

Less a charge of several percent, aka "inflation".

Yelp accuses Google of being a local search bully in antitrust lawsuit

> I hope that there is a way for both sides to lose.

There is. Lawyers.

Brit teachers are getting AI sidekicks to help with marking and lesson plans

Re: Should work....

> Obviously they're improving ...

So unusual to encounter an optimist here...

Re: Bullshit

> ... headteachers and teachers tend to be fairly sane when it comes to seeing through nonsense ...

I think you misinterepreted their reactions.

What you were actually experiencing was that teachers don't like being told what to do, and that fact that it's (too often) government bullshit is just coincidence.

> What could possibly go wrong?

Detentions for pupils who point out those errors. Teachers have a track record in that kind of thing.

CrowdStrike's meltdown didn't dent its market dominance … yet

> "They got breached, their tools were stolen, and here they are, one of the preeminent security providers."

No such thing as bad publicity?

Iran's Pioneer Kitten hits US networks via buggy Check Point, Palo Alto gear

> ...vulnerable VPN and firewall devices...

Oh, the irony.

'Uncertainty' drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux

So many things wrong there. Not even worth enumerating.

> Microsoft is the enemy, has always been the enemy, ...

As I recall, in the early days before Microsoft was the enemy, IBM was the enemy, Plus ca change.

To crew, or not to crew – that is the question facing Boeing's stricken Starliner

Re: No good options

> ... I'd have thought good space suit essential...

Nah, two completely different things, with problems developed and installed in different divisions of Boing (sic).

LibreOffice 24.8: Handy even if you're happy with Microsoft

> ... some that don't look correct ...

Invariably caused by not have the necessary font installed in my experience.

AGI is on clients' radar but far from reality, says Gartner

> ...at least 10 years away...

It's been at least 10 years away for the last 50 years, as I recall from my undergraduate studies.