* Posts by Irongut

1914 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jan 2012

Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets

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Re: Failure in 3,2,1...

Culturally Relevant Science - God created the Earth in 6 days, it is roughly 6.5k years old and evolution is wrong...

They should be fine.

/s

Why we're still waiting for Canonical's immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop

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Re: I’m not a fan of ‘snap’

> I have no idea

> I suspect

Come back when you have more than feelings and suspicions, like maybe facts and evidence.

UK orders Chinese biz to sell majority stake in Scottish chipmaker

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Re: Good, however,

RTFA in its entirety. You might find the second to last paragraph illuminating.

Or just continue being a clueless idiot.

A new city springs from the rainforest to become Indonesia's tech hub

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Do you really care that your house was built on the back of a brown envelope to some government official? I'd be more worried about the constant 100% surveilance.

Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off

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On iOS it isn't Firefox it's Safari wearing a fox tail plug.

> On Linux, CTRL+F doesn't actually open a search dialog

Works for me on Arch.

Classic Outlook explodes when opening more than 60 emails

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No we didn't use Outlook in the 90s we used Eudora, Pegasus, Lotus Notes (eww!), MS Mail or one of the many other email clients that existed at the time.

We definitely didn't HAVE to use a client that was first released in January 1997 so wasn't available for MOST of the 1990s.

CHIPS Act funding in question as House Speaker waffles on plan to repeal bill

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Re: I like the idea of the CHIPS Act

> US owned, leading edge logic fabs

Name a US company capable of building a leading edge logic fab. Hint Intel haven't been leading edge in over a decade.

The company with the best fab tech is TSMC, you don't have a local competitor.

NASA narrows Artemis III landing target list to nine

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Re: Artemis IV

Articles providing the information you are asking for have all been written years ago. By using a search engine, the intelligent reader can find them for themself.

Chinese engineers wire Raspberry Pi into 600-meter railway tunnel to find any holes

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Re: The Cloud, Again

Sure they can just send someone down every tunnel in China, every few months to collect the data. Idiot.

China's first space tourism venture sells first pair of tickets

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The definition IS crossing the Karman Line, so Bezos & friends are not astronauts and have not been to space.

Polish radio station ditches DJs, journalists for AI-generated college kids

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Re: No, but maybe

Some decades ago the story was that it was a Sony Walkman.

In both cases an amusing story but little else.

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

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That's ok, the orange buffon has no idea how to use a regular phone and has never posted on Truth Social, X, Twitter or any other site.

His staff do that for him.

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Re: "the result of 40 years of technology"

Checks calendar... yes, I was using DOS over 40 years ago and my first forays with Windows were around 37 years ago.

So even Microsoft had operating systems 40 years ago, let alone Unix, VAX, etc.

Major publishers sue Perplexity AI for scraping without paying

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> the robots.txt file, implemented by Google, OpenAI, and Cloudflare

The robots.txt file has been around since long before Google, OpenAI or Cloudflare existed. This sentence makes it sounds like they recently invented it.

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise

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> It's a snag, though, if like The Reg FOSS desk you habitually run both Firefox and Chrome and wanted to keep both on the same ad blocker.

Why would you want to downgrade your Firefox browser security so it matches the PoS that is Chrome? Your problem is not that uBlock Origin Lite doesn't work on Firefox, it's that Chrome won't let the original uBlock Origin run because it hurts Google's business model. Oh poor Google how will their billions cope.

Europa Clipper heads to Jupiter: Can its icy moon support life?

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Re: In other UK space news...

Sounds to me like the company didn't submit the correct applications in the first place.

Internet Archive exposed again – this time through Zendesk

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Re: Paypal, anyone?

Paypal seem to have taken a dislike to Firefox for the last 3 or 4 years.

Every time I try to log in to make a payment the site either refuses to load or loads in a window that is gradually getting smaller making it a race to find the payment button.

I wonder if they've noticed my account has hardly been used recently.

The Astronaut wore Prada – and a blast from Michael Bloomberg

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Re: Bloomberg

I have no knowledge of Mr Bloomberg but in this case he is most definitely right. The Senate Lunch System is nothing more than a pork barrel that should not fly.

Chinese chipmaker Loongson now just three to five years off the pace on the desktop

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There is a lot more to CPU performance than the size of your node. If you fabricate an 8086 processor on 7nm it will not be anywhere near as fast as a modern processor.

Show me the benchmarks or stfu.

Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts plot

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Re: Can someone explain please!!??

Go back to Ars Technica, that's more your lack of technical level.

UK electronics firms want government to stop taxing trash and let them fix it instead

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Re: Colour Me Cynical

> getting nothing in return

Except cheaper devices for those who can't afford new, less electronics in landfills, less toxic chemicals leaking into our environment, more jobs in electronics repair... need I go on?

Not every benefit to the country or consumer is a lower price than current.

WordPress bans WP Engine from sponsoring or participating in user groups

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Mirror, mirror on the wall...

> Mullenweg fired back in a post that included personal attacks – possessing a toxic personality

Sounds like you're looking in the mirror there Matt.

Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion

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Re: My thought is...

I am told the orange buffoon does not actually post on X / Truth himself and never has. He is unable to use a modern phone and all his posts are made by staffers.

Yes, that's right, someone else wrote 'covfefe'.

WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly

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Mullenweg needs to go

I have never used WordPress but I have followed this story extensively and Mullenweg needs to go.

I've already cancelled my Pocket Casts subscription and will not give him or Automatic another penny.

Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em

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Simple solutions

Buy normal light bulbs. They're cheaper and they just plug in and work. Getting up to turn them on or off will do you good, you probably need the exercise.

As for the smart TV issue, according to Mozilla (and myself) buy an Nvidia Shield. It won't spy on you.

UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard

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Re: What next?

Yes, what a shame my govenrment decided to standardise on a 3-pin electrical wall outlet all those years ago. That was a waste of money and definitely did not help adoption of electricity or public safety. We should have allowed every electrician to use whatever excuse for a plug they thought the customer would put up with and invested in more firemen.

Microsoft sprinkles AI 'magic' and additional storage tiers on OneDrive

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Re: Just No

I've had photos in OneDrive for years and they have not changed, unless MS is also modifying my memories!!!

Complete and total FUD.

China reportedly tells local AI buyers to ignore Nvidia

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Says a lot about your reading comprehension skills that you totally misunderstood that sentence.

"human resource development" - Also known as training courses.

Epic judge orders Google to let rivals set up app stores

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Re: Hmmm

That is what is seems to say to me too. So because I have apps in Play I'm not allowed to open my own app store or if I do Google can stop paying me what I'm owed by Play?

That is the opposite of what this stupid judge claims to be doing. Or is he an Apple Fanboi who knows exactly what he's doing?

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Re: "permit third-party Android app stores to access the Google Play Store's catalog"

As an Android app developer I publish my apps on Play. I do not publish them on Amazon, Huawei or Galaxy stores for various reasons and don't want to.

Most apps on Play can't be published on other stores without extensive rewrites that will make no money. Is Mr Justice Dumbass going to pay for that?

This dumb judge has no idea what he's talking about and can eff off telling me how to do MY job.

Geico tells El Reg, no, it's not canceling all Cybertruck insurance

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Not to mention the swerving into emergency vehicles feature - so you get maximum points!

Embattled users worn down by privacy options? Let them eat code

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> The user gets to configure their own default responses in the browser's privacy settings, and the cookie law option box disappears

Great idea, why don't we call it DO NOT TRACK? Oh right, we have that already and it does not work.

Back to the drawing board Rupert, like an Apple engineer you invented something that already exists.

If Dell's Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PC is typical of the genre, other PCs are toast

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Re: Function keys on a touch bar?

Agreed. I have one of Apples supposedly fast M-chip powered MacBooks and it's slow as hell despite all the pundits who will tell you otherwise.

My 5 year old desktop is much faster and cost half the price to build.

If I need a mobile computer I'll use my phone, tablet, Steam Deck or maybe even my watch.

Tesla Cybertruck recalled again. This time, a software fix for backup camera glitch

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Re: "that's five in less than a year"

There is also at least one UK based company that makes airbags and supplies most cars made in Europe. I used to write software for one of their suppliers.

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Re: "that's five in less than a year"

No car or bike I've ever owned has had a recall.

One recall may be regarded as a misfortune; five looks like carelessness.

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Re: Maintenance

No, person who says it's good to ignore potential safety updates because you don't want to give the car your email address = bad.

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Re: Maintenance

> encryption certificates will expire, which then means no more OTA software updates. However, the car will still drive perfectly well, even after that.

Although of course you will miss all the recall related software updates required to make it SAFE to drive for you and those around you.

Elon Musk's X mashed by Australian court for evading child protection reporting

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Re: Corporate fines ...

WHAT REVENUE?

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Re: "X/Twitter does not need to comply with local requirements"

Elon your mask is slipping, we can see your hair plugs!

Saying goodbye to the tech dreams Microsoft abandoned with Windows 11 24H2

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Re: Great idea, Redmond

You could try Libre Office, I hear that is free and capable of working on the same documents. ;)

Valve powers up Arch Linux – because who needs Windows when you have a Steam Deck?

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Re: Woa - desktops = production??

Laptops... worthless for any decent work, especially development.

He wrote on a laptop. ;(

(It's supplied by work & security says I need to use their devices, not my faster self-built ones so here I am.)

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Re: Kudos to Steam.

They have also provided a lot of support and money to KDE, which is the desktop on Steam Deck.

Valve are a good company who pay back to the community for the code they use. Unlike.... well just about everyone else but definitely Epic Games.

Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it

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Re: The comment section is quite full of.... weird people.

> how could they think that Intel graphics is still "awful"?

Because everything Intel touches these days is awful. For instance the last two generations of their flagship CPUs that are burning out in short order...

Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration

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Re: So-poor-markets

If I leave a supermarket unable to make dinner with the contents of my shopping bag then the time is wasted anyway plus I'm hungry. Better to waste it and still get dinner from another shop.

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Re: So-poor-markets

> dump everything else and go to another shop

I have been known to do this but it does require the supermarket being out of stock of so many things I get frustrated enough to walk to another shop.

Funnily enough I have done this in ASDA several times, leaving my half full trolley behind.

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Re: "a minor discrepancy"

> My local co-op has just had to order more shopping baskets, because the shoplifters steal the baskets to transport their stolen food.

I'm calling bullshit on this. I shop in a Co-Op every day, how the hell do you walk out past the security guard with a shopping basket under your jacket?

My lodger, who is a security guard, also says you're talking shite.

Another OpenAI founder moves to arch-rival Anthropic

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Re: Seems it would have been simpler if ...

> Can only dream of the day when one might enter math formulae as one writes on paper (and have it converted to latex or mathcad etc.

I listened to a podcast last year about someone who came up with a way to do that but Apple cancelled his project. Their managers could not understand why it would be useful.

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Re: "the Microsoft-backed AI house"

What open source?

Show me the money, err I mean code.

Show me the code for ANY ChatGPT model, bot or service. You can't because none of it is open source.

The 'open' in OpenAI does not stand for open source, it stands for open to taking all the worlds money in an enormous AI scam.

For those who don't think its a scam consider this... Sam AltMan recently admitted that true AI, or whatever he's calling a computer system that's actually intelligent as opposed to his word guessing bots, will take a few thousand days. That's 5 - 10 years. Or the same as predictions for the flying car, cold fusion, quantum computing, etc.

Watch your mirrors: Tesla Cybertrucks have 'Full' 'Self Driving' now

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Re: "sudden, dramatic and dangerous"

> a car that doesn't have a steering wheel, where I can just give the destination and take a nap, or read a book

They already exist, we call them taxis.

Epic Games starts Battle Royale with Samsung, Google over app store practices

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Re: ‘Bout time someone bit back

If that led to Google and Aple selling Fortnite skins direct I'd die laughing. Would serve the Epic twat right.