Posts by chuckufarley

Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development

Wot I think...

...Is that doesn't matter in the end. X.org, Wayland, whatever. If you still need to run JavaScript, Java, or C# code you and yours are Fuxxord.

Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough

But...

...I am your boss. We don't have the resources to check into every little alert from the monitoring system.

Freshly discovered bug in OpenPGP.js undermines whole point of encrypted comms

Never roll your own encryption...

...And never get involved in a land war in Asia!

Attackers pwn charter airline helping Trump's deportation campaign

Oh what a country...

...We can't even deport people using American made planes.

37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions

I have this Debian server at home...

...I have used it for nearly ten years with only software updates. It hosts some VM's, one read only NFS share, and has a few CPU's crunching numbers for LHC@home. Running du /etc/ as root shows me that it is using 13040 kilobytes. 13mb of text files for to configure a simple home server. Plain text. Linux, *bsd, Illumos, these things may seem obscure but they are not hard because you don't have to (and absolutely should not) touch 99% of what is in /etc for your server to work. Sane defaults, anyone?

Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists

But isn't being weeded out by "planet-destroying plagiarism machines"...

...better than not getting to praise "planet-destroying plagiarism machines" in front a live audience?

I, for one, welcome our new AI over lords.

Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower

There, there Mr Papa...

...She still loves Papa Poo.

Um, no Mr Papa, that was supposed to an innuendo and there is no need to try and toss me out the window,

Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog

When there is blood in the streets...

...Buy property.

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

No wonder the prices of hotdogs and marshmellows are rising...

...the world may be burning but people still have to eat.

How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit

There is no such thing as Security from Obscurity...

...and this is why real security oriented people would never put a back door in an encryption algorithm. It is a good thing that that these models expose their own weaknesses. Now we just good and easily accessible documentation about it to make things better.

I think any guardrails on AI models are like guardrails on a baby's crib. These models are so immature they need things like diapers and pacifiers. If people keep being honest about the limitations of the models maybe some day someone can invent "Training Wheels."

LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing

Wow, $15,000...

That is a lot if of money...

...If you are permanently disabled in the US and your only source of income is Social Security. Mr. Rameriz might pay that much or more per year for parking.

A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive

Re: The canary is choking

Upvoted, but I think they will click the Next Turn button for a long time to come.

So AI hardware...

...Is the new single point of failure? My god. We aren't even to the point of attacking the software stack yet! Entropy with be a real bitch when that happens.

As Trump slugs Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs, industry groups hope trade war weapon isn’t pointed at their feet

And the band plays on...

...I mean really! They are quoted as saying “As these actions are implemented, it is essential to bring industry and stakeholders to the table to help the government reach its desired result, limit unintended consequences, and develop a holistic and successful trade policy approach,”

As if they are blind to the fact that the desired result is the dismantling of Democracy in the Western Hemisphere. We The People have forgotten the past and We will pay the price for it.

OpenZFS 2.3 is here, with RAID expansion and faster dedup

Re: Steam?

I am sorry you disagree so strongly, but I'll stand by opinion that for simple shares using NFS on Linux ZFS is overly complicated and makes life harder if you ever want to switch distos or recover a system. You are right, fsck should not be used with btrfs. In fact btrfs even comes with it's own scrub command, just like ZFS. Does ZFS have place? Yes. Is that place a home user storing game files on a NAS? I don't think so.

As for losing your data to btrfs I have never lost anything to it in over eight years of use. Sorry it happened to you.

Re: Steam?

I wouldn't try it because it will turn into a PITA down the road. If you want a RAID use a simple mdadm, LVM, or btrfs setup with NFS. I actually have my Steam Library hosted on btrfs with LVM at home but I am not using a Steam Deck. However any *nix and Pro versions of Win10 and Win11 can mount NFS shares.

NFS is simple to set up even though it has little built insecurity. It just works by default. It is well documented, robust, and stable.

You will have to spend more time researching and deploying the storage system then the NFS share.

I am pleased to see the progress...

...but I will be sticking with btrfs. Not only is it far more flexible and just as reliable, if things go South with your storage server you can boot any Linux live CD/USB then (if needed) modprobe btrfs to have access to your data.

AI can improve on code it writes, but you have to know how to ask

Re: So now software devs have to...

You think they won't be lining up for it?

So now software devs have to...

...learn to write Rust and how to write prompts for LLMs? Queue riots.

CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode

You can't kill what you can't see...

...and I need a much larger game window to see what's happening here.

Second Jeju Air 737-800 experiences mechanical issues following deadly crash

I doubt it's some wierd form of sabotage...

...I mean, greed has sabotaged so many things throughout human history we can hardly call it weird. Amirite?

'That's not a bug, it's a feature' takes on a darker tone when malware's involved

Sometimes there is third party...

...software than can be run on these devices, but unless you literally roll your own distro you must place your trust in the loan random person maintaining the image compatible with your device. They might not even be in Nebraska...

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

I think it would wonderful if...

...I could get Copilot integrated into a shovel. I have a lot of shit to move and think it would be a perfect fit.

After missing the AI boom – badly – Samsung shuffles the C-Suite

If Samsung is careful...

...They may yet miss the AI Bust.

Now’s your chance to try Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall ... maybe

I tried on my openSuse desktop...

...I just installed a key logger and set the first cron job to make a screen capture to every 5 seconds, made sure the time stamps were correctly synced, fed all the data into koboldcpp with a 'simple' bash pipe chain, and finally set a second cron job to upload the results to Microsoft every hour. I was not impressed.

Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season

Re: There is nothing illegal about...

I'm sorry but I disagree. Disregarding people posting nonsense will only lead to more nonsense being posted.

Re: There is nothing illegal about...

Wait a sec. If you are confident enough to post it, why aren't you posting under a confirmed account name? Why the AC? Are you that insecure about who you are? I live in a country where even a gay man can walk down the street with PRIDE so I put little stock in the mutterings of Anonymous Cowards.

There is nothing illegal about...

...using misinformation to sway voters. You can't use it to get a bank loan, or to drive up the price of a stock. You can't sell a product based on misinformation in its advertising, I.E. snake oil, but you can still sell snake oil legally today if you follow the Rules of Law. When it comes to voting, snake oil is what keeps the U.S. political machine running these days.

Lenovo’s enterprise hardware biz booms but profit remains elusive

It's so sad Lenovo can't make a porfit...

...Almost as sad as knowing that any company propped up by the government of China would post a profit whenever China would benefit from it.

Google decides Europe's political ad rules are too hard to implement at scale

Wait, what?

The EU actually wants the money driven advertisements banished from it's elections? That is so un-American! The worst un-American ever! Not even the Democrats are this un-American!

The NPU: Neural processing unit or needless pricey upsell?

Re: Under a rock

If it turns out to be Option B then it's also what you will have to pay for and never use for decades to come. When did programs stop using Intel's MMX or AMD's 3DNow?

Re: It's a scam to sell more hardware.

It can't be a scam to sell more hardware. Otherwise we would all have Itanium desktops, No?

Re: Multi tasking?

My GPU can multitask very well indeed. If you believe the hype around AI and GenAI then you have to believe that any hardware that claims to be an AI accelerator will be good at multitasking because AI will be used for everything if the hype is true. On the other hand, how much L2/L3 cache do the NPUs need vs how much do they get?

I think a lot of AI implementations...

...Will wind up being built into Cloud Computing. If you let the users run models on their own hardware you give them too much control and can't charge them as much for it.

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

There is one way to make businesses adapt...

...Just stop paying they to produce crap. They can't have a bottom line if they can't find the bottom.

RISC-V reaches milestone with RVA23 profile ratification

Re: I say this as a RISC-V fan...

Amen, Brother!

Critical default credential in Kubernetes Image Builder allows SSH root access

I don't get it...

...how could something as complex and poorly documented as Kubernetes ever be exploited? What good is all that obscurity?

Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

As a good American...

...Wait, that doesn't make any sense. Look at what these two idiot have created because they want to "help us." Shame on them for seeking glory early and not completing the scientific process in order to find a way to stop it from working. If only Lou Reed were still with us to write a rock anti-anthem that would put them in their place.

Also: Thumbs Down to you too! Just because you can never means you should.

Remote ID verification tech is often biased, bungling, and no good on its own

I have stopped using *.gov...

...Because I refuse to upload my personal details to a third party who's only reason to exist is to make a profit. I mean, look at Microsoft or any other profit driven legal construct. They don't give a rats ass about being secure. They just want the money.

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

I said it before and I say it again...

...If Epic Games wanted to expand it's market share instead of making money through litigation they would have native support for Linux, SmackOS, and any other OS you can think of. They do have any such support. In My Not So Humble Opinion they are looking for a settle agreement with concessions.

India funds Moon lander, space station module, and Venus orbiter

Meanwhile, in the USA...

...um OK, back to India

AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside

I hate to say it...

...but the truth is you can't take anything AT&T or Broadcom say at face value. To document the history or either companies deceptions would take an untold amount of work hours. Quite easily years of effort. Their histories speak for themselves. The sad thing is that it will be cheaper for both of them to let a judge decide the case.

Elon Musk's assassination 'joke' bombs, internet calls for his deportation

So there is...

...A rich man in America that can't tell the difference between what he can do and what he should do? Who knew?

Hunters International cyber-gang extorts Chinese mega-bank's London HQ

So why does...

...A communist country need banks? For the same reason capitalist countries do: So they can be evil and blame others for it.

Microsoft hosts a security summit but no press, public allowed

Having a private...

...Party has got to be less expensive and less trouble than actually making their software secure. In the short term anyway. Sooner or later people will realize that having all of their eggs in Microsoft's basket is the best way to get screwed. Don't get me wrong. My windows install is there in lonely little VM. Once a month is boots up, installs updates, then shuts down again. It there just in case I need it. Otherwise I stick with my FLOSS software because at least I can trust it to get updates and be open with world about security.

Tenstorrent's Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS

It's the AI song and dance...

...and it's getting pretty old. Now if I could get a RISC-V box with enough threads, PCIe lanes, and 10Gbs NICs for my storage server that would be another story. I would pay actual money for that. As it is Tenstorrent will only see my cash if I am a customer of their customer's customer.

Cerebras gives waferscale chips inferencing twist, claims 1,800 token per sec generation rates

So how many...

...coal fire power plants does it take to run one of these?

Gamers who find Ryzen 9000s disappointingly slow are testing it wrong, says AMD

Software Optimization...

...Is the future. Someday all workloads will be optimized on the fly for the platform on which they are running. We are not there yet. True benchmarks shouldn't be optimized at all in this day and age. Not for a GPU, CPU, OS, or anything else. This is the only way to be fair. However brands want their names in lights so we will see things like this from time to time.

This is just an iteration in the evolution of both software and hardware. In the future the most successful software will be that which can self optimize to the largest number of hardware stacks.

Gentoo Linux to drop Itanium support as Funtoo fork enters 'Hobby Mode'

I used Funtoo for a few years...

...But it became another chore because Mr. Robbins did not commit to keeping things stable. Features were introduced and a while later removed, the "Wolf Pack Philosophy" was a bad social experiment, and I had bug reports that languished for years. Literally years. The distro was fickle because the leadership was fickle. I don't miss it to be honest. I miss what it might have been.

In the end I think the only thing that made Funtoo superior to Gentoo was the use of the Debian kernel to make installing and maintenance easier. Even that had problems though because you can have kernel level support for a feature but with out up to date user space utilities it doesn't mean much. RIP Funtoo and what it what it could have been.

Intel: Our balance sheet is a smoking ruin, but we think our new chips work

Meh...

...and I mean it.