Posts by chuckufarley

Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare

Oh so the creator of...

...Code enshitification has a new project? It's a low bar to say i hope it's better than their most famous project. Node.js should never have been because javascript should never have been.

An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse

I still think...

...The real AGI on Earth is made by fungus. Just saying.

Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages

I tried this on my bosses tax forms once...

...He went to jail.

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

“The signal from you is clear: keep going. We intend to,” he wrote...

...And for a long time now the signal I have been sending is "Just go bankrupt already! You don't have a clue what it takes to increase sales." No matter how bad we get, humanity does not actually deserve to live though Microsoft's death throes. It is within their power to spare us. But they won't. They think they still matter.

Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font

I haven't read the white paper or looked at the repository yet...

...But if this runs on pure HTML 5 and doesn't need anything else then god bless them!

Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics

It says a lot...

...When silence is the only acceptable form of feedback.

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

OK, for the record...

...I do not want to touch what this leaks! Not even with class 23 hazmat PPE. Thanks for sharing. Do you know where your towel is?

Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs

Re: Human societies made it 10000 years without online markets...

As far as the Moon and back, so far.

Human societies made it 10000 years without online markets...

...But over that same period we haven't gone a single year without some analog to the local pub.

Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files

This reminds me of the story...

...about the guy that got elected President just by pretending to actually give a shit about other people and what they wanted.

The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash

Excuse me for a moment...

...

Puts fingers in ears...

La la la la la la la la la I can't hear you!

EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids

Google goes a gaslighting, again.

Google: Today's decisions risk undermining vital privacy and security guardrails for millions of Europeans.

Me: Oh, you mean your company slurps data from your users just to keep it private and secure?

RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet

This might actually work this um...

..."Standardization." Yes, I think "standardization" is the word to describe. However such a new and innovative concept might take decades of testing to prove it's worth. But just imagine what the world would be like if "standardization" could be applied to other technologies! It could even lead to an industrial revolution where everything is manufactured from identical parts and thus increasing factory outputs by several orders of magnitude! And just imagine what it would do for Science if everyone used the same system of measurement...no more cubits?

It boggles my mind to think of it!

Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content

More power to Austrainlia...

...Literally and figuratively.

New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead

Re: OR!

If you don't know how to tell when and [b]where[/b] your are on [i]your[/i] network the all I can do is tell you [b][i]"Where to go."[/i][/b]

Re: What's the worst that could happen?

So you mean all I have to do to make sure nothing bad is going happen is open the documentation and read it to make sure the command suggested by your program actually does what I want it to?

Call me conservative, call me crazy, call me a grumpy old grey beard, but I'll just skip a step and read the docs.

Re: Might be useful to avoid nuclear bombs going off

I hate say it, but when testing read/write permissions a very useful command is:

touch me

OR!

You could just make shell scripts that will keep working decades after a single dependency update breaks your fragile AI framework for all time. No judgment.

What's the worst that could happen?

https://xkcd.com/2261/

Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway

Re: Let's pretend I am a Google Cloud customer...

Gandhi might argue with you about what works. Just saying.

Re: Let's pretend I am a Google Cloud customer...

All help is good help. My thanks!

Let's pretend I am a Google Cloud customer...

...And I don't want my service plan to upgraded automatically. It seems that my only recourse is to be intentionally late in paying my bill on a regular basis. Perhaps by using a credit card I keep very close to it's balance limit or even a pre-paid card that I don't refill until I am ready to pay.

If Google is intent on punishing good customers, then good customers must go rogue to remain safe.

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

Hmm, let's see...

...

:~$ ls -lh /bin/nano

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 273K Jun 3 17:50 /bin/nano

OK, less than 3KB is more than impressive enough.

Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains

Could this mean...

...That making kids grow a garden would be better for them than making them watch a garden grow?

Meta fights Ofcom over how many billions count as billions

Oh my! It sounds like Zuck...

...Needs a Waahhmbulance!

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

You are still using a fixed width fomat...

...Which has ZERO benefit on a wide screen monitor. I could read El Reg on my my phone, but only if I was 30 years younger and could see the screen.

Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue

I think it is a bit like...

...Governing your humans carefully. After all, bots don't make themselves.

Just saying.

AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server

"This" has always been my issue with CUPS on Linux...

...If I don't have a printer installed why does my entire desktop depend on it? Seriously. Install any given Linux desktop and then uninstall CUPS. You will be left with a box that only runs a CLI. That's great if your last name is Torvalds but the rest of us use a hell if more than the command line.

OpenAI patches ChatGPT flaw that smuggled data over DNS

What's next?

Exfiltrating training data over UDP and IPX/SPX? In this world if it can happen it will happen.

AI will write code, but prepare to babysit it – and be sure you speak its language

Of course I want to fire all of the developer!

They keep making buggy software! If they would just be perfect like me then I wouldn't whine at all...

AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

This makes me wonder...

...Why I ever doubted cloud computing.

When it comes to catastrophic space weather, the UK is holding a cocktail umbrella

Re: While a repeat of the Carrington Event...

Oh, well, forgive me for trying to keep shit simple! "If you say nothing and smile everyone will wonder what you are smiling at."

Go grow some grey hair.

While a repeat of the Carrington Event...

...is at most unlikely in the near future, humanity could easily survive a repeat. Provided that a repeat was the only thing to worry about. Oh, to live in such a perfect world!

In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

Who? Me?

Play the Trumpet? Why I am not a Billionaire at all, Sir!

Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems and steal secrets

If only...

...the people trying so hard to redefine civilization would take a long, hard look at the actual foundations of civilization. Aristotle may no longer be in vogue but he had some fucking brilliant ideas such as a logical basis for ethics. Not that that matters anymore because the horse has already bolted.

Governments across Asia order work from home, thanks to Iran war

You gotta do what you gotta do...

...And it's often not a pretty thing that you do. The shame of it is that We The People are still doing what we want to do.

Ex-NASA chief gives Isaacman's Moon reboot a thumbs up, stays schtum on the awkward bits

I don't trust them...

...No beards, no grey hair, hardly any wrinkles. They might know a thing or two but they haven't had time to learn much at all.

Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports

But wait...

...Where are the cup holders?

Cisco turns to titanium spoons and sand dunes to build a better … box?

I bet this advance in case design...

..cost them less money and garnered more press coverage than the umpteen million CVE's their software generates per year. I, for glad, am some things never change. Now if we would find a way to get the right things to change...

Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him

Maybe they will hire me...

...I'm by far old enough to be a CEO, I am very disruptive (Especially my bladder. Comes with the grey beard.), and I know buzzwords from multiple decades! I bet all I'd have to do is train an AI solely on American politicians' campaign speeches over the last 65 years and I wouldn't even need to actually join one of those Zoomer calls.

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

Re: Name and Shame ?

I down voted and I want to pay pay. I'm just poor and can't afford medical services let alone software.

Just what the retiries need...

...having to pay for something that sets them free because it is free. Yes, the registries need a helping hand but asking everyone to pay isn't going to work when the the organizations that gain the top 60% of the befits could foot 100% of the bill while losing less then 0.01% of their profits and the people they abuse everyday must resort to public assistance just to eat. Remember that dying of malnutrition is a lot like dying of starvation but it takes years, if not decades, longer.

AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

The new normal...

...is the same as the old normal.

How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

Re: Can someone please explain to me ...

No need to pay extra when the source code is free.

There is a section in the Gentoo handbook that specifically warns users against setting -O3 globally in the make.conf $CFLAGS. Linux From Scratch also warns against using it in their handbook. Even the GCC manual itself warns that -O3 can and will break some code because it is so aggressive.

Oracle expects investors to pump $50 billion into its cloud this year alone

Re: Oracle's strategic moves under pressure

Fast crap isn't any better than slow crap. Just saying.

Meh...

...Oracle has yet to honor it's obligations to the license agreement of Open Solaris. That alone would barely cost them a thing. So why should World+Dog trust them to pay bonds?

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

I know I am crazy...

...But at least I know that I am not delusional. Things like this make me wonder what Musk "knows." Does he realize that, like me, people will often not be able to follow the leaps of logic his mind makes? Or does he just care about convincing people he is right? I know I am wrong often enough to warrant caution, but then again the times I get things right out number the times I get them wrong. So I was never lucky enough to be a billionaire. But does this billionaire even know that he is crazy? I mean, here is a very brief summary of most of what he posts online:

https://xkcd.com/3201/

Patch Tuesday meets Groundhog Day as Windows hibernation bug returns

I am amazed...

...Not by how bad Windows has become. No, that was inevitable. I fact I made a post along those lines nearly nine years ago I think. Anyway, what amazes me is that are still people on youtube posting videos telling people not to switch to Linux.

Capgemini to sell the biz that works for US government amid criticism of ICE contract

Perhaps I could by it...

...Are they willing to take small monthly payments?