Posts by PM.

Europe plots escape hatch from enshittification of search

Infoseek ftw!

So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?

Re: September!

High time to rename the day as Wensday! Streamlined and modern...

30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff

God ...

.. help us all

Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

Re: What about Outlook (less shitty)?

Outlook 2003 was quite ok, likable even

Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip

Re: Oh Lord...

you forgot Copilot

Re: FP4??!!

According to wikipedia , it can hold twelve values between -3 and 3 with step of 0.5 ( 11 really as it has both 0 and -0)

plus +/- infinity , +/- NaN

sounds ok for neural nets, inferencing

Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year

Annnd before long Asda will be acquired , and wheel of fate will have another turn . Surely. This time a consolidation , and so on and so forth , till the termal death of the Universe

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

Re: Can be uninstalled on Samsung S23

My Motorola also allowed me to get rid of it

Re: Banking apps, Use a browser

Time to change bank ?

( time for me as well, i guess!)

Windows 11 adoption picking up speed, but older sibling still ahead

It's bl*dy important topic , if you ask me

Microsoft blames Outlook's wobbly weekend on 'problematic code change'

Oh, and my old trusty classic Outlook 2016 worked all this time without a hitch ! What gives ?? ;-)

Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running

I have two laptops from 2008, use them both semi-frequently and they simply refuse to die

Re: What is dead may never die

Thanks for that!

Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen

Re: Memories...

Give it a try! I dabbled with it recently and loved it !

London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds

Re: Where is this site hosted?

runs fine for me every time

China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC

Re: Very nice coverage, thanks

thank you!

Re: Very nice coverage, thanks

which version? (how many billions)

tia

Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade

I have a 2016 Lenovo laptop that I upgraded from Ubuntu Mate 20.04 to 22.04 only few weeks back . 24.04 will have to wait few more years and possibly another machine.

Yes , I got kernel panic after upgrade but it was easily resolvable, thank goodness :-) /my machine has Radeon/intel combo/

After all I only needed to replace ugly new icon set with beautiful classic set, maintained in some obscure github site, and now I am happy bunny !

Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery

Re: Pick one, Google.

Now it is: Do know evil

HMD Fusion: A budget repairable smartphone with modular flair

Re: Cyber security survey bug

Sorry, you can't do that Dave! ( you're Dave, right?)

Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft

Perhaps some resourceful chaps from , say, China , grabbed the domains when they lapsed and soon, soon, soon they will start to serve tasty malware ?

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

Re: So much forgotten

Try Midnight Commander and never look back!

Your air fryer might be snitching on you to China

Re: Really?

I always thought birds recharge sitting on power lines ...

Huawei's farewell to Android isn't a marketing move, it's chess

It is enough when ..

they mandate the new platform for all party cadres, public servants, teachers etc.etc. It means tens of millions of new customers

But ..

..you have older version, not the new version (Next), which apparently has no Android compat ?

Fujitsu claims 634-gram 14-inch Core i7 laptop is world's lightest

You could have two: main laptop and "field" laptop.

I have such "field" laptop , always in a car in a bag under booth cover.

In theory it lasts 8 hours on one charge, which for me means ~2 months ;-)

It is _very_ handy, when I need it to do some off-hand remote work

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

no way

where is money in this ?

/ this processor is likely purely for Chinese market /

Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS

"That's tough" , one exec at some powerful publishing company, was heard, while sipping his Dom Perignon.

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

Re: Just slap fines on store managers ..

It worked, didn't it.. :-(

Just slap fines on store managers ..

.. amounting to 21 million pound in total, and all will be well !

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund throws cash at FreeBSD and Samba

Kudos to German government then

Thank you!

/ I never thought I would write it, but here it is!/

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster

Agile !!!!!!1!!111!

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship

Re: Serious question about Blind..

go to ArsTechnica forums for comparison with El Reg.

Absolute dovnwote-fest in my experience.

This forum is gentlemen's club in comparison ...

OS/2 expert channeled a higher power to dispel digital doom vortex

If Rohan's friend didn't skimp on sacrificial goat, services of wizard would not be needed. Alas.

Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why

Re: 5 years is no longer "old"

... aaaannd that's the problem! Help! Somebody do something!

Research suggests more than half of VMware customers are looking to move

Re: Open source replacements not good enough ?

Austrian

Apple owes billions in back taxes over Ireland state aid rule break

N O T E N O U G H

M O A R R R ! ! !

Down and out: Aegon's pension pothole and TfL's mystery 'maintenance'

Re: Aegon

It's expensive to run two in parallel. Management doesn't like expensive. It tends to eat into their bonuses. All will be well.

NASA confirms who is flying and who is not on SpaceX Crew Dragon

Re: Movie titles

Also other comes to mind : Not good, Bad And Ugly.

( .. or some such, I may have misremembered a word or so)

;-)

Big Tech got its 'next billion' – but there's three billion people still offline

Three billion people there without our ads? That's SO wrong!

Facebook prank sent techie straight to Excel hell

Nothing funny about it, i guess

You know what spreadsheets need? LLMs, says Microsoft

Can't they just ask ChatGPT to create this spreadsheet reading system for them ?

I've heard it so amazing and can do wonders ! /s

Twitter grew an incredible '1.6%' since Musk's $44B takeover. Amazing. Wow

At least it didn't shrink ...

.. with so many claiming to be leaving it.

Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time

Yeah, and while Oracle's engineering team may be less than stellar, it's legal division is top notch, I would guess !

Re: How does this play out for Oracle ?

Bravo!

Google’s in-house docs about search ranking leak online, sparking SEO frenzy

Re: Do no..............

Do know evil

Manjaro 24 is Arch Linux for the rest of us

Re: I feel so old...

You might like Mint, then

I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug

Re: You should just make an arxiv writeup

I propose : LLaMe Duck Go. ;-)

Put Rescuezilla 2.5 on a bootable key – before you need it

I will try to keep this name in memory for a rainy day

Thank you.

Techie's enthusiasm for decluttering fails to spark joy

PM

My life lesson is to never do defrag on very old computer with fittingly old HDD. Ever. It may relocate ,say, root directory to a disk track that looked good, but turned out it wasn't. Doesn't boot now? Ouch. Oops.

There wasn't happy ending in my case..