Posts by MrRtd

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome

Re: DuckDuckGo

That problem isn't exclusive to DDG, it can be seen using any of search engines.

Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer

Agreed! Windows 11 start menu is atrocious. I'm annoyed every time I use it.

'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it

Re: If only there was an alternative OS

Init freedom as long as it not systemd. That doesn't sound like very freedom like.

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all

Being buddy buddy with the most corrupt US government ever certainly has helped them.

Corruption often pay well in the short term...I wonder how long it'll last?

Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips

The comedic AI output is useful. Everyone needs a good laugh now & then.

How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out

While that is concerning, there's a much bigger problem, namely the Putin puppet in the White House, in fact the entire trump admin. is nearly completely compromised.

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

Re: Good at some things

Asking AI to re-write your CV - questionable at best.

Asking AI to write a cover letter - also questionable at best.

Both these tasks (I actually tested it out) do not do a good job. Long winded/not particularly concise, may not emphasize the areas of achievement/skills you want to highlight that are most related to a particular position your applying for.

You end up with wordy resumes and cover letters that tend to get all frequently used generic terms that the AI was trained on.

How to find forgotten Wi-Fi passwords and SSIDs in Windows and Android

It's your own device and you entered those passwords. The idea I think is that since you entered those passwords, there's no reason to permanently keep them hidden from yourself.

Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her

Of course they wont. The Republican party is a criminal organization. The fact they picked a unrepentant convicted felon to be president says a lot, and that they haven't removed him or any of his administration that break laws says the rest.

Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore

Just don't go.

I wouldn't head to the USA to study, vacation, or work, even if it were free. Why chance being rounded up by masked thugs (who may or may not be working for the government) and potentially shipped off to a foreign concentration camp in a 3rd country?

Huawei's latest notebook shows China is still generations behind in chipmaking

Re: Still generations behind

I'll take your word on that, however, one of my desktops is from 2016 and for most things it's fast enough, so this idea whether they're behind 2 or 5 years isn't a huge story. They'll soon catch up and will be a very strong competitor.

Amazon CISO: Iranian hacking crews ‘on high alert’ since Israel attack

Here's a non-AI summary:

Israel's attack made everything worse.

Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush

Re: FFS

Are you suggesting leaving the cocaine industry largely in the hands of gangs is not the ideal option?

Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone

You mean to tell me that a program that ingested vast amounts of biased data, is then going to further those those biases? This should not surprise anyone.

AI seems to need an endless supply of safeguards.

Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship

I really feel like this extension should be included in Gnome. A lot of people don't care for the way Gnome does things by default and I bit more built in options would be appreciated by some.

GNOME 48 lands with performance boosts, new fonts, better accessibility

Re: Gnome3.....Gnome4..........Ughhhhhhhhhh!!!!

6 million Ubuntu users all using Gnome, maybe or maybe not. The Ubuntu numbers doesn't mention which desktop environment. I'm going to assume they pooled all desktop Ubuntu's into that number because it looks better. It's also easy enough to start with Ubuntu Gnome but any user with minimal experience can install other DE. That said, I'm sure Gnome has the largest share of Ubuntu users simply because it's the default.

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

"whitelist El Reg"

I do have my ad blocker disabled for your site, the problem for you is that I have google advertising blocked by way of my hosts file, and you don't seem to have any other advertising. I don't apologize, you know what you need to do - there are other ways to show ads without using Google.

So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?

Considering the USA is basically now West Russia, the question should be "Can Russia be a cyber threat to itself?"

Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke

Re: Are we the baddies?

"Either way, not accepting the subscription model means not accepting the benefits of continuous improvements"

Sometimes those "improvements" are not improvements at all. Software companies love shoving new UI and other changes that nobody ask for and don't really improve work flows or anything.

Trump’s tariffs, cuts may well put tech in a chokehold, say analysts

No sympathy from me. All the big players in the tech sector bowed down to trump. Whatever happens now is their own fault.

Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge

Talk about first world problems

At this point, in office requirements are the least of any American's problem.

US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt

Re: Tanks and drones are obsolete

I know sarcasm is sometimes hard to spot online, but I think that comment was pretty obvious.

Zuckerberg says Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts

Disagree. The government was right to pressure them. This just makes Zuck look like an idiotic heartless bastard that's okay with all death Covid and covid-adjacent conspiracies and misinformation caused.

Linux Deepin 23: A polished distro from China that Western desktops could learn from

Despite the highly subjective opinion of the author, I rather like having all the options KDE have built in, and as for looks, I don't want my desktop to look like a Windows or Mac Clone. And another thing, I can't stand the detached floating menu, just as I don't like the detached tabs in Firefox.

Reddit hopes robots.txt tweak will do the trick in scaring off AI training data scrapers

Re: Poisoning the honey pot

"Instead of blocking non-compliant bots, why not feed them a pile of gibberish, misinformation and random garbage."

How is that different than what reddit is already?

Manjaro 24 is Arch Linux for the rest of us

Re: I found Endeavour a better choice

I am a long time Manjaro user - what do you mean the stealth upgrade of Thunderbird to flatpak? Are you saying this happened on Manjaro, if so that's complete rubbish - it did not happen.

Apple broke the law with anti-union tactics in NYC, labor watchdog barks

Re: I don't get it...

Lazy management might do it that way, but seniority isn't the only factor they consider when a position opens up.

I was once an employee in a unionised workplace, and I can speak from experience that seniority is only one of the considerations, I got a position I applied for even though there were a couple of others who also applied with more seniority but they didn't get the job for various reasons like bad attendance, and what not. I also had more experience for the position outside that organization too.

Elon Musk can't wriggle out of SEC Twitter fraud inquiry

Re: Huh?

Nope. You believe incorrectly. There was never a get out of the sale for a billion clause. It would have been lunacy for Twitter to include such a clause if it meant they would lose out on the other 40-something billion.

Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday

Re: Being remote is career limiting

"It will be the best people that they lose."

That is only partially true. Have you stopped and considered some of the best people may actually like being in the office. Also considering many businesses are also doing the return to office and others are doing layoffs there may be less "best" people leaving.

IBM-led advertising X-odus gains steam as more flee Musk's platform

What reputation is left for her to ruin after becoming a Musk-puppet?

Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza

Pizza snobs avert your eyes, you may not like what I've got to say.

If I were Australian I wouldn't be worried about being blackmailed. I like pineapple and I'm not ashamed to say I like it sometimes on some types of pizza. It goes great with ham, bacon, pepperoni, possibly other meats too, but I'm not a heathen, I would not pair pineapple with toppings such as anchovy or olives...

Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs

Re: 50% not needed...

Yeah, so profitable that he's somehow not able to pay rent?

Google Chrome calculates your autoplay settings so you don't have to - others disagree

I use Firefox Beta on Android, and uBlock Origin works.

ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer

Well, Microsoft can clear this up by opening up the code. As long as it's closed-source there really isn't any reason to believe anything they say.

Munich council: To hell with Linux, we're going full Windows in 2020

Re: Politics is nothing to do with it.

Only someone that hasn't paid attention to what's going on here would say it has nothing to do with politics.

New York Police scrap 36,000 Windows smartphones

Re: Why does she still have that job??

In her case yes she is obviously overpaid. But otherwise most civil servants get paid a livable fair wage (at least where I live in Canada). Oh and yes even with a union if you fuck up enough you do get fired. The union just makes sure there is just cause and treated fairly. But I suppose you think big bad unions are so unfair protecting their workers from the whims of managers and negotiating better deals for them than those workers would get otherwise.

Ubuntu 15.10: More kitten than beast – but beware the claws

Re: the window control buttons are on the wrong side

I completely agree. I've tried regular Ubuntu a few times and never really liked it; on the other hand, Kubuntu provides a desktop that I like.

Kubuntu Upgrade 14.10 to 15.04

I decided against doing the dist-upgrade and did a fresh install to avoid much of the messiness going from KDE4 to KDE/Plasma 5. I am expecting the upgrade to 15.10 to be painless experience.

Ubuntu Wily gaggle builds 15.10 beta beachhead

Re: Plasma 5 regressions = features

Or the devs could listen to the users and give them what they want, rather than passive-aggressively pushing users around into alternate and ultimately unnecessary (by some) software by "upgrading" software whilst removing features, when all that needed to be done is maintain existing features that are not broken and used by many.

Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations stalled until November

Re: The TPP can best be served by...

I suspect the reason the US is out of whack with the rest of the world is that many of the multinational corporations that are insiders of the TPP are of American origin, and they want the other countries to submit to their ways which benefit them.

GOOGLE GMAIL ATE MY LINUX: Gobbled email enrages Torvalds

Re: Does not compute!

Who's this Shirley you're talking about? Surely Shirley should have been surely.

KILLER! Adobe Flash, Windows zero-day vulns leak from Hacking Team raid

Re: And this is why...

Besides using ublock an Adblock alternative, I have set Flash as click to activate. Oh, I wouldn't have any problems with ordinary ads, but it's the damn tracking that built into them.

Buh bye fakers? Amazon tweaks customer product reviews system

Re: BS, there is no will at Amazon, tech won't help.

Followed the link you provided, and was not disappointed. Based on a quick look over the reviews by the reviewer Alex, I've deduced that Alex is either a man or a woman, has children which at least one is a daughter, is over-weight, buys many life changing books, has an iphone because s/he buys lots of accessories, into photography, has a dog, into programming with Python, and every review is 4 or 5 stars. A total of 183 reviews since April 2015. Is Alex an amazonian-shopaholic or something else?

Microsoft dumps ARM for Atom with cut-price Surface 3 fondleslab

Re: MS is trapped

It's systemd, not systemD.

Avast there: MEELLIONS of Androiders scuttled by 'adware' game app

Re: Scrabble babble

Several years ago, I had a Samsung Stunt bar phone, I bought EA's Scrabble outright and never had to deal with ads. Nowadays EA is more interested in milking you for your money than selling you an enjoyable gaming experience.

One Sync to rule them all: How Microsoft plans to fix OneDrive

This is one of those web-trends that are useless and user-unfriendly, just adding unnecessary scrolling. Most often the photo's are of no practical use and add nothing to the message. I don't even bother looking at them anymore.

VPN users reckon Netflix is blocking them

Is Netflix contemplating suicide?

Netflix will lose this customer if they start blocking access. The whole reason for my Netflix subscription is because I can access all their content thanks to VPN services.

No doubt the big media companies are behind this, as we all know they are averse to providing easy cheap worldwide access to content including content that should have been in the public domain years ago if copyright laws weren't bastardized.

Couch potatoes relax: Netflix scores big STREAMING TV PATENT win

Re: great, fine, congratulations

Buying a VPN service is relatively cheap and the software is super easy to install and use, then you can enjoy Netflix from any country your VPN service has servers and Netflix operates. I don't think anyone needs to be tech savvy to do this and I'd argue if a person isn't capable of this, they probably shouldn't be using a computer.

Gorilla Glass maker gobbles Samsung's fibre optic biz

Re: Best Known?

For us in our 30's or older, would think Corning is best known for their former household products such as CorningWare, but today's younger crowd especially in IT would think equate Corning with Gorilla Glass.

TPP takes another tiny step forward

I seriously doubt that Canada would withdraw, even if the Liberals or NDP takeover next year.