Posts by MrRtd

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.

Microsoft's TV product placement horror: CNN mistakes Surface tabs for iPAD stands

Re: I hate product placement...

Good product placement is when it's done discreetly, practically subliminal. It should never be obvious.

Trolls pop malformed heads above bridge to sling abuse at Tim Cook

Re: Personally

If the Westboro Cult is protesting you, you're most likely doing something right!

Redmond top man Satya Nadella: 'Microsoft LOVES Linux'

Embrace, extend and extinguish

Hey, iPhone 6 fanbois: Apple's bonk to 'Pay' app IS GO

Re: Anybody here use Google Wallet before?

Head over to Reddit, plenty-o-thumbs-down for asking questions.

Adobe CSO offers Oracle security lesson: Go click-to-play

Re: I make flash run as Click to play

Rather than using flashblock, I just changed the settings for the Flash plugin to Ask to Activate. You will also get prompted to activate Flash on sites that have no reason for using flash except for those secret Flash cookies.

Jony Ive: Flattered by rivals' designs? Nah, its 'theft'

This guy is an iDouche.

I've got a new Linux box, how does it work... WOAH, only asking :-/

Ha!

Windows is too hard for Windows users.

Windows 10 feedback: 'Microsoft, please do a deal with Google to use its browser'

Re: Stop. Just Stop.

Firefox doesn't bundle any crap that I'm aware of, do you mind giving an example?

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But all the other browsers look similar to Firefox Australis, so I don't see what point there was in switching. Plus with Firefox you are able to make it look and act just like the older versions (something I and many others have done).

HP's axe swings AGAIN: 5,000 more staffers for the chop

Makes you wonder what work if any, all of these thousands of workers were doing.

But with more layoffs, the stock should surely go higher. We all know those job creator investors love it when layoffs are announced.

Vanished blog posts? Enterprise gaps? Welcome to Windows 10

I tried out Windows 10 yesterday for a few hours. Aesthetically, it quite boring. Just more flat square blandness (I feel that Win7 was prettier). It was nice to unpin all the Tiles from the start menu, which is a huge improvement over Win8 start screen.

What I don't really like is the requirement of having an online Microsoft account and the defaults are a concern in relation to privacy. I especially hate the "Not recommended" suggestions Microsoft displays when turning off online connectivity for various apps. Then to uninstall pre-installed apps, you wont find them in the usual place (Programs section of the Control Panel), rather you need to go to PC Settings, Search and apps, App sizes. Maybe this will change, but for now it appears somewhat disorganized.

Overall I'm not really that impressed, the default pushes all things "cloudy", which to may appeal to some but not so much for anyone valuing privacy.

NYC, LA mayors hammer Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger

Re: Just Say No

Apparently some mayors and non-profit organizations that received donations from Comcast have written the FCC, stating that they support the merger.

Talk about blatant payoffs. No need for fat brown envelopes when they can legally bribe just about anyone.