Posts by khjohansen

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue

Re: "a large US-based aircraft company"

"Locjkheed and Northrop" more likely to have their failures covered up by the DoD - TFTFY!

Re: FOOF

I'm getting some .. 1930es *German Rocketry* vibes ... here!

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Re: “Smeared with Jam”

All Mod Cons!

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger

Re: Re middle finmnger

Former leader of Uganda ... but, well :>

Re: Can't remember keys...

C is copy, X is cut! ;)

Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first

Re: Bond movie

Does the villain cover the White House in gold as part of some sinister plot?

MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian

Re: Thank goodness she said Python

Isn't the relevant profession "universal exports"??

Repent ye inefficient – the ‘Palantir-ization’ of IT services is upon us

Re: If you own the meaning of the words

Tautological Gobble-de-gook ... See, I also know words!

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

Re: Yet another one

Unlikely - all the phat ones go through the UK:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/submarine-cables/

ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software

Re: Apple Store is not a speech platform

Ahh Yes ... But as the AG is ON RECORD as directing Apple to remove the app, it's not about Apple policies, but Gov. overreach!

Re: Not a good situation

"Open Borders" my ... backside!

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-deportation-record

The current ICE theatre (for some reason mostly in areas with "majority Democrat voters") is about provoking a "state of emergency"

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Re: different results over time for exactly the same prompts

Rupert Hine ??

It's a good time to be the arms dealer for the AI boom

Re: Bubbles are great ways to get rich...

Selling shovels during the Gold Rush ... !

Alibaba releases chatbot that produces error when asked about Tiananmen Square

Re: Which famous politician resembles Pooh Bear?

Mud Grass Horse??

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world

Chapter 13??

RaaS

Religion as a Service??

Ex-CISA head thinks AI might fix code so fast we won't need security teams

Quality training

Where will we find the "best practice" software on which to train AI ?

Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware

Re: Non-Union

Not buying it!

Student employees would be covered by the Collective Agreement, surely! Or would this be one of those fake "this workplace only" unions, in the pocket of the employer?

AI boffins teach office supplies to predict your next move

Batteries ... for the weak!

You can still get those - where the "smart" functions are a trigger, actuated by paper (or any object!!), and a "almost out of staples" light!

https://www.lomax.dk/kontorartikler/skrivebordstilbehoer/haeftemaskiner/rapid-r5080e-el-haeftemaskine--80-ark--graa-8401124/

Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work

Re: Disguised recession

"Money thrown at net zero" - I dunno about UK, but in Denmark it means real money/jobs putting up solar/wind turbines

Dell enters the earbud market with kit you can control from the cloud

Re: Shorted

When I hear "Dell" and "capacitors" I think of Optiplexes and capacitors quite capable of shorting themselves ...

UK chancellor Putin the blame on Russia for cyber chaos, but evidence says otherwise

Re: Evidence

I'd take Rik Mayall - he did a somewhat related role in "The new Statesman"!

Jaguar Land Rover U-turns to confirm 'some data' affected after cyber prang

Re: Jagar?

... JAAAaaaaGG </Clarkson>

NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far

Re: Where astronomy meets gastronomy

Look at those cavemen go / it's the freakiest show!

It's AI all the way down as Google's AI cites web pages written by AI

AI centipede

... DON'T google for teh humanoid alternative!

Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers

RE: Re: FUD

"vastly enriching a country run by an aggressive dictatorship" ... sarcasm??

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo

India hails 'first' home-grown chip as a milestone despite very modest specs

Self reliance

Having a home-grown source for more pedestrian applications - like automotive & household appliances - has inherent benefits.

Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off

Re: "a beacon of identity amid the vast seascape of discourse..."

Uuhhh ... amanfrommars is that the new you??

Trump's gold-plated smartphone can't seem to decide which design to copy

Re: Success Awaits

" Campaign contributions shall not be infringed " /cynicism

Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative

Re: Dead reckoning

A sextant on a submersible is .. ahh ... impractical?

Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results

Re: Sometimes..

Did it still look/work like an oven after fitting? This makes all the difference!

Nvidia gives its tiniest workstation GPUs a Blackwell boost

Re: ... within a 70-watt energy diet

Somehow the SFF card gets by on half ... https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/professional-desktop-gpus/

(Oh the memory BW is two-thirds)

The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

Re: Since when do the dead have rights?

... Only if you're Republican! ( look up difference in sentences, Edward Snodgrass vs. Crystal Mason cases)

AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev

Re: Sympathy?

... we have no records of this "John Connor"!

Trump teases ‘approximately’ 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors

To the US aerospace, defence & auto industries ...

Good luck, it was nice knowing you!

Microsoft gives in to Chromebook bullies and drops Windows 11 SE

Early Bird

- don't even mention the Early Worm!

Elon outs $16.5B Samsung chip deal Tesla asked to keep secret

Re: So....

... Clown Extra Ordinaire ...

Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress

If we can't use Huawei B/C "hostile power"

... how can we trust Microsoft with our data??

US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery

Re: Thank you

Organize - Unionize- collective bargaining is the way to $$

Re: Bottom

You're playing into the exploiters hands by confusing race with class warfare ...

RE: Before socialism

Karl Marx "Das Kapital" 1st print was 1867, the Paris Commune was 1871, thus socialism/communism were well established before Bismarck became chancellor.

RE: Less Dynamic ...

Make your mind up, please!

Is Europe a stagnant cesspool, or a multi-cultural globalist cauldron ... >;)

Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

This level of "service" used to be reserved for royalty ...

N/T

Re: They do it over there but they (shouldn't) do it here ...

I, as a private person, saw these people acting funny in a public place ... there's no reasonable expectation of privacy

Ex-US soldier who Googled 'can hacking be treason' pleads guilty to extortion

Re: Join the Army, they said

Well I guess it will be - for *slightly* longer and with fewer promotions than anticipated...

Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start

Re: "Short of running a full verification process on each update"

Your magazines had CDs - Pfftt! Back in my day, we had to type in the programs from the page ... hobbling both ways on our stumps, through the deluge of frogs & grashoppers!

Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror

Remember this on TV when I was a young'un!

Some emphasis was (AFAICR) put on the fact that the Apollo was in an unusually low orbit - as the Soyuz couldn't go higher.

BOFH: The auditor is asking too many questions. We have just the laptop for that

Re: "A few gators and a swamp"

Or a few hogs .. Or so I'm told

<Bricktop>"You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes." </Bricktop>

Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax

Re: Idiotic tariff nonsense

... Oh but remember to think of the poor E-suite and their bonuses!

HPE Aruba boasts that when network problems come along, its AI will whip them into shape

Baby AI !!??

We're already babysitting Users & Manglement ... ;>