* Posts by Spazturtle

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Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS

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Out of interest which laws require websites to work on Firefox?

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Soon only Chrome will remain, now that web devs no longer need to make their websites work on Safari they can completely abandon web standards and make their websites dependant on Google's proprietary features.

Oracle AI buzz means Larry Ellison's worth $15B more today

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They know that once the government has screwed up AI projects with other vendors they will then come crawling to Oracle by which time they will have an overpriced solution to sell.

Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in

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Re: Using phrases such as "Genetically predisposed to violence" ...

We accept that genetics have a role in behaviour in every other animals but somehow we are meant to believe that humans are magically different.

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Yes, removing people who are genetically predisposed to violence from the gene pool had a long lasting effect of reducing violent crime in the UK.

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Under the bloody code over 220 crimes were punishable by the death penalty, it is time to bring it back. Punch somebody in a bar? Death. Set a 5G tower on fire? Death. Etc.

Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident

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Airlines are responsible for ensuring that pilots get at least 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep, if a pilot gets awoken in the middle of the night by their kid then this resets the clock. No matter how they spin it the airline is at fault. If incident like it repeatedly happen then other countries will revoke the airlines overflight permission, nobody wants a plane falling on their country.

Airbnb warns hosts who use indoor security cameras they may face eviction

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But the lounge area of a hotel is not a private space. Only the bathroom and bedroom are private.

Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout

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Re: "Paper Trail ..."... "..paperwork..."

No they use two computer systems, one is the unofficial log which everyone has access to and the other is the official log which only Boeing staff can make entries in. This does create the issue that if contractors start and finish a job quickly Boeing staff might not know about it so it will won't be recorded on the official log.

HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts

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Re: A fool and his money

I already have access to "print as a service". It is called a print shop, and I am not tied into any long subscriptions.

Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little

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Re: Year of the BSD on desktop

There are only two Linux variants that I know of that are popular, the mainline kernel and the Android kernel fork. Nearly all distros use one of those.

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Yeah if number of running kernels was the goal then we should celebrate MINIX 3 as the most popular OS given that it is what all these management engines built into CPUs run.

Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries

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That mindset exists in the west only, in the orient businessmen are still big fans of conglomerates, which is why companies like Samsung keep everything in house even if it is worse then what they could get by going 3rd party.

What a surprise! Apple found a way to deliver browser engine and app store choice

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And how does that stop your kids from installing a 3rd party app store? Or your elderly mother following the instructions from a scammer who has called?

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Except you can't lock them down as tightly as iOS was before, and many users won't know how to anyway.

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Previously they had the choice of buying a locked down platform or an open platform. Now they can only buy an open platform.

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Yes but the fact that is it possible is enough of a worry in itself. For example you now need to worry that your kids might install a 3rd party app store to bypass parental controls, or your elderly mother might click on a disguised advert and follow the instructions to install malware.

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Hopefully there is someway to permanently disable the ability to install 3rd party app stores, preferably with a hardware fuse. Otherwise iOS devices have lost one of their main attractions and users have less choice than before.

Supermium drags Google Chrome back in time to Windows XP, Vista, and 7

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Couldn't you move it to a VM on a new machine? Presumably the dongle is either USB or serial. If the dongle has issues being passed through to the VM then plug in a PCI-e USB or Serial card and pass the whole PCI-e card through to the VM.

Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works

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Re: Bitcoin mining 2.0?

EDIT: Opps, for the 8 GPUs per 1U it should be 384kW for a 48U rack.

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Which is why backside power delivery is the next big thing in chips, so that the wire run inside the chip is minimised.

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Re: Bitcoin mining 2.0?

You can fit 4 GPUs into a 2U air-cooled SXM server, so for a 48U rack that is 96kW of GPUs alone, then add the CPUs, other parts and the monster fans you need to cool 4kW+ from a 2U chassis. For water-cooled SXM servers you can get 8 GPUs per 1U so 192kW per 48U rack.

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These won't be PCI-e cards, they plug into a big CPU style socket called SXM. I can't find a pinout diagram so this is just a guess, but at 12v you have could have 1000 pins carrying 0.08A.

HDMI Forum 'blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers'

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Re: Does AMD

Earlier HDMI was just DVI with a custom connector.

HDMI 2.0 and onwards are a completely different spec, packet based like DisplayPort.

AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales

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Re: Makes sense not to sell to Russia...

Given Xi Jinping's behaviour it is pretty much a guarantee that there will be a war between the west and China within the next 15 years. When China's economy collapses due to their demographics the CCP will be overthrown, so they will start a war to invade Taiwan before that happens to try and distract the population.

German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

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Re: Paranoia Is Mandatory In 2024!!

"So why is anyone surprised when we learn that the Russians have figured out some of the Fort Meade "enhancements" to Cisco products?"

The Russians didn't hack in or intercept anything, the meeting was left open and a Russian agent simply joined it and left his camera off.

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

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Social justice is the term Hitler used to describe punishing people for the supposed crimes of their ancestors and others of their racial group, it's the argument he used as justification for going after the Jews.

On-disk format change beckons for brave early adopters of Bcachefs

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Re: I don't trust btrfs either...

Yeah I have lost systems to btrfs before as well, every time they promise it is now stable some new data eating bug pops up.

Today in tech layoffs: Sony Interactive and Expedia

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Just to add that Jim Ryan was in London for his retirement party 5 days ago hosted by the very studio that Sony just shut, being the head of Sony's gaming division he would have known.

So he had made them throw him a party and then shut them down.

That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow's probably going to try again

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Facebook and Google won't send embassy staff to beat you up on the street or send agents to kill you.

Capita wins uncontested extension to mega millions Northern Ireland Education contract

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Capita is a very poor company to have shares in, their share price has plummeted and they haven't paid dividends since 2017.

Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks

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Re: Fire in haste, regret at leisure

It doesn't need to be proven, if a judge asks you to provide the password and you don't then they can just throw you in prison for contempt.

UK courts do not accept forgetting a password as a valid excuse for not providing it.

The same applies if the police ask you to provide a password under a Section 49 notice of the Regulations of Investigatory Powers Act.

Just don't fuck around with this sort of thing to try and troll somebody, just tell them to fuck off and block their number.

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Re: Fire in haste, regret at leisure

Careful with that, UK law considers passwords to be the same as physical keys, so they remain the property of your employer. What you are suggesting can land you in the dock for extortion.

Trident missile test a damp squib after rocket goes 'plop,' fails to ignite

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Re: What the hell?

"Still not convinced it was cheaper than a steel or titanium tube."

It was because they purchased sheets of pre-impregnated carbon fibre that Boeing was getting rid of because they had expired (already cured too much waiting to be used).

When I first read about the sub I assumes that they had ring spun the whole tube as a single piece of carbon fibre, but no, they got a plastic tube and started sticking sheets of carbon fibre to it overlapping them. They might of well have used papier-mâché.

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Re: What the hell?

In practice it wasn't made out of carbon fibre, it was made out of the glue holding the carbon fibre together.

The carbon fibres in carbon fibre composite provide no strength in compression. Like a piece of string when you push both ends together they just crumple up. The carbon fibres only add strength when it expansion, so when each end is being pulled. Which is why they are so good for compressed gas tanks where the pressure is on the inside.

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Re: What the hell?

US subs are also steel, only the USSR made titanium subs. Titanium subs have the issue that they are limited to around 300 dives due to micro cracks accumulating in the hull. Steel hulls don't have this limit due to the 'self-healing' capability of steel.

Rice isn't nice for drying your iPhone, according to Apple

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Re: Maybe isopropyl alcohol ?

"Or just shut the thing in a box with a small peltier dehumidifier ?"

Or just use Silica Gel Desiccant?

Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed

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Re: Long term care after the tech is declared obsolete

From what I have read it is highly unlikely that the patients selected for this trial will live beyond the length of the trail due to the nature of their illnesses.

The FDA requires that the device either last for the remainder of the patient's natural life or there be an approved process for removing it, since we have not seen Nuralink submit a process for removing it we can assume that they have gone for the first option. Once the patient is dead they will likely use the body to develop the removal process prior to testing it on living patients.

WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age

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Re: Ingenuity also far outlived all expectations before its retirement.

And how do you expect Congress to react when NASA comes to them asking for more money for a new rover/probe after shutting down a working rover?

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Re: Ingenuity also far outlived all expectations before its retirement.

Lasting longer than planned does have downsides.

Spirit and Opportunity had a listed mission of 90 days but engineers expected them to last 120 days before the solar panels got covered in dust. They didn't know about the wind being able to clean the solar panels until after landing. Spirit and Opportunity lasting years longer meant that extra staff and budget had to be allocated to them which meant that over projects got cancelled.

Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it!

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Re: cool beans!

"half of that is waiting for the Bios to do whatever it does" "64Gb memory"

The more memory you have the longer it takes to initialise all of it.

Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all

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Alcohol is a bad choice for cleaning product as it damages all the seals that re used on cars for example around the windows. Petrol is a better choice and is what people used with the DeLorean.

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This is one of the reasons why airlines stopped using 'naked' liveries for their planes. Even aluminium corrodes too fast if unprotected, so they needed a clear coat to protect them. But the clear coats actually weigh more than white paint.

Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it

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Re: This must rate as the most moronic management policy ...

"What's to stop a motherboard with a battery in it having the battery tracks / pins shorted?"

The little sticker or pull tab keeping the battery disconnected during shipping. Most motherboards also can survive quite a lot of shorting, good ones even give different errors codes/LEDs for different parts shorting. A lot of people forget to use the standoffs when installing the motherboard and short it against the case.

Closure of Windows 10 upgrade path still catching users by surprise

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Re: To be fair…

The easiest way to get a Win 10 licence associated with a Microsoft account was to install Windows 7, activate it with KMS-Pico (which activates it with a generic OEM licence) and then download the Windows 10 upgrader and run it.

Upgrading a copy of Windows 7 that used a consumer licence key was much less reliable at getting a Win 10 licence added to your account.

Fujitsu finance chief says sorry for IT giant's role in Post Office Horizon scandal

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I don't think he is unwilling to do it, I think he is just incapable of doing his job. Look at his flagship new bills, banning disposable vapes, this is the sort of thing that is normally done by backbenchers with private member bills.

Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes

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"There is no 1st Amendment right to make porn with someone's image"

That's not what people were saying when newspapers published comics of Trump sucking Putin's penis.

Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion

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Re: If the didn't insist on sticking with a monolithic kernel they wouldn't have these arguments...

The Management Engine in all modern Intel CPUs runs Minix 3 which is a microkernel OS. The Nintendo 3DS and Switch run a microkernel OS called Horizon.

Logitech warns of logistical impact of Houthi attacks in Red Sea

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Re: Welcome to the future

This is part of why Turkey/Azerbaijan have recently renewed conflict with Armenia. Erdogan wants to establish a pan-Turkic empire, you could have an overland/rail trade route going Turkey-Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan and onwards.

Microsoft hires energy mavericks in quest for nuclear-powered datacenters

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Re: I finally wish them well

No sure if you are aware but they have had multiple changes in leadership and philosophy since then.

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