Posts by skalamanga

Wikimedia’s 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created

Re: Wikipedia is quite good

You think that hasn't happened yet?

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Literally the only limiting factor for me is a small group of 3rd party software. Solidworks, Autodesk, Ableton, NativeInstruments.

If Valve's gaming efforts can also handle these, I have zero use for windows at all.

Clippy rises from the dead in major update to Copilot and its voice interface

Wrong way round

Sorry, but when you click on mico, what actually happens is clippy lifts the mask. It's been clippy all along. Always has been.

Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload

So it's not the badly written vscode extension API at fault?

Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects

I honestly thought better of Register readers. This is not just about someone's views, the people in question were actively involved in cases of cyber bullying within the developer community.

Everyone has different views, but toxic and bigoted behaviour should not be tolerated or rewarded.

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions

Re: "Heating systems in Europe are unique"

Just to clarify, the USA aren't even in the top 10 on the world freedom index. Yes, it's a thing

Re: Honeywell

I've had an opentherm compatible boiler in the UK for nearly 2 decades.

The software implementation supplied with any hardware should be considered a default implementation, and not the only a available one.

OEMs need to stop insisting that devices are locked down for security and to protect the warranty. They should be forced to provide or use freely available recovery tooling and complete BSP support so devices can be modified by the owner however they choose.

Workers: Yes, RTO makes sense. No, we’re not going to do it

No, workers absolutely do not think rto is a good idea.

The whole lockdown thing took so much pressure of physical infrastructure it could have saved trillions in maintenance costs and upgrades. This money could have been used to give digital infrastructure a massive boost, but now we're basically back to struggling in congestion for large parts of the day.

Microsoft promises to eventually make WinUI 'truly open source'

why?

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Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals

Same should be true for all mobile and computer manufacturers, tvs, printers, everything.

There should be a freely available support package containing all the sources for all the components in any device.

Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp

Says the maga anonymous coward

Google slips built-in terminal, Debian Linux VM into Android 15 March feature drop

Re: Termux

Yeah, no. Won't fit in my pocket

C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'

Dear Bjarne...

Please do this in 2015...

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer

If you find Rust syntax hard to understand, that's a you problem. Calling it garbage because you have no idea how to read it just shows off your own limitations.

No Microsoft "engineers" in the rust kernel, please.

Samsung and pals Hyundai, Kia team for software-defined cars, IoT integration

Re: This is stupid

They need to bad roadside advertising then.

Re: This is stupid

Firstly, because you arent supposed to be using your phone while driving. Secondly, I'm more confused why this is something new.

I've been doing this for several years when I'm driving home to turn on my espresso machine so it's warm when I get there.

What I'd like it to do is use my location and traffic data to do this without me asking.

Things are going Z-shaped at Huawei: Chinese giant preps three-screen folding smartphone

Been waiting at least 2 years for this. A regular screen sized front display that's not wasted when unfolded into a wide-screen

Still bewildering that samsung didn't use 'V' fold, and save the 'Z' moniker for this.

Lenovo to offer Android PCs, starting with an all-in-one that can pack a Core i9

The latest ota on my lenovo p11 5g broke 5ghz tethering. Lenovo support tried to tell me it was Google's fault and they are not responsible for software issues at all.

UK Online Safety Bill to become law – and encryption busting clause is still there

I forgot my password

Just in case anyone asks, I cant remember where I put it.

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

The first real use I got out of my i7 pixel slate came after I installed ArchLinux on it.

Chromeos is complete trash.

First of Tesla's 'bulletproof' Cybertrucks clunks off production line

The first ever design document got leaked on line. It was drawn in crayon and titled "my cybertruk by Elon age 7½"

Rumours are that it reached revision 3 for production...

FYI: BMW puts heated seats, other features behind paywall

Re: Third party app store?

You seem to be implying that Audi's carplay would be cheaper than BMW's

Good one!

Re: Monthly?

Seriously? I think you have that backwards, it's air conditioning you only need for 2 days a year in the UK.

I'm sure there was a case recently when tesla autopilot was removed from a used car when it was sold on

Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

The return of mousejiggle.exe

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Microsoft defends intrusive dialog in Visual Studio Code that asks if you really trust the code you've been working on

Microsoft also think its a good idea to open an intrusive dialog box asking if I'm sure I want to save the file I just clicked on, then open another intrusive dialog box asking if I really want to run the file I literally just downloaded!

Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech

It's just not enough that flash goes away, it needs to be repeatedly stomped on, waterboarded and told its mother was a whore.

What happens when a Chrome extension with 2m+ users changes hands, raises red flags, doesn't document updates? Let's find out

Re: Who still uses extensions in Chrome anyway?

Plenty of chrome extensions work just fine.

Why on earth would you be using a 32bit browser?

Ad blocking made Google throw its toys out of the pram – and now even more control is being taken from us

AI based adblocking services incoming in 3....2....

Vodafone: Yes, we slurp data on customers' network setups, but we do it for their own good

Time to rename all my wifi smart bulbs and connect up that box of esp8266's. Might as well spoof the mac addresses while I'm at it.

Mozilla says Firefox won't defang ad blockers – unlike a certain ad-giant browser

Re: Ads

Same here. My advice to all the vendors out there is, I may buy you products and/or services. I will seek them out if I am interested in them. If I see ads from you however, this will guarantee that I will not.

Uncle Sam wants to read your tweets, check out your Instagram, log your email addresses before you enter the Land of the Free on a visa

Fine, here's my google+ details....

Lenovo kicks down door of MWC, dumps a stack of sexy new ThinkPads

Two words that just do not sit well together are 'sexy' and 'thinkpad'

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The chips are down: Now Microsoft blames Intel CPU supply shortages for dips in Windows, Office sales

I'm moving away from windows for the simple reason that I cannot work with an operating system that will not let me decide if and when updates are installed!

Florida man stumbles on biggest prime number after working plucky i5 CPU for 12 days straight

Sounds like Florida man finally got his shit together...

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Google: All right, screw it, from this Christmas, Chrome will block ALL adverts on dodgy sites

Can they block cookie warnings and George overlays as well?

Microsoft: You don't want to use Edge? Are you sure? Really sure?

Reported as a bug

Issue: the windows 10 web browser download tool is broken

Steps to recreate: open browser download tool, navigate to browser website of choice, run installer.

What should happen?: browser download tool should not be a whiny bitch about being ignored and not taken seriously.

What does happen?: browser download tool is a whiny bitch about being ignored and not taken seriously.

Xeon-bashing Tachyum claims its Prodigy CPU will run AI jobs as well as traditional apps

I also have an unfinished cpu design that will be faster and more feature rich than a Xeon...

Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Runtime installers were built to fail

Why the feck do the msvcrt libraries, amongst other things, not come pre installed?!?

EU wants one phone plug to rule them all. But we've got a better idea.

Screw plugs, I want magnetic contacts

Something like hdbaset or thunderbolt, but using pogo pins and a magnetic locator. Make it flat and round with 4 pairs of terminals so it can connect in four different axes and handshake each pair on connection. Put a hole in the centre so it can be permanently locked in plac with a screw.

Windows is coming to Chromebooks… with Google’s blessing

Give me crostini for Windows apps so I can run solidworks on a chromebook, I'll be happy

Get drinking! Abstinence just as bad for you as getting bladdered

Re: The most important conclusion...

Well, with that attitude!

Wasn't that an Ozzy Osbourne trick? Except he was drinking red wine in pint glasses.

Re: What?

So it has to be 'exactly' 14 units per week? If I go tee total for three weeks then throw all 56 units down my gullet on the last Friday night of the month, does that work?

Re: One little pill?

Drinking more than your doctor "says" he drinks

Samsung’s new phone-as-desktop is slick, fast and ready for splash-down ... somewhere

I have the 8th gen dex dock, I really wish Samsung would have done it the way the Huawei mate pro did it by using just a cable.

I bought a generic type c dongle with hdmi, usb, ethernet and type c pd passthrough which I use more than the dex dock.

Wearable hybrids prove the bloated smartwatch is one of Silly Valley's biggest mistakes

I frequently write my shopping list while driving home from work. Since it's illegal to touch my phone while driving, and writing with a pencil and paper is frowned upon while behind the wheel, adding things using my smartwatch is a solution I find worth while.

Clean up this hot sticky facial-recog mess for us, Microsoft begs politicos

When your headline writer suddenly changes direction...

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