Posts by m4r35n357

Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn’t worth saving

Re: nginx?

Well quite. I rely on the intelligence of the reader here, and most of the time it works ;)

I do wonder though if the story writer was aware . . .

nginx?

https://nginx.org/en/

all good there I see ;)

To 'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 has arrived

Or maybe MX should work more closely with AntiX (joke!).

I looked into this a few months ago, and (surprisingly) Devuan seemed a bit "clunky" to me, they even recommend using a "sub"-project, and their installer actually comes from one of those!

The other point is that Debian now seem to be edging closer to supporting alternative init systems - https://wiki.debian.org/Init - the process works if you have the skills and patience to to follow it. I managed to install OpenRC instead of systemd in Trixie.

Probably going to stick for now . . .

They seem to be offering a migration path to 25 which would make it much more attractive than I thought, done too many fresh installations this year! Otherwise 23 is still in support for a while.

They appear content to disappear under the pile of Ubuntu/Mint by following the crowd, but with the systemd-free option they have potentially bought some time to change their minds.

De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now

Re: Way to miss the point

Hacks have been telling devs whatr to do since the 1990s. Money for old rope.

Secret setting hints haptic feedback coming to Windows 11 UI

OW, me balls!

Please sir, can I have another?

Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… and likes what he sees

Interesting

DJB's attitude to Debian seems to have softened with time - I remember in the 1990s he absolutely refused to support Qmail on Debian because they insisted on their own directory layout, which conflicted with his intentions.

I think Qmail would have been more widely used if they had been able to agree - it was certainly an unique approach, leaning heavily on the file system for confguration!

He had an alternaltive DNS server too . . .

Keeping the lights on takes up nearly all police IT spending in England and Wales

No worries

a1 will fix things. No need for police any more, Amazon will collect.

'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages

Fucking useless - they are clearly trying to wear out the "complainers". Well done to all their customers, particularly the UK govt., for consistently and reliably rewarding their incompetence for the last 35 years, despite all our childish comments!

I suppose that was due to "herd mentality" and _seemed_ to work for a long time.

Well, you have now arrived at the slaughterhouse - enjoy.

White House says China to lift rare earth export bans, stop probes into US tech companies

Re: 2TB... will be useful “for backing up WhatsApp”

Just shovel all your data and pesonal info into the giant gob provided.

Fortytwo's decentralized AI has the answer to life, the universe, and everything

Heh, we ran one of the early PC versions of SC on an AT machine in the late '80s.

For those who are not aware (I'm sure you don't need a lecture from me!), "global optimization" is hard! You need to try all options (e.g. gradient, random, nelder-mead*), and leave them running. It all looks easy at first, until you encounter the "curse of dimensionality".

*nelder mead is unpopular with some, but I have used it succesfully even for "global" searches.

Linux vendors are getting into Ubuntu – and Snap

Re: Lies, can lies, and statistics set But #1

OK, now how about supercomputers?

Re: It's not snap that bothers me...

Yep, Debian had package dependencies well and truly sorted years before RH, who seemed not to care - I suppose they wanted to be paid to sort it out for you.

Microsoft Task Manager now tasking PCs with running multiple copies of itself

Re: Sorry Homer, there might be something donuts cannot do ...

How about Back Orifice? ;)

Re: Can still be terminated by command line

/inspired /use /of /the/ forward /slash /M$

Microsoft just revealed that OpenAI lost more than $11.5B last quarter

Re: In other words...

FFS guys the word is "buses"!

There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing

Re: Next stop..

if you think we have personal data "leakage" problems now, just wait!

BACN & mushrooms

Nice, seem to have slipped under the radar ;)

Postcode Lottery's lucky dip turns into data slip as players draw each other's info

Re: Someone's Knocking At The Door...

. . . and I've now got that horrid Wings song in my head that I thought I got rid of decades ago . . .

Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop

Re: Don't feed the trolls

"free rein" dammit! ;)

Re: Special kind of snowflake...

The "H" is always sarcastic anyway - if we were _really_ humble we would keep it to ourselves!

Re: Don't feed the trolls

That is because some of us fundamentally disagree with you. Trolls _want_ free reign, and saying "don't feed them" gives me the impression you are OK with that.

Baiting trolls, calling out a1 bullshit - it is all good to me, FWIW

OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race

Re: I see the tech douche fan bois are out in force!

Yep, some rather "odd" patterns here!

Microsoft drops surprise Windows Server patch before weekend downtime

Context, wot's that?

"However Microsoft's message to administrators is clear: switch to an alternative"

Windows Insiders get special anniversary desktop wallpaper

Re: Microsoft does not give a shit on feedback.

s/invaluable/unvaluable/

OpenBSD 7.8 out now, and you're not seeing double, 9front releases 'Release'

Re: RS232 really?

OK thanks, sounds like a non-starter for me, for now at least. Plan 9 maybe sounds more interesting (on a Pi400).

Re: RS232 really?

The instructions at the OpenBSD site are very confusing to me - it might be that you can boot up normally, and then type the fb0 command "blind". Re-reading it doesn't make it any clearer!

New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process

Re: "... hibernation support is a somewhat neglected area of Linux support"

Hibernate to swap partition requires a decision at installation - not good. Swap files are better, but why does hibernate need to share swap space at all? Why not just allow a swap file for, er, swapping and a separate one for hibernation? They can then _each_ be sized appropriately.

Windows 11 tiptoes further into dark mode with new dialogs

Re: Dark Mode WTF?

So I should use the keyboard/monitor to implement my own "custom" dark mode using black-on-white?

No thanks, my previous comment still applies!

Re: Seriously - A Mode That Makes the Colours Dark ?

maybe they should have a quiet word with "someone" about adwaita"? ;)

Re: Dark Mode WTF?

er, maybe because books don't shine a fucking torch into your eyes? ;)

How malware vaccines could stop ransomware's rampage

How many "vaccines" are we talking about?

Shirley there is a point where the complexity, disk usage or admin load (or any number of other factors) becomes overwhelming?

Who will be trusted to provide this service?

This does not sound remotely like a serious proposition to me.

Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge

Re: What a depressing book

. . . and it's gone!

Re: meh

Greedy ar$eholes

Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode

Re: Going from bad to worse

M$ must REALLY despise their "customers" ;)

Best bit is those "customers" seem to hate the alternatives even more.

Turns out the end of Windows 10 is good for something: The PC refresh cycle

Re: And yet

. . . and many simply _cannot_ be multi-threaded. It is a bit annoying to watch my lean, mean numerical code runing on _one_ out of 12 "processors" on my new thinkpad.

Re: Amazing, really...

You will need to pry my localhost from my dead fingers ;)

Re: Amazing, really...

Arguing amongst ourselves at the request of the troll - well played sir!

A simple AI prompt saved a developer from this job interview scam

"a1" saves idiot from himself

That clearly justifies the machines competing with us humans for energy and water.

Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington...with X-Energy mini-reactors

China syndrome

This time they are serious ;)

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Re: Beyond satire, beyond parody

How does "Honey, I blew up the localhost" sound - any better?

Re: Beyond satire, beyond parody

Not my fault that your entire business is in the hands of fuckwits! But blame me if it helps . . . ;)

Beyond satire, beyond parody

M$ are a fucking circus.

How does it feel to still be a "customer"? Are you proud? Are you still threatening to go Mac or Linux, or are you just going to keep on making excuses for your "habit"?

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

Re: There is a stupid advert

If I want to not see the internet I alredady have dillo.

The $100B memory war: Inside the battle for AI's future

Techno dick waving

. . . and all it costs us is our energy and water.