Posts by m4r35n357

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

Re: app Mnaagers / installation of apps

Well a big part of Linux is learning to trust the package manager, rather than just downloading "random" EXEs from the web and clicking on them!

I really hope this is _not_ "sorted".

Sudo-rs make me a sandwich, hold the buffer overflows

Re: Only if

My point is the OP says it should NOT be an alternative!

Re: Only if

Why complicate matters with a symlink? Just call the sudo-rs executable "sudo".

This is how the situation is dealt with everywhere else . . .

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

Re: Upgrade to open source

Or Russia, so prolly ReactOS

Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot

Re: Been there, done that...

Come on now, who in their right mind would want a deterministic boot sequence? Weirdo!

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

See IT Crowd finale for details . . .

The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already

Re: So . . .

They represent the two viewpoints nicely, being the _actual proponents_ of the two camps, so yes.

So . . .

Stallman was right, Raymond was wrong.

Open == Closed with a friendlier name.

Hubble Space Telescope is still producing science at 35

Too expensive to run - Musk will probably try to shoot it down.

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

Re: Is 'blink' a euphemism for pump & dump?

If you ever see the "bleach drinking" video, watch his face, he really seems convinced that he is contributing to the medical discussion ;)

Re: Dementia

No it does not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

But if you are wrong about that . . . I am beginning to be concerned about the veracity of the rest of your post.

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside

Re: Surely

Ask Green Day (YT link boycotted)

UK-based self-driving car startup Wayve heads to Japan for more driving data

Sounded more oop North than London ;)

Why Japan?

Presumably because they drive on the left hand side too.

El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production

Re: Impressive

Still gagging on "2GB per parameter". Give me a while to catch my breath . . .

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux

Re: Same here :)

Puts my "beefy" 27W Raspberry Pi PSU in perspective ;) I know, not a gaming rig.

Although, the Pi folks seem to have "drunk the A1 kool aid", bless, so who knows what the future will bring?

Re: Same here :)

_Drop_ by 100W? What was it before?

America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired

Re: tragedy and farce

Idiocracy in slow motion.

Today's LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed

Generative my arse

This word is increasingly added to the A1 bullshit, as if it is a done deal.

There is no such thing, do you understand?

Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy

or "heat up your room & return garbage".

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

Re: Some of us have been saying this for years

There is the problem in a nutshell - "common sense" (I hate that term) is boring, and people prefer "exciting" politicians. That preference is deeply embedded in human nature, and has repeated regularly and consistently over history. I cannot think of a solution to that.

MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk

Re: SystemD

Since they are both Debian based they should be better placed to _assist_ each other rather than "compete".

Re: Fiddly?

Well that took a while to check on a 1GB Pi3B+, but I'm afraid that /tmp is still clogged up with systemd crap. Maybe next time?

Re: Fiddly?

MX is more akin to Mint than Debian, that is it really. A very polished desktop setup.

Previous versions still used systemd on the Pi, I wonder if they have "fixed" that . . .

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

Re: Whoops, missed that...

There is a simpler reason - it tastes like shite and fucks up your day. Why would you want them to suffer so?

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

Why release this information?

Something does not add up IMO . . .

Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?

OMG yes please!!!

Put the artificial idiot in charge, for all to see.

Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again

Remind me . . .

How did "mad cow disease" start?

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

Hilarious! No downvote this time, I shall merely refer you what you said in your original post.

Er, not just me! Do you think we should all stop now?

The "variety" is for my benefit, not yours!

Yes, I have considered it, but ultimately M$ are impotent without their loyal "users", so I try to spread the love in the interest of variety.

They should really establish some meaty tariffs on Old English, that would definitely stop the bad language in its tracks.

Up yours fuckstick, I downvoted because apparently you can't take a hint, and are still straining on a desperate workaround.

Cant speak for the other one though. Or your mystery insult upvoter.

Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft

More examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

Pardon me for being such a damp squid ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_knell

Maybe not grassy enough? ;)

Comedy OS

Satire, slapstick & profanity, what more could you want?

As long as it is not stand-up.

Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix

Two Linux partitions!

Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back

Re: US companies did this to us

Russia owns you

Pidgin is back, so let's talk about why a local chat client matters

GTK4 sux!

If you try to use X11 (you know, the one that works) you get horrid black boxes around your menus.

This is a WONTFIX.

You need to use the incomplete Wayland (flicker, sputter) to get rid of them.

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

Re: A mess of our own making…

Because decades of patronising technobabble and cack-handed exposition have convinced the general public that ST is a documentary?

Re: well duh.

More like a life sentence

"some hallucinated names show up repeatedly when prompts are re-run, while others vanish entirely"

Pretty damning statement, your artificial idiot is now a moody fucker too (I've told you once already!).

Why should a supposedly "intelligent" machine give different answers for the same prompt anyway?

If you are still cheerleading this shite even now, here is some homework for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence

Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts

Re: Actually

What does "tow the line" actually mean?

Clue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line

"We're also terminating the tourism industry": https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/12/0145241/european-tourism-to-us-plunges

Hilarious!

To quote Stewie Griffin: "You people are a circus!".

You have turned China into the good guys, and made your "great" country a worldwide laughing stock. Nobody is going to trust the USA again. How does that feel?