Posts by bitwise

OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?

Re: Hmm

Put em on legs

Scotland

Scotland has a load of renewable energy it can't get to England because we haven't built the transmission lines yet (and we plan to build them in the sea, which doesn't seem sane in the current climate).

So build these in Scotland, where the energy is.

Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder

A copy of a person but with the "left bias" removed

So, anything that tech billionaires decide is "left bias" is removed (probably being in favour of workers rights etc)... so now they can make copies of us that are arseholes, great.

Meta debuts its first 'mixture of experts' models from the Llama 4 herd

Re: Ah, progress by numbers

Is the plan to convert the planet into one big (racist) computer ?

You would have to be brave to use this for work..

Imagine the legal trouble a company could find itself in using a model that reflects the current gov of the US, in the rest of the world where people still have rights ?

Problematic

I'm not sure anyone can use this, since we have no transparency over what they've done to the model.

There's no transparency on what they've done to this, or the process to bias it.

systemd begrudgingly drops a safety net while a challenger appears, GNU Shepherd 1.0

42% less unix philosophy

Is hilarious, given all the whingers thoughts on it.

Honestly - not having to work out exactly how *this* new distro specifies it's start up and service scripts vs another has been a godsend.

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for

Coming to a scambaiters screen soon

Can't wait to watch the YouTube of a confused scammer trying to use this.

Southeast Asian nations revise semiconductor strategies as Trump's shadow looms

That bridge in the thumbnail breaths fire

They picked a good bridge for the thumbnail (dragon bridge in Da nang), I'm not sure why they didn't choose a pic of it later when they have it breath fire at the end of each day.

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

Bussing around the country

(Not a facial recognition fan) - however, I can see the logic: in this case EDL types are bussing around the country, facial recognition might help quickly see that (though, I bet old fashioned intelligence would do as well).

The rise and fall of the standard user interface

Walk up and use software

It used to be very easy to learn new windows software

Hold down alt to see the shortcuts to get into the menus, go into the first menu, navigate and see all the options.

Hold down alt, and mouse over all the icons and see the shortcuts.

As well as this, the menus listed the keyboard shortcuts and corresponding icons, so you could build a mental model of what is where.

ArcaOS 5.1 gives vintage OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century

OSFree

Every few years I check the OSFree project

http://www.osfree.org/

No updates since 2020 or so, but in the length of this project not so bad considering how long they have been going (I think there were 5 year gaps before).. I'm semi suprised that on downloading an ISO and booting in a VM, it does.. well, something??

Yukon UFO could have cost unfortunate balloon fan $12

Re: Republicans have a lot to answer for

The "science behind the laffer curve" is putting things a bit strongly, it's a theory, but not a theory in the scientific sense - there is limited empirical evidence - I look forward to a day where we evidence based economics enters the mainstream, but we are not there yet.

Accusing the other side of "wishful thinking" and presenting an unproven theory does not make for a strong argument.

Former Facebooker alleges Meta drained users' batteries to test apps

Stealing leccie?

BT used to go after phreakers for stealing electricity, can't users claim the same here?

Guy who wrote women are 'soft, weak, cosseted, naive' lasted about a month at Apple until internal revolt

Re: Inclusive must mean that we only include things that we like...

Given that shockingly racist Shockley was right there at the inception of Silicon Valley, the fact there are racists peppered through it is utterly unsurprising.

'Biggest data grab' in NHS history stuffs GP records in a central store for 'research' – and the time to opt out is now

Re: PDF ?

Print to PDF, and also to paper.

Re: Why opt out ?

It's not "within the NHS" that is the issue.

The issue, is it getting shared with all sorts of private enterprise, e.g. health insurance companies.

150,000 lost UK police records looking more like 400,000 as Home Office continues to blame 'human error'

Re: Technical issue?

**** ******** must be breathing a sigh of relief right now.

The exodus continues: Less than half of contractors expect to stick with their employment set-up after IR35

Contractors in gov positions offered perm pay.

In the Gov department I'm in contractors have been offered 2 year contracts on perm pay, I'm not sure there will be any take up for this.

The pay cut would be at least 30%-40% for the current contractors that are inside IR35, who have already taken a cut of 30-40%.

Sailfish floats v3.4 'Pallas-Yllästunturi', its latest Jolla good reason for itchy-fingered Android and Apple swervers

Taxis eat Jollas ?

Lost mine in a Taxi in Taiwan.

Open-source devs drown in DigitalOcean's latest tsunami of pull-request spam that is Hacktoberfest

Re: Be Prepared...

my_doob (of ThreeJS) was requesting this feature about a couple of weeks ago, so someone may have had a mostly-working version of it sitting somewhere.

UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition

They don't care about British industry

Unless it is lining their pockets they don't care.

How do you solve 'disruption' at the UK border after Brexit? Let's call Peter Thiel! AI biz Palantir – you're hired

Re: How do you solve 'disruption' at the UK border after Brexit?

He only drinks the blood of the young though.

https://www.theregister.com/2016/08/01/peter_thiel_wants_young_blood_for_longevity/

Happy birthday to the Nokia 3310: 20 years ago, it seemed like almost everyone owned this legendary mobile

UI counts too

While others were thinner, for a while, Nokia and Sony were the only ones with a usable interface.

SoftBank: Oi, we paid $32bn for you, when are you going to strong-Arm some more money out of your customers?

VC Money strikes again

So ARM is now in the VC cycle that will eventually kill it.

It's a real shame, but I can't see this ending well.

UK contractors planning 'mass exodus' ahead of IR35 tax clampdown – survey

Re: hyperbole?

BigCO I'm working for loves beuracracy, so I don't think it's that.

Most of the contracts I work on are to build a specific thing and bugger off.

People like to bring in extra people to make something and their option now will be to use other countries.

Where I work there are teams in China and India, it just means less dev work will happen in the UK.

Giraffe hacks printers worldwide to promote God-awful YouTuber. Did we read that one right?

Re: articles like this are just stupid

You know nothing about how much journalists are paid.

He did get people to hold up anti semetic signs.

His videos are clearly moronic.

Re: Get me a babysitter

Give me Nathan Barley over this any time.

Up close with the 'New Psion' Gemini: Specs, pics, and genesis of this QWERTY pocketbook

Re: That Smell

It had a rubber coating that had a really nice smell. Though it all peeled off in the end :/

HBO slaps takedown demand on 13-year-old girl's painting because it used 'Winter is coming'

"The Smiley Company"

I had a takedown notice from "The Smiley Company" after I made a tshirt with (my own design) of smiley faces and used the word smiley in the name.

It was the biggest load of bullshit... it's not like I'd even sold any.

TPP: 'Scary' US-Pacific trade deal published – you're going to freak out when you read it

ISDS already in use

The Case Studies section of the wikipedia page for ISDS is interesting:

The Indonesian government was sued in June 2012 by a London-based mining company Churchill Mining after the local government revoked the concession rights held by a local company in which the firm had invested. The government is countering the Churchill case, claiming that Churchill did not have the correct type of mining licenses.

In October 2012, an ICSID tribunal awarded a judgment of $1.8 billion for Occidental Petroleum against the government of Ecuador. Additionally, Ecuador had to pay $589 million in backdated compound interest and half of the costs of the tribunal, making its total penalty around $2.4 billion.[19] The South American country annulled a contract with the oil firm on the grounds that it violated a clause that the company would not sell its rights to another firm without permission. The tribunal agreed the violation took place but judged that the annulment was not fair and equitable treatment to the company.[19]

Irish oil firm Tullow Oil took the Ugandan government to court in November 2012 after value-added tax (VAT) was placed on goods and services the firm purchased for its operations in the country.[20] The Ugandan government responded that the company had no right to claim tax on such goods prior to commencement of drilling. The case also attracted criticism for Tullow's use of local legal representation, Kampala Associated Advocates (KAA); the Ugandan law firm was founded by Elly Kurahanga, the president of Tullow's operations in Uganda and concerns were raised over his impartiality in the issue.

Tobacco major Philip Morris sued Uruguay for alleged breaches to the Uruguay-Swiss BIT for requiring cigarette packs to display graphic health warnings and sued Australia under the Australia-Hong Kong BITS for requiring plain packaging for its cigarettes. The company claims that the packaging requirements in both countries violate its investment.

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

BT FON fail: Telco CHARGES customers for FREE Wi-Fi usage

BT Hub has f/a QOS !

Given that 1 device updating on my wifi, kills everything else - FON makes no sense, the router is just too poor.

We had to turn it off, as neighbours using it killed connectivity, get some bloody QOS on your routers BT !

We present to you: 840 fine, upstanding young disks stuffed into a rack cabinet – DDN

Re: 1 pound = 2 kg?

My immediate thought was that looks bloody heavy.. and at 237kg, you wouldn't want to drop it on your foot !

YOSEMITE GLAM: Apple unveils gussied up OS X

Re: RotM?

Vinegar ?

Entering the Dragon: A little data from Big China

Excellent

A very interesting, readable article - this freetard certainly approves.

US taxman joins UK politicoes on hunt for Amazon cash

Re: Buy local

A traffic light system would work - people could affix the stickers to ads by the companies.

The data would need to come from an independent site somehow..

Frack me! UK shale gas bonanza 'bigger than North Sea oil'

Re: Lobbying

"powerful renewables lobby" does sound like a joke - Shell or BP probably spends more on renewables in their greenwash effort than this "powerful lobby" could dream of.

Re: Get it right next time

This sounds much like what norway did with their oil

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html

Still, I doubt we could actually be sensible - when there are fatcats that need feeding.

UK.gov hires data-handling privatisation point man as CTO

What the...?

How does the data being in private hands mean we have more control over it ... this is insanity ..!

The latest tech firm to be accused of tax dodging: Microsoft

Re: Hmm...@Chad H.

It's a bit of stretch that noone would be employed in the UK construction industry, I doubt all building would just stop one day.

Sony tempts 4K Ultra HD TV buyers with free films

Automatically upscale..

That's nice, as it would be a bit crap looking at a small image in the middle of the screen..