Posts by Karlis 1

Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage'

There’s something equally terrifying and awesome that Linux kernel effectively has a bus factor of one bad tempered Finn.

AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says

Re: Goes back a ways

You just shared my new near favorite paper :)

Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage

Storing data is easy. Retrieving data is difficult, complex and expensive.

Store less. Ephemeral data is perfectly fine.

(signed: I have to digitise about 1 million of B&W negatives capturing a very important period in European history. It's worth it, it's a matter of personal commitments. I am under no illusions that it will be useful to anyone. And figuring out how to store it at this scale is ... let's just say I'll figure out something better than glacier storage when it comes to publishing in a 5-10 years time).

BOFH: Rerouting responsibility via firewall configs

sigh.

so should we assume that BOFH reign has run its time?

BOFH: The Boss meets the unbearable weight of innovation

Where is Simon, where is PFY?

Come back!

Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft

It just keeps to astonish me how bad azure change management is. And nothing has changed since their early days when you could expect cabinets to just bluescreen randomly.

Fujitsu does not trust Post Office in use of Horizon data in future third-party prosecutions

translation: "We want to taint any use of the data for case when it FINALLY faces us in the face squarely"

Fuck no. You were paid for data you are now saying is suspect. That's not ok.

Nvidia CEO whines Europeans aren’t buying enough GPUs

Re: Perhaps the EU is right

This is actually an interesting game theory problem. Do you go all in with payoffs and risks of failure on day one or do you build up a capacity later on?

Or do you build a capacity at all.

Ignoring my personal views of the current AI gold rush (which will end shortly) there simply are no demonstrated benefits to commit. SF startups can throw money at the wall in hopes of finding a legit use case but Alexa, Siri, have demonstrated that end user does not give a HALF OF A FLYING FUCK about it.

Enterprise use cases boil down to reducing customer experience to even more shit by adding another layer on top of already useless outsourced CS agents following chat trees. Ok an improvement - you can't offboard an AI for not following a stupid call tree.

Information economy is a bloody dirty fight right now and internet is a lost cause. I wish I had answers, I am thankful that I locked down my identity online from very early on.

AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all

< mitigations=off

FFS. I am tired of theoretical state level attacks fucking up my performance. Bite me!

BOFH: It's not generative AI at all, it's degenerate AI

Re: Best of luck

Pretty sure that third employee is the janitor. You simply do not mess with George.

The Post Office systems scandal demands a critical response

Re: It's still happening

You have never worked in a paid role before.

Developers are welcome to make all the fuss they want about having excellent tests coverage, thinking about edge cases and ensuring that system is robust, but as long as the happy path passes the demo - ship it. And if you are a grumbly old fuck who keeps mentioning that we are running into a silent data corruption issues in a BANK (something I am living through right now, 2 weeks to go) - well, there's no immediate problem, there's no return on investment and there's no way to put it on the critical path without threatening "return of investment".

I have the luxury to step out of it and hope I'll get a good role next. But there's about 2bn euros that are ripe for picking in the fencing account.

As much as engineering works to achieve great things incentives in the company culture are far more important. Ship it? You have a time bomb on your hands you'll hide. Sofware engineering has little to do with engineering excellence, but all about managing incentives of all parties involved.

Local vs global maxima. Not quite the question I'll ask in my interviews, but fucking freaking important one.

Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP

> their assigned Google account team member

Laughing.

> Google cloud support

spilling my guts from laughter.

Sorry, Google, you do not have account managers or support. What are you tripping on?

Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than give workers a raise

Yammer is still alive? My understanding was that M$ buying it killed it.

I guess you need to have teams account to post now :D

BOFH: Get me a new data file or your manager finds out exactly what you think of him

Re: Useful idiot?

That _idiot_ deals with board members communications. He is worth his/her/their weight in gold (well, ok, curry and lager) to BOFH contract renegotiation times.

AMD undercuts Nvidia's 4060 launch with a $269 GPU

mid-tier?

We are calling a card that is kinda adequate at 1080p in 2023 - mid-tier?

@Tobias - I think you might want to correct the article.

BOFH: Ah. Company-branded merch. So much better than a bonus

Re: Got some NSFW merch at W.

You HAVE to share some more pics and details on this!

BOFH: The PFY has won an award … for outstanding service?

Yes, but extensive damage is likely.

Kinda best lightweight wheelchair available in europe is Panthera.

BOFH: We're an industry leader … in employing idiot managers

Re: Shut up already!

What good does it make if you know the secrets ... but still have to take Circle Line back home?

Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for 'free' LibreOffice

Oh, hell no!

"LibreOfice is a very decent suite" - that's stretching the credibility of English language. Dysfunctional, idiosyncratic, broken are adjectives that are more appropriate. Somebody to have sheer guts to charge for it is smelling of another company about to go under.

BOFH: What if International Bad Actors designed the vaccine to make us watch more Steven Seagal movies?

I miss the days when all that Big Data meant was the soft blow of a tape machine rack gently crushing you underneath shortly after the lights went out in the ops room.

ASUS baffles customer by telling them thermal pad thickness is proprietary

Re: And Facebook removes the link...

The reason for that is simple - Rossman is a pain in the ass who deserves little respect and even less of a forum. His drama antics have just grown old for 90% of the tech community.

If you are unable to solder, run business or hold yourself together you should not pretend to be a spokesperson equal to PETA hysterics in tech.

Re: eh

Common ones are .5/1/1.5 and 2. 3mm in extremis. 5mm is guaranteed to be a mistake.

Re: eh

No, that's the brexit which was never defined, the 4 years of Tories fucking everything up as much as they could to keep the bextremists happy and simple reality that GB is now equivalent to Zimbabwe legally and in practice when it comes to importing anything to EU (which, NI is kinda part of for now).

All the morons are still in power in Westminster.

Salesforce to buy Slack for $28bn in cash, shares – and vows to make it the new face of Customer 360

Ah well, it was good fun while it lasted.

I can feel the slimey gore oozing up from the ground already, just was it was with yammer, skype, linkedin, whatsapp, etc...

Don't worry, IT contractors. New UK chancellor says HMRC will be gentle pushing IR35 rules

Re: Unintended consequences

To be fair that all is kinda moot right now anyway. The brexit has killed IT market in London already, not as if there was much of it outside before. Whoever wants to sit out their time in Slough or Milton would likely never had much to offer to start with.

Who cares about contractors when there's no businesses to look for ones?

Virtualization juggernaut VMware hits the CPU turbo button for licensing costs

Wrong model

This one feels rather arbitrary and stupid. Surely the correct one should be based on NUMA domains?

'Is this Microsoft trying to be cool? Want to go to the Apple Store?' We checked out London's new retail extravaganza

Time is money

Apple offers high-ish priced, but fairly reliable and ready to go packages.

Microsoft offers non-stop updates and investing in time to become proficient with registry and AD debugging.

There are people who's time is actually worth something. They are the ones that pick macs and get on with earning money. Not a popular opinion here, but not everyone is an enthusiast that will give up shagging his girlfriend to pick the best candidate motherboard for his 3rd rebuild this year.

Microsoft gently leads workhorse Windows Server 1903 for a pad around the paddock

> Don't mind me, I'm just the thing you run your business on

I really hope not. There's shooting one in the foot intentionally and then there's just being plain incompetent.

Intel to finally scatter remaining ashes of Itanium to the wind in 2021: Final call for doomed server CPU line

Re: That is quite some lead time

Real wold systems that takes 3-5 years to plan to power down and corresponding maintenance contracts.

Some of that silicone powers things that matters.

Re: Just imagine

I think you have gotten your causes and effects wrong. Intel was doing perfectly fine in improving both the desktop and mobile CPUs line well before Ryzen. Their focus was on power consumption, not raw performance and I'm actually happy with that.

Since Ryzen "shook things up" ... I struggle to name a single meaningful impact on Intels' product line. Yes, they reacted with i9s. Which are pretty pointless for most purposes. They were doing just fine in iterating upwards from core2duo line while competition from AMD was nonexistent.

I appreciate your idealistic view that equal competitors will lead to best competition, but I'd like to counter that with an observation that one needs to have pretty deep pockets to go for significant generation leaps. Three equally fcked competitors racing to the bottom won't give you that. Itanium was a flop, but one that Intel could afford. Via couldn't, nether could cyrix. Let's not mention transmeta.

Semi-monopoly that delivers the goods is fine.

Samsung Galaxy A9: Mid-range bruiser that takes the fight to Huawei

Reg, staph, what are you doing?!

A link from an el Reg article to ... CARPHONE WH0REHOUSE?

I'll expect an in-depth positive reviews of Apple hardware (provided by their PR) next...

Microsoft gets ready to kill Skype Classic once again: 'This time we mean it'

Liars and forced updates

Used to be a skype fan. Was holding out on the last 7 version. And yes - I had very much unchecked any auto-updates and avoided any prompts.

Ho-hum, one night it just updated to the electron(?) based uber-crap flash-fest. No options, no explanations, half the features gone, recent chats view a complete disarray...

I hope it dies soon. I won't have to keep it alive for the sake of the few conversations with the holdouts.

No wonder Oracle exec Kurian legged it – sky darkens as cloudy tech does not make it rain

> Oracle's cloud business is slowing down after experiencing an eyebrow-raising meteoric rise.

There was never a "meteoric rise". Everyone in the industry knows that the numbers were fake and propped up by forcing customers to give it a spin under the threat of skinning them dry during the voluntary audits.

Next to experience sudden unexplained slowdown in adoption - Microsoft Azure joke.

SUSE and Microsoft give enterprise Linux an Azure tune-up

Wonder how badly strapped for cash SuSE must be...

Whoa, AWS, don't slip off your cloudy perch. Google and Microsoft are coming up to help

I do have to wonder... Gartner keeps repeating Microsoft as being of relevance. That does not mirror what I see in the industry. Except their forced cloud365 offerings nobody seems to even remotely consider them as a platform to use.

What am I missing? There's a well-hidden part of industry that actually uses Azure? Gartner just can't spend the money from Microsoft fast enough? Somehow using cloud offering translates in using the cloud platform?

Baffled...

Cluster-f*ck! Etcd DBs spaff passwords, cloud keys to world by default

Awesome software?

"As we learned from the MongoDB experience this is a huge footgun that can be easily removed [from] otherwise awesome software."

I hope he isn't implying that MongoDB is such. etcd arguably is quite good (raft!), but mongrel...

You can resurrect any deleted GitHub account name. And this is why we have trust issues

GO is a special snowflake case here...

To be fair this has more to do with the fact that Go current toolchain not only encourages, but literally presents as the only option dependency management by pointing them to live repos. That's the only reason why I refuse to invest any time and effort in learning more of it what otherwise looks like a really nifty cross of good and pragmatic ideas and computer science.

Now, the bigger picture can be analysed on and on and on and things like node repos model is braindead too, but at least they pretend. In case of Go it is the official way.

(which might work for google where everything is one big repo and they are so far ahead of everyone else that they rarely need to worry about _external_ dependencies, but is like giving a loaded gauge #4 of buckshot to a depressed teenager and expecting it to end well)

France may protect citizens' liberté with ban on foreigners buying local big data firms

And once done wonder why not a single such company would be started under flag of France (not that there are many there).

No sane investor/entrepreneur would pre-emptively block their exits like that.

Azure VMs borked following Meltdown patch, er, meltdown

> This is down for 8 hours and still no ETA. Is this the kind of support we should expect from Microsoft.

yes?

Full-fibre ISP Hyperoptic clocked over mock doc schlock shock

I miss hyperoptic. They were the bees gees in my flat in London. 800+u/d and 0.7ms pings to LIX. :(

Have you heard the one about IoT network tech that uses SIM cards?

So, yeah, they have, effectively, discovered SMS - which happens to be a payload on top of this protocol IIRC (my leet ss7/smsc skills are an honest decade out of date now).

Good on them. If they'll manage to secure shedloads of cash on the basis of this I'll be quite sad - and looking for the names of investors to sell them a goundbreaking concept of making things that go round - well, round.

(But actually - do really GOOD ON THEM! Somebody actually does something sensible as opposed to hur-hur-new-networks-for-iot-wanking that even bigger names like vodafone has fallen prey to).

Introducing EE4J – Java EE's fling with the Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse Foundation - where dead code goes to die again.

Good riddance.

Oracle VP: 'We want the next decade to be Java first, Java always'

Re: Loving Java, hating Oracle

> I know most people don't bother to think about that because storage space and computing power is cheap these days, but I don't like that.

And yet you use netbeans. Hmm. (okay, at least it is not Eclipse - where dead projects go to die second time. Which is why the whole eclipse foundation thing is not encouraging at all...)

Huggy feely idiocity?

> For Alvarez, Java provided a path to improve the future by bringing more women into the tech industry.

Wat?

Look! We have direct fibre connection too, wails Google Cloud

I find the sponsored articles trying to imply that Azure somehow is a significant or even meaningful player in the cloud space rather tiring.

Can we stop peddling Gartner level bullshit all around?

P≠NP proof fails, Bonn boffin admits

Bayesian? What is this, 2002?

Surely they meant to say "Analysing via means of real-time driven big-data machine learning utilising state of the art infrastructure of our sponsors at Azure - providers of the most stable and scalable cloud computing infrastructure for unprecedented super-computing tasks for tomorrows demanding research effort..."

(of fuck it, I'm only on my second coffee and couldn't continue in fears of throwing up. I'm so sorry mum. I couldn't help. It's the commies fault!)

Where is that bottle of scotch?

Nasty firmware update butchers Samsung smart TVs so bad, they have to be repaired

Re: Bricked TVs

> it's not on a network, so also no nagging. I made sure of that.

Haha! Joke is on you. Quite often updates are delivered via freesat download.

Reality strikes Dixons Carphone's profits after laughing off Brexit threat

Re: That's it, blame it on phone users

I tried to buy a phone from them one day. When I realised it is conditional to me giving up all my personal data ... I noped out of it.

Sadly the only business cases where you can exchange money for a service without strings attached these days seem to be online.

Facebook won't change React.js license despite Apache developer pain

Less people using that horrid framework? How would that be a loss?!

Google diversity memo: Web giant repudiates staffer's screed for 'incorrect assumptions about gender'

Talking about role models

I appreciate the mantra that balanced and inclusive workplace voicing all different opinions somehow is better, but I struggle to find woman role models in leadership positions that have not ended up a complete heartless psychotic disasters. Mayer, May, Thatcher?

Can somebody name the "good" role models at the top of the game?