Posts by Missing Semicolon

More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn

I see you Broadcom

... we want summa dat!

UK Online Safety Act 'not up to scratch' on misinformation, warn MPs

It also ensures that Ofcom can justify whatever their decisions are, as they are basically in charge of the interpretation of the law on a case-by-case basis.

For example, you may not like GBNews very much, but they do seem to have a different standard to adhere to than other news outlets.

Post Office and Fujitsu execs 'should have known' Horizon IT system was flawed

Re: 2028

"rogue engineer"

Re: The criminals involved need to go to jail

"The rich"? You think this is all bloated plutocrats? This is public-sector arse-covering, not private-sector greed.

Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers

Code/data confusion

How is the LLM accepting the content to be reviewed as instructions? Is the input system so flakey that there is no delineation between prompt request and data to analyze?

DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers it calls 'tools of terrorism'

Re: "Chinese made"

Perhaps because they are?

Jammers can be made anywhere, but the thing about Shenzen is that it's full of little businesses, that can satisfy all sorts of niche requirements really cheaply. This is evident in the hobby electronics and retro hardware segments. If there are 10,000 people worldwide that want something, there's a factory in Shenzhen making it.

Also, they aren't bound by your laws, so "thou shalt not make a jammer" simply does not apply.

Cosmoe: New C++ toolkit for building native Wayland apps

When is the X11 port coming out?

<sniggers>

Xlibre forks to the rescue – but Kubuntu gives X11 the boot

Re: Eddies around a sinking ship? Xorg was unable or unwilling to adapt X11

The claim is the unwillingness was because the people who have been maintaining X11 want to do Wayland instead, and have been "difficult" about the idea of bringing it up to date.

Omnissa brings VDI-style app packaging to physical PCs

Re: Gosh

It sounds more like snaps for Windows. Which would be handy for deployment ease, I guess.

Wolfspeed to file for Chapter 11 in deal cutting 70% of debt

Re: Loss leader

No China does not have "way more competitive manufacturers" it has "way more subsidised manufacturers".

Tiling terminal multiplexers for the console connoisseur

Re: I use Screen

I'm with you bro. I wrote a simple wrapper shell script, that reduces the functionality of screen to 2 things:

* Start a fresh named session (scr myname)

* Reconnect to an existing session (scr myname)

Job jobbed.

Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown

Re: Honestly I'm bilingual

Why on earth don't USAans use tons? I keep seeing references to 1000s' of pounds, which seems amazingly clumsy.

Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t

FTTR=ISP in the room

If the ISP connects your room, not your house, you don't need a router. Then you don't get to control your network, which I suspect many ISPs (and many Governments) would quite like.

European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones

Re: So Don't do Online Banking?

Banks should use card readers on your bank card for authentication.

The secure element in modern smartcards is pretty secure - certainly relative to smartphones. However, the banks are trying to deprecate this more secure solution in favour of app-bases security, as 1) the card readers cost money and 2) the app is self-funding by selling off the tracking data it generates.

Brit space sector struggles to compete with £90K graduate banking salaries

The usual Labour solution would be to ban banks hiring graduates at high salaries.

Re: self inflicted bullshit

And yet taxation levels now are far in excess of Pre-Thatcher levels, and yet we have lousy services.

We have a shortage of good jobs, paying good salaries, that would increase the total tax take without increasing the rate of taxation.

But we globalised them all away. Our cars come from China, our IT services come from India, our (insert manufactured thing) comes from China. Big corps make out like bandits on this, and we all pay.

Logitech's latest keyboard and mouse combo is wired, quiet, and suspiciously sensible

Re: Why didn't they plug the mouse into the keyboard

My Dell SK-8135 has 2 (A) sockets. And is reasonably quiet, despite the full-size keys. Despite being the usual default Dell desktop keyboard a few years ago, clean UK ones go for ~£60 on eBay.

Danish department determined to dump Microsoft

Re: how to do it in half a dozen mouse clicks

An expenses submission spreadsheet was mailed around by the admins at $JOB. With strict instructions not to mess with it. There was not a single formula in it, you were expected to to hand-calculate everything - totals, currency conversions, the lot.

That did not last long in my hands!

LibreOffice adds voice to 'ditch Windows for Linux' campaign

Re: That's bullshit

Nerd-point. Core2Duo machines have both SATA ports and floppy interfaces! A bare mobo in a bracket, with a bunch of floppy drives and Debian is my floppy data recovery solution.

The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives

What about write limits

HDDs can be written to all day, every day (as swap, for example). SSDs cannot tolerate long-term write-heavy loads.

Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done

Rubbish

IMEI blocking will do nothing to prevent phone theft, as they are stolen for parts anyway. They want legalised IMEI blocking to deny phone service to undesirables.

Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire

Re: "Modernize" - does that mean what we WANT it to, or what we FEAR it means?

No, he's PASSIONATE about it. That's ok

Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns

Re: Hardly surprising

VT220 FTW! One can dream....

If it can’t double our money, we’re not building it, Intel Products chief says

Re: And in the background

They are itching to make a Windows-only processor. Then they can guarantee revenue on each Windows update.

Microsoft patches the patch that put Windows 11 in a coma

A turnaround

I used to wonder that using Ubuntu as my work PC os was exposing me to the risk of spending too much time fixing it. It seems Windows is catching up, and I needn't worry.

Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers

Re: "They're Preparing For War" - Complete Rubbish

Sheer stupidity. Remember, they just hijacked the existing "friendly" snooping systems. Plus, of course, greed, as Huawei kit is so cheap.

In developing nations, Huawei infrastructure is available on a 100% credit basis, so cash-strapped operators can upgrade. It even comes with hordes of integration engineers to make it go, all inclusive.

Re: "They're Preparing For War" - Complete Rubbish

... by taxing and regulating farming out of existence.

Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware

There appears to be novaleadaipro.com as well now.

To be fair, the "official" novaleads.app domain looks pretty scammy too.

Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates

Re: Cuckoo land

Productivity depends on the industry. Public sector? Tried phoning HMRC recently? Or DVLA?

Toyota's truck brand Hino admits faking and fudging emissions data for 20 years

Re: All those 'tests'....

VW spoilt the party by being too blatant. Everybody else just gently bent the rules, snd everybody was happy. VW got greedy, and thought they could skip the costs (both parts and licencing) of fitting AdBlue injection.

ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it

Re: Repairable would help

Pluggable USB C? Paging Framework!

Europe warns giant e-tailer to stop cheating consumers or face its wrath

Re: Happy, but still careful..

The "de minimis rule" that allows these limits is simply an end-run around tariffs. Up til now, you have enjoyed your tariff-free access to subsidised goods from aboard.

"Subsidised??" I hear you cry. How else can you buy an item delivered for less than the cost of posting an empty box from next door?

Re: Hmm, maybe not Amazon.

And they delete reviews that point out that products are fake.

Yes, been there, done that, and had a review automatically removed (as it said "this product is fake", so triggering the automatic filter) and a subsequent one on the same product manually removed. I believe it was manual, as I carefully avoided a direct accusation of fakery, but included pictures that clearly illustrated the point.

What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer

Re: in Linux it just gets worse every year

Simple Answer. Poettering.

M&S warns of £300M dent in profits from cyberattack

Re: Savings

£30m * (2025-2018) = £210m. No.

Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data

Re: Get personal data off the internet!

If a school MIS provider was compromised, exactly nothing would change.

"I think they'd haemorrhage most of their customers within a year, schools would be clawing back their data onto their premises and it would radically change all kinds of processes and services to parents."

Really? Schools don't do IT. So there would be no clawback, no loss of customers. Just hand-wringing and ducking-and-diving. Just like every other breach.

Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping

Hibernate

"a swap partition. That's equal to the amount of RAM we gave the VM".

That's the requirement to make hibernation work. Most distros just give you some token swap, so that hibernation can never work.

If this is a Win10 replacement, hibernation should be a first-class supported feature.

Greater Manchester says its NHS analytics stack is years ahead of Palantir wares

Re: Wait...

Wes Streeting has had months to cancel this. He declined to do so. You can't claim he didn't know about it, he should have been all over it as part of his shadow brief.

To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator

Re: Engineering English is not English

Shame about "over-qualified". Sometimes that's just a synonym for "old".

Re: Not the case elsewhere? US?

Surprised at the downvotes here. If passing English Lit had been a requirement for my EE degree, I would not have passed.

Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload

Re: Vincent truck Gogh

So is it just pretentious Americans who call him "van Goe"?

Europe plots escape hatch from enshittification of search

Re: Yay Kagi and American capitalism

Who does email wildcarding for £40 a year? I've been looking for that for a while.

Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb

Re: Legitimate interest

And I have seen a web site claiming "legitimate interest" as without advertising the dite would go bust. That's not allowed is it?

Re: Envelopes

No large company has ever paid 4% of turnover. Even if such a fine was levied, the company would just sppeal it until the heat death of the universe.

Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software

Re: Cost of Microsoft to the UK

But your taxes pay for Microsoft Licences.

Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info

Re: I wonder ...

01/01/70, the nerd's birthday!

Re: I don't really give a fuck that they got hacked...

Naah. 12 months fraud monitoring if you are lucky. No liability otherwise.

M365 apps on Windows 10 to get security fixes into 2028

Suuport?

"And support issues can still be raised by subscribers for their 365 apps"

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha (breathe) hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos

Re: my Model M gave up the ghost

How did you do that? The most worn-out one I have seen is my late father-in-law's one (far from new when I supplied it) on which the space bar was actually wearing through. Still typed ok though.

You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs

Trivially breakable. ALERT SYSTEM ERROR! PRESS UPDATE BUTTON TO RETAIN ACCESSTO DATA!!!!1111