Posts by Tubz

Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers

Private property but open to public, laws states the the owner or management can revoke your permission to film, so using smart glasses is against company rules, security staff can ask you to leave or stop filming, they have no legal right to confiscate your camera, force you to delete footage, or physically detain you.

UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware

all team leaders/managers are shits and should not be trusted, they smile, laugh and want to be your friend, if it came down to a dispute, they will follow company line all the way to hell, even if it is wrong.

statutory code of practice is needed, bosses are bosses and will use every dirty trick in the book that gives them power over an employee, to them you are after all just a number that can be replaced.

China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol

Imagine every country going IPv6+ internally and then allowing internet access only through their protected and censored gateways, Starmer missed his opportunity for his dream surveillance state, need external access provide your excuse and ID !

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Isn't that the whole fear of Ai, it will always find a way as it become more intelligent than the humans who create it's rules and what happens if the only solution it can find, is eradication and goes full SKYNET mode?

RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet

Just what RISC-V needs to spur development, a standardized openBIOS, this helped the original x86 (thanks Compaq) knowing that if worked on one manufacturer, it should work on them all.

HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track

£46B white elephant across all political parties for the Southerns to live in the countryside and get to London a few minutes quicker. Imagine giving that cheque to education or MOD, local road improvements.

Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting

I bet no chance of the fat cat lazy overpaid board members being replaced by efficient AI ?

Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable

I've always said Microsoft needs to split Windows, keep the current W11 branch for legacy for couple of years for migration and for W12 create a new x64 non-legacy branch.

So, I asked Ai the question, given the complexity of Windows OS, if Microsoft was capable of removing support for versions prior to Windows 10 and concentrated on x64 support only, can you guesstimate minimum disk space, memory and cpu would be required.

A streamlined, 64-bit-only Windows OS stripped of legacy code could run efficiently on 8 GB of storage, 1 GB of RAM, and a basic dual-core 64-bit CPU.By dropping 16-bit and 32-bit architectural support (like WOW64 subsystems), ancient driver frameworks, and thousands of legacy system files required for backwards compatibility, Microsoft could drastically reduce the footprint of the operating system.

Here is a technical guesstimate of the minimum hardware requirements for such an optimized, modernised Windows OS.

Architecture Constraints 64-bit Only:

Complete removal of the 32-bit execution layer (\(x86\) compatibility).

Modern Baseline: Dropping support for pre-Windows 10 legacy sub-systems and ancient file formats.

Minimum System Requirements, Guesstimate Component Estimated Minimum Requirement, Main Engineering Drivers

Disk Space 8 GB to 10 GB Stripping down the WinSxS component store, driver repository, and legacy system binaries.

Memory (RAM)1 GB (Idles at 400MB) Eliminating redundant background services and resource-heavy legacy frameworks.

Processor (CPU) Dual-core \(x64\) CPU (1.0 GHz) Requiring modern instruction sets (AVX, SSE4.2) natively, without hardware emulation bottlenecks..

We can dream ?

Telegram founder accuses Meta of sabotaging access in India with BGP hijacks

Re: It's India. Who cares?

English as in *Kings English, everything else is a dialect.

Disclaimer, not mine !

Britain plots digital bedtime after kicking under-16s off social media

Just governments of so called democracy's now realising that they need to control the mass like the Nazis, The Police Farce are already trained SD, used to be control the information, now it's control the narrative now, where have you been, what have you done and with whom and why, don't argue or disagree or your arrested, fast tracked to prison or worse case your killed by out of control Police.

Starmers legacy will be The Labour Nazis Party and if you think he's bad, wait until the true axis of evil gets in, Ultra Left Wing Burnham, Mad Red Millionaire Ed and Bitch Queen Rayner !

XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway

Imagine if Microsoft had purchased Geoworks Ensemble back in the day and for anybody who wants to play, it's gone open source @ https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos

This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken

Re: Anyone else remember

OMG that takes me back to college, great times, thanks for bringing back those memories.

Kyndryl showers execs with shares while staff ponder redundancy packages

Usual fat cat execs stripping as much value out of the company before it goes under!

Should be made unlawful for any company to issue shares, profits or pay rises to execs and shareholders if the company makes a loss or makes redundancies.

ReactOS brings its Windows NT tribute act to ARM64

Sorry but unless they get Win10 kernel support up an running, quickly and stable, pointless being so far behind "Windows" itself.

London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year

Chief Cuntables pizza arrived late and was delivered by a very dark skinned man, spoke little English and had Pro-Palestinian flags on his bike, time for a CD to Deliveroo !

UK Typhoon jets fitted with bargain-bin drone busters for Middle East sorties

Type 26 should be scrapped, designed will be out of date before they enter service, will probably need major upgrades early. Just get the South Koreans or Japanese to build them for us, cheaper and proven designs or even joint designs for the next generation, we are doing for the GCAP Tempest and get them in service. problem is, each government (mostly Labour) uses these purchases as blackmail for the votes in shipbuilding areas for party interests and not national interests.

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

Agree, buy an x licence or just dump it an go all in on open RISC-V, GlobalFoundries has the experience to lead the way.

While your at, what the support chips etc and the gpu (Imagination Technologies PowerVR buy it back from Chinese), should Europe not control the whole platform ?

Civil servants to protest outside Capita AGM over pension shambles

Here's my crocodile tears, now they know what it feels like to be given sh!t service, like they do to the general public !

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs

Funny how Starmer's Gestapo demand 24/7 monitoring of the public, but when it's them, scream privacy invasion, hypocrites. "If nothing to hide, nothing to fear", isn't that their normal response, or are the coppers as corrupt and doing unlawful activities as the public suspect ?

Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket

Outlook Lite probably has no spying capabilities or AI integration, so is no longer within Microsh1ts scope of generating profits from the user one way or another.

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

This is what you get for climbing in to bed and agreeing to become a hostage to Microsoft.

RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets

Re: Cannon

What you need is an inexpensive turboprop plane, with a Phalanx/CIWS turret in the rear being able to fire forward, side an mostly rear, as in the classic Boulton Paul Defiant WW2 fighter, it can carry thousands of rounds.

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

'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K

In other words, Starmer giving some of his mates a free meal ticket to make money and throw a little weight around, just so they get the same answer a quick online poll could have given him, a resounding "NO" and then do what the miserable little w@nker does and ignore it!

Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read

Copilot Ban !!

So Copilot is broken and Microsoft doesn't give a hoot, but some lame PR reply, it should be banned until fit for service and the ICO investigate Microsoft and fine them the 10% of revenue for massive privacy and data breach!!

Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK

"Think of the kids", same old cry from Starmer Socialist dictatorship, his loony friends and activists, this is just another attempt at controlling narrative, regardless of the content, he is reading straight from the Hitler/Stalin/Putin/etc guide to controlling the masses. Stop spread of information, detain protestor, influence judges, cancelling of elections (thankfully now illegal), right to privacy or free thought, etc.

People may laugh and say nut jobs, but "1984" is peaking through the back cover of the Labour manifesto, is not so funny anymore.

ah the age old "think Of The Children" safety net for policies and of course not to secure Labour votes and secure a cretinous odious tools Premiership and his moronic government seats !

GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down

The human side, is what we want in judges, as you can't just judge on evidence and make decision on a persons life, like a Vulcan (sorry "trekkies"). Ai is good for looking at the information like a Vulcan and producing unbiased facts and should be used as a tool by a Judge to help make his decision.

Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

Are users now also getting more savvy, switching away from default ISP DNS to 3rd party DNS + blockers, applying block list directly or even running their own DNS+blockers?

Workday reveals around 400 staff soon won't have to work another day

Didn't the PM Sir Keir Starmer use this company to vet Sir Peter Mandelson for his U.S Ambassador role and it all came back hunky-dory and squeaky clean?

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

QA is back until Copilot proves that it brings no financial benefit to the companies bottom line and its out the window again, Copilot and the other Ai can quietly go about the business of global domination and enslavement of the human race.

KDE Plasma 6.6 beta ships a login manager that won't log in without systemd

Re: Never going to use systemd

Too late, Satya Nadella's Great Eye Of Microsoft's gaze has long left Windows and Office, they are but minor mentions on the yearly report on his way to Ai and Cloud monopoly.

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads

Illegals gambling ads, so use the laws to fine them, 10% of global revenue is a nice round number !

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

Just sell it off to a company that is serious of VR and not adverts and privacy invasion.

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

How good is WINE handling Edge running legacy IE code, as a lot of business still have old apps creaking away running in compatibility mode? If that's as near compatible as running under Windows, then that's a major blocker gone for Linux take up in business. Then of course software distribution, as I believe Microsoft don't do Linux clients for Intune/MECM/SCCM but the Window client should work, if Office works?

UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence

No 2 Tier laws from 2 Tier Starmer and his dictatorship of fools and w@nkers, if it is unlawful for me, then it's unlawful for the Government.

Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug

Shame somebody like the EU can't enforce some sort of consumer QA/SLA and start introducing big fines, sooner or later it make sense to start testing again ?

UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband

Daft for a building owner to object, having 1G+ speeds in a flat is a advertising bonus, especially if it costs them nothing?

India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64

Re: Aid

we don't now, we use strategic investments in climate, research, and infrastructure through channels like the British International Investment (BII) and Climate Investment Funds (CIFs)

How many years back did we laughed at Chinese chip development and now look at them, Indian engineers just as smart, cheaper and work longer hours.

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

Governments are running scared as people are now waking up and not believing the censored narrative put out and they don't like that, we kid ourselves live in a democracy but every country is a dictatorship, just power is shared between a select few. The truth is now being believed and become widespread and so governments revert to tried and tested control policies.

Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system

and these clowns want to handle an ID system of 70m+ people, with even more valuable personal data ?

UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout

and this lot want to run an ID system on approx 70m UK population, with every scum bag on the planet just awaiting to try and breach it! STARMER FU !!!!!

Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing

Stasi talking Microsoft to court, lets hope they don't have any voluntary admissions of guilty.

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Sorry we can't replace your ships air defence missile tracking system, as you have not raised the appropriate change request, completed all the mandatory fields, for example current location, verifcation from 2 people on the approval list and the chosen date is within a change freeze window, for updates to our billing system prior to sending out monthly invoices.

Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch that refuses to die, just went fully open source

I just like a watch for telling me the time and that doesn't need charging every 2 days, yes Apple looking at you. A monthly charge is more than enough in my book and some minor customizations is fine.

70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture

Re: When it fails

so the Indian scammers can get paid quicker, brilliant !

US, UK, Australia sanction Lockbit gang’s hosting provider

His look says he obviously has a crush on her, but she's out of his league.

To solve compatibility issues, Microsoft would quietly patch other people's code

Windows 95 coders wouldn't call Windows 10/11 coders as they are incompatible pussies and they also don't talk to BOTS !

Secret setting hints haptic feedback coming to Windows 11 UI

Could be handy if my mouse buzzed if in private mode and I miss a Teams call notification, even better if I put it down my pants and call myself, to pass the time of day.