Posts by Paul Herber

Google offers ‘vibe design’ tool that you can shout at to create a UI

'an infinite canvas'

Create .... a universe!!!

Let there be light!

Re: What you want your users to feel

'manifesting'

Is this like mansplaining?

Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots

Re: over 300?

Nobody will need more than a 386.

Re: One way to cut the demand in half

Might be better to put the head higher up to get better visibility. Trouble is you are then in max headroom territory.

ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says

Re: Bit like Amazon

I'm sure you know where to ask to get the an answer to that question!

Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample

Re: I'm fairly sure ...

Serendipity:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/scientists_build_farttracking_underwear_discover/

Jury out on whether Americans love or hate datacenters

Re: "a quarter of respondents claim to have heard nothing about them at all"

And you think the phrase 'bog paper' will be understood?

In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

Beer, curry, beans - all contribute, proportionally more by men.

We lead where it's really important.

Yes!

(icon - no naked flames!)

Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066

Borrow money, stock price rises, retire on profits, someone else pays back the loan.

Life is so tough.

Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them

Re: Win, win, win

Looks like global sarcasm and satire detectors have been disabled recently.

Win, win, win

'there's definitely positive noises coming from the water industry'

The water industry can now take this new technology on board as their 100% method for leak detection. All other leak detection systems can now be disbanded, saving huuuuge amounts of money, meaning more bonuses for the bosses and better income for the shareholders! The fibre companies will be mandated to do the leak detection so they may as well keep and maintain the leak database as well, so no need for the water companies to do any extra record-keeping! When it all goes wrong it will definitely not be the water companies to blame either. It gets better by the minute!

Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power

Re: Does it Windscale?

Anyone who tries it should get fired.

White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms

Yu-Gi-Oh

Where are Yu-Gi-Oh and his sidekick Boo-Boo-oh and the Jellystone park ranger?

Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles

It was in fact invented in France. They called it Huitheurebix due to the time in the morning when it should be eaten.

Homegrown ceramics

'homegrown ceramics'

Britain is always on the lookout for a better teacup.

(ooo yes, milk, no sugar, thank you)

Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator

Re: oddness in the language used

and?

Elevator? There's posh!

What's wrong with the good old-fashioned vertical people transporter?

Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions

Re: Lloyds shifts skilled IT jobs from UK to India

India has outsourced it to the Andaman Islands (AI)

Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying

'plans'

You missed the e out out of planes.

Dr Dobbs Journal did D♭ back in 19 flumpty-flump.

ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct case

Re: surprised anything happened

But they'll have had their tea.

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Such a shame that there are one or two people in the world who haven't grown up ...

Cybercrime isn't just a cover for Iran's government goons - it's a key part of their operations

Re: 'red white and blue'

I'm not married to a Luxembourger!

Re: The Jessica Lyons dictionary

'red white and blue'

Ah yes, our French friends.

Re: Taste in goons

With the destroyed Iranian navy at least they won't be having so much trouble with falling in the water!

China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon

Re: CH 2027 = US 1969. In SO many ways.

CH = Switzerland.

I prefer ...

this one ...

"I take a bottle of wine and I go drink it among the flowers,

We are always three

Counting my shadow and my friend

The shimmering moon

Happily the moon knows nothing of drinking

And my shadow is never thirsty,

When I sing the moon listens to me in silence

When I dance, my shadow dances too

After all festivities the guests must depart

This sadness I do not know

When I go home, the moon goes with me

And my shadow follows me" ~ Li Bai

From his name, Li Bai, we get the words "libation" meaning a drink, and "libration" , one of the words to describe the orbital interactions of the Moon and the Earth. The yang of linguistic coincidences.

And not many people know that! Or care.

LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2

Re: Learning

The bat is a conversion tool. Converts dialog into monologue.

Marketer 1 wants the font size increased by 0.5 pt and moved 3mm left.

Marketer 2 wants the font size decreased by 0.5 pt and moved 3mm right.

Re: Learning

The sub could have been used to buy a bat to knock some sort of clue into the recruiter and save many people in the future from the same problem.

<This is a metaphorical bat, I do not approve of violence>

extend ...

I really, really think the encrypted binary blob feature should be added before the usual suspect gets in there first.

Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters

Great.

Re: Mike

Was Robert his uncle?

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

Re: You owe me a new keyboard!

When you have worked in defence systems as long as I have you will know that it will take at least 6 months to get together the committee who are going to decide on the official definition of the word "drone".

P.S. what colour do you want it to be?

Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics

Tokens

Years ago it was so much easier. You had your basic gold drinking token, then there were green, blue and brown drinking vouchers. In exchange you received a jug of brown liquid (yucky yellow liquids and other tipples are also available) from Mine Host, and maybe vouchers and tokens of a lower value would be returned. Data rates were far, far lower in those days. Sometimes you might find a bad host and your returned tokens could be dumped in congealed gravy.

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

Re: To protect the children!

The rules will have to be made retrospective to old computers to block that loophole.

Re: To protect the children!

Misogyny trumps everything.

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

Stop!!!!

Who are you calling effete?

No negative outcome from the event then.

Re: "panic spreads faster than Wi-Fi"

That'll be the hypothetical round sheep of zero mass.

Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies

'Fars News Agency'

Welcome to the Farside.

The whole thing is a bit of a farce really. All it needs is Trump to wear a different hat and suddenly nobody will recognise him.

Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way – like the humans they'll replace

Re: Agent 365

I don't give a number two.

Re: I'm very happy to pay

No funds of mine knowingly go anywhere near MS, not for many years.

I'm very happy to pay

absolutely nothing not to use it.

Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US

Re: Still to come....

That'll make them see red!

European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites

'tin'

which is why so many cables terminated in the UK in Cornwall.

And not many people know that.

Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here

Re: What happens in 1,000 years time ...

It will only work with Edge on Windows 11.

50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access

50GW?

50GW? That's almost an armful !

Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump

Re: Yet another billionaire tech bro

Why? What's happening on Tuesday? I've never got the hang of Tuesdays!