Posts by anonymous boring coward

The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now

Re: Remember open source is cancer

I’m pretty sure Balmer would have upvoted that.

Re: About Cookware

Good one!

First it has to be discovered.

Then someone with deep pockets and an incentive has to bankroll a legal process that can take years or decades.

Then you have to win.

Then you have to overcome any challenge to higher courts.

Then you have to get paid.

Then you have to distribute the payment to those affected. I don't think a general fine does that, does it?

Re: Remember open source is cancer

The downvoter doesn't understand sarcasm?

The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet

Why is there a small thumbnail, but no version (same or bigger) of it when you actually click on it to read the article?

Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago

Re: Don't write it off just yet

I know Mars is smaller than Earth, but unless all that scrap is in one area, I think gathering it may still be a bit more effort than it's worth.

Either way, a year is needed specifying.

“August 7, 1980” you mean, or the sentence makes little sense.

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

Re: I vaguely remember LG products having a reputation for being crap

Someone still buys HP? Why?

"Although you CAN block this behaviour"

But why would you give money to LG?

Buy something else.

Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit

Well, I have never seen any consistent scaling of resolution with screen size, ever, throughout the decades.

Today some read-out data via HDMI or DP probably provides the actual screen size, or DPI. But that’s fairly newfangled.

Is it just me then, who wonders how the program can know the size of the monitor?

I get aspect ratio, and resolution. But size, in a really old program?

Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas

Re: PII

Yes, Pentium II, as far as I know. (Spell correction changed it to Penguin II initially)

As a general rule when one writes articles, one spells out acronyms the first time they are used.

Why be so lazy?

Perhaps spell out what "PII" stands for, once?

Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push

Government run stuff.. same in the UK. Always sucks, always hugely expensive, seldom in time.

I think Airbus will do better, simply because they have to, and have the know-how.

Re: It's not just AIrbus moving off!

I never got a single reward. So I'm paying for it but getting nothing. Can't wait for a better alternative to take over.

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

Re: "Those in other countries"

I doubt that very much. EU doesn’t serve the agenda of any particular EU member state. EU would never sanction stealing of corporate data to help, what, EU? EU has no corporations, unlike USA. EU consist of sovereign nations.

Re: How will this be paid for?

I think you underestimate the inventiveness, resolve and ability of Airbus and other large high tech corporations.

Also, it’s not as if they get the US-centric services for free at the moment. Money is available.

Re: If you're running Windows

You have to start somewhere. If Windows is aiding in exfiltrating your corporate data, then that’s a massive lawsuit and humongous backlash waiting to happen.

You are doing it right. Never use proprietary formats if you can avoid it. Internal throwaway tools and solutions, fine. But don’t build your company on it. Nor your civil service.

Re: Sing it with me .....

Hopefully for real, in this case.

C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest

Something suddenly asking you to do something is very obviously suspicious to most people.

Far more worrying is actually searching out some kind of solution, and then coming across something like this. Once you initiate something, you expect to get prompted for sudo password.

Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though)

Swedish astronomers just found salt and grit. (It's the "winter way/road" in Swedish)

New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation

It probably helped that Windows didn't wake it up 50 times to check if it needed updating, and then did several updates draining the batteries.

Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses spat

"Today's decision does not address ValueLicensing's core complaint that we gave customers the option to apply the value of their licenses for older products to new cloud subscriptions rather than selling them to third parties.

We continue to believe that was both legal and the right thing to do. Helping our customers move to the cloud improves productivity and security"

WTH sort of an argument is that? We know what's best for you?

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

Good initiative!

More of that, please!

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Hmm.. Who to believe? (Sarc)

Commodore gets into the phone biz with Sailfish-powered retro 'Callback'

Sure, I have WhatsApp exactly for that (used a couple of times a year). But this doesn't mean I must use it for everything, making me 100% dependent on it.

I get that. But email and SMS are non-proprietary, and most SMS messaging apps have alternative delivery systems for when you are connected to the Internet.

I don't get why people are so eager to jump into proprietary systems? It's like they long to be owned.

WhatsApp is owned by Meta, I believe (the Facebook owner).

And the price. I should have mentioned that I don't like that. Zero chance of buying.

Someone explain why WhatsApp is essential?

Checking date.. No, not April 1st.

I do like it, except that T9 texting thing. Forgot how awful that was.

India and China are home to 2.9 billion people – and together they bought just 13 million PCs in Q1

Re: phone use is extreme but "only in China"

I didn't see any high horses, except for your comment that there must be some?

Re: How much is avoiding "AI"

To me AI says:

"Use your CPU cycles, diminishing battery life and hardware longevity, heating up your computer, while annoying you constantly with privacy invasions".

I'm sure AI will be used to farm out work to every user's hardware to benefit the billionaires.

Re: Tablets and Phones

Our Macbooks and iPads are all bought second hand, except a birthday gift iPad for my wife.

I even bought a broken-screen M1 Air to use solely stationary with a monitor. Works great!

KDE Plasma 6.7 brings the X11 era to a close

Re: Endless discusssion cars : start your engines !

Just like with material things, you can’t take experiences with you when you die.

A pleasant life is far more valuable than a stressful one.

I had to look it up, and there really is such a magazine as The Idler. Issuing bi-monthly however, seems a bit OTT.

Re: Endless discusssion cars : start your engines !

Simpler yet, scrap most things off of the list.

Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled

We obviously are still in the early days of digitisation.

And the jury is still out on who will be the masters; the biologicals or the logicals.

Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era

Oh, a DATA leak. Memory leaks are a dime a dozen, so didn’t seem very interesting.

France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well

Re: Two issues rolled into one

"UK is currently as censorious as Russia."

Not quite.

Anyway, this isn't about censorship (although it could be at some point), but about data protection, and potentially denying services to pressure for political compliance.

Re: Sovereignty and Smarts!

Now anonymous, because Trump.. ;-D

Re: Sovereignty and Smarts!

Real organisations don't work like that. I guess you missed that this isn't about you?

There's no such thing as an agentic CPU

Re: TI

Yes, some people believe LG stands for "Life's Good", so anything is possible.

Re: Er, missing the point ?

But the resulting frame rate from this overclocking was worth it.

I'm shocked to find out that there's hype and misinformation out there from the marketing depts!

France and Germany agree to disagree, ditch joint next-gen Euro fighter

Funny, but that SAAB is no more. SAAB AB (the original SAAB that built aircraft) was divorced in 1990 from Saab Automobile (when GM came in to ruin stuff). I know it's only been 36 years, so can be hard to keep track of these fast-paced changes.

Re: As usual, the problem lies with French intransigence

The "tin pot states", like Poland, have already left UK in the dust.

You need to get out (of UK) more.

Capita is about to sail past deadline to fix civil service pensions scheme

The good thing with computers is that solutions are scalable, as software can be easily distributed, and things are properly standardised.

However, a mere £239 million won't go very far...

Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H₂O in its bit barns last year

Define "used"? Contaminated somehow?

"It means facilities return more water to the environment than they consume, via measures including rainwater capture or other treating waste water for reuse."

Right. So, otherwise, what would have happened to the rainwater?

These are bizarre CEO and MBA type statements.

Every employee’s password was stored in a single Excel file

"If someone has to get into another person’s email account, have IT use administrative access."

That doesn't worry me at all...

"MFA"

No need to be rude...