Posts by JoeCool

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

Sanity Check

An Anker 4-port usb hub is $10usd, so I think you're analysis is pretty much right.

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

And headphones. To keep the cord tanglement to a minimum.

Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff

Re: Sigh...

True or not, that doesn't matter. What the ceo says, goes. Amazon wiil intro the tech, will replace people and will churn out pap of questionable quality, for a minimum of two years. It will take that long to decide if ai is a complete disaster, or merely a useless flop.

Single passenger reportedly survives Air India Boeing 787 crash

Re: Dreamliner one day, Nightmareliner next day.

Are you suggesting that Boeing somehow deserves the benefit of a doubt ?

The crash investigators won't be swayed, but it's completely reasonable for lay speculation. This is what it means to lose credibility due to repeated episodes of criminal incompetence.

Cisco president says dredging coding syntax from wetware memory wastes engineers' expensive synapses

Re: Eh?

Exactly on-point.

C has the totally loveable characteristic that a coder can produce a Working Program or a Functionally Correct Working Program, and the only diffference is syntax.

Chap claims Atari 2600 'absolutely wrecked' ChatGPT at chess

Yes, this

I was wondering how much of the AI respones were from humans in similiar Chess circumstances. That's a funny synopsis of human thinking.

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

This CxO speak has the distinctive stench of

financial engineering "innovation".

Maybe there really is a plan there, and finance-speak is the same for both, but I'd be more confident if they were discussing customers and products rather than margins ( and having written that, I'm having a Dilbert flashback ).

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

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

The same tool can be employed to different ends. The post ww2 US policy has been to buttress their soft power, industry, and political reach.

China clearly has ambitions to unrivalled global influnce, but a far shorter history to gauge. Discounting military actions seems foolhardy.

Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box

Re: This is more like it (20 years too late)

Yes, very nice summation of the current options.

I've been doing something similiar where based on the "one thing" I wanted to do I was either dual booting, or running vmware player, or running wine.

But to have the idea of "run the app not the OS" formalized as a technique is quite helpful.

German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal

calibrated their engines to give the best results

I'm going to repeat the correct repsonse here :

It was not a calibration. It was a software defeat routine which detected and then cheated on the test cycle.

Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz

So, this so called "AI Industry"

Can only exist if the government carves out immunity from copyright laws.

That is by definition the government choosing winners, and concentration of wealth to the wealthy.

It's also a startlingly fraudulent way to puportedly create an economic enterprise.

Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates

Re: Survey responses v. reality.

"An issue with regard to the tech of homeworking, may be security. Each homeworker is a potential access point to your servers."

It's called a VPN, and it's a commodity service. And the primary infection vector is spoof/phishing emails

On your larger point, it Absolutely is a global war against the subsrerviant.

You know this because (to pull from a post farther down) ...

Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/09/rto_quit_study/

Re: Survey responses v. reality.

So you propose that most sane employees would trade a 1 month severance for:

- Loss of Job

- Loss of references

- Fired for cause

- Criminal preosecution

???

I think you need brighter co-workers.

However you are correct that MFA is not a solves-all. It is 1 part of a complete plan.

SEC SIM-swapper who Googled 'signs that the FBI is after you' put behind bars

proved once again that cybercriminals are very bad at internet search hygiene.

Is it really fair to generalize about cybercrims, based on one from Alabama ?

70-knot winds so far blamed for yacht disaster that killed Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch

Re: Predictive Modeling???

The missing bit is how far along the tail you move. Do you build for a one in a year / decade / century / catastrophic man made climate change / event ?

Re: Wrong Target....

Home owners /sellers are liable if known defects are not diclosed to the buyer. Like "the annual revenue reported is entirely fabricated".

Not that corporate takeovers are explained very well by analogy to house buying.

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

Re: Wish I knew what kind....

Discalimer: I AM NOT a keyboard geek. but ... there are several answers here

1) If I had to get a new KB RIGHT NOW, I would start with Keychron (despite the incredibly confusing lineup). Several models actually allow you to swap out the switches!

2) The beauty of the Cherry MX is that they standardize the feel, regardless of KB maker.

Once you find the variety you prefer, any KB using that switch will feel the same.

My daily work KB is a CM Storm using cherry MX Blue. Green are supposedly the closest to the Model M

3) What did you do to your model M ?

Those are literally indistrucable. I've cleaned coffee out of my home Model M, by bathing it in distilled H2O, then letting it dry for several days.

If you want that back in you life, you can get them new from Unicomp (pckeyboard.com)

4) If you want real 1980s throwback feel and nostalgia there's modelFkeyboards.com

Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz

Re: A couple of things come to mind

Pedantic! I intentionally changed only the parts that are different AND significant. (mind you, formatting messed it up).

A couple of things come to mind

1) This is capitalism at work, and it benefits the company (at least in theory)

To do the job with an internal person, they have a cost:

salary of person

+ cost of management

+ cost of overhead

---------------------------------------------

cost of job

But by outsourcing they save money

cost of job = salary of external contractor

2) Companies might want to evaluate their employees for "stability"

It's possible that they could look at demographics and discover that workers less likely to go "lone wolf" are perhaps

- Married

- Female

- Older

- With family

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

Just like whne you buy a CD, right ?

Make whatever copies you want.

Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

Re: It's the bug bounty

Unless they accept "F*CK OFF" as a response proving legitimacy, it's a crap solution.

Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning

This is so earily similiar

to announcements from chinese companys that are written by the Chief Political Ofiicer.

Income Tax cuts are simple. You just have to be willing to stop spending.

So the real question is, where will those spending cutd savings go ?

Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot

Is it May 1 or April 1 ?

Yes, please give my IT department yet another resource hog to autostart on startup and login.

Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances

Re: Damage done

i'm downvoting the flawed logic of offering up groundless speculation to support a prejudicial opinion.

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

A new frontier for home hobbyist/isolationists ?

site:alibaba.com high power high frequency RF transmitter

AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed

I know, two apex predators and one victim/customer-base.

Does IP Law have the concept of a simultaneous knoock out ?

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

Your optimisim is refreshing

I assumed that some high-tech tRump whisperer realized the disaster of having his consumer products "owned" by hackers.

Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing

Re: "Reviewing our change management"

Oh look, the process box is empty.

Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy

Re: From a home-user perspective, Windows 7 remains the best overall OS

I suffered through XPSP1 and XPSP2. There's no recovery from needing to have the third service pak availalbe before the os is useable.

Win7 by a nose over win2k, just because 9 years of industry progress.

Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock

Re: It's their own fault

After you clean your spittle out of your eyes you can read KeyboardIO's explanation of the economics of manufacturing - it's infomrative and correct.

And note that the deminimis value of $800 means that the savings are mostly on low-end consumer products. God forbid that retirees and low-income earners get a cost break on the stuff they need to live.

Samsung trumps USA's tariffs by making displays in Mexico, and elsewhere if needed

Re: AI that can do things including monitoring a home

Watch for it - declining stock markets, declining productivity, more unemployment, more personal bankruptcy, more functionally poor, more lining up at the foodbank.

Just like the tariffs themselves, it's the end consumer that takes it in the shorts for the idiocy of the government.

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

sanity check

How many corp customers do you think buy into MS 365 based on considered cost benefit analysis ?

Or is it possible that purchasing has listed exactly 1 vendor of office apps, and everything else just gets auto-prchased as part of the bundle.

Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes

Re: And so it begins...

Which totally explains the disappeared university website profiles.

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat

Re: @Wang Cores

The Israel/Gaza situation STARTED under Bidedn ? Grow up. Please. Just a little.

Top Trump officials text secret Yemen airstrike plans to journo in Signal SNAFU

Why ?

would you invent a non-existant intern to explain the obvious hubris ?

23andMe's genes not strong enough to avoid Chapter 11

Re: The court will now oversee the sale of 23andMe's assets

Is there a law to that effect ?

for interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update

The Register asked Microsoft how it validates its changes

I don't always test, but when I do test, I test in production.

Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits

One Downvote is for lack of illumination. And that's what happens with cliquey references with too little context.

Re: Don't buy closed hardware in the first place

Weird to refer to a replaceable motherboard as a "dongle"

But otherwise I enjoyed your extrapolation from "A friend has one" to "torture of being an engineers laptop"

What is an example fo these "higher quality dongles " ?

DoorDash sued for allegedly branding customer a fraudster after delivery photo query

Re: DoorDash driver

Does doordash steal your tips?

Did Doordash fraudulently retaliate by inventing groundless accusations of fraud against the customer ?

Does Doordash require the photo, then ignore their obligations to manage the photos ?

Is doordash promoting an "Express fee" that actual does nothing except get more money out of the customer ?

Re: Aren't these photos of nominally public places?

Live probe, not a months old drive-by that has personally identifying details obscured (unless of course you are in a jurisdiction that doesn't protect PI ).

Dash to Panel maintainer quits after donations drive becomes dash to disaster

Re: Imagine if...

The article begins "The maintainer of ..." is there a distinction between current maintainer (singular) and past developers that makes a difference to the point about forking ?

Re: Imagine if...

He's the developer, he can put in what ever he wants.

Don't like it ? Then the lazy ass no-tech leech whiners can fork this. As If.

CISA pen-tester says 100-strong red team binned after DOGE canceled contract

Re: New Orleans

Didn't NO in fact pay the Army Corp of Engineers to build the levys and then got F*cked because the USACE screwed up *everything* about the project ?

The irony is that USACE is a prime example of the problems DOGE should actually be targetting.

Strap in, get ready for more Rust drivers in Linux kernel

Re: Such awful interop

AND C++ provides type-safe casts that allows the compiler to enforce safety.

Re: Such awful interop

I would not accept that code in a C app.

I would not accept it in a C file

I would not accept it in a H file

I would instead recommend your a** be fired.

The point of using a common header format to share program definitions ("idl") has merit .

Abuse of the facility is not the use case for discarding the tool. Or maybe that is in fact the Rust approach to programming.

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

I don't think Samsung is involved

HP bought the business, then discontinued every model.

Samsung consumables are becoming un-obtainable for some models. Whereas the HP stuff continues to be in stock.

Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch activated when he was let go

Re: named the code IsDLEnabledinAD

it's so hard to get programmers to code eloquently.

8 Functions

8.1 naming convention

8.1.1 Verb+Noun

Verb+noun+article+noun

Verb+noun+adjective

Verb+noun+preposition+noun

sad that natural ability is stunted by malicousness

Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

Re: "the underlying mathematical proof"

In a similair vein, back in the 90's (if i remember the details correctly) there was an engineer at Nortel that created a custom hardware device that could crack an n-bit secret in time x at a cost of $1M, and it could be deployed in parallel.

His point was that this hardware made key cracking practically an economic function. You could in theory choose the level of encryption needed to make your data "too expensive" to be decrypted.