Posts by icesenshi

What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it?

Re: Licenses?

CUDA is the undisputed king in AI/LLMs. It sounds like AMD decided to take its ball and go home. Either use HIPIFY or go home. Or go to nvidia, and let them increase their market share even more.

Defiant Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial Recall – tho as an opt-in

Re: Camel and straw

So true. Saying over and over that the only people worried about about recall are those who don't know how it works. I can just see that smug writer smirking at how they're so smart, 'If they were all as smart as me, they wouldn't be saying it's a privacy nightmare.' What a shill.

Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real?

Yes, it should have been specified better. Giving exact ips is a big no no, but the first two octets is usually standard. Google provides that much, or at least it used to. So if you get a lot of clicks from a country you don't do business in, like say Malaysia or similar, you may be the victim of a click farm. Vpns also sometimes share similar ip numbers, but again, possibly clicks you don't want.

Ethernet advances will end Nvidia's InfiniBand lead in AI networks

Re: Alternate headline.

Sounds like an nvidia investor. The point of the article is that an open standard, ethernet, is predicted to become good enough that companies may be able to ditch proprietary Infiniband. Which is a win for anyone that isn't nvidia.

Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: 'I don’t like the hypocrisy'

You wouldn't do it, so it's inconceivable that anyone in the world does something differently. It's hard to believe that not everyone thinks the same as you. It's like people saying, 'I've never had a problem, so it can't possibly exist.'

Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing

"As we see time and time again, billionaires tend to think they can do whatever they want, riding roughshod over communities and the environment, then build bunkers to hide in for when the consequences of their actions catch up with them. California Forever could be in for a rude awakening."

I know the reg has never tried to be objective. It bites the hand that feeds it, so of course they're skeptics. But this sentence shows that this article belongs on someone's personal blog. Seriously, is every writer for the reg a hack now? I almost miss that troll Orlowski. Almost.

Rocky Linux backer CIQ rejects lawsuit's claims it was founded on stolen IP

Re: Hmm...

Sylabs, Inc as an incorporated company surely owned the copyright to the code not Kurtzer who as CEO is an employee.

And this is why exactly, because you said so?

Fedora Project mulls 'privacy preserving' usage telemetry

To think that people actually get paid to write this drivel. Seriously, who do you work for, Microsoft, the king of telemetry? Telling the readers to get over it is just tone deaf, but I guess I shouldn't expect anything more from a hack.

Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view

It used to be that some content creators would purposely choose not to monetise their channel (no ads). But then google decided that those channels would also get ads, with the content creators getting 0.

Starlink bags US defense contract to keep war-torn Ukraine connected

Re: No good deed goes unpunished

Apparently theregister thinks that Elon should pay Ukraine's starlink bill indefinitely. Defense contractors like Boeing and Lockheed aren't providing weapons for free. Should we complain about that too?

EU 'poised' to OK Microsoft's Activision biz gobble

Microsoft keeps trumpeting on how it offered 'deals' to its competitors. What are these 'deals' exactly? How much does Sony have to pay for the privilege of keeping CoD? And after the deal period ends, who's to say that Microsoft won't increase the fees 10x, or introduce other onerous terms? When publishers are independent, they want their software (games) on as many devices as possible. Microsoft has already shown its position on that, by announcing that Bethesda games (Elder Scrolls, Skyrim) will be Microsh*t only.

EU takes another step towards US data-sharing agreement

Re: "Campaigners say it's unlikely to pass a test in the courts, though"

Schrems III

Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest

Re: Three letters TPM

This is the reason I refuse to upgrade to 11. I have tpm disabled in bios, and no intention of enabling it, ever.

Meta fined record-breaking $24.6m for deliberately ignoring political ad law

Re: Untill these judgments

$24.6m is simply a cost of doing business for these companies.

Biden wants SpaceX to beam internet to Iran amid uprising

"It was reported earlier today that Uncle Sam was considering whether to probe the tycoon's ventures – such as Tesla and Starlink – for any national security issues, though the White House claimed there's no talk of that."

Musk doesn't want to provide internet indefinitely to Ukraine and Iran, and suddenly gets investigated for national security. What a coincidence.

SpaceX reportedly fed up with providing free Starlink to Ukraine

Re: Right, another Russian apologist trying to move the goalposts

Such strong words from an anonymous coward. Fuck you too.

OK, Google: Why are you still pointing women at fake abortion clinics?

No woman, anywhere in the US will be persecuted for having an abortion?

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116716749/a-nebraska-woman-is-charged-with-helping-her-daughter-have-an-abortion

Oracle throws weight behind draft US law to curtail web sexploitation

Re: Aren't there already enough laws?

No kidding, please please put the resident troll Orlowski back in charge of cell phones or something.

Uber Australia is broke: 'We don't pay tax because we don't generate revenue'

Good riddance to tim worstall.

At Microsoft 'unlimited cloud storage' really means one terabyte

Re: Bait and switch

Of course, blame the users.

Windows 10 wipes your child safety settings if you upgrade from 7 or 8

Re: The quoted article comments are basically...

If you had actually read the article you'd know better. People running 7/8 with parental controls set up had them blown away with window 10 upgrade. Next time try reading the article first before commenting.

Edge out rivals? No! Firefox boss BLASTS Microsoft's Windows 10 browser brouhaha

Didn't ms already settle with the eu over this? And then paying almost a billion dollars for failing to offer a browser choice for over a year?

Facebook fails to block NY DA's fat warrants for profiles of suspected September 11 fraudsters

"None of these sources refer to an inherent authority for a defendant or anyone else to challenge an allegedly defective warrant before it is executed."

No way to challenge a warrant's legality or defectiveness until it's it's executed. Then the government can say 'oops' but by that point it's too late. Only in America.

Beaten blokes hate the women who frag them in online games

Re: Depends...on when people noticed the debate...

Of course they can't provide any links, because they don't exist. Or they'll come back and say do the research yourself because they can't be bothered.

Silicon Valley sides with Samsung in anti-Apple patent war

It all became a joke when samsung won an injunction against apple. It would have banned certain apple products from selling in the usa... until obama overturned the ruling.

Seems samsung has some friends in the us, even if the government isn't one of them.

Neil Young yanks music from streaming services: 'Worst audio in history'

Re: Bizarre And Inexplicable Opinion.

Foobar ABX doubleblind testing. Record it or it didn't happen.

You are unable to assess its validity, but feel completely fine writing multiple paragraphs on why you disagree with it.

Re: my 2 cents

Foobar ABX doubleblind testing. Record it or it didn't happen.

We tried using Windows 10 for real work and ... oh, the horror

Re: Is it possible that in going from 8 to 10 they've skipped the decent release?

Coke is different for all or most countries. Coke for south america is much sweeter than what's sold stateside.

IPT: Sorry we confused Amnesty International with Egyptian group

Perhaps gchq had some 'revealing' information about ipt or its members? Just saying..

Crowdfunded beg-a-thon to bail out Greece raises 0.003% of target

Re: Ignorance of the issue

Yes let's just blame Germany for everything and ignore all the mistakes and spending by Greece. Greece had nothing to do with it, nothing at all.

It's 2015 and Microsoft has figured out anything can break Windows

Re: Surely...

Surely bundling ie with windows had absolutely nothing to do with market share, not at all. Because then the eu would not have forced ms to unbundle ie from windows. Oh wait..

It begins: Time Warner Cable first ISP accused of breaking America's net neutrality rules

Re: I thought...

Of course you neglect to mention that there is no 'Z' option at all.

Ubuntu daddy Mark Shuttleworth loses fight to cancel $20m bank fee

3 courts, 3 different rulings. An accountant is supposed to know better?

FTC lunges at Kickstarter bloke who raised $120,000 – and delivered sweet FA

I don't think it will fall through, at least not like this. Whatever is produced however, cannot possibly live up the hype (and money) invested.

Config file wipe blunder caused deadly Airbus A400M crash – claim

Re: The investigation should center on...

Yes, let's not lay blame when someone dies or something goes wrong. Just say 'oops it happens', right?

Backpage child sex trafficking lawsuit nixed thanks to 'internet freedoms'

Stripping metadata from pictures = crime or wrongdoing?

Uh what about the bbc then?

Starbucks denies mobile app hack, blames careless customers

Re: It is interesting to see lots of IT people mocking users for ticking the linking boxes etc

You're basically saying you pay people to think for you. Then you wonder why things go wrong and who to blame. We already know the answer to at least one of those questions.

Look out, law abiding folk: UK’s Counter-Extremism Bill slithers into view

"For too long we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone,”

So just obeying the law isn't good enough anyomore? Today it's 'extremist speech', tomorrow???

FCC leaning towards approving AT&T/DirecTV gobble – report

Re: Question

Considering it will become the largest television company in the us, it obviously doesn't serve the people. Capitalism, baby.

HAHAHA! Go on, HOST YOUR NEWS on FACEBOOK, FOOLS!

Re: 8 secs for loading...

Citation needed indeed. Show the studies or numbers, or it's just a bunch of hot air.

FCC wants to know if carriers can grab some of YOUR WiFi signal

So is there any way to out of this? Like buying routers without it? Or will it be 'required' to be compatible with the new standard (whatever comes after ac).

Zuck'ed up: Facebook opens up free internet in India – but bans HTTPS

Re: Oh really?

Agreed. Normally this site is so anti-fb, but it seems zuck has some fans here as well. No https means that facebook wants to snoop all traffic, like they do everything else. Anyone claiming it's because of 'caching' or other such nonsense is hopelessly naive.

Grooveshark closes, blames 'serious mistake' of not paying for music

Re: A raw deal, royalty-wise

Nothing to do with it. Even buying cds, most artists receive a pittance royalty.

Confidential information exposed over 300 times in ICANN security snafu

Let's hand everything over to icann, it seems like a really good idea.

Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's effort to keep malware off PCs

As if tpm and uefi weren't enough already.

Cash register maker used same password – 166816 – non-stop since 1990

Re: Experimental data

Let the world hope that you're not in security, since you clearly lack any understanding of it. And if you are in security, it would explain cockups like this. A lot.

Google versus the EU: Sigh. You can't exploit a contestable monopoly

Re: "The moment Google starts screwing over us consumers then we'll bugger off elsewhere"

TW is missing the point. The only question is whether or not it is intentional.

Google pulls plug on YouTube for older iPads, iPhones, smart TVs

So a 3year old tele is now considered 'obsolete'. I thought studies show most people keep theirs until they die, so 5-10 years.

WHAT did GOOGLE do SO WRONG to get a slapping from the EU?

Re: US officials haven't accepted anything

Only downvoting because 10% from google is far from ridiculous, like they can't afford it or something.