* Posts by bombastic bob

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Google Russia goes broke after bank account snatched

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Re: woke-global-climate-change-bullcrap

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Re: woke-global-climate-change-bullcrap

"99.9%" of WHOM exactly? names, research on who they are, and obviously pointing out "appeal to authority" and "hearsay" logical fallacies being at work in that assertion.

And how do you know that "Any scientist" does NOT include ME?

XKCD is NOT a scientific proof of anything... but THIS just MIGHT be.

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Re: woke-global-climate-change-bullcrap

because our eco-facists [snip] have decided to decarbonise the economy, we're facing a massive increase in demand for electricity

like, from electric cars and electric heat.

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tit for tat

All that the USA really needs to do is re-introduce the Trump-era energy policies, and export fossil fuels to EU and other places (undercutting anything Russia offers) which would bankrupt their war effort and END THE RECESSION AND THE INFLATION THAT CAUSES THE STAG-FLATION, but NOOOooo... woke-global-climate-change-bullcrap. (only IDIOTS think this is a GOOD thing, In My Bombastic Opinion)

so instead we get "tit for tat" BULLSHIT.!

what a bunch of... well... BULLSHIT

Intel plans immersion lab to chill its power-hungry chips

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Re: Yes, but...

technology to lift chips out of hot oil

a basket with a handle on it?

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Re: There's already one datacenter I know of doing exactly this

immersed in some sort of oil

why did I just get a mental picture of the movie "Fight Club" in my head...

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Re: Has Intel considered reducing the power consumption ?

I explained the reasons for power consumption vs speed in an earlier post, above. Reducing power consumption is a goal, not always achievable. And there are patents that would need licensing, no doubt, if Intel starts copying AMD. They each have their own kind of "cleverness" no doubt, and this will rearrange in the future as these things continue to get smaller, run on lower voltages, and crank up the clock frequencies.

(so I'd think Intel is probably trying to become less power hungry than AMD while AMD tries to keep their edge on Intel, for the moment at least)

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for speed inside of a CPU, higher speed means higher current. Lower voltage reduces power (current times voltage) and smaller logic gate sizes reduce current. The materials determine the practical limits on logic gate sizes and voltages, as well as operating temperature ranges. A *LOT* of variables go into this mix, and current designs are asymptotically hitting those limits.

Just to put things into perspective, anyway... (the physics reasons behind the need for better cooling).

Oh, and component density and location on the wafer plays a big part in sinking the heat away from the places that generate it the most also. Gotta be "clever":.

the main reason why higher speed needs higher current has to do with internal capacitance. It requires a bit of extra current to flip the charge on a gate from a 1 to a 0 or vice versa when you ALSO have to overcome the parasitic capacitance. Think of it as being like a tiny unwanted battery that needs to be charged and discharged in the right direction every time you change the logic state. And there are ZILLIONS of those, constantly being charged and discharged at gigahertz frequencies. No WONDER it heats up! I could get into reactive vs resistive current too but in the interest of being brief I think that paints the right picture.

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Re: Cloudy climate change

News Flash: Man Made Climate Change is a *MYTH*. CO2 is at EQUILIBRIUM, and is VERY bad at absorbing black body radiation (the thing that defines a 'greenhouse gas') for temperatures ACTUALLY found on Earth... *ESPECIALLY* when you compare it to something like WATER. (CO2 is actually effective on MARS where it's avg -80F or similar even with only that thin CO2 atmosphere)

Saving money on electric bills, however, *IS* important. THAT bottom line determines whether people get a raise next year (or the boss gets his new expensive chair). For THIS reason, liquid cooling make sense. NOT for 'that other bogus UN-SCIENTIFIC reason'.

Biden tours Samsung fab, talks chip cooperation with South Korea

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"The embarassment" should just stay home (and stop 'doing things')

As soon as he opens his mouth and (in a voice that sounds, in my opinion, like he's been drinking to excess) makes half a dozen gaffs (yet states the obvious once or twice, enough for a "favorable" sound bite on friendly media) the current occupant of the White House ("Sleepy Joe" Biden) will continue to have an overall negative effect on the USA, and maybe even the WORLD, with his diminishing approval and nearly 60% overall disapproval due to his DISMAL failure at anything resembling a "leader"... let alone the ZILLIONS of things he has gotten wrong from foreign policy to domestic oil production and baby formula. [keep in mind the exec branch controls the FDA, which did NOT need to drag its feet while baby formula was recalled and store inventories dwindled].

I just hope his weakness and general incompetence does not set off WW3 before he gets REPLACED in 2025...

Basically we'd all be better if he left S. Korea and just shut up for 3 years.

Export bans prompt Russia to use Chinese x86 CPU replacement

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Re: Russian politics aside

Acknowledging accomplishments and seeing them in a clear light isn't really "Jingoism" but rather a national pride in a positive kind of way. Or, good old fashioned flag-waving patriotism. 'Queen and Country' is fine with me, even as a US'ian. (aggressively saying how great you are in order to bully or intimidate or manipulate would be true Jingoism).

It's sort of like saying "if it's true, it ain't bragging".

(and my experiences working with UK engineers has been pretty positive, especially when compared to China)

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Re: Russian politics aside

brevity being the sole of wit, and admittedly TLDR, I shall summarize a rebuttal

You appear to be forgetting a few details...

* Under COMMUNISM, the constant looming threat of "getting disappeared" or bad social credit STIFLES true innovation. Seen enough examples of it to confirm. "The nail that sticks up gets the hammer"

* Much of their "progress" was literally STOLEN from universities and corporations that were acquired or "partnered" with over the last decade or so (this is well established)

* They routinely do not respect intellectual property. "4th shift" was a term coined about the all too frequent off-the-books manufacturing that violates copyrights, patents, etc. for "internal consumption" (mostly, not always). Seen that, too. FTDI knockoff chips a few years ago is an example of it getting out of hand.

In short, if engineers in China regularly INVENTED something of significance over what is invented in EU, UK, and USA (etc.), I would be concerned about China having the potential to dominate the technological world. But they won't unless we DELIBERATELY HAND IT TO THEM. So what we (the rest of the world) need to do is stop them from COPYING our stuff, through illegal and unethical means, starting now, and moving into the future.

(and having stuff BUILT there is just TEACHING THEM how to make OUR tech)

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Re: Military implications?

One wonders what effect shifting to these slower, less capable, chips will have on Russian military hardware.

They won't be running Micros~1 authored software, so slower CPU and less RAM should be fine.

(yeah that was a SLAM on Micros~1® BLOATWARE™)

As for the sanctions, which we ALL know are nothing more than VIRTUE SIGNALLING at this point (if they were serious they would OPEN UP U.S. OIL PRODUCTION and CUT OFF PUTIN'S CASH FLOW, but i digress), it's yet ANOTHER way to ENABLE and PROMOTE our competitors in China to UNDERCUT U.S. manufacturing in the long term.

* great job promoting Chinese alternatives to U.S. higher end CPUs

* great job empowering China (and Russia) to develop replacement tech by FORCING WORLD OIL PRICES HIGHER so PUTIN MAKES MORE MONEY

* great job DRIVING CHINA AND RUSSIA INTO MORE/CLOSER PARTNERSHIPS on things

* great job NOT dealing with the CAUSE of the Russia/Ukraine war (and Putin's war-funding machine)

* great job HURTING RUSSIAN CITIZENS and *NOT* *POOTIE*

etc.

I could keep going but I'll stop for now. I'm all over the place on this one so I'll use the pirate icon...

Foxconn forms JV to build chip fab in Malaysia

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Re: Incompetence

I was hoping it would be an indicator of a new trend, "not made in China" by a Taiwanese company

Monero-mining botnet targets Windows, Linux web servers

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Re: Linux as a target? But is this really the case?

A Linux server with (apparently unpatched) wordpress interface. OK it's WORDPRESS and not Linux, if you think about it...

(this is why I like using rsync with SSH key login on a mirror directory for web stuff, which you could test locally and maintain using source control and only update with official 'merge' builds if you have at least some discipline in your team)

I think the rent-a-server I have for the company domain has wordpress capability, but you have to enable it. Guess what I will not be enabling...

The new generation of CentOS replacements – plus the daddy of them all: RHEL 8.6

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Re: It was sad to see Centos go

well, it's not really "gone" just EOL'd in its original form, and re-defined as "stream"

but yeah this is old news now. centos.org is pretty straightforward about it.

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Rocky Linux seems good enough to me depending on your use case

I had some good experience testing Rocky Linux last year. The only down sides are the GUI (do not like much) and the use of RFC1918 addresses internally (which I had a hard time locating to change them to something else). it's a built-in wut dun it. I forget what exactly but it irritated me.

hint, grep -r "192[.]168" /etc

Otherwise basic setup was simple enough and "it just worked"

Arm, Microsoft at pains to say this CPU arch can be trusted with real server work

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Re: Few mention power consumption

ARM might have an advantage in massively parallel processing algorithms. More cores in less space on the die.

So perhaps some better use of parallel cores in the data center? Then 'slower wide' vs 'faster narrow' might prove some interesting concepts.

(unfortunately I think too many things are still "linear" in nature and do not parallel well)

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if it were open source, it would go a LOT faster... (because a lot of contributors would want to participate)

Elon Musk says Twitter buy 'cannot move forward' until spam stats spat settled

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Re: Less than 5%!!

a corollary to what you say about precision and accuracy - increasing the number of samples tends to 'average out' accuracy problems and CAN result in better precision, kinda like how "oversampling" works.

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

So rather than 100 random samples, how about 10,000 random users gathered from various locations, asked to participate in surveys in some cases (but not all), and things like that?

Bots and spammers clearly lower the value of Tw*tter. I have seen the results of questionable filiings prior to acquisitions before. One company got shafted with $millions in excess obsolete inventory, valued at purchase price (not what it was worth) but then they TURNED AROUND AND BURNED HOSTILE A TAKEOVER with the SAME THING. yes it WAS the early 90's... and the ivory tower most definitely got their "golden parachutes" out of the deal,

My guess: Elon is aware of such tactics

NASA's InSight doomed as Mars dust coats solar panels

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Re: Insight?

well I think Mars is less than 0.1 atmospheres and so vacuum cleaners wouldn't have a lot of differential pressure. compressed air nozzle might be the only 'air method' of cleaning.

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Re: Insight?

yeah, mentioned the static electricity in another post. It's a big problem in super dry air.

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Re: Insight?

Windshield wipers wouldn't help a whole lot...

* Mars has no water in significant enough quantity to spritz them

* Static electricity in an environment like that would keep the dust on the panels anyway (water would help in dust removal by undoing the static electricity's effect)

And so the dust accumulates. Kinda like every top shelf in the house...

As for convenient dust devils (which appear in certain parts of the desert all of the time in summer out here in Cali-F-You, along I-5 near the truck weighing station for one, little mini tornados) I have a dust devil (vacuum cleaner) that might help, if I could just send it to Mars...

(Also send a robot maid to operate it - as it hums the theme from 'Space Balls')

It is possible that an air compressor nozzle could blow dust off of the panels. But that would add a lot of weight to the thing, nozzle, tank, hose, robot arm attachment, extra camera, and the power to run the compressor long enough to pack enough air to blow dust off of the panel which could rapidly become a 'Catch 22' situation if you need more power to pound air into the tanks to clean the panels but can't... quite... get... enough *couch* *choke*

I do have to wonder if inverting the panel with ultrasonic transducers vibrating the panel might shake dust off effectively. So nightly maintenance maybe flip the panel and buzz it for an hour? NASA? Or a 2 sided panel that flips around and buzzes during the day (so they alternate)? that along with anti-static coatings, anyway.

The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

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Re: Not that unreasonable

why did you have to "go there" with the CO2 thing?

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Re: Not that unreasonable

that sounds like a very boring future outlook. There's nothing like the roar of a muscle car!!!

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Re: Not that unreasonable

my car has an automatic, but I manually shift it a lot; It's controlled from the center panel though 'cause it's officially a "sports car" [a Mustang]. Put it in 1st to accelerate around corners in the turn lane, pass everyone, get ahead of the slowpokes. Works pretty well for that. It shifts 1st to 2nd at around 45mph, 2nd to 3rd at 70mph, when floored. Basically I drive it like a manual transmission when I want the *extra* *power*

(that way best of both worlds, and do not have to work a clutch in bad traffic, though I rarely have to commute)

That's what a good UI lets you do - maximize your potential!!!

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Re: Why are they all the same?

The Windows 3.0 SDK came with a copy of that book (Common User Interface Design by IBM or something like that). I have it somewhere, probably in a pile of old books

GPL legal battle: Vizio told by judge it will have to answer breach-of-contract claims

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GPL: Compliance Web Page

Although the GPL _does_ mention hard media (on request), one of the simplest ways to comply is a simple GPL compliance download page. Then, if a user asks for hard copy you can burn a CD or DVD with the requested source, or even send a USB drive or SD card if it's faster/cheaper. Chances are this will not happen often and is WAY cheaper than non-GPL alternatives or (worse) violating GPL. I've set this up a couple of times, just explain it to everyone concerned and set it up on github or something and point to Linux distros and upstream sites and if you modify something, put the source in a tarball and put it on your site.

Not sure why Vizio had not done this. Pretty much all companies that have been successful with open source will have something like this. I pattern lot of what I do off of what Linksys did back in the day. I was able to build images with what they provided, and could modify things if I wanted, so it works when done properly.

Meta hires network chip guru from Intel: What does this mean for future silicon?

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Potential for both good AND bad is what I see

* competition - good

* foundries potentially inside the USA, EU rather than China - good [we shall see]

* new possibilities in tech because, deep pockets - good

* faster intarwebs - good

and then there is...

* bult-in backdoor spying tech inside of NICs and CPUs and even RAM - VERY BAD

* more easy identification of YOUR COMPUTER such that you cannot stop nor control it - VERY BAD

Again, we shall see... and must remain vigilant and NOT TRUST THEM. Google wanted our trust a while back, "do no evil" etc.

Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker

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Until the "parts hoarders" and "component price scalpers" take a GIANT LOSS, I'm not satisfied...

(as in why does an RPi cost more than TWICE what it did 2 years ago, if you can even GET one?)

Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS. Only Microsoft needs to

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amazingly older versions of Windows NT 4 and 2k worked pretty well on 486 and Pentium I. I noticed a significant reduction in efficiently with Win2k3 though, but i had Win 2k server running on a Pentium I 133Mhz without any serious performance bottlenecks, doing basic network and file share things. When i loaded win2k3 server on the same platform, it was klunky and stuttered a lot... (even though it was only for testing it was so pathetic it was the last windows server version i ever installed on ANYTHING)

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Re: @bombastic bob - Honestly, Bob,

on a server you might choose to mount an NTFS formatted drive with legacy data on it, possibly for use by a VM or application running under Wine, or who knows what unforseeable reason. Edge cases, but still...

and Linux is not just used on servers, FYI.

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Re: Designed "universal" standards

well, universal standard time is a good idea, if you like air and sea navigation to work, and trains to share track without crashing.

Then there are standard sizes for electrical connectors, screw sizes, peripheral sizes (like disk drives), memory connectors, CPU sockets, IC footprints, yotta yotta yotta.

Then there are things like USB (why is it bad?), HDMI, CD/DVD/BluRay formats, WiFi modulation, even broadcast radio - the list goes on and on. Without universal standards NONE of these would even work.

I suspect that there may have been at least SOME "in our best interests" creep in their development, but they are universal and agreed to and adhered to enough that there is overall benefit from the standardization.

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Is there any use case for ntfs support in Linux apart from system rescue CDs?

I remember this being brought up in an El Reg article about Paragon adding their NTFS driver into the Linux kernel. As I recall, dual-booting and using existing data were two good reasons.

As for me I do not dual boot any more, VirtualBox doing what I need for those cases. But others still dual boot.

(I actually had a 'quad boot' set up once with MS DOS, Win2k, Win 95, and FreeBSD 4.11 - it was a little klunky but it worked - on a 486 DX2 with some pathetic amount of RAM on it)

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Re: It's the same old story with Linux - it's just one more thing

I do not think you should lump all Linux users into the GPL-fascism camp...

Linus (apparently) chose GPLv2 for the kernel and the tool makers pick whatever licenses they want. Distros put binary packages together for download (etc.) and make the source available to comply with the licenses.

And only a few of these distro makers even TRY to be "GPL purists". Debian-based distros have boatloads of "non-free" packages available. Works for me.

(I guess calling it 'non-free' is enough of a virtue signal for the purists, but it ALSO does not stop people from installing them easily)

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when your company revenue has been based on the ability to sell ice cubes to indigenous peoples in frozen wastelands, it's just more of the same kinds of marketeering.

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Fortunately Linux is still GPLv2 last I checked.

There is also nothing stopping anyone from including ZFS as a build-from-source install. I do that with Linux drivers sometimes. Debian derivatives have the 'module-assistant' package for that purpose.

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Re: Using NTFS

how does EXFAT compare to that? Just curious...

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Re: Even if they did...

Well the best use for the NTFS driver in Linux, In My Bombastic Opinion, is for a bootable Linux image that assists with data recovery and backups.

Open source disk imaging and file-by-file recovery utilities on a pre-built Linux bootable CD/DVD image. It has been done (of course) but an up to date kernel NTFS driver makes it all that more reliable and valuable.

I would like very much to be able to mount a "ghost image" of a hard drive (stored as a disk file, let's say), and then pick individual files off of it and recover them, or to do a file-by-file comparison between current and last ghosted image (particularly useful for something like a ransomware recovery process). LOTS of potential uses here in data recovery. Or, generate the ghost images to begin with, via the same "recovery tools" CD/DVD.

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Re: Microsoft should move beyond NTFS

How about ZFS ?

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"but if 2022 has any lessons for us, it's that we can't have good things"

sadly, the best. quote. evar.

China plans to toss foreign-made PCs from government agencies 'in two years'

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Re: Unpredictable

Don't call China's government an "authoritarian regime", that's just propaganda-speak.

Communist dictatorship, then. Under THAT system, your life is owned by the state. you have NO rights, and can be "disappeared" or "relocated" at the whim of the CCP (ask the Uyghurs about that, or anyone who said the origin of COVID-19 was a. "lab leak" and it was "genetically altered for gain of function research").

It is the OPPOSITE of democracy. Just ask the lockdown victims of Shanghai.

[these things SHOULD be obvious to the most casual observer]

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Re: Unpredictable

The problem with authoritarian regimes is that they're unpredictable in their ways

That's one problem, for sure. Capricious heavy-handed top-down dictating of policy, and don't you DARE deviate for ANY reason. That kind of thing.

A corollary of that, the constant looming threat of social credit scores and "getting disappeared" is probably in the back of EVERYONE's mind. As I have mentioned before, this STIFLES creativity and innovation. Why? Because if you tell the boss his design is flawed, and your idea is better, will that cost you your JOB? Your LIFE? Your FAMILY'S LIFE? That's not going to get things "done well with rapid turnaround", for sure.

Ran into some related problems a while back, where it seemed to me that you cannot explain to an engineer in China, what is obvious to you, that a problem exists in their design. In this case they simply would not accept that a problem even existed, or that our fix [that partially reverts their design change they did without telling the customers] actually solves the problem. But a year later they come up with their OWN fix, not OURS not the one WE recommended, even though it worked and was cheap to implement (even as an equipment field change) until the OEM manufacturer could get their collective acts together and actually FIX the problem their previous 'new design' actually CREATED in the first place...

(this story concluded also with a few engineers and techs actually going to China to help resolve other manufacturing-related issues, in December of 2019. yes no significance here, not like I caught "the virus" from anyone who'd been there or anything and got sick upon returning to the USA, before anyone had even heard of "the virus", but I digress...)

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The software is far more obvious a route for spying.

you may have made a case for people in China, Russia, and anywhere else that might be frightened by a U.S. company that is in control of whether their computers work or not, to perhaps invest in something *LIKE* ReactOS development.

(I cannot imagine what went wrong with Red Flag Linux but I can bet it was a cross between "Not Invented Here" syndrome, and the overall looming threats that exist under any communist or otherwise oppressive regime, particularly the looming threats that stifle innovation and creativity).

Keep it open source and the world may thank them very very much!

RAD Basic – the Visual Basic 7 that never was – releases third alpha

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Re: Beginners'

as far as I am concerned the lingo is less important than the structure

I've done VB stuff and for some things it works better.

NOW - can RAD Basic be made to run for LINUX and FREEBSD as well? Also without that stupid runtime DLL...

Tablet PC sales decline as consumers consider inflation

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drop in need, potential market saturation, and inflation - together mean 'decline in sales'

Althoogh 1978-style STAG-FLATION seems to be on the horizon, it's not the only factor.

Post-pandemic, the need for new slabs is diminishing. And, as with 'smart devices' a few years ago, the market may be getting saturated.

Unless iPad gets a "new, shiny" that's new AND shiny enough for people to replace their old gear, I expect sales to decline, maybe even SHARPLY.

Still, when it comes to gasoline, groceries, or toys taking the remaining income after "Bill" takes most the after-tax paycheck of the average working stiff, i.e. housing and utilities and maybe a car payment or two gets that first big bite... and groceries and gasoline seem to get a higher priority than toys. Yeah who';d a thunk it!

In short, as this apparent STAG-FLATION diminishes "disposable income" to zero, or maybe even taking it into the red, and the chance for a raise (good luck with that) also diminishes as the economy moves into a SLOW RECESSION, bosses are less likely to shovel over more of their budgets to employee wage increases [and are probably being told by bean counters to cut back as much as possible and for GOOD reason, not greed]. The only saving factor is the lack of able-bodied people actually LOOKING for work. When they finally stop getting their freebies and handouts, and recognize the need to get off thdir collective backsides and get JOBS, we can (unfortunatley) expect something worse, unless OTHER things change to eliminate the CAUSE of the problem. I refer to 1978 vs 1984 as the explanation for all of that.

But then again, the article hinted at most of that (minus the 1978 comparison).

GitHub to require two-factor authentication for code contributors by late 2023

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when I do a 'git push' it BETTER NOT SLOW ME DOWN

I often use github to synchronize development on multiple (often embedded) devices, and with multiple repos. Having to use that cert-like thing instead of a password is difficult ENOUGH to implement on my end, but I did it anyway and now it does NOT slow me down nor require having it in a PLAIN TEXT FILE.

But if they make it even MORE inconvenient, I'm likely to recommend that paid repos be moved ELSEWHERE. And I'll move MY OWN repos as well.

There are times when I have no easy access to my PERSONAL E-MAIL for a 2FA thing. WORSE, I *REFUSE* to give THEM a CELL PHONE NUMBER (it's almost always off anyway). And using a different git login for 'occasionally in an office' vs 'at home' is EVEN WORSE (and there are limits to how many logins have access to a paid repo without paying EXTRA).

And how would you type in such a code when using 'git pull' or 'git push' ANYWAY ??? It should ONLY be optional to stick 2FA on somet6hing that's ALREADY secure enough.

I have noticed some level of it on the web site alredy though. if I have to do admin stuff I use the boss's login rather than my own, and I have to have him on slack to give me the stupid code so I can finish logging in. It's inconvenient but via the web interface it's plausible, I suppose...

For 'git pull' and 'git push' I have the 'cert like' password stored in an encrypted file. To access it I type in the password I would have otherwise used at a prompt from a shell script that decrypts it and pastes it to the clipboard. This somewhat conveniently lets me access 'git pull' and 'git push' over ssh as well. So I worked around their little inconvenince. AND! I! DO! NOT! WANT! THIS! GETTING! ANY! WORSE! IN! THE! FUTURE!!!

The last t6hing *I* need is ANAL RETENTIVE BUREAUCRATIC 'ONE SIZE FITS ALL FOR EVERY BRICK IN THE WALL' UNNECESSARY INCONVENIENT CRAP GETTING IN MY @#$% WAY!!!

World needs multilateral chip tech export bans to hurt China – think tank

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Re: If China is so bad.

well, labor intensive manufacturing can't be economically done at $20/hr and still maintain an affordable price on the store shelf. And for YEARS China made it TOO easy to shift manufacturing there... until there was something resembling a lock-in. It's like a lot of things with introductory prices or "free upgrades" that lock you in so that you can be monetized properly, later.

Or, like drug dealers that give away free samples of highly addictive chemicals, KNOWING you will be back. With money.

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Re: Another bully group

eh, no. but I think you are "not wrong" about some of this, in that the U.S. is using "its might" to prevent things *LIKE* China rapidly taking over the manufacturing of integrated circuits worldwide (for example).

I do not think national-interest goals are necessarily "bad". And I am certain they are NOT "enslavement". But the real debate should be over whether they are anti-competitive to the extent that they in any way become an oppressive domination of the world market.

China is still welcome to develop their own tech, and eventually I expect they will, but creativity and innovation are STIFLED by a "big brother" CCP that appears to be more concerned about "social credit" than technological accomplishment.

Palantir expands from Covid role, wins $90m deal with US Department of Health

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"the focus of concern among health data privacy watchers"

THAT is a HUGE concern...