Posts by vistisen

If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?

To switch the car off, you must press a big button marked 'START'.

Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines

Re: Perhaps....

I thought that powercuts actually caused the next generation. https://www.nytimes.com/1966/08/10/archives/births-up-9-months-after-the-blackout-hospitals-report-rise-in.html

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

Grok :make VR look unhappy and mistreated!

Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote

Re: LEGO

Already done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6RxhnPO7SQ

When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software company overnight

Re: Follow the money

Personally, I hope the crash is sooner rather than later, let's get it over and done with, while it is 'only' the economy that crashes. And before we take the planets ecosystems with us in our greedy and vain illusions that we know what we are doing.The sooner Musk and the other idiots emmigrate to Mars the better, just make sure we have missile systems ready to stop them returning.

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

Re: The GP is a Thermal Unit!

We need a measure for pedantry... which will almost ceratinly have something to do with railway modellers..

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't

Yes because when you don't have a fuse in the plug, it means the whole house goes dark with a short circuit, rather than just the one device. That is a much better solution. NOT!

• Not to mention that the devices that use more current can have bigger fuses than those that don't,

• They are more resistant to being pulled out of the socket by mistake

• The earth pin connects before the others, giving extra safety.

• They ensure that with audio equipment that all devices are in phase

• The mains ring can have more amps, as each individual device is protected according to its needs.

So no benefits at all… But I agree the are ugly.

X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil. Go on , do it Block X! Braczil survived. One you have made an example of X, Facebook and the others will take laws seriously. Free speech <> freedom to say anything you want, with out consequences.

Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks

Re: The "3D printed chicken"

Why did the reformed Chicken cross the road... Because it realized that it had gone too far

Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke

Well two other people have said the same... so that means according to https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/ the next 97 won't!

McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits

Re: AI is like ketchup...

and you cannot get it back in the bottle

When AI is trained for treachery, it becomes the perfect agent

Re: AI ← detect AI

...and watch the planet overheat.

Huntress's 'hilarious' attacker surveillance splits infosec community

Re: Is it really a privacy issue if ...

Are you talking about Google, or facebook?

Servers hated Mondays until techie quit quaffing coffee in their company

Many years agon I had to do a stock taking in a supermarkets walk in freezer store. I had to take a break every 15 minutes to allow the liquid crystal display in the pocket calculator to unfreeze.

If you're forced to use Windows 11, here's how to steal some of your time back

Re: Wasted electricity

That's nothing compared to using AI to write single sentence replies to e-mails

Voltron Data throws its weight behind AMD for GPU-accelerated SQL

Re: I guess this was bound to happen

We refer to badly written sqls that use joins with no conditions as 'happy slapping'

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 Start Menu updates

Re: It's CLEAR that when they let the DEVs egos get in the way, the end user's get the shaft

Quite!

Where do you start reading a page of text?... top left corner.

Where do you start a month on a calendar?... top left corner.

Where do you start a date column in a spreadsheet?... top left corner.

Where do you start reading a restaurant menu?... top left corner

Where do you open windows start menu?.... somewhere else

While you are at it, please let us move edge bookmarks to the left hand side of the browser like you can in every other browser on the PC

What the **** did you put in that code? The client thinks it's a cyberattack

I saw a comment in some code" this value must be 1. We don't know why"

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

Re: CoPilot reminds me of the Windows 10 forced upgrade

Really?

You would rather be without support for networks, usb? No driver management, no patch management, no GUI? No mouse support?

It is alright that you hate Microsoft... but try to be slightly realistic

Microsoft goes native with Copilot. Again

Re: Talking Heads in the Cloud

Just wander about shouting "format c:"

China's Silk Typhoon, tied to US Treasury break-in, now hammers IT and govt targets

Of course where the Chinese government do this sort of thing, it is a despicable action. When it is the NSA listening in on the German prime minister mobile phone that is something completely OK.

'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail'

Re: they're not like us

Its crash rating was so bad, that it was the only car that looked better after the crashtest than defore

Microsoft 365 price rises are coming – pay up or opt out (if you can find the button)

Personally, I would pay more for office/windows if they could guarantee that by doing so they would block anything and everything that is tainted by AI.

AI is the biggest load og bovine dropping since ‘second life’ or what ever it as called. The real problem is that AI is killing the planet, and destroying creativity, and original though... apart from that it is fine!

Veteran Microsoft engineer shares some enterprise support tips

The more educated user will take a screen dump of the error message, being carefull NOT to include the system clock in the dump, så that you still have to wade through all the logfiles to find the message

Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AI

Free speech is not the same as being able to say absolute rubbish. If the powers that be, forbid you from telling other people at what temperature water freezes, you do not free speech. If people complain, block your post social media posts saying that water freezes at 1,000,000 degrees, that is their freedom from having to listen to you. If then are forced to listen to it, then again it is not free speech.

Did you hear the one about the help desk chap who abused privileges to prank his mate?

Many years ago, I was s sysadmin at an early web bureau. We sat in our ‘server room’ that was hot even in winter, so we had windows open, and desks close by them. On the other side of a small courtyard there were a flock of web developers who thought it was very funny to throw snowballs in though our windows from the snow on their window sills. They thought it was funny right up to the moment they saw that all their PCs were shutting down with no chance to save any work in progress.

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate

'good C* code'., is that a variant of c# ?

Crack coder wasn't allowed to meet clients due to his other talent: Blisteringly inappropriate insults

The first place I was an IT supporter, there was a sysadmin who was a nice bloke until you got on the wrong side of him. The companies PCs where strictly controlled (back in late 90,s ). Users who annoyed him too much found that their desktops background would suddenly be a flashing pink/ yellow colour with a text telling them how many days they had to put up with that, and why? It never happened to me, but the BOFH did give me a taste of the windows BSOD screen saver after lunchtimes on several occasions.

European chip lobby seeks more government cash and policy clout

So let me get this right. Chines electric cars get a punishment tariff because the Chinese government supports development of tech that will save the planet. But it is fine for the EU to pay for the next generation og AI power guzzling mega server farms to provide totally useless rubbish?

Here we go again with more AI crime prediction for policing

Re: Soo.....

Funny you should say that, apparently the new AI testing of hand baggage scanning reacts badly to bags that have contained bananas... Too much potassium.

California upgrade company aims militarized 'Tactical' Cybertruck at police forces

If police forces ever got round to useing them in Europe, the easist way to evade them would bo to tunn down a narrow street

Microsoft unbundling Teams is to appease regulators, not give customers a better deal

It is not just a question of what WE use. It is aso what your customers use. I am a member for several companies TEAMS. At least now you can be of chats with different organisation’s TEAMS at the same time.

Want to keep Windows 10 secure? This is how much Microsoft will charge you

Re: If only there was some technology

...because Linux never has problems https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/xz_backdoor_open_source/

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

My Intel I7 processor which I bought on the 15th of May 2012 still works fine. With a decent Graphics card, I can play all the games I want to on my 4K screen. I can do all the 3D desgn work and renders I want, all the programmes I use start quickly. But there is no TPM2 support om the motherboard I bought at the same time. I see no reason to buy a new PC just to have my Windows task bar ruined. The ironic thing is that I AM running Windows 11 preview edition, I have tamed it by using the excellent StartAllBack utility So it looks and feels like Windows7 but with the ‘good bits’ of Windows 11 ( I can’t quite put my finger on what these are…)

I see no need to do a reinstall on Windows 10 only to be nagged all the time to upgrade to Windows 11 again. So I live in a limbo Windows 11 world, at least it means I run no risk of getting so called AI features pushed out to me.

Apple's Titan(ic) iCar project is dead as self-driving dream fails to materialize

Re: I don't get it

Nio do it the other way round. They made the car first and now have a whole range of Nip products includning a smartphone. In fact NIo is problably the car company that is closest to creating an Apple like fan base, The have Nio homes Homes, Nio clothes collections, and so on https://www.nio.com/da_DK/nio-life.

The major difference between NIO's cars and Apples Phones is that in the cars, you can change the battery!

US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes

I am still not sure how a country can justify killing people for being criminals, where there has been no trial, by sending weapons of war into the air above a nation that they are not at war wiith. How is that legal or accepted. If Putin was doing it to kill pussy riot members in Europe, there would be no end to the shouting by Western leaders. Allowing AI to make the decisions does not make me feel any better. It would probably go after one of Googles Black founding fathers from the US who would certainly not approve of doing such things.

Nokia walks the walk about its RAN to play on Uncle Sam’s China fears

I,m more worried about Google, Facebook, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft etc thet we KNOW sell our data and misuse it , than I am about the chinese governmetn knowing what I watch on Netflix because there is a Huawei router in my ISPs sererveroom

Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it!

No problem

Once you have selected your preferences in the program Right click on the Taskbar and select New Toolbar and in the box that comes up enter %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch and Taa-Daaaa, Quck Launch is back

The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers

Re: Should have left some "bugs" in place

BREXSOD The Brtitish economy's screen of death

OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials'

I can not see why AI shoudn't user copyrighted information... as long as it pays royalities. If I ask AI to ’paint ' me a picture and it use a complex algorithm to find the best match from the millions of paintings that I has stored in its database, then it can also use the same algorithm to distribute the royalties to the uses sources with those that made the biggest contribution getting the highest proportion. The same principle could be used for questions that use information to provide the ‘correct’ answer for factual questions. Again, the used sources could receive royalties. The very mechanism that ‘trains’ the models is attaching value to how much the individual nuggets of information is worth in searches, means attaching financial worth is already possible. It is just another tag.

What if Microsoft had given us Windows XP 2024?

Oh look, a consistant approach to UI, what a novel idea!

The printout may be dead but that beast of a print queue lives on

Re: Don't buy cheap/proprietary shit

Not wioth this one https://3deksperten.dk/products/creality-3d-cr-30-printmill-belt-printer

Power grids tremble as electric vehicle growth set to accelerate 19% next year

Re: Someone is working at the 'skipping the infrastructure' problem

Total nonstarter of an idea; Parking in a garage, or in a shadow, means that the car does not charge. neither will it charge during the night!. I have 26 solar panels at home that have a much larger surface area than a car’s body. These panels can provide almost 10 Kw in an hour at maximum output. So that would mean even if the car was the size om my solar panels, and working at maximum efficiency, then it would not be able to drive quicker than about 25 mph before it used more power that it generated. One sensible use of a solar cell on the car was on the original Nissan Leaf, where there was, I believe a solar panel on the car that generated enough power to run the air conditioning. That makes real sense. If the sun shines on the car enough to warm it up, then you can cool it down for ‘free’ without emptying your battery.

Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads

Smae reason I use vivaldi https://vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-vivaldi-users-will-not-get-floced/

Mozilla calls cars from 25 automakers 'data privacy nightmares on wheels'

"Caltrider said the Privacy Not Included team contacted Nissan and all of the other brands listed in the research: that's Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Acura, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Fiat, Jeep, Chrysler, BMW, Subaru, Dacia, Hyundai, Dodge, Lexus, Chevrolet, Tesla, Ford, Honda, Kia, Audi, Volkswagen, Toyota and Renault."

... and people say they won't buy Chinese brands because they are afraid the Chinese government is collecting data on them, as indead it probably is. But I bet they are not selling it on.to companies I actully do business with.

California DMV hits brakes on Cruise's SF driverless fleet after series of fender benders

Problem is the LLM would have to be dummed down to react at the level of CEOs

about down to the level

"We must do something", "this is something", "we must do this".

"when is my next bonus paid out"?

So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans

As someone who is slighty dyslixic, I hate those CAPCHAs that use letters, number I have no problem with. And as a pedant I hate the images that almost always have edges of bridge, wheels, busses or what ever that overlap the suares by a pixel or two. IF you want me to mark the squares that I know are right then accept that your capcha is not correct. When really pissed off I take a screen shot, enlarge it and send an angry mail to the website, where I show them that I AM right, They ARE worng and THEY have just lost a customer.

Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop

Re: @StrangerHereMyself - They'll try

That's me. I do that... I do it when I get confronted with windows 11 as well.

Re: They'll try

" the major reason that Chromebook has the market share it does, as of 2021 at 10.8%, is because of the education market."

Not so much longer in Denmark GDPR is putting a stop to Google learing about what your chiolder learn:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/18/denmark-bans-chromebooks-and-google-workspace-in-schools-over-gdpr/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIMh8Y6B8Frd3BmfOZNnOaqAEKg83EcRf89QcQlddR19_7ky02YyDcjT0mB2I60SPJJGV-99EYXYY6vht-s31T32PmbFr5fzFPVNxIeBQtqLs_Ssrt8SQPa_foHP9z4IiLJp9HtuyKhTsMZOgg_XAmRJtb5sNzSwlWXWQ19a8AbP