Posts by quxinot

Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype

Re: Only 90% ?

Sturgeon's law is optimistic.

'One Less Car' Uber bets a grand you'll ditch your wheels

Re: RE: US don't have the basic infrastructure found in civilised countries

Ever notice that the issue is the car? Only the car, and only if it burns fossil fuels. Nevermind that the EV's tires, rubber, plastics, and even the very road it's driven on..... yep! From oil!

Maybe the issue is overpopulation in some areas and the sheer load of eight billion people on the planet?

TikTok sues America to undo divest-or-die law

You see ads?!

You are internetting fundamentally incorrectly.

Dell to color-code staff based on how hybrid they really are in RTO push

Re: Fire HR.

It doesn't matter how you fire HR.

So long as you get them into the volcano! The results matter, not the methodology!

How do you lot feel about Pay or say OK to ads model, asks ICO

Re: Great Idea!

Go ahead and advertise in your content.

I'll get what I want without dealing with that.

Arrrrr......

Subway's data torpedoed by LockBit, ransomware gang claims

And the inflationary tripling of the prices didn't help, either.

Sucks, a good Subway is a great boon when I'm travelling and not looking for exciting, exotic food. But after the last few poor experiences, I need a plan B.

'Only 700 new IT jobs' were created in US last year

Re: Loss' of US IT jobs. Why ?

You need to

take away your enter key

and only use it

on special occasions

like ending

a complete thought.

CEO of chat tech plumber Twilio is leaving the building

Hrm....

I am going to bet that the new CEO goes straight into moneymaking mode, and that the company is shuttered completely in two years.

What if Microsoft had given us Windows XP 2024?

Re: I prefer Windows 2000 look over XP look.

Screw that.

How about--come with me here--instead of forcing a set width. Instead of saying THIS IS YOUR NEW MENU. What if, maybe, it was rewritten to provide the option of customizing it? We've got more computing power today than when it came out. So instead of making a giant waste of the screen and shuffling everything on each new OS release, why not simply refine things and provide more customizibility?

And yes, I realize that most users are absolute morons. So also have a way to lock it via group policy and include a 'reset this because it's borked' switch someplace.

Windows boss takes on taskbar turmoil, pledges to 'make Start menu great again'

Re: Make the UI fast again

This. All of this.

Amazon already has a colossal ads business and will extend it to Prime Video in January

Re: Cancelled Prime here

Speaking of amazon's horrible search function:

It's been horrible garbage for some time. Shows four items and then pages of things they want to show rather than what you searched for. And the four items weren't that close in the first place.

I'm surprised no one has quietly built a site that searches amazon effectively and provides affiliate links to the items? You'd think it'd be a tremendous moneymaker with comparably little effort? I mean, all you need to do is provide links and a better quality search experience, which can't be all that difficult.

I'd use it.

Re: you don't own anything

This sounds like a great change to me.

Means more content will be provided on TPB and the like so that I can just download it directly.

BOFH: Just because we've had record revenues doesn't mean you get a Xmas bonus

Re: In the glorious past

Your compost recipie needs work.

AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code

Re: Glad to see

Nope.

Writing elegant, fast software is not easy. Which means it's expensive to get written, and that's only if you can find people capable of putting out work of that level.

And, as you note, because the overwhelming function of software today is to serve advertising and trackers rather than simply blitz through a task--really, it's quite a shame. The computing experience hasn't gotten any faster in years, because while the processing and storage and so on have gotten faster, the software is wasting more and more time calling home and loading vastly more information than needed for the task at hand.

HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated'

Re: Missed the target

I wonder what a printer would cost if:

Ink/toner was cheap.

Build quality was designed to be good for >10 years. Metal chassis, maybe some plastic bits for making it look pretty.

Parts diagrams and availability of replacement parts.

Simple drivers that don't sing and dance--and that would fit on a floppy.

Figure a grand or two? It'd be probably worth it to buy one, then.

Tesla Cybertruck no-resale clause vanishes faster than a Model S in Ludicrous Mode

Given the panel gaps, I wouldn't have wanted one when I was 6, either.

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

Using ublock origin, just update the filters periodically and they've been very good about stopping the YT nags.

PiHole is awesome, I just run it in a VM on my NAS machine.

Tenfold electric vehicles on 2030 roads could be a shock to the system

Re: And then there's Insurance

Depending on your outlook, risk aversion, and local climate.... if you want properly fast accelleration, you buy a motorcycle. A ZX-14R can cherfully show a taillight to a tesla fancycrap edition, and for a fraction of the price.

That's the route I went, at least. A powerful motorcycle, and then a cheapish car for particuarly ugly weather (read: snow). Means the buck goes a lot farther on the 'fun' end, but without all the compromise needed when you just need to get from A to B.

(If considering this route, please budget an extra two grand or so and buy the best gear you can. It's completely worth it, not only for getting less hurt in a crash, but also for comfort when you don't crash.)

$17k solid gold Apple Watch goes from Beyoncé's wrist to the obsolete list

Re: Easily avoidable PR disaster

Cars all look the same today due to crash laws and regulations. So it's not that they're without style, it's that they're not allowed to have style.

CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon

Re: I beg to differ

I'd go further. The shame is not that Microsoft tried to join the phone biz and failed. The shame is that they tried at all.

The focus on phone-like interfaces managed to really ruin their OS releases as well as a fair chunk of their major software output for a number of years, and it's fairly clear that the damage isn't completely healed yet.

That said, absolute agreement that it'd be nice to have a reasonable third choice in the phone market--but I don't think MS would be a good option. Heck, it's difficult (not impossible!) to name another company that I'd trust even less with controlling significant market share in the phone space. Imagine an HP phone, or a IBM phone...... Anti-emetics are in the pockets->

You snooze, you lose? It's not quite as simple as that

I am going to very politely not link to what my alarm is set to play. I suspect you would go directly through 'awake' and straight to 'cardiac arrest'. Some of us need a bit of a kick to get out of bed, particularly in the ridiculous early hours (seriously, if the sun isn't up, leave me alone), especially in winter.

(For the morbidly curious, find "The Great Southern Trendkill" and listen to the first, oh, ten seconds. Generally that's all the longer needed to get me up and turning the damned thing off! It helps that the alarm device is placed on the opposite corner of the room from the bed.)

Raspberry Pi 5: Hot takes and cooler mistakes

Re: Crimbo

Wow. How many is a Brazilian?

How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'

Re: We had a similar incident

I'd wonder honestly if the plug itself took the load. Rather than the cable trying to get stretched, if the plug got wedged in the works, it could bind the mechanism and provide a tremendous load for the motor.

'Weird numerological coincidence' found during work on Linux kernel 6.5

Re: If you say you're English these days, you'll be arrested and thrown in jail [etc]

Beats hearing someone pontificate that it's all going to be screwed up by Brexit, though.

Meltdown avoided: Intel rediscovers profitability

...

Has a business ever created growth by cutting staff, budget, or output?

Sounds like it's going backwards pretty fast still.

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

Re: Some of us figured all that out ...

People are horrible. Doubly true in groups.

News at 11.

(Did the author not go through a childhood, schooling, and otherwise interacting with others to learn this early on?)

CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus

Re: Why

ABS does not make a car stop shorter, ever. It allows you to steer while failing to have any decel force (which is why it's so miserable in genuinely low-grip situations like snow--rather than mandate it, why not just mandate better damned tires?)

This does not belong in the 'benefit' list at all. It's a useless pile of crap that just adds weight. That said, it does make it very much easier to add additional pressure when emergency braking, as most drivers are unable or unwilling to properly push on a brake pedal in an emergency, and a temporary massive boost can be provided in a detected emergency.

Benchmark a cloud PC? No way. Just trust us, they work, says Microsoft

They'd be happy to do that.

Of course, you'll need to pay a per-user cost. And probably a per-CPU cost in addition. And an overprovisioning cost.

Stanford sends 'hallucinating' Alpaca AI model out to pasture over safety, cost

Re: Not surprising

I read that as the 'Fine art of balcony detection' and wondered if I had missed a BOFH story.

:)

At Citrix, 'perpetual licenses' means 'we'd rather move you to a subscription'

Gosh, where have we seen that before? I wonder if they just add an x to the end of the file extension...

Sick of smudges on your car's enormo touchscreen? GM patents potential cure

Why not an even smarter idea? Maybe skip the distracting screens and provide a car that's actually rewarding to drive, which means drivers pay better attention?

BOFH and the case of the Zoom call that never was

Re: I swear

Just ensure that a desk follows them.

You need to put in the effort to ensure reliable results, after all!

Intel offers desktop chip that can hit 6GHz if everything goes right, you can keep it cool, stars align, pigs fly

Re: New paradigm time

Many bugs have been noted in testing, though.

On both models.

Self-driving car computers may be 'as bad' for emissions as datacenters

Re: Our potential future is a carbon-heavy one

You're not allowed to say that. The only horrible thing to the environment is the internal combustion engine and the car it's within.

The eight billion people on the planet are absolutely not remotely at fault. Only the car.

Microsoft’s Nadella: Tech is in for a rough two years

Re: Watch for the MS buzzwords

Stick to IT? He's not worth a crap at that, either.

I mean, he hasn't thrown even one chair yet.

(And now we should all be collectively horrified that that would be a significant improvement....)

This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week

Hate to say it, but so what?

Older, out-of-support versions of Windows will become more easily hacked.

Was it really all that much better when they were supported?

Here's how to remotely take over a Ferrari...account, that is

Re: Pure BS and security is really only a PR problem

I'd like a dis-connected car/account. Or at least, the option for one. I suspect it'll be like the ancient 'radio delete' option was years ago--sure, we can remove that, but there's a fee....

More and more, it's looking like my next car will have a number of previous owners and will be from the prior century.

Women sue Apple claiming AirTags helped their stalkers

Re: re: You have a choice. You can educate people or you can be a dick.

>The tricky bit, mastered by years of reg commenting, is pretending to do the first while doing the second!!

There is a third option: Confuse everyone.

See AMFM1.

BOFH: We're an industry leader … in employing idiot managers

>Have to think about the safety of the cleaners, nothing to do with that window's ability to open wide enough to allow an office chair to exit gracefully........ It might be on fire and need to be 'removed' from the office....

And to ensure safety, the chair must have adequate clearance to the windowframe to ensure that it fits through easily. Even if there's a CEO-shaped object tied to the chair.

Re: Nice screen layout

The world needs more BOFHs.

A green revolution is neigh! Do your part! Lock the board in the conference room when the fire alarm goes off!

And ensure that you're safely down at the pub. With an alibi.

iFixit stabs batteries – for science – so you don't have to

Re: Energy doesn't HAVE to go somewhere.

It's good to see that we're developing interesting and useful technologies for batteries. There's lots of places (phones, cars, laptops, and a zillion other applications) that could use a really good, long-lasting battery.

Unfortunately, in pretty much every application, they're skipping the comparatively cheap and easy steps of making the battery easily replaced. Which would make the lifespan of the item tremendously longer and that makes it not only more user friendly, but more environmentally freindly as well.

Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home

Re: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Men and a Man. Amen.

Oh god, there's more of it.

Why hasn't anyone used this fancy ML/AI stuff to make an AMFM1 to English translator app available online yet?

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Re: Bit klunky, but...

There's antibiotics for that.

Twitter, Musk, and a week of bad decisions

Re: This is going to destroy's Tesla's stock price

We can only hope.

Foreign spies hijacking US mid-terms? FBI, CISA are cool as cucumbers about it

There's been election fraud since elections were a thing. The question is just if it's been caught or not.

Fixing an upside-down USB plug: A case of supporting the insupportable

AT power supplies? Black to black, smoke you will lack. Black apart from black, PSU will go CRACK!

But god help me if I ever run into a coral snake.

Better than doing the same thing with a CPU heatsink!

Remember back then, when they came with preapplied thermal compound, covered with a sheer plastic layer covering it? Was not uncommon to have a 'new' cooler that didn't cool, and an embarrassed assembler after revisiting the installation.

[No, never happened to me. I always cleaned and lapped my coolers, so I could use Arctic Silver 7 or MX-4 or whatever, because I was far too cool for the stock thermal compounds. I had wholly different problems, but never that particular one!]

The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring

Re: Perfect for hackers :)

Please keep Poettering away from it.

Record label drops AI rapper after backlash over stereotypes

Re: Indians are slightly ahead of the AI game. Or are they?

>>There's been some changes recently to the phone systems mandated by the FCC which have cut dramatically the volume of Spam calls.

And yet, that's what I woke to this morning. Improved I can agree with, but like only adding half as much sewage to my coffee, it's still not acceptable.

California to phase out internal combustion vehicles by 2035

Re: America without V8's just isn't America

Shame about the hateful throttle response of them, not quite what you want on a good twisty road.