Posts by Korev

While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?

Re: "Security" bags

I can't be anyone would be that silly

Ta

"I was working for the European branch of a large US-based engineering company, mainly providing development consultancy, though we had a few products we sold on the side," Finn told On Call.

I guess Finn was in Scandinavia

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites

Re: Space-based datacenters ... fundamentally lower the marginal cost of compute capacity

When I saw HST, I thought you meant the classic British train, that's notoriously nicer to travel in than its replacement...

Microsoft 365 pauses Copilot creep after admins cry foul

The autmatic deployment was designed to encourage adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot

Did Copilot miss this?

Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination

Re: The horse has bolted

thanks AC for answering for me!

Re: The horse has bolted

My ISP just sticks proper switches in the telephone exchanges which means they can offer up to a symmetric 25Gb, it uses this as a differentiator to the competition who just use XGS-PON. Surely there has to be room for a similar ISP in the UK.

IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab

Not all employees are created equally, just ask IBM boss Arvind Krishna, who received a financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers.

Ahhh the Gini Coefficent

In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

Re: quietly

Full skid marks for that comment

UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power

Re: AI will not speed things up

I missed that one, an incredibly dumb idea

Re: AI will not speed things up

With AI it'll only be three decades away though

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

Re: Mental health benefits of retirement

That's some serious German! Good luck.

As someone who had to learn[0] German from scratch as an adult, I found that specific medical vocabulary isn't really taught on the course and you might have to do some research on the terms for specific conditions(s) that you live with. For example, you'll probably learn that Herz is heart, but not what the various valves are called.

[0] Well still learning, I just suck less than before

Re: Paging Gus Hedges...

I'm no longer living in the UK, so those don't work.

Thanks for the suggestions though.

Re: Paging Gus Hedges...

I used to love Drop the Dead Donkey, have a nostalgic pint

Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers

When I was a slave intern in a developmental biology lab we filled their tube with CO2, tipped the unconscious flies out onto a kind of petri dish with a porous bottom with more CO2 coming out of it. We then sorted the flies and tipped the ones we didn't need into vinegar.

India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants

Re: British Rail Solution?

You should take them to tusk on that

Re: British Rail Solution?

Will they use the British trunk lines?

Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble

It's always DNS...

Windows pays tribute to Britain's creaking rail network with a BSOD

Sussex problems...

If only it was a Linux box as they could use the Eastbourne shell to log on

Null points error?

Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us

Re: Waste of time

I read somewhere that AI CV screening tools favour CVs written by AI over ones from humans

Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds

When I had a job which included looking after PCs in labs, there was a microscope which you had to plug the fibre(?) in the opposite way to what the documentation said....

Re: Be part of the solution, not part of the problem

But where's the fun in that....

> "The man who managed this area was someone who could be transported back to a 1700s pirate ship," Roger told On Call.

Roger the Cabin Boy?

BOFH: What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge

Re: That OS...

I was also thinking Gnu Hurd, a quick google brought up this where they can't agree if it's been developed or maintained...

Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them

In three months of operation, Openreach says the sensing technology located more than 100 leaks, saving an estimated 2 million liters of water a day - or enough H2O to supply 10,000 people for a year.

They're making the big assumption that leaking pipes are actually fixed...

AI Burning Man happens next week – what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026

Any chance of an affordable GPU to play games with?

District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data

Re: Remember, they call it a "flock" system because ...

So it's saying it's baaaad?

So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue

Wire not stopping anytime soon

It sounds like it should be a place name though

Scunthrope, the scourge of profanatory filters the world over

> So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue

The British people must resist!

Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles

Re: In six months time...

No idea why you got the downvote, it's a well-known problem for the UK

Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh

Re: Lifetime cost of ownership?

How much would you have to use your PC to make power usage a major factor?

> Who's even buying now given the price of memory?

I want to replace the PC I play games on. With the crazy cost of RAM, SSDs and GPUs, I'm seriously considering my first console. I see the most expensive PS5 variant is ~650CHF which won't even buy a mid range GPU any more...

Meta, international cops use handcuffs and AI to stop scammers

Re: The best scam ever . . .

And "Ahmed the dressage instructor" will have a lovely new Ferrari

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

> Swiss is still the maker of very expensive wrist clocks...

Swiss?

I can hear the inhabitants of Switzerland tutting into their Fondue already

And who can forget the Eurovision Made in Switzerland song

Abrahams said. "Switzerland has nurtured many unexpected good things – Albert Einstein's physics, the world economy, and the cuckoo clock leap to mind

LSD?

Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them

Re: Should we raise one or two digits to Digital Cash?

It still surprises me how much money some of the older generations of Swiss use. It's not uncommon to see 1000CHF notes being used in shops.

I use more Euros than CHFs in cash as a lot of places in Germany are still in the dark ages and refuse to take card.

Atlassian built a tool to migrate Jira users to the cloud and it made the move slower

I was a bit of a git for making that pun

Many bug fixes later, Atlassian had a tool that saw median throughput for large, multi-project migrations improve by roughly 6x.

So it was a Bitbucket quicker?

RSS dulls the pain of the modern web

I stalk follow Liam too.

And don't forget BOFH

Re: Don't forget Vivaldi

I'm also a Vivaldi RSS user.

I (re)started using RSS feeds once Elon took over Twitter and I realised I missed knowing what was going on in the world.

I'm reading this article because it came up in my RSS reader.

What do I win?

'AI brain fry' affects employees managing too many agents

I still have the scar...

And one on my arm...

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

Re: Products

What were you saying about HMS ForButNotWith?

Re: You owe me a new keyboard!

> I mean, do people want an anti-drone system that can be fitted nasally?

KiffenHuffer nose what they're talking about

Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is

Re: Time

You'll need to clock face up to it

Re: Time

Atto boy!