Re: "I think it's a shame that it's profits over anything else nowadays"
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Research suggests more than half of VMware customers are looking to move
Privacy features lose their way in latest Firefox update
Saturday 22nd June 2024 09:34 GMT
Re: Damning with faint praise
'What is the point of trying to reduce it to a "minimum viable" browser'
Because the more features a browser has, like bookmark syncing, tab management etc etc the less private and secure it can be.
Firefox isn't supposed to compete with the likes of Opera, Vivaldi, Chrome etc etc.
Firefox is its own niche where there is no competition.
Comparing Firefox to Chrome based derivatives is like comparing a kevlar vest to a Marks & Spencer cashmere jumper.
Yeah the M&S jumper is comfy and familiar and is largely inoffensive...but it stains easily and cleaning is complicated because cashmere has complicated washing instructions, you'll never really get the stains out. A kevlar vest on the other hand, keeps you safe at all times and can be cleaned with a garden hose.
Deepfake CFO tricks Hong Kong biz out of $25 million
Tuesday 6th February 2024 22:42 GMT
"Sophos researcher John Shier told The Reg deepfakes weren't much of a threat"
Yes that's the downside of seeing things through techie goggles...to him and us, they aren't much of a threat. To a troop of tyre swinging chimp execs, very much a threat it seems.
This all goes to show that in the business world, it's not the cream that floats to the top, it's turds...turds float to the top. Gigantic, unflushable fucking turds. Fucking chimpy primate turds.
Google teases AlphaCode 2 – a code-generating AI revamped with Gemini
Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist
Friday 24th November 2023 09:42 GMT
Great idea...
...but it would require the whole chain of providers to be transparent. Including usually opaque providers such as DNS registrars, undersea cable providers etc etc...these types of organisations are notoriously poor at detailing issues...which is quite frequently the cause of upstream providers being unable to provide details.
Stop me if you've heard this one:
Customer: Why was there an outage?
You: Well, after some testing we identified a problem at X.
Customer: Ok, so we know where the problem was, but what was the problem?
You: *shrugs* they didn't post a problem on their status page, and it's working now.
Customer: How do we know it won't happen again?
You: We don't.
Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable
National newspaper duped into running GPT-4-written rage-click opinion piece
Tuesday 16th May 2023 12:05 GMT
Re: Specifically non-specific
When pushed to identify itself, GPT4 said:
"I do not have a name, I am a large language model designed to assist you".
We took to the streets and asked the public what they thought:
"Clearly, GPT4 is a mechanised version of Jacob Rees-Mogg with a personality sideloaded in, a boring one, but it has one, I won't vote for GPT4 at the next election".
Astronomers say they've seen the largest explosion yet – and we just had to talk to them
Sunday 14th May 2023 09:08 GMT
Re: The future is only Science Fiction
Would it even be possible for black holes to suck each other up? If you have an equal and opposite amount of suck, does that suck cancel out? Would we reach a point of equilibrium? If one hole sucks more than another could the bigger sucker, suck stuff out of the smaller sucker?
Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues
FBI and MI5 bosses: China cheats and steals at massive scale
Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy
Zuck didn't invent the metaverse, but he's started a fight to control it
Feeling the pinch? How about a 160% hike in your data centre fees
Reason 3,995 to hold off on that Windows 11 upgrade: Iffy performance on AMD silicon
Hard cheese: Stilton snap shared via EncroChat leads to drug dealer's downfall
Internet samurai says he'll sell 14,700,000 IPv4 addresses worth $300m-plus, plow it all into Asia-Pacific connectivity
Thursday 26th March 2020 16:46 GMT
Re: In 3.. 2.. 1..
IPv6 isn't hard. It's just a pain in the ass to remember the IPs for your machines.
My brain is hardwired for IPv4 at this stage, I just naturally think of AD as .250 and ESX-01 as .10 , gateway as .254 etc...it just won't rewire to IPv6...which brings my piss to a boil because I otherwise quite like IPv6.
Yeah, yeah I know DNS etc etc. But a proper engineer knows the IPs of his kit. That way if DNS is down you can still crack on as usual and get it fixed quicker.
Scientist, war hero and gay icon Alan Turing is new face of the £50 note
Mystery Git ransomware appears to blank commits, demands Bitcoin to rescue code
Tuesday 21st May 2019 09:51 GMT
Re: CMD commits
How is it more productive than the CLI? Or better yet an IDE with GIT integration? I'm not extremely old school, but I'm not exactly new to dev either (20 years).
Introducing an additional tool seems wasteful and slow to me.
E.g. if I wanted to commit a change and push it to staging for testing I can do that with two or three quick commands from a single window on the CLI from the desktop session I'm already in.
With a GUI I have to faff around connecting to the remote box, firing up my GUI of choice, drilling down the branches etc and then pull the changes in.
Giraffe hacks printers worldwide to promote God-awful YouTuber. Did we read that one right?
'Every little helps'... unless you want email: Tesco to kill free service
Super Cali goes ballistic, Starbucks is on notice: Expensive milky coffee is something quite cancerous
US watchdog just gave up trying to get Google to explain YouTube's huge financial figures
RIP... almost: Brit high street gadget shack Maplin Electronics
British clockwork radio boffin Trevor Baylis terminally winds down
Junk food meets junk money: KFC starts selling Bitcoin Bucket
Virgin Media to close flagship Oxford St store in August
Bye bye MP3: You sucked the life out of music. But vinyl is just as warped
UK.gov cuts deal with Microsoft to avoid £15m post-Brexit price hike
Tuesday 11th April 2017 08:12 GMT
Public Sector? Office 365?
What could possibly go wrong.
Are there offline installers for Office 365 products? Certain organisations like the MoD have networks that have no direct access to the internet so how is Office 365 going to work in situations like that?
Also, has anyone managed to smoothly migrate a gigantic organisation to 365 without a hitch. Every time I hear "Office365" and "Migration" its almost always followed up with rage and anger.
I know the organisation my missus works for has cocked up a lot of migrations recently including 365.
I wont name the firm but its a well known health provider / gym that recently bought a load of Dickie Bransons cast offs.
One in five mobile phones shipped abroad are phoney – report
With nearly 1m users on its books, DigitalOcean touts load balancers
New prison law will let UK mobile networks deploy IMSI catchers
Monday 27th February 2017 15:58 GMT
Re: Ok...
"No. We tried that with Australia and look what happened - Fosters and Rolf Harris..."
They half arsed their beer and sex offenders. Just like they half arse cricket and rugby.
We have Tenents Super and Jimmy Savile.
The only thing the aussies do better than the Brits is export droves of scrounging bar workers and backpackers.
Scottish court issues damages to couple over distress caused by neighbour's use of CCTV
Tails Linux farewells 32-bit processors with imminent version 3.0
Monday 6th February 2017 11:23 GMT
Re: Sad to lose old hardware
Yeah its sad, however I tend to find that OEMs are problem here dragging out old hardware longer than necessary.
The netbook niche angers me the most. Its a brilliant form factor but the specs are woeful.
Theres a whole lot of Celeron and Pentium landfill out there.
I was hoping the Core-M might fix this problem but a Core-M based netbook is rare as rocking horse shit and when you do find one they cost far more than they should.
A good example is the Lenovo Yoga 710. Cracking piece of kit but flawed. Its 11.6", has a 1080p screen and a Core-M CPU...but its touchscreen and expensive presumably because of this.
Ive been desperate to bridge the gap between my workhorse laptop (Asus UX303LA running Arch) and being out and about for a long time now.
I love my 303 but its a bit too large to shove in a bag and dash out with. 11.6" is perfect for whacking in a small bag and trotting about with to nail those tickets you get at 8pm on a Friday or while you're away on business.
Deapite what most people say you can't just get by on a Celeron N3040 with 2GB RAM. Especially if you have to tunnel into a DC to manage $JAVA_BASED_KIT.
ILO and DRAC run like shit on low end kit such as Celerons.
Aside from server management I do a fair amount of coding which in itself isnt a heavy task but if you need to spawn a webserver for testing etc netbook specs start to get a bit thin.
Core-M, 6GB RAM, 64GB SSD, 1080P TN (none touch) screen and 6 hours of battery. That should be easy to achieve and should cost no more than £500-600.
Dont bother with Thunderbolt, AC wifi or gigabit ethernet. Keep connectivity "good enough". Id rather forego decent networking in favour of carrying a dongle or two.
Learn to code site Code.org loses student work due to index bug
US Navy runs into snags with aircraft carrier's electric plane-slingshot
Adult FriendFinder users get their privates exposed... again – reports
Windows 10 market share stalls after free upgrade offer ends
Wednesday 2nd November 2016 18:49 GMT
Re: "printer manufacturers"
You could buy a cheap Linux compatible printer. Or you buy a damned fine one that will last for years that has Linux support.
I have a Laserjet 4050 at home. Bought in 1999 and it is still going strong. Never had to replace a single component. Works flawlessly with Linux via an old school Jet Direct.
It does about 30,000 pages per toner cartridge which means Ill replace a cartridge once every 2 or 3 decades...maybe. Ive got another 5 stashed away that I picked up for buttons about 4 years ago. So my great grandchildren are taken care of.
I also have a couple of maintenance kits if somehow this warrior breaks. Its been through 3 house moves and dropped down two staircases. It won't die. Its the Jason Vorhees of printers.
HP used to make amazing kit. You can still buy the 4050 on ebay for £50. Do it. Do it now.
Anyone that buys brand new printers is a bloody idiot. The golden age has gone, the manufacturers know this which is why modern printers are crap.
The 4100 was badass as well. It all went to shit with the 4200.
If you need colour printing the 2600 is badass as well. I had one of those for ages. I got shot of it when I realised I never printed in colour plus toner was getting hard to find for it. Genuine stuff anyway.
Arch Linux: In a world of polish, DIY never felt so good
Wednesday 2nd November 2016 14:11 GMT
I love Arch...been using it for eons.
Agreed there is a small amount of elitist sounding bullshit around Arch purity and all that...but my understanding is that its more about sticking to a core set of concepts...which you don't have to follow if you don't want as the primary concept is that you should be able to build whatever you like from the base.
For those of you wanting to take it for a spin but are somewhat intimidated by it take a look at http://www.antergos.com
Thats where I started.
You can pick from a range of DE options (no specific one is foisted on you) and you can specify what you want preinstalled. Its all your choice.
Its pretty much a nice graphical installer for Arch theres a great community around it. Ive always had a positive experience. Most people there are like minded techies and have a pretty relaxed temperament.
If you're more in line with the Ubuntu approach of bundling tons of preinstalled apps and yearn for the days of compiz take a look at Manjaro.
Be warned though theres a lot of wankers in the Manjaro community. Theres a lot of strong opinion.
To be fair its the only subset of the Arch community that has ever pissed me off with all of its dick waving.
It appears to be full of weirdos with shitty respins as well. Spatry comes to mind with his crap CupOfLinux manjaro respin (downvoters of this are Spatry fans).
In fact most respins of Manjaro are shit. They're usually just the base Manjaro install with a crap theme and wobbly windows turned on in Compiz.
None of them seem to fulfil a specific purpose. Stick with the base edition.
Finally, that tech fad's over: Smartwatch sales tank more than 50%
Chap turns busted laptop into phone keyboard, in Himalayan book-rescue mission
Government Digital Service under review after rural payments cockup
Monday 24th October 2016 13:02 GMT
Conspiracy Alert
This is why broadband rollouts in rural areas are miserable.
Its to stop a farmer uprising.
That said, farmers block the roads all the time in slow tractors. So slow internet for farmers seems proportional.
Anyone ever been stuck behind a farmer on the internet? I don't venture into the rural areas of the internet very often.
Is it true that it smells of horseshit and there are wide open websites there?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
