Posts by Excellentsword

Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot

Sorry, weekend

Landlord quirks leave thousands of flats stuck in the broadband slow lane

Re: A 'murican in UK?

Hi. We default to US spelling these days for the sake of our international audience.

ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared

Enterprise resource planning. You won't know what that is unless you use one professionally. We cover this stuff all the time and have to assume some degree of prior knowledge for the readership or it'd look like we're patronising you.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Re: Took your time

Well, we had to wake up, have breakfast, get dressed, take the kids to school, make a coffee...

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Re: err...glass houses, throwing stones etc

Asked tech to take another look <3

What do we want? Windows 10 support! When do we want it? Until 2030!

Re: What poem are you referencing/pastiching there?

Meme, Bayeux pastiche, certified funny: https://thememescraps.wordpress.com/2019/09/21/behold-the-field-in-which-i-grow-my-fucks/

Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told

Re: Cheaper to leave it where it is ???

Well, there's this.

Google-sponsored DORA report reframes AI as central to software development

Re: Literally an artical right above this...

Take it with a heap of salt

Trump backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea

What are you on about?

Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system

Re: Language !

It's a title of respect here and has been for decades.

Wasp nest at US nuclear site tests ten times over safe radiation limit

Re: Re: 10x regulations...

D:

Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable'

Re: Please ...

Also, it's "snark"

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

Re: "Firstly, normal people don't care what car they or anyone else is driving"

It doesn't form part of my identity, purely utility.

Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?

Re: Re: You have to educate your kids to love metal

Well, I think Deathspell Omega remain the most thematically and musically scary band I've bought records from.

Re: You have to educate your kids to love metal

They're certainly exposed to it in various forms. They constantly ask for Hypa Hypa by Electric Callboy, for example, and my eldest recently expressed enjoyment of Skeletal Remains' new album. It's more that I don't have the mental bandwidth for raucous noise like I did in my 20s, when I would spend most nights staying up late mainlining obscure black metal. I still do on occasion, but I reckon I "have a life" now. My other half says I "grew up."

Re: Foist by its own petard

I did indeed forget to mention it, though after writing the article recalled that I was thoroughly annoyed when it happened because U2 would never have a spot in my library otherwise. I wonder if Sir Jony had anything to do with it. Then again, if U2 is the go-to for the C-suite, we have to find out if they are Tim Apple's favorite band too.

Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control

Re: Bus Tables

To clear and reset a table in a restaurant after a customer has left.

'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive

Get this all the time. Global publication ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Putin really wants Trump back in the White House

Re: Putin endorsed Harris

As in, exactly what you're doing right now?

As major web browser makers snuggle up to AI, these skeptical holdouts remain

I agree, so I let it through to see if anyone would comment

GNU screen 5 proves it's still got game even after 37 years

Re: First major version in two decades years is worth getting to know

Try to remember that we're a 100% organically produced publication kthx

Black horse down: Lloyds online banking services go dark

Re: Best headline in a while

No one tell them that we've used it before...

AI query optimization in IBM's Db2 shows you can teach a tech dinosaur new tricks

Re: Regarding "Dinosaur"

It is old, though

Glastonbury to turn festivalgoer pee into eco-friendly fertilizer

We aim to please and delight

Molten lunar regolith heats up space colonization dreams

Re: Is that a type I see?

20 lashes for me

Musk wants to ban Apple at his companies for cosying up to OpenAI

I always try to leave a little something for you guys ;) xxx

Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable?

Re: Re: > Im off to the Cayman Islands soon and I wont be looking back.

Can you calm down a bit before I ban you so I don't have to read this drivel?

Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell

Re: Black Mirrorian horror...

Maybe that's the upcoming water pistol attachment

Over 170K users caught up in poisoned Python package ruse

Re: Poisoned Python Package ruse ?

I'll remember for next time.

When life gives you Lemon, sack him

Re: Re: I can't stand any of them.

Exhibit A: Just calling it like I see it.

Exhibit B: "Contract is canceled" rafn snafn frafn

Re: Re: I can't stand any of them.

It's clearly marked as comment, why should I be unbiased? Nor do I identify in any shape or form with "extreme far-left," just sanity hopefully. You guys choose weird places to draw your lines.

Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep

Re: absolute unit

Further reading: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/absolute-unit

Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models

You must be new here.

Willy Wonka event leaves bitter taste with artificially sweetened promises

Re: And so it begins????

The end.

Rice isn't nice for drying your iPhone, according to Apple

Re: "An old lightning charger"

Sorry, yeah, 30-pin is what I meant.

We put salt in our tea so you don't have to

So it has been for some years now. Gosh, I'll try to up the flippancy, but I do get edited.

Robots with a 'Berliner Schnauze' may appear more trustworthy to locals

Re: The Queen's German

We know. Apologies for attempts at humor.

The Register's 2023 in gaming had one final boss: Baldur's Gate 3

Spot on. The last time I played BG2 was 20-plus years ago so my appreciation for continuity was limited to "Nice! That's the big bad from BG1!" or "I'm pretty sure she was a recruitable character in BG2." The writing in and of itself is some of the best I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing in a game, and it's not worth thinking of BG3 as a direct sequel to those stories.

Re: Re: PS4 and PS5 gaming over the year.

BG3 is literally just point and click for everything, at least on PC, but I'm sure it won't be vastly more complicated on console. Witcher 3 is unmissable imo, but there's plenty else out there that doesn't require reactions. You'd probably like Chants of Sennaar, for example.

Re: No mention of Tears of the Kingdom?

We have a Switch but haven't even got round to the previous Zelda game yet!

It's the pain of gathering screenshots a couple of months after the fact and wanting to do it quickly. I'll adjust it.

Re: PS4 and PS5 gaming over the year.

Yes! Baldur's Gate 3! It's on PS5 and Xbox Series now as well. Combat is turn-based (think XCOM), thus tactical rather than dependent on skill. As long as you know the effects of your abilities and spells (experimenting with them is half the fun), anyone can play. Sometimes winning battles is kind of like a puzzle; you may need to have multiple tries at them with different positions or approaches while you figure out the mechanics of the fight, but that is what quicksave is for.

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

Re: Re: more ads means more users ????????

The point is that they still do for X.

Re: more ads means more users ????????

I'm not conflating anything. I'm saying that advertisers don't want to advertise next to 4chan content, and Twitter users don't want to see 4chan content. If you do, just go to 4chan.

No one wants to see advertisements, but since they made up the bulk of Twitter's revenue, it seems pretty counterproductive to turn the platform into a free-for-all then tell the money men to fuck themselves.

First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe

Re: Wild west?

My For You feed, replies in viral posts. It isn't hard to find.

US construction giant unearths concrete evidence of cyberattack

Re: Top marks for the headline!

I do (in UK hours)

Microsoft wants Activision so badly, it's handing streaming rights over to ... Ubisoft?

Re: Here's A Deal

And Sea of Thieves wouldn't have to rely on Azure servers...

Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable

Re: Never mind the turntable......

Hi! It's a Firebird Studio. I don't think I like it very much but it has been my main and then only ax for almost two decades, I think. I grew up and had a family so it's been sorely neglected (as have any skills I might have once had), but the kids are now saying they want to play so it might come out this weekend if I can restring it.

California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots

If you want specifics, I meant people who think you can make money by selling AI-generated dross rather than actual human art.

California man jailed after manure-to-methane scheme revealed as bull

Hey, it was quite difficult, OK?