* Posts by TheMeerkat

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Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it

TheMeerkat

Re: Scrum

> That's because most organisations/teams/departments/... claiming to be agile are not agile

I have yet to see an Agile that is actually agile. And every time the problem is pointed out someone would say “it is not real agile”.

If it happens in majority of cases, then this is the real Agile. If it actually worked differently management would never pay good money for sundry agile consultants.

The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway

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Re: What is this article about again ?

I am considering unsubscribing from The Register.

It became anti-Trump hate fest.

I used to read it for computer-related content but now it does not seem to have any - it became a political propaganda website.

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

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Re: Rusux

> There is a Rust OS - called Redox

If it is so great, why those Rust people concentrate on Redox and leave Linux to be what it is now, instead of trying to put a foot into the door that would be difficult to remove later, when the Rust is replaced by the “next big thing”?

Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority,' says CEO

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This site is not about IT any more.

It became a political anti-Trump website.

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It is woke who are the real fascists and who are bringing the downfall of the West.

China sticks antitrust probe into Google amid retaliation for Trump import tariffs

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Why would Google care?

China is blocking access to Google for years.

And HarmonyOS is a fork of Android as obviously Chinese are not going to pay licence fees.

TheMeerkat

Re: Why Google?

> Wouldn't it have made more sense to target the unelected ketamine-head in chief

Why people like you would rather support Communist party of China winning just to show your hatred towards Trump?

Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites

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DEI is racist.

If one supports DEI one is a racist who prefers people to be judged by the colour of their skin instead of being judged by their character.

TheMeerkat

Re: This brings back memories

DEI is not “data”

It is propaganda of racism.

Tesla's numbers disappoint again ... and the crowd goes wild ... again

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Re: an alleged Nazi salute

You guys should accept that you lost and Trump is a president now. It is not healthy to live your life full of hatred.

Trump derangement syndrome is damaging your health more than anything.

Why we in the U.K. can live without hating people who voted for the government we don’t like? Instead we try to figure out what we did wrong that lost out side the voters.

Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin

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Re: Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915)

> Imagine all those policemen / women who got hurt during the Capitol riot

More police are hurt in riots instigated by the other side.

This obsession of a demo that for a reason of FBI incompetence ended up temporarily occupying Capitol is just stupid.

Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech

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Re: I'd much prefer to notion

We have regular hate marches in London in support of Muslim Arab supremacists of Hamas calling for ethnic cleansing of Jews,

But disagree with them and you are talking about”far right”.

“Far right” is everyone who disagree with current woke dictatorship so being called so is a badge of honour these days.

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Re: I'd much prefer to notion

The Left never exercised control over themselves, bu5 the love to exercise control over wha5 others can say about them.

It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board

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Re: Just another example...

> You still haven't answered the question - and I suspect that no one will. Small shops have exactly the same health and safety responsibilties as large shops and the law makes no recognition of size of the business in the case of an H&S breach.

Have you considered that the law is stupid when applied to sites of any size?

It is just that when the size of a site os small it makes the stupidity of the law more obvious.

UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation

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Re: AI is mostly bullshit

> I hope the government is thinking about pattern-finding and pattern-matching AI

I bet they are going to cooperate with Chinese to collect information about people saying “wrong things” and then reducing their “social score”.

Why els3 Reeves went to China?

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

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Can you stick to IT avoiding your stupid colledge-level politics?

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

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The Left is about bannng everyone who disagrees with them. It is always the case, and it is clearly seen here on the Register.

And it is no surprise that the Left is so afraid of the public enquiry about rape gangs - they know that such ensquiry will show that it is the Left propensity to ban “inconvenient truth” that lead to the perpetrators able to commit their heinous crimes for very long time - it is the Left who accused everyone raising the issue at the time of “Islamophobia”.

TheMeerkat

Re: A week is a long time in politics…

Why Labour Party and the Left in general is so afraid of the rape gangs public enquiry?

Is it because the enquiry will find that it is the Left propensity to call everyone “far right” and accuse them of “Islamophobia” that was the reason why the authority were afraid to investigate the rape accusations?

The Labour is still using the same tricks to avoid scrutiny.

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%'

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Re: Really?

I know non-IT people of retirement who are using VPN because it was missold to them as a “security measure”.

How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC

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Re: English is one of the easiest human languages...

> Native English speaker here, and I also think its the easiest language in the world.......

That is because you are a naive speaker.

For non-speaker English is quite difficult. More difficult than, say, Italian. Just the fact that spelling is quite random makes it really hard.

> If pronounciation of the new language is not too dissimilar to the native speaker, then probably the most important criteria in classifying it as 'easy' is does the new language sentence structure follow the native one.

You are wrong again.

The most difficult and time-consuming part when you actually learn a language is to learn vocabulary. So the farther away the language is from your native one, the more difficult and frustrating it is to learn. There is no magic way to go around learning the vocabulary.

As for pronunciation English is not easy for speakers of other languages. Plus it is more difficult to listen compared, say, to Spanish or German due to its pronunciation.

Techie fluked a fix and found himself the abusive boss's best friend

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Re: Poor management

> The idea that someone who turns up and finds the bug that has evaded discovery by all the other experts (and fixes it) in about 10 minutes must be a great genius

Usually it just means someone with a lot of experience. You learn what to look for by having years of solving problems.

Tech support chap showed boss how to use a browser for a year – he still didn't get it

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Re: ability

> You're referring to Elon Musk, aren't you?

After Trump winning election some people went completely bonkers and can’t avoid talking about it all the time. And now they have two “boogeymen” - Trump and Elon.

You need to get some cancelling, this life of hatred is bad for your health.

Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs

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> I assume it will eventually happen if X continues to flout the law regarding hate speech

Yes, the “laws on hate speech” where definition of “hate speech” is the “speech that does not fit my woke ideology”.

You can call to murder Jews in Middle East, it is not “hate speech”, you can call to murder rich people, it is not “hate speech”, but not being happy with a man winning a woman’s sport completion - that is a “hate speech”.

EU buyers still shunning pure electric vehicles, prefer hybrids

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> Recharge points: Not nearly enough ultra rapid points. Yet.

It is not even the rapid charging that is the problem, it is the home charging (lack of driveways for many people) and destination charges (what chance is there to charge at a hotel?).

We have a plug-in hybrid that works for us (we have a driveway, my wife’s commute is short enough and I commute by public transport). We would have an EV if we needed a second car, but we are a one-car family.

The ability to just drive using petrol makes things much easier. I can’t imagine how stressful our recent journey to France would be if we did it in an electric car.

AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews

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AI simply finds real correlations between data points and the target function. Nothing more, nothing less. And then when the AI finds correlations that are deemed “politically incorrect” a panic ensues.

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Re: You can't add arbitrary data to remove bias.

If you support quotas and “positive” discrimination you are a racist.

UK gov report to propose special zones for datacenters, 'AI visas'

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> their home just got bombed by Israel or Russia

I am sure those who’s homes were bombed by Russia would be good workers, but do we really want more of those Muslim fundamentalists (these are those who Israel tend to bomb after they start wars against Israel)?

Even other Arab countries don’t want them.

Combustion engines grind Linus Torvalds' gears

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Chinese never managed to compete on ICE cars but they are doing reasonably well in EVs, so yes, EVs are clearly simpler.

TheMeerkat

Re: Dumb interviewers

I am driving a plug-in hybrid.

I prefer when it has an electric charge and I drive on electric power only.

I am with Linus on this.

San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source

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> Isn't it in the best interest of companies using open source projects to make sure those are well staffed

No, it is not. By supporting development they would also support their competitors, not just themselves.

Anyway I am opposed to paying for Open Source. You decided to undercut your competition by releasing your software free of charge, you should not then be able to make money on it.

TheMeerkat

Re: Sorry, no.

> GPL (GNU General Public License)

And most companies would ban the use of such software,while happily using the software released under Apache 2 or MIT licence.

TheMeerkat

> moral obligation

There are no moral obligation.

By releasing your software under free licence you undercut those who wanted to make money out of their work by selling their software. So don’t complain when nobody pays you.

Bitwarden's FOSS halo slips as new SDK requirement locks down freedoms

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Re: All good things must come to an end

There is nothing wrong with fundraising and rewarding the contributors.

Just don’t pretend it is FOSS if you want that.

NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords

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Re: Surely this cannot be true

> What is the claim, that in the fullness of time eventually £350m more will be given to the NHS per week? With population growth and inflation that's a given.

Could you remind us please why the population growth is so high?

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise

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> Chrome must be taken out of the hands of Google

It is private property. Taking it of means theft.

What we need is a plethora of different competing browsers,

Unfirtunately today’s UI developers who prefer to sold out to Chrome and are unwilling to support multiple browser. Just like 20 years ago when we had “this site is better viewed in IE” we have “this site is better viewed in Chrome”.

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

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Re: Simplest solution

> On what planet is "attempting to add artificial scarcity to a superabundant resource which can be shared without being diminished by the act of sharing it" anything but an inherently evil act?

On the planet where there are too many freeloaders like you.

Post Office CEO tells inquiry: Leadership was in 'dream world' over Horizon scandal

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I too think that Gareth Jenkins bears more guilt than any CEO.

Company management are not computer expert, one can imagine them to believe that software was infallible. But it is a job of a “chief software architect” (this was his title at the time) to know so he doesn’t have an excuse.

Imagine a government that told Big Tech to improve resilience – then punished failures

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Re: Another way to say this:

> Imagine a government where decisions and laws about technology, are made by people who actually know and understand said technology.

Such government never existed and will never exist.

It is all about pretending and bureaucracy, not understanding.

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Re: Imagine that

> It makes a refreshing change, doesn't it?

No, it does not. When it is a government, it is always a box-ticking exercise that makes no real meaning.

Elon's latest X-periment: Blocked users can still stalk your public tweets

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The other feature needed in Twitter is to prevent blocking someone if you were the last person answering their tweet.

The bad losers often do this - answer a tweet then immediately block the person whose tweet they answered.

China claims Starlink signals can reveal stealth aircraft – and what that really means

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Re: Cell phone tower signals

Actually no.

They tracked the aircraft visually and switch on the radar just before they launch the missiles thus avoiding the radar to be destroyed if it constantly emitted before that. The Soviet-made missiles were designed to be guided by a radar so they would not otherwise hit the target.

Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode

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Re: When they came for the ...

> The IDF are terrorists because they indiscriminately bomb Palestinian camps

And you ar3 an idiot listening to Muslim Arab supremacist propaganda.

First - they are not “camps”, they are cities with real houses and shops and everything where people who live there lived for generations. The only reason they are called “camps” is because UN is in the Arab pocket. These “Palestinians (Levantine Arabs in reality - same as those living in Jordan or Syria) are the only people on Earth where “refugee” status and UN payout are inheritable by multiple generations.

Second - if IDF actually bombed indiscriminately, there will be nothing left of Hamas and Gaza by now. The problem for Israel is that it is IDF that is expected to care about Arab lives more than the Arab government (Hamas) cares about their own people. Hamas, the government of Gaza, included civilian death and hiding behind civilians as part of their original plan on how to survive the aftermath when they planned last October’s massacre.

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> Does Hezbollah have centralized pager procurement so that only Hezbollah members carry them or do innocent people also have them (seems so, if there's an eight-year-old girl killed)?

She was a daughter of Hamas member. He probably asked her to bring a pager lying somewhere in the house when it went off because he was too lazy to stand up himself.

I suspect it was a centralise procurement by Hezbollah for Hezbollah members that got “contaminated” on its way between the manufacture to the buyer.

Domo arigato, Mr Roboto: Japan's bullet trains to ditch drivers

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Re: Just to clarify a point

The left-wing ideology is about being selfish and hating everyone who is a bit better off than you. This is why they inevitably produce a lot of hate speech about millionaires.

The unions are simply helping some workers (unionised) to get more money at the expense of other workers (not unionised). If everyone unionised the unions will control economy and everyone will be equally poor as there would be nobody to steal from.

Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy

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> most Java stuff is noticeably more sloggy and memory piggy than C/C++

And still more newer server-side applications are written in Java rather than C…

Java performance is quite reasonable for the purpose it is used (compare it to Python).

What Java never delivered on is UI, as a sever-side general application language it did deliver.

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Re: Toxic BS

> This may require some arm twisting of the Linux C devs to say tough, you're going to have to work with these guys (you don't need to learn rust to do that, much like backend Web devs normally don't need to know Javascript)

And why would they allow this arm twisting?

Linux depends on existing C developers, not some guys coming from outside and trying to “arm twist”.

Write your own OS.

Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all

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Re: "an initial euphoric rush to the cloud"

> the original "rush to the cloud"

Not just CxO.

It is often also driven by consideration of their CV enhancement by software developers. Somehow being in AWS is regarded as a “good thing” by programmers and software architects.

Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

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Re: Other problems

> the FLOSS environment will always enable a replacement

I don’t think FLOSS these days will able to repeat what Linus and others did at the beginning. It is different environment today and higher threshold of entry.

EV sales hit speed bump as drivers unplug from the electric dream

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Re: No worries about spontaneous combustion?

The fire-related problem with EV is not that they catch fire, but that once they caught the fire it is impossible to extinguish it (unlike petrol fire).

TikTok isn't protected by Section 230 in 10-year-old’s ‘blackout challenge’ death

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Re: Excuse me whilst I......

Why there are so many people who think the government should decide what is “allowed speech” and what is not?

I thought the majority would understand that it is bad, but it appears that the ,ajority would happily live in a totalitarian state.

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