Posts by remainer_01

Microsoft adds export option to Windows Recall in Europe

Re: Why?

> Why does even exist in the first place?

To train AI

Fresh strain of pro-Russian wiper flushes Ukrainian critical infrastructure

Re: quote: the new blueprint for beginning wartime in the 21st century.

Nothing about that comment is rooted in reality,

Eutelsat in talks with Euro leaders as they mull Starlink replacement in Ukraine

Re: Hmm

> How about something that takes into account UKRAINIAN INTERESTS and not just Russian and "western" interests as you put it or Trump's pockets as is more truthful.

Such as? The sentiment is all well and good, but what does that look like? And is there a realistic path to achieving this? What does that path look like?

Specifics can be discussed. This is just random hand-waving. Are you an enterprise architect by any chance?

Officials warn of Russia's tech-for-troops deal with North Korea amid Ukraine conflict

Tech angle?

This is just politics without any kind of meaningful relationship to IT, what gives?

Lab-grown human brain cells drive virtual butterfly in simulation

The creepy music really sells the whole concept

VMware settles securities fraud class suit with $102.5M payout

WOW

$102.5 million? You can license 8 whole servers with VMWare for a year for that money

WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly

Talented

Mullenweg Is a talented guy! He actually managed to make a private equity outfit look like the underdog, and got me to side with WPE.

Impressive work, keep it up!!

Keir Starmer hands ex-Darktrace boss investment minister gig

Holdup

> Her primary role will be to draw on her business experience to promote the UK

Recession has entered the chat

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice

Re: As I get older…

I see we have the same health insurance!!

Re: As I get older…

There was this wild night in Mombassa….

As I get older…

… my particle is hanging ever deeper. Am I no longer allowed to contribute to the Kernel?

UK Ministry of Defence gets into chipmaking game, buys gallium arsenide fab

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of people…

…Seriously

I had the pleasure of working with them when Coherent (then II—VI) moved part of the VCSEL production there - we bought the fab specifically for that purpose. They were (still are, I presume) organised, professional, hard working, and had great bants. Glad to see they have some more life in them.

Infosys scores deal to write code for EV-maker Polestar

As long as infosys (and TCS et. Al.) are doing the needful I won’t be buying anything they have been working on.

WordPress.org denies service to WP Engine, potentially putting sites at risk

Stupid people….

…. Doing stupid things. Both WPEngine as well as Wordpress.org offer eye-wateringly expensive wordpress hosting, compared with, for example, siteground, who offer an overall better service anyway. The Wordpress.org block can be worked around in the most trivial of ways, and in the meantime, wordpress.org signalled very clearly that they are not to be trusted.

What a mess

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

Lets do Tesla’s next!

SAP CTO bows out over 'incident' at company shindig

Dong

He whipped it out

Telegram founder and CEO arrested in France

Wow, the amount of “but think of the children” comments here is truly astonishing. I thought we had learned from the previous 94583259 assaults governments make on encrypted communications that this is a piss-poor argument for throwing out encryption?

If you genuinely believe this is “because of the children”, i’ve a few bridges for sale.

Re: I hope Musk travels to France

> *they can easily identify racist and illegal content.*

Spoken like someone that has never had to classify content

Cloudflare calls for regulatory harmonization amid rising internet challenges

Sounds like a words to say “we’ll be the internet off button for any government that wants it, just mandate that all sites must be proxied by us”

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

I’m genuinely curious about the chain of events and discussions that ended with “ok, so we’ll have two booth bunnies with branded lampshades on their heads”

Freighter bound for the ISS suffers engine abort

You mean those capsules that keep on trucking day in day out?

OpenTofu hits version 1.8 with more crowd-pleasing features

Horses, courses

Sounds like Pulumi may be more your thing.

Fresh programmer's editor on Linux lies Zed ahead

Just FYI, Inhave been running zed on Windows for a while now, and it runs just fine. You just need to compile it.

Worth it.

Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots

Re: Unfortunately...

The API has wider availability, and there are a lot of clients available. Kagi also provides Claude access.

What's up with Mozilla buying ad firm Anonym? It's all about 'privacy-centric advertising'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqyUAtzS_6M

How HashiCorp's license shakeup seeded a new open source rebel

Hashi Lebwohl from the Gap Cycle is a real piece of work

Canonical cracks down on crypto cons following Snap Store scam spree

Douze points

Douze points for the headline, well done folks.

Firefox 124 brings more slick moves for Mac and Android

Where is my Gecko for IOS please?

Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge

> Microsoft is taking advantage of the trust gained by their custodial role as OS provider and using it to misdirect users

…Are they new here?

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x

> After years of debate

Lol, what?

Bored IT manager automates Millennium Eve checks to ditch snoozing for boozing

Re: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

> The time spent with his girlfriend seems like time well spent.

Do you even work in IT? You sound like an imposter to me!

Dutch boyband hopes to reverse Brexit through the power of music

Re: Slightly wrong.

> We may not do well outside the EU, but we will do better than being in

I believe all the factual data available so far points to this being a falsehood. Can you quantify this position with actual data?

No fandango for you: EU boots UK off Galileo satellite project

Re: Politics..

> No ones drawn any lines yet

that is factually incorrect. The UK politicos can't stop talking about their red lines.

Huawei P20: Snappish snaps, but for £200 less than Pro, it’s Notch bad

All I want is a snapdragon 845, waterproofing, Wireless charging, long battery life and an audio jack. Easy customisation and rooting are a bonus. What I don't want is a Samsung because planned obsolescence makes me angry, as does the insanity around locking the phone down.

I have been wanting to replace my OnePlus 2 for a while now, there just isn't anything on the market that ticks these boxes. What makes me shake my head and strongly consider a feature phone once again is the constant hoopla around cameras. Even this review barely mentions practical considerations of a phone (radio effectiveness, battery life, overall system performance,) and spends a lot of time talking about the camera.

Shaking up the Nad Men: Microsoft splits up into 'cloud' and 'edge'

I don't want "experiences and devices" - I can go to the local smuthouse for that. I want my Windows to respect my privacy, and not pretend to know better than me, especially when it comes to rebooting. I want my Office to work, and I want all this to be reasonably secure and stable.

I don't need this invasive crap.

Re: 'Experience' is just a highfalutin term

lol touchwiz, always makes me crack up in a juvenile way

Microsoft loves Linux so much it wants someone else to build distros for its Windows Store

Windows Store? Sideloading?

Isn't "sideloading" another word for "running apps we don't approve of, but we cannot legally stop you" I *really* don't want to go back to a Linux Desktop and Wine to run Office, and I can't stand Apple.

Cluster-f*ck! Etcd DBs spaff passwords, cloud keys to world by default

Instant dismissal checklist:

Any of the following is considered gross misconduct, and grounds for instant dismissal. Tick as appropriate:

- Exposed internal service to Internet? [X]

- Failed to properly secure service? [X]

- Failed to properly secure sensitive information? [X]

The large gentleman over there will see you out. We will prepare your personal belongings for collection at the reception by tomorrow morning, together with your final paycheck.