Posts by KarMann

Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss

Re: When you wish upon a star

As the Reg article pulls out,...

That is not the mental image I needed this almost-morning. I'd much rather imagine the article pointing out, instead.

You don't get what you don't pay for, but nobody is paid enough to be abused

Re: Question

About all the complaints I've noticed about it have been regarding the matter of "Regomize" v. 'Regomise', but the footnote doesn't address that matter at all.

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

Re: Obligatory

Ah, I was wrong, I expected it would be this one.

BOFH: Just because we've had record revenues doesn't mean you get a Xmas bonus

Re: In the glorious past

That's not a coat.

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

Re: El Reg finds the best quotes

It did take me a few moments to properly re-parse that (I think) as a restatement of the Highlander rule: There can be only one.

Re: Doh!

Why not both?

HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers

Re: Honestly....

I only ever loved them for their calculators, and they're pretty much done with those now, so I'll just let the door hit them on the way out.

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

Re: Actually, I kind of agree with him

Maybe IBM's CEO believes the Earth is flat and Elvis is still alive living with JFK and Marilyn Monroe….

Damn. He's on to me.

Re: A special needs management nightmare

My first pass reading this, I read it to the tune of "That's Amore", but then, I re-parsed it as maybe more like the Macarena. Was either of those the right one, or is it yet another, third option?

UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms

Re: Poor proof reading

Normally, the yankification doesn't trouble me too much, being an ex-Yank myself. But even I would draw the line at yankifying (dare I say yankifizing?) the spelling in an article about a specifically British subject such as this. Bad El Reg! Bad! No biscuit!

AI threatens to automate away the clergy

Re: World's simplest AI

Do we have enough whiskey [sic] to fuel such an AI?

Next best thing: -->

As far as we know, ChatGPT doesn't commune with the big guy upstairs.

Then again, as far as any actual evidence goes, neither do humans, either.

Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS

And why not? It's pretty much what YouTube demands of you for the privilege of viewing.

IT sent the intern to sort out the nasty VP who was too important to bother with backups

Re: Which keyboard?

Another possibility that comes to mind is that maybe the desk opening into which the keyboard slid might not have been a straight horizontal line. If it were curved downward near the edges, an effect I could imagine some posh and/or antique desks having, that could explain it hitting the key there.

BOFH: Groundbreaking discovery or patently obvious trolling?

Re: Ideal platform

When I were a lad, I developed my own balanced ternary (or trinary, as I called it at the time) arithmetic well before I heard of Setun or any other implementations. (I didn't really expect it was something new to the world, but I knew I hadn't seen it elsewhere.) It actually has some surprising advantages, especially when it comes to long division. And of course, there's the aforementioned (by phuzz, in another comment thread) base efficiency, although I didn't know about that until that kind of thing became something one could read about on the Web.

Serendipity! Emphasis on 'dip'

Ah, excellent! I was just thinking a day or two of 'dummy mode on', and then realised it had been quite a while since I'd seen it engaged. Welcome back, dummy mode!

Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist

Found it!

I knew this sounded familiar. Huston should talk to this guy, Christiaans. (Of course, it's quite possible he already has.)

Projection?

He's also not keen on national regulators doing the job, given the internet crosses borders and governments do not.

I'm sorry, have you met the US government?

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

Given that the alternative is $BigCorps trying to claim & defend trademarks on words like Word, Windows, Apple, etc., I much prefer that they use words that don't (or didn't) exist, thank you very much.

OpenAI's CEO merry-go-round tosses out voice feature for ChatGPT

Re: Pizza order

Or if you have adequately large inches.

In the US, it can be taken either way, either 'discarded' or, as in this case (presumably), 'put forth', 'proffered', something like that. But it is more often used in the 'discarded' sense over there, too.

At least there aren't any worries over conflating it with the 'tosser' kind of tossing over there.

Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support

Re: @Korev "Well the Z in Regomised is still there..."

I should have added: Because obviously, the only correct number of Hans is one. Solo.

There can be onl— wait, crossing the streams is bad!

Re: @Korev "Well the Z in Regomised is still there..."

Whichever one it is, I'll take the variation without so many 'han's in it.

Formatting

Re: Formatting

I'll belatedly add, since this post is the first result that came up on Bing (*spit*) when I searched for this kind of thing, that the < span class="strike" > is now replaced by a simple < s >.

Also, the < q > tag seems to have been added, and I don't even know what that is. Maybe shorthand for < blockquote >? Let's find out. No, it enclosed it in quotation marks. Curly ones, by the looks of things, and probably semantically helpful for those using screenreaders and similar. Nice.

Rivian bricks infotainment systems in 'fat finger' fiasco

Re: What, no speedo?

Dumb question (that I could just as well ask Google et al., but this'll answer for future readers as well): What's a tachograph? I know the etymological roots, but not the specific device it might refer to.

What is IT? --->

Re: What, no speedo?

By my reading, I think that it was just the cruise control or maybe speed excess warning that was borked,* not the speedometer itself. But the 'and instrument systems' is rather vague; it includes speedometer, of course, but it's not 'all instrument systems'.

* hence the "no assurance of adherence to speed limits."

Meta's fix for teen online mental health? Hold Apple and Google responsible

Re: Won't someone think of the adults!

FYI, try < blockquote>this< /blockquote>, minus those spaces.

The more you know.

It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs

Re: infotainment

I don't know humour.

Curses! I did it again!

Re: infotainment

Tell me you don't know how abbreviations work, without telling me how abbreviations work.

Also known by its acronym initialism, TMYDKHAWWTMHAW.

Tool bag lost in space now tracked by garbage watchers

Phrasing!

"It's unfortunate we lost them, but not a huge impact," Weigel said.

Are we still doing phrasing?

Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck

Re: One does wonder...

When this bank is hemorrhaging money, do they tell finance to come back when they run out?

If the money is being hemorrhaged into their mates' pockets, then yes.

Yes, they do.

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Re: And.... "He's Fired"

Oh, wait. Silly me. There it was all along.

Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI

Re: I hate to say this, but it's sad that there are homo sapiens so f'in stupid

That's the joke. Hence, the 'ducks'.

Re: I hate to say this, but it's sad that there are homo sapiens so f'in stupid

Not sure whether 'viscous' is a deliberate pun or not. Insert Fry meme here.

Re: I hate to say this, but it's sad that there are homo sapiens so f'in stupid

Don't you mean 'the hoi polloi'?

《ducks》

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

Re: Firefox broke audio

I think you missed the point there. Gene has ALSA but not PulseAudio. And Firefox apparently no longer supports ALSA, so that's Gene's problem, not that it's not working with PA for whatever other reason one might imagine.

Bored Ape NFT party is a real eyesore, say irritated attendees

Re: Wow!

NFTs have two use cases: parting fools with their money, and money laundering.

Shock horror – and there goes the network neighborhood

Re: When checking voltages...

From The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries:

2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.

3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.

Re: When checking voltages...

User name checks out.

Re: When checking voltages...

Watt?

World leaders ink AI safety pacts while Musk and Sunak engage in awkward bromance

Re: A classic pairing

Assuming you're referring to the numbers I think you're referring to, you forgot to carry the one*, or something. Twenty-five billion, not fifteen.

* not literally; that'd be in addition; and I assume that's from the $44/19 billion figures

'Corrupt' cop jailed for tipping off pal to EncroChat dragnet

Re: I wonder what crimes were being investigated?

You mean selling Budweiser, and claiming it's beer?

CompSci academic thought tech support was useless – until he needed it

I said it before, and I'll say it again: The Emacs/LISP user is not (necessarily) the same person as the complainer in the main body of this story.

I read it as though the Emacs user and the heldesk typo were completely separate & unrelated incidents, and probably different individuals involved as well (bar Declan). So nothing to do with that email script, then.

Re: Not all Doctors . . .

If only it'd been in the neurology department. Then you'd have the absolutely perfect punchline.

Arm grabs a slice of Raspberry Pi to sweeten relationship with IoT devs

…NASA has opted for a RISC-V core design developed by SiFive for its next space flight computer.

Well, that figures. After all, historically, NASA has known a thing or two about RISC management. And then re-learned them….

After nine servers he worked on failed, techie imagined next career as beach vendor

Re: Full circle

Finally! My idiosyncratic preference for C shell will pay off at last!

Clippy-like AI at forefront of Windows update previews

Dammit

Just yesterday, I was mentioning to my wife about Word's 40th birthday, and she asked if Clippy was there. I confidently answered in the negative, but it seems I may have been mistaken. Or if not Clippy proper, at least his ghost, back to haunt us.

King Charles III signs off on UK Online Safety Act, with unenforceable spying clause

Re: Poor, deprived Americans

Math: Not even once.

Airbus commissions three wind-powered ships to sail the Atlantic

The ships will most often travel from Saint-Nazaire, France, to an A320 assembly line in Mobile, Alabama.

I'd rather hope that they'd travel just as often from Mobile to Saint-Nazaire, unless The Editors have something untoward planned for these ships.