* Posts by stiine

1998 publicly visible posts • joined 9 May 2018

Microsoft rolls out AI-enabled Notepad to Windows Insiders

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Facepalm

Or, more importantly, updating config files.

SpaceX plans next Starship flight just days from now

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Re: FAA to be rejigged?

Time to make those exclusion zones permanent for aircraft, but perhaps voluntary for ships/boats.

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after update labeling error

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Ok, but Citibank reviewed the transaction after it was created, before it was submitted.

Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint, says Oxfam

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Facepalm

You're purchasing helicopers, and hiring pilots, for all of us? Hooray.

iFixit to the rescue: McDonald's workers can rescue their own ice cream machines

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not IFixIt

There are already companies that have products that properly diagnose these Taylor Ice cream machines.

UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

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Happy

Re: Leave the clocks alone

I spent it.

The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD

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Facepalm

Re: "Yes, But ..."

No, it would still be flawed if the transisitors were 1cm². Being as small as they are only means you can't stick a probe on them.

ESA astronaut on the difference between flying in a Soyuz and piloting a Crew Dragon

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Re: Retro-futuristic capsule

Scott Manley interviewed Steve Jurvetson who has an amazing collection of space hardware (it on his youtube channel.) If you're interested in historic space hardware, you should check it out in two parts:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6Fn5iWSHQ

NASA's Europa Clipper leaves for Jupiter's moon atop Falcon Heavy

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I wonder if SpaceX has considered using 4 boosters instead of 2? Call it Falcon Super-Heavy. They'd need to build two more landing pads, but then they'd never have to sacrifice a booster for Δ-v again.

First time's the charm: SpaceX catches a descending Super Heavy Booster

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Re: To the Moon and Mars

What's the line from that song? "90 minutes from New York to Paris, well, by 76 we'll be A.O.K." We're much closer than we were when it was written.

Can you imagine leaving Heathrow for Christchurch and arriving in 70 minutes? I can.

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Unhappy

Just wait until you watch it again.

For any of you that did watch the SpaceX stream, I suggest you watch the launch and landing sequences that Everyday Astronaut broadcast. Their ground camera was quite distant from the SpaceX tracking camera and the view was equally, if not more, spectacular from their angle.

Another thought is that I can't wait to see if Trevor Mahlmann was photographing this launch and landing...the man has vision and talent.

Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares...

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Re: The UNIX brand

At least they didn't calling it Unix 2024...

Smart TVs are spying on everyone

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Re: Content surfing

Yes they do. They don't get any eyeball time if you don't watch the commercials, and if you can't decide what to watch, you won't see any commercials (unless you are an idiot who doesn't click cancel when the ads play during your scroll through the available content.)

I'm not sure what info they would glean from your ad view during your content search...

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: Buy a non smart TV - if you can find one

It will get old...i've been clicking Exit after power-on every day for over two years...

I'm brave enough to open up the tv, but I don't know how to overwrite Tizen with generic Android.

Does anyone know of a site that specializes in modding samsung smart tvs?

Embattled users worn down by privacy options? Let them eat code

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Re: Time to get spiky

That's probably against various laws. A good idea that I agree with, but still against the law.

AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence

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Facepalm

dum-dum-dummmm

"No password was needed due to the use of SSH keys; the user buck was also a sudoer, granting the bot full access to the system."

If he was a smart sudoer, he would have required a password.

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Re: To err is only human ...

you left out the words 'to trust'.

Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances

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They should have waited until 3pm Friday afternoon.

AI code helpers just can't stop inventing package names

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Re: Easy way to check if a package is valid

Does that list exclude the real but totally malicious packages?

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Re: Expensive random word generator

Why? Did you specify a particular language/version/platform?

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Re: Opportunity

Wrong, its still funny to this day. Especially the more obtuse 1. is.

Musk's Starlink rockets to 4 million subscribers

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Re: Any truth to the rumour

Nope. Some are in polar orbits. Additionaly, very few satellites* travel in retrograde orbits.

* - not counting debris from collisions.

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Re: Global billboard?

I thought the Russian government was going to paint the moon red, and then president Nixon was going to paint a Coca-Cola logo on it.

Personally, I think all satellites should have collision avoidance lights, just like aeroplanes, or Starlink should make all of them that are over the US blink on July 4th every year.

Campaigners claim 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' in Firefox does the opposite

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Re: Much FUD

Bullshit. The content delivery network hosting the ad can tell them exactly how many impressions they got....or would if browsers didn't preload data. If the CDNs aren't happy because some bastard wrote a background ad watcher plugin, well tough, stop providing ads to that browser (and ad me to this list).

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Re: They are trying to do the right thing here

Pardon me for saying this, but that's stupid. If your ads work, your sales will increase. No other metrics are required.

Don't try to force your ads on those of us who resist, because I, for one, will automatically NOT buy whatever it you've just advertised at me. You could use nude supermodels in your ad and I would still not consider buying your merchandise.

Also, for you morons who don't mention your product name in your ads on video streaming sites; I'm not watching, I'm only listening, so how am I going to know who's product to avoid if you don't mention your company name, or your product name?

And another thing. If I'm listening to quiet fifty year old Irish folk music, an ad with loud modern-day rap music is NOT going improve my reception of your already unwanted ad.

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Re: So how does one turn it off?

Can that be set to "lie" ?

Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war

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Re: If I were a world leader or in the administration thereof. . .

I don't think they'd get rid of them if there was a useful place to leave them to go bang, unless they don't like trashmen either.

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Re: Solar system equipment blew up?

Are you planning to get run over by a rogue moon?

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Re: If I were a world leader or in the administration thereof. . .

So they did this to create an in-country market for cell phones, pagers, and walkie talkies? Fucking brilliant!!!!!!

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Re: Experts

You caught us. All we do is plan attacks such as these. BTW, don't buy any cheap Lebanese pagers or radios. Of course, in two more days, we'll have another type of personal appliance that you shouldn't buy second have from Northern Israel.

UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group

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If I run you down in a Mercedes G 580, should you be able to sue Daimler AG?

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

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Re: Conspiracy

No, it doesn't cost as much to start a company to build 1000 pagers, or at least dis- and re-assemble 1000 pagers, but good luck placing an order for 1000 vehicles. Where are you going to get 1000 used yet road-worthy Toyota Hilux pickup trucks without having your photograph taken with Toyota's Salesman of the Month.

Google sued for using trademarked Gemini name for AI service

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Devil

What if I were to cap GEMINI?

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

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Re: Travel

But the views from planes can be spectacular, almost as good as seen on Google Earth.

If HDMI screen rips aren't good enough for you pirates, DeCENC is another way to beat web video DRM

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Big Brother

Re: And surveillance

So, do as I do and leave a random, never-ending stream playing on my other monitor (the one that I cant actually see) and let them profile me to their heart's content.

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Re: ISO = extortion scheme...

And the answer to that is "if the spec is requred by any laws or government refulations then the specifications must be public".

Salesforce mulls charging per AI chat as investors sweat over fewer seats

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I'm pretty sure the corps will pass 100% of that cost onto you, the consumer, and personally, I'll laugh when you start to bitch and moan about price increases.

Check your IP cameras: There's a new Mirai botnet on the rise

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Re: We are bored now, so chuck your camera in the bin

Do you really want to find out that they are using 10 year old, insecure code that they copied from StackExchange?

France charges Telegram CEO with multiple crimes

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Re: I’m confused

They're the whole point of planet earth...

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Re: EFF

No, but it can be used to have the prosecutor prosecuted for failure to prosecute Telegram's competitors.

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Big Brother

Re: I think he's probably better than the last two, and possibly the last three

It used to be their brothers did that for them, considering they were all kings of European countries.

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Re: "It looks like he didn't comply"

Why would anyone not sell expensive, can't-buy-in-stores, drugs to the French, for money?

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FAIL

Re: "It looks like he didn't comply"

Yeah, and French divers will gladly sink any ship that Macron directs them to. Just ask, Greenpeace was it?

As for French citizens bombing the whitehouse, we don't need them. We let the last of ours to do it out of jail early.

NASA's billion-dollar launcher is behind schedule and burning cash

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Or consultants?

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

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Happy

Yes. Sucks to be them, but then I DGAF.

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Re: At last, some common sense

Do you know how much trouble you could get yourself into by spinning an Iron Maiden record backwards on dads turntable?

The problem back then was Tipper Gore, who I think should have been hanged on the white house lawn.

Feds, US states sue RealPage for building rent-hiking software for landlords

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Re: It's Not *Just* the Software/Service Company!

Every single one of them.

Slack AI can be tricked into leaking data from private channels via prompt injection

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Re: Fiddling with the Slack Channels at Work

Hell, send that prompt to all of the lawyers suing IBM.

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Before "proposed"?

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

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Re: Obvious solution

Do I get to pick the national government that will own it?