Posts by Inkey

Imgur yanks Brit access to memes as parent company faces fine

Re: The ICO 'court'

If it's GDPR related how come they are still active in the rest of Europe? ... From what i understand it's only the UK, which would imply online save the children bollocks

Software CEO tells Catholic uni panel AI won't take out jobs, but it could take out brains

All just sex sex sex with this lot

"We do not want people having an intimate relationship with it....."

is that because they prefer to keep it in house?..

KDE Linux and FreeBSD hit alpha and – surprise – fan fave Pop_OS nearly at beta

Re: It's bold, it's innovative, and ...

Try MX...

It works pretty well... you basicaly could choose from 2 installed kernels, one with sysD,one with a re-written init setup... never used the sysD one..

the latest release you have to install one or the other.... ie if you want both you install them separately. ... plasma 6 is in the new version

End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs

Et to Corbyn?...

Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safey Act gets rolling

Re: Madness

And the grot kids will still be sharing spaff content to which ever kid wants a a look ... so the onis will always be on the parent... end of!

Talk to your younsters and be open with them

Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress

Re: Sure, Linux could make a truly usable desktop system....

Oh just go away... what "standardized experience" are you on about ? And why the fuck would i want that? I currently have 3 differrent os's on 2 seperate machines and another at work.

The linunx desktop haopened when cromebooks out sold all other laptops... get one if those if you want a "standardized experience" and don' t mind getting sucked off every 3 minutes.

Re: Sure, Linux could make a truly usable desktop system....

Tell me you have never used linux without telling me you have never used linux (or any other unix like os)

Only os I could handle ... after macos, ios and microshit, almost made me walk away in disgust.

Try flying a drone on another planet or easyer still get 100 drones to hold in a heart shape on a mac or windows (even with wsl) ... go on l dare you...

Getting a little sick of people with more money than brains spouting bullshit about linux and then going on about how linux tards are so evangelical about nix.

you can do almost anything you like with linux ...but you keep paying out more and more for less and less you go enjoy the wounder of patch tuesday and the joy of new unwanted settings and well... malware

hire a develper (still cheaper and safer in the long run) or learn how to write solid apps... but don't come to town witout trying all the examples above and say "janky server os, standaeds blah" you would not have m$ or mac os if not for unix so stfu & gtfo

Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think?

GitHub, owned by money-bags

GitHub, owned by money-bags Microsoft, has called upon the European Union to create a publicly funded "Sovereign Tech Fund" (EU-STF) to boost the open source software ecosystem.

And git-hub owned m$ can fuck right off ...

16bn to snaffle throught open source projects the world over should have paid enough dividends to maintain the devs they "ripped off" .... or have they spaffed all their money on ai snake oil

Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

Re: What's ironic

And if the great unwashed were more preocupied with thier own lives and minded thier own business like well adjusted adults, then maybe just maybe, sociaty would be less judgemental, less polarised, and less inclined to virue signal how pure they are by publicly shaming people who's lives they know nothing about.

Lookong at you redit aita....

Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users

Eh?

"productivity tools"

...go away....

;)

The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive

Re: Autodesk

I ran fusion 360 in a vm (the "free version") and got told my autodesk account was being terminated 7 months later ...

There are other alternatives ...

Breaking the nerd internet: Three overlapping generations of tech history – in one selfie

Re: Cutler is right....

Go in then do it .... create a "modern" OS, how many have you tried and on how many platforms ?

Now try really try to fly your new shiny with any half decent backward compatibilty ...

Now try that on what i presume you think is a modern OS m$.... hell just try get it to do a half decent update.

How you "fit in" in this industry with a gobshite comment like that baffles me ....

Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says

Re: I don't trust ANYONE with my private browsing data

All countries try and hide thier atrocities... and proving genacide in a country you have never been to is rich... to say the least ....

You can however find a clip of Madeleine Albright say she well "we" think it was worth it ... when asked about the war in iraq, and half a million children died ... and thats just one us war not talking about all shit in latin america

Whats interesting is how the death toll for the tianaman square shitshow gets larger every year 600 back then and more recently 10k by the bbc...

Wounder how many lives are being ruined in la rigjt now....

It's funny you use the word genocide to decribe china's misuse of force.... what word do you use to describe what happend to innocent people who lost half a generation in iraq? Democracy?

Re: China hit piece, nothing more

'"What most China apologists and whataboutists fail to understand "

And what you fail to mention is the atrocities that western nations have perpetuated and continue to do so, except with a more polished and pro nationalist retoric or spin of the day... presumably you feel strongly about that as well.

China has not had a war of scale since the 1930s

Some clashes and battles in the 70's around the vietnam era and show of force in napal in 2020...

The us has had a "war" on somthing or with some group or nation pretty much for most of modern times, often just as a guise to increase their imperialist agenda's. Straight of the bat as the republic came to be, the us had not 1 but 2 wars with china to keep hundreds of thousends of chinese people junked up opium fiends. That thay are a "communist" counry is more to do with the crazy bitch mau's wife who wanted revenge for not being a movie star ... it's now more like a sign of commonality with the neighboirs... like a gang tatto you got in a rough hood growing up, its there for ever but you cover it up with a shirt bought from levies

The us is bearly 250 years old as a mostly white european country ... when sen john keery says he can trace his linage back to roman times it must make some chinese people smirk when they can trace ancestry back past 2 dynasties and have 6000 year old calanders. China historicaly never really wanted anything to do withw the west, but european traders had a nibble of the spice road and wanted more... pasta well noodles really ... gunpowder, silk oh and drugs... class a by todays classification.

The whataboitism is not about VPN'S, it's about hypocrisy, and attempting to decern the truth from the miase of how "news" and facts(sic) are represented depending on your geographcal location. Western media is owned by very few people. Mega corpperations like google, apple and the rest have been sucking on china and will continue to while its profitable, because the short term gains of off shoring and cheap labour are worth more than your countries middle class. And if you think some failed game show host / realator is going to dictate how china and japan do commerce you are deluded ... tiawan is 180 km from china and have been trading for centuries who's middle class has grown roughly 4% year on year for the last 2 years.

Whats wierd for me is that the VPN's get a pro us artical in a us owned media outlet .. but no one gives a shit about the routers, switches and other consumer tat thats made in asia. ...harley davidson aparel... yep made in china... my feelin is that xi is just keeping an eye out on the 860bn trade dedicit, not reallly to call a marker but to see if mabe the usa is no longer a profitable entity and if africa might be ripe enough.

What the west is waking up to is the fact that china were not playing a long game they are the long game,

Apologies about the length ... no way i could frame it all in a witty ancedote, let the down votes begin

Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China

Re: Newegg pricing today

Not really a performance issue ... AMD have the perfomance chops and in some cases a better price point... bang for buck. What really sets them apart are the frameworks and up until recently decent drivers. The Cuda libraries have a rich ecosytem, been developed for much longer ...pywheels, optix etc. AMD to thier credit have open source drivers and are now playing catch up with ROC their "ai" framework i believe ...

I have seen more and mote image generator models that can use AMD silicon.

Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software

Re: The Register asked Microsoft to comment. ®

Yeah that's called sexual harassment these days and inappropriate touching... ... to be fair though if i were to "reach" out to m$ it would be to strangle it until it stopped twitching....

But i would wait till after folks got some $ back from them first.... maybe

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

Seems simple

"it's quite conceivable that future versions of Windows could impose even stricter hardware demands, potentially leaving an even larger number of currently functional PCs unable to"---

and the simple fact is that as long as people buy the hyped up claims m$ makes, and settle for less the longer they will continue to suck as much as they can out of their victims

Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America

Re: Proof-of-personhood

Oh hi elon just load your profile and I'll take over the console controls while the game loads ...

WTAF... this solves nothing and $16 free money does not change that.... wait you use a mobile app to confirm a human identity, not standing in the way if inovation you say, sure, sure so ahh were is it?

#----> advanced mupetry

Generative AI makes fraud fluent – from phishing lures to fake lovers

Re: Ask a weird question

Ii ask them what colour their eyes are ... might have to switch it up a bit....

Microsoft mystery folder fix might need a fix of its own

Re: Patching the Dumbai way...

More like co-pilot ...

Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek

US export restrictions

Ahh yes the "freemarket" capitalists refusing to sell to the comunists who own 35% of ther dept...

What a shit show

When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making

Re: Ohhhh Rupert!! Ya wanna hear some technological wankery?

Got "de gated" at an airport a few months ago... biometric residence permit expired... they all did everyones.... tried downloading the new shiney evisa... no dice the passport used to create the loggin is not chipped. New loggin with biometric card won't scan the nfr ... then the fucking jobsworth at the console who could read the Uk border control advice on the extension of the biometric card said " youre not an EU citizen after brixit"..." you do know about brexit?" Then they refused to check my passport against the Uk border control carrier hub, shut the gates and fucked off..

spent over 3 hours on a supprt call still no dice... at one stage the app inclined that i could only start the app from a browser from the .gov web page WTF

still does not work and the update says it won't work

on my phone (sony) xz3

complete and whole sale shitification

Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore’s Law is dead and buried

Yeah cause warming the ocean is a really great idea

Meanwhile, in Japan, train stations are being 3D-printed in an afternoon

Re: Erm, but why?

Printers can create shapes, forms and viods in a single run... cnc would require severl setups to accomplish similar results, making it more exspensive.

We have been down this before ..am is alive and well

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2022/10/24/hp_lores_3d_printing_not_met_hype/#c_4554866

Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash

My undersatanding

Was that the spooks had all the access they needed to coms...and if a mark wasn't online mi5 would break in and bug the home/office etc... so not sure what this is about.

E2EE is all wel and good but in the uk you can be compelled to unlock a device or jailed. And then there's all the nso types that sell goverments snooping software/platforms. (Seem to recall some outrage from uk ministers at journolist's phones been hacked, so what is this about really)

M$ is basicly a data hoover, ibm, amd, broadcom and lets not forget cisco the swiss cheese of switches are all mandated by law or can be subpoened to hand over data.... and sadly there is this ...

https://youtu.be/7gRsgkdfYJ8?si=W_GFTPusajtT5ZXR

So can someone please tell me why does the uk hone office want to make coms less secure?

RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up

Mark Klien

Nice article el reg.

Now could you wiite an article on why the average person no longer gives a damm about thier right to privacy anymore

Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight

Re: Transcripts

Nothing wrong with transcripts, nothing wrong with how it reads, and there is no ambiguity about what an utter shit show this is. Birmingham city counsil anyone...

Like we could argue the toss about enviromtal impacts on how we went from tape to disk to cloud...(cough... music industry ah mp3's cough)... I don' know what impact this had ecologically... but these are goverments, that "potentialy" could end up not owning their data...

The great data tax doge tarif?

Re: verbatim transcripts of interviews

Are you in uni/gov. procurement perhaps?

"Ohh please don't do this .... " ... what it's not packaged right...? No fancey jingle...oh horrer it's different ...WOW thats what you came here to comment on?. I'll wager my hat it was people with the same sort of sentiment's as your's, that deep sixed the the open frame works project's in Munich in 2015...

"Ah... erm.... ohh it dosnt have a ribbon on it"

Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy

Ftfy

And it warned that an imminent update to Recall will delete all Installs of m$- all of them. The company said: "This important update will improve your experience.

°↓° downvote if you must but those who know, know i'm right.

The future of AI is ... analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juice

Guitar amps was as close as i got with those the hum and the smell, and they had to warm up for a short time ....

Antikythera mechanism

I seem to remenber a veratasium video on youtube (waited ages for it to get there after promoed)

The kicker was that the study of this and other ingeious devices like the tide predicter that definately had a hand in giving the royal navey the... er upper hand, but that led to modern studies of using logic in analog ways ... I wonder if this start up was one of the group of researchers that took part in that video... recomend watching it ... was epic

Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation

Re- optical cable

The optical cable from what i can gather is part of the deterministic feed back loop .... how high a probabilty are the qubits entangled ...how lossy/stable is the signal. A way to make predictions on out comes before the gate is "teleported" .

Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemd

Good luck finding a working flopoy drive...

Re: Not a Hater

Let's face it though it'snot a great fit...as mentioned it is not as it is clamed to be,.. modular or an init app.

Yes it does work mostly and I'm happy for you that you can get on with...stuff.

However I'm still weary about it's over reach... the facr that other than bsd not much has been done to make it more unix like.... the attitude that it is /was adopted just so readly by so many os's , and get over it does not satisfy. Also he has not endeard himself and at times has been quite hostile which wrankles me.... But the fact tht he now works for m$ positivly freaks me out!

been using mx without systemd ... as daily for the past few months and it does work well... although not sold on kde plasma

Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident

Re: You’re the driver, not the flaky AI

Ahh yes marketting lahlah land bullshit.... next it'll be mars is a great place live, raise a family lots of high paying jobs .... and if your organs turn in to water you wiill be helping to teraform the planet...

Ransomware hangover, Putin grudge blamed for vodka maker's bankruptcy

Re: Finest Latvian vodka

Yeah Bill Hicks was right....

That is all.... virtual beer beer for you sir... (less chance of chundering yer dinner or a hangover)

AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows

Err have you ever tried to use rufus, aws shopping chat bot ..... i swore at it,

And don't get me started on the voda one ...just repeats the same garbage over n over

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for

Ahah!

Was scabiling through the kde themes and icon's yesterday (trying the mx kde ahs distri).... and wondered why there were so many m$ themes and what not... i know there are app's for M$ but could not understand why there were desktop back rounds etc ....

Scrolled right passed that ... but now i know why it's there. As for why make a windoze distro... nah and nope..... probibly works a bit nicer than winfuckery though

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

Re: Copilot for Copilot

Hah we've all been duped...

Could this be a copilot response to a m$ marketing droid's promt to "what the fuck can you be used for"

Think about it elReg gets a promise of timley respnses to journalists enquiring about M$ roundfuckery

Some smart bright commentard gets a taty shirt, the driod gets replaced by copilot and m$ get a use excuse for more telemitary.

Re: I'm hoping they will put it in the design offices of clothing manufacturers

Wtf .... thats oddly specific

The empire has no clothes

Stick it in age of empires.... i am continually harrassed to to play with it ... god knows why i don't have single m$ product so yeah let it play with it's self...

Most of the ML stuff availeble to the masses is a bit wanky anyway.(stable diffusion +addons was quite novel ..and bloated and pulled a fuck tonn of dependicies, well ok.... LLM'S meh)

As for the jumper i would rather be found dead face down in the Thames with a sex toy in my butt and wearing a rangers football jumper...... but if you had a vista jumper now that i might wear!

Endless OS 6: How desktop Linux may look, one day

Re: Wayland?

And you try telling that to young people now...

.....wint blelive you

Microsoft reboots Windows Recall, but users wish they could forget

Remarkable?

I find it kinda sad that there are propriety OS'$ still out in this day and age....

But what i find remarkable is how people take m$ bullshit year in year out.., like why.

Be under no illusions this weaponised marketing gone mad....

Who the fuck needs a reminder/snapshot of what they are/were working on? ... make a list ffs

Data broker leaves 600K+ sensitive files exposed online

Re: I propose a new law....

I fear one punch may not do it ...

besides they need to feel it in the bottom line$...as it seems that's the only thing they care about.

Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do?

Re: The only bot worth looking at...

Girls are designed to create flesh...

Oooo colour me inspired

Lab-grown human brain cells drive virtual butterfly in simulation

ahh Head cheese

Nothing really new here ..... yawn

https://research.ufl.edu/publications/explore/v10n1/extract2.html

what you have to remember is that bio engineering is not the future its the now ....

So if you worried about invitro grown basel cells enslaving man ... don't ... the gene barrier is only held together by a "monatoriam " and has been crossed at least twice that i know of... so spend your worry on billionares enslaving poor mortals with a super race of engineered super zombies .... pc's and algorythems did not turn us into wage slaves ...we did...

That doomsday critical Linux bug: It's CUPS. May lead to remote hijacking of devices

mint updates

There seems to be an update on Mint and presumably other ubuntu distros.... available now

oh wow doomsday averted?

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate

Re: Hard truths

Yeah not so sure c c++ and developers for the languages are going to just disipear in 5 to10 years

From my (very limited) experiance and from what i have seen there are a fair amount of younsters eager to learn c and to some degree assebley too, espcialy in the imbedded side of things ... some of the rust stuff i've seen is just using a c library anyway...

C and c ++ are mostly the languages that most robotics platforms are written in and ain't going away any time soon

AI has colonized our world – so it's time to learn the language of our new overlords

Re: "Best to just suck it up and master Delvish"

Or you coulk flick a switch and pull a plug...

Whay less labour intensive

Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England

Newspeak?

It's mad to think that P.Thiel ponyed up $10 million towards a law suit against Gawker magizine, that put said rag out of business ... for get this invasion of privacy.

" On 15 August 2016, Thiel published an opinion piece in The New York Times in which he argued that his defense of online privacy went beyond Gawker. He highlighted his support for the Intimate Privacy Protection Act and said that athletes and business executives have the right to stay in the closet as long as they want to."

And then called it a win for privacy....

What the actual fuck!