Posts by Blackjack

Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists

A gentle reminder that Mars is so toxic that would mean the jello would end being a contact poison.

BOFH: Oh no! The CMS ate 500 pages of corporate documentation

Re: "Don't say that word. Or the T word. It's worse than Candyman."

Oh you summer child.

Excel.

Used as a Database.

For decades.

Have fun!

Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels

Killing IRC channels? In favor of using Discord and Matrix? That's definitely not gonna backfire at all no sir.

ReactOS 0.4.16 serves '90s Windows nostalgia with fewer bugs

Honesty I feel bad for people who is working on this. Wine can run way more Windows stuff things that ReactOs does. Yes it needs Linux but running over Linux means way more hardware compatibility that ReactOs has.

Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI

I keep getting bills for a person that died over 30 years ago at my home, for a propriety that's not where I live and I do not own. At least the bills are not at my name, and since the one time I went to complain they wanted me to sign something I just didn't, otherwise I risk the bills starting to be at my name for again, a house I don't live in or I own.

BOFH: Schrödinger's petty cash puts us in a very awkward superposition

[8753?" I ask.

"Sorry?"

"8753 - the reverse of the PIN number you used to unlock your computer just now," ]

Is this the 90s? A 4 numbers PIN number is so unsafe it is ridiculous.

If you wanna lock the computer then remove the battery and use a real life safe that weights more that a 1930s dishwasher.

McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI'

Road to ROI?

Roast Our Insides it seems.

Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today

I miss Windows 2000, so stable after the first service pack.

YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs

Due to them hurting my eyes I hate bling leds.

A a few lights that tell you if the computer is on and doing something is all I need.

Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago

Re: ATM and CNC machines

My bank ATMs got upgraded to Windows 7 at least.

Microsoft breaks WPF printing with .NET update

At this point is actually easier to use your phone and Bluetooth for printing as long as the printer is compatible with Bluetooth.

And I say that as someone who hates Bluetooth.

Casio decides it's about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter

People hack alarm clocks and toasters, why wouldn't they hack a watch?

Hopefully Bluetooth is off by default as that's a security sinkhole.

Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia

I never lost or had a password books stolen despite everyone dissing me for using them. Yet I had accounts stolen or taken over anyway thanks to hacks and data leaks.

In fact thanks to the modern internet password books are safer that password managers.

'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up

I bet setting AI to be turned off by default is not one of their solutions.

AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing

Re: A half slop squared

The results aren't good even if you run scripts specifically made ro fix most common AI coding blunders.

1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack

For a minute there I thought this was about Amazon Ring devices.

Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support

Re: Well done

Must be why firing someone while they are on a vacation happens.

The Future is for Billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

So far with 95% of companies who invested in AI sering no profit it looks more like super stupidity.

Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal

If people do not know what it is in the code that's troubling.

New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

Hopefully this one has less automated crap that causes problems.

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

8 GB of Ram is what my 14 year pld laptop has and it is more than enough....to run Linux Mint.

IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in

Wow, that's worse that writing the password on the back of business cards.

'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

If AI followed certain laws of robotics things would be better.

Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory

You are forgetting about all the noise audio from cassettes has that you have to edit out.

I do not miss tapes, getting audio from tapes to digital is a pain.

FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another

If the price of free has no made companies move to open source I don't know what it will take.

ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor

Dystopian Future movies weren't a "how to this" guide yet they got used thar way anyway.

Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email

Any good "text only for email" e-mail client?

LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in

Now they will just silently spy on you instead.

Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter

Maybe use a better term like Giganto Moon for this.

If you get knocked on the head and get all your devices stolen and have amnesia, Google will let you back in with a selfie

How easy is to trick face id again?

Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own

Re: Organizations that already have a Grok subscription

"why would anyone use company funds for Sex Bots of the SS?"

Yaah if you are going to use company funds at least use them to have sex for real.

NOT MY SPREADSHEETS!

GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions

"a taskbar and start menu very much like the ones from Windows 11. "

No thank you.

Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises

If Oracle cannot afford to pay $100 million a year then they should get out the AI race.

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Hopefully they get fined to bankruptcy

Oh wait it is Open AI, they are already not making money, thet still should face legal consequences.

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings

The UK Government doing math? I am sure that will go well.

Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month

Who rhe heck uses OneDrive unless forced to?

Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices

Try to install Windows 11 without Rufus or without being in the Eurozone. At least Vista install wasn't torture.

Even Windows Vista wasn't this bad.

Even HP resellers think the price of toner and ink is too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel

HP is the reason I switched to a laser printer. For legal documents it has to be ink sadly.

Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due

Re: Which 16.9%?

Depending on what you call busines, small business have little reason to upgrade unless forced to.

Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5

Decent coffee in Paris? HA!

Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole

I remember trying to run Linux on a Playstation 1, the loading times were so bad it was hilarious.

Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly

Re: So...

If you had read the full article, both X11Libre and Arcan get mentioned.

Arcan is the most mature while X11Libre is the one who is getting the most support.

Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling

AI coders have the tendency to outright copy paste copyrighted code so yes we definitely are not there yet.

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

If every rooftop that gets a few hours of sunlight had solar panels it would do a lot to help with power generation without interfering with railways repairs.

Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all

I honesty don't think the AI Bubble will last three years more not with 95% of companies that invested heavily in AI losing money.

The ram makers are showel sellers and is good business to sell showels during a gold rush but... if 95%of the gold is pyrite... well...