* Posts by Bronek Kozicki

2859 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Sep 2007

Having trouble finding a job in your 40s? Study shows some bosses like job applicants... up until they see dates of birth

Bronek Kozicki
Unhappy

Re: HR is the problem

This sounds familiar, thanks for sharing.

GCHQ: A cyber-what-now? Rumours of our probe into London Stock Exchange 'cyberattack' have been greatly exaggerated

Bronek Kozicki
Coat

Re: Nothing to see here

It's always the DNS.

Except when it isn't.

Another free web course to gain machine-learning skills (thanks, Finland), NIST probes 'racist' face-recog – and more

Bronek Kozicki

"African American"?

C'mon, not every black person is American or have African ancestry! I am so amazed that this adjective is still tolerated in the USA.

Hold my Bose, we can do premium: Sennheiser chucks pricey wireless cans at travellers

Bronek Kozicki

Re: Does the noise-cancelling work without a source?

Judging by 450 which I own, my guess is "yes, this should work". Would be nice to have actual confirmation.

Vivaldi opens up an exciting new front in the browser wars, seeks to get around blocking with cunning code

Bronek Kozicki

Re: Barclays

It only bothers me about my choice of browser after I'm logged in. So, unless you hold an investment account there, you won't see anything out of ordinary.

You might be onto something with the cookies, though. I block quite a few (might be fewer than 15, but still)

Bronek Kozicki

Re: Barclays

FWIW the website is www.smartinvestor.barclays.co.uk, my Linux is Ubuntu Bionic with XFCE and browsers are FF 71 (from ubuntu-mozillateam@lists.ubuntu.com) and Opera 65 (from packager@opera.com, stable stream), both 64bit.

Bronek Kozicki
Flame

Filtering by browser is a throwback

... to 2001 when IE6 was released and so many websites wanted to make a point that they no longer want to talk with IE4 or IE5. Now we have HTML5 universally supported by almost all browsers, and I frankly am fed up with web developers making a stance "No, we are special because something something something". No you bloody are not, you are just ignorant git!

Particularly good (bad?) example is Barclays banking - connect from Linux Opera or Firefox, current stable version, and it will suggest that my web browser is obsolete and I should use (possibly older, but hey, running on Windows!) versions of Chrome or ... Firefox. At the same time when trying to stuff 15 tracking cookies from 3rd parties on my computer - because it's only banking! Duh!

Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

Bronek Kozicki
Mushroom

Dr Sonja Falck

I am a geek, and I find it offending that an educated person like yourself would find the term "geek" pejorative.

Cops storm Nginx's Moscow offices after a Russian biz claims it owns world's most widely used web server, not F5

Bronek Kozicki

Re: Prior Art

I didn't say interchangeable, just that they have common roots. Though they are indeed sufficiently similar that pretty-much anything from Apache 1.3 ...

That's not how copyright works. Also, Apache is nowhere in the picture because (back to topic) "Prior Art" does not apply in copyright cases - it only applies to patent law. Unless Russian IP law is somehow different?

Bronek Kozicki

Re: Prior Art

I do not believe nginx and Apache modules are interchangeable or source compatible, in case you are referring to module API. And in case you are not, I do not see how Google/Oracle trial could be relevant here.

Bronek Kozicki

Re: "He claims he wrote the software in his spare time"

Apparently not true, in case of software written in Russia at the start of the century. As explained above.

Bronek Kozicki

Re: Prior Art

I do not think the term "prior art" applies to copyright cases. Also, I very much doubt that nginx or lighthttpd could be described as "derived work" in relation to Apache, which is what you are implying. Sure, they implement largely overlapping set of protocols and have a module system, but I am quite certain that they are entirely independent projects - this claim is based on significant differences of server architecture.

HPE to Mike Lynch: You told either El Reg or High Court the right version of why former Autonomy execs won't testify

Bronek Kozicki

Re: Privilege

I suspect this was an oversight on HPE's lawyers

I can see certain pattern emerging ...

Managing the Linux kernel at AWS: 'A large team of security experts' dealing with fallout from Spectre, Meltdown flaws

Bronek Kozicki

Re: Schlaeger is doing the right thing

Just nitpicking here: not "performance" but "capacity". For low latency trading, where raw power of every single core is paramount, hyperthreading will be typically disabled because it "only" increases capacity at the cost of performance (due to shared caches).

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Bronek Kozicki

Re: Rename the terms?

neither; it was allegedly a misdemeanour.

Bronek Kozicki

Re: AKA Libertarians

"Most of the world" means "including areas outside the USA". The regulation you are describing above is just one of many examples that USA is not particularly free country, compared to other countries where e.g. barbers do not require a licence.

Microsoft plays 'Spot the Azure VM that can disappear any time'

Bronek Kozicki

I think that's good, actually. It would be so annoying if we had to adopt different vocabulary (and set of abstractions) for each cloud provider.

Forget sharks with lasers, NASA kits out an elephant seal with a sensor-studded skullcap

Bronek Kozicki

Re: panserbjørne

Bears can be useful in military also without wearing armour. Just ask Wojtek.

Still in preview, but look! You can now develop Azure Sphere apps in Linux – if you dare

Bronek Kozicki
Boffin

Vaguely annoyingly, that script has to be run after every reboot and every time the hardware is detached and reattached.

oh well, one day someone at Microsoft will learn about udev events.

Whoooooa, this node is on fire! Forget Ceph, try the forgotten OpenStack storage release 'Crispy'

Bronek Kozicki
Devil

Back when OpenStack was launched with NASA, you literally ...

... had to be a rocket scientist to run it

He wasn't trolling you, was he?

Pentagon's $10bn JEDI decision 'risky for the country and democracy,' says AWS CEO Jassy

Bronek Kozicki

Re: A Close-Run Thing

Do such people think they are owed ?

Yes. Yes, they do.

Onestream slammed for 'slamming' vulnerable and elderly folk: That's £35k to Ofcom, please

Bronek Kozicki

Only 30k?

That's cheap.

Just in case you were expecting 10Gbps, Wi-Fi 6 hits 700Mbps in real-world download tests

Bronek Kozicki

Streaming is only minimally affected by latency; games on the other hand ... 6ms might not hurt you if you are lucky, but it is a significant enough proportion of human reflexes to have some impact.

Gravitons, Neoverse... you'd be forgiven for thinking AWS's second-gen 64-core Arm server processor was a sci-fi

Bronek Kozicki
Boffin

Re: All Amazon CPU include a integrated microphone as standard

.... hm, that's a neat feature - microphone in a datacentre would register so much noise, it might be actually useful as an entropy source for RNG

AWS has new tool for those leaky S3 buckets so, yeah, you might need to reconfigure a few things

Bronek Kozicki
Paris Hilton

Customers can enable Access Analyzer

... but is it free?

ESA toasts 10% budget boost by stretching ISS support out to 2030

Bronek Kozicki
Trollface

Re: So jealous

What's wrong with sending a car in space?

RuneScape bloke was wrongly sacked after reading veep's salary details on office printer

Bronek Kozicki

Re: Odd But

You can always revert - just click to upvote later.

In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze

Bronek Kozicki

this++

It annoys the hell of me when people plan for using a single language only. There is no single language good for everything, so when you do that you are basically planning for fail. Also, programming languages are not really that different, so making assumption that one can only learn one language well is pretty demeaning to everyone involved.

Oracle finally responds to wage discrimination claims… by suing US Department of Labor

Bronek Kozicki
Mushroom

Oracle

... just being Oracle, right?

... actually, on second thought ...

... no, cannot write what I really think and put my name under.

Irish eyes aren't smiling after govt blows €1m on mega-printer too big for parliament's doors

Bronek Kozicki

Re: 3.1 metres in height

... knocking down the walls in the process, as necessary.

From July, you better be Putin these Kremlin-approved apps on gadgets sold in Russia

Bronek Kozicki
Paris Hilton

Re: I know this is article just part of the anti Russia propaganda

You have bad case of whataboutism, have you sought help yet?

Amnesty slams Facebook, Google over 'pervasive surveillance' business model

Bronek Kozicki
Joke

You would have received so many upvotes, if only you have used appropriate icon ->

Space-wrecks: Elon's prototype Moon ferry Starship blows its top during fuel tank test

Bronek Kozicki
Boffin

Best tradition of chaos ingineering

Things go wrong, and yet the whole edifice still stands upright, with the most important parts (rocket engines!) seemingly intact.

Questions hang over Gatwick Airport after low level drone near-miss report

Bronek Kozicki

Re: My first thought?

Who knows, perhaps the perp intended to put it on YouTube but then changed their mind.

Denial of service kingpin hit with 13 months denial of freedom and a massive bill to pay

Bronek Kozicki
Thumb Up

Good

(n/t)

Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes

Bronek Kozicki
Trollface

Giant vampire squid on the face of humanity

I mean, Oracle.

Gavin Patterson's gravy train keeps on rolling as former BT boss tossed two more sinecures

Bronek Kozicki

Re: Isn't it good to be at the top ?

Nah, at least your life is more interesting.

Bronek Kozicki

He should also join TSB

The bank that couldn't will benefit from a smooth operator at the till. Or at least, it might be amusing.

I'm still not that Gary, says US email mixup bloke who hasn't even seen Dartford Crossing

Bronek Kozicki

My wife has this problem ...

... and so do I. There should be laws to force companies to fix "bad email address" promptly.

Microsoft looks to React Native as a way to tackle the cross-platform development puzzle

Bronek Kozicki
Trollface

So ...

... when will VSCode get rid of Electron?

Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it?

Bronek Kozicki

You do not need Ubiquiti

By some interesting engineering and good marketing they have placed themselves as "the solution" for managing multiple WiFi access points, but there are simpler and cheaper solutions, which also work perfectly well without an extra PC or "the cloud". For example, I am using TP-Link AC50 for the few APs at home, while a slightly larger AC500 could be used for decent sized network.

Astroboffins rethink black hole theory after spotting tiny example with its own star buddy

Bronek Kozicki

Re: 4 Msol limit?

Also, this object might not be a black hole.

Bronek Kozicki
Joke

So that where ...

... all these single socks went to!

Running on Intel? If you want security, disable hyper-threading, says Linux kernel maintainer

Bronek Kozicki
Linux

Re: Intel inside embedded

There are two different issues here:

1. old kernels have bugs, all kinds of them. Many of the bugs are security holes. Embedded devices are built on some old, randomly selected kernel and never updated - so they "accumulate" (in a passive manner) security holes which are never patched. The same applies to Android phones which do not receive vendor updates, BTW.

2. some of the security bugs are not in the kernel; the patches in the kernel are just workarounds for security related bugs in the CPU hardware itself, e.g. timing attacks which can read one-bit-at-a-time from some hypothetically protected part of the address space. Computers are fast and one-bit-at-a-time can leak a significant amount of data e.g. a private key. The workarounds in the kernel come with performance overhead and also hit intel much more frequently than they do hit AMD. In particular, there either are no good workarounds for some security bugs related to Intel hyperthreading, or GKH is so fed up with merging those that he does not trust the whole edifice. Meanwhile, the equivalent AMD technology appears to be safe.

Bronek Kozicki
Linux

Re: Must have a lot of minions

His main job is merging the fixes from the main branch into stable kernel releases. He needs to understand them, but is not writing them from the ground up.

FBI extends voting security push, LA court hacker goes down, and more D-Link failures

Bronek Kozicki
Trollface

Comcast ... using their lobbying might to push back against DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)

Well, for me an endorsement of a new technology does not get any better.

I'm not Boeing anywhere near that: Coder whizz heads off jumbo-sized maintenance snafu

Bronek Kozicki
Meh

Good to know

Boeing delivering consistent quality over the decades. Not the same as "consistently delivering quality".

Windows Terminal 1910 preview is quite literally a more rounded affair

Bronek Kozicki
Linux

I wonder if I will be able to set

"Default type of a new tab" : Ubuntu