Posts by ICL1900-G3

Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement

Serves the bastards right

That is all.

AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup

Re: Janitoring

I'm astounded at the down votes... that's the way it was... and very enjoyable too, thanks very much.

Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus

Re: Letter from MS to former MS Senior Technical Leaders

Well, that puts the rest of us straight, thank you, and so much detail as well.

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

Re: Just install Linux

Are you by any chance amanfrommars' mum? Just curious.

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban

Re: Maybe the parent could, I dunno, PARENT that kid?

Don't be silly. Bringing up kids is the government's/school's/anyone else's job.

We know what day it is but these Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke

Love

I love Raspberry pis, I've had at least one since they first arrived, but difficult to justify ar those sort of prices. They were a cheap, low power solution. And now they aren't.

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

Holly

Hey... Holly had an IQ of 6000, 'or the same as 6000 PE teachers '.

Re: AI

Absolutely! As in many dark areas if life... remember kids, just say no.

CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge

Re: Problem Solving, the CERN way!

Oops... missed it! I do take issue with 'specialty', though.

Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor

Re: quietly slipped to join Captain Farage

Brilliant!

Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say

'Popular' doesn't necessarily mean 'good'.

IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab

How does he manage?

Poor sod. Tough at the top.

Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley

I think that's the Mar a Lago look?

Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination

Fiber

Using 'fiber' whilst referencing a UK company is inexcusable.

Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample

Re: So...

Never a truer word... everything is star dust!

BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops

Re: "the BBC faces continued financial pressure"

Think... common good. I don't have kids - thank god - but realise education is a really good idea for the nation as a whole.

There's a load of crap on the Beeb, but lots of great things as well. I truly would not wish broadcasting in the UK to resemble in any way that in the US.

Re: And at that time they also gave out contracts for £50M to various market research groups

I tried your dirtywhores.com link...most disappointing!

Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds

Amen!

Aircraft gps and autopilots often have controls on touchscreens. You try hitting one of those when it's turbulent!

Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying

Fortran

Have to confess, I really like Fortran. A million years ago, I wrote a TP monitor in it for a DG Nova. Amazingly, it worked really well. (I wanted to write it in assembler but it would have cost more than the client wanted to pay. Turned out they were right.)

Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you

Vim

Works for me, always has, always will.

Cybercrime isn't just a cover for Iran's government goons - it's a key part of their operations

Re: Taste in goons

Oh, happy memories !

Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns

Idiocracy

From the viewpoint of this geriatric, idiocracy was reached a while back. Sadly, it's now going to grow exponentially.

Scammers try to SIM-swap Dubai citizens hours after Iranian missile strikes

Arschlöcher

Jeez, there are some loathsome twats in this world... including, of course, the current occupant of the White House.

Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook

Re: Another reason not to use Edge.

Sadly, though WE know MS spies all the time, your average non-techy punter probably doesn't. Until this becomes front page news in the Mail/Mirror/Express, MS can realistically do what the hell they like.

Linus Torvalds and friends tell The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session

Minix

I used Minix in the early nineties on my Atari Mega ST. It was remarkably capable and there was a surprising amount of software for it. I had Tanenbaum's book which guided you through how it all worked. I found it fascinating and am grateful to all concerned.

Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC email kerfuffle

Do you feel better now?

Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch

Re: Why do you need a brand new laptop ?

And it's quite pretty. I tried it out of interest on a spare machine. If you enable the Linux subsystem, it's not bad at all. Shame it's Google, not acceptable to me, but fine for anyone who really doesn't care.

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

Re: AI;DR

Agreed. Writers would do better to learn how to spell and how grammar works. Even in 'quality' journals, both spelling and grammar often fall short.

Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer

Laplink

Wow! I'd completely forgotten about it. In its day, it was very useful.

Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise

Re: Hell No... spelling test

As any fule kno...

RIP Nigel Molesworth

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

Re: Given the current American Zeitgeist

Lucy van Pelt is way better than Pam Bondi!

Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60

Weird?

Possibly a shortening of 'mathematics'?

Crossrail? More like Borkrail...

Re: What's wrong with 'The Circle Line'?

The line may be circular, the routes taken certainly aren't any more..if that was a genuine question.

Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark

-Parkah!

-Uh, yus m'lady?

Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice'

Re: Pity the poor journalists who have to listen to this demented ranting

Think of the poor delusional creatures that downvoted your post: presumably, they believe him.

ATM takes a kicking yet keeps on ticking

It's my age

Whenever I see ATM, I still think Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Tragic, really.

Rackspace tests customer loyalty with brutal email price hike

Re: Proton ?

I've recently moved to Proton. Perfectly happy so far.

Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight

Blimey!

As anyone who has flown, ir more likely, tried to fly a helicopter, will tell you, that is quite some achievement.

Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors

Re: Preserve trust?

Sounds like Mrs ICL and the blood pressure monitor...that can't be right, let's try it again.

Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott

Re: UK government dodgy contracts

Indeed, draining the swamp would be nice, preferably not following Trump's example.

Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware

Stylish

Ace chutzpah.

Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow

Re: AI (Claude) Works for Me...

Double plus up-tick re gagging over vibe coding.

Re: Icons - enjoy the choice

My pa was in India with the RAF in the interwar years. He swore the only genuine way to make chai was to simmer it with condensed milk. Bit sweet for my taste.

I'll teach you how to spell if you teach me how to program! My coding days ended with IBM bal!

Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data

Re: Most accurate picture of Boris so far

Don't forget... there is no duch thing as society.

Ding dong, the witch is dead.. sadly, not much seems to have improved.

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

Re: Why would China upset the apple cart?

Quiite so. The US has made it patently clear since Trump II that it is NOT our ally - nor indeed anyone else's.

Microsoft teases targeted Copilot removal for admins

Who the fuck...

....do these guys think they are? They might not like to hear it, but they work for us, not the other way around.

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

Re: Please allow me...

Don't be frightened. This is El Reg. Cunt is the word!

Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off

Re: It really is time to move to some place like Proton

At the risk of being 'me too', me too.