* Posts by GraXXoR

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US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts

GraXXoR

Re: China is cheering... every day

While cutting space x is obviously a bad move. The US could avert money by. Oh I don’t n ow, actually generating taxes from their rapidly growing numbers of deci-triillionaires, their billionaire partners and their companies.

Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers

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That interesting. I’m daily driving Haiku on my 4770 based Thinkcentre Micro M93 (?) with 16GB RAM and an SSD replacement for the HDD and it has been fine for what I use it for. It runs EDSM star map and EDAstro web apps while I play Elite Dangerous and plays my network shared music.

It’s fine for casual use.

It’s have also installed it on

Atom 160. Atom 330(?) thin clients with built in touch monitors.

Ion graphics based AMD thin client

Dell based SIS chipset (!!!) Celeron thin client.

Intel 3770 based Thinkcentre micro

4970k Intel X97 chipset(?) mobo PC from 2012.

8th gen intel Thinkcentre micro.

Fujitsu i3 9th gen laptop.

I love the UI because it’s perfect for mini monitors such as 800x640 and 1200x1024… and low power machines.

Only bug I notice with mine that iceweasel has a distracting square around the cursor when you move it.

Haiku Beta 5 has really started to push the stability and usability as well as decent improvements in network speed over Beta 4.

I really hope Haiku dev work continues!

Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen

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Re: A colleague of mine uses Delphi/Lazarus

IIRC that was called single pass compiling and was one reason why my pascal compiled so much quicker than C back in the day.

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

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Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

And when they focus on specific regions, you people then say "But you're disregarding the rest of the data" or "You're just cherry picking the hottest places."

There's no way to have an actual scientific discussion with people who abandon science the first moment they see Trump's glistening rod.

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Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

He literally (in a non Gen-Z sense) said "Drill baby Drill!"

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Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

And yet somehow drilling for oil and fracking making a whole group of influential billionaires much wealthier as an impetus for saying climate change being fake is somehow a non issue..

but no, it's the scientists who'll apprently lose their jobs just because... or if they somehow disagree with.... who exactly.... that are the real liars.

Pretty pathetic argument...

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Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

jesus, you sound like my wife...

You lost any shred of respect with "Pandemic".. You probably use words like MSM, too.

Next you'll be saying vaccines have microchips in them.. and Adrenochrome exists... and the world is 6000 years old.

National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future

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Re: Relax already

34% ... ketchup?

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Re: Bad for the US I suppose

Wow... talk about uninformed.. Bernie has literally (and in a non Gen-Z sense) been pushing for workers rights for decades.

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

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I have had it running on my old 4770k ex gaming rig as a side monitor to my main gaming rig for viewing web pages etc. since B5 came out.

I also have a copy running on an old i3 8th gen intel CPU laptop with a SSD and it’s startlingly fast to boot up and get to the desktop. Like really, really fast.

I finally also have an 8 inch Atom based industrial touch screen AIO pc with an 8GB Compact Flash card and 1GB of RAM from a lab where it used to be an autoclave control panel which is actually finally usable. And it’s also really funny to see just how little system resources it uses in the background.

Haiku is now properly in use daily by me at least and I can’t wait for at least intel drivers for video playback or 3D

Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list

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Popped another issue in the sock.

Wifey got annoyed at me last time I popped an issue in a sock.

Also, your nasty AI thumbnails with janky hands should be on the naughty list.

AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews

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Re: You can't add arbitrary data to remove bias.

I still remember my university days when the photographer was trying to make the new website images of our lab and told us in no uncertain terms that we had to hire several people of colour (he did not use this as words exactly), two wheelchairs (“for a couple of actors”) and a “bunch of girls” from the art department to wear white coats and try not to look like a fool holding random pieces of equipment and wearing safety goggles.

Back in the early 90s our undergrad engineering department almost entirely comprised white males.

GraXXoR

Re: You can't add arbitrary data to remove bias.

I don’t usually like car analogies, but this one is 100% spot-on.

Fedora 41: A vast assortment, but there's something for everyone

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Re: Fedora here

Yeah. I’m the same. I’m pretty agnostic when it comes to distribution. But I assume it’s because I’m one of those more casual users who doesn’t know enough about Linux to really appreciate the subtleties and has to do a “google +reddit” search for most solutions anyway.

I currently have Linux on a dozen bare metal machines (from two full workstations to half a dozen thinkstation Tinys to brace of RPis in a mix of Mint, Debian, ELive and Suse Tumbleweed) but still know very little about, say, the difference between snap and flatpak.

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Re: If I ruled the world...

Was that 49” a Samsung “Oddity” G9 by any chance?

Mine’s been generally a good boy over the past two years apart from 1px checkboard grids occasionally triggering the display to dim noticeably.

But online Reddit post horror stories tell many sordid tales of light leaks, dot marching, dead backlight zones and signal compatibility problems and bad firmware updates.

The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin

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Re: Sold out

If you read the comments on any of the tech tubers review videos, that is pretty much the gist of it. Many said “waiting for X3D”.

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This! 100%.

I run a school classroom with iMacs for the students.

It runs everything I need. Vs code arduino IDE, Creative Suite etc.

Homebrew for python etc.

But Gaming? You need Windows or Console.

That’s why I have gaming machine with a 49” ultrawidescreen and a 4090 in the corner of the lab as well.

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To put the education edition Mac Mini inter pespective:

Mac mini with 16gb RAM 256gb SSD : $500

Double the RAM and SSD : $1100

You could buy TWO MACHINES for cheaper than doubling the RAM and SSD.

It is 25% more expensive to add 16GB RAM and 256GB of SSD alone than it is to buy an ENTIRE MACHINE with 16Gb RAM and a 256GB SSD.

Former SK hynix chip engineer gets 1.5 years in prison for IP theft

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Flaunting doesn’t mean what you think it means.

You mean flouting.

Top 10 billionaires make nearly $64B in post-Trump election stock surge

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I see you’re a shareholder in KY.

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Re: The only good news we'll get this week

That’s not counting the billions that were diverted to Kuntschner since 2016 to deflect attention from Trump.

Buckle up, admins – Windows Server 2025 officially hits GA

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I just realized the list time I used Windows Server was WS2005. Holy smokes: that’s two decades ago.

Mind blown how quickly I got old.

AMD teases its GPU biz 'approaching the scale' of CPU operations

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I can’t help but feel this “AI” boom is turning just a wee bit bubbly.

What is all this money actually doing? Is it generating real profits and driving efficiencies?

I guess I’m just too old to really understand why MMLs a.k.a. AI is absolutely dominating the entire marketing landscape right now.

Apple quietly admits 8GB isn't enough in 2024, M4 iMac to ship with 16GB as standard

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Re: And what about our friend Linux.

When you say “Americans” are you applying this blanket statement to all of them or just the ones in the US?

GraXXoR

Re: And what about our friend Linux.

I would have loved to have had an Archemedes for 199 quid. Was that educational price or white van price?

macOS HM Surf vuln might already be under exploit by major malware family

GraXXoR

That bug has existed since well before sequoia. I noticed it as far back as Catalina at least where certain USB drives of mine ( not all of them, strangely) would just disconnect randomly on my main Mac or transfer data at some ridiculously low speed, throw random errors or just lock the machine up.

You could argue that there’s a problem with the affected USB cases’ interface, but none of my High Sierra Macs or even my Windows PCs have any problems.

Anyway, this has nothing to do with the article so not entirely sure why you brought it up.

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

GraXXoR

After reading this thread for 20 minutes I had to scroll back to the top to remember what the initial article was about. lol.

Arm reportedly warns Qualcomm it will cancel its licenses

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Re: I can guess where this is leading

Methinks you don’t know your ARM from your elbow. J/k.

There are multiple ARM architectures *currently* in production and widely used.

Not to mention all the coprocessors and SOCs based on those chips with wildly different capabilities.

Richard Branson to take balloon ride to edge of space

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I’m glad they have a room in which to rest on their capsule.

But I suspect a toilet would be far more useful

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

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I will admit that this cynical 50 year old actually shed a tear watching the booster come back down from space and make that final lateral adjustment back into the arms of mechzilla.

Most gripping thing I’ve ever seen…

AI godfather-turned-doomer shares Nobel with neural network pioneer

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Well I guess they use silicon crystals… and electrons…. So … physics?

Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

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“The […] attorney for the firm did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”

You mean he took his time getting back to you?

Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it

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Re: their integrated graphics

I have a 2015 Macbook Air that I bought last month. It has a dual core i5 and a pokey graphics card that is somehow enough to run Stellaris until late game.

Is it NVIDIA? No, but it's fine for casual gaming and office tasks. Not sure where you're getting your dodgy drivers opinion from, it's really not true.

Three, Voda promise £10-a-month or below mobile tariffs in bid to sway CMA on merger

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Surely it's absolutely clear that mergers have NEVER had the customers' best interests at heart. They are purely shareholder driven and very very occasionally a technical need arrises and buying the tech is the quickest way.

But buying a direct competitor in a market with only a single digit number of peer players should be an absolute no-no in today's cutthroat, fuck-the-customer marketplace.

There are still libertarians out there who think the free market knows best, but it has been shown recently that it only knows what's best for shareholders which has been shown to be short-term greed-driven.

Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App

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Re: Gateway

More like Crash Cow.

Microsoft unveils Office LTSC 2024 for users that remain stubbornly offline

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I’m not entirely sure what happened to me. I used to be a 365 family account owner but quit about a year ago. Yet my office install hasn’t even made a complaint yet. My windows 365 login icon disappeared from top right but that’s the only change I have noticed.

I moved my windows machine to a local account and forewalled it. The office install hasn’t even there just says. “Your account has expired” with an OK button. But nothing. Has changed functionally speaking.

Not entirely sure what’s going on but I’m reminded of that Friends episode called “the one with the free porn cable channel”

Windows 11 continues slog up the Windows 10 mountain

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The only thing keeping me from using Linux are my VR devices. I have a Pimax 5K+ and an Oculus Rift OG.

I don’t know if Linux can support either of those.

I’ve found my stream deck is usable and I think I can get RGB on my Corsair keyboard customized.

I’d hate to have to dump VR for Linux but if windows keeps on keeping on the way it has been then I’ll have to say good bye to one of my favorite toys.

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Re: The Glaringly Obvious

While I love Linux, I find that I’m having to constantly relearn things and that a large sum of material on the internet is actually obsolete or just doesn’t apply to the particular variant of Linux and subvariant of UI I’m using. Wayland being one such thing I found myself battling with far too often.

I actually believe that the sheer variety of linuxes is working against adoption since it’s splintering the bathtub of the knowledge base into finer and finer buckets and then mere cups or even in some obscure cases, thimbles.

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Re: How can I?

These sorts of shenanigans are totally fine for average users, me included. Rufus got W11 onto my GOD Pocket 2 of all things! But of course it’s not gonna fly when it comes to corporate installs which need to be guaranteed or at least accountable to a predictable future compatibility.

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

GraXXoR

Re: cue the wailing

or have two settings open at once...

Missing scissors cause 36 flight cancellations in Japan

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Re: Meanwhile in Zürich...

That’s a good point. You made me question my timleine.

I checked my photo album and realized my last flight to Chitose was 2002. And I had my newly acquired Starwars Original Trilogy box set in my backpack.

Hence the post 2001 thoughts.

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Re: Meanwhile in Zürich...

Back in the 90s, I always used to fly to my gf's place in Hokkaido via Chitose Airport with a bag of Laserdisks of cheesy 80s films for a popcorn weekend.

I always wondered why I didn't have to check them in and they weren't ever inspected.. Those thick, heavy disks turn into a pair of 12 inch scimitars when you snap one in half and the raedge can cut clean through leather.

I know because I tried to dispose of one by snapping it to throw out with the rubbish and nearly lost a finger! Those things could do far more damage than a pair of scissors.

CockroachDB scuttles away from open source Core offering

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They’re basically trying to have their cake and eat it.

They leave their source open hoping that customers will offer improvements or fix bugs.

And then they alone will profit from their customers’ efforts presumably while couching the whole thing in suitably innocuous language: “This will create a synergistic ecosystem in which our clients can emphasise their own needs by influencing the direction and development of the platform for a mutually prosperous Future.”

Typical trickle down economics… ie. evaporation of the previously enjoyed lakes followed only by a constant drizzle of bollocks.

Gartner mages: Payback from office AI expected in around two years

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Oh they’ll get payback alright…

But likely not kind they imagined.

Akeana debuts RISC-V CPU designs on $100M budget, longs for an Arm wrestle

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Unfortunate product name if they want to do business over here in Japan.

Akeana reads as “open hole” in Japanese. 開穴

Definitely the wrong kind of open unless you’re a drilling company.

I’ll let myself out.

Japan forces Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores and payments

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Optional

Wut?

EU AI Act still in infancy, but those with 'intelligent' HR apps better watch out

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Asian woman in thumbnail has an extra ear behind her ear.

Meta to cough up $1.4B to end fight over 'unlawful' facial recognition of friends

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So Meta are saying they did nothing wrong and yet they had to pay $1.4B ? How do they square that? It makes no sense.

The whole political and business world is coated with a hundred layers of “spin” with something entirely malevolent lurking below.

TBH, I’m finding it hard to put into words the precise feeling of vague dread I have that nothing seems entirely real any more, everything is just a veneer and the illusion is about to burst.

Everything feels like it’s being held together by sparkly duck tape that is straining at the seams.

Is this what existential dread feels like?

BOFH: Well, we did tell you to keep the BitLocker keys safe

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Re: "You are confusing Belgian chocolate with American "chocolate""

Seriously, what is it about American chocolates leaving that slight tang of vomit behind?

I've always wondered that why masochistically working my way through a bag of Hershey's Drops....

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