* Posts by Sin2x

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UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told

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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/01/russian-and-chinese-designs-in-87percent-of-new-nuclear-reactors-iea-chief.html

China doesn’t need to take Taiwan’s fabs to escape US trade bans

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For China Taiwan is a question of dignity and national integrity -- an existential question, not an economical one. And they will move soon after the 20th CCP Congress concludes.

IceWM reaches version 3 after a mere 25 years

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Re: Impressive

Pure microkernels are academic shit too, not fit for real world usage. Hybrid kernel like NT (yep, Windows) and DragonFlyBSD are the way.

Founder of cybersecurity firm Acronis is afraid of his own vacuum cleaner

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This guy is actually Russian, Serguei Belousov, just so you know. Apparently changed his name after the Ukraine situation. Shifty character.

GNOME hits 43: Welcome To Guadalajara

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Loathe for me.

The crime against humanity that is the modern OS desktop, and how to kill it

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Re: Not the only game in town

IceWM while extremely lightweight is skinnable so you can make it look exactly like Windows, see: https://www.box-look.org/p/1648821/

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Re: System 7 - the horror, the horror.

The original Mac UI was stolen from the Xerox UI

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Re: It does suck

I'm still using the same Windows 7 install from 2009, not kidding.

We tested all the Ubuntu remixes for resource usage so you don't have to

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Lubuntu backports is two full releases newer than vanilla -- 1.0 and 1.1 after 0.17. I would say that begs a retest.

Discord details how it dodged latency with a super-disk made in the cloud

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Plain old mdadm RAID is a super-disk nowadays? We sure are degrading quick.

BT union announces 48-hour strike action in protest over pay

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They'll ramp up if they don't achieve their intended goals, don't worry. This is but a morsel of things to come later this year across all industries in the UK -- brace for the impact.

Battle of the retro Unix desktops: NsCDE versus CDE

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I prefer my fonts jagged and crispy clear, thank you very much. Leave the blurriness to the applophiles.

US warns losing access to Taiwanese chips could break the economy

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It's not a question of if, it's a question of when. And it feels this when is coming pretty soon, maybe even by the end of this year while USA has its hands full in Ukraine.

UK Home Office signs order to extradite Julian Assange to US

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This is murder. Plain and simple.

Adobe lowers 2022 forecast, blames Ukraine war, strong dollar

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It feels like these days you can attribute being late for work to Ukraine war.

DARPA says US hypersonic missile is ready for real world

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These were anti-ballistic missiles, not offensive ones.

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They are in production: https://youtu.be/chKaj_nhesc

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Hmm, Russian Zirkon can reach Mach 8 and is fully operable. Seem that USA just needed to show that they have __something__ at least.

Russia's Mir space station returned to Earth 21 years ago

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"Mir" means "peace". Sure wish it returned.

Dedicated (Local) Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service to grow almost 1000 per cent in five years

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Re: 10 to 20x cheaper

That's all nice and dandy while he's there to support that zoo he built. And when he's not -- well, you'd better hope he documented the monstrosity rigorously. From business point of view having a well-established system with availability of specialists on the market and presence of support -- like, say, Azure Stack, makes much more sense than the pay-less-now-pay-google-times-more-later DIY approach you seem to champion here.

Browser tracking protections won't stop tracking, warns DuckDuckGo

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It changed default search engine to DDG after installation without warning. Not a good practice.

Director, deputy director, CTO of Free Software Foundation quit after Stallman installation

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Re: Stupid is as stupid does

Care to share a single example of aforementioned exploitation?

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Good riddance, corporate shills.

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Re: I met...

Looking at your previous comments' stylistics, I can't help but think that you weren't born that much earlier than 20 years ago. But we are on the Internet, and nobody can tell if you are a dog, right? Right?

Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies

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Seeing that the letter in support of Stallman has more signatures than the one blaming him, I feel there is still hope for this world.

https://rms-support-letter.github.io/

Windows 10 October 2020 Update arrives: Nothing that will drop your jaw, but we've had enough of 2020's fun surprises anyway

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Re: Update blocking info

First, I'd check if FreeBSD 12 supports your NIC and if yes, wait for pfSense 2.5 which should be releasing around December. Or ask on the pfSense forum directly.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/hardware.html#support

Come on, Amazon: If you're going to copy open-source code for a new product, at least credit the creator

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"There is a mention buried in the NOTICE.txt file bundled with the CloudWatch extension that credits Headless Recorder, under its previous name "puppeteer-recorder," as required by the license. But there's an expectation among open source developers that biz as big as AWS should show more courtesy."

'Nuff said. And no, Amazon has no obligation to promote the open-source software they use. Clickbait article pure and simple. You can do better, El Reg.

GitHub users speak their brains on Microsoft's open-source efforts: ASP.NET shines, but WPF is 'a disaster'

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Re: Discourage WPF ports to Linux / Mac

Well, we can imagine its dead carcass being the food and foundation of the new iteration of technology, that's true. But who would continue supporting a dead carcass and why?

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Re: Discourage WPF ports to Linux / Mac

Your assumption is incorrect. WPF is simply a dead technology and there is no need to continue investing time and money in it. It was born dead, actually.

If you need modern cross-platform UIs across Windows, Linux, MacOS and later mobile, use Avalonia.

XCP-ng starts thinking long-term, for support, UEFI, storage and more

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Good. VMware has been nearly a monopoly for far too long.

Cross-platform app toolkit Flutter lead Tim Sneath aims Dart at an ambient computing future

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For web at least, Dart is terrible being much slower than the ubiquitious JS: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/node-dart.html

For mobile, well, let's say PWAs suck -- in general. If you want to have a product with decent performance you need to go native, and that's not React Native. Kotlin for Android and Swift for iOS.

Putin to Trump: Let's collude to stop election hacking

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Re: Whre's the part

Modern Russia has cut all of its ties with the communist regime just as modern Germany has cut al of its ties with the nazi regime. Your retort is bollocks, my friend.

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Re: Whre's the part

Oh really?

Let's take a closer look at them then:

1. Russia and Poland don't share a border

Guess what, they actually don't if you don't take Kaliningrad Oblast , which is an external enclave, into account. Google Maps is your friend here.

2. Modern Russia would like to annex Poland

That's so ridiculous that I don't even have a refute, actually. Can you support your statement with any evidence so that I could have something to refute?

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Re: Whre's the part

I guess, geography is not your forte.

Microsoft's OS joins macOS and Linux at the Flutter party, but guess which one performs best? Hint: It's not Windows

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If you take a look at V8 development (Lars did not coordinate the development of Chrome as a whole). you will see that it's pretty stagnant nowadays. The difference is that V8 does not have competition at the moment -- unlike Dart.

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Micrsoft FrontPage was easy too. Your point?

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Who the hell cares about Flutter. Dart is a dead language since Lars Bak left Google, there's just no future for it. None.

Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond

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Eric is such a dreamer. The reality is going to be exactly opposite of what he wrote, for better or worse.

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

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Don't choose between two evils at all.

https://einaregilsson.com/serverless-15-percent-slower-and-eight-times-more-expensive/

She was praised by the CEO and promoted. After her brother and mom died, she returned from compassionate leave. IBM laid her off

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Re: BTDT.

So, what's the name of the company?

Microsoft forks out $3m in back pay settlement to make Feds' hiring discrimination probe go away

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Re: I know structural racism when I see. And I'm looking at it right now.

Could it be that black people are undereducated and less achieving (for a variety of reasons)? Yes. Is it Microsoft's problem? No. Government should fix their own shit, not require commercial entities to tolerate mediocrity for political reasons.

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Re: re: Companies should continue (erm, return to?..) to hire the best person for the job

> As long as it's me and my mates.

Your presuppositions are flabbergasting, matey. I repeat: the best person for the job should take it, regardless of their inborn variables, and don't you twist my words. Your resistance to the fact that people can be unfit for a technical job tells much of your own aptitude. Or, rather, lack thereof.

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Re: No it doesn't

It does not admit fault _legally_, not in the public opinion. For every sane person out there what they did is equal to admitting guilt, otherwise they would fight to prove innocence and prevent such extortions in the future.

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Find me an example of such a proven case where a person was found to be discriminated on a basis of their characteristics other than merit, I dare you.

Correlation does not imply causation and such statistical exercices will not stand in court as well. Companies should continue (erm, return to?..) to hire the best person for the job, not the best person to fill a certain quota. If you disagree, I wish you would get into the hands of an incomptenent doctor when the time for that comes.

And those people that were not hired by Microsoft were not the best fit, I assure you. If they were competitive on the market, they a) would never work for government, b) would never sue. The little crybabies expected they would be taken unconditionally because of their minority status and they weren't. And good riddance, nobody needs incompetent litigatious whiners on the job.

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I have checked the files. Microsoft allegedly breached Executive Order 11246, which states (most relevant part):

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The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Such action shall include, but not be limited to the following: employment, upgrading, demotion, or transfer; recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection for training, including apprenticeship. The contractor agrees to post in conspicuous places, available to employees and applicants for employment, notices to be provided by the contracting officer setting forth the provisions of this nondiscrimination clause.

The contractor will, in all solicitations or advancements for employees placed by or on behalf of the contractor, state that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

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And it's simply impossible to prove that a person has been refused the position because of the aforementioned qualities and not because of their lack of merit. MS is just chickenshit to lose the government contract. Wrongly so, because you should never give in to terrorists, lest they will continue terrorizing you for all eternity.

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Stupid move on their part since it admits culpability even if there was none. Hiring discrimination claims are essentially unproveable in court.

Video encoders using Huawei chips have backdoors and bad bugs – and Chinese giant says it's not to blame

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Re: State Sponsored Industrial Sabotage

Hanlon's razor is also apt here.

Ah yes, Sony, that major player in the smartphone space, has a new flagship inbound: The Xperia 5 II

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Re: Too damn tall

I bet with a bit of practice you could fence with the thing!

You won't need .NET Standard... except when you do need it: Microsoft sets out latest in ever-changing story

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Re: Yeah good job...

.NET _is_ cross-platform and portable since .NET Core release 1.0, which was more than 4 years ago. .NET 5 is even better in that regard as it unifies ".NET Core" and "Windows .NET" in a single "just" .NET. A bit confusing but it's an undeniable improvement.

That long-awaited, super-hyped Apple launch: Watches, iPads... and one more thing. Oh, actually that's it

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A tablet without 3.5mm jack is rather worthless for the common task of movie watching.

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