* Posts by Ace2

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Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack

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“The bug also affects macOS and iOS when Bluetooth is enabled and a Magic Keyboard has been paired with the vulnerable phone or computer.”

Everybody at the Apple Store thought it was weird when they had to open up my various iMac boxes (over the years) to pull out the wireless keyboard and replace it with a wired one. I’ve never once regretted it.

Unfortunately those days are gone. BT sucks.

Elon Musk's xAI wants $1B cash infusion in exchange for equity shares

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I have $2 worth of toilet paper he could borrow.

HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers

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Re: If car manufacturers did this...

I have standard, non-Tesla-sold tires on mine.

'Return to Office' declared dead

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Re: The flip side of the real estate commitments

I disagree - hearing the senior leaders describe what they’re doing and the state of the company in person can be invaluable. In a small company, anyway.

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

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Adobe, Apple, Microsoft et al succeed in patching the last of the RCE holes. Better tooling blocks the introduction of any new ones. Break-ins and ransomware become a thing of the past.

Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system

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“IRL BOFH”

You mean the rest of BOFH isn’t IRL?

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

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Re: I despair for my country

Do you ever get tired of being such a twat?

Surface Duo crashes the party as Doctor Who celebrates 60th birthday

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Re: Jodie Whittaker...

This. I’m as much of a lefty environmentalist as anyone but some of those episodes hit you over the head enough to qualify as assault.

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Re: Tom Baker

General poll: I liked the revival, to a point. (Capaldi’s Doctor is one of the few characters as cranky as I am.)

If I were to go back to the classic stuff, where should I start?

X's legal eagles swoop on Media Matters over antisemitic content row

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WTF?

Translated for martinusher, Jellied Eel, Disgusted, justthefacts etc.:

https://nitter.net/KathrynTewson/status/1727002256149770483

IBM pauses advertising on X after ads show up next to antisemitic content

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Re: Surprised? Really?

Oh Disgusting, don’t you ever change

Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie

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Re: Joaquin Phoenix

Ooh, I was all-in on Nic Cage but Rob Schneider is perhaps the perfect choice…

Want a Cybertruck? You're stuck with it for a year, says Tesla

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“it is possible that the Cybertruck's range will be far less once it's towing a heavy load”

I guess it’s POSSIBLE they’ll have found a way around the laws of gravity and thermodynamics… but probably not.

Shock horror – and there goes the network neighborhood

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Re: Dated Signage

And on coffee mugs

Open source license challenges part 461: Element plots move to AGPLv3

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“…notably when dealing with rivals simply lifting code without much contribution.”

“Lifting” has definite connotations of “stealing,” whereas what the hyperscalers are doing is 100% within the existing software license.

If you don’t like what they’re doing, maybe you should have picked a different license to start with.

Get your very own ransomware empire on the cheap, while stocks last

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Would the buyer also assume responsibility for all as-yet-unprosecuted criminal conduct? Would there be some sort of quiet period? So much for the contract lawyers to discuss!

Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable

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Re: Compatibility

I get that you want that to be true, but your failure to back it up with anything is a bit of a tell.

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Re: Compatibility

Mac sales have been going south? Citation please.

Tenfold electric vehicles on 2030 roads could be a shock to the system

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Re: Did you buy or lease an electric car between 2019 and 2025?…

Oh ok, you’re very concerned about the problem, but since EVs are such a poor solution we should go back to putting gas storage tanks on every street corner until a perfect solution magically presents itself. Thanks for clearing that up.

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Re: Did you buy or lease an electric car between 2019 and 2025?…

Same old Jellied Eel spew.

“So 'renewables' are fundamentally intermittent, unreliable and very expensive.”

As opposed to that sweet sweet Saudi/Russian oil, or the Deepwater Horizon rig, or the Exxon Valdez. Or heck, we could build a pipeline from Venezuela! It’d pay for itself, probably.

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Re: Not gonna happen

“Solar power is already shifting from new installs to replacing old installs.”

BS. Cite your sources or it didn’t happen.

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Re: Did you buy or lease an electric car between 2019 and 2025?…

But that wasn’t the claim! The OP idiotically claimed that we’re out of renewables. That’s just wrong!

Your argument is nonsense too. Of course we need more storage to overcome the intermittent nature of most renewables (and more surf/tidal powered stuff). But each and every EV is a GIANT BATTERY. You can charge at home when your solar panels are running, and disconnect when they’re not.

It’s almost like you people are looking for reasons why these problems can’t be solved, instead of looking for solutions. Perhaps because you have a vested interest in petroleum?

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Re: Did you buy or lease an electric car between 2019 and 2025?…

Whichever part of Big Oil paid you to post this crap didn’t get their money’s worth.

“The environmental claims - amount of raw materials extracted and difficulty of recycling.”

Because it’s well known that Ford F-350s appear magically underneath waterfalls, and since they run on unicorn farts - no concerns at all!

“All of our current solar wind and nuclear electricity is already used - adding extra demand to the grid for charging EVs will not cause a solar panel or wind turbine to magically appear. The extra demand will be satisfied by nat-gas surely?”

WTF are you on about? New renewables come online literally every day.

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Wow. What a big FUD circle-jerk. Impressive.

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Re: Not Just Charging Issues, Transport Infrastructure Too

Mine weighs almost exactly the same as my minivan.

Nice try though.

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Re: No shit

Look out, here comes Steve Button with his usual anti-EV FUD.

Which branch of the fossil fuels industry pays you for this, Steve?

Apple drops urgent patch against obtuse TriangleDB iPhone malware

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At $WORK we use it to mean ‘incremental release.’

Former IBM Canada worker wins six-figure payout for wrongful dismissal

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Facepalm

38 years and they didn’t even say GOODBYE or THANK YOU?

Sounds like a place I want to spend my career - where can I apply?

GNOME Foundation's new executive director sparks witch hunt

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Joke

Re: Probably off-topic, but ...

I think it’s pretty rude to compare your new spouse to a chair like that

SEC boss warns it's 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause financial crash

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Re: Vaccinated investors...

Dotcom bubble? Ha! The crypto bubble burst like six months ago, and the industry has just ‘moved on.’

I am so so disappointed that my otherwise respectable $WORK has gone all-in on AI. There’s going to be a real opportunity coming along to not be stupid and make huge marketshare gains when the AI hype collapses.

Web Summit CEO's comments on Israeli conflict 'war crimes' sparks boycott

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Look out, here comes the “anti-semitism” brigade to explain to all of us how blowing up starving children isn’t a crime, if Israel does it.

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Oh, you mean like Boycott, Divest & Sanction? Which is actually ILLEGAL now where I am. I *have* to do business with Israeli firms whether I want to or not.

Free speech, my ass.

HashiCorp CEO talks license changes and the role of foundations

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Subhed

Missed a chance to go with “Dammit, McJannet!”

Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox founder's daughter was killed in festival massacre

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Re: I fear that by the time that this ends ...

Last update I saw was that the Hamas operation had to have been in active planning for much longer that the Saudi talks have been going on.

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Re: Shame

“Many people”

Ok. Whatever works for you buddy.

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Re: Shame

“You should read David Baddiel’s book “Jews Don’t Count”. Yes, what you said is anti-Semitic.”

Because… why? Because you’ve constructed a delightful strawman and are now threatening to set it alight?

Screw off, and come back when you can have a discussion without inventing the contents of posts so you can disagree with them.

Or maybe you just have a headache. Maybe taken some ibuprofen and take a nap.

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Re: The thing people forget is...

Someone like you should come in with guns and surgical equipment and sterilize the unwashed masses. That’ll work great!

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Re: Shame

I didn’t say it was their fault. It was horrible that they were killed. I said it was disgusting that there was a festival there, and that they were attending it. It’s like rich college kids holding an ecstasy rave in a homeless encampment.

And fuck your “anti-semitic” donkey shit.

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It’s like when my children are hitting each other, and then want me to come and stop the other one. “But he’s hitting me!” “She’s hitting me! Make her stop!” No, you twits, YOU BOTH HAVE TO STOP.

What Hamas did is horrible. What Likud and the execrable “settlers” are doing in response is also horrible.

If I were in charge, Israel would never get another dime of aid from the US until they GTFO of all occupied territories.

ETA: I think it’s disgusting that these rich, privileged Israelis were having a freaking music festival just over the border from where two million Palestinians are living in near-stone-age conditions in the world’s largest open-air prison camp.

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Re: The thing people forget is...

This this.

We’ve all encountered this in video games - the bad guys that split in two when you hit them. That’s what shooting terrorists does. Great, you killed one. But you made a lifelong blood enemy of eight of his cousins.

The “War on Terror” (fuck you, Dubya!) was an abject failure. If only people would learn.

How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work

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Facepalm

I’m sure the people spreading fake agitprop are going to be conscientious about applying accurate metadata…

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

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Re: More personal.

Sounds awesome… but also illustrates how broken modern development is. How often do you see things described as “not under active development”? Oh, then we should fork it and rewrite it in Rust and add an Electron front end and an email client!

Or maybe it hasn’t been updated in six years because it’s well-written and complete.

Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info

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Re: Texas renamed to Gilead

Hey hey, let’s be kind. Governor Abbott is a real stand-up guy, and AG Paxton is a straight shooter.

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Re: Pure performative politics

Having lived in both kinds of states - I think judicial elections are far worse.

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Re: "acquitted by his party in a Texas Senate trial"

IANAL but my understanding is that anything that met the criminal definition of bribery could absolutely by pursued by state or federal authorities. If he were convicted he could be subject to jail time or fines. Some states might have laws that would require elected officials to resign if convicted of certain offenses.

But impeachment and removal is a different thing. It’s saying that his actions (criminal or not) merit his removal from office before the end of his term.

Keep in mind the US Supreme Court has dramatically narrowed the scope of what constitutes political bribery. Menendez is likely to walk. The Bridgegate convictions got overturned, and William Jefferson ($90K cash in the freezer!?) wasn’t even charged.

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Thanks!

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I read this somewhere and it was eye-opening for me.

It’s not that conservatives are just raging hypocrites about everything. It’s that from their perspective, there is an in group (‘us’) and an out group (‘them’). The purpose of authority / the law / the Bill of Rights etc is to protect ‘us’ and our rights, but to bind ‘them’ from doing things we dislike. ‘We’ are not bound (Hookers and blow! Hooray!) and ‘they’ are not protected (Black guy? Let’s kill him!)

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Re: "acquitted by his party in a Texas Senate trial"

Impeachment trials are always that way. Judges don’t have the power to remove elected officials.

If the US president gets impeached by the House, the trial is in the Senate, with the senators as the jury.

Chip firm accused of IP theft bites back, claims Apple's contracts are rotten

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I’ll be interested to see their excuse for taking “gigabytes of design files.”

Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024

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Re: POP3. IMAP ?

This thread is a farcical aquatic ceremony.

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