Posts by Ace2

Notepad sheds Copilot from toolbar as Microsoft gives subtlety a try

“For entertainment purposes only”… just like Windows

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job

People just liked it better that way.

'Uncle Larry’s biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree

I’ve just started to receive pull requests generated by BGs. It’s absolutely astounding how good the tools have become.

Also, the PRs were trash, 100% wrong. I’m not worried at all about being replaced.

It is going to get worse before it gets better, though.

ServiceNow allegedly says salesman 'overachieved' and is not entitled to comp

Re: The Oracle gambit

THIS

Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

Re: Gamers say pull the other one

Just because someone would buy it doesn’t mean there’s a market. Somebody out there wants to pay $1500 extra so that the reflections in the blood puddles are hyper-realistic. Most people don’t care though.

Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for

Re: Quornell

Can I… steal this?

Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns

Re: Ah

Yeah, I mentioned that thing about how Hindi and Urdu are actually the same language to an Indian acquaintance. Won’t make THAT mistake again.

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Re: America's reputational loss will be long lasting

The duckfucking Trumpers have accomplished something at least - they got my trans kid banned from swim team. This is very, very personal for me. You can please take that both-sides-ism, engrave it on a rock, and then [edited out because you’re not worth it]. Thanks!

So much winning!

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

Re: Don't worry, Kent – these kindly big gentlemen in white coats

A wizard’s staff has a knob on the end…

(Why do you limey bastards get all the good slang terms?)

KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on

“…the init wars refuse to die…”

They’d just get relaunched anyway.

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

Re: "I did a spot of Artexing"

Removing that stuff is big business around here.

Those are great for when you want 3 people to stand and look at a grid-out or something on a large monitor. I do seem them being used fairly frequently.

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

Re: Didn't Bill Gates profess to being this?

I would “Report abuse” but in this case it’s abuse of a company that richly deserves it

Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin

Nah, man. Those Republicans have shown us who they are, and I believe them.

Yeah, and FUCKING WIND TURBINES are too dangerous to build offshore, but we’re gonna fasttrack experimental reactors.

I hate Republicans.

DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire'

Re: Use case?

Milkmen had other possible use-cases as well

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

It warms my heart to know that there is no afterlife, and even if there was, Twitler wouldn’t be able to take it with him.

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

Re: It's All Down To The Romans or What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

In letters twelve feet high… all across the front of the palace…

Re: It's All Down To The Romans or What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

You quoted from a passage they’re critiquing, not from their analysis of it.

Re: It's All Down To The Romans or What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

That chariot thing is repeated everywhere but rated as mostly nonsense…

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/

Let them eat sourdough: ShinyHunters claims Panera Bread as stolen credentials victim

Re: Don't sign up

Uh, sure, but it’s going to be difficult to buy a used car with only burner accounts.

NASA begins formal anomaly review after MAVEN probe lost in space

Re: Let us be realistic here...

The one last bit of science it can provide is an RCA of its failure.

Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs

And screen resolution. Screen resolution, goddammit!

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue

Re: BS

I just finished Monstrous Regiment the other night. “Everywhere she worked burned down…”

I will always, always be indebted to the commentards here who wouldn’t shut up about Sir Terry and finally drove me to read his books myself.

Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure

Re: So basically....

“As though their current operation doesn't have people who do just that.”

Those people can be trained or replaced. (SWMBO recently got a huge boost when the coworker who was causing all the paperwork problems left for greener pastures.)

What are you supposed to do with an AI, shake the 8-ball again and repeat until the answer’s correct?

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

"It encapsulates a paucity of imagination and self-awareness that goes beyond the risible and the banal into the truly horrific."

Truly a pearl of wit that applies in so many situations.

Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment

Lemme guess… if the BG prices things too high, tough. But if the BG prices things too low, the vendor gets to cancel the sale.

Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it

Re: "all this is old news"

My Insignia FireTV is larded down with all sorts of Amazon crap, but it has always worked perfectly without an internet connection - and the crap seems to hide itself when it’s not connected.

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

Re: IMAP4 Was Originally Published in Dec 1994.

Obsolete? No way. I don’t want to go view my email as stored on the server; I want to download it to MY system where I can keep control of it.

The Y2K bug delayed my honeymoon … by 17 years!

Did you read any of the comments above yours? Or maybe you’re drunk or something. One can hope.

An early end to the holidays: 'Heartbleed of MongoDB' is now under active exploit

It was just a small random number

Same question I had with the original Heartbleed… so you send these malformed requests and trick the server into sending you 187B of uninitialized buffer. Repeat a million times, and you get megabytes of data, cut into 3 inch lengths. How is it possible to reconstruct that into meaningful data?

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

Yeah, no, “long distance running” is not where Americans encounter pasties.

Mostly they’re a sign you cheaped out when picking which club to visit.

Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit

Insufficient authorization checks in a Secure Mobile Access appliance. Really? Couldn’t afford developers who know what they’re doing, I guess?

Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists

Normal, healthy humans struggle to withstand the trauma of 2-3 years working at Amazon. I shudder to imagine the psyche of someone who’s still there after 27 years.

React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines

Crypto is truly the bad idea that keeps on giving.

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

Re: Better mockup needed...

Woke-pronouned?

What the fuck is the matter with you?

Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report

Re: Good grief!

Let us know when you identity a workable alternative

NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data

Re: Employment

“Weaponised?” Is there literally anything you don’t think he should have been able to do?

The rules are different (or at least should be) at the C-suite level. He knew that what he was doing was illegal/unethical.

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all

Fuck him and all of his money.

Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs

Re: What downsides to Rockstar?

Of course. I’ve enjoyed playing it. Just not the most… not sure what to call it… game.

Re: What downsides to Rockstar?

The company that lets you run over the hooker afterwards to get your money back? Not that much of a reputation to begin with.

Re: Labour

According to ‘Highly Irregular’ by Arika Okrent, ‘labor’/‘labour’ were both accepted spellings on both sides of the pond until the Americans standardized (ha!) on ‘labor’ which prompted the Brits to standardize on ‘labour’ to be petulant.

Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware

Re: Non-Profit

Because it doesn’t make any money. All of the profits are earned by the teams themselves. The league is just a pass-through entity.

(My understanding anyway - happy to be corrected)

AI startup Augment scraps 'unsustainable' pricing, users say new model is 10x worse

Is there a snake in here?

Why do I hear hissing?

Has something sprung a leak?

Senate says Nvidia chips are for America first as China tightens import controls

I see the subhed writer has already been to the pub and back.

SoftBank snaps up ABB's robotics biz for $5.4B to fuel 'physical AI' dreams

Industrial automation for AI… so instead of the robot doing a programmed series of movements, it just makes it up as it goes along? Good luck with the QC on that one.

Bcachefs goes DKMS after Torvalds' kernel banishment

Yay more kcompat

Re: "would remove support for the write_cache_pages API"

Great, so they just need to add yet another pointless kcompat entry to replace the missing helper function.

The kernel devs do this every damn release. Sometimes a single function changes 3 or 4 releases in a row!