Posts by G40

UK Online Safety Bill to become law – and encryption busting clause is still there

Re: Why?

They are all incredibly incompetent. Get your thinking hat on and plan to join them on the hustings. Crowdfunding as required. Good luck.

World's most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second

At what frame rate can we expect to see these magical processes transpire?

Confused by Undulators? Hard and soft? Eh?

UK admits 'spy clause' can't be used for scanning encrypted chat – it's not 'feasible'

Re: Dead

They’ve only just realised the bill refers to their WhatsApp…

The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust

Can we please stop fetishising rust whilst conflating C++ with C?

Rust: an unwanted emission with poor tooling from a source with a dreadful record in good language design. Appalling choices from a syntactic perspective and an unknowable runtime. Should have done much better.

And C != C++. Writing code in the latter language is more simply saving your code with a.cpp extension. Indeed, this has been the case since the previous millennium.

Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail

Yes, but

Can it a) import existing content directly from Outlook and b) does it use a sane structure for storing email itself? i.e. have they stuck with the wretched implementation which plagued Tbird back in the 90s?

Modular finds its Mojo, a Python superset with C-level speed

Re: Static typing in Python

Or, indeed, all 3.

Chinese defence boffins ponder microwaving Starlink satellites to stop surveillance

Re: Working

Eh? Some sources for these claims would be useful. A concrete barge costs beans. I’m pretty confident to have very recently read that spacex no longer even clean the ‘soot’ off their machinery before relaunch. Can I source the last? No. Too late to do the math on the reduced payload proposition but intuition suggests several rather short burns to land is trivial in comparison to launch.

Re: How many is critical mass

Thanks. Pint for that link.

Who writes Linux and open source software?

Re: Never Forgive, Never Forget

Did you read the article? Understand the core arguments? Even notice them?

Eurocops shut down Exclu encrypted messaging app, arrest dozens

Re: Network Service == Single Point Of Failure!

Is that a real quote. Well spotted!

helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD

Re: In macOS Ventura, Apple has already dropped support for all Mac models from before 2017

Thanks for the link.

Unix is dead. Long live Unix!

Re: From the archives:

Brightened up my browsing this afternoon. Cheers.

Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name

U.S. Military Helicopters …

Just asking. Absolutely no axes to grind.

Pine64 takes another shot at an open tablet after chip shortages killed first PineTab

Re: State of the Pine64 organization; why things are as they are.

Slightly OT but Pine64 is a fine example of how competing teams can fail to deliver. Thinking especially of the PinePhone - virtually unusable despite apparently having multiple distros available. And, going forward, there seems to be no future for anything powered by an A64. All but obsolete. A look at the specification gap is instructive as well. 2 and 5 MP cameras in 2022? And these barely capable of capturing images with any colour fidelity. Very sad but just not enough guidance and support from the hardware team. Not sure how they stay afloat. And I write as an owner of the original A64 pine sbc, so familiar with the history.

A match made in heaven: systemd comes to Windows Subsystem for Linux

Re: Better idea.

Err, should that not be Research UNIX V7?

Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights

Re: I wonder if Lightbend as a company depends on FOSS

Seem to be perfectly valid questions, with no accusation made. Don’t get the downvote or your comment

Sony camera feature hopes to make digital images immune to secret manipulation

You know, got shot into space, never seen again.

US Army drone crashes hours ahead of breaking flight duration record

Worth a link …

Amazing story: https://hackaday.com/2021/10/25/the-longest-ever-flight-was-over-64-days-in-a-cessna-172/

Weighing the less mainstream Ubuntu remixes: Including China's Kylin

Thank you, Mr Proven

For a very interesting series. Long may it continue.

One wonders how the Linux desktop would look with more cooperating resources…

Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware

Desktop virtualisation winner

Has to be VirtualBox no?

Logitech Pop: Stylish, portable, but far from the best typing experience

Missed key?

Where’s the poop emoji?n

Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for inventing PowerShell

Re: powershell command missing

Excellent example thank you. The brevity and elegance of Bash shines. And what are those bizarre PS constructs to the right of the pipe?

Infosys quits Russia, ending UK political and tax scandal … maybe

Pints …

For that impassioned comment.

Cooler heads needed in heated E2EE debate, says think tank

Re: festering?

On the bush definitely worse than in it …

SerenityOS: Remarkable project with its own JS-capable web browser

Re: Where is the low end for Linux?

See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/rtos/. Used to be threadx IIRC.

ReactOS shows off SMP support in open-source take on Windows

An interesting view, which begs the question: how much? With the inevitable supplemental of why? Are you running special kit/packages or is this just a retro-whim?

Wozniak startup to share orbital space junk data

Thanks and, please,

have a pint.

Intel counters AMD’s big-cache PC chip with 5.5GHz 16-core rival

Still reeling …

From the notion of 100MB of cache …

Hackers remotely start, unlock Honda Civics with $300 tech

Re: We had those back in 80s

Having lost 4 such vehicles to theft in the early 90s, it came as quite a shock to discover keys were not required for entry. You’d pull hard on the door handle to remove it, then flip the little plastic paddle that moved the lock. Bingo. Thanks Wolfsburg…

Deere & Co won't give out software and data needed for repairs, watchdog told

Seriously…

Is anyone surprised by this?

Mobile-based ID wallets for government are coming

Re: Single Point of Failure

Not to forget signal-free locations. Can certainly ruin a transaction/validation

Akamai's Linode buy: Good for enterprise, risky for others

Re: Migration started

Sure, but to which provider/platform?

Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is 'online and working as planned'

Re: Hmm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55163730

AWS adds another Arm CPU to its cloud: Apple's M1

Typo?

“The rumor mill suggests the Mac Mini will receive the Pro and Max sometime in 2022.”

Presume the missing word is processor(s)?

Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say

The Mozilla diaspora have form in this (anti-social) respect methinks.

More jovially, they suck at designing and implementing sensible programming languages. Perhaps it’s the coffee.

Ubuntu desktop team teases 'proof of concept' systemd on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Re: "2 users though have frequently requested systemd support"

@AC, sock puppet has coffee on iPad. Plz have a beverage =>

Seagate demos hard disk drive with an NVMe interface. Yup, one with spinning platters

On my elderly maximus vii the m.2 card is secured with blutack.

Labour Party supplier ransomware attack: Who holds ex-members' data and on what legal basis?

Re: Another good reason

Thanks for the reminder

Shrootless: Microsoft found a way to evade Apple's SIP macOS filesystem protection

Sympathies. At times that does seem a sane route.

Cleanup on aisle C: Tesco app back online after attack led to shopping app outages

Re: Very poor customer relations

Very fair summary. Am failing to see any reason for the excess of downvotes.

Microsoft under fire again from open-source .NET devs: Hot Reload feature pulled for sake of Visual Studio sales

At best maladroit PR, at worst, who knows.

Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told

Re: Appropriate

Surely edlin takes the biscuit …

Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims

Re: It is still multifunction

Massive chuckle. Thanks.

Air gaps have been 'shattered’, says new Indian policy on power sector security

Re: what can go wrong?

+1 for ‘chod’, new to me.

Telegraph newspaper bares 10TB of subscriber data and server logs to world+dog

Thank God I use a burner address. Cretins, almost as cretinous as their content.

Internet Archive's 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist

Re: Hmmm... decisions decisions

> vote out a government

And there are a lot of people working very hard to impede your abilities in that domain as well …

Got enterprise workstations and hope to run Windows 11? Survey says: You lose. Over half the gear's not fit for it

Words fail me. What is driving this madness?

One-size-fits-all chargers? What a great idea! Of course Apple would hate it

Re: 50 different chargers

You must have forgotten/missed the bit where every cell phone maker used a different sized/shaped plug to connect wall wart to device. 2002 dates it

SpaceX Starship struts its stack to show it has the right stuff

Used to launch cold rockets away back in the 70’s. Freon powered.

Make-me-admin holes found in Windows, Linux kernel

Re: Was there ever a time when it did make sense ?

It would have if there had been a clear split between a system registry (hardware configuration, Windows status etc.) and one or more user registries (all the usual shite). Mixing the lot was idiotic from the get-go.