Posts by IamAProton

Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra

Thumb down by a Microsoft Win 11 dev team member?

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 has 10 years of support, so it's up to 2029

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-enterprise-ltsc-2019

New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

Re: cost cutting

In aviation the gravity of cost cutting is generally greater

Re: 777

Many articles say Boeing developed the MCAS software in house in his Seattle facilities, it's unknown if the software was actually written by employees of Boeing, Rockwell Collins or the lowest bidder from India, only some unspecified software was actually outsourced.

I've worked "with" and "for" and indian "body-shop" and once I've asked one of their 'consultants' why they kept using spanish since they were always talking about "Señor developers" (I know this joke is been around, but I came up with the same by myself back then) [* because clearly they were hiring anything and everything as long as was barely able to write some code and selling them as seniors, nothing wrong with India, but that's often how it is when you source developers there]

Re: 777

IIRC the software was outsourced to India.

They migh have been very skilled developers but if before they always worked on "smart" vacuum cleaners they might not have the right mindset for critical software for aircrafts.

I've read of similar issues with the 787 assembly, moved to a different location where there was no 'aircraft culture'

Re: Why ...

"*Enhanced", I fixed the typo during the 10 min grace window , you shouldn't have been able to see that, or am I wrong?

Re: Why ...

would be nice to have a 737-7 "Augmented Safety Standard" OR 737-8 "Passenger Enhanced Experience" for extra comfort

Re: Dying in a fireball midway might be good. Less misery.

btw, longer-legged confused me since i thought they used longer landing gear since the 737 is a shorty (short landing gear is what snowballed into the infamous MAX 8 debacle)

"New"

perhaps they can squeeze in a new version of the MCAS so pilots do not need to certify for this type *wink* *wink*

Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours

Re: The A350-1000ULR carries hardware that simulates the presence of passengers

With 115t empty weight / 283MTOW I doubt the position of few passengers in flight would make a difference

Re: Oh yeah

Airline and airfcraft configuration do make a big different.

TK 787 and 777 have 3-3-3 seats in economy, so you have more space than CX, for example. Their 350 has 3-4-3 and the extra-legroom economy (first rows) are actually less-assroom. I'm possibly under the average regarding butt-size and it's extremely annoying to feel squeezed.

But CX server alcohol (unless they recently changed) and TK does not, so there are many variables to consider at least for me. (sort by price ascending, check for crazy connections, then consider airline/airports/ plane layout)

Re: Noise cancelling headphones

"My perfect long haul flight would be to be sedated, boxed, and loaded as cargo"

I'd love to have that option too

If you really need to save those extra 3 hours

It might be worth the money/effort.

For me.. no way. I'd rather pay extra for reasonable stopovers, 10 hour in a 3-3-3 economy configuration is already on the miserable side, 22 (perhaps in a 3-4-3) nope?

"The A350-1000ULR carries hardware that simulates the presence of passengers"...like sandbags in the cargo?

China fights back in AI spat with claim US AI companies distil Chinese models

Re: SOP

well, the "blame back" standard-commie-official-response (TM) predates Trump, AI and even The Simpsons. And its truly the definition of 'lame'.

SOP

A calssic in the commie's handbook: I am distilling your AI models!? YOU ARE DISTILLING MY AI MODELS!!

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

Jesus Christ!

I can understand the "get user id details", but returning the hash in the response, that's dumb!

US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns

Re: an airspeed of less than 250 knots

I guess the version equipped with the m134 can do the job at the cost of spraying a bit more bullets

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

Happened twice in C++, just printing something before fixed a "bug" and a couple of times in Vb.net: software was inherited, pretty big classes everywhere, so since the bug was there but no way to understand what the problem was I just took a couple of chunky functions and moved them at the beginning of the file. Bug gone.

Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem

Re: "when many phones still had removable batteries"

A 2G nokia 1208 is what i use. Fits in pocket and battery last long time. For the limited situations when I want to have internet access I bring the work smartphone

EU lets wearables wriggle out of user-replaceable battery rules

Re: To be fair...

I'm ok with refusing to run on an unpatched phone.

What i don't like is when they refuse to run not because it's rooted or jailbroken (the latter doesn't apply to android anyways) but becasue it doesn't have GSF ( but they call it rooted even if it's not)

Re: To be fair...

No feature update it's fine (might even be a good thing) but I'd really like 15 years of OS updates also for smartphones. Now with the 'must use the app' nonsense users might be forced to change phone because 'apps' refuse to work.

It should also be forbidden to prevent apps from working for arbitrary reasons (eg: rooted phone) and not depending on proprietary framework (Google GSF) if said apps are the only way to use a certain service.

For example: of you want yo use TKpay ( TurkishAirlines 'wallet') you must use the app which will not work if you have a custom OS like LikeageOS because "yout phone is rooted and jailbroken!!111!1!"

GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

Re: "You wouldn’t steal a car…"

It's just a matter of how likely it is to get caught AND face consequances.

Europe's new import rules are coming for your bargains

Re: The EU giveth then taketh away

"The same products can still be bought from European resellers, yes there is a markup, but this also makes it a little easier to enforce standards and product liability"

I'd happily pay a reasonable premium if the product sold in europe have to pass a minimum quality test, but even for expensive products made here ( think about cars and house appliances) it's a race to the bottom, so with no guarantees on quality i'll take a gamble on something cheap or reasonably cheap.

I'm not going to buy Timberland shoes because I know they are not worth the money, I'd rather buy Tomberlond or LumberLand but not for Timberland price.

There is no simple solution, perhaps they should find a way to improve the quality of what is sold in europe, so if I buy here I know it's not crap and if it is I'll get my money back, then I'd be more willing to have the bureaucrats get their cut.

3 euro per package would have been "acceptable"

but 3€ per "line" is just robbery.

Besides that Aliexpress already found ways around this problem 3 euro on an item that costs 10 cents is pure nonsense.

I'm not a big aliexpress shopper, too much junk and not so cheap at all, but sometimes the same poor quality item in europe or on scamazon costs 10x the already high aliexpress price.

For sure I'm not going to buy cheap junk at amazon prices, but i can restrain myself.

Just a quick example: few hours ago I ordered on aliexpress ( from warehouse in Paland) a car scanner (not pro, not basic obdreader)

it has a shenzhen special display leftover that nobody wants (800x480) and most likely the whole thing is made from obsolete phone parts, good enough for me if it does the job but it's worth perhaps 30€.

Amazon price: 200€

manufacturer price: 149€ (can go lower on more shady looking sites, allegedly in europe)

Aliexpres price: 126€

.NET's long-term support is not long-term enough, dev complains

not sure what they were thinking

when they decided to introduce this "Long" term support policy, but it was rather obvious it was crap because they labeled it 'Modern'

Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365

Re: As usual, "is committted" = "dang, they got us"

and then, after a year or so, the usual "there are so little customers using the non-AI option so we are going to remove it to be able to offer more competitive prices"

Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit

Re: Gets a bad rap

And because of using access as a front end tool (or just to run queries on production dbs because the management studio was 'too hard') I've been forced to use float data type instead of decimal in a SQL server db because apparently Access couldn't handle them correctly.

How do you cut a piece of metal 1.4999999999999999998 meters long?

Re: A stool in the toolbox

bulk load/ bcp work just fine.

From the management studio there are some handy functions like "Import flat file" (occasionally works) and "Importa data" which is more flexible but basically never works ( it was working at the time of SQL server 2000).

It's not for production workloads, but handy for one-off imports which are often needed on new projects.

A stool in the toolbox

At first it seems good, but i gre into hating it with passion.

Now I have to use it because if you want to import data into sql server, expecially from Excel (SIGH) the only way is to import into access first and send it to sql through an odbc connection.

And then clean up the shit, but at least serial numbers are not written like like 1.56*e^7.

Microsoft tells Windows users to get ready for 26H2 – unless they're on 26H1

Re: Queries like 'utlook' can still find Outlook.

well, as long as more relevant matches - if any- are listed first, I'd say the result is correct. I often type just the key part of a word to find stuff

Met Police, Apple join forces to choke London's stolen phone trade

Re: I'm not a big fan of 'treat the symptoms'

I was thinking mainly about the screen. Apple has (still?) the "serial" pairing for screens to prevent 3rd party spares, they do not seem to be afraid of the added complexity so I'm confident the main components can be reliably deactivated in a way or another if there is a will to do so.

I'm not a big fan of 'treat the symptoms'

I do not like the additional (well, at this point not really additional) spying to detect if the phone is in an "unfamiliar location" but i do agree on making it unusable if confirmed stolen; ideally whould be junk also for spare parts (eg. blowing special fuses in the main components)

BUT

the government should focus more on reducing the number of thieves that can freely go around snatching phones, no 'complex standards' there.

Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting'

The problem is when you blame the human for the mistakes of the bot.

At the moment the "AI" is worth using if you can pass on the output as is or when is 'good enough' or if you just need a quick draft to work on anyways; if you want something 'complete' you need to do a lot of botsitting

Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

Re: When they say "nudes"

I was thinking of the latter

Re: When they say "nudes"

this made me think... how long before somebody figures out that adding fake moustaches will be enough to fool the child image detection?

Logitech unveils a cushioned mouse for all-day use

I was about to write something similar. That pad will wear out and look like crap or degrade and get sticky if you don't use it for a while.

Logitech mice were good, now they don't last much anymore (switches fails way too early)

6G: The next gen of wireless tech nobody's ready to pay for

I don't understand what all the fuss is about. My Nokia has 5Gs since years but I've only used 2 or 3 Gs max at the same time

Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report

Re: obviously stuff has changed since I retired in 2020

At the beginning it's "go fast and break things", then they usually learn that "boredom is better than pain" so if a broken application is a 'big deal' then some staging/testing process will be put in place.

Or maybe the 'production applicaiton' wasn't actually really important and 30 min downtime is irrelevant; no idea, didn't read the reddit post.

I like to go home on time, no phone calls in my free time and no customer / manager complaining so I try to deploy stuff that make things less-shit.

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

NO limit on CC?

I's cool to have a 100K limit on the credit card, but wouldn't a 5-10K limit at least "limit" the damage? Or the way google suck the money is able to bypass the montly spending limit of the credit card?

Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less

Let's wait and see

if they realize that AI Excels at jobs like management.

Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets

IIRC a human can max out at about 400W (continuos production, pro cyclist) but indeed gyms could harvest what they can get and funnel it into a battery. Might become common in future if the battery is already there because of solar panels. At home is not really worth it.

Re: Poor hamster

So a bigger wheel should help power production.

Not sure what kind of bushings are user for hamster wheels, but it might be worth having a look of those to reduce friction losses

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

Re: Internet is not cool

I'm glad you got the gist of my post :)

Re: Internet is not cool

It was intentional to pick something 'old school', but actually not so much since pretty much all the professional gardening relies on gasoline engines. F1 cars and MotoGP bikes need sparkplugs too.

If you live in the city and travel mostly in 'modern' places (and not too far from cities) you can get by with EVs and battery mowers, otherwise you still need gasoline (or diesel) engines.

Internet is not cool

It's a tool. Perhaps what school/government can do it to help promote "real life" activities. Wasting your life to get a "like" from some muppets that spend most on their day on a smartphone is not good; this should be the message for kids/teenagers.

Maybe just bring back some of the "manual activities" classes form the old times. STEM is good, computer skills are a necessity nowadays, but i doubt a kid will become a good engine designer if it never changed a sparkplug in its life.

Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date

Re: Great!

I do have a pocket-computer (aka smartphone) but it's not my main phone and I definitely don't have it with me all the time.

Storing them in the browser works only when you are on your computer or when you spend an unhealthy amount of time fiddling with softwares and devices so everything is sync'ed and integrated.

California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says

Re: What are firearms?

I did not try it, but downloading a file and printing it (even with the manual adjustments / trial and error) sound still much easier than machining/extruding/bending a receiver out of aluminium / sheet metal starting with only drawings of the finished product.

Much easier, not easy. (and durability/repeatability are not as strict as for an industrial product)

Re: What are firearms?

Perhaps they should restrict purchase of the barrels/bolts rather than receivers.

I can strap/nail down a gun barrel to a wooden board and have a more deadly weapon than those 'all plastic' guns.

Of course if i can print a nice 'receiver' and just buy barrel/bolt, trigger mechanism and firing pin, the 3d printer makes it much easier.

I'm not against guns, but heck, the problem seems that people can easil get the most critical and hard to manufacture gun parts and because of this 3d printing the rest become "the issue"

Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online

Re: Useful illustration

It's good if you change it often: if the browser (or some extension) managed to alter your fingerprint for every site and/or every x minutes then all the profiling goes out the window

Re: Be prepared for the anti-Firefox hordes.

The problem is that it doesn't matter because advertisers pay more to show me targeted ads, doesn't matter if they are targeting me with the wrong ones.

So Google gets more $$ because they are profiling me and advertisers are happy to pay more because they think they are showing ads to the right audience (they aren't).

Google is happy, advertisers can't tell the difference anyways-

Btw, I block ads (obviously) and I use Chameleon (In the past there was another FF extension doing the same, can't recall the name) just to mix up my "fingerprints"