Posts by devin3782

What's up with WhatsApp? Messaging platform suffers outage in the UK

Re: Back to the future

As it uses the signal protocol as does signal i don't see why we can't have a decentralised messaging service as this sort of thing shouldn't be under the ownership of a single company especially Meta.

Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce

Re: Export please!

Who assassin their target by shooting them through their own heads. Calling yourselves the 1922 tells you all you need to know about their general outlook

Upstart Ransom Cartel linked to REvil veterans

Well we already have voyeurism-as-a-service from the four horseman privacy apocalypse (Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung) so I guess why not have crime-as-a-service seems like a logical next step

The new GPU world order is beginning to take shape

Well I'm going to buy an A770 for a giggle to see what it's like I'm sure it'll have a similar driver mess to the early 2000 era ATI Radeon 8500XT which after the drivers were fixed was an excellent card giving rise to the legendary Radeon 9800XT. That said my GTX 1070 is still playing everything I want but I would like to play with ray tracing.

I do need to check that qemu supports resizable-bar when using PCI-E passthrough, although I think these cards support SR-IOV which which have to buy an enterpriced version of nvidia's hardware if you want that feature like what Intel do with their CPU's if you want ECC

Linus Torvalds's faulty memory (RAM, not wetware) slows kernel development

Indeed DDR5 on chip ECC is not proper ECC its just to make sure that due to have DDR5 works electrically that an error isn't introduced during bank swaps and other normal ram operations due to smaller processes these chips are produced on and the speed they run at.

Only end-to-end checking of data between the CPU and data written to memory is ECC.

For the chap wondering which AMD boards have ECC support here's the ones I know about:

Gigabyte Aorus X570 Pro, Asrock Rack X470D4U, Asrock Rack X570D4U.

Brexit dividend? 'Newly independent' UK will be world's 'data hub', claims digital minister

Re: I guess that's the main aim?

Quite, removing GDPR doesn't make it cheaper to do business and adding more rules (relaxed or not) makes it more expensive.

I don't want this country as a data hub it just means we'll be in the news more and more for data breaches and that'll be embarrassing.

Remember if you don't store it, it can't be stolen.

PostgreSQL 15 promises to ease Oracle and SQL Server migrations

I've got to say having used PostgreSQL for a while now, since v10, I've never looked back it's datetime/timezone handling is simply the most sane implementation I've ever seen handling absolute time is a cinch as a result. I've also made use the json columns which I've found very handy for storing user settings where it simply doesn't make sense to store those in a separate table.

OK, Google: Why are you still pointing women at fake abortion clinics?

Re: Google should not rely on automation for this

Competition? I guess this is what happens when a country doesn't have a healthcare system available to all and proper laws protecting the rights of their citizens, from a country that's all about "freedumb" something of a massive yawning chasm of a lack of judgement.

If these Americans were "pro-life" then they'd lobby to have proper healthcare, gun controls, mental health provisions and provide help to those poorest in society who need it, but no they only care about abortion, once the child is born they don't give a shit its just more grist for the mill, they'll complain about their freedoms while they actively take them away.

Consolidation looms for UK broadband providers

But the big ISP's are dreadful, I'm on a fibre connection using city fibres infrastructure, none of the big ISP's vodafone, talktalk etc... will provide a symmetric 1GB connection why? because they're a bunch of arse holes also who wants a router with the alexa pervertware built in

Autumn's GTC shows who Nvidia really cares about

DLSS still just smacks of we didn't develop the GPU for consumers and as such we've decided to saddle you with tensor cores and so you don't think we're wasting silicon and creating a power virus we've decided AI upscaling is worth while, meanwhile AMD does some upscaling without the need for AI and users would be hard pushed to tell which is which and it works on every GPU.

Sure it means that if you have an nvidia you can have a play with doing machine learning but I suspect that's a vanishingly small number of people.

I guess my GTX1070 should be upgraded, but I'm not bothering it was the first nvidia card i've bought since the geforce 256 all those years ago and its always been bothersome with displayport, i've exclusively bought Radeons since then and I think when I do finally upgrade I'll be buying a Radeon again.

GNOME hits 43: Welcome To Guadalajara

Re: XFCE Dashboard, most favourite Gnome feature....

There's no difference really like Alt+tab they both commit the cardinal sin of UI design, the icons/windows don't reappear in the same place every time its activated requiring the user to pause and take note

BT CEO orders staff: Back to the office or risk 'disciplinary action'

Re: And a year from now...

Basically the BT CEO is admitting that BT in fact suck at communications and they need everyone back in the offices as it takes the strain off their crappy network because they've not bothered investing. City fibre have done in a few short years what BT have never been willing to deliver.

Re: Happening all over

Commuting is the worst and wastes so much fuel its defiantly better for the environment if we don't drive to work or school.

Phonesturbating - I'm adding that to my dyslexicon, how is this for its definition "Phonesturbating - The act of a middle manager loudly having a phone call so the whole office can here all about their self-importance, in the guise of doing work"

Re: F**k you, Jansen

Setting up food banks for staff that's a f**king disgrace

https://bigissue.com/news/employment/bt-food-bank-community-pantry-own-staff/

What's even more egregious everyone's putting their prices up and making record profits again so tell me how are these companies hurting? they're not they'll just make less profit and that's fine its how it should, like the energy companies they can simply charge less make a little less profit

PAY YOUR BLOODY STAFF PROPERLY THEY'RE WHO MAKE YOU THIS MONEY

Emissions-slashing hybrid trains to hit tracks in Europe

I'd say not leaving the trains parked with their engines idling in stations would go some way to helping emissions and they health of all that use them, the number of times I've been to British train stations and seen this it's unnecessary

UK govt refuses to give up on scoring Arm dual-listing for London

Re: Get rid of that questionnaire

I'm also doing this, messing with surveys are always good fun because they're completely useless they never ask the right questions

Fedora 37 beta: Hints of what's to come in Red Hat's free flagship

I agree with this, but I wonder if the author is trying to avoid the normal, "oh god its packing Gnome as default" which perhaps means that distro developers should take a long a hard look at their default offering assuming that those people who hate Gnome are in the majority, if we're the just the vocal minority then as long as they provide alternatives then that's fine.

Personally I think the only way to make the Gnome developers take note that their desktop is crap is for it to relegated to alternative desktop environment status

Personally I use Cinnamon because its polished, consistent, customisable and most importantly sane, it also works well with multiple monitors. Xfce comes a close second and then there's KDE I've always found that to be a bit weird and cluttered.

Well I fired this up using Linux virtualisation and it worked flawlessly, so this is probably a bug in virtualbox, I've always found virtualbox to be crash-tastic on beta Linux installs where Linux virtualisation is always stable.

Gnome is still awful, differently awful than before but still awful. The new text editor has even less options than before more icons without labels and having to hunt for line numbers is obnoxious, the system tray, you click an icon and it brings up options for all of them not the one you clicked, with more options like "Balanced" and no explanation I know its probably a power saving option but the average user isn't going to know this nor are they going to want to mess about with it, if its a desktop set balanced if its a laptop set power save its not complicated.

Then we have applications with stupid names like "connections" which is remote desktop as it turns out and needs three intro slides to explain what it is. The file browser is still bad and can't give the directory size in a useful place, nor can you right click and create a text file, and file open/save dialog still can't sort folders first!

The Gnome devs have serious curse of knowledge problems. At least I can now right click on desktop and find the option for changing screen resolution!

Fedora 37 Cinnamon spin is a delight as always though apart from some of the gnome based issues like the aforementioned open/save dialog

Dead people could be designated authors of Atlassian Confluence docs and that can't be changed

Ah yes, the looks simple to fix, but is actually complex class of bugs, these are always the hardest to explain

AMD refreshes desktop CPUs with 5nm Ryzen 7000s that can reach 5.7GHz with 16 cores

Re: Very impressive!

Yeah that clock bump is huge I won't be buying one sadly, my 5900X with 32GB ECC will be good for another 5years or so at least

Two years on, Apple iOS VPNs still leak IP addresses

Re: Typical Apple

The only place where apple doesn't have any leaks and that's in their reality distortion field.

Nvidia books $1.32b inventory charge as PC market slows

I'm sure your products are excellent Mr Jensen, the problem is they're simply too expensive

Data brokers amass profiles of pregnant women – and, of course, it's all up for sale

Today, I'm feeling a little more world sick. This was never the way

Judge rejects another Microsoft appeal against surplus license reseller suit

Re: "Helping our customers move to the cloud improves productivity and security..."

"Helping our customers move to the cloud improves our profit margins..."

There you go Microsoft, I fixed it for you.

How a botched kernel patch broke Ubuntu – and why it may happen again

Seconded, that brought me tears of joy

VMware reveals vSphere-as-a-service – but not the price

Clouds only loosely hold water vapour and nothing more keep this in mind at all times. More goblin ownership yay! (massive sarcasm). They called it project Arctic, well this will certainly send chills to their customers bones.

Goblins Ownership: Goblins make the fabulous treasures, but considers anyone purchasing them to be renting, they consider the original maker the owner not the purchaser.

Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash

Well that was their mistake, water on a lithium fire, didn't any them go to school? Alkali metals react violently with water. A good job the batteries don't use sodium or caesium those react even more furiously to water.

Amazon fears it could run out of US warehouse workers by 2024

Let me be the first to say HA HA HA and good! may that serve you right for your abysmal treatment of your staff

This startup says it can glue all your networks together in the cloud

Imagine the data you could eavesdrop on and sell

RISC OS: 35-year-old original Arm operating system is alive and well

Re: Some features i would like today

It was always the font cache that took up all the ram

It still has that special place in my heart considering the A3010 was the first computer I used. I really should recover it from my parents loft. The modern version could do with adding a few modern features like being able to resize file browser windows

Not a GNOME fan, and like the look of Windows? Try KDE Plasma or Cinnamon

Re: I know it's the pettiest gripe ever...

I was always put off by the weird default animations and the bouncing icons and general icon clutter in menus. The cinnamon developers do seem to have taste and has consistent UI (I've been using cinnamon on fedora for the last 3 years, replaced xfce)

Teeth marks yield clue to widespread internet outage in Canada

Wynona! we've warned you about this before!

GitHub drops Atom bomb: Open-source text editor mothballed by end of year

Re: I used to use it

For really large files I tend to find that only EditPad Pro works without crashing runs well on wine too :) I've opened gigabyte text files with ease

Re: I used to use it

Netbeans works on all of those platforms, at this point I've been using it for a decade.

Google calculates Pi to 100 trillion digits

Does crunching that much pi help other than making your storage fat?

Makers of ad blockers and browser privacy extensions fear the end is near

Re: The mystery

The fact the browsers render more or less the same is good it means that they're adhering to the standards. That said they don't use the same engines unless they're running on iOS at which point they all use Webkit because apple won't allow anything else. I've always used firefox as the font rendering is superior.

Firefox - Gecko

Internet Explorer - Trident

Edge - Edge HTML (actually good) now Blink

Chrome - Blink (formerly Webkit)

Safari - Webkit (formerly kHTML from KDE)

Everything else is a dirty chrome clone as if chrome could be somehow more grubby than it already is

EU makes USB-C common charging port for most electronic devices

Re: Apple's next move?

Or use the lowest quality usb-c port so it breaks and they'll turn around say "we told you this was a bad idea" The usb-c port of course will be none replaceable

The next time your program is 'not responding,' (do not) try these steps

Well of course you do, because you're not interested in pointless culture wars.

Newport Wafer Fab could be sold to US consortium – report

We do don't we its like we have an aversion to be prosperous

Why not keep it, seems like a useful thing to have does it not?

Clearview AI fined millions in the UK: No 'lawful reason' to collect Brits' images

Re: As good as a win as this is...

They'll know, they've been training the AI with our data after all

Safari is crippling the mobile market, and we never even noticed

Add to that the Angular/React JS frameworks needlessly chewing through cpu cycles.

There is no difference between Safari and Chrome on iOS, apple insists that your browser uses webkit so Chrome, Firefox etc... have to use webkit to render pages. I wonder why they've not been hit with an anti-trust over that one?

Start your engines: Windows 11 ready for broad deployment

It's truly amazing Microsoft are really doing their utmost to self-harm and keep people away from Windows 11. I'm so pleased Valve are putting their development weight behind Linux for gaming I might be able to remove my Windows Gaming VM in the next year or so.

Inkscape adds multi-page support with v1.2 update

Re: Hmmm

All of them, because you can't possibly design on some other sort of the machine! The Mac makes the designer they'd be rubbish on any other computer

Intel shareholders revolt against Pat Gelsinger's pay package

1700 times the average employees salary!

Enterprise-strength FreeBSD-based TrueNAS releases v13.0

TrueNAS has historically had problems with certain hardware configurations running it in a VM means I simply don't have to worry about it. Say TrueNAS is updated and then refuses to boot I then have to reinstall TrueNAS and set up all my virtual machines again, this way I simply revert the drive image as I take a snapshot before I do an upgrade.

Mainly I don't want to run two servers and TrueNAS for running VM's is not a nice experience for example you can't import drive images or create a network solely for you're VM's to communicate on or in need of bridging them to allow them LAN access. Installing a new VM doesn't exactly smooth sailing either and there's a lack of options available to you when setting them up.

If you want to bond your network interfaces well... good luck you can only do it through the web interface and if it fails you have to revert everything and hope that this time it works as you expected a nightmare.

So I use Debian as the host OS as networking is easy so I have bonded nics and bridging set up enabling me to put VM's into vlans as well. VM's sit on a pair of nvme drives formatted with ZFS. I'm running a Ryzen 3700X with 64GB ECC RAM on a Asrock Rack X470D4U motherboard for reference. Nvme drives are in the PCI-E x16 slot bifurcated (x4x4x4x4)

I should add drive performance is not impacted from being in a VM the drives are on a SAS controller passed through, so the VM is in direct control of the SAS controller same as it would be if it were installed on the bare metal.

I've been running TrueNAS in a VM now for a good few years from when it was FreeNAS in fact, with my drives connected to a SAS controller given to the VM through the magic of PCI-E pass-through uses 6x2TB drives in RaidZ2 and its flawlessly reliable.

Clearview AI promises not to sell face-recognition database to most US businesses

<sarcasm>Of course we all believe them</sarcasm>