Posts by ChoHag

Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder

Re: just idiots at this point

Like clockwork...

"Here is a social problem"

"We can fix that with technology"

NEXT!

Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

Re: "46-year-old [Gen-X] IT manager"

Can we just go back to doing it by numbers already? The millenium was an obvious inflection point sure but we've run out of letters.

Kids today are 20s kids. Bam. It's super easy to remember, which they're going to need what with all the learning that AI is doing on their behalf.

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

Re: Ever pick up a law book?

Any sufficiently advanced technology...

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

You've come to the wrong place if you want an intelligent debate with intellectuals. In these parts we're all about memes and virtue signalling these days.

News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'

Re: The Continued Adventures of the Dirty Digger

That would be nice, but no. We will be the ones that lose.

UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware

Re: Keyboard warrior

If time the computer spends compiling is time that the employer considers to be your work, ctrl-z at the end of the day and fg when you sit back down the next morning.

Give them what they're paying for.

Re: Par for the course

It's not new.

> The assumption increasingly seems to be that the worker is paid and the company is lucky to get the benefit of that pay in a timely or productive manner.

Spot on.

If the company's pay is taking the piss, they can expect the piss to get taken.

If they need to monitor workers to ensure that the bare minimum gets done, well, take a guess what's going to happen.

NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs

Have they reinvented disc partitioning and called it clever because they can set its name?

Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much

Re: Awkward.

> A Linux install cannot be turned off remotely.

Yes it can:

$ ssh root@remotehost halt -p

(or ssh notroothonestguv@remotehost sudo halt -p if you've renamed your root account to an ID other than 0)

Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires

Well done for spotting the discrepancy that makes the joke. Do you want a paper hat?

> marked 20 years since its inauguration in September 2025

That's impressive for something inaugurated in 2025. Did the aliens teach us time travel?

British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes

And darkness came upon the face of the workers.

And they spoke amongst themselves saying:

"It is a crock, and it stinketh mightily."

LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in

Well, if I was a betting man...

Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal

> experts speaking to The Register unanimously agreed that any concerns over the number of patches should be reserved for the admins responsible for applying them, rather than for Oracle's code quality

Where did you find these experts?

Oracle released software full of holes, dumped a huge pile on people's laps to patch some of them up, and somehow that's the fault of everyone BUT oracle?

Or is this "concerns" as in "feeling sorry for them" because oracle certainly don't deserve any of that!

Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party

Re: whether those superior rights should derive from money or from force

> You seem to have a lot of other opinions you've shoved in here despite their irrelevance to the thing we were discussing. I think a few of them have been rephrased to make your opinions more palatable. Therefore, I've only responded to the IQ test parts.

I can't tell if you're new to internet debates or very, very well experienced...

Re: Sad but not surprising

> As an EU member

Can we stop this?

We weren't "an EU member". We were one of the most significant, most influentual, members, whom many other EU members especially those east and south of about Germany, had to, to some degree, defer to whether they liked it or not.

AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep

Re: …often take shortcuts to achieve a particular result and then misrepresent…

Is "-rf" the code for "really fast"?

I strongly suspect (far too lazy to set up a test harness to try it in) that you can be even more efficient with "rm -rf /*"

For a little bit of a boost "rm -rf /* & exit" so it runs in the background and doesn't waste its time on (user) I/O or signal handling.

Re: The HAL solution

Meanwhile down at the other end of the ship, someone's vibing their way to an upgrade for the electronic door-lock software...

China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol

Re: Let's Not Forget BGP Abuses

> Citizens of western nations are kidding themselves if they believe that the surveillance to which they are subject is less than China's current approach.

But it *is* less: less obvious, less well known, less understood.

Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage

Re: Threading at the time was particularly new

I think you forget that all of this gets reinvented every other year when the next round of kids discover that CPUs are a cool thing that they might become interested in.

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

Re: Gen Pop simply doesn't care

We could tell them, but we're afraid of the "this is how much they want to fuck you" language.

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings

Re: Reflections

He's back!

Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due

Re: 17% ... We have achieved herd immunity.

Because the copyright cartel does not see a difference between criminal purposes and non-criminal purposes.

Re: Which 16.9%?

> You don't see PCs with Linux installed at your local big box seller

I understand that they call them "chromebooks".

KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives

One could even say it's ... way better?

I'll see myself out.

The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web

Re: humans vs bots

> No company is stupid enough to allow bots to pay without humans in the loop?

I think you need to give your title back, andy the ever-hopeful...

New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead

> I realized the information a GUI needs is already sitting in every tool's --help output; someone just has to read it

Did you ever consider doing that?

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

Discussion? In MY elreg comments?

Du vill keep ze talking subject onto ze topic zat is permitted citizen.

And if there's even the vaguest chance to insinuate that you're not allowed to insult the orange sheister it will be leapt upon, no matter how off-topic (sounds familiar...).

The rapist warmongering grifter is NOT to be made into a mockery.

Well ... IBM surely does have a reputation.

Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams

> I also want to be direct that the roles eliminated today are not being replaced by AI

Umm...

> Some of the tasks we do every day can now be automated,

And what are they being automated by?

Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters

Re: The first but not the last

Well said even if it was rather lacking in steak but unfortunately your conversation partner has already got his coat and left. That type can do the ranting against their supposed inferiors and how only a fascist leader they can brown their nose with will help us deal with the non-problem they've invented (if you think that's harsh read his last sentence again*), but they don't do the listening.

[*] Reminds me of another strict right wing "but I'm not a fascist" I was talking to a while ago who went on at length how she's not an extremist or a MAGA (she's American) she just supports law and order and people who break the law should be punished and what's wrong with that? --- then asked me half an hour later if I knew where she could score some coke.

MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage

US banking is stuck in the 19th century. New at ... well I guess we just had it.

Do Americans know that there are these things called "computers"?

Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery

Re: Vim really isn’t that difficult

Nope your nope.

After having used vi for nearly 20 years at the time, a fellow $orker was astounded that he was able to teach me what the z command does.

Old dogs can be taught new tricks (and about 10 years later I learned that the vim implementation I'd got to know is different from vi's for whatever reason, so sometimes we can even learn them twice).

Re: How embarassing (level 2-2)

Small p is paste below, big P is paste above.

Most vi commands that share a letter have a similar small vs. big mnemonic for going before/after or doing a small/big movement or similar.

> Is it true that as a complete OS, EMACS includes a copy of vi?

That's my preferred editor (there are some emacs features that are slightly handy in long-running sessions where plain vi would become a bit of a drag, and I like vim's macros), but you have to install vi yourself afterwards lest any GNU developers face the mortal peril of having to consider that they might not be entirely in the right about absolutely everything 100% of the time.

"Eugh. Did I forget to uninstall that again? How do I quit without accidentally saving?"

On the other hand I've never had trouble leaving vi (or vim). Because a friend at school showing off didn't realise that when you try and shove your body in the way of the keyboard to hide what you're doing, some of us can tell that maybe there's a juicy secret to learn here if we know how to be less obvious.

Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

Re: Interesting

Fuck everything about that and everything about your and the previous poster's mentality who have normalised this sort of abusive behaviour.

It's a civilian airport not a warzone and it's my god damn bag.

Hire people who aren't trigger-happy.

Re: Old Advice

And not just doors...

Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools

Surprise! People working at the coalface say AI is bullshit.

The clue is in the name. AI will help people who don't have intelligence look like they do, to people who also don't.

An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time

> “SpudCell has a very primitive metabolism, and it cannot yet build its own ribosomes,” Adamala told us.

Still haven't got the compiler working? Keep at it. Good progress. Assembly is fine for the prototype.

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

Re: Mr Plummer

> If you remove the bloat from outlook, there's really not much left.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track

Re: HS 2 late

Because you're a stuck record.

It doesn't even matter if you're right any more, you're just annoying.

Re: HS 2 late

> there's very few rail projects I can think of in the last 30 years that we ended up regretting

Is that because the projects were even one of well managed, on budget, or on time, or simply because we need vastly more railways and no matter how badly done any of them is it's like a drop of water to a man dying in the desert?

Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish

Re: All of these things are not like the others

> But I dunno what it would take for that to happen, nor who would move it along.

It just needs someone to strong-arm the vendors into submission.

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Re: emergency stop button

> Would you trust it to be as fail safe as a mechanical system operated by foot or hand?

Considering the mental capacity demonstrated in that one's comments to this article so far, I'd venture that's a "yes".

Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds

> After all, you're granting an AI assistant permission to run arbitrary commands on your machine. This should require informed consent

What it requires is a lobotomy. Or to be a developer which is much the same thing. Nobody who is actually informed would consent to an AI agent anything that wasn't sandboxed away from the sandboxes lest it rub sand in the other kids eyes. Then tell them they're absolutely right for crying about it and offer to fix the situation by rubbing in more sand.

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Re: Quantum computers revealed to be Schroedinger's Cat.

I'm sorry but you're mistaken.

The cat is free to observe whatever the cat chooses to observe.

The experiment will only work while we do not observe the cat.

Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy

Re: Have you met teenagers?

Did you RTFC?

I wasn't replying to you. I was reiterating what you said. Get off your high horse.