Posts by Dizzy Dwarf

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos

Re: Needs a Firm Hand

The major difference between a Sinclair Spectrum and a BBC Micro was the quality of the keyboard.

Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you

Re: A question

Maybe this: Doppler Cooling

I meant Maxwell's Demon, but I guess Musk brings his own kind of entropy.

Shouldn't they just be hiring a demon to let the heat out and the cold in?

Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney

Re: Minor correction

Yes, I know.

Not about to let that get in the way of my bad joke, though.

Re: Tape is here for a long time

'Tape is immutable, cheap, essentially unhackable."

Blockchain, for the win. I knew there'd be a use for it one day.

Re: Minor correction

"And M-disc are write only"

Just back everything up to /dev/null, then. Problem solved.

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

Re: Shouldn't the price be 365$ ...

That would also reflect the number of days per year that it doesn't work.

Signalgate: Pentagon watchdog probes Defense Sec Hegseth

Re: I bet Hegseth ...

Yes, you're right.

I'll come in again :)

I bet Hegseth ...

... wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

Microsoft patches patch that broke USB printing in Windows 11

I think you ment:

every

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single

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time

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Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways

Nice ad lib

BOFH: HR's AI hiring tool is perfectly unbiased – as long as you're us

Breaking The (Employment) Law

Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return

Re: Size of problem

"The whole manned mission to Mars is an even larger problem."

You're going to need a LEO staging post, a Lunar staging post and a Martian staging post.

Also plenty of comms sats around Mars.

Anything less than that will be a suicide mission.

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

And an entire pack of Jaffa Cakes.

Things are looking down for cutting-edge cosmic observatories

xkcd: KM3NeT

Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch activated when he was let go

Re: But the good news is

He’s 55 now, so he’ll be 65 when he gets out - then he can start drawing down on his company pension.

Winning :)

UK must give more to ESA to get benefits of space industry boom, says Brian Cox

Re: Um....

It was a mistake to leave the Virgo Supercluster.

Bloody Milkywayexiters.

Maybe cancel that ChatGPT therapy session – doesn't respond well to tales of trauma

Re: One might suggest there are only two worries for 'AI'

3) Would you like some toast?

Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

Re: "the underlying mathematical proof"

The Caesar cipher basically worked because most of Caesar's enemies couldn't read to begin with.

Re: Backdoor may exist already on SAMSUNG phones!

3. You use it only one time. They are to be burnt, after all.

3.5 Whichever number you called should now be considered comprised.

4. Either remove the sim, the battery and stamp on it, or accidentally leave it one the bus.

First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies

Re: Also, Elon, don't forget that ...

Oops. Don't want to piss her off. Sorry.

Also, Elon, don't forget that ...

... I can kill you with my brain.

-- River Tamm

Nope. You probably can't cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter

If you want to process an AI workload

Why don’t you just spin up a VM?

Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

Re: Malicious compliance to the rescue

That is exactly the level of encryption having a backdoor provides. ie: none whatsoever

FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline

Re: Oh bother.

"... hitting a succession of potholes. But with the state of US roads ..."

You spelt UK wrong.

The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin

This is great news for Elon

Now, if he could just hurry up and fuck off.

DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims

Re: Possible issue.

Musk/Trump must know that the WHO is a den of spies. Same for USAID's overseas ops.

You've got a good excuse for being in war-zone.

It's a CAPEX -> OPEX thing for the CIA. This is the problem when you move to the Cloud.

Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil

Re: "a total duration of 32 minutes"

After 32 minutes your toast will be charcoal.

Oracle starts laying mines in JavaScript trademark battle

Re: essentially a Windows only thing once you get beyond the basics.

C# - pronounced as "C hash" by everyone, except; "C pound" (USAians) and "C octothorp" (telephone-sanitisers).

Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands return-to-office despite remote work pledge

Next thing

They'll be dropping Dress-down-Fridays.

Bastards.

Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays

A Mega city doesn't have a council

It has a Grand Hall of Justice

Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts

Someone should train a LLM on Trump's decrees

The data set is more than big enough.

NASA's lunar Roomba set to suck up Moon dirt for study

Re: If they need it testing

I seem to have an infinite amount of pine needles.

They are welcome to come over anytime.

A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work

And here I was thinking that my scanner isn't working because

the printer part has run out of magenta.

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

Re: SvarDOS and 42

I was thinking more: floating head, gun, mankini

Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate

Re: xyzzy

Nah, nothing happens.

Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

Re: If you tied a weather balloon to an SUV and sent it skywards...

There's prior art: Lawnchair Larry.

Avoiding Alien Tentacle Rape

1. You cannot, sorry. You can only delay it.

2. If you're in Tokyo, get the fuck out.

3. Avoid bodies of water. This includes hot-tubs.

4. Wear jeans. Avoid miniskirts.

5. ???

6. Profit!

No, I can't help – you called the wrong helpdesk, in the wrong place, for the wrong platform

Re: Also lunch time

Why do you keep booking meetings a lunchtime?

Well ... it is the only time everyone is free.

NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers

Trebuchet. The gravity is low; they'll fly for miles.

NASA fires up super-quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft

Re: SPV

Not 100% sure that supermarionettes are sensitive to those kind of stresses.

SPV

With the video cameras, shouldn't the pilot be seated facing backwards?

The horror that is VHS revived for horror movie release

Pah! Paper-tape or a box (or several) of punch-cards.

Got an idea for dealing with space waste? NASA wants to hear from you

All of the packaging should stack together like Lego. Then you can build anything.

How much could be used as stock material for 3d printers?

SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission completes first commercial spacewalk

There are no stars / The earth only looks curved because of the fish-eye lens / It was all filmed in Hollywood / etc

Scientists find a common food dye can make a live mouse's skin transparent

You need to fall into some radioactive sludge

As documented by 2000AD's "Visible Man"

Python script saw students booted off the mainframe for sending one insult too many

If Rodney quests long enough ...

... he should find his teluma

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

Re: But what...

... is an AI-PC?

Well - they have a purple LED.