Posts by Skiver

Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst

I have absolutely no doubt that the clash of big egos is going result in Elmo being persona non grata the administration. The only question is how long will it take.

Here's how a Trump presidency could change the tech industry

Re: "regime"

"In the case of Casca it is the usual idiocy of claiming something is wrong but not being able to write a reason why"

Wrong. We know that no matter what we say or any data/facts/evidence that is brought up, it will be dismissed.

As for not being a MAGA cult member, if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck.

Re: "regime"

The best move, which I all to often fail to take is to just walk about. People like that have already made up their minds and ready made facile comments to toss out. The goal isn't isn't a discussion. The goal is to wear people out so they can puff their chests out in false pride at how they've "won" the argument.

Re: "regime"

Here's the difference between MAGAs and the rest of us. MAGAs needed the comfort of "election lies" to ease the pain of losing an election. The rest of us aren't bellyaching about election lies after Harris lost the election.

Re: "regime"

There's wrong takes and there are blindingly wrong takes. Your take is frankly ridiculous and is exactly the kind of propganda we hear from the right all the time. In

Re: "regime"

"voted for him in droves"

A lot of U.S. voters vote based on single issues and don't consider the other policies that come with their vote. Inflation and the economy was

a big driving factor for people to switch to voting for Trump. It is doubtfu that such voters examined all of his platform or even that aware of

the scope.

If a person votes for a particular candidate, that vote is a vote for *all* of the policies, not just the one or few someone based

their vote on. Even if they personally disagree with some of the other policies. There are, sadly, a lot of people who don't

really understand that.

Re: "regime"

It's almost always anonymous cowards who make these kinds of biased statements.

Trump's pick to run the FCC has told us what he plans: TikTok ban, space broadband, and Section 230 reform

Getting rid of section 230 is going to result in social media companies cracking down on anything that could expose them to liability. It would also apply to twitter which I doubt this guy has even considerd.

Trump appoints Musk associate Brendan Carr as FCC chair

Re: In other news

Zelensky is interested in not having his country destroyed by unchecked Russian aggression. U.S. aid to Ukraine will probably dry up once you-know-who is in office.

If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap

And a spot in a Trump administration.

If Trump gets elected, we'll have bigger problems than paying extra for tech.

Combustion engines grind Linus Torvalds' gears

Re: Dumb interviewers

It isn't about agreeing or disagreeing. It's about the fact that nobody is looking to Torvalds for opinions on electric cars.

Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware

Re: Hey beast666

I'm tired of right wingers, conspiracy nuts and propagandists showing up here on El Reg. :(

Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI

Right wing MAGA narrative, not fact.

Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares...

Saying the DEC OSF/1 was later marketed as Tru64 UNIX is a bit reductive. That latter was based on OSF/1, but it was a full featured commerical OS release. DEC OSF/1, the product, was mainly used on workstations. DEC sold MIPS based workstations running DEC OSF/1. Tru64 ran on Alpha and was either ported or was in the process of being ported to IA64 when HP pulled the plug on the Tru64 project.

I worked at DEC and made it through the Compaq and HP acquisitions, but sadly did not survive the end of Tru64 UNIX>

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice

Re: A sense of priorities

I think we all know that he isn't shy about commenting on anything linux related.

US lawmakers dig into FCC's $900M Starlink snub in wake of Hurricane Helene

The fact that you got downvotes for your accurate description of what Comer does is both hilarious and sad.

Comer is a clown. That guy "investigates" anything he thinks he can pin on Democrats. He's a poster child for party over country

Trump Devotion Syndrome is worse.

If Dell's Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PC is typical of the genre, other PCs are toast

Re: Function keys on a touch bar?

: I have one of Apples supposedly fast M-chip powered MacBooks and it's slow as hell despite all the pundits who will tell you otherwise.

You clearly are working with your own personal definition of slow.

White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown

Re: "unnamed Tennessee-based content-creation business"

I cracks me up that you garnered a down vote for stating facts. Tim Pool, Benny Johnson and some others have all gotten money from tenet. Now I want to know the depth of their involvement.

DEF CON badge disagreement gets physical as firmware dev removed from event stage

Re: A raid on The Strip? ROFLMAO

There is absolutely no reason to post this story in this thread, except to stir up trouble. Take your offtopic, reaction provoking BS somewhere else.

Core Python developer suspended for three months

Re: "It was their behavior that got them there in the first place"

"wokism" = anything that happens that that the right doesn't like.

IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim

Clearly IBM's trade off is whether the money saved buy firing an older long term employee is more than it would defending a potential lawsuit.

CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee

Nothing will be learned from questioning the CEO because these hearings are performative nonsense.

FBI gains access to Trump rally shooter's phone

Re: Ramblin Man

TDS = Trump Devotion Syndrome = cult.

You're in a cult.

BOFH: An 'AI PC' for an Acutely Ignorant user

Cool story and all, but the boss is gonna catch on sooner or later when someone tells them that what they have is not an AI PC.

Defiant Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial Recall – tho as an opt-in

Opt-in right up until they turn it on by default when nobody is looking.

H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid efforts to crack down on abuse

Re: hose out the stable first

"This is not to say that one can't gerrymander to some degree"

Not to some degree. Both Dan Crenshaw of TX and Jim Jordan from Ohio only got elected because of severe gerrymandering. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.

Re: "And really...

Your MAGA hat is too tight. This and the kool aid are making you stupid.

Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation

This is more kinds of wrong that I have time to enumerate. We hardly ever hear from Clinton these days. Trump complains about the big lie every day when he's not bellowing about everything else.

Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge

Re: Teams/Outlook users driven over the Edge

Which browser somone chooses isn't the point here. The issue is making it harder for people to make their own choice using

shady practices.

Judge demands social media sites prove they didn't help radicalize mass shooter

"Reddit declared that hate and violence have no place on its platform and pointed us to its content policy that prohibits hate content based on identity or vulnerability as well as messages that glorify, encourage or incite violence."

The only think they care about is bad press

Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday

RTO policies are for one thing only: manager job justification. Having people in the office lets managers "keep an eye" on their people, thereby justifying their position.

Which is, of course, complete BS reasoning.

Techie climbed a mountain only be told not to touch the kit on top

For some reason when I read cold and mountainous, I pictured a shack on a mountain, not a town.

‘I needed antihistamine tablets every time I opened the computers’

When I worked at DEC, one of my customers was one of the big newspapers in the city where I lived. They had an 11/70 system in the basement. The room was air conditioned, but it wasn't a computer room. Just outside the door was where they moved around the giant rolls of paper used to print the newspaper. The room was always dirty and required frequent preventive maintenance to make sure nothing got clogged up.

In contrast, one of my customers was the USPS. There main place was the bulk facility at the airport. The computers were used for tracking mail that was being transported on commercial carriers. The systems were in their own customer made air conditioned cabinets. The site itself was a typical factory floor type situation, so not too clean.

Elon Musk made 1 in 3 Trust and Safety staff ex-X employees, it emerges

Re: Yet....

If right wingers were getting banned, it's because they're the absolutely worst when it comes to posting racist, homophobic and transphobic crap. And now that they're back, it as become an ever worse cesspool that it ever was before Elmo took over. There's a reason advertisers have run away from the site.

HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten

Re: "If a printer is connected to the internet, the update downloads automatically"

"Carly Fiorini happened and set up the merger with Compaq which started the death spiral off, and that was only done so that HP could have a range of Windows servers to sell and some better desktop PC's."

100% on point. I survived the DEC -> Compaq -> HP adventure and worked there during Fiorina's tenure. I didn't survive the layoff that saw me and a few hundred of my colleagues who were working on the same project. A handful of people found jobs elsewhere in the company. The rest of us hit the bricks.

Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?

Re: Local accounts

Subscriptions ensure as steady stream of revenue, which is why many companies have moved to it.

SpaceX celebrates Starship launch as a success – even with the explosion

Re: The other guys.

Blowing up millions of dollars of hardware is not success.

Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop

This thread is the typical dumpster fire that this topic becomes every time it comes up.

WFH mandates bad for staff morale and stunt innovation

Having a good WFH policy means a company can recruit and hire the best talent anywhere. Not just the best talent where the office is.

The bonkers water-cooled shoe PC, hexagonal pink workstations, and IKEA-style cases of Computex 2023

Re: Transbuds

babelfish.

Laid-off 60-year-old Kyndryl exec says he was told IT giant wanted 'new blood'

Re: Why not tell the truth?

This kind of well considered, nuanced perspective will, sadly, fall on deaf ears.

Re: Let it go

Nobody is being done a favor by getting fired.

Intel to rebrand client chips once Meteor Lake splashes down

I'm wondering how much money Intel spent engaging a branding company for this nonsense.

Parent discovers the cost of ignoring Roblox: £2,500 and heart palpitations

I'm glad this stuff wasn't around when my kids were growing up.