Posts by vekkq

China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support

i've been getting my emotional support from strangers on the internet and fictional anime girls. cant be that hard for a hunk of metal metal.

Re: "provide emotional support"

what if you forget about your grand plan~

Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO

Last time I saw AWS and Azure price lists I assumed them to be a scam.

More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user

Re: Sound like it could be law enforcement to me

Somewhat of a bias to the programs we haven't heard of tbf

Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success'

Its insane to assume someone would be anywhere near the launch site during launch. Clearly, they lock this place up, as you legally have to, as a precaution measure.

they didn't show the crash, so they considered it a failure worth hiding.

GlobalFoundries commits $3B more to US fabs in Trump tariff flex

Can't wait for the next table flip to mess up current plans.

AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0

Could hypothetically work. If the US company comes nocking with a Cloud Act notice, the EU business can deny access to data on EU law grounds. Despite US ownership, the EU business cannot be threatened and harmed so easily by US gov orgs.

'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers

The GDPR is in effect since a decade too. Given the constant legal reminders that data can't be put anywhere near American companies, lastly Cloud act and Trump, European companies didn't move a centimeter.

Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor

listing country names like its trivial to contribute hacks to governments. quite theatrical this guy.

Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users

Re: What is it

This seems a lot like eugenics to me, using arbitrary reasons to have minorities cleansed out of the population. Alternatively, having a common state enemy helps an authoritarian regime to build unity - just like the Americans say: A president who starts a war will be reelected.

Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock

just raise the prices and expect to sell less. nothing else can be done about it.

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

what's the deal with retaliatory tariffs?

tariffs itself basically manifest like taxes for the own population. unless there is some reason to protect the own industry from superior foreign competition, it seems rather silly to use tariffs or counter tariffs. what am i missing?

China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms

Re: Duh, wut?

You may have missed the whole eu chat control and other police state level surveillance plans going on. some groups in the parliament keep pushing for this stuff.

data privacy works nicely, but germany isnt really pushing open-source. governmental bureaucracy heavily depends on microsoft still.

Re: Duh, wut?

Ironic. The EU thinks and plans to do exactly the same.

Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel

how big is the haskell malware, i wonder? cant compile a hello world under half a mb.

Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud

Re: Not uploading

They still give homework? That never made sense.

AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that

My doc hallucinated a diagnosis just yesterday. If he's right or wrong I'll know for sure in 6 weeks.

I'm already at a point were AI couldn't do much worse.

Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses

McKinsey is terrible advice. Vodafone should get rid of some more office space.

101 fun things to do with a locked Kindle e-reader

102. a locked Kindle also makes a good doorstopper

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

Re: Liars

that's a nice idea. although it fails at which it has to be proven a willful lie.

populists tend to belief in their crap, so what they are spouting may be false, but not a willful lie.

plappering out what a third party told them, feign responsibility and denying willfulness also gets around to tell false statements.

Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy

I'm still waiting for US companies to be expelled from European markets for as long as the cloud act is applicable.

Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI's insatiable thirst

Race to the energy bottom after AI bubble collapse

I'll just take the Chinese thingy and run it on a potato or something.

Even Windows 10 cannot escape the new Outlook

Re: I'm sorry, *what*?

They forcefully installed the new Outlook for the past half year whenever you started Windows Mail or Calendar and the second time you started Windows Mail it would quit and boot Outlook instead. You could not stop it. At best you could repeatedly uninstall Outlook.

Because of this, the rating in the Microsoft Store for the new Outlook plummeted to 2.2 of 5 . MS then edited the rating to 3.6, despite its chart still showing an overwhelming bar of 1 star ratings. Since then MS deleted the bad ratings.

Microsoft, business as usual.

I switched to a new E-Mail client and I'll be back to Linux by the end of the year.

Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032

it can take out one city. but unlike nukes, asteroids don't do targeting and there are a lot of empty spots.

i'd like to see some burning spam raining. probably smells good as well.

Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red

Re: Not fooling anyone

Can't blame a business person for thinking that a product with a price tag is better. Not like they had any other method to measure it than in money.

Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs

Americans not realizing this is a tax on them.

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

That is some aggressive kerning in the screenshot texts. Do people like reading it like that?

How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system

would be funny if the chinese government falls because of this.

just a bias in training data for those facial recognition systems. i'm sure they used first and foremost freely available data like prison mugshots, and asians are somewhat rare there.

Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix

Wouldn't be so hard to avoid name clashes, if you wouldn't just take words right from the dictionary.

To kill memory safety bugs in C code, try the TrapC fork

Odd take to make it to easily replace C but then require to rewrite every malloc.

Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30

I miss the times were you didn't need constant security updates because it was shipped sufficiently secure.

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

Re: Approach? What approach?

That explanation came too late and is hardly sufficient.

That explanation came a week after it already exploded. And yet the explanation is still insufficient for cutting out contributors, seemingly based on email address TLDs alone.

Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact 'mitigated'

I've been struggling for a year to keep Windows Mail running. MS is so busy having it replaced with their ad-ridden, privacy-breaking, slowass, ugly and broken Outlook. Who the F wants that?

The .io domain isn't going anywhere anytime soon amid treaty

IMO .io should be made into a generic tld, given its country-unrelated adoption by tech bros.

Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App

it was a good move. what newbie would know from their original names what these programs are?

We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?

benign cancer so to speak.

NASA swings budget axe, kills $400M+ VIPER lunar trundlebot

NASA has a contractional limited budget per project, a fixed percentage of the total NASA budget. If a project exceeds it, NASA has to trash the project.

They would have to ask congress for an exception, to save the project.

A portion of the budget was wasted on unexpected delays and as they now approach the limit, they have to scrap it.

Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage

Software monoculture is not much of an issue, when code can be freely modified. Can always fork ungoogled-chromium instead, to be a step ahead of Google.

EU grants €15M funding for ICARUS inflatable heat shield

You need a nose cone on a rocket. A cone-shaped capsule is ideal for launch and reentry.

You could argue that for a non-uniform craft, a wide inflatable shield makes more sense, but it has nothing to do with size.

You won't get around having to deal with a lot of heat. Even more heat on a wide inflatable shield. The heat has to be dumped somewhere, if not in ablative material, of which you would need even more of on a wide shield because of safety margins. The whole concept is also more risky - have you seen how often panels and chutes fail to deploy? Any moving parts are a risk. Assuming someone even tries, an inflatable heat shield for reentry on Earth is entirely impractical.

> It's a relatively simple concept. Rather than carry a hefty rigid heat shield spacecraft and rocket stages could carry an inflatable heat shield deployed from a compact container to permit components to be safely returned to Earth, or land on other planets.

This inflatable heat shield will be heavier and bulkier than existing heat shields. The only use case for an inflatable heat shield is on Mars.

Re: The Cosmic Johnny...

Classic heatshields are already made of rubber or plastic.

Apple says if you want to ship your own iOS browser engine in EU, you need to be there

All the ungoogled Chromium forks work just fine. While the technical diversity in browser engines is nice to have, it is not necessary, when the one engine is freely modifiable to your needs.

German plod defend Tesla gigafactory from eco-warriors

Burning hydrogen would be harmless. His rockets burn kerosene however.

Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins

kinda what I thought. As long as MS owns the company, its subject to US law.

Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source

amen.

What strange beauty is this? Microsoft commits to two more non-subscription Office editions

"for use in exceptional circumstances"

I believe these circumstances stem from GDPR rules. No other way for MS to make a buck than to release an offline version.

NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too

Re: A, B, C, . . M ?

Missed opportunity to just go ABCDE, with D for dense flare.