Posts by that one in the corner

China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks

Re: Tools

> attacking misconfigured commercial servers aren't there any tools that can be used as a final or regular check to highlight these misconfigurations?

Somebody is going to say this, or similar, so here goes:

The "commercial servers" are instances of IIS and SharePoint, so the appropriate tools include installers for Apache, Nginx (probably even Confluence instead of SharePoint!!!!*).

* multiple exclamation marks, the sure sign of a mind diseased enough to suggest Confluence, even if, in a case like this...

US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired

Re: No experience necessary ?

Hmm, trouble is they'd just serve to remind DT that he was only skilled enough to handle bagging the fries at McD's, not the whole patty, and he was definitely not up to a complete Happy Meal. This could cause friction and make AF1 fly more slowly.

> If anything, the fact you got wound up about that is kind of the point.

Oh, don't worry on that score.

I was happy to have a DOGE comment to reply to appear so soon, so I could have a chance at a Musk "we blew up one government but it was a win as we have learnt so much for the next attempt" reference.

What I *am* wound up about is that my mind is failing me today and I've *still* not managed to come up with a way to word that reference that is sufficiently mocking, preferably by paraphrasing one of Elon's well-known grand pronouncements :-(

This would be the DOGE that Musk has washed his hands of? You *did* read the linked to article, didn't you?*

If even Elon isn't trying to exaggerate DOGE into a success, you know it must be bad.**

* who am I kidding, he barely read TFA

** "We expected this one to blow up and destroy the pad, but we've learnt so much from it that we can apply next time"

Who is doing the training of the ongoing stream of ignorance*

Borrow management from industry.

Bulk hire "IT pros" with no work experience or higher education. Chuck them out after two years, before they demand a pay rise commensurate with their newfound knowledge and experience (don't worry, those companies involved have been asked to "consider" taking them on). Rinse and repeat.

Tada! No institutional knowledge left, no senior techs, just blank slates sitting at the desks. Under management who can get them cheap deals (but won't, because why would they?) on "training" for whatever package they'll be flogging upgrades for when their leave** is over, but who don't know the government systems and requirements either. Oh, and those systems have just ben buggered by DOGE, so don't expect to be able to "learn how it works on the job" 'cos it currently ain't working!

* ignorance isn't - shouldn't be - a stigma if there has clearly not (yet) been the opportunity to gain the knowledge; but guess who'll be blamed when the IT fails under this scheme.

** as this will be "top industry Management", chosen from the cream of the Sales department, expect them to innovate with the concept of "paid leave", just to remind them which side their bread is buttered.

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't

> English is my native language

Followed by a long string of utter and total twaddle:

> Although it is common to use less to mean without, in most cases of usage of the -less prefix, the thing is in fact not completely without, just less.

No, nope, uh uh, incorrect, not accurate, totally madey-uppy in just your head and nobody else's (unless you've been filling said head).

> Considering that white is all the colours, I would say "it's white" or its colourmore, as it's certainly not without colour.

I don't doubt you *would* say that - at which point you have decided to totally disregard any and all value, point, purpose, intent or worth in the language you lay native claim to. As well as, in that case particularly, a miserably sad failure at junior school Physics.

Must try harder.

Re: Solicitors...

> With the aid of trusty old Norton Utilities

Ah, the Good Old Days, when we were glad to have on our PC some software with the name "Norton" attached to it.

IBM unleashes CUGA, an open-source AI agent that actually completes more than half its tasks

Offtopic

Does anyone else find it hard to take seriously claims posted on something called "HuggingFace"?

Irrespective of what it may actually contain, valuable or otherwise, that name is either absurd or terrifying, with the latter coming more to the fore as screeching newborn horrors burst out of more companies each day.

Repent ye inefficient – the ‘Palantir-ization’ of IT services is upon us

If you own the meaning of the words

Are we talking Newspeak or just Double Dutch?

The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years

> I suppose the 2nd one of those could be simply cured by adding an ssd as a cache to the front end of the drive...

There is a long history of handling multiple layers of storage, with increasing volume and increasing access time at each layer (from CPU register to robot tape library), so we just need to drop this into the appropriate level in the hierarchy and keep on as usual.

Re: Obvious Question

Perhaps by rotating the medium so that the lasers are no longer shining along the same axes as the recorded bits?

No idea if that is actually possible, except that my gut feeling is that, if it is, the answer will be either incredibly simple (e.g. it will work with the bits in a simple cubic arrangement) or incredibly beautiful (e.g. you need the bits arranged in a three-dimensional spiral thingie, probably something akin to rotating spherical shells involving the Fibonacci or a related series). 'Cos that's just maths works out.

Oh, and once we've got the answer, we'll realise that Nature got there first.

Re: Re ..lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.

Your downvote, and those on the chap we've replied to, makes me wonder: are there people here who don't believe that 5 1/4 inch disks ever existed and are annoyed that you're insisting on treating them as real? Youngsters who are still smarting over the way they were taken in by stories of Father Christmas and don't want to hear any more fantastic tales.

394 trillion zettabytes: yawn.

Piffling.

The linked-to article gives no useful source for that number and if you do try to search for its references all you end up with marketing guff for and about the usual bit barns and LLM codswalllop. Which includes all the wastage of everyone duplicating webscrapings because businesses "need to guard *their* copy, it is so super-duper special compared to the feeble scraping *those* people did".

Totally ignoring the REAL sources of data that needs to be archived: Big Science.

Places like the LHC already have data storage problems, tending to hang onto only pre-processed data; which is fine IFF we can trust that the data reduction didn't lose anything important that we didn't even know to look for. The LHC is actually in a nice situation: they know precisely when to switch on the recorders[1] and they know what sorts of events they hope to see, so can put some boundaries on the filters, both of which reduce the amount of data needing storage for more than a few minutes or hours.

But Astronomy really, really needs to be able to record and store raw observations, noise and all, from as much continuous all-sky observing as is possible to do. In as many bands as possible. And be able to cross-reference it all, over as long a time-span as we can possibly manage. From the professionals - the data from the Square Kilometre Array, for one has pretty big storage needs! - but also amateurs who are running instruments scattered far and wide (synthetic aperture long base lines FTW - iff we can get accurate timestamps and raw observation storage; timestamps are becoming doable...). And before you pooh-pooh the usefulness of this, as some do, may I remind you of the increasing need to keep an eye on the big fusion reactor in our neighbourhood and our hopes to predict when it might get a dicky tummy.

What we are unfortunately missing still is long-term storage with a decently fast write speed.

Business data really does not need to be stored on any great timescales. But as they have the money, best just to humour them

[1] although they'll miss the resublimating thiotimoline events that occur just before they start the collider running

And they only need to switch

Re: Re ..lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.

Look around a bit more, there are a fair number of people who do things like floppy recovery on an enthusiast level: if you can't get the cash to use a "proper data recovery service" you can use your (spare!) time instead.

You want to get a flux reader attached to your drive, rather than an "old enough computer" 'cos the computer will (very sensibly) throw a wobbly when it hits a bad patch and fail, whilst the flux reader will just keep on going (reading back the lack of properly organized flux - at that level, it doesn't care enough to throw a wobbly). Then you get to run software on your big, modern bog-standard desktop PC to recover what data is left.

Start by reading up on Greaseweazle.

Oh, and write up what you manage, successful or not, and leave us a link to that blog post :-)

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

Clearly I don't have the correct mindset

Even in the Days of Yore, I'd've been thinking about a way to automate the keypress.

Which would mean a few days of fun, hacking something together* but that would be it. The more sensible Hannahs of this world get far more play time.

* yes, yes, these days all you need is a RubberDucky but back then...

British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted

Existential branding challenge - sounds like a good idea

The unfortunate side of this is that the "challenge" is seen to be coming from the notoriously unreliable chatbots, instead of our having a reliable and rational automated system that can ingest all the available data about products[1], accurately take your requirements[2] and selecting the best match for you *this* time[3].

Then we could have a world were "brands" were thankfully utterly irrelevant[4] and instead companies had to actually compete on the genuine ability of the products - and continual updating of how well they were keeping up the quality of the targets that their QC were being told to target!

Ok, this beautiful world free of Global Branding will upset a few people, including those poor souls who have been trained by Big Marketing to believe that there is some personal value they can accrue by wearing brand names on the outside of their clothes - deprogramming camps can be arranged for the worst afflicted. It'll also upset brand marketers, but they can just go and get a socially valuable job instead: we'll always need bin men and loo attendants.

[1] be they airline flights or plastic storage boxes.

[2] this would be the hard part, but wouldn't it be glorious if we'd been spending the time and effort over all these years actually finding out how to get solid requirements out of Users!

[3] including "features" like, where applicable, being able to go to a local supplier to see the product in person and make your final selections based upon "what grabs you", or just be able to pop the item into your pocket (after paying!) immediately. Ie the pleasant parts of going shopping.

[4] and, especially, getting rid of the bleepingly destructive (for the purchaser, being, well, defrauded) trading in brands: buying out a defunct brand name that had goodwill attached to it, then using it to flog tat until the public get wise.

Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban

Re: Possibly unwise but at leat trusthful

But crossing the road is a useful, even necessary, activity.

Reddit really, really isn't anywhere near as important as being allowed to cross the road. And there are places in Australia where it is not allowed for anyone, let alone children, to cross the road.

Taikonauts inspect cracked Shenzhou-20 window during Tiangong spacewalk

Re: So .....

> for the crack? (phonetic joke!)

No need for phonetics - "the crack" (spelt just like that) is English in origin; North East, The Shields area. Hence the name of the NE "what's on" listings magazine, simply called "The Crack". What you referenced is a neologism after the word became popular after travelling to the Emerald Isle and "needed" to have an Irish spelling, especially when written outside Irish themed pubs in the south of England!

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Re: War #J842X23

<nasal_voice>

If you watch the episode, it is made very clear that we saw two distinct sets of faces, those of the younger versions of The Doctor as he was losing the contest and then, after a pause, as The Doctor gains the upper hand, those of Morbius - both sets started with the current incarnation of the character. The only way that "clearing up" works is if you believe that, for some unexplained reason, the images of The Doctor were suddenly replaced by those of an even *younger* Morbius before we get the pause - and Morbius's lives get started again from the current incarnation.

</nasal_voice>

OR we accept that that episode was made well before the "12 regenerations" idea came about - and the Canon is exploding*

* Plus, of course, well after that attempt at "clearing up", Canon is now that The Doctor was never limited to 12 in the first place, so all those pre-Hartnell Doctors are quite ok and the "clearing up" has been "cleared away". It also raises the issue that someone on Gallifrey still nows all about The Child and staged some special effects to cover up that Matt Smith's's Doctor would regenerate anyway. Which may have been The Spy Master, as he supposedly was the only one to find out...

Re: as long as the word lobbying exists

OTOH the members of the Landsraad were not shy of facing off against each other, despite all being shareholders of and incorporated into CHOAM.

After all, we've had the idea of Battlin' Business Units for a while now, as each one tries to keep a larger portion of next year's budget; it is only a matter of time before someone gets around to scheduling the live fire tests on the same day as the company-wide morale boosting paint-ball outing. He may only be a Junior VP now, but that Harkonnen lad has his eye on the big prize.

Re: War #J842X23

> Captain: What The FUCK? I'm in a WAR and the canon is fucking misfiring!

Oh come now. John Hurt's Doctor wasn't *that* bad. Okay, if you count all the faces in Brain of Morbius then the whole "12 regenerations" thing was already shot by the time you got to him, putting the *entirety* of the New Who into question even before that Northerner with the big lugs appeared...

Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion

Funding for Science

Are the labs allowed to take the money and actually do some science, or do they to spaff it on "AI"?

Will it be enough to just get ChatGPT to write the cover page for the proposal?

Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software

Re: Job losses

That is how the ill-equipped always tackle a steep descent: just start walking down without seriously examining the problem (and finding out what has happened to other people trying the same thing), instead of crawling and crabbing carefully across the landscape.

Soon you are running faster and faster, managing to stay upright and congratulating yourself on how well you are doing, you are a natural at this, fie to all the naysayers.

Now you are out of control, the momentum is too great to let you go in any other direction than straight down in the grip of a force that keeps you accelerating. Your feet are hitting the ground so hard the scree is flying out in all directions; over there a flying rock slashes an innocent bystander and in the other direction it has created a landslide, undermining the plateau from where you started, those same inevitable forces causing the previously solid ground to collapse beneath the onlookers above.

The bottom is a sudden jarring moment of realisation that you've just run out of luck. The best you can hope for is a quick end; otherwise you will lie there immobile, nothing to do but watch the lives of those you've affected come crashing alongside.

PS

In the above, for "you" please read "LLM tech bros"; putting that in every time would have ruined the flow.

NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter

Re: No one would believe

It puts the recent LTT video about dialup in 2025 into proper perspective.

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

Re: Software for parachute jumps ?

> I doubt very much that military troopers need software to know where they're supposed to sit and store their equipment.

Because the load balancing calculations were all done prior to loading (where do think the checklists come from?) and the troopers were all trained to put their kit *here* and the you sit *there*. Anything that is out of the ordinary or totally unplanned - well, any military that goes out with its materiel unplanned or improperly stowed is due for a right bollocking at the absolute minimum.

I'd be more concerned about small plane operators & staff who couldn't do the basic balancing themselves: stories abound of island hoppers, even in the dreary old English Channel, not just exotic locales, where the passengers get quietly moved around (commercial flights being too polite to just say "all the fatties to the front on the left hand side, we're carrying a refrigerator strapped to the right of the hold" - the "hold" being the last two rows with the seats unbolted today).

PS

Can you give a reference for their use of "Windwows" software? We're sure it wasn't running on an iPad?

India’s government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models

Do we all have to register with all these schemes?

> Your correspondent is a member of an Australian scheme that charges royalties for reprints of news and other content and disburses them to creators who register their works.

The LLM scrapers are indiscriminate and, as they don't track how much each of their billions of nadans was affected by each bit of input, can not possibly provide fair attribution for their final output*. So are all the humans going to be compensated for the scraping done *before* this scheme comes into place or is the compensation done by, ooh, percentage of the total material registered by this scheme that has your name on it?

NOTE: the Australian scheme mentioned is clearly aimed at explicit REPRINTS - that is, the item was found by some means (e.g. a search) and then explicitly taken as something to reprint, with the attribution clearly attached. Trying to apply that style of scheme to chat bot results has NOTHING whatsoever to do with LLM scraping of copyright works: it could be applied to the proactive bots that go out and pull another copy of the work, in which case it not an "AI" issue but instead we are back to the old "Google is showing too much of my text in their search results" problem.

I'm all for compensating the creators, btw; it is just that schemes like this all seem to be working from the outside in and don't seem to match reality. But they'll make *some* payouts, especially to all the big players who are already rich enough to pay the lawyers, and because of that will allow the LLM operators to be able to say "no, no, we are paying, everything is fair now" whilst all the poor young artists are still left starving in their garrets, producing genuinely great stuff that won't even be recognised after their deaths because it has been hoovered up by the spiders before anyone else and the serial numbers filed off before you can blink.

PS

If the answer is "yes, of course you have to register with all these schemes to get your due compensation" how much is THAT going to cost all the aspiring new authors? Even if these databases are free to enter (so how are they funded? By taking too much of your compensation?) there are going to lots of them - and nice people who'll be sure to get your work into all of them for a "reasonable" fee.

* even when paraphrasing, or just plain quoting, a recognisable chunk of text: if it spits out "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" did it get that by reading Monty Python scripts or from ingesting El Reg comments over the years? What if the LLM is found to always mention vultures whenever it produces that quote? BTW, the use here of a trivially small quote is simply to avoid (1) having to make this comment stupidly long and (2) to try to get the reader to ponder how often even quite large chunks of material are found outside of their original piece without attribution "because we all know where it came from" even out of context; imagine how much of a work you can ingest just by reading a fan site** that assumes you know the context... So no responses like "that is too short to be worth paying for".

** now you've got the idea, replace "fan site" with "professional platform for discussing serious subject".

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

Re: emails

> 10 year of email addresses? I doubt I could remember all of mine. I certainly don't keep a record of them all.

Guaranteed I can't remember mine.

Since beginning from my first personal 'Net connection with Demon, I've always used catch-all emails with a domain, so every registration, online shop, random interaction has used a different email. But as I didn't get around to buying "my own" domain until very recently, I've lost a few domains over the decade (and others before that) and therefore all of those email addresses. A few of the more useful registrations would be updated for continuity, but on the whole didn't bother (this is at least my fourth El Reg "identity" IIRC). And as there was no point in keeping track of email addresses that were no longer usable...

Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car

Re: More cloudybollocks

>> So they don't have securely lockable doors?

> These will all be keyless entry that...

You could have just said "No, they don't".

Re: More cloudybollocks

The only alternative to needing a satellite signal is to have your car stolen?

So they don't have securely lockable doors? Bit of an oversight there.

Maybe parking in a garage would help - but presumably not one without decent reception.

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception

Re: Tariffs

> Yes, that is what the tariffs are intended to address in the medium-to-long term

There was no medium- or long-term strategy evident when the tariffs were created, especially with that idiotic board and the whole "tariff the penguins" nonsense. It was all just knee-jerk, innumerate "punishment for not treating the US fairly".

Any claims now of there having been any "strategy" really need to be backed up, as they otherwise look like post-hic rationalisation and wishful thinking.

Re: "censorship"

As the list of 18 books banned in Utah includes a recent Margaret Atwood novel, I shall take it as read that the other 17 titles are equally worthy.

Does anyone have an email for the Utah school board, so I can send them my thanks for making it so easy to flesh out this year's Christmas Wish List?

Re: Cost

If X pays this (picayune) fine without complaint, under the illusion it is "cost of doing business", but doesn't change what it is doing, then we have the start of a winning streak against them: the EU can, as TFA points out, keep issuing "periodic penalty payments." Which can gently increase in both size and frequency, putting the "cost of doing business" on an upwards slope.

If the EU directly tries to "fine X out of existence" in one go, that'll get tangled up immediately and only the lawyers win. If the can get X to just pay up to get the EU out their hair then there is precedent set for being told to pay up the next time. And the next. And the next. And ... (as I can't see X ever understanding that they could actually start being transparent, accurate and/or honest, that is no longer in their playbook).

Kyocera claims 5.2 Gbps underwater laser data blast in lab tests

> you want the least possible interception risk.

Shining a laser through water is "least possible interception risk"?

You did see the photo, with the clearly visible line of displaced light showing where the laser is - and therefore whatever modulation it is carrying? And that is a nice clear test tank! Add a bit of real-world turbidity and everyone in the nearby spherical neighbourhood will be able to read it pretty much as clearly as the intended recipient.

Now, lasers in space are another matter, of course.

Re: Wait!

Paging Mr Sharky. White courtesy laser, please. And Sharky says "I turn around, it's fear".

ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software

> people break the law by reporting on the activities of law enforcement

Are you saying you believe it is illegal in the US to report on any activity of law enforcement?

So newspapers, TV, bloggers etc etc, who report that police have raided a house, or been involved in a car chase, or stopped cars for no apparent reason, or solved a murder case, or failed to identify a body dragged from the river, or opened a new precinct house, or were shot at, or shot someone, or provided an honor guard to the President, or gave testimony in court, or been the subject of a court hearing, or clashed with rioters, or accompanied an entirely peaceful march through town, or sung "Galway Bay" - all those reporters have been and are still breaking the law?

If true, that would would make the evening news a lot shorter.

X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement

Irony

In that X has shut down an ad account that could have been earning money for X...

FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built

Also, Busybox builds are very popular for space-l-conscious embedded systems*, so there is every chance even Eric 9001 actually owns more of those than he does GNU-based ones.

* Do you know what your washing machine is running?

My granny is wondering, are you free next weekend to teach her how to suck eggs?

Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption

To train our AI models

Finally, a company that is willing to be honest about the shit they use to train their models.

Although I was hoping that they'd also scrape up all the publicly accessible training materials.

Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

> Windows XI ?!

They daren't do that, it would make the Whitehouse think Microsoft was siding with China.

Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse

> Wiw, nowadays it is news when MS bothers to fix a bug?

When you compare it to the average story about Microsoft, yes, yes it is news when they *fix* a bug.

Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job

I'm too glitchy for my job, too glitchy

This is MaMaMa MaMa Max HeadRrr Headroom, coming to you lilililive and direct!

Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals

If only there was a technically feasible way

Like, oooh, making the User have an individual Xero account they log into.

Putting the charges for API usage onto the End User who initiated the the transaction, rather than the front end they decided to use. You know, like paying for the electric but not caring if the demand comes from an oil-filled rad, GPU rack or any other way of turning current into heat.

Treat APIs as commodities, *especially* when they are for access to something like financials, where (one hopes) the processing isn't aggregating data across multiple Users. Then the third party developers could create front ends that make Xero more useful & appealing (ref complaints, above), Xero gets more use and more income, the devs can use whatever payment model they are happy with.

Too simple? Too workable? Won't allow for Marketing's Big Idea Presentation to the Board at Xero?

Rust core library partly polished for industrial safety spec

Re: Nice to see

That goes along with believing that copying an example diagram verbatim from a SIL manual will magically make it a 1:1 fit with your project.

Think of it as trying to make a 1:1 fit between TCP/IP and the 7 layer model, only instead of arguments over a pint about whether all the fields in this packet belong in this layer or that, there are real safety concerns if you can't 100% fit the two together.

Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator

He prompted his story generator to give him a story about Sonic the Hedgehog

Here is my foul and evil IP infringement story generator:

print "Tell me your character names"

let a$=input

let b$=input

print "What do the like to do?"

let c$=input

print "One day, " a$ " asked his friend " b$ "'Would you like to go out and " c$ "?'"

PS Okay, the pictures are a bit dull, but it is a start.

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece

Re: He would say that, wouldn't he.

The Smithsonian should demand that the loaned items be returned and get at least one loaded onto a flatbed.

Drive it away, park out of sight - then offer to let Houston have it back, charging the full $85 million for the tricky transportation problem of turning the flatbed around. They can then use that money for something sensible, like giving the Shuttle a good polish for the benefit of the visitors (and sneak the remaining $84 milion back to NASA).

Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one

Re: "Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one"

> The only valid use of AI is to separate the gullible from their money

There are loads of useful techniques that have come out of the AI labs over the decades[1] - and some have been vastly overhyped in the past, then "died" - but they didn't die, they are still around, being useful. Except that it is not the done thing to refer to them as "AI" any more, they are just "obvious everyday algorithms".

Or, as I've said before, "if it works, it ain't AI" (any longer).

[1] some of which are already mentioned in other comments here, but consider Expert Systems, Planning Systems, anything to do with Natural Language, Machine Learning (in properly defined and controlled domains), a lot of "normal everyday" image processing techniques like edge detection and everything leading up to Vision Based Systems like Face Detection and the Face Recognition (and not just by dumping everything into an LLM and hoping, which is being tried nowadays).

Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling

Re: Payment

> companies should be forced, by law, to...

In too many places, the companies own the law.

So what we'll get instead is:

>> companies will force, by law, the OSS authors to provide the fixes for free; if they don't, they'll be imprisoned which, in certain jurisdictions, means they can now be made to work for free. And it will serve them right, they are just common criminals after all.

Re: Womp Womp

The "worrying the original might be deleted" is prevalent, making sure that you and your user's will always be able to fulfill the dependencies. That is quite sensible, really.

As for just forking to get it under your name to pad the CV: if someone does that and the employer doesn't even care that none of the clones have any real commits in them? They deserve each other!

Re: See also XYZ..

Those same people ignoring the honesty box are also leaving rude notes, telling everyone your free cakes aren't any good because they don't come in a range of pretty boxes and aren't as tasty as the one you get in Harrods - and why didn't you put out enough for all 170 guests at their daughter's wedding like they demanded in yesterday's rude note?