Posts by Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

Re: Isn't Who, Me? .....

Hey, whatever day of the week it is, we're at least 8 hours closer to knock off time than the rest of yez...

Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year

Re: nuclear The guys a hero

Everything in moderation.

Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told

Re: Mr Musk. . .

One of your servers crashed into another... then bits of them crashed into three others...

Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down

Re: Why should she apologize?

Senator Henderson is part of the public. The organisation with the actual job of making sure that 000 works is the government, which doesn't include her or her party. No part of her job involves breaking the law. In an emergency, emergency services have enough to do without also having to deal with political pranks.

There's copious reportage out there describing real emergency traffic in the context of this service failure, giving details of either failed connections, failover to other carriers or callbacks when unconnected calls are detected.

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

Have you forgotten Kimball?

Kimball was in Kentucky.

GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

Slackware FTW.

NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight

Whoever wrote the report, the story is brought to you by the Kerbal Space Program.

Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones

Re: A Bit OT

The DoJ can say whatever they like. Congress has the power to declare it an unconstitutional foreign emolument. Come November they probably will. The plain language of the clause says it is anyway.

Re: Apple, Tree...

Another plausible explanation is that he doesn't want to be seen running his finger along the page, pausing now and again to spell out the more difficult words. You know, the ones with two or more syllables.

NASA management wants a word and won't say why

Women (and girls) are still discouraged from going into STEM professions so there are fewer at a level where they could be chosen for a crew.

Your predicate is probably true for society at large (although women predominate over men in STEM undergraduate enrollments, at least in my part of the world). But if the conclusion is true, that's on NASA and not a consequence of societal expectations.

It's also something that needs to be based on meritocracy rather than there being any attempt at ticking DIE boxes.

I think you meant 1) selection on merit and 2) DEI. You've also forgotten what the E stands for if you think DEI doesn't mean selection based on merit.

The mission needs to accomplish some number of things and that should become the foundation for who will be the best candidates to be selected.

And how do you feel about motherhood?

England's exam watchdog frets over smart specs turning GCSEs into Google searches

Re: "insisted on us submitting the whole thing as a handwritten essay"

But... but... that's dative for you, and ablative for me!

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam sed noli modo.

That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026

Re: ST Five Liners

60 REM (C) Anonymous Coward 1987

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Re: Who could have predicted this would be a bait and switch?

* Conclusion drawn from the bean-counters'memo: AI is <20% as effective as it was marketed / budgeted for. Who would have thought?

Re: “Gone. For basically nothing.”

I also love the tacit acknowledgement that bait and switch was the business model from the start.

Putting in a public announcement words to the effect of "you customers are only just now paying for the actual cost of development and operation of that tool you've been using for the last n years" says openly that enshittification was planned. Blind Freddie could have seen that, though.

Problem is that the people who made the decision to integrate an enshittified business model into their own plans now have to be the ones called on to notice that, hey, the way we did things before we made that choice they advocated was cheaper. Anyone... Anyone...

Claude celebrates Anthropic's stock market float with blockbuster ... outage

Re: Stay away from 'Growth stocks'

Down >20% from their highs since the Iran war.

I don't think that word means what you think it does

Anthropic was down twice momentarily yesterday. A surge in reports started from 0700 UTC today and peaked at 0948 UTC.

168 minutes is a hell of a long moment.

California passes bill declaring death-by-algorithm to 3D-printed ghost guns

Re: So which is it?

Unless you want an abortion.

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans

Re: I wonder...

NASA got all its really embarrassing failures out of the way at Peenemünde....

If I'm not mistaken the (impressive) visible presence of an expanding spherical shockwave early in the footage is sufficient to confirm a supersonic pressure wave, and therefore a detonation.

AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims

Re: I guess the JWs knocked on the wrong doors…

Oh, I would genuinely enjoy reading the output of the LLM trained on the religious texts of the world...

+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++

Re: Brigham Young University

Sadly, whenever someone lays claim to the title of Greatest, another takes it as a challenge to outdo them.

Who was it described the first priest as the first scoundrel to meet the first idiot?

AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard

Humorphism?

Humors, mmm?

So, blood, bile, phlegm and melancholy.

FCC walks back router update ban before it bricked America's network security

Head of policy says...

The biggest practical security risk with routers is not only who made them, but whether they remain patched.

Well? Make up yourmindpolicy, then tell us what it is.

Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more

Re: Wrong woman

Clytemnestra, from the Greek for "remember to take good care of a woman."

Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line

Different sort of Temple

Can I write a bash script to virtual speedrun the Scientology HQ?

BOFH: Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom

I nominate "betweek" as word of the month.

AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises

$?

No mention of cost, but then, if you have to ask, you can't afford it.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

Re: Also on Linux

If I had Chrome installed, round about now I'd be overwriting weights.bin with an .MP4 of 2001: A Space Odyssey chmod a-w just to make clear what happens when LLMs go beyond their remit.

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense

Indeed. A company whose historical idea of consent is hiding the cancel button and disguising 'OK' as the close window button.

I'm reading PEBCAK as problem exists (south of) British Columbia and Alaska, because it's clearly in Redmond, Washington.

Exploiting monopoly market dominance to squeeze another billion or two out of unsuspecting customers who have already paid you in a myriad different ways is unconscionable. Time for an antitrust lawsuit.

Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area

Re: unexpected item

I'm sure your dear old Gran has needed a pea now and again just like the rest of us.

If they are, they're exposing you to ionising radiation to a radiation-sensitive area.

Next time insist on an ultrasound. Just make sure they use enough gel.

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

Exactly this.

It is agentic personalities like this, who can internally disguise and repurpose the corporate evil intent as something innocent or actually helpful, that make the evil possible.

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

Re: Death to AI in Windows.,

Windows does not need a deployment of AI.

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

Re: "seven times the speed of sound"

Along with the firkin, presumably.

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

Like it did for your father, and your grandfather before him, presumably...

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

Re: decimal system

Not only that, the sun appears to move 3.989 minutes of arc every minute of time.

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

Unfortunately, no one is talking sense.

A US administration lacks the skills, intelligence or courage to end the war it started. It attacked Iran without a casus belli. That country feels obliged to make the whole world share as much of its pain as possible.

Every other country in the world is now in a zero sum game of Whom Do We Loathe More?

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again

Another one who recognizes that paying lip service to the hobby horse of specific politicians distorting the consensus of specialist scientific opinion to pander to your own ignorant special interest group can get you funding.

FTFY

Re: Cleared orbit

Chelys galactica

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Reptilia

Order: Testudinae

Oh, great. Another one who thinks politics trumps objective evidence.

Re: Cleared orbit

In that sense no planet has a completely cleared orbit. Allowing for Trojans and similar temporarily resonance-sharing interlopers, anything that enters Earth's sphere of influence gets crashed into the moon. flung inwards, flung outwards or burned up. That's called being part of a dynamic system.

Kubernetes explains the release that kills Ingress NGINX with Japanese poetry and art

Re: Pretentious drivel ...

Release to the world

Spring themes, ignoring small fact:

Half the world autumn.

Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain

Re: CHARACTER OR FOR DONKEY UNDERNEATH

My guess is that it had to have a cup of tea and a lie down after repeatedly trying and failing to parse those five words. It obviously didn't have training on "this is gobbledygook, ignore it and move on."

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule

Yes, but F.Elon Musk is responsible for getting it into orbit. I sense a rapid (un)planned disassembly coming on...

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Re: Liberty, once lost, is lost forever

It worked as designed for Maximilien Robespierre. In Marat's case, his cleaning lady made it unnecessary. As for Napoleon, lots has been said about the rest of Europe's point of view, but domestically he made a point of maintaining the ideals of the revolution.

Re: The irony is delicious

Hypo- (as prefix), under or below. Government by the underneath (apparently, by arseholes).

NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer

Unserviceable?

They might not be able to be serviced, but Voyagers are, by far, the most serviceable spacecraft ever designed by humankind.

Here's to them both!

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned

Re: "Smart"

Obligatory XKCD

You can finally control serial devices from Firefox

And here was me just last night coming to terms with the otherwise apparently reasonable keyboard manufacturer who, rather than write software to support their device on Win/macos/Linux/*BSD, use... (wait for it) a web app!

Now the only thing I need to be worried about in respect of web security is anything one can use a keyboard to make my computer do.