* Posts by Khaptain

4022 publicly visible posts • joined 4 May 2008

Microsoft's Swiss army knife app hopes to cut through cloud clutter

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And don't forget , that like Azure, the interfaces will change on a weekly basis ensuring that you will never master control of anything.

Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie

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Re: Whoever wrote this article

"I'm pretty sure a British reporter wrote this one"

Surprising as the rhetoric has much the same bias as is typical of the SF office..

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Whoever wrote this article

It would be much funnier if the El Reg author of the article played the role.. Since we all know how much the San Francisco staff absolutely loves E. Musk.

Canonical reveals more details about Ubuntu Core Desktop

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Moving towards an Apple methodology..

It feels as though they are making a move to Apple's one system to rule them all approach rather than the every-man for himself approach.

Not a very "linuxy" way of doing things but on the other hand it appears to be a kind of guarantee that everything will just work and just keep working.

Probably not likely to be used by the typical nerd but I can see that it has it's uses elsewhere.

Meta's ad-free scheme dares you to buy your privacy back, one euro at a time

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Re: I thought this was an Onion article

"I'm happy that my entire social media presence is on mastodon"

Does "The Register" not count as social media ?

Yeah, that oughta do the trick, Joe... Biden hopes to tackle AI safety with exec order

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Re: exec order

Any system that opposes the current narrative will be considered a Security Risk.

First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe

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Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

"Why should the rights of those who want to parrot racism, homophobia and transphobia while helping Russia spread misinformation be respected?"

Do you know anyone on this planet that does not fit into one of those phobias ? Can you prove to the rest of the world, and everyone that has differing viewpoints from your own, that you are neither racist, homophobic or transphobic ?

I would be that you can't because the very definitions vary depending on who you discuss with.

Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs

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Re: re: I am quite sure that he will have the figures to back it up

Because it's not in his interest if he doesn't have them..

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And you know this how ?

I saw a recent interview where Elon Musk stated the percentages of which the "extremely naughty/bad" content had been reduced. Ok it was E Musk himself that stated this but it was on a public interview and I am quite sure that he will have the figures to back it up otherwise he had to reason to state them as any falsification would obviously be fact checked...

EU threatens X with DSA penalties over spread of Israel-Hamas disinformation

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Only X ?

Are we to believe that the European Commission has regarded content on all major social media platforms and that X was the only one with false information..

That would be very, very surprising.

New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author

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We are probably the simulation of some kind of nasty virus attacking an astral body. IN the end the astral body will just shrug us off, sneeze or fart, and we will be no more.

Musk's first year as Twitter's Dear Leader is nigh

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Re: Social media is overrated

The problem came about when the media, Newspapers, TV etc decided that Twitter was a viable source for everything and anything. Probably due to graduates that grew up with Social Media, for them it truly is a viable source of news, since that's where they learn about the world, they then left college and got jobs within the media companies.

Those in power realised that this was the case, so they started "nudging" what was being Tweeted, this in turn help to further skew what was being reported by the Media.

Elon Musk knew this too and realised that it had gone too far, it had become to powerful, so he threw a spanner in the works..

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Re: Social media is overrated

"Musk has turned Twatter into a home for Right Wing Despots, Conspiracy Theorists and White Nationalists."

If that's what you believe then Mastadon probably offers you a safer place to be amongst like minded people.

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" throwing the brand away and calling it X seems like the weirdest "

It's been in the pipeline from the beginning.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1504311459924398083?s=20&t=FTNY-fVH7UIseBs7DgVvYQ

China's national security minister rates fake news among most pressing cyber threats

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Coming from the top

And what's most worrying of all is when the Government itself is the provider of the fake news.

Here in the west it's no better.

Starlink speeds ahead in the satellite race but rivals aren't starstruck just yet

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I can only dream of these speeds.

My last Ookla Speed test gave me 12Mb download and 0.8Mb Upload...

Yes you read that correctly....12 / 0.8 Megabits. Bits not Bytes.

Our building is fibre ready but because of work on the Tram lignes nearby we won't get the fibre before 2026....

I really don't like working from home...

And 4G is no better because I live at the extremity of the cell towers range. And Starlink is not possible because of poor sky visibility...

It goes to show that even in the 1st world we don't always get the best of everything.

California passes bill to set up one-stop data deletion shop

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1 US state down, 49 to go?

1 US state down, the rest of the world to go....

Dutch consumer groups sue Google over its entire business model

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Attack the advertisers to get results

Google only makes its revenue through the advertisers that pay for the platform. They are the ones actively encouraging Google et al to go further into the privacy of everyone's personal info.

The advertisers and marketeers are the true scum l, they are the bottom feeding parasites that will do anything to sell their wares. They don't truly care whether it's Google or Microsoft , just as long as they get into the first page of results..

CrowView: A clamp-on, portable second laptop display

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Re: "Portable Display" means what?

Surprising to see how close that second link ( to the side) looks like the CrowView version ;-)

Pokémon Go was a 'success disaster' and Niantic is still chasing another hit

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Re: The buzz has worn off

"A lot of them really hammered battery when in AR mode, which is not conducive to people playing the game for long.."

Ingress was the reason for which I bought my 1st ever external power pack for a Smartphone... you couldn't expect to attend any events without at least one of them.

Niantic did quite a good job of the AR side of things but as mentioned above it was more of a gadget than anything else as the battery was very, very quickly the limiting factor..

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The buzz has worn off

Niantic have created several AR games, I didn't play Pokemon Go but I did play Ingress. I loved playing Ingress in the sense that it made you want to go out and capture the portals etc... Pokemon Go is just the same game with Monsters( Pokemons) instead of portals.

Niantic's success was without doubt due to the uniqueness of the experience but we have now mostly outlived and gone through that period.. On top of that their games become hyper-repetitive after a period of time and one completely loses interest, regardless of how much spicing up they try and do..

I highly doubt that they will ever achieve the same achievements as they did with PG unless of course that design something breathtakingly new ( which is extremely difficult to do).

OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times

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"Wealth accumulation"

This is exactly the reason that people on the left swing to the right when they become successful or wealthy. Because even the hardcore leftists don't want to give up their comforts, which is understandable, if you have worked hard to achieve what you have earned.

The term "wealth" is also a relative word as it always depends on whom or to what you are comparing something. A better term might be "material comforts".

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An ideologists wet dream

Yes, it has a left leaning bias at the moment, but regardless of whether it swings to the left or the right it will eventually be used against you.

AI will ultimately replace the media and will be used wholly as a political tool that will be controlled by the government/Big Pharma, Big Business in power at any given time.

If you can't trust politicians, or the GAFAs, then you certainly can't trust AI.

The internet went form a Geeks paradise to a marketing masturbation tool. But AI has far more potential than the web as it will become the "sole" source of truth, that's what you will be told and that's what you will believe.. You will be given no other choice, it's already starting to happen.

Florida man accused of hoarding America's secrets faces fresh charges

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Re: You sure are preoccupied by Trump and Musk!

The El Reg office has decided that only left wingers get a positive review, regarsless of how bad they are doing their job..

I don't care about Trump but I do care about how politicised El Reg has become.

It's like the old Twiiter user's have moved into El Regs San Fran office and started bullying everyone about what is acceptable...

What I truly don't like is how rabid many of the commentards have now become, it's no longer funny. It's almoat as if they don't realise that they are the tiniest pawns in a very large game of chess and that they will be the 1st to get sacrificed

What does Twitter's new logo really represent?

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Re: Let's hope it stops the hate comments

"If you want go drink Musks piss, that's fine, but don't for a moment pretend that it's out of some egalitarian desire for 'constructive criticism' - if you knew of Musks history, as many of us here do, then you'd know that the negative feelings towards him are entirely justified and watching him crash and burn publicly is hilarious.""

This is a perfect example of what I commented about... It's truly sad.

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Let's hope it stops the hate comments

I for one hope it stops the "hate" ( I'll use the wokesters favourite word here) comments that have become so prevalent with anything to do with Musk..

I don't care about Twitter etc but I do care about the level of comments en El Reg. It's become just another echo chamber for those that have no actual opinions on the subject at hand but rather a place where they spout out some nonsense about a man that they do not know, will probably never meet, and if they did they most certainly would not have the courage to use their infantile remarks to his face.

How about we get back to actually making constructive comments rather the childish ideological nonsense.

US adds Euro spyware makers to export naughty list

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Indian developer fired 90 percent of tech support team, outsourced the job to AI

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Re: Hope MS are listening

The actual question, and it was real was as follows ..

The latest update on Win 11 has broken automatic machine Wifi authentification with our radius server.. User are now obliged to manually accept the connection whereas before it was automatic, everything was running fine before the latest update. Where should we look in order to debug this problem. We currently push the parameters via GPO.

The actual problem was due to the fact that a certificate should have been pushed through a GPO but was not.. Windows 10, and Win11 before the update, did not suffer as they could fall back to using using user/machine credentials BUT the latest update forbid this method of authentication, CHAPV2, so broke the radius authentication for W11 which did not have the appropriate certificate installed.. After pushing the correct certificate everything was back to order.

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Re: Hope MS are listening

You have to love MS's definition especially the words "expert" and "deep knowledge".

"Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services"

Expert = I know how to perform a basic search on the interweb..

Deep Knowledge = I repeat in parrot fashion that which I have managed to glean from Google, Reddit or some other source which goes way above my actual knowledge/experience.

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Hope MS are listening

Maybe replacing the "MVP"s on MS forums would greatly increase the level of usefull replies.

Question : I have a problem with our radius authentication and 22H2.

Answer : Hiy name is Chukka I am a MVP. have you performed a SFC /scannow. Have you tried reinstalling Windows. Or, sorry that Is a question for another forum.

Nothing is more frustrating the sifting through this endless drivel.

Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount

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Re: To quote Hunter S Thompson

“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.

Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”

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Re: Why does this sound...

It's getting to the stage where it's hard to find any survey that is not heavily pre-loaded with propaganda, poor attempts at marketing or simply some form of nudging.

Nudging :

Governments are increasingly adopting behavioral science techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of "nudge" interventions that governments are now adopting alter people's decisions without coercion or significant changes to economic incentives

Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right

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Re: Choose your Satan

"Okay, bad analogy because MAGA voters are fine with both Trump and Hitler"

Both of my grandfathers, like so many US, UK and other soldiers, fought against Hitler's armies, I am glad they did because both you and I are here living peaceful lives. Neither you nor me has to fight against Trump. What did Trump do that made your life so bad ? Please provide actual facts and not ideological splutterings..

I don't defend Trump, I can't stand the man, but this leftist nonsense is pathetic. You really need to have a look back in history before you start comparing anyone to Hitler.. It truly us pathetic to see that kind of unjustified remark.

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Re: Funny

You do realise that we have moved on since Trump and Brexit , or do you prefer to perpetually live in the past ?

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Twitterati rejoice

Now all those unhappy Anti-Elon Twitterati persons can rejoice as they have a new wonderful alternative. Mark loves strong ideological voices, what's not to like...

No longer will it be necessary to vent ones spleen on El Reg because Twitter doesn't agree with your their ideology.

Oh happy days....

You've patched right? '340K+ Fortinet firewalls' wide open to critical security bug

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What quite surprising is that Fortinet are not cheap systems so why bother making the effort to buy expensive gear only to ignore the updates, especially this kind of update.

But I can also imagine that some of the kit is just outdated models that are being used as home firewalls without the yearly subscriptions.

Microsofties still digesting pay freeze upset by Nadella's 'landmark year' memo

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Re: So, landmark year and, for thanks, pay freeze

"Did anyone ever analyse the selfishness inherent to capitalism ?"

They're synonymes.

Virgin Galactic finally gets its first paying customers to edge of space

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Italian Air Force Salary

At 450k a pop I would love to know how much the salary is in the Italien Airforce.

38 percent of tech job interviews offered exclusively to men: report

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Re: Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap

One of the best/funniest/upsetting interviews that I have ever seen...

"So what you're saying is "... Cathy Newman beat herself up in that interview....

ESG is causing more problems than it is solving BUT BlackRock etc have an financial investment so they will keep pushing hard....

'We hate what you’ve done with the place – especially the hate' Australia tells Twitter

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Re: What's Hate?

By using the dictionary definition most people would certainly not be accused of using hate for anything.

The only hate I see is your usage of anything that you don't want to hear.

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Re: What's Hate?

"If you don't know the diffetence, you're part of the problem"

Please enlighten us on your precise definition of the word hate, I am sure that you will find it's not so easy without appearing to be radical.

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Re: Yacc's job just got a little bit harder

Australia became Woke so no loss there. Aussie Men are no more....

Once a nation of "quite good" rugby players, lol, and Aussi Rules nutjobs , that has sadly been turned into the land of wussies.

Shame really as I spent a large part of my youth having a lot of fun down the pub with the Aussies and Kiwis when I lived in London, they used to be great folks... And I include the Shielas in that last statement.

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Use another platform (sic)

There was a time when those that complain today said ”If you don't like it use another platform”.

Elon Musk's Twitter moves were 'reaffirming' says Reddit boss amid API changes

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Re: I suspect that Twitter has a profitable future ahead of it

Would it safe to assume that either you don't use it or you are part of the problem ?

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Re: I suspect that Twitter has a profitable future ahead of it

"What combination of things?"

It's very simple really, Elon Musk has successfully removed the Echo Chamber nonsense that was manipulating the previous version. This in itself is enough to make it much more appealing to all sorts of institutions. No one is really in a one sided argument. Look at the Left Wing / Right Wing sites, no one really gives a damned about them...

Elon has done something far more important than make a company eventually profitable, he has made the company interesting again.

Never forget that El Reg has a San Fran office who will do anything to get it's left wing readers to stir up nonsense about Musk, even though most of them are far more intelligent than they might appear, they will always defend the woke side of things because that what they do.... They have lost their objectiveness...

Starlink's rocket speeds hit a 50 megabit wall for large downloads

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Re: 200mb/s for "10minutes or so" = ~15GB

I would love to know what the user is doing that requires 200Mb/s for extended periods of time.

Secondly, if they are using Starlink it's usually because local providers can't provide a good service and Starlink presents the best option. Why are they then complaining when they are already getting a service over and above anything else that is available, that just sounds ungrateful and full of self entitlement.

Hater just want to hate....

Just for info : I get 12Mb on download and 0.8 MB/s on upload and yet I can still download several ISOs without it becoming a major problem. You just learn to play as best you can with the hand your are dealt.

Meta threatens to pull all news from California rather than pay El Reg a penny

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Re: Do people really only use Facebook?

Anyone that knows what a search engine does...

Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive

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Re: Its not just that....

Must admit that for us it's the opposite, we are a majority Lenovo Laptop company and we have excellent service. At most a motherboard etc has never taken more than 4 days and thats with FedEx picking up the package from the office and sending it of to Poland and back again.

Samsung's Galaxy S23 Ultra is a worthy heir to the Note

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Too powerful ?

Personally I have given up on the flag ships, their power, memory cameras etc are only marginally better than the mid range models.

A 10% processor boost is meaningless when you see how much today's mid range procs can already do. 5 extra mega pixels is already above what any actually needs for an image that will probably never get seen for a smartphone pic.

Flag ships are now just a status thing, they gave no actual benefits other than an extremely fleeting ego booster. Everyone loves a new toy but the feeling wears off quickly.(

It's been a along time in our office since anyone even asked what model someone recently acquired .

I would go so far as to state that at a distance most models can't even be distinguishe apart, everyone wraps up their device in the same black plastic casing anyway.

I did like the article even though as it reminded me just how over powerfull smartphones have become. Yes there are tiny percentage of users that might require this power, but they are very rare. We have gone above and beyond even what the Trekkies expected.