* Posts by sabroni

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Rows, columns, and the search for a database that can do everything

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Snowflake has declined the opportunity to take part in this article.

Bunch of Snowflakes!

SpaceX reportedly fires staffers behind open letter criticising Elon Musk

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Re: Fair or not, owners get to do this.

For exactly as long as everyone else in the company lets them.

This is why Unions get such a bad press.

The proles control the means of production.

Even at SpaceX.

SpaceX staff condemn Musk's behavior in open letter

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They have a "no asshole" rule

And Elon as the boss?

And now the employees are asking for the rules to be applied equally at all levels?

C'mon, it's pretty clear where this is going.

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Re: Who FORCED you to work for Elon?

That's a very bombastic post......

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Re: Idiotic comment.

I know.

What about the one you're replying to?

Brave roasts DuckDuckGo over Bing privacy exception

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re: here's how you route around privacy protections to measure your ads

They do this to get paid.

Ad companies don't pay out if you tell them "We showed 1000 ads and got 10 clicks"

You have to prove you got the clicks to get paid.

I'm not saying this is ethical, but that's how this business works.

Woman accused of killing boyfriend after tracking him down with Apple AirTag

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Re: Back then everyone was trying to conquor each other

"Being invaded" is not an attempt to conquer someone else.

FFS.

IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in older workers

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Re: How much???

Is it the money you're upset about or the fact it's going to a woman?

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Re: You can’t go a day without hearing how female execs are better than makes

Oooh, that's a lovely straw woman you've built there!

Twitter shareholders to vote on Elon Musk's acquisition

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Would it hurt to mention diligence

and the fact he explicitly waived it when he entered the deal and now is asking for it?

I mean, that's kind of relevant, don't you think, to his demands that they prove stuff?

C'mon el reg, it's "bite the hand" not "lick it".

Microsoft accidentally turned off hardware requirements for Windows 11

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Re: All there BS I shining through now

Ok, so you were here for IE but you think now with this TPM stuff MS have crossed a line? Or does "since my IT career started" mean "a couple of months ago"?

GitHub drops Atom bomb: Open-source text editor mothballed by end of year

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Re: Or aren't, you know, controlled by MS.

Then fork it.

I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well

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Great stuff guys! - Bogbrush

;-P

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Re: Infantile straw man.

More like butt hurt linux fanboys.

That comment was obviously a joke, but there's post after post on here shouting "Not all linux users!!!!"

This is "The Register", they take the piss, did none of you notice?

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Re: fast nvidia graphics

Yeah, those powerpoint transitions can be heavy!

Makers of ad blockers and browser privacy extensions fear the end is near

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Re: Yawn

Cool, your security is definitely bullet proof and you never need to think about it again!

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Re: I don't get it.

Google is the most popular search engine. Use it from a browser that isn't Chrome and you'll get told the right way to use it is in Chrome. A lot of people trust that info and click the download link at the top of their search results.

No, that's not monopoly abuse, it's clever marketing!

EU makes USB-C common charging port for most electronic devices

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Re: Now with the EU rule they will have to replace them after the next phone upgrade.

Unless they also have at least one non-apple device, because the charger for that will work on their new iPhone because of this new standard.

Majority of Axon's AI ethics board resigns over CEO's taser drones

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Re: The answer isn't getting rid of guns

Really? Where's the data that supports that argument?

All the data I see shows there's only country that keeps having school massacres. All the other countries that had one took real steps to avoid having another.

The USA likes school massacres more than it likes the idea of losing access to firearms.

You sick fucks.

France levels up local video game slang with list of French terms to replace foreign words

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Re: I now have to refer to it as 'animal companioning' instead of 'petting'?...!

OH MY GOD! IS THIS THE LAW NOW????

THE WOKESTERS HAVE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone get me half a litre of beer, I need a lie down.....

Amazon investors nuke proposed ethics overhaul and say yes to $212m CEO pay

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re: people should be ashamed for buying from them.

But the comments on here show that joining those two dots is too tricky for many.....

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re: Can you tell me how to turn off Amazon suggesting Prime with everything?

Yeah, shop somewhere else.

Florida's content-moderation law kept on ice, likely unconstitutional, court says

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re: Do they get to super glue themselves to trains, legally? Nope.

Why not? How violent do you want the protests to get?

Google says it would release its photorealistic DALL-E 2 rival – but this AI is too prejudiced for you to use

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Re: If you look for racism and sexism, you'll find it.

Because it's there.

Version 251 of systemd coming soon to a Linux distro near you

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Re: There is a reason that all the major distributions are using it and will continue to do so.

Yeah, the cabal of evil alien lizards that run MS, Google, the US government and local pizza houses want access to our computers!!

Amazon puts 'creepy' AI cameras in UK delivery vans

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re: It's not surprising......

....the biz is now increasingly surveilling workers outside the warehouse too.

Indeed. Extensive research has proved that Amazon customers couldn't give a fuck about the people providing their next day deliveries.

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"numerous errors that reportedly denied drivers' bonuses"

Oh No! Those terrible, terrible errors!! That's definitely not what these cameras are for.

Meta to squeeze money from WhatsApp with Cloud API for businesses

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"Back then, the service had 450 million users and was losing millions of dollars

It now has more than 2 billion users."

Is it still losing millions of dollars?

What kind of half arsed article is this?

Your snoozing iOS 15 iPhone may actually be sleeping with one antenna open

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It appears to be difficult

but these days it's a pain/impossible to pull the battery out of these devices so a functioning OFF button should be provided. You know, for when I, as the device owner and user, want to switch it off?

A simple "No features of this device work when OFF " message would explain the issue and allow the user to make a choice.

Tech pros warn EU 'data adequacy' at risk if Brexit Britain goes its own way

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Re: the EU had no intention of negotiating

The treaty signing bit comes AFTER the negotiation.

You're saying we signed this knowing that it wasn't fit for purpose and needed changing?

Clever use of "Surrender Bill", makes you sound very knowledgeable.

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Re: credit reference agencies simply don't exist here

You're missing out mate! I see these advertised on the TV, it's a magic app that makes your stuff nicer!!! Says some stuff about "credit ratings" that I don't understand but then a shit car is replaced by a nicer car which is then replaced by an even better car that doesn't even need a child seat in it!! All for free from an app.

I'm glad we have these fantastic services in the UK!

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Re: How all the invested parties never, ever see value in there being less regulation...

Funny in a "not relevant to the article" way?

The whole point is that the UK wants less regulation.

It's almost like you didn't read the article and just went straight to shit posting.

Intel shareholders revolt against Pat Gelsinger's pay package

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the company is committed to engaging with them and addressing their concerns.

If i tell you to fuck off then technically I am addressing your concerns.

Open-source leaders' reputations as jerks is undeserved

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Re: Flick the switch, the light turns on: magic.

That's not what I was taught. Where the fuck did you go to school?

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Arrogance and rude behavior are rampant in technology circles.

Fuck off

It's time to kick China off social media, says tech governance expert

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re: Digital societies need to be protected.

I don't know how we do this. I've asked on facebook, tweeted about it, put up an insta story, no-one seems to be able to help me......

How can I stop these companies having such a massive impact on my life????

Twitter buyout: Larry Ellison bursts into Elon's office, slaps $1b down on the desk

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Re: the woke way of Arse.

Because as we ALL know, the wokesters love to call people "dickheads".

Apple's return-to-office plan savaged by staff

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Where are the metrics?

We were forced home by the pandemic. That must have created a lot of MI data. Where are the metrics showing that going in to the office makes us more efficient?

Elon Musk set to buy Twitter in $44b deal, promises stuff

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re: there's no monopoly.

Effectively there is, no other twit style platform has the reach of Twitter.

What's important is there's no money in this monopoly.

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Re: Stupid decisions that have led to him being the richest man in the world?

Why are you jealous of this walking shit stain? The fact that everyone thinks what he's done is amazing is the biggest problem we have.

Until we stop this pathetic worship of the greediest fuck nuggets on the planet the climate is fucked.

(Yeah, of course I'm just jealous, because EVERYONE is chasing the cash, right?)

Former NHS AI leader joins US spy-tech firm Palantir

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Ha ha

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Europe twists YouTube's arm to get better cookie consent popups

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A "Reject All" button

was all that was needed.

Twitter faces existential threat from world's richest techbro

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re: Have the courage to comment without a whimpering apology at the beginning.

What a pointless, stupid little comment, showing no thought for the idiot receiving the message.

Are you so thick you think people like to be spoken to like this?

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Re: Someone's been inhaling this morning.

All of us have been inhaling this morning.

How do you think breathing works?

Git for Windows issues update to fix running-someone-else’s-code vuln

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I guess this is what happens

when linux devs get access to a slightly more sophisticated permissions system?

Zuckerberg gets $26m in 'other' Meta compensation

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re: There is no exception here

Except, clearly there is.

Tons of waffle explaining why it's fine that kids are starving while this rich fuck hoards capital.

The system favours the rich. You going in to great detail explaining why that is logical is called "Stockhausen Syndrome".

It's clear to see to anyone who looks that the system has favoured the wealthy for so long that it's basically not fit for purpose.

But you go on defending the status quo. You've only got a few years before the floods make all this irrelevant anyway, eh? Not like we could stop global warming, that would require a global change in behaviour.

Like we had a couple of years ago for Covid. Remember, all the city dwellers realising there were mountains a couple of miles away?

No, we must worship the greedy and feckless because a massive system of rules set up to keep them rich is keeping them rich.

Time to wake up. Try and do it before the planet starts to burn, eh?

Amazon warehouse workers in New York unionize in historic win against web giant

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Re: give me a button to press...

...that lets me say I'm prepared to pay say 2% more to cover better benefits

You were replying to a comment that finished with: "Bezos does not agree even though he has enough money to double the salary of all his employees and he wouldn't even notice."

There is no shortage of money at Amazon, they can afford to pay people fairly. The fact they don't is not connected to cost.

Web3 'contains the seeds of a dystopian nightmare' says analyst firm

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ummm

Moderation isn't censorship.

Someone needs to spend some time on techdirt.

1,000-plus AI-generated LinkedIn faces uncovered

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Amazon denied any link to, or responsibility for, the profiles and their tweets.

Phew, that's a relief. Imagine if Amazon had been doing that!

UK Ministry of Defence takes recruitment system offline, confirms data leak

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Re: "quality" (sic) was considered enough of an issue to give the contract...to the highest bidder.

I find that in most things if you want better quality then it costs more. A £10 bottle of whiskey vs a £30 one, a £150 phone vs a £500 one, often the more expensive one is the better quality one.

How do you think it works?