* Posts by sabroni

4141 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2007

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

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Re: The mods are upset because now they will have to pay to have their ego sucked off.

Awww, did your offensive post get moderated?

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Re: Facebook could have easily charged $5/month and people would have paid

That's right! You only have to look at all the other social networks that people pay to be on to see that.

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

What makes you think that? The massive drop in advertising revenue? The eviction orders?

Or is it just that you know the rich can do whatever the fuck they want with no consequences?

Thousands of subreddits go dark in mega-protest over Reddit's app-killing API prices

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Re: Folk rolling out distributed services will soon be replacing the centralised services.

I wouldn't hold my breath.

The big centralised thing can be floated on the stock market and make billions of money.

The decentralised protocol thing is much trickier to monetise.

Where do you think the investment will be focussed?

Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse

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They did it with smart phones

People seem to forget that no-one had managed to design a compelling smart phone until Apple created the iPhone.

Of course, Jobs was in charge then and he had a vision that seems to be missing from Apple now.

But they have form for making things work when others have failed.

Oh Snap... Desktop Ubuntu Core to arrive in 2024

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re: That was the least snarky Register article I have read.

Never mind, there will be some good ones along shortly!!

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Re: Also the snap backend is proprietary and there can only be one snap repository

RTA

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Re: Snap rhymes with crap

And ubuntu rhymes with stinky poo.

Rhyming is fun!

Stanford Internet Observatory raises alarm over 'serious failings with the child protection systems at Twitter'

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Re: 5 people who think that corporations suppressing speech ... is great

Or one uneducated bigot who has no idea what's going on at Twitter?

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-filing-elon-musk-is-simply-wrong-about-government-interference-at-twitter/

Never mind the source, you can click through to the filing from Twitters lawyers where they explain why "the Twitter Files" don't show what moron's think they do.

PyPI subpoenaed: US govt demands data on developers

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WTF?

Re: Well, whos surprised? Not this guy.

Supply chain is a problem, therefore it needs to be addressed, therefore the state get involved. Because the state would never leave something that was a problem, right? Not if it was causing problems for software developers....

The world doesn't work like this.

Samsung's screens will check your blood pressure if the movie's too scary

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Re: Interesting opportunities...

It's customary to include a joke when you use that icon.

Nearly 1 in 5 academics admit close encounters of the anomalous kind

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Re: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

No. Extraordinary claims require proof. Your version sounds clever but simply means "I believe in the status quo".

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Re: the distinction between "object" and "phenomenon" is very pernickety

Ha! You think those two words mean the same thing!

The point is to remove the word "object" which implies physical presence and replace it with "phenomena" which can be just inside your head.

That Meta GDPR fine is €1.2B. Plus biz must stop sending EU data to US

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Re: Once you stop Facebook storing personal information......

The problem is where they store the information. They're not being told they can't have EU users, they're saying EU user informationhas to stay in the EU.

Read the fucking article.

Sci-fi author 'writes' 97 AI-generated tales in nine months

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WTF?

"more ways to interact with the chatbot so users can search for information"

Where information means "strings of words that can be parsed by humans".

What value can you place on that "information" if you have no idea whether it's truth or fiction?

Ex-Twitter sextet sues Elon Musk for 'stiffing' them on severance

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Boffin

Then you're wrong. He bought it to promote his stupid immature opinions without having to comply with community guidelines.

Under the previous regime poor people were able to flag his tweets as full of shit just because his tweets were full of shit.

Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO

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Re: Or that’s he’s not bending over for three letter acronym government agencies ?

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/15/once-again-free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-caves-to-authoritarian-censorial-bullies/ TBF no three letter acronyms involved......

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Re: Or that’s he’s not bending over for three letter acronym government agencies ?

No, too busy bending over for Modi and blocking critics of the Egyptian government globally.

Check out the latest Twitter privacy report and compare with the last pre-Musk one.

Microsoft puts the freeze on employee salaries, CEO pay still as hot as ever

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Re: I wonder…

So basically what I said.

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Re: In the immortal words of flavor flav

We got Magnum Brown, Shooshki Palooshki, Supercalafragahestikalagoothki, You could put that in your don't know what you said book, Took-look-yuk-duk-wuk, Innovative ill factors by the Flavor Flav, Come and ride the Flavor wave, In any year on any given day, What a brother know, what do Flavor say? Why do the record play that way? Prime time merrily in the day

Yeah, I'd take advice from this man.

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Re: Nadella has quadrupled MS share price since he became CEO.

And yet they don't have enough money to reward the people who actually produce the products they sell?

Yeah, a clear example of the value of measuring success using share price.

Rich lazy fucks want to suck the profit out of every business and are held up as examples of success while idiots who think they're in with a chance of joining the gravy train cheer them on. Meanwhile the plebs, who buckled down through covid and kept the business profitable, are told to go back to spending 3 hours a day travelling to a shithole office in a indentikit city centre of Costas, Starbucks and MaccyDs.

And relax!

YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens

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Re: The internet is in it's death throws.

It's "death throes".

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re: Chumps like you aren't even a blip on the budget sheet.

"Late last year, YouTube said it had reached 80 million Premium subscribers, up 30 million from 2021. If you take that 80 million and multiply it by 12 bucks a month, that's $11.5 billion a year."

Yeah, maybe read the fucking article you're commenting on?

Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech

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'Capgemini is expected to offer "strong architecture; engineering leadership capability; infrastructure integration; driving ongoing tooling/ process innovation, continuously exploring industry improvements; making operational efficiencies and reduce costs; secure network boundary controls; integration with third parties," according to a procurement notice published recently.'

Capgemini is not expected to deliver that shit, obv. We're stupid, but not that stupid, eh?

Cisco: Don't use 'blind spot' – and do use 'feed two birds with one scone'

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Re: Get a life, hand-wringers & namby-pambys.

Snowflakes come in lots of flavours.

You seem quite upset about the use of inclusive language.

Calm down dear.

When it comes to Linux distros, one person's molehill is another's mountain

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Re: until such time as PCs/laptops with Linux preinstalled are mass-marketed

How would that work? I go to the PC shop,

Do you want windows or Linux?

Um what flavours are the windows?

10 or 11

What flavours are the linuxes?

We have RPM based, Debian based, pacman based....

Ok I'll take Debian please

Cool, what distro would you like? We have Ubuntu, Lubuntu, redHat....

I'll take Ubuntu

Cool, what app store do you want? Snaps or flatpak?

Snaps

Cool, what desktop do you want?

I'll take the Windows 11 please.

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Re: Linux is hard. Get over it. Learn to use it. Or don't.

Good call, it's a confusing pile of shite at the best of times. I'll take your advice and stick to commercial OSs where devs get paid.

Thanks!

Top Google boffin Hinton quits, warns of AI danger, partly regrets life's work

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Oooh, look!

It's a commentard with only superficial understanding of AI pedantically arguing that there's no such thing as true AI and that AI will never be more intelligent than humans and therefore cannot constitute a threat.

Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust

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re: I am a Microsoft employee, and those are my PRs...

You sound proud of that.

Are you new around here?

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re: Personally I feel that building safety upon C is still the way to go

Go you! Why bother with evidence? It's not like there's years worth of data showing the same kind of mistakes being made over and over and over and over again.......

How prompt injection attacks hijack today's top-end AI – and it's tough to fix

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Re: It didn't take long...

Did you not read the article or not understand it or what? This isn't a "PANIC" piece , it clearly explains the problem and says that currently we don't have a fix.

There are a lot of bullshit articles about AI at the moment. That doesn't mean every article about AI is bullshit.

Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat

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re: I reformat the things before they ever boot into Windows, and then install Slackware.

Really?

I never would have guessed.

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Re: Edge

So why is it OK for Google to tell everyone who lands on their search results to use Chrome? Have you tried installing Edge on a Chromebook?

Tesla wins key court battle over Autopilot crash blame

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Re: It functions just like an aircraft autopilot

And what about "Full Self Driving", got a situation where that means "Not Self Driving At All"?

With a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm, Musk scraps Pope's blue tick

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re: The Reg’s Twitter tick remains but it is no longer blue but gold

So you're paying a grand a month for that, yeah? Didn't you think that was relevant to the discussion?

It's time to reveal all recommendation algorithms – by law if necessary

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Re: Can the author of this article provide any solid references to these serious accusations?

Hang on. Musk sets the rules here. He happily tweets "Pedo guy" at someone with no evidence beyond the country they're in, that's a serious accusation. Sounds to me like Musk thinks it's fine to make accusations with fuck all evidence.

Why are you so keen to white knight for him? Hoping some of that cash will rub off?

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Re: This article is fake news

No, your comment is fake news.

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re: The onus is NOT on us.

We choose to go to youtube but the page it renders is not our fault? How so?

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Facetious but actually, when you want things to change in America, sueing is a great way of doing it. If youtube actually lost a bit of money for recommending this video you can bet the algorithm would be improved.

(Also, think about the fact that in the USA gun manufacturers and retailers can't be sued for the damage caused by their products. And the USA is the only country where school massacres are a regular thing.)

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Re: Invidious lets you do that.

Interesting. What's they're business model? Literally "we wrap youtube but make it private"?

Twitter users complain 'private' Circle posts aren't

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Re: I do have to wonder what the hell the deal is.....

Remember Beavis and Butthead?

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-worlds-smartest-man-doesnt-want

Tesla ordered to pay worker $3M-plus over racist treatment

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WTF?

How dare they give all that money to a poor person!

Can't he do it properly like our beloved Baroness and get a PPE contract?

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Re: but millions really ?

Ah, right. This is a pleb getting millions.

Wondered why you were so upset about it.

Tug that forelock a little harder, maybe you'll get an extra turnip this month.

Samsung takes $3.1B gamble on OLED displays for tablets and notebooks

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Re: I wonder what has changed?

The Q has become an O.

Judge grants subpoena to ID Twitter source code leaker

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Mushroom

What a hypocritial little shit

Space Karen is.

Germany sours on Microsoft again, launches antitrust review

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Re: Do you find buying a car to be difficult too.

Difficult to claim they are comparable. There aren't hundreds of different free types of car.

MS sell their OS while Linux is given away.

Has the market decided on this valuation?

Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle

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re: judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use

judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out one at a time like a physical copy isn't fair use

FTFY.

Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools

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Re: Errr…. What was the question again

Is it right to accept contributions to Open source proejcts from coders who work for Russian organisations?

Not, as you seem to think, "Can you show off a bit for the bigots?"

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Re: Thus you do what anyone sane would. Dont accept the commit.

What you seem to miss is that your criticism of the security of Russian commits is equally valid for EVERY commit. By your argument the only way to be secure is to not use FOSS. As you say, code reviews won't necessarily stop malicious actors so what options do we have?

How is it you can't manage to follow that thread to it's logical conclusion?

It's not xenophobia is it?