* Posts by NoneSuch

2643 publicly visible posts • joined 25 May 2010

US cops kick back against facial recognition bans

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Apple must pay people remarkably well to generate a resignation on principle.

I, on the other hand, can't afford principle and my landlord does not accept good intentions as rent.

San Francisco police use driverless cars for surveillance

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Welcome...

...to the United States of Surveillance.

The land of the free* and the home of the brave.

* - subject to government oversight, background clearance and check of electronic communications.

Ransomware the final nail in coffin for small university

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Their budget was probably limited due to the other issues. However, backups are cheap and some solutions are even free. I worked for a charity at one point with a ridiculous budget, but we never missed a backup.

Microsoft tests ‘Suggested Actions’ in Windows 11. Insiders: Can we turn it off?

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Coffee/keyboard

"Exactly how one gets third-party apps into these pop-ups isn't entirely clear. We asked Microsoft what steps a third party would need to take to get on the guest list (perhaps a simple association?) but the company has yet to respond."

Well, in a nutshell, you don't without paying MS a lot of $$$. That's the traditional way. Misquoting RDJ's Iron man...

"That's how Microsoft did it! That's how America does it! And its worked out pretty well so far for the shareholders."

Nvidia open-sources Linux kernel GPU modules. Repeat, open-source GPU modules

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Go

Re: Better late than never

"A Turing point for the graphics chip giant, perhaps?"

Ugh. Too early in the day for that.

LIDAR in iPhones is not about better photos – it's about the future of low-cost augmented reality

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Oh Apple...

That eternally budget friendly corporation that looks out for its customers with reasonably priced goods and comprehensive self-repair options.

Joke icon for the truly brain washed.

Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for inventing PowerShell

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Re: I would get it fired for inventing Powershell

"It's clumsy, slow, and with an ugly syntax."

It's all of that with inconsistent switches from command to command and version to version.

It also allows MS to stop developing GUI. Why right click and select an option when you can type a 400+ character PS command that can bork your domain instantly.

China wants its youth to stop giving livestreamers money

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Mushroom

Close to 2 billion people don't live in a free country.

China plans to toss foreign-made PCs from government agencies 'in two years'

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Be assured that all forms of access are considered equally by spy orgs. Hardware, software, firmware, middleware, iDrac, iLO, drivers, operating system, BIOS, Tempest, ethernet, Wifi, Bluetooth, IoT, the electrical grid and the user are all targets.

Your stuff as well by the way.

Google's FLoC flopped, boffins claim, because it failed to provide promised privacy

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Re: "That counts for something"

Sounds about right. We ask Google for privacy and they give us the bird.

Germany makes new move to attract chip manufacturers

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Big Brother

€14 billion !?

For that, I can make some lovely chips. I'll throw in the vinegar for nothing.

Starlink's Portability mode lets you take your sat broadband dish anywhere*

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Re: "If Starlink detects a dish isn't at its home address, there's no guarantee of service"

Someone has to pay for the Twitter purchase and it ain't gonna be Elon. Cough up the unadvertised $25 a month or complain on Twitter. Until he takes that over fully, of course, then fuggetaboutit.

Pub O'Clock

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

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Re: Dickheads?

>By your definition a dickhead is someone who succeeded in:

>1. Creating a very innovative payment processor.

PayPal (Confinity at the time) was formed in 1998 by Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Yu Pan, and Russel Simmons. Paypal eventually fired Musk in 2000 (I believe it was.)

>2. Creating the most successful rocket launching organisation (sic) since the 1960s / 70s

Founders Fund footed the bill on SpaceX for the most part.

>3. Creating the most successful electric car company.

Tesla Motors was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California.

>4. Creating the most successful satellite based ISP.

Hard to say it's the most successful when it has not even entered the commercial market yet.

>5. Saving a social media network from authoritarian censorship.

By authoritarian censorship I presume you mean the truth. The Saudi's are buying into Twitter, along side your hero, who are literal authoritarian censors.

>6. Amassing a net worth of more than a quarter of a TRILLION dollars through aforementioned efforts.

Yes, as he does not risk his own cash, relying on outside investors to fund his projects.

>You should consider taking a third opinion on your critical thinking and reasoning skills…

And you need to stop taking single sources of info as gospel. Musk is lucky and knows how to spin the press with wild imaginative concepts. If his fourth SpaceX launch had failed, he'd be minor mention in history today. Some of his companies work because he hires good people. Where is the promised Tesla autonomous driving commercial truck that was promised for 2020, then 2021, then 2022, now it's 2023? Why is the LA - San Francisco Hyperloop still only a prototype with nothing to show for it? The Vegas Loop is a concrete tunnel with chauffeured Tesla's where it was supposed to be 3-4 times the speed and totally autonomous.

"your critical thinking and reasoning skills" indeed.

Microsoft to nudge more users toward Azure Active Directory

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Mushroom

The Briar Patch gets stickier by the day.

Arm China CEO refuses to go despite SoftBank taking control

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Re: B b b Boris

Any man who must say ‘I am the King’ is no true King.

– Tywin Lannister

US Cyber Command shored up nine nations' defenses last year

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Big Brother

Re: Spies

Not "anti-western" at all. The NSA / CIA / USA has a long standing track record of fiddling with personal privacy and the internal politics of foreign nations (enemies and allies alike) to promote their own agendas.

Saddam Hussein was put in power by the CIA.

The Shah of Iran was as well.

Guatemala 1954

Congo 1960

Dominican Republic 1961

South Vietnam 1963

Brazil 1964

Chile 1973

Then Snowden came along and showed they were screwing over their own citizens rights and freedoms then lying about it to their own Congress.

So forgive me if I don't invite the US onto the private side of my firewall for the foreseeable future.

Biden orders new quantum push to ensure encryption isn't cracked by rivals

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Mushroom

The Titanic can never sink.

Quantum encryption is unbreakable.

Microsoft Azure can never go down.

The inability of humanity to accept their own shortcomings in design has killed hundreds of thousands over time.

Google cancels bi-annual performance reviews, shifts to GRAD system

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Mushroom

Any company...

...with a dedicated HR Department, is too large for me to work in. When companies hire HR staff, they are shifting their focus from the employees to the company.

Putin threatens supply chains with counter-sanction order

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Re: You want to play hardball?

Make that 5 gallons of diesel and a road flare.

Privacy pathology: It's time for the users to gather a little data – evidence

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Re: Not so big a deal?

"Talk to Alexa about something, the academics found, and the auction price for related advertising opportunities goes up."

Go shopping for online medical insurance, get a quote. Google AIDS research then go back to the same site.

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Re: Chaffing

One amendment; read out loud to an Alexa / Bixby / Cortana...

@AC I have a dog so Alexa can track her.

Elon Musk wants to take Twitter public again 'within 3 years'

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Re: WTF

Buy something for billions, plan to sell it for millions. Oh Elon, you business tycoon you.

US judge dismisses Republican efforts to block release of Salesforce emails

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Re: Only in 'merica

If American / UK governments protected our privacy with the same zeal they try to protect their own, Snowden would still be an unknown government employee in Hawaii.

Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates

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Apple only wants hits. 30% of Candy Crush mega-dollars beats Joes local Tow Truck app.

That are in it for the money or do you not know how corporations work?

Intel says costly 10nm ramp will counter PC slowdown

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Re: Is this the beginning of the end for Intel?

It's worked so far for Intel.

Spanish PM, defense minister latest Pegasus spyware victims

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"It comes from outside state organisms and it didn't have judicial authorization."

The Mossad approved it. What's the issue?

Apple must fix its self-service repair program, say critics

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Re: And you expected?

"Apple did not respond to a request for comment."

Half the Reg staff would die of shock if Apple ever did reply to one of their inquiries.

Your software doesn't work when my PC is in 'O' mode

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PEBCAK

That is all.

Apple's self-repair service finally launches after months of silence

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Mushroom

Stop Buying Apple Product

When their multi-billions in profits disappear you'll be amazed how well Cupertino execs will listen to you then.

Just look how Intel is "engaging" with their customers today. Loss of income turns cooperate suits into human beings pretty damned quickly.

There are nearly half a billion active users of Start news feed, says Microsoft

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Re: Fixed it for you

"We asked the Windows-maker what "active users" meant in this context, but Microsoft has yet to respond."

Those would be the truly lazy who know how to turn it off, but just can't be arsed. Microsoft's core customer base and mine when all the crap clogs up their PC and they have to pay me to fix it.

Nvidia, Intel, others pour $130m into optical chip startup Ayar Labs

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Expect a buyout soon, followed by suppression of the IP for a very long time.

The large corps have invested trillions in silicon. Don't expect them to drop that overnight.

Study: How Amazon uses Echo smart speaker conversations to target ads

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Mushroom

Re: "Genossen, wir müssen alles wissen!"

Yes, the age of the Stasi informants, wholesale surveillance of the entire East German population and wiretapping of everything analog or digital

Universally condemned by the West as a whole, then thirty years later...

Elon Musk's Twitter mega-takeover likely imminent

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Mushroom

That's per share price.

He believes in any free speech that makes him and his companies look good. Anyone else ends up in a flooded Taiwan cave waiting for rescue.

Samsung, others test drive Esperanto's 1,000-core RISC-V AI chip

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VMWare would be happy to run ESXi on here. Then charge you licensing per core. :P

Oracle to release on-prem software usage tools to prep cloud switch

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Devil

Wargames Reference.

The only way to win, is not to play.

Microsoft fixes Point of Sale bug that delayed Windows 11 startup for 40 minutes

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FFS.

There should be no external cause to stop Windows from booting.

Powershell has issues opening on Win10 without an Internet connection. Gee, I wonder why?

Apple and Intel likely the first to use TSMC’s 2nm node in 2025

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I'm waiting patiently for the -4nm process. Only available in the multi-verse.

Hawaiian Airlines to offer free Wi-Fi via SpaceX's Starlink

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My vacations are to places where Wifi is nonexistent. My phone is turned off, in my bag, for the duration.

The world can live without me for that time.

Amazon to spend 11 days of annual profit developing robot warehouse workers

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Meanwhile...

Amazon workers have begun wearing wooden shows to work.

(Few will get the reference, but I though it punny)

Brave, DuckDuckGo to unplug Google's AMP where possible

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Re: Bravo

"Let’s get rid of Google. They’re a cancer."

Facebook first. Then Microsoft / Amazon. Then we'll discuss Google.

Five Eyes nations fear wave of Russian attacks against critical infrastructure

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Re: I have just one question

An attack on infrastructure from Russia could be construed as an attack on a NATO member.

Putin is no idiot. He's a lair, bully, overconfident and deluded, but not an idiot.

Intel promotes graphics chief Raja Koduri weeks after Arc discrete GPU reveal

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Competition is always good for the consumer.

Microsoft knows this. That's why they buy out so many of theirs.

Russian-linked Shuckworm crew ramps up Ukraine attacks

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Don't panic. Kaspersky has a fix for this.

TSMC’s 2025 timeline for 2nm chips suggests Intel gaining steam

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Coming soon from Intel

14nm++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Ryzen Pro CPUs are better for work than Intel's, claims AMD

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Well...

They are certainly more secure. The Threadripper 5000 series HEDT lineup is 100% secure as you can't even buy them...

(Considered the joke icon, but decided I'm still ticked about it... So fail.)

Windows 11 usage stats within touching distance of... XP

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Windows 11, or Windows 10 - Integrated MS Spyware Edition, is garbage.

Spent fifteen minutes helping the neighbour set up his new laptop on his printers and vowed to never use it again.

When I leave W10, I'm going straight to Linux Mint.

AI models to detect how you're feeling in sales calls

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Slamming the phone down is reflexive, but if you don't TELL them not to call again, they can, and will.

If you tell them not to call again and they do, then you have recourse in several jurisdictions.

Work phone only here. If it isn't my boss or colleagues it goes to voicemail which says "Do not call this number for marketing or robo calls..."

IBM not cooperating with discovery, say attorneys in age-discrimination case

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Devil

Simple Cooperation Technique

Find the IBM Board of Directors and senior execs in contempt of court and lock them up. The board, CEO, CIO, Head of HR, lead legal counsel, the lot.

Then be amazed at how many documents arrive within hours.

Do it once. Just once, and for the next ten years you will have no warrant issues with corporations.

BOFH: The evil guide to upgrading switches

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Holmes

Re: rule 1

B: Admit nothing and cover your tracks.

The mantra of the IT professional. AKA CYA.

Elon Musk's latest launch: An unsolicited Twitter takeover

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Fixed it for you Elon.

"I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy."

Should read: I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be my platform for marketing spin around the globe, and I believe is necessary to silence my critics after consistently failing to deliver on multiple occasions.