Posts by Zolko

Re: Finally Euorpe united

Actually: it *IS* Amricanisation, as the USA calls itself "America" while America is in reality 2 continents (North and South) with ~20 countries. Yet, Brazilians and Canadians are not "Americans"

Re: Kind of predictable

Bureaucracy only produces one thing : more bureaucracy

Re: Flushing cash down the lavvy.

Google plans to spend more than $100 billion on developing AI tech

They are spending virtual money on some virtual technology ... seems legit. Time to build that Ark-B ship, we have many candidates to man it

Re: Assemble in orbit

@Torben Mogensen : I don't know why you were downvoted for that sensible suggestion. I'd add another suggestion: attach to the ISS an inflatable hangar where all the pieces can be safely assembled without the astronauts risking to lose grip.

I think that the biggest problem will be the refueling of spaceships with cryogenic fluids, and such a hangar wouldn't help there.

open-source ≠ free-software

If everybody just downloads the source, there's no revenue

Are you sure many clients paid to download the actual source-code ? And then compiled it locally in-house ?

I think here lies the misunderstanding : open-source is not equal to free binaries. People pay for the executable binaries, very rarely for the source code itself.

Re: if systemd is so bad why is everyone using it?

For the same reason "everyone " uses Windows :

1) it's not true

2) because a monopoly could forcefully impose it

Re: What is so bad about knowing how to hotwire a car?

... the child preditation instruction material ...

1) when I was a kid – a long long time ago in a country far far away – my parents told me to never accept gifts, especially candy, from strangers, as one never knows what can be behind such apparently benevolent behaviour. This actually makes me suspicious of free Internet "services" : what's the purpose of this gift ? who pays the bills ? Therefore, no "instruction" would have been effective on me as a kid. And that was way before Internet, don't current parents not teach basic precaution to their children ?

2) How does one, in practice, give advice on how to "seduce" children ? Where did the chatbot find the relevant information ? LLMs can't "invent" new stuff, only re-purpose existing material. Were those "real" predatory instructions, or some made-up fantasy stories that one could find in typical children books ?

All-in-all, the remedy seems far worse than the problem, to me.

Re: show how hard this is

What I mean is: "the fact that was 2 years in the planning... " Do you think that people who plan such a vast operation only target ONE (1) package ? 2 years in the planning and they would take chances with a single library ? You can bet that there are dozens (if not hundreds) of packages variably affected.

Re: Bleeping Computer

Easter – despite having been hijack by Christianity

you mean like: "This Jesus bloke chose to be crucified during Easter, how rude of him " ?

Re: buys all the data

That's called propaganda. Governments all over the world do that, and as long as it's peaceful there is no problem with it.

a clean kernel shouldn't have any device drivers in it

speaking of which: what is the status of user-space device drivers in Linux ?

I also heard that Jobs was arrogant, but at least he was competent, he had novel ideas and had the courage to bring them through. Cook is only a boring accountant

Re: Sell

We need to be on the lookout for the Chinese trying to work around these sanctions

that's actually easy: buy ALL machines that AMSL is able to produce and set up semiconductor fabs ourselves. Here. Why don't we do that instead of preventing other people from manufacturing stuff that we manufactured before ? I'm really fed-up with such lazy pussycats

Re: Collide at insane speeds

the BBC : Bloody Big Collider

Re: Just ban tracking/targeting

I think that's the crux of the matter : marketing droids of a company buy adverts from other marketing droids in an ad-broker company. And they rake in billions doing that, which increases the price of the products of said company by as much, that every-body *ELSE* has to pay somehow. That's the very definition of parasites: they suck the blood of the host. The entire advertising business is a parasitic behavior, quite identical to the former Soviet propaganda : if the products were indeed as good as advertised, advertisement wouldn't be necessary in the first place

Re: Does Pegasus still work on current Apple phones

Considering how suspicious the latest iOS "vulnerability" was, you can add a 3) :

3) Apple gave NSO new backdoor entries into iOS devices and they – NSO – are busy updating their Pegasus offering

Re: I think it looks good

why the downvotes ?

1) no mention of Kwin which is probably currently the best Linux window manager.

2) no mention of Dolphin, which is currently the best file manager on the planet, including ANY other OS

3) no mention of Kmail which is currently the best Linux mail app

4) as for the looks, KDE (or Plasma) can be made to look and behave like any modern or oldtimer DE (including CDE ! try that on Windows) ... if you spend enough time to optimise your desktop

in short, you look at the defaults but most users either make their own configs or use themes found online.

Re: Moon landing

The Apollo Lunar landers didn't "launch from a bare surface of the moon " but from the platform that they brought down with them : only a small part of the lander launched the 2 astronauts back into Monn orbit. And they were not reusable.

Re: conflicting accounts

The oft-repeated claim that they're "Iran-backed"

the problem with this claim is not only that it's unproven, but that the same label is not used for other "forces" in play : when did you ever hear about "NATO backed Ukraine" ? Or "USA backed Israel" ? As for Iraq, is it USA-backed or Iran-backed now ?

Such "Iran-backed" (or Russia-backed) narrative is only here to build hatred towards the target country by association : nothing concrete is said, but the repeated subtle propaganda settles in. The same could be seen with Julian Assange: he was depicted as an ars****le for years, even here, so there was no sympathy left for him once the extradition to the USA – which he fought against from the beginning – was announced. It's straight from the Nazi propaganda book: repeat a lie often enough and people will start believing it. I find it somehow uncomfortable that ElReg plays that game

KDE 5.27 stable EOL

which, then shouldn't shock any LTS release. I'd be more surprised to see a KDE6 release candidate for a Kubuntu long-term support version

Re: A question

Because Apple have too much money in the bank and needed something new – anything – to show. And the iCar-thing didn't quite work out. They also thought about an iToilet-wiper ... but then, you'd have asked the same question.

Re: There is no undoing the AI

Even worse: you can't buy nitro anymore because some "terrorists" made bombs with it. You can't even buy the gasoline for those RC cars with more than 16% nitro where I live. Used to be 25% some time ago.

But aaaahhhhh .... the noise ! And the smell !!!! Electric cars might be faster - dunno - but hell are they boring

Re: Meh

Yes they did. But predictions are difficult, especially if they are about the future