Posts by diodesign

HTML

Yes, mate. You're telling me you've never written an SQL database server in HTML?

Pfft, amateur.

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could you stop with the 'boffins'

No.

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makes a smidge of difference

Yeah, OK, did wonder if someone would point that out. We included it in the piece to show that right off the bat, the prosecution is treating this as a straight up leak, and this isn't (from their POV) going to be an argument over whistleblowing.

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Caveats

We thought that would be obvious - if we haven't detected any water then there isn't any to our mind - but we've made that clearer.

You could add 'that we've detected' to anything. There's no more coffee left in the pot that we've detected. There's no patch yet from Microsoft that we've detected. And so on.

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Yes

There's never normally more than one active at a time. We're always willing to let people have a go in the comments, though we draw the line at someone accusing us of taking bribes from Google to help keep his AI inventions down and other nonsense.

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'lesbian online magazine'

Now that is a deep cut, as they say.

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Doh

Yeah, ha ha, it's fixed now. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot something wrong like this please so we can adjust it right away.

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Nah

"This undertaking is non-trivial and likely requires a substantial time investment"

Nah, there's no way that takes 5-10 people several days to do what's described. Maybe if they all stood around arguing it would take that long. The code would take an hour or three to write, depending on how newb you are, and maybe an afternoon of fiddling to obfuscate it. A day tops.

Think about what's happening here. You're basically making a program that finds two files, merges them, and uploads them to cloud storage. The only malicious part is that someone might use it on another's computer without permission.

And then you take this borderline malicious program and obfuscate it so that VT definitely doesn't flag it up.

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Legal stuff

From the letter to drivers, the firm said it got the data because it was representing Uber in some matters:

"In connection with this legal representation, we received data regarding certain drivers on the Uber platform, which included information about you."

We'll add that to the piece.

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I wish

No, like pretty much everyone we write about, they'll still have PR humans who'll let us know almost immediately if they think we've overstepped the mark.

Not that we can complain much: we pick holes in what they do, PR teams quibble the words we use. Fair's fair. It's a wonderful post-publication dance.

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Why the change?

Cos having mysterious 'removed by moderator' messages in place of deleted posts, and with child replies that make no sense without the context, is just a confusing mess all round.

When we remove parts of threads, it's not done lightly. If there's a decent discussion going then we'll leave it there. But if it's just noise on noise, that's going to be tidied out of sight.

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Re: What does this regulation prohibit that isn't already prohibitted?

The FTC does this every so often, it reminds people that the New Shiny Thing is still subject to today's laws and regulations.

In fact, there's no new regulation or rules here, it's just a reminder from the watchdog. Or a clarification. Depends how you look at it.

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225 grams

...is the mass of the drag sail. The whole thing is 6kg.

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Re: Shocking?

Bear in mind the shock is half tongue in cheek, half surprise it's Raspbian. Or so the great man said himself.

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"you lefties think you're sooo much better"

Why is right-left politics relevant here, please?

"Humans are a nasty, spiteful, vengeful bunch"

Ah, projection?

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Spelling

Nah, fiber's good, mate. Unlike "thje".

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Scratch space, scratch that

"It is completely normal to have a few KB of ITIM and/or DTIM on both ARM and RISC-V chips"

Yeah, true, very true. I experienced as much when I was playing with some RV silicon and also Qemu that correct emulates it.

The SRAM showing up in virtual space is very annoying, and demonstrates the part isn't for general purpose computing.

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Nothing new?

If someone tries an idea in the past and it didn't work out, and someone else comes through with a similar idea and tries it again, that's still potentially worth noting.

How about this, I'm planning on building a faster-than-light drive. We'll be able to get to nearby stars in minutes, that's the dream. There, now that idea is out there, never again can anyone write about FTL drives or slower-than-FTL flight. The idea is old.

Also, I'm planning on making 100PB hard drives. All the galaxy's information in your pocket. OK, now that's out there, no more stories about hard disks until we're over 100PB per drive. The idea is otherwise nothing new.

I know this is reductio ad absurdum, but c'mon. And we linked to similar heating tech in the piece.

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Re: kettling

That may have been an inspiration. At least one of us on the video was years ago caught up in a London police kettle and managed to get out by whipping out a press ID card and claiming he needed to file a report about the ongoing protest in the background.

Amazingly, it worked.

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Now there are too many ?

Too many of some, not enough of others. And products are held up by the ones in short supply.

Power electronics, microcontrollers, glue logic, that sort of thing, if not available, hold up shipping end products no matter how healthy the supply of the main processors etc.

It's something the media should be better at, making clear what kinds of components are and aren't available. It's something we're trying to be better at.

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Sorry

APT = Advanced Package Tool. A. P. T.

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Acorn

For me, yup. Though we had games. Or should I say, ports.

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Videos

We're still doing a lot of written word, as you can see, and some videos, which are fun, useful, and a break from writing.

There's a reason why steakhouses have some chicken and pork on the menu as well as beef. Little bit for everyone. Nothing wrong with a bit of variety for those who prefer listening or watching.

Our videos aren't like YT where people beg for Patreon and likes and subscribes. For us, it's The Register logo, and then right into the chat, and we keep it short. It works as audio-only too if you want to listen while doing something else.

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Re: Wheres my bean bag?

Last time I visited a Google office, it had way more than that. There was an on-site movie and gaming theater, a doctor's office, hairdresser, indoor Zen garden, a tea sommelier, rooms of designer furniture to chill out in, a speakeasy within a speakeasy, the works. Perks are a big thing.

Heck, even El Reg's SF WeWork space had bean bags, table tennis, and bottomless soda and beer that we and a bunch of Aussies in the same building rinsed out until WW gave up and took away the booze.

(PS: The El Reg London WeWork space had sparkling wine on tap as well as beer. Those were the days.)

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"The idea of an SBOM has been sadly neglected in recent years"

Yeah, fair point. We've tweaked that sentence.

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Words

"Well, you did call it an AI"

Yeah, that's just an encompassing generic term everyone's using to refer to things like ChatGPT. Reg readers know the I in AI isn't real intelligence. It's kinda why the A is there.

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Re: Dish?

FWIW Dish has about 8 million subscribers; suspected ransomware infections are interesting especially if they bring down production systems; and >50% of our readers are in the US. And it was published at 9pm UK, 1pm PT.

That's why we cover US-based news at this time of day, as much as we love everyone from every country. We have the ability to make certain stories appear on the homepage only for certain regions, but we only do that to avoid swamping the homepage with news about one particular region - and when we do, some people are upset they might be missing out on articles.

tldr: we can't please all of the people all of the time.

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"I think the article is a little unclear"

Hm, it should be a pretty straight forward situation. We'll look over the piece again and see if there are any clarifications we can add.

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Re: Not everyone

All right, don't get bent out of shape over what's obviously intentional hyperbole to make a point. It's tedious caveating every sentence.

Next you'll tell me that 'world plus dog' isn't used accurately.

(And BTW everyone agrees with me, and anyone who doesn't is wrong.)

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2006 to 2023

It's the best part of two decades..

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Be fair though

The article did say:

'Supply of many components, especially those used for power delivery and automotive environments, remain heavily constrained'

And we've reinforced that with by adding some extra caveats to the piece, and I've twiddled the headline. We just thought it was a bit obvious we were talking about processors and memory, not MCUs etc.

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Hand bitten

Articles are generally a collective effort, unless it's marked opinion or comment, in which case, it's solely the author's view.

As a whole, we're done with this charade. There are so many examples like this and this.

Congrats, Redmond, you bought yourself a multi-billion-dollar moron.

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El Reg were to publish a regular AI-generated article

We've been mulling that, as some kind of parody or comedy column

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Re: Ever Hear of BSD?

Yes, we have. See above comments from Liam.

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Damned if we do, damned if we don't...

If we didn't include a transcript, some would say they need it because they can't watch the video for whatever reason. And if we include the transcript - which is handy for Google indexing too - then some say it's in the way.

We've moved the transcript to a second page for now. Hope this helps.

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quote

Yeah, but it's a direct quote, and not even really worth a [sic]. Some places, esp government, use 'code' in a way that others generally wouldn't.

Makes my eye twitch when I see scientists say they've written new codes for their latest supercomputer.

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