Posts by Snake

Re: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

"The alarming rise in medicalisation of children..."

It's not just children. It's the entire "psychiatric" system, what seems a bunch of charlatans who operate under the belief of their knowledge based upon...what, exactly? Their 'solution' is most often to medicate you into their perceived pattern of 'normalcy' and call it a day - they've done their job, as far as they are concerned. Never bothering to ask exactly what "normal" is, it is mostly a societal construct (ask the gays who were either castrated or lobotomized) and never bothering to ask "Am I sure that my beliefs in my 'treatment' are correct". They have been trained to believe they are correct, just like economists >:/

Re: One killer AI app

You keep forgetting the truth: Microsoft doesn't write all hardware drivers for devices. They get the latest drivers from the hardware manufacturers and only distribute that driver via Windows Update.

So, if you note, the driver you're looking for doesn't even exist on the hardware manufacturer's website...because they, the manufacturer, don't *want* to make the update in order to force planned obsolesce.

It has nothing to do with Microsoft, I wish everyone would stop blaming them. If you can get the driver update from the manufacturer then MS isn't bothering to distribute it; but, from your complaint, you state you can't get the driver at all and that's a SUPPLIER problem as proven by the fact that you can't get the driver direct from them, either.

Re: whistleblower

It is very true and a good point, he (currently) has no collaborating evidence. But a records demand from Boeing can shed light on that; if internal records exist of his complains, Boeing is in deep trouble.

Re: all software has bugs

I'd love to know the justification for the downvote(s) beyond ego. Let's talk of LO's YEARS-old bug of ignoring tray feed settings on certain laser printers, why don't we :(

But, no (frustrating) bugs here! Nope nope!

Re: If you read the Windows EULA carefully, you'll note the words...

I'd like to know about this supposed Win10 'ad' thing. I've never, ever seen a Windows ad anywhere on a desktop outside of the Weather & News taskbar widget, and (a) only if you completely open the widget and (b) only if you didn't kill the widget off your taskbar in the first place.

Never seen a Microsoft ad feed in all the Windows systems I'm responsible for admin o_O

Re: Popcorn icon needed

It's not "unsustainable hype" except when used as just another Faux News point to biatch at.

There certainly is a market for EV's. The ISSUE is that there probably isn't an *infinite*, always expanding market for EV's, and Wall Street HATES the idea of ever having to admit that about ANY market.

EV's have a market for the average urban driver, one who maybe travels 50 miles one way or 150 miles on weekends, and that's just fine. The problem is when you need to deal with exurban drives, where 80-300 mile trips may be either common or needed. But just as the urban driver's needs aren't universal, neither are the rural / exurban driver's needs, and to try to say that because EV's won't meet everyone's needs simultaneously that they are a failure or just hype is intellectual DISHONESTY.

There's a market for them but they are NOT for everyone. But allow those to whom the product fits THEIR needs to be pleased with them and stop trying to push a singular agenda on everyone else. If you want an EV, then there's no hype - it'll work for you. End of story. If an EV can't or doesn't work for you don't go trying to put down an entire industry plus their customers in an attempt to prove yourself singularly as "correct". The "hype" is needing to overcome 130 years of petrol infrastructure and be taken seriously - people are expecting EV's in less than 20 years, to be as supported and as flexible as ICE cars that have over a century of refinement. We need some realism here.

Re: "the Morefine M700S isn't a great deal overall. " ... indeed

Not sure (a) where you're getting your prices from and (b) why you're comparing apples to oranges.

(A) The story claimed i3-10000 series compute, not Celeron.

(B) A quick research shows 16gb of DDR4 and 256gb of SSD are both $50 street; does the Celeron come with 16gb? Add in case, motherboard, the actual CPU, power supply, assembly, packaging, shipping and warranty and I don't see how even a new Celeron will be $130

(C) a perusal of Newegg shows i3-10000 series desktops going for -$440, so this Chinese unit seem right in three ballpark.

Re: Three ways to make this idea even better

Yes, internet is no great deal here in the U.S. and I've mentioned it before. For a good number of us it is because of the distance that the ISP must service; a comment above from a user states "I'm only 25 miles from a city center" - 25 miles of run and maintenance adds up by the end of the year. Add in the usual, joyous U.S. capitalism of captive audience (no, to minimal competition in each area), lobbyists, certain parts of our own government (cough, GOP, cough) fighting against FCC ISP oversight, etc, and yep, we're screwed.

But always remember, ~36% of our population supports and consistently votes for this because anything else is "communism"! So, Let Them Eat Cake, I can't be bothered to keep reminding them what idiots they are.

Re: Argh

"It's 2024, who the hell is still using Batch files?"

[meekly raises hand]

Using it for quite a few things; for example, on this workstation, using it after a monthly, automated full clone of the hard drive to a standby drive to then disconnect the drive after the successful clone. The clone software has no other ability to handle this, so I pressed the system event log and a Powershell batch file into use to get 'r done.

Re: less ghosts

I wouldn't exactly say that...

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/09/amd_inception/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/zenhammer_comes_down_on_amd/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/24/amd_zenbleed_bug/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/31/linus_torvalds_ftpm/

It's just selective memory, that's all.

Re: Typical Google

A look around the site reveals a bare-bones domain with little in the way of content."

Because Google's claim of relevant search results based on content

https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/our-approach/

was working perfectly and honestly.

Silly me for thinking of Google doing otherwise. Google always does the right thing! [/s]

That's not logic, that's Wall Street quarterlies talking. Logic would dictate a business plan that keeps you actually, well you know, in business - satisfying Wall Street with short-term profits whilst hurting long-term interests is stupid MBA zealotry, but that is what modern capitalism has become.

Re: it's the DATA

Yes, some can indeed be opened by Linux tools. That does not mean that Linux's abilities even close to match those of the Windows apps that created them.

I'll place a "period" at the end of that statement as definitive, thankyouverymuch.

Re: index cards

LOL, same here except the "retirement" thing :p

The bright side is that there is no longer am inventive to create "busy / makeup work" of reindexing cards by "managers" trying to prove their worth.

Re: Year of Lunix desktop

A lot of us creatives use Windows, never-you-mind industry where custom apps can be commonplace. Nobody in the actual production industry is using anything but Windows for 3D CAD design and manufacturing as the support drivers / interface applications are Windows-only (of our 4 in-house CAD printers only one has a 'universal' interface, all others expect their data or control via Windows-only applications). Adobe suite, Windows or Mac only (no Linux). Some of the firmware updaters for my hardware (cameras, GPS, Bluetooth helmet communicators, etc etc) are Windows only, too.

We wouldn't need those billable hours if only the GOP would stop turning America into its corporatist plaything and STOP WORSHIPING AT THE ALTER OF MONEY. The Republicans hamstrung the FCC as a way to feed the ISP's the greater income they were (at the time) lobbying for; if set as Title II the ISP's faced FCC regulations on how much they could charge customers in regards to not only service but fees. The ISP's HATED that idea and wanted every dollar they could get, let the Republicans know, and you've never met a Republican who will go against corporate profits, customers be damned.

Re: portrait painters

Completely different medium and experience in appreciating the medium during viewing. A painting will never be as detailed as a photograph; conversely, a photograph can't reach the pure expressionism that a portrait artist can instill into the interpretation of his/her art.

Modern music isn't like that. Will we be able to hear the difference between an AI-created, and human-created, pop music piece? I seriously doubt it. Whilst an AI will never be able to reproduce a live concert orchestra experience, or even a live ensemble or rock concert experience, we spend the rest of our time listening to music via electronic replay. There is always an experience-disconnect during the replay, and this can be used by AI to mimic other people's creative works with little to no consequence. We already use synthesizers to create much of our soundscapes in popular music, and we've become so adjusted that we rarely mention it; 'genuine', acoustic instruments in pop music has become more and more a rarity. If AI creates the music, all synth, based upon other creatives' works (because, remember, it's only a model) then yes, the original artists are at risk, and do indeed need some protection from 'ripoff' of someone creating an "AI" model that simulates their real-life creativity with no 'real' work involved in making that innovative level of creativity in the first place.

Re: But why was Foundry revenue down -31% in 2023?

According to Reuters, Intel failed to invest in the lastest EUV fab technology and instead 'invested' in outsourcing more production.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-discloses-financials-foundry-business-2024-04-02/

Greater costs, and therefore greater losses, thus ensued.

Big surprise. Management makes bad decisions (who knew?!! /s) and then cry the blues when their short-sightedness for only good quarterlies comes back to bite them.

Why would they need to? The data collection in question was enabled at the browser side (Chrome) and Firefox isn't Chromium-based at all. If Moziila is guilty of the same tricks as Google then that's a completely different lawsuit.

But Google. Continuing to track you even if you ask them not to. Colour me surprised! Next thing you know we'll have honest politicians and THEN what will the world come to??!

Re: thrown under the bus

100% agree. I think JerBrains should sue Rapid7 for putting the customers at risk.

Re: dashboard lighting

Interestingly I keeo my interior lighting turned down to the bottom-most limit of adjustment. I know this isn't common because, when other people drive my car, the lighting is always turned up. But then again I don't have "normal" eyeballs, very rare actually, which grants me fantastic night vision but conversely fantastic over-sensitivity to glare. I've got cats-eye night vision but get commonly blinded in daylight.

Anyway, decades ago they discovered that while the red lighting is easier on the eyes, humans had to turn up its brightness to gain acuity thereby negating the benefit. So that's why red illumination faded out from common use.

This morning's local news

On the radio they mentioned that SBF was going to add to his plea for a shorter sentence was the 'fact' that, thanks to Bitcoin's recent surge, 'people were making their money back and therefore losses were minimized'.

Nice of him, don't you think?

Re: Liquid cooled or not

I wonder when the fab companies will start considering the need to make the substrate larger than the design's required footprint, in order to gain additional cooling surface at a (relatively) modest cost. They can't continue to push the designs into a smaller, yet hotter, package and expect cooling ability, especially in a dense server farm, to easily, continuously and economically keep up. Yes, yes, that means more motherboard real estate to hold that larger die package but conversely you gain the greater surface area needed to actually support that die's abilities to burn kWh like it's Steven Tyler on a cocaine trip.

the clause in the contract

..."and has also agreed to be barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for five years."

A public company. Giving him all the benefits of simply finding / starting a private-owned company, let's say a private mutual fund, and starting the entire cycle all over again.

Thank you, American capitalism. You've done it [to the rest of us] again.

Re: Let's adjust our pronunciation!

"The daily users of Xitter..."

Just realized: if we add an "h" after the "X" there, and use the Chinese pronunciation of the leading "X", it comes out just about right...

Re: European truck sales

Probably in the smaller classes this is available, but European HGV trucks are cabovers which are highly unpopular here in the U.S. There's a legacy reason for this: the early design of cabovers, spring-ride (versus air-ride for modern designs) and limited driver space during long hauls gave them a poor reputation that they have never overcome to this day.

My own, first experience driving HGV was in a spring-ride International 7-speed cabover and let me tell you, when I switched over to a standard, cab-rear, air-ride International 9-speed it was like switching over to a Cadillac from a Yugo :D The 7-speed was a recalcitrant little biatch, plus add in the fact that the clutch rod was partial frozen in the bearings (and no one believed me until the mechanic's inspection), and the switch to the 9-speed air-ride was joy itself.

So, in America, it's still engine-forward, manual transmissioned (and no syncromesh) designs. Double-clutching is mandatory; many companies will fire you if they find you speed-shifting without a clutch, considered abusing the machinery.

Re: Emphasis on "if"

Also, Win + R gets you the RUN command, easy way to get RedEdit or a command line command executed.

Re: reasonable thing to reuse

I tried that years ago. I had a wonderful HTC M7 that lost carrier & software upgrade support so I 'downgraded' it to a home remote for my automation systems.

Worked OK...until the software devs updated the Android automation apps to no longer be compatible with the M7's Android version, and stopped allowing the old versions on their systems as well.

Bye bye, M7.

It was a nice phone. Loved the form factor and construction. But in order to lower recycling, thereby extending use, both hardware *and* software vendors would need to get with the program.

The DOJ's argument isn't that there is a walled garden, is that Apple intentionally damages interoperability and therefore the option of alternatives or leaving the walled garden. Apple intentionally prevents any competition within its own products - no alternative internet browser (in the U.S., anyway), no alternative messaging system, etc. And intentionally damages the interoperability of those locked-in systems to other, outside systems.

Apple could continue to have a "walled garden' yet still allow competition for its own designs - see: the EU. But here, in America, Apple refuses any and all outside access (see: Epic) and wants a slice of the pie for everything even if they really don't deserve it (again, see: Epic).

Why has Apple been allowed, for so long, to operate like this? America, of course. Land of Big Money = making the rules, or getting a side-glance as they look away. Americans have become so used to the corporatism that we became after Olde Fart Reagan that they don't even bother to argue or complain any more - anything for money, is GOOD!