Posts by HAL-9000

The joy of hardware attacks

Let's hope all those owners of Asus routers get the message eh ;)

... a quick web search reveals none of the big news vendors have picked up on this yet, just some niche technology sites

Official Russian Federation tourist board announcemnt

Nice country you got their Vlad, can't say the urge to visit any time soon is pressing right now.

Oh my

"The Register's bork series will be coming to an end later this year with a final festive Twelve Borks of Christmas"

-- Truly sad news to hear, let alone read. Bork! will be much missed when it's gone.

Where's Linus

"If you want to build or run complex GPU-accelerated computational applications on Linux, using high-end workstations and high-end graphics cards, it can be tricky."

- That's deliberately made tricky, Linux love from Nvidia extends to supercomputers only. For a brief history, and in case anyone has forgotten: Hello Nvidia from Linus

It's a little better now, but not much, in fact I just moved to AMD GPU because of the years of frustration (15 specifically) caused by the B$ of closed source drivers.

Somethings never change

Egregious as ever, it is obviously too much to expect M$ to behave in good faith. According to statcounter, edge market share is 3.99% compared to Chrome's 64.7% and Safari's 19.1%. Presumably if users don't want Edge then they'll have it rammed down their throats for good measure

:D

Simply wonderful, keep these coming please

What a jolly coincidence

It's not often that a side effect of seemingly providing the end user with enhanced personal security also effectually reduces the ability to police the users of such an anti-social media platform. Win-win kerching, assuming they can maintain a happy relationship with the advertisers. One more point, I might be missing something, but for an anti-social media platform like FB which operates by connecting people that know each other... how does E2EE and the ability to conceal identity/geographic origin enhance the anti-social media platform experience??? I must be missing something (I have a hunch this is about getting former FBers back... the ones that fled to Parler perhaps).

Two wrongs don't make a right, apparently

It's kind of unusual seeing two greedy Goliath's lose the fight simultaneously. Very rare indeed. There should be a sense of satisfaction right now, that all is well in the big wide world, but the ominous feeling that everyone is going to be shafted harder and longer just won't go away.

Rumble in the bazaar

Epic seems to be enjoying the process of washing everyone's dirty laundry in publlic, and I must say this latest one is hardly surprising since bits of the Play store seem to be dropping off for no apparent reason, other than a lack of interest from the paying public. Apple holds developers to ransom, Google bribes developers to stay loyal.... I wonder what mischief Epic have been getting themselves into, I sincerely doubt they are entirely innocent in all of this. Mud slinging generally leaves everyone splattered, wryly noting that `He who slings mud generally loses ground`

what's not to like

Cat pictures are what the internet is about, this has to be cat pictures 2.0

Autocomplete+

Probably the best one line summary I've seen in a while: Copilot may find other ways to ruin your day.

Fishing anyone?

Not even slightly predictable, moving emails and data to cloud based 3rd parties was sure to attract some unwanted attention. Hosting locally complicates matters for law enforcement, but the big question remains: what is the general nature of the justifications for these subpoena's, I'd be interested to know.

Boy time flies fast

I suppose my work iPhone 6 running iOS 12 (security updates only) is getting a bit outdated now

I blame tRump for normalising this BS

'Department of Science Technology and Army' !!?? I think that pretty much sums it up. When you combine government science and technology departments with the military, that sends a loud and clear message. Strong arm, wannabe tyrants are all the rage these days. Closing down news and media is basic training at despot school.

That explains it

Is it no wonder the Linux kernel is ballooning exponentially, how many millions of lines of code have been added for the next release... Friday goal based KPI commits must be the explanation. Now where was that web site to download Open Euler OS, it'll be a cert for quality patches.

Life is full of surprises

Who knew the public that consume software are the new alpha testers

Did Lauren Boebert show up?

Yikes, it's a revolt at the old folks home on the hill

Shock horror

Fake online reviews???!!! Golly gosh, I never knew such things were possible

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although exactly how this might be achieved remains "fuzzy". ... I think a sternly worded letter from a suitably prestigious minister ought to put the fear of god up them

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We have this covered

Obvs a dry run for next year when deregulation on steroids commences, I can't wait for January, honestly (\S)

Which list then?

Does this mean that NASA is officially on Santa's naughty list then? No more fat servings of pork barrel

A badge of honour

You're not trying hard enough if you haven't offended the likes Tim Cook

Anyone else?

I wouldn't object, thus use a blocker, if the ads were quiet and well behaved. Sadly many are not, and if you choose to spend your adult relaxation time on pron or gambling sites then you will likely find that your browser cookie jar becomes pretty nasty in short order. How about Google develops a code of practice (otherwise known as a CoP) that all sides sign onto... No nasty screen hogging, pop up popping, flashing, animated, video downloading hi-jinx in return for fair play from Google users? Too much to ask for I suspect

Look Dave,

I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.

;)