* Posts by O RLY

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Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts

O RLY

"I don't see how it's making any money."

You're right, it's not and never has: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/tech/reddit-ipo-filing-business-plan/index.html

Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for 'uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure'

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Re: Tangential to the article

Thanks for sharing!

Yes, I had seen that and had rolled back to a prior release while awaiting this one without the AI.

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Terminator

Tangential to the article

I use JetBrains IntelliJ for my Java/React stuff today and I noticed it's got AI for an additional fee. There was an El Reg article a few weeks ago about it that was critical of the inclusion.

I mention that because, as I peruse the Reg's homepage, I notice a shitload of AI-generated images instead of the standard stock images over articles including this one. I assume it's cheaper to use AI, but the images are all strange. (The URL still shows shutterstock - https://regmedia.co.uk/2024/03/05/shutterstock_screen.jpg)

Icon because murderbots are less unsettling.

China loathes AirDrop so much it's publicized an old flaw in Apple's P2P protocol

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Re: Tap to drop makes AirDrop saner

The iPhone 2 being entirely nonexistent is a bigger barrier to sales, methinks.

While we fire the boss, can you lock him out of the network?

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Re: ?

It's an old reference, made popular through Scott Adam's use in Dilbert and books.

Excuse the unusual source, but better sources are gone.

https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Cow-orker

Microsoft confirms Smart App issue renaming everyone's printers to HP

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Pint

Re: nuke strike packages

Who said anything about coffee? Starbucks doesn't qualify to be called coffee.

Icon to demonstrate another use for the paltry settlement sum.

China relents: Broadcom-VMware merger approved at last

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Rehashing a prior post: Requiem for a once-great

Here lies VMware, whose corpse is on display as it is devoured by scavengers.

1998-2023

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I had a post script asking for a regulatory body to prevent the desecration, but, alas, it was not to be.

Godspeed and good luck to the VMware staff affected by changes and layoffs and to the customers about to get squeezed.

SEC lawsuit against Terraform Labs and cofounder Do Kwon lives to fight another day

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Trollface

Hammer an Echo?

Unrelated to the article itself, why did El Reg choose a picture of a judge hammering an Echo/Alexa device for the main page's teaser image?

https://regmedia.co.uk/2018/11/14/shutterstock_amazon-judge.jpg

Onto the article, it sure seems less and less like anyone made an honest billion in crypto.

BOFH: Good news, everyone – we're in the sausage business

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Terminator

Re: AI Infused

Since we've lost the badge for Paris Hilton, maybe the badger badge can be restored. It has the other benefit the that icon selections will be back to three lines of uniform length.

Chose this icon just because we're talking about AI.

Intel ships multi-die chips ahead of schedule – to the US military

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WTF?

Re: Military use

Edward Snowden is not a Republican and delivered a ton of information on a TLA's monitoring of each and everyone of us.

RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94

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Pint

Re: And I had just bought some more Xeons, too…

Oh very true. Sorry, I misread your comment.

Cheers

O RLY

Re: And I had just bought some more Xeons, too…

Do you mean RAM rather than CPU Cache? 9GB is a ton of CPU Cache.

My daily runs an 8-core Intel Core i9 with 35 MB of Cache and 32 GB of RAM

BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it

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Trollface

Re: If they want to be consistent..

"A real phone"

Would that be a Librem 5?

Microsoft wants you to build quantum apps in Azure, the cloud that's both up and down

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Re: IBM is a quantum monster

"Must explain why I've been feeling like it disappeared from the IT landscape for the past decade"

Well, that and selling their PC, server, and low- and mid-tier storage off, then spinning out their traditional IT services biz.

Tesla's self-driving code may ignore stop signs, act unsafe. Patch coming ... soon

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Re: Recall is right..

"No one has died"

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Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

Woman on Plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?

Narrator: You wouldn't believe.

Woman on Plane: Which car company do you work for?

Narrator: A major one.

Super Bock says 'cyber' nasty 'disrupting computer services'

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Re: Dangerous target

So long as whiskies and other spirits are available, I think the crisis can be mitigated somewhat, but such an assault would be a terrible escalation. I wonder how many BOFHs would become the new retaliatory computer army.

Musk bans private-plane-tracking @Elonjet on Twitter, threatens legal action

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"I’m not likely to purchase anything SpaceX has to offer."

Not directly, anyway. That said, I know there's a lot of fun stuff purchased with my taxes that I'd love to get to use that I didn't choose to buy.

Twitter employees sue over lack of 60-day layoff notice

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He also tweeted he was taking Tesla private at $420 per share. It's hard to parse what he says through a filter of reality.

How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

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Re: Not wounded pride.

Agreed about Oliver not being funny, but he doesn't do a chat show.

No, working in IT does not mean you can fix anything with a soldering iron

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Mushroom

Re: Customer pushback

Will SpaceX ship Amazon packages or will the "missile gap" between Bezos and Musk cause conflicts?

Letter to FCC: Why are US carriers locking handsets to networks?

O RLY

Re: Buy from the Mfr

I have purchased my last three smartphones via the carrier for these reasons:

1. I can buy on credit without interest as part of my bill

2. My bill is reimbursed by my employer up to $AMOUNT which can include my phone payment only if it is part of the provider's bill. That amount tends to be higher than my service, so my phone fee fits nicely.

3. I've never had an issue from that provider when asking to unlock the phone early.

If any of those changes, but especially the second, I might change my process.

Twilio more than decimates staff, CEO says it grew too fast

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Re: Tough for the CEO

At least he didn't cry during a video presentation. He kept the levels of bullshit down to what one expects.

Apple patches iPhone and macOS flaws under active attack

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Yeah, Catalina should be supported for a few more months. I wonder if the issues are related to the new bits in macOS 11 and 12 not present in the 10.15 code.

Apple's typically opaque release notes lend no insight.

SEC charges VMware with hiding slowing sales from investors

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Who's the Chairman of the Board?

Oh, right. This guy.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-131.htm

BOFH: It's Friday, it's time to RTFM

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Re: When M doesn't mean what you think it means

Sure, that makes sense. The North Koreans still use a date system based on the birth of Kim Il Sung.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche_calendar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche_calendar

Janet Jackson music video declared a cybersecurity exploit

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Re: Unbelievable

Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/654/

less relevant with 5GHz wifi more prevalent, though.

US-funded breakthrough battery tech just simply handed over to China

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Re: ... long potential lead times

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”

- P.J. O'Rourke

VMware president sees some 'anxiety' at customers who've seen Broadcom at work

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Re: meh, just dump it and get over it.

ESXi free is still a thing. The 60-day is the evaluation, which is not the same thing as the free "license".

https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7

Broadcom takeover deal for VMware faces no rival bids

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Requiem for a once-great

Here lies VMware, whose corpse is on display as it is devoured by scavengers.

1998-2023

___

Maybe the EU or another regulatory entity will save it from execution and descration.

Google said to be taking steps to keep political campaign emails out of Gmail spam bin

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Re: Seen this poo before

The SMS spam messages are worse, in my opinion, because of their immediacy of notification and I call for a pox on all houses who send political spam.

Clustered Pi Picos made to run original Transputer code

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Most Python REPLs or IDEs will automate the spacing for you now, at least any worth using. Having not used Occam in a long time, nor for much at all at the time, I don't know what that language's tools' current state is.

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

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Trollface

Re: Whose money?

An interstellar government, since that number is larger than the GDP of Earth by three orders of magnitude.

Or are you expecting Weimar / Zimbabwe inflation to add some extra zeros?

Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates

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The last xcode update broke my Mac. Learned how to erase and rebuild a M1 Mac Mini, though, but the time machine backup wouldn't restore. I had luckily saved my important data elsewhere, but not the config settings.

EU Apple suit alleges anticompetitive Apple Pay practices

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Re: Why buy Apple kit?

Yes, they have. There used to be several virtual assistants until Apple bought what became Siri, for example, but then they were banned for replicating iOS functions. Time-based blue light reduction apps existed until Apple added Night Shift. One of those app makers, F.lux, pushed hard to be reinstated and insinuated their IP was stolen.

We can dissemble about browsers, but all browsers on iOS devices are reskinned WebKit at their core. Are they really "third party?"

Apple patched critical flaws in macOS Monterey but not in Big Sur nor Catalina

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Re: There is an official update available from Apple

"Sadly, Microsoft are setting off down the same dark path :("

Or returning to it. Windows Plug-n-play up until XP SP2 was usually plug-n-pray, then curse, and go hunting for a driver.

OVHcloud datacenter 'lacked' automatic fire extinguishers, electrical cutoff

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Trollface

Re: Strasbourg, France

Elsaß-Lothringen bleiben immer Deutsch!

Notes on the untimely demise of 3D Pinball for Windows

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They've had two regime changes since then - maybe it's time to try again :)

BOFH: Time to put the Pretty Dumb F in PDF reader

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Trollface

Re: Executive MBA

It's like a regular MBA, but with an enhanced price tag to extract more money from the gullible, the gullible being either the student if self-paying or the student's company if the student has good sales skills.

New study demonstrates iodine as satellite propellant... in space

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Re: Uh

For a fun read about FOOF, here's Derek Lowe, PhD, discussing why he will never work with it.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

America, when you're done hitting us with the ban hammer, see these on-prem Zoom vulns, says Positive

O RLY

Re: I'm sure this will start a flame war

It's hard to take that article seriously as a critique of word choice when the author writes the grammatically-incorrect "thank you to whomever did."

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Headmaster

I'm sure this will start a flame war

The correct spelling is "on-premises", not "on-premise." The latter is not correct.

Awkward. At Chrome summit, developer asks: Why should anyone trust Google?

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Re: Trust Google?

Amazon the store: Don't use it.

AWS: well, odds are good that many of the entities who get your custom or with whom you interact have some services in AWS. Just refer to the list of things that go down when AWS loses a region.

Same thing with Microsoft and Azure, Google and Captchas

'Father of the Xbox' Seamus Blackley issues Twitter apology to AMD over last-minute switch to Intel CPUs

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Re: Final and best price

Machiavellian and Microsoft? Yup. Too many people today (not here) have forgotten BillG's old ways because he retired from Microsoft, gives to charity, and participates in Reddit's secret santa, but his actions definitely earned him his original reputation as an exceptionally ruthless cutthroat in a field full of ruthless cutthroats.

The image rehabilitation he's had over the last 20 years is unfortunate.

US school districts blame Amazon for nationwide bus driver shortage

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That's the silly con valley vulture capitalism.

Amazon delivery staff 'denied bonus' pay by AI cameras misjudging their driving

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Re: Too soon

A version of Iteration 3 happened in real life already in Arizona in 2018 when an Uber autonomous car killed a pedestrian while the human operator was not paying attention. El Reg reported the human may have been streaming TV:

https://www.theregister.com/2018/06/22/uber_fatal_crash_driver_distracted_police_report/

Crash story:

https://www.theregister.com/2018/03/19/uber_self_driving_car_fatal_crash/

Prosecutors charged the human, not Uber, with homicide, but the case appears to be unresolved:

https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/16/self_driving_uber_homicide_charge/

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/uber-self-driving-crash-arizona-vasquez-wrongfully-charged-motion-11583771

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