* Posts by Piro

2310 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Nov 2008

Broadcom boss Hock Tan acknowledges 'some unease' among VMware community

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Microsoft is shit.

But, if you have an estate of Windows servers, you have to deal with them anyway.

VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May

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Re: Too Little, Too Late

Yeah, Broadcom is accelerating the development of alternatives. Great business model!

Belgian ale legend Duvel's brewery borked as ransomware halts production

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Re: Too far

The Stella brewery doesn't only produce Stella,I've been on a tour.

Nice place, nice town.

Nutanix doesn't expect a rush of VMware refugees – maybe for years

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Hyperconverged

Nutanix is a hyperconverged play, I would very much doubt the majority of vmware customers are using vsan, so they'd have to do a hardware refresh. Nutanix is too limited.

China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes

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Nice to have the little piece about optical media once a decade

What was it last time? Holographic?

This'll go nowhere

Wyze admits 13,000 users could have viewed strangers' camera feeds

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Always found the therac story fascinating, I don't know why. Some of the bugs were really basic and terrible, but it's the way the machine had the hardware interlocks costed away and the response of aecl that was especially bad.

Highly recommend going in to it for anyone who hasn't.

I do wish we had the source code.

Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2

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I have a 3770K with 32GB RAM around here too, not being used.

And a 3570K with 32GB of RAM, which runs all the time.

Not my primary machines to use on the desktop, but very useful hardware still.

Mon Dieu! Nearly half the French population have data nabbed in massive breach

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Re: Made me order a Flipper Zero

Yeah, I'm not too sure, I guess I'm leaning in to that "fun toy" aspect of it. Maybe I'll find a use for it. That said, I don't have lots of free time.

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Made me order a Flipper Zero

Now that was advertising that worked.

AnyDesk revokes signing certs, portal passwords after crooks sneak into systems

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Good old worst practice

They literally have plain text passwords for customers' portal logins.

How is that even possible?

https://www.resecurity.com/blog/article/following-the-anydesk-incident-customer-credentials-leaked-and-published-for-sale-on-the-dark-web

Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format

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Also, jpeg 2000 isn't dead. It's not necessarily an interesting format these days, but if you've been to a cinema, you've seen jpeg 2000.

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The benefits are many, one is, uniquely, that it can take standard jpegs and losslessly (and reversibly) compress them further.

There's nothing else like it.

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A real shame

It offers unique and worthwhile benefits over all other image formats.

We put salt in our tea so you don't have to

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Re: Milk?

That would also make it cooler when steeping the tea, which is just going to make it take longer.

Then you'd also have to fish out a milky teabag. I don't think I've ever seen anyone do that before.

Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it's hurting the secondhand market

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Re: iPhone 7+ here

For me, reasonable size no bigger than 140x70

Samsung’s Galaxy S24 pitch: The AI we baked in makes you more human

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Re: Seven years of support

I'd hopes for the XCover line up, having an XCover 5 myself. But the 6 is too big, and the newly announced 7 is too big. Hopeless.

Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users

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OK, so terminal servers don't exist now???

"Alternatively, users could decide not to use desktop applications on a server operating system. "

NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane

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Re: Slow down

It was just an observation.

I get it, stories about Trump sell, but it seems to be an own goal if they want to get him out of the public consciousness.

Like you said, I suppose it's all about making money.

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Re: Slow down

I don't live in the US, and I wasn't going for particular analysis of Trump, I just find the idea that we should tell large groups of people 'that their voices will not be heard' a dangerous way to start going.

I find it all rather absurd. Surely if there were good opponents then nobody would still be talking about him.

It beggars belief that all these years on, the media still can't get away from Trump. Their constant coverage is surely feeding in to the hype, intentionally or otherwise.

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Re: Slow down

You sound like a parody.

You don't "defend democracy" by restricting democratic choices.

If he's really so popular, then some serious work needs to be done to find other candidates people will like more.

Be honest. Would you pay off a ransomware crew?

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Personally? No.

I do daily backups, fortnightly backups to a nas that's offline outside of the backup window, and rotate that nas physically out with another that's in another location in storage, every few months.

Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession

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Notepad2

Notepad2 has always been my go to, installed so it replaces notepad. https://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

There's also a nice fork that adds some extra features, which is what I use these days: https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2

Clean, very, very fast, about a megabyte.

Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers

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Impossible to comprehend

Broadcom needs to be stopped. In general.

Kia crashes CES with modular electric vehicle concept

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Re: Standardized

Those things are already prone to setting on fire, without the threat of thin and cheap USB cables charging them.

Sometimes you just need to accept you're dealing with a segment that can't be trusted, and ensure the cables are beefy and not interchangeable for the sake of it, without any fun protocols causing issues.

We have connectors that are designed to take such loads, like the XT- connectors commonly used in battery charging for RC cars and drones and whatever.

Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections

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Re: A gross understatement?

Well, yes. Every bolt will have a torque spec, and it will undoubtedly have to be tested and logged.

That clearly hasn't been done.

My brother puts up information displays (wall mounted and floor mounted) and every bolt has to be tested for pull out strength. These are just displays. Not aeroplanes.

Clearly those involved in assembly are guilty of negligence of the highest order, but it could be a whole company ethos, it's hard for outsiders to know.

I've looked at the door design and it seems decent, it would need to be mounted incredibly poorly to pose a risk, which is what has clearly happened.

OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials'

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I'm rarely in favour of heavy handed copyright law

But in this case I am.

They're profiting from works without paying royalties.

Kill it off.

Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail

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I imagine the surface is going to have much more of an effect than the speed, terminal velocity on to concrete? Ouch. On to grass? Through some bushes and trees first? Probably going to end up in better shape.

Road to Removal: A blueprint for yanking billions of tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere

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Carbon capture is a scam

It makes me angry to read about it, to be honest.

Windows boss takes on taskbar turmoil, pledges to 'make Start menu great again'

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Windows 7 and Windows 2000

Those are the two ui appearance options people want.

Do it.

Brain boffins think they've found the data format we use to store images as memories

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Re: Aphantasia Test

I remember the icon, didn't realise it was gone.

Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?

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Re: This is why I prefer unrestricted offline-capabilities

If you don't have an answer to 1), you need to get away from computers for a while.

Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?

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Re: there's nothing particularly wrong with Windows 11

Exactly. And 12 will without doubt be worse.

Women in IT are on a 283-year march to parity, BCS warns

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Just modern word salad vomit.

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What about teachers?

Especially primary education? Care?

You can find all kinds of examples where there's "imbalance", but the reality is, maybe people don't want to be forced around in to roles they don't fancy, just to balance a spreadsheet somewhere.

I don't think there's anything inherently anti-female about IT. My wife doesn't work in IT as such, but she works in a deeply technical role, and writes documentation using a markup language (DITA) and has a lot of 2D and 3D cad experience. She wants to do that, but not a lot of females necessarily want to.

Maybe we shouldn't go looking for problems where there aren't necessarily any. But I get it, it's easier to just blame soft targets and prattle on about nothing than actually tackle real issues affecting females today (or any other group, for that matter).

Ubiquiti blunder let some folks view others' security cameras, accounts

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Exactly

It shouldn't be possible. The device is on-prem, all the data is on-prem.

Ubiquiti should be providing a proxy to your device, using encryption that is only ever accessible from your account to the devices that match, your device should be rejecting all connections which don't have the appropriate key.

The fact this clearly isn't happening is insanity.

They need to do a total rethink of their security model. This has made me immensely distrustful of them, and I'll have to take measures.

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Sigh

Boring. Why does everything end up being crap? I guess vpn is the only way

Enterprising techie took the bumpy road to replacing vintage hardware

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Re: Two sides of a coin (aka Someone wanted a new printer)

That generation of laserjet was so good, and so easy to maintain. Designed to be maintained, no less.

I know people rave about the laserjet 4, but that's nostalgia speaking, the 4000 series was absolutely miles ahead, and would still be a decent printer today. The 4 is just too slow.

Doom turns 30, so its creators celebrate seminal first-person shooter’s contribution to IT careers

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Desert combat. Thanks for the nostalgia wave.

Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability

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Re: Huge

I have been keeping my eye on ASUS ZenFone lineup though, they seem to be doing a lot right. If only the battery was removable, had a microSD slot and the updates were guaranteed for many years. It's something I like about the XCover 5, the long update cycle.

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Huge

It's huge, and there's no headphone jack. It's also quite expensive.

If they could make a smaller version (preferably no bigger than 140x70), with a headphone jack and two physical SIM card slots, i'd be interested.

One physical SIM and e-SIM is no good for me. Oh well.

This whole thing about phones needing to be huge to have big batteries is a lie. A Xiaomi Redmi 4X is 139x70x9 and has a 4100 mAh battery. And it has a headphone jack. and an IR blaster.

Heck, my RAZR MAXX HD is 136x68x9 and has a 3300 mAh battery. I miss its form factor badly.

It also doesn't need to be huge to have a removable battery and two physical SIMs and a microSD. A Galaxy XCover 5 is 147x71 and has a removable 3000 mAh battery (I admit, that's small, especially compared to the previous two examples with fixed batteries), but it has a headphone jack, two SIM slots and a microSD slot.

Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security

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windows 10 iot enterprise ltsc 2021

updates to 2032

Electric vehicles earn shocking report card for reliability

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Re: Call me old fashioned

Not agreeing or disagreeing, I'd just like a link to the data. Thanks.

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Re: Odd

They did this, the Volt/Ampera.

The second gen was excellent, but it never came to Europe, and because it wasn't a pure BEV, it didn't get that much attention

USB Cart of Death: The wheeled scourge that drove Windows devs to despair

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Re: Old MS vs New MS

If they removed all the "analytics", ads, bloat, cloud-connected services and half-arsed ui attempts, it'd be ok.

Windows 7 pre-analytics patch with internal improvements.

IBM-led advertising X-odus gains steam as more flee Musk's platform

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To be fair, he's correct. Twitter used to be a cesspit. Now it's a cesspit, but we're getting some laughs from news articles about it, so at least it's given something back.

Fujitsu-backed FDK claims nickel zinc batteries ready for use in UPSes

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The fact they only tested to 0°C makes me suspicious.

The lead-acid that starts your car needs to deal with temperatures far colder.

When it comes to personal data, we're on a highway to hell

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But the people love it

Someone at work today showed me how he can see a destination history and complete map of driving from his Tesla.

Uh, no thanks

Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB in a PC

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They can make up whatever they want

8GB RAM soldered, non-expandable, in a $1600 consumer PC in 2023 is unacceptable.