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A company that is starting to invest in RISC-V with knowledge of the innards and workings of ARM processors, what could go wrong?
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As Arm plays chicken with Qualcomm, both have a lot to lose
Up to 18,000 Amazon workers in firing line as it chops cost
Some engineers are being paid between $250k and $1m, says salary survey
Wednesday 4th January 2023 13:21 GMT 
Re: Yet Another BS "survey"...
Another thing that comes to mind is you're going to have to pay a higher salary if you're in a place where the cost of things (like somewhere to live) can wipe out a salary that would be acceptable elsewhere.
It's been a while since I lived in the UK, but back when I did there was something called "London weighting" which added a percentage depending on how close to London your job was. This would cover living closer to the capital, or spending too many hours of your life dealing with the M4.
Citizen Coder? Happiness Concierge? Here come 2023's business cards
Tuesday 3rd January 2023 13:40 GMT
I was a "Data Processor". Since it was just me, I then got promoted to "Data Manager". As this included photocopying stuff and making tea, I had a few cards made up that said "Dogsbody".
These days I refer to myself as "Chief Bog Scrubber" [*]. People who are obsessed with job titles are not people I care to waste time attempting to communicate with.
* - This is actually true. After some bad experiences, I do geekery as a hobby, not a job. The stress of ever changing goals, sales promising the impossible, and endless meetings to massage the ego of a project manager that doesn't even know the names of the people he's managing...fuck all of that. I do my 9-5 in return for (mediocre) pay, and any time outside of that is mine. No thoughts about work, no "on call", no agitated emails or phone calls because somebody can't deal with something and needs an emotional punching bag. Fuck that. I'll take less pay in return for more happiness.
Should open source sniff the geopolitical wind and ban itself in China and Russia?
Tuesday 3rd January 2023 13:31 GMT
Another €0,02 to the discussion
Knife manufacturers aren't responsible for stabbings.
Gun manufacturers aren't responsible for shootings.
Car manufacturers aren't responsible for hit and runs.
These companies make "stuff", sell it, and anticipate that people will use "stuff" in a responsible manner. The overwhelming majority do, but you're always going to get that one twat that thinks it's okay to use a vehicle as a moving projectile. This is the fault of them, not the car or the manufacturer.
Why should software be any different? Most people will use Linux or Windows (talking about FOSS is just obfuscation) for useful purposes. And once in a while, somebody will use it for malicious purposes. It's on them, not all those involved in making the software.
Unless somebody uploads "improved guidance system for missiles" (or whatever) onto GitHub, the best approach is to not get involved with the politics, and accept that once you release something to the world, there are the odd few who won't respect the licence and won't use the code for good. But, we come full circle and can say the exact same thing about closed source products.
University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?
Wednesday 28th December 2022 23:36 GMT
Re: Critical thinking
Exactly. Most of our advances are because somebody added one and one and came up with three. The so-called "thinking outside the box", something that a machine can only attempt to poorly parody if it has been programmed to do so. This is where the thinking part of humans comes into play. We aren't taking inputs and mashing them together to make outputs... well, okay, most of us are in our daily lives... but every once in a while imagination and intuition come into play. We can take leaps, come up with theories that nobody has thought of before, and create entirely new things.
A machine is based upon mathematical operations in silicon pathways (processors do fairly simple operations really quickly), their world is logic and numbers. They might be able to arrange a selection of words based upon an acquired understanding of what words go with others in various contexts, but can it actually be creative or is it just regurgitating bits of what it has learned in weird not-quite-right ways (look at what Dall-E 2 does to people's faces for a good example of not-quite-right!)?
TikTok confirms it tracked journalists' locations as part of leak investigation
LastPass admits attackers have a copy of customers’ password vaults
Friday 23rd December 2022 13:35 GMT
That's what I use. Memory for the sites I visit a log, a password book for everything else.
Yes, it's a weak vulnerable link, but I figure if somebody swipes the password book (that is kept hidden), they've probably taken enough other stuff that passwords won't be my primary concern.
Exception: banking PINs/passwords - committed to memory and never written down.
Friday 23rd December 2022 13:31 GMT
Re: A unique memorable password?
Could do something simple like add the value of the letter (A=1), rolling at ten. So if your number is 1234 and the letter is D, the result is 1+4, 2+4... or 5678. An extra tweak could be to write it backwards if the number is odd.
Not too difficult to process mentally, but will require multiple examples to figure out what's going on, not just two.
Elon Musk to step down as Twitter CEO: Help us pick his replacement
In praise of MIDI, tech's hidden gift to humanity
Tuesday 20th December 2022 19:13 GMT
Re: MIDIFS Korg M1 and Acorn Archimedes, Risc PC ARM computers
Cool, thanks
I don't do fancy things like source control. I've only just been weaned off of floppy discs. ;)
My MIDI implementation and the source are lurking in the myriad of bollocks known as my blog - https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20220809
Monday 19th December 2022 20:22 GMT
Re: MIDIFS Korg M1 and Acorn Archimedes, Risc PC ARM computers
I, with some help from a friend called Dave (<waves>), wrote a clone of the old Acorn MIDI module (written in C, implemented to the known spec) that talks to modern USB hardware.
Was quite nice to plug my keyboard (Yamaha PSS-something) into the Pi, fire up Rhapsody4, and play music directly to the keyboard. It's been my dream ever since I got the keyboard, so it's great that it now works nicely.
I'd be interested in what you have to handle SysEx. My Yamaha, I think, abuses that in order to upload .mid files to a little bit of flash memory. I don't know if it can handle custom samples (patches) too. Unfortunately the process isn't documented and I'm not sure how I'd hijack a USB port (it's an XP box) to work out what's going on.
Microsoft patent eyes ads in streaming online games
Tuesday 20th December 2022 13:30 GMT
Re: Please, please, please...
"they can charge a subscription **and** run ads as well"
That's why I left Sky many years ago (not long after the digital transition). The amount of advertising on a paid-for service got to the point where I said no and cancelled.
It's something app devs don't seem to understand. Most people will tolerate some advertising. We grew up with commercial TV so there's an amount of noise that can be mentally blocked. But when it crosses the threshold and what you remember about the advert is that it constantly displays the same stupid advert for Footlocker (with a five second timeout), or that it pops up fake close icons that throw you into Play Store (and thus likely counts as an advert tap), that's when it's time to say "stuff this crap" and simply walk away.
Unless Microsoft is planning to use the advertising to offer better games for less money [*], they can all go sit on a bayonet and rotate at the RPM of a decent harddisc.
* - I'm not a gamer but I've seen how much they cost.
Server broke because it was invisibly designed to break
Saturday 17th December 2022 11:20 GMT
Re: guesswork
Had a Citroën Saxo where when idling, the engine speed would ramp up and down.
The place that sold it, and two different garages, said it could be the oxygen sensor or... something else (I forget), and suggested we start with the oxygen sensor (€600 inc. labour), and if that doesn't work do the other thing (€800 inc. labour).
Took a third option, traded it in for a C1 that never gave any problems.
Saturday 17th December 2022 11:09 GMT
Re: It is a fine idea
When I was about that age, one weekend at boarding school, a bunch of us decided to have a go at fixing the huge broken CRT TV in the dining room. It would have been 1987 or 1988. One of those horrible things in wooden frames with a cardboard back, inches of dust, and radiating heat from all over. It's a miracle it never self combusted.
I was the one who foolishly decided to move that thick black cable out of the way so we could better see how the rest was wired up.
I woke up in sanatorium aching like hell, apparently having backflipped over an entire table (don't remember that part), with matron trying not to have a heart attack over it.
Took a long time getting over the pain.
A little later the physics teacher pointed out that although it was rough on me, it was perhaps the best outcome considering that we really had no idea how to fix it and six boys crowding around a live chassis to poke and prod it while it was switched on (to see if it made anything better) was a massive deadly accident waiting to happen.
Why didn't we know about the chassis being live? Inches of dust over the pathetically tiny warning label and zero previous experience with televisions.
There's one thing I completely refuse to do in life, and that's go anywhere near the back of a CRT.
Saturday 17th December 2022 10:53 GMT
Yesterday I had to spread salt around where people walk so that nobody slips on the ice, as happened a few days ago when the freezing fog descended.
It's -4 at night, but it's bone dry and there's no ice at all. No snow or rain is forecast, until Sunday afternoon when it'll rain and be about 8C.
Oh, and nobody is working there until Monday morning.
But, alas, the Health and Safety person wanted it done so it had to be done by someone. They will "review" whether or not it needs to be done again on Monday morning (forecast: raining and about 9C).
Typical H&S, nothing happened when it was needed, and after the fact it's followed by pointless gestures "just in case".
Musk bans private-plane-tracking @Elonjet on Twitter, threatens legal action
Need a video editor, FOSS fans? OpenShot and Kdenlive both refreshed
UK lawmakers look to enforce blocking tools for legal but harmful content
Thursday 15th December 2022 13:42 GMT
Re: hyperbolic nonsense
"So please, explain how what a woman thinks is justification for my friend being put in hospital because they dared to wear a dress?"
Did I say that? I think you'll find I didn't.
What I did point out was further elaborated on by the person you're replying to who pointed out the very real fact that men who become woman are wanting to participate in female sports with a make physiology which gives them the very benefit that the split between male and female sports exist because of, and any woman who dares to question this gets labelled transphobic and shouted down to hell and back.
So, I ask again, what makes that point of view any less valid? Females that are biologically male aren't biologically female, yet saying such a thing gets considered a form of hate speech. Why? Can a guy give birth? Have periods? Can a woman have an erection? There are actual differences. Why is it wrong to observe this?
As for your friend, that sort of treatment isn't helpful either.
Monday 12th December 2022 13:39 GMT
users by giving users the option to verify their identity
Pray tell, how will this be implemented? Photos of a current passport and/or other identity document carrying a picture (driving licence)?
They can all fuck right off if that's the case. The last thing any of us should be handing to any social media company is even more personal information.
If this government was halfway competent, there would be a method of connecting to a government account (such as HMCR or NHS or whatever) and obtaining a short "key" to copy-paste where the government verifies that this person with this name and email address is really a real person, with no other PII sent.
Monday 12th December 2022 13:32 GMT
Re: hyperbolic nonsense
You don't think that maybe a women, sorry a person with a uterus, might not feel that a person born male can "become" female?
Before you hit the downvote button, let me just ask why you may think that a genetic female would be wrong to think that.
It's a very complicated subject that absolutely doesn't need the input of shouty keyboard warriors calling for people to be cancelled because of having an opinion that they happen to disagree with.
(note: I'm male and I don't really give a crap how somebody identifies)
Qualcomm talks up RISC-V, roasts 'legacy architecture' amid war with Arm
Thursday 15th December 2022 13:30 GMT
Interesting quotes
On one hand, a great benefit of RISC-V is that you can add all sorts of crap to the base instruction set...but on the other hand fragmentation is a problem (when everybody else adds crap to the instruction set and things clash).
How does Qualcomm expect to rationalise these issues without basically making themselves a gatekeeper and, in the process, turning into a mini-ARM, only without the core IP to back them up?
TikTok could be banned from America, thanks to proposed bipartisan bill
Wednesday 14th December 2022 20:25 GMT
"In China, no company is truly private. Under the country's 2017 National Intelligence Law, all citizens and businesses are required to assist in intelligence work, which includes sharing data,"
"In the United States, no company is truly private. Under the country's 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (and Executive Orders 12333 (1981), 13355 (2005), and 13470 (2008)), all businesses are required to assist in intelligence work, which includes sharing data,"
London cops break into gallery to rescue lifelike art installation
Apple preps for 'third-party iOS app stores' in Europe
Wednesday 14th December 2022 13:33 GMT
Re: Apple could...
I just asked a few cow-orkers (who have Android). Only one knew about other app stores, and that's because, like my phone, Galaxy Store was built in. And, like me, they don't use it.
I do, however, sideload specific apps. One is YouTube-without-the-tracking (not available on Play for obvious reasons), another is an older copy of a simple editor because I found the amount of forced full screen advertising to be invasive, so I rolled back to a backup. I also use sideloading to quickly install my core app selection on a new device (copy across apks, install, done).
So, I think that it will be a useful feature for those who know what it is and why it's there, and largely ignored by pretty much everybody else. Apple only needs to be like Android and disallow sideloading on a per-app basis (this app isn't allowed to install applications...) complete with a big clear scary warning before letting you turn off the block (per app, so if the file manager can install apps, the browser can't...).
You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108
Wednesday 14th December 2022 13:16 GMT
Wow.
I had trouble a few years ago as something using directly connected MIDI missed a mere few centiseconds (was a weird buffer issue) and it was noticed. I can't imagine the sort of latency a browser and connection (no matter what sort, you're up against laws of reality if pulling data from potentially the other side of the planet) would introduce.
But, then, people seem to accept dreadful quality videos where areas of similar colour (especially dark colours) end up as dancing blotches of the same colour, so maybe they'll accept horrible out of time music.... just call it post-dubstep or something, it'll be okay...
Twitter dismantles its Trust and Safety Council moments before meeting
Uncle Sam needs novel memory for nuke sims. So why did it choose Intel?
Tuesday 13th December 2022 13:41 GMT
The WOPR was right
I think everybody thinking that they need "more accurate" nuke simulations (in both East and West) needs to be sat down and forced to watch the entirety of Threads.
If one side launches, the other will retaliate. Other countries will get dragged in according to their allegiance. Anybody threatens Israel, they'll dust off the Sampson option and throw the nukes they don't have all over the place. Very much a "we'll all go down together" situation. Not Israel, everybody.
Humanity will survive, but those few that do won't much like the world they have to live in.
So we don't need more accurate simulations, we need to be figuring out ways to ensure this scenario never ever happens.
Google's Dart language soon won't take null for an answer
Sunday 11th December 2022 19:17 GMT
Re: Go Multithreading Issues
"Commercial users of the Sappeur Compiler need a written license per developer using the compiler. Cost of license per user is 300 Euro per developer-user." ... plus contacting a server for licence checks, so can it work offline? [note: it's free for non-commercial projects (it isn't defined what this actually means)]
You know, this isn't 1990 any more. Go is an open source language, C++ has freely available open source complete toolchains, and Dart is on GitHub. There are numerous Java compilers available too.
Sappeur - no source, no ability to audit the code, and it's €300 per developer compared to those languages you're claiming to be better than. [note: it's free for non commercial projects]
I wish you luck, but can't see this being embraced in a hurry in a world that's already saturated with programming languages...
Boss installed software from behind the Iron Curtain, techies ended up Putin things back together
Greater London wing of comms union urges BT workers to reject pay offer
Friday 9th December 2022 13:32 GMT
Re: "equate to between a 6.68 to 14.78 percent increase"
Upvote, because in order to support their employees, the place I work is offering 2%.
That doesn't even match the difference in the price of cat food (and if you've been paying attention, those 100g pouches are now 85g, so you're paying about 15% more for 15% less).
Inadequate IT partly to blame for NHS doctors losing 13.5 million working hours
Look like Bane, spend like Batman with Dyson's $949 headphones
Using personal info for ads without consent puts Meta in EU's gunsights
Five British companies fined for making half a million nuisance calls
Longstanding bug in Linux kernel floppy handling fixed
Wednesday 7th December 2022 20:48 GMT
Re: Boeing use(d) them
With older machines that don't have Bluetooth, or have weird networking setups (or, shudder, a lone BNC socket for that), sometimes dumping files onto a bog standard 1.44MB floppy is the least annoying way of getting stuff from one machine to another.
There's probably no excuse or reason for floppies if none of your hardware predates Game of Thrones, but if you have stuff from the '90s then they can be useful.
Apple brings DIY fix-it store to Europe, UK – with gritted teeth
Wednesday 7th December 2022 17:01 GMT
Re: Is UK not part of Europe?
"Don't you remember the famous journal article entitled "Fog on the Channel, the Continent is isolated" ?"
What, you mean the widely circulated newspaper headline that never actually happened (and things similar would have been satire rather than actual serious journalism)?
https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/fog_in_channel/
Wednesday 7th December 2022 16:57 GMT
Re: Is UK not part of Europe?
"Nobody in the UK has ever thought they were part of Europe - especially not in the political arena."
Be careful with your generalisations - not every British person hates the EU, Europeans, Europe, etc.
Some of us were actually proud to be (politically) European.
And I'm fairly certain there are numerous Scots who would be willing to pick a fight, or did you forget that Scotland is (currently) a part of the UK?
Disclaimer: I got the hell out, live in France now.
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