* Posts by Will Godfrey

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Locked out of Horizon Europe, UK commits half a billion to post-Brexit research

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Re: "the UK remains open to association"

I think you'll find the vast majority of commentards here did NOT vote for leaving the EU.

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The brexit gift

... the one that continues to rob the country, and marginalise us.

UK's National Health Service will roll existing Palantir work into patient data platform

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Quality of service

Treatment for us proles will drop through the floor, while the entitled ones will get all the benfits.

EU reaches agreement on satellite comms project: Opens Iris

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Meh

How's ours getting on?

Weren't we supposed to have our very own all British setup in place (or at least in development) by now?

AMD’s latest, greatest Radeon graphics card $600 cheaper than Nvidia’s top RTX 4090

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Re: 68 Billion Colours ?

You definitely earned one of these ->

Nvidia faces lawsuit for melting RTX 4090 cables as AMD has a laugh

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Could be worse

I'm waiting for the first report of a fire started by a faulty USB-C connector running at the max rating of 5A / 20V

Qualcomm faces fresh competition in world of Arm-based Windows PCs

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I think it's Broadcom that currently employs the original designer of ARM

UK forces Chinese-owned company to offload Newport Wafer Fab

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Gubbermints

While I expect we'll never get the whole story, I am (sort of) impressed by our mob.

They seem to have honed their ability to screw up everything they touch to near perfection!

Just follow the instructions … no wait, not that instruction to lock everyone out of everything

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Better than being left behind

NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages

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Meh

Maybe I'm missing something

But how does memory safety reduce phishing attacks, DDOS or plain old hard-coded passwords?

Can we get our priorities right?

GitHub's Copilot flies into its first open source copyright lawsuit

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Getting off github

Would this actually do any good? It seems they would still have a copy of your code, so could continue to scrape what they like.

BOFH: Don't be nervous, Mr Consultant. Come right this way …

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And even the sun is shining

Looks like a great start to the day.

OK, so I'm late getting up, but BOFH at breakfast is always a good way to start the day.

Australia blames Russia for harboring health insurance hackers

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Victim Blaming?

Yes maybe their security was lax - I don't know, I'm not an expert on such things, but the above comments come over very much like "She was asking for it, wearing such a short skirt.". At least medibank did the right thing by refusing to pay. If more organisations had the sense to do that the problem wouldn't exist.

EU set to sign internet satellite deal, as UK frees up spectrum

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If only...

we were a major player in some sort of union of countries, we could be part of, and reap the benefits of all this.

Strong support for Snap and Ubuntu Core as Canonical meet IRL

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NO

As mentioned previously, ubuntu's implementation is a security nightmare.

Swiss drone-busting eagle squadron grounded permanently

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Re: Headline creativity

... but not European hotels.

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Re: fish eagles

Oh yes it will...

Heavy, man: Tuxedo puts out 2.2kg Stellaris AMD Gen 4

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Interesting

I been thinking about a new laptop for a while, and this looks very attractive... except for the price. I don't actually need a laptop at all, and sadly can't justify this amount - unless I switch the heating off, and significantly reduce socialising :(

Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole

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Re: Daft

If that's true, how come one of my best friends was welding pipes (from the inside) for gas transport in the 1970s?

Beer, because it was hot, dirty and dangerous work.

Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process

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Linux

About time I made a donation to the Devuan team.

Thanks for the reminder.

That's all.

Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs

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Re: Plain Annoying

Don't you and the wife get on then?

All of the norths are about to align over Britain

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Re: The KLF were correct

You miss spelled Opp Norf

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Yes, and it's a bugger when you have to smash the rocks up with your bare hands.

Nitrux 2.5: The latest update to a radical Linux

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Ummm

Devuan testing has had kernel 6.0 for a while now.

uname -a

Linux devuan 6.0.0-2-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT Debian 6.0.5-1 (2022-10-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux

US Treasury thwarts DDoS attack from Russian Killnet group

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Rule one

Don't gloat.

It loses you friends, and makes your enemies try harder.

Singapore to phase out checks for businesses by 2025

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Re: Checks and balances

Got me too at first. Made me think they were taking our lot's deregulation to the next step!

Oh, great. By peering into twilight, boffins find 'planet killer' asteroids in our system

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Vogons

Douglas Adams was right!

UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told

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Boffin

Hmmm.

I wonder how much of that is due to real technological problems and how much profiteering unforeseen expenses.

Linux world gains ability to repair exFAT drives

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Joke

Never mind the theatrics

Just give us the FATs Ma'am.

Zoom to mandate client updates every ninety days, starting Nov 1

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Well that could take me out

The only machine I have with a camera is a 32bit laptop. They stopped producing a 32bit Linux version some time ago.

The boss worked in a fishbowl, so office tricks were a treat

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Re: Pranks and things

Definitely not a place I would have wanted to work.

Privacy watchdog urges companies drop emotional analysis AI software

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Why HR likes it

No person then becomes responsible for hiring decisions that go seriously (possibly expensively) wrong.

The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists

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Re: Beware of The Leopard

Gnome and Redhat's relationship seems to be somewhat schizophrenic . In some ways they seem to compete for the crown of who can piss off the greatest number of people. At other times, they seem to team up to go nuclear on the userbase.

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For a moment...

I read that as "The GNOME Project is closing".

For one... glorious... hysterically happy moment.

If you think 5G is overhyped, wait till you meet 5.5G

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So they need to gee up... Neddy.

BOFH: I know of a small biz that could deliver nothing for a fraction of the cost

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Ahhhh!

All is right in the world again. The BOFH is clearly on a roll... extended payroll.

US orders safety recall of Tesla Cyberquad-for-kids ATV

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Re: Rollover protection?

This reminds me of a D.I.Y set of roll bars attached to a Land Rover... made out of scaffold poles and couplings.

On a serious bit of Off-Roading in Wales it was 'tested' and worked perfectly! This was in the late 1960s.

Biden now wants to toughen up chemical sector's cybersecurity

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Compared to our government

... Biden's lot are looking absolutely brilliant where industrial security is concerned

Ubuntu continues expanding RISC-V support – now, the $17 Sipeed LicheeRV

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Interesting

I'm not keen on ubuntu itself, but the more distros that work on RISC-V the better - not too happy about Allwinner though. their license looks rather dodgy, considering they are using open source hardware.

India's – and Infosys's – favorite son-in-law Rishi Sunak is next UK PM

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WTF

Have I accidentally switched to Twitter or Facebook?

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We'll See

At the moment I can't think of anyone in any party more suitable. That's not really saying a lot.

Microsoft's Lennart Poettering proposes tightening up Linux boot process

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May I remind you (as reported in this very rag) that other security 'improvement' - so-called secure boot - has proved to be a vector for malware?

Fool me once - shame on you.

Fool me twice - shame on me.

Lenovo thinks customers simply love IT-as-a-service

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I think he's got it!

I'm sure he's got it!

OpenBSD 7.2: The other other FOSS xNix released, runs on Apple M2 Macs

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Re: Front page image

Well that's good news. I'm all in favour of people breaking stereotypes

Microsoft ships non-Surface PC: a cheap Arm box for devs

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Re: That'll make a nice Linux build box to run "C.I." in my WFH-environment, locally..

Ha! Beat me to it. That was my first thought too!

Starlink decoded for use as GPS alternative – without Elon Musk's help

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Yes, but what type of meter?

Voltmeter, Ammeter, Gas meter?

Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF

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Horses for courses

HTML for lightweight user guides, PDFs for advanced reference manuals. The former have few images and re-flowing is not a problem. The latter can give highly detailed fixed format displays where there are a lot of graphics with attached notes, references etc.

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

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Re: What a lot of comments!

One pint is not enough

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Re: I remember...

... he drove the fastest milk float in the West

IBM doesn't think Brexit is such a bad thing these days

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That would be three separate Red, White & Blue tapes.