Posts by Tom Chiverton 1

Re: RAM Shortage? So where's the delays?

Many "premium" RAM modules used to sold as lower performance SKUs (and end user costs). Now the market wants to pull all those low end devices out of the channel and keep them as a premium SKU.

See also: processor bining

Re: Agressive hallucination sometimes seems linked to history accumulation.

I wonder why you are trusting Gemini to do this at all

Re: Fairweather friend

WTF is this AI-booster feelz doing on /El Reg/ ? Do they need help ?

Re: So…

s/All/Only/

Re: WTF is a CIO anyway?

Law firm ?

Re: Trying to put age verification on VPN's is deeply silly

The real world didn't stop them putting impossible things in the Online Safety Act, what makes you think a rushed set of additions to an unrelated bill will go well ?

Because their job as a carrier is to move bits.

Re: AI laptops caught between a rock and a hard place

Local LLM doesn't need that much. You can run one on a stock Pi with room to spare

Re: BV-347

Crumbs that's ugly...

Re: "... hibernation support is a somewhat neglected area of Linux support"

That's because "things" breaking on resume-from-disk is down to the various subsystem and driver maintainers, and most drivers in the kernel don't have active developers (there are a lot of drivers !)

See https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/other/perceptual-hashing-technology.pdf?v=328806

The CSAM perceptual hash function, and list of matching hatches, are private. There are hash functions that are public, but you try asking OFCOM to publish the list of hashes in N different formats and see what happens....

So small web sites, FOSS etc are SOL.

AGAIN

Re: How to parse this?

Did yoy see that sad faced, slow moving, older gentleman ?

Try Beeper, which acts as a client for SMS, Signal and a bunch of other networks

Re: Ouch

You'd think they'd bother to use a correctly rated heat sink then...

Re: Adverts

Fx is also free, no ads

Re: Bubble finally bursting?

I think it's still the case OpenAI needs to x10 it's pricing to be profitable right?

May as well buy a high spec eGPU and Pi, run it all locally....

Re: Fasscinnating Bluebberries

There are 5 lights!

Re: Boundary issues

It's probably run by an AI

Re: How is an embassy not using a VPN?

If we could build a real quantum computer, with several times more bits than anything we can think of building today, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm allows fast finding of factors, which underminds older encryption systems.

"Post quantum" systems are already in use, in your TLS stack, that don't have this flaw.

Re: "told the software guy the machine ran fully validated production code"

To see if five eyes had changed it

Re: Oh FFS

Right, but those are licneced with the ERP or whatever itself

Re: Hmmm

They inter-op, just like missile sub crew escape hatches.

Re: "the new Command would protect all military networks from attacks"

Large "private security companies" aren't interested in the best. Security is a cost centre, they want to drive that down. So what if they leak some customer data now and again. Say "sorry", pay a small percentage of annual turn over as a fine, carry on.

Re: “ the company's legacy architecture compared poorly with the competition.”

AFAIK the situation is unchanged from https://support.glitch.com/t/node-versions-on-glitch/71299 :/

Where do you go for free Node hosting now ?!?

Re: hmm

No, the KSR book trilogy: Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars

Right, but the real reason for this is programmable currency. So benefits will only be payed in currency that can only be used in certain ways.

"No, you can't buy food for the kids, not till you've sent the rent money."

Re: 90 days to upgrade

I blame Skype; this used to happen all the time in the Linux app, and the same file would work fine in the web version.

Maybe "integrating" the two broke it ?

Not that we care, we've moved to something not-Microsoft at 3 quid per user per month, and uninstalled Skype. That's how much people hate Teams, even though we have a 365 sub for Office that (probably) includes it.

Re: Teams? Forget it..

And you're trusting an LLM because why ?

Re: Alan...

Umm, Turing?

Re: As long as they don't remove the workaround

Shouldn't the host's VM manager be providing a virtual TPM?

Careful. That comment's likely to be a problem under the Online Safety Act, for El Reg...

If you can go to jail for a Tweet about bombing an airport, how do you feel about advocating murder on a user-to-user communications service ?

Re: Intel x86_64 is part of the problem

It is surprising when it skips all review and checks and just lands and ships though.

Did we lean nothing from xz ?

Re: Oh no

Ahh, you're a waffle man ?

Re: Metà are the scummiest

Well then, you won't be stepping through the high regulated, 2FA requiring, oAuth-like flow (that's why even mentioning 'passwords' is just Apple being a dick) to grant Meta limited access to some Apple APIs with your account then.

For other people, being able to do this wil be valuable.