Posts by David 132

Re: CheckPoint's remarks

No, no. These are super serious security people with years of experience.

It was "swordfish".

Re: WTF is a WiFi router?

Oh, to facilitate them in listening to their "popular beat combos"?

>...but a PPA does not mean they control the plant, just that they purchase the power.

It's almost as if the clue's in the name. Power Purchase Agreement.

Still, a clue like that is far too subtle to deter some commentards who are clearly determined that nuclear == explodey-boom-doom.

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Once upon a time, there was a thriving third-party ecosystem in find-everything applets for the original Mac OS 8.

The best known of these was a program called "Watson"; purchasers loved it, because it made it super easy to find anything (apps, documents) on a Mac.

Then Apple themselves introduced similar functionality, and with great creativity, named it "Sherlock".

At a stroke, it destroyed the third-party market for such tools.

Hence the term "Sherlocking" - shorthand for, "other people are making a quiet living adding this functionality to Apple products, and now Apple see revenue that isn't theirs and want it."

Re: If it requires an app to function or control

I could “move myself” when brushing my teeth, but it seems like it’d be much less effort, and less exhausting, to keep my head motionless and move the toothbrush instead…?

>Remind me ... how many billions in crap currency have become lost, stolen or strayed in the last ten years?

I'm certain you already know about this one Jake, but:

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com

$75.054 Billion as I write this, and ticking ever upwards.

Re: Nice curves

> and Ed25519 is definitely my favourite signature algorithm,

Personally I'll stick with Ed209.

"Sign this email! You have 30 seconds to comply! You have 25 seconds to comply!" ...etc...

It's an older standard, but it certainly gets results.

Re: Ω

I wonder if it's solid Core, or stranded Core?

Re: Yes, Settings is missing bits

For Windows 10 at least: Settings -> Network & Internet -> WiFi -> Manage Known Networks.

That's with the 22H2 that I have on this box. It's quite possibly different on Windows 11, or indeed other builds of 10.

If you'd rather use the Registry, it is - I believe, but not 100% certain:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles\{GUID list, each one contains a ProfileName key, some but not all are WLAN profiles}

Re: Data centres and AI and 'the end of the world'

It’s this era’s “phoning up the Speaking Clock from a payphone to check the time, instead of looking at your wristwatch”

And living with Lord Lucan and Elvis in a double-decker bus on the moon, taking Shergar for daily rides to the blue cheese mines & Mars Landing film-set?

> Wish I knew to get the beer kits Boots sold in the late '70s though. They made decent beer without too much effort…

To be fair, something fermented in a bath - using the bathwater - would have tasted better than much of the mainstream beer available in those benighted, pre-CAMRA-success days. Watney’s Red Barrel or Party 7, anyone?

Re: Excuse me whilst I......

Now we know you’re a hallucinating AI model, because there’s no way an Astra diesel could get up to 100mph even if you pushed it out of a cruising Hercules.

Re: Copilot accuses reporter of crimes

> The AI Team

Why does this AI image inference system keep generating video and pictures of jeeps overturning and exploding, yet with the human occupants still climbing out unscathed?

Why does the AI insist that a few pieces of scrap steel, an acetylene torch, 30 minutes, and a Renault 5, are functionally equivalent to an armoured mobile gun platform??

Re: Beige Box

A former colleague and old friend of mine loves to relate a war-story from his time as a 2nd-level field service engineer for a large computer company back in the early 80s. I relay it now; any inaccuracies are probably mine, and I apologise in advance.

The company had supplied some 386 - possibly, Multibus - based server systems to a customer near Oxford who ran their own small-scale nuclear pile for research purposes (well, that narrows it down a bit doesn't it? Rhymes with "tarwell"...).

The customer complaint was that every evening, regular as clockwork, these new systems would crash.

After weeks of back-and-forth, with the first-level engineer replacing PSU after PSU to no avail, my friend was called in to investigate. He signed into the site late in the afternoon, and watched the systems.

Power to the campus was provided by the aforementioned nuclear pile. On one wall of the office, there was a 7-segment readout that showed the voltage output being supplied to the building - 240V, or thereabouts within that range.

5 o'clock came and went. All the servers were still running happily.

The secretary switched off her electric typewriter and 5-bar electric fire. Other workers in the building switched off their bench supplies and work lights and other accessories.

As this happened, my friend watched as the voltage readout slowly ticked upwards... 245... 250...260...300...

When it hit around 320V, the server keeled over with an unpleasant sound.

Yes, the nuclear pile had insufficient limiting on its output; without a load being present, it ran higher and higher, a shortcoming that until then had gone unnoticed!

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