Comment Re: Do it in space (Score 1) 64

by mikeymikec on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:54PM (#66387996) Attached to: Startup Claims To Use AI-Created Viruses To Treat a Patient

Sure, but remember Covid '19? Imagine if that Wuhan bat lab had been in space. 'Nuff said.

COVID BATS FROM SPACE!

Comment Re:The Register == Joke Site == Assume FAKE NEWS (Score 4, Informative) 45

by mikeymikec on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:27AM (#66384228) Attached to: Microsoft Abandons UK AI Supercomputer As Grid Struggles to Keep Up

> Do you have some evidence for your claim? Reproduction steps: - Read a story in The Register. - Note down the many factual inaccuracies. - Send them to The Register. - Report back here when the inaccuracies are fixed.

So no citation then.

The BBC is also not so good with correcting lies and misinformation, as any Trump will tell you, but I'll take it over a joke site.

Comment Re:Use Rufus (Score 1) 87

by mikeymikec on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:53AM (#66384082) Attached to: Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users

In my experience, there's a good chance that you'll get hit with those screens when the next feature update is installed.

Comment Re:The Register == Joke Site == Assume FAKE NEWS (Score 3, Informative) 45

by mikeymikec on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:51AM (#66384076) Attached to: Microsoft Abandons UK AI Supercomputer As Grid Struggles to Keep Up

Do you have some evidence for your claim? Also https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fart...

Comment Channeling Lord Farquad (Score 3, Funny) 165

by mikeymikec on Monday October 05, 2026 @01:22PM (#66364038) Attached to: Sam Altman: 'The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening' For the Benefits of AI

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make!"

Comment Article lacks information (Score 1) 165

by mikeymikec on Thursday September 03, 2026 @07:39AM (#66320862) Attached to: Instrument Clusters Are Now Paid Extras In Two Hyundai Models

The author seems to spend a lot of time talking around the story rather than explicitly stating what one would actually lose by buying these cars without the display.

Putting my "presumably sanity is still ruling the roost" hat on, surely selling a car without basic features like a speedometer, fuel gauge etc would be illegal in pretty much every developed country?

For me personally, if that screen purely provides optional stuff that manufacturers can leverage prematurely EOL'ing features and/or subscriptions, it seems like this is a really cool idea. Just give me the option to hook my phone up to the car (an AUX cable is fine) and all is well for me.

Comment Magic 8 Ball, am I stupid? (Score 2) 23

by mikeymikec on Saturday August 29, 2026 @03:45PM (#66313122) Attached to: Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court

Why did anyone think that conversations with chatbots would be protected by law?

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 51

by mikeymikec on Friday August 14, 2026 @12:28PM (#66288823) Attached to: Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store

the hosting and distribution of the application, dumbfuck.

Which surely has been already paid by the app developer as a result of publishing their app in the App Store? I read this as an additional charge for using a payment system not controlled by Apple.

Comment Usually people charge for services rendered. (Score 2, Funny) 51

by mikeymikec on Friday August 14, 2026 @12:09PM (#66288789) Attached to: Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store

I have to say though, that's a really great get-rich-quick scheme: You all give me money, and in exchange I don't supply any service to you. They should charge Android users double for not using iDevices.

Comment How long before (Score 1) 249

by mikeymikec on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:44AM (#66274962) Attached to: BMW Blasts Its Cars' Internal Screens With Aggressive Ads

... the auto industry lobbies governments to declare in-car advertising while the car is in motion to be not a distraction from driving. "Responsibly designed adverts" or some similar tripe.

Comment Re:Security Vulnerability (Score 2) 121

by mikeymikec on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:37AM (#66254508) Attached to: Microsoft Responds to LG Monitors Installing McAfee Ads On Windows

In Windows Update, you have to enable optional updates to get 3rd party driver updates.

Your information is over ten years out-of-date. These days, unless you opt out of all auto driver installs (e.g. Windows won't attempt to auto-detect/install printers on the network), or apply registry settings to disable auto driver installs for specific devices), Windows 11 will happily 'update' your video driver for an older version because reasons. I even had the video driver updated while I was playing a computer game, which obviously crashed the game. My video card software has an option to auto-update but I have it disabled, and I tracked the auto-install back to Windows Update. I've also seen Windows auto update drivers for HP printers to ones that don't have the option to print in colour, and when that is combined with HP removing all 'older' drivers from their website, that turns into a real problem (luckily the customer still had an old driver install file in their Downloads folder).

Comment When in doubt, make another remake... again (Score 1) 50

by mikeymikec on Saturday June 06, 2026 @03:23PM (#66178340) Attached to: 2027's 'Tomb Raider' Remake: Unreal Engine 5 and AI-Assisted Assets 'Refined' By Humans

As Ben Stiller once said, "here we go again... again".

Comment Re:Block the auto updater then (Score 1) 190

by mikeymikec on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @11:39AM (#66173246) Attached to: Microsoft Deliberately Bricking All Office For Mac 2019/2021 Installations

"Block the auto updater then" And don't forget to always have the offline installer available locally in case your software maker pulls sketchy stunts.

Comment Re:Streaming quality worse than pirated quality (Score 1) 50

by mikeymikec on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @03:06AM (#66170536) Attached to: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid

(or on 4K/BR... usually)

Comment Streaming quality worse than pirated quality (Score 1) 50

by mikeymikec on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @03:05AM (#66170534) Attached to: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid

I'm watching Spider-Noir at the moment directly off Amazon Prime Video (in the B&W mode that they offer), and I'm frequently seeing dark back background gradients and even characters' faces being reduced to about three grades of really obvious blotchiness, transporting me to the era of 16-bit gaming and extremely limited colour palettes. I've stopped watching the occasional pirated movie for bitrate-related sins that were nowhere near as bad as this. Also, I'm reminded of the time when the anti-piracy adverts used to argue that you would get far better quality with the genuine article, now the only time that's true is at the cinema.