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Comment Better summary (Score 2) 34

For those too lazy to read the article its a perfectly understandable tactic he used. Create a bunch of accounts with bogus information, try to get elevated instances on each one, run crypto mining on them launder the crypto. As each instance gets shut off for non payment, create a new one with different bogus info. makes 100% sense how he did it, and how the caught him. Kind of dumb to try, did he really think he wasn't going to be caught once the totals got into the millions? I'm sure it was pretty easy to figure out which accounts he created at the end. His flaw was not stopping before he got caught and staying somewhere where US agencies have jurisdiction.

Comment Re:mods on crack (Score 1) 49

You know that definition, full of racist, msygonistic, anti-Semitic dog whistles is coopting the of the term defined by and for African Americans and other minorities when they suddenly recognized that racism, mysogyny,etc wasn't just personal interactions but systemic encoded into our laws, streets, schools and other institutions that caused the harm to be generational.

Comment Most of the civilized world doesn't have corals (Score -1, Offtopic) 57

by eggstasy (#64397440) Attached to: World's Coral Reefs Hit By a Fourth Mass Bleaching Event, NOAA Says

Does this affect ecosystems outside the immediate coral region?
Not everyone is a Floridian. Sure , it's a sign of climate change etc. but it wouldn't hurt if the media delved a little deeper sometimes.
I guess I'll just ask Chat GPT, because AIs are generally more useful than humans these days XD

Submission + - The IRS's New Tax Software: Rave Reviews, But Low Turnout (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Biden administration marked the close of tax season Monday by announcing it had met a modest goal of getting at least 100,000 taxpayers to file through the Internal Revenue Service’s new tax software, Direct File — an alternative to commercial tax preparers. Although the government had billed Direct File as a small-scale pilot, it still represents one of the most significant experiments in tax filing in decades — a free platform letting Americans file online directly to the government. Monday’s announcement aside, though, Direct File’s success has proven highly subjective.

By and large, people who tried the Direct File software — which looks a lot like TurboTax or other commercial tax software, with its question-and-answer format — gave it rave reviews. “Against all odds, the government has created an actually good piece of technology,” a writer for the Atlantic marveled, describing himself as “giddy” as he used the website to chat live with a helpful IRS employee. The Post’s Tech Friend columnist Shira Ovide called it “visible proof that government websites don’t have to stink.” Online, people tweeted praise after filing their taxes, like the user who called it the “easiest tax experience of my life.”

While the users might be a happy group, however, there weren’t many of them compared to other tax filing options — and their positive reviews likely won’t budge the opposition that Direct File has faced from tax software companies and Republicans from the outset. These headwinds will likely continue if the IRS wants to renew it for another tax season. The program opened to the public midway through tax season, when many low-income filers had already claimed their refunds — and was restricted to taxpayers in 12 states, with only four types of income (wages, interest, Social Security and unemployment). But it gained popularity as tax season went on: The Treasury Department said more than half of the total users of Direct File completed their returns during the last week.

Comment Non-native speakers need to be eloquent (Score 1) 115

by eggstasy (#64388656) Attached to: Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI

My ukrainian wife runs everything through chatGPT as if it was a spell checker. Data speaks for itself. It doesn't matter if you use Google translate or even a grammar checker that came with Word 20 years ago. My English teacher refused to accept my homework because I used a fucking THESAURUS to change some words for fancier ones and said it was too good to be true and that's not the level of fluency I usually demonstrate in class.

Comment Where VMS still has a value... (Score 1) 60

by RedMage (#64387696) Attached to: VMS Software Prunes OpenVMS Hobbyist Program

For the most part there's still a few places I would like to see exported from VMS, rather than trying to run VMS on X64...
The first is networked and clustered filesystems - VMS had this down cold. Easy to configure and manage (at least at the user level) and very transparent. Files could be on any node of a cluster. Which brings me to the second:
Distributed Lock Management. I have no idea why this isn't a thing now. We have parts of it, and even SMB has some locking, but it's not the same as being able to generally lock resources that are shared across a cluster. Heck, down to the RMS record level if you want. And that's #3:
RMS. This was the gold standard of record and internal file management. Yes, it's not Unix-like in that files have structure that is known, but damn it made some things really nice to do and removed a lot of bit-bashing and buffer manipulation at the application level. Sure you could just have a "big bag of bits" file that was managed by the app, but you could also have a nice VSAM/ISAM-like file with some defined structure that could be used by some tools.
VAXCluster - goes along with the above - we don't have a good "Pick a node, any node, and run there" concept AFAIK. Linux clusters are not that. Maybe Kubernetes and microservices have made that obsolete, but we had it back in 1984 with clusters.

And before I get a lot of replies - yes I'm aware there are solutions for all of these in some form or another, but nothing I know of gives the whole package and available as a resource to just use.

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