Posts by mIVQU#~(p,

Gmail celebrates 22 years by finally letting users change their addresses

Re: gmail names not unique

I too receive other peoples email from google.

Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

vay’ De’ ghunmey law’ vIlanlaH, woQ poQbogh wanI’ je. cha’vatlh wejmaH Huchmey ‘oHtaH eBayDaq – loS Qab, wa’maH jav giga. Hochmey De’ poQbogh qelmeH lo’laH ’ach tIq mach ghunmeyvam.

AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

I have a feeling a large portion of this article is AI generated.

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it

Putting the swap on the spinning disk is insane. I

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

Download your BSD, Linux and Temple OS ISOs now.

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise

It looks like a smart little device to throw in your bag case free, long battery life and instant on, unix native command line - beautiful remote access client for lots of jobs and protocols. Perfect for office tasks suite and conferencing too. Decent multimedia for entertainment,

Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

This is welcome news.

Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports

The repairability & upgradability on the new T series line is quite refreshing.

Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer

"Where is my passport dear!!?? We need milk from Sainsbury's"

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

They must recognise the Windows 11 rot has already taken hold and consumers are more than happy to move away from Windows.

Splash-screen memories from a Bangkok ticket machine

Re: Windows, again

I'm all in on Linux but it's not bullet proof either.

Price, battery life, performance – that's how you sell PCs

Give me a thin, light weight linux compatible laptop running on an arm processor with 16+Gb of memory and a minimum 256Gb ssd. No fans, powered by usb c cable

Ports: USB C - Power + Extra screen / hub

Connectivity: Bluetooth, Wifi (latest version)

Battery life: 18 hours+ under 'boring' work operation.

AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics

Let's see the productivity gains from 2020 - 2025

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

The corporate mind is disgusting. Don't tell me what to think.

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

roll your own

Peoples best choice now is to roll your own vpn on a cheap vps in whatever country you want to exit from and tunnel your vpn traffic in https

Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents

Can't wait to have AI in systemd

Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job

It is frustrating when colleagues have a poor AV set up, especially now, years after the pandemic. Everyone by now should have at least podcast level AV set up & know how to come off mute before they start speaking. Also, don't pick your nose when addressing 100s of people :).

Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw

Good on WhatsApp for praising the researchers rather than condemning them or down playing the issue.

Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions

Ubuntu LTS with autoupdates for all family and friends on unsupported devices. Most people live in a browser anyway.

UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content

Ironically a lot of the support groups that she mentioned have been cut off (to vulnerable people) by their online age verification scam.

Make Redmond angry by setting up Windows 11 with a local account

Is it really worth all of that effort to install Win 11

see title

First release candidate of systemd 258 is here

Re: What?

Also think about the number of bugs and security flaws that will undoubtedly be in this code.

Re: hold on there

The word pulseaudio fill me full of rage.

Please god enough already!

Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t

Re: FTTR? Really?

The more bandwidth the better, really.

European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones

I put mine in the industrial shredder.

Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful

I love AI/LLMs but it's not nearly as capable as some of these people think.

Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping

So, I was wondering, in 2025, will we still need to review Linux distributions? Reviews are great, but they’re all pretty similar, unless something really groundbreaking comes along. What’s the point, really?

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

Or you could buy a Mac mini and do real computing stuff.

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

I welcome it.

Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee dies of heart attack at 63

Worked himself into an early grave, a lot of employers expect this of their employees.

HP Inc to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin'

I wonder how much they'll charge for that "laser ink"

I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?

Re: The only verified backup is one that you have restored from

I too have raid 5 & backup to veracrypt volumes verifying the backups and originals with shasum. At least two volumes, one stored at my place of work the other locally. Thankfully I've not had to restore from backup yet.

WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff

Re: Relax.

I reluctantly somewhat agree. Assume everything on your work laptop is monitored (and hope it's not). Web surf tracking has been going on for decades, the teams status metric is bullshit and the key stroke logging is scary (a lot of people, I've noticed in the workplace will sign on to their personal email, WhatsApp, Facebook etc so a company is potentially hacking these individuals).

One simple rule: Work device is for work stuff only. Personal devices are for personal/private stuff only. Never install work related software onto a personal/private device and vice versa.

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

Thanks Micro$oft

2025, the year of Linux on the desktop, all thanks to Microsoft.

Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3

Even if it's enabled it's more or less useless.

Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users

Re: "an ever-lengthening list of known issues, many of which remain unmitigated or unresolved"

I would guess, if Acer, Dell, Lenovo et al sold with Ubuntu pre installed people would hardly notice the difference.

Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis

Re: Until Proven

Ask the AI

Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros

Why chose anything more than xfce

Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate

In Australia, you have to provide ID to get a SIM card :D. Clown world.

Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals

Re: Just for curious...

You can't get fiber or 5G in the middle of the ocean on a yacht or a camp in the middle of nowhere. I don't love it, but star link will have its place in the future.

Apple Intelligence beta lands in iOS 18.1, macOS 15.1 previews

Re: “The Mac Pro needs an M2 Ultra processor”

That’s the cpu it comes with.

Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds around the world

Only noticed because DDG wasn't returning results.

Microsoft breach allowed Russian spies to steal emails from US government

LLM

Seems like a good use case for AI. feed it all of the emails and ask it to list out all of the API keys and passwords.

D-Link issues rip and replace order for besieged NAS drives

Re: not sure what's dumber...

They were pitched as internet facing / access from anywhere. People that bought them for those features don’t know any better.

FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet

Re: Thanks for nothing

https://www.opencve.io/

Calculating Pi in the sky: Axiom Space plans to launch 'orbital datacenter'

Looking forward to a future On Call.

Cisco intros AI to find firewall flaws, warns this sort of thing can't be free

What if the attackers have a better AI?

European Space Agency grits teeth, preps contracts for SpaceX Galileo launch

Too busy messing with CAs to build rockets