Posts by Awk_ward

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%'

Well done on the headline and tag line. Did make my chuckle.

I would have preferred 'VPN use engorges 1150%', but credit where credit is due. Faps....errr... Hats off to you!

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster

There's never a penalty for Microsoft.

Here's your OS and we'll bork it for you when you need it.

Every single paid for License key for software Windows should come with a compulsory 2 license package. One for the machine you're using, and a back up machine if it goes Kaput on an update.

Windows also needs to allow people to manage their own updates, when the updates are worse than the Malware - you know you're on the wrong OS.

As much as I hate to say it, I'm slowly turning to Mac.

Post-CrowdStrike catastrophe, Microsoft figures moving antivirus out of Windows kernel mode is a good idea

Cannot wait...

to see what it borks.

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

Typical Microsoft...

It's seems they were so good and giving in the 80's and 90's and now all they seem to do is take away.

They don't want kids to learn how to program their OS's because it takes away their to access to our privacy and ability to tinker.

Created by hobbyists, killed by Corp.

Windows has been a joke since ....I mean it's now been longer than the time it wasn't a joke.

AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism

The snake that eats its own tail.

So we're currently being dogmatically told, by the tech world and its robo-dog, to have faith in AI and then we try to get it to preach about a fantastical fairy god and tell us to 'have faith'?

Someone needs to crucify the lot of them.

Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments

Wow!

Attaching any form of payment cards or extra PID with google is just not going to happen.

Giving google and companys a hand straight into my wallet to take whenever they want is just a no no.

What's to stop nefarious actors? 'Accidental' double charge?

Google won't care too much because they'll get their share no matter if its legitimate or not.

I don't trust google to take care of it when they can't even maintain a safe app store or an email account.

Zuckerberg hunkers down in Hawaii to wait out apocalypse

The Romero classics

Obviously, they're too arrogant to have seen the classic Trilogy '...of the Dead' movies.

I would love to be around to see how it plays out for them, but I'll be too busy dying from laughter.

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

Youtube is no better than a London public phone box.

Nothing but a cheap toilet now and adverts of misrepresented good and a willingness to steal your money at first sight.

Take advert 1:

Letitia, a fine blonde haired woman offering her services for BDSM. The photo paints a picture that makes you think you're in for a right treat. Turns out it's Tracy from Tesco's with a dodgy accent and a pack of red licorice shoelaces instead of a decent Cat 'o' nine tails. It's false advertising I tell you.

Take Advert 2 on youtube:

"This cryptocurrency is going up fast and if you don't click now you'll miss the chance to make £1000 a day with the prices rising the way they do"

.... and guess what?

One bitten, twice shy.

How about they fix their damn ads, stop selling Crypto to children and more scams than an old Public phone box. Until then, I'm on the Ad blockers

Meta promises UK it won't pilfer rivals' ad data to build Facebook Marketplace

Re: Meta's promises????

As the saying goes, it's better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.

There's absolutely no basis of credibility to believe anything that META says at all.

Microsoft to give more than microsecond's thought about your Windows 11 needs

The day Microsoft make it so you can actually eject drives safely will be the day I believe they're actually listening. Can't believe still so many years on from Windows 98SE and the problem still hasn't been fixed correctly.

Also, who's actually left at microsoft to listen?

We have become the testers and I'm pretty sure that their own forums have been bots for years telling people to Clean boot, Reset or Reinstall windows at the first sign of an issue.

Maybe they should just release an OS called Microsoft Cowboy.

FTX fiasco founder SBF faces further fraud charges

Literally only clicked on this article to go straight the comments.

The whole Cryptocurrency situation is risible and while the initial idea may potentially have been altruistic, it's nothing more than what the internet has been for the past 2 decades; one great ponzi scheme.

[Cue Michael Jackson eating Popcorn Meme]

Australian court overturns 'Google is a publisher' decision

Would this be the time...

to shout out how much of an utter See You Next Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch is?

My guess is this is the Oz government possibly opening up to the lucrative practice that the British government does so well, defamation cases.

You can liquid cool this Linux laptop to let the GPU soar

Well there's a concept no-one was asking for. I'm pushed to find practical applications for having a Laptop attached to a giant cooling unit where either a proper Laptop or a desktop wouldn't do it better.

Firefox kills another tracking cookie workaround

Didn't see a mention about being able to add your own custom queries to block, like say....Google's own queries, or would that be biting the hand that feeds them?

Microsoft's sought-after tabbed File Explorer gets closer to release

Before they proudly announce wonderful new features which will break something else, Has Microsoft bothered to fix UDF drives being unreadable on Windows machines yet?

I don't think so.