Posts by miken101

Defiant Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial Recall – tho as an opt-in

Microsoft email

I've been receiving this email for many months now, I did not realise it was coming from Microsoft.

"Well, hello there, my perverted friend.

I'll get right to the point.

We've actually known each other for a while now, at least I've known you.

You can call me Big Brother or the All-Seeing Eye.

I'm a hacker who a few months ago gained access to your device, including your browser history and webcam."

IT worker sued over ‘vengeful’ cyber harassment of policeman who issued a jaywalking ticket

Re: Strange thing to do someone for

Maybe jaywalking should be redefined as 'crossing the road without due care and attention' as opposed to 'not being on a dedicated crossing'.

Just one in ten UK orgs have significant AI investment plan

Re: only one in ten UK tech leaders

"I'm more worried about the implicit 10% who presumably are persuadable."

Proabaly the same 10% who think that a Nigerian prince has the soluition to their monetary woes.

Hide and seek in outer space highlights a battle here on Earth

What we need going forward is the FOBC

Feck Off Big Collider

British Airways, Boots, BBC payroll data stolen in MOVEit supply-chain attack

Working through the alphabet?

Is it just British Airways, Boots & BBC or has reporting not addressed the rest of the alphabet yet?

Forget the climate: Steep prices the biggest reason EV sales aren't higher

Not much different from the early days of petrol vehicles with lack of garages

A lot of people quote the above phrase, however IMO there is a great deal of differnce. In those early days of petrol, and even now, it is possiblle to carry spare liquid fuel, not so easy to be hauling around spare electrons.

What did Unix fans learn from the end of Unix workstations?

Indy over O2

The SGI Indy was always the better option as it was very difficuly to balance a monitor on an O2.

Still, have a runnning Indy here, always a joy to boot up occassionaly.

BOFH: The Boss has a new watch – move readiness to DEFCON 2

My Icon is my mood.

The icon says it all.

Microsoft leaves the Office, rebrands everything as 365

Recylce?

I thing nearer the recycling symbol/logo than Google Drive.

Rejoice! System Administrator Appreciation Day (SAAD) is nigh

The Internet... turn it off and on again.

For a 24 hour period.

Then people might just appreciate what we do.

And it would also give us something to do for the following year!