Posts by b1k3rdude

New APNIC director general steps up to steer the internet for 4 billion users

All I see is another twat with a fake smile, looking to extort/scam people for money for yet enough pointless product.

Assassin's Creed maker faces GDPR complaint for forcing single-player gamers online

Welp, long time coming, but lets see how far this actually gets. In the meantime Ubisioft et-al can burn for all I care.

This is not just any 'cyber incident' … this is an M&S 'cyber incident'

The article title is low hanging fruit, but still amusing :-)

Boeing 787 radio software safety fix didn't work, says Qatar

Re: 90 Minutes to install a patch????

Thats all fully understandable, but boeing has some cheek charging anything at all for the update. Considering everything else that has happened with this garbage company.

Windows 11 poised to beat 10, mostly because it has to

@richard speed

Slow down there speedy, poise to beat? puff peice much! Windows 10 still has a 33.3% lead on Windows 11, which ACTUALLY increased as of late!

https://www.techspot.com/news/106617-windows-11-reaches-highest-market-share-windows-10.html

Regarding your 52%, where are you getting your data from like? At least Techspot post thier source in thier article...

GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison

Re: Maths

"in" my dept*

yes the kid was stupid, but the porn charge was b$, was tacked on after the fact.. because as we all know the police and the authorities never make $h1t up..

IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M

Is there such a thing as a non-corrupt CEO? Coincidence that a lot ofthese bit tech corps all have CEO's from the same country where corruption is rife...

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

False they say...

Yesterday a friend's MFC-L2750DW refused to print until we went into task manager and killed the 'Brother Utilities' application that had been running. As it because obvious it had been 'intercepting' print jobs from windows. After the program had been killed, all the print jobs that were being artificially held up, suddenly started printing...!!!

I have an MFC-L2710DW, but I have mind plugged in via USB and I do not and have NEVER allowed the 'Brother Utilities' application to run in the background as I don’t need the clutter. And even I had allowed it to run in the background, it would have been blocked from accessing the net by default. TLDR, you don't need the Brother Utilities' application running to print or scan. And what ever you DO NOT allow the Brother Utilities' application to access the internet.

So to Brother, I call bullsh1t. You bunch of money grabbing sanctimonious sh1ts. Carry on denying the truth, carry on trying to gaslight your customers, and see where is fc*king gets you.

Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think

Er sorry but no, grand sweeping statements and a tiny sample size does not a facts make.

I have an LD 34GN850, which has 2 user configurable modes (game 1 and 2). profile 1 is for desktop use, I have the brightness set to 30% and it dosent need "turning up". I can read the text just fine, even with my middle aged eyes. There are some good engineers at the bbc, but this particular blog post, is quite frankly a waste of time.

Microsoft to kill off Defender VPN this month

Micro$haft had a VPN product..?

:-D

Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key

Joke's aside, pressing said key should bring up the internal search, or better to a website that explains why CoPilot and Recall are actually bad for security/privacy.

Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files

Why is it, that anything remotely connected to Paypal in some fasion is corrupt, anti-consumer or just plain sleezy.

Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024

"but market share wasn't one of them"

hah, good.

Bing Wallpaper app, now in Windows Store, accused of cookie shenanigans

The 2 issue's I spotted right away were "Bing" and needing an "app" for wallpaper - that should have been a hard pass on both for anyone/everyone right from the get go..

Regarduing this comment - "It's heartbreaking to see one of my favorite tech giants deliberately create software that undermines user privacy and autonomy." Im assuming the sarcasm is dialed upto a 11...

Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC

"Windows 365".... er no, not as long as thier is a hole in my ar*e. HARD pass and bitch slap any M$ execs on the way past.

Transport for London confirms 5,000 users' bank data exposed, pulls large chunks of IT infra offline

Re: 17 year old arrested for the hack?

Never underestimate human stupidity..

Re: Motorists will pay

Yep, including the top Khant.

Re: It's a large workforce

If it has to be explained to you, then your never going to understand.

The Windows Control Panel joins the ranks of the undead

" in the wake of an outcry from Reg readers."

Er creative licence or just opur b$ there fella...

the CP wont go anywhere untill Micro$haft have fully working alterntives and atm, that isnt happening anytime soon. Look at the state of the sound control in win10/11 its farce boarding on a comedy, wrapped in a pigs ear.

China's top Office clone copies Microsoft again – with an inconvenient outage

I use WPS, but not only does it not have internet access, but its permissions are sandboxed.

So outage or no, im not effected.

Top companies ground Microsoft Copilot over data governance concerns

So some no name, from a no name company telling us what we already know, colour me meh...

Gamers who find Ryzen 9000s disappointingly slow are testing it wrong, says AMD

Re: This is clickbait

dosent matter that it does, NO user should be using it due doing so is a significant security risk.

"...are waiting for the X3D models. Or 'maybe' just giving up and buying a 7000 series X3D now."

Same, but as there is nothing technbically wrong with my current system, I am quite happy to wait untill January, worst case the 7800x3d will be even cheaper by then..

But man, AMD, do they never fcuking learn like. They keep making these easily avoidable mistakes..

AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all

They only did this as a result of customer outcry, they should have wanted to do it from the getgo..

Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'

I havent used edge pretty much since day one, and prefered to use Chromium. But recently I migrated away from that to Thorium. And even then its only use is as a secondary browser, Firefox is still my weapon of choice.

UK Royal Mint mining PCBs for precious metals in e-waste recovery effort

Jewellery, really.... its not like there are other industry sectors that could more productively use the gold, but no. Lets sell it as shiny crap to people with more money than sense and label it as sustainable, could you get more woke.

Punkt MC02: As private, and pricey, as a Swiss bank account

So how is this any duifferent than GrapheneOS running on a pixel..?

Boeing's Q2 nosedive buoyed by appointment of new CEO

Blah, blach, whatever.

Im still not ever getting into one of their passenger jets.

Japan mandates app to ensure national ID cards aren't forged

Digital ID should be a hard pass for anyone with more than 2 brain cells to run together..

Kamala Harris's $7M support from LinkedIn founder comes with a request: Fire Lina Khan

So another rich religious minority member with vested interests, makes a donation because then can just write it off try, to stick thier big nose in where they has no business doing so. As a consumer I think Lina Khan is doing a good job, and that is the ONLY fucking reason said fuckwit is having a pop, because it will effect one of more of the companies his is a board member off - https://fortune.com/2024/07/26/reid-hoffman-angers-democrats-republicans-trump-harris-lina-khan/

London council accuses watchdog of 'exaggerating' danger of 2020 raid on residents' data

This is the same council that want to charge motorcycles £6 per hour to park.... It seem to be one thing after another with these f**kwits.

Secure Boot useless on hundreds of PCs from major vendors after key leak

So it been said by people that have more knowledge on the subject than myself, but "secure boot" is NOT secure, it never was. It was yet another means by M$ to vaily try and coherce user and the industry at large to do things thier way.

Its not helpled when major manufactures/venders, drop the ball - https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/

How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash

But whats worrying is the BL key was the 'SAME' on all these machines. Typically its 'per machine' so this one-trick-pony wouldnt work in most enterprixe enviroments... (as me how I know)

Er no, been there done that, every time I have had to repeatedly enter some very long string that was the same on a bunch of machine that were being rebuilt.

School gets an F for using facial recognition on kids in canteen

I have to laugh/caugh at this bit -

"In doing so, the school failed to seek "opt-in" consent, which meant the school wrongly relied on "assumed consent" at first, which is not a valid form of consent and requires explicit permission in the eyes of the law."

So why isnt that standard applied everywhere? I dont see the met police, the welsh police (or insert name of arsehole quango here) asking for explicit consent before rolling our FRT on unsuspecting members of the public.

EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft

Er the issue effected non-EU located computers also, so this is one of the weakest exscuses from Micro$haft I have seen to date...

HCL's back-to-office plan: Come in three days a week, or forget about holidays

India always seems to be in the headlines for the wrong reasons...

Indians are hard workers, but why do you think most of them GTFO of India as soon as they can.

But then we have indian companies operating out in thr world, takin with them, the indian brand of employee abuse. Take Accenture (aka Anderson Consulting), I have contracted for this company 2x but never again, they way they abuse the perm Indian and non-Indian employies, I am suprised they havent faced multiple tribunals at this point. The salasry rate is well below industry average and they take the royal piss when paying expenses, as in they take months to pay, so the employee ends up incurring interest rate costs.

Google: We're still working to defeat Microsoft's 'anticompetitive' cloud policy

Er, pot, meet kettle.....

Malware that is 'not ransomware' wormed its way through Fujitsu Japan's systems

Im suprised they didnt blame the whole Horizon scandal on malware....

Founder of Indian ride-share biz Ola calls for 70-hour work week

Ah India....where corruption abounds and businesses have no regard for employee or human rights.

Salesforce investors reject plan to add extra $20M to Benioff's total pay

Er how about paying thier employees more, no that would be such a silly idea....

How to escape VMware's pricey clutches with Virt-v2v

Er isnt going to RHEL, just jumping out of the fire and into the frying pan, or visa versa..?

Clearview AI reaches 'creative' settlement with privacy suit plaintiffs: A conditional IOU

Like others have said, how the F is this a win..?

I would have preferdcd that CV-ai get obliterated along with all thier data.

UK Labour Party promises end to datacenter planning 'barriers'

This is all well and good (supposedly), but if we dont have the power capacity then the whole point is moot. Eg a DC was planned to be built in part of west london was kyboshed - https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252523510/Datacentre-sector-hits-back-at-claims-that-West-London-electricty-grid-capacity-crunch-is-its-fault

Student's flimsy bin bags blamed for latest NHS data breach

Re: Inexcusable

Indeed.

Meta will use your social media posts to train its AI. Europe gets an opt out

Re: "European Union users can opt out"

same, but have an anymouse accoutn for volunteer work, still dont want them using that data.

A link to the opt would be helpfull..... because facebollox are willfully hiding it..

Re: Unable to object

Yep, I had the same issue.

This is not opt-out, this a cop-out.

Time to make an officla complain to the ombudman.

Intel interrupts work on $25B Israel fab, citing need for 'responsible capital management'

And so it begines, I hope...

...That corps and goverments start talking a cold hard look at investing or supporting a regiem that has no problem with genocide.

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

Opt-in means it can be force-disabled and or removed from the iso, good.