Posts by PBuon

Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive

Got to love RDP. I still have clients who’s IT teams ignore calls to block it to all inbound traffic (unless going via a VPN or tunnel).

China again claims Volt Typhoon cyber-attack crew was invented by the US to discredit it

Quite ironic that CrowdStrike have probably caused more damage and disruption than the Chinese in recent years.

Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS

Developers should strip payments out of the iOS App and instruct potential subscribers to use a web based alternative.

Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble

Re: Status Page: Ha, Ha, Ha!

Does the SLA even cover the portal (pretty sure it only covers services and resources)? Technically, they were unaffected.

No, really, please ban Chinese DJI drones from America's skies, senators are urged

Wow, those pesky Chinese will have enough data to win WW3 with those “flight logs” of users flying around the Grand Canyon and other landmarks. Google Maps would be more useful data.

Trump threatens to send Meta's Mark ‘Zuckerbucks’ to prison if reelected president

Seems to be a reasonable excuse to vote Trump.

Windows Notepad gets spell check. Only took 41 years

Does anyone actually use Notepad rather than Notepad++?

Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI

Re: How naive

If the bot is written to disregard robots.txt, it’s likely we’ll see many other approaches to disguise requests as normal consumers of the resource. Very difficult to differentiate requests that come from multiple IP addresses that use User Agents used by major browser vendors.

There is no way of guaranteeing to block a less than scrupulous AI bot from extracting content from a website. There’s many ways an AI client could pretend to be a regular consumer of the website.

Bill Gates says not to worry about AI gobbling up energy, tech will adapt

Good old Bill. Wants to save the planet unless it’s something that serves him.

EU accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations for bundling Teams with O365

When I buy a MacBook I get iMessage. Why are they treated differently?

And that's 3 recalls for Tesla Cybertruck in as many months

On this basis, I’m going to ban all Cybertucks from my company car park and force drivers to park in an underground car park across the road.

Admin took out a call center – and almost their career – with a cut and paste error

Always be prepared to blame someone else.

Wells Fargo fires employees accused of faking keyboard activity to pretend to work

I use Caffeine.exe to stay active on Teams and I have no shame in doing so. Whateva, I do what I want!

Early MySQL engineer questions whether Oracle is unintentionally killing off the open source database

Postgresql is a better option than both IMO.

Musk wants to ban Apple at his companies for cosying up to OpenAI

He’s completely misrepresented what Apple are doing. He’s a clown.

Apple says if you want to ship your own iOS browser engine in EU, you need to be there

The actual technical and development protocol requirements seem reasonable. The geofencing of developers is definitely Apple being Apple though.

Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it

Re: Interesting

DWORD, innit.

Trying ti channel my inner Ali G.

A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS

Comes from Extended ASCII from IBM.

Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

I happen to know what it is due to it being a prerequisite of installing Windows 11 (please don’t), but read the article wondering when they’ll tell everyone.

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

Existing Customer

They never leave me alone and I’m an existing, relatively happy (modem mode) customer. Continually cold-called by their sales team (chaps from India) who hang up and disconnect. I think I pissed someone off when I tried to get a new deal.

Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?

Re: One Man

Blah blah blah, Fried chicken!

Microsoft drops out of top three for UK software and IT services

Productivity?!

We can speak about productivity when salaries increase at the same level as inflation and the cost of living. I’m effectively earning less, so my productivity may be a little less.

No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal

It’s far cheaper if the workers remain in India and work remotely. I suspect this is at the forefront of any decision making.

Elon Musk to abused Twitter users: Your tormentors are coming back

Re: Translation.

What’s race got to do with it?

European carriers again call for Big Tech to fund network builds

Consumers of the content already pay through the nose to use these networks (not to mention bandwidth costs incurred by streaming services themselves). Now we’ll ultimately pay again when no doubt costs are passed back to consumers from content generators. Passing the buck on years of poor investment and foresight in infrastructure.

Microsoft Outlook sends users back to 1930 with (very) mini-Millennium-Bug glitch

Re: Not Just Outlook

.NET Framework and Core behave like this when parsing a two digit year.

Would have expected Core to be **50.

What am I saying? I didn’t expect that at all.

Re: Banking/Insurance

I think we leap 1000 years on 4000.