Posts by LordZot

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

I was thinking Bobby Droptables, but close enough.

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

Re: Not me...

Quite the devastating second opinion, and rightly so!

Europe preps Digital Euro to enter circulation in 2029

Why do you need a NEW digital (same) currency?

Why are you needing a new "digital euro" when transactions are already being done electronically? This is a sleight of hand by which you agree to and enter into a new scheme.

PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle

Doth protest too much

How can the El Reg writer claim "propaganda" and "piffle" about this site when it's linking to material by a man who has worked at Pfizer as "Vice President and Worldwide Head of Research in allergic and respiratory diseases" as part of 32 years as a research scientist in the pharma and biotech industries? This is not mom and dad hippie wannabe stuff.

Could you even get someone more qualified to blow the whistle and speak authoritatively?

(Atomic bomb icon because of the science)

Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter

Re: Not to cast doubt but...

I for one would really like to see that photo!

Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays

I can only hope they're getting paid all those hours at overtime rates!

Techie made a biblical boo-boo when trying to spread the word

When your computer tells everyone in the office you're watching porno

Back in the late 1990s, back in the days before email software stopped you from being able to send executable attachments to each other, I sent a really good one to a Buddy of mine.

So he clicks on it and it exclaims through his computer speakers in a very loud voice "hey everyone, I'm watching porno!"

He held (and still does) a very senior position at the American Family Association who rightly rallies against the evils of porn and other bad things. Can't remember the exact words but he emailed back saying "you got me".

Still cracks me up.

New York Times source code leaks online via 4chan

Re: Cheery

Grumpy editors are a security measure? Got it.

LOL. That's so hilarious!

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

Ironic

Just when they finally had the thick shake machine fixed.

Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower

Latest game offering: MS Whack-a-mole

Checked and "pro choice" no longer works. "Baby escaping from surgeon" is still valid, though. No shortage of fun to be had here.

Techie climbed a mountain only be told not to touch the kit on top

Re: I see what you did there!!!

It's still peak comedy here at The Register.

Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970

Re: Learn something new every day!

Laden or unladen?

Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him

It's about the blackmail

Did nobody notice or listen to the original comment that he made during the interview? It's about companies that were trying to blackmail him by threatening to take away their advertising business. So he told them to go jump, and rightly so.

X looks back at year of so-called 'engineering excellence' under Musk

Re: X "shutdown the Sacramento data center, and began doing much more on-prem"

Processing efficiencies can also have the same effect.

Give me the Elon excitement any day

And just how many of these product developments would have happened under the old board of directors? Zero. They were nothing more than a bored set of rubber stamps waiting to be useful.

Adobe's AI tools may paint a pretty picture, but they also cost a pretty penny

So glad I stopped with Adobe at CS6 and didn't step onto the rental treadmill. I'm not being held to ransom and can still get my work done.

Moscow makes a mess on the Moon as Luna 25 probe misses orbit, lands with a thud

Obligatory joke

In Soviet Russia, moon lands you!

Cunningly camouflaged cable routed around WAN-sized hole in project budget

Are we sure it wouldn't be best considered to be a trunk line?