Posts by BartyFartsLast

UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit

Re: £383 million?

Or, given the number of criminals using crypto to transact business, maybe the authorities have identified the owners and are about to ask them a few uncomfortable questions

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

Apart from all the "check your own work" stuff, surely such a large increase in usage in such a short time could indicate a compromise and trigger some sort of email to query it?

Or, silly question I guess, is AWS that profit focused they'd rather ig ore it and hope the invoice gets paid.

Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica

Re: Well...

Yeah, that would be a nice byproduct

Re: Humbug

If downloading and setting up a copy of WinUAE is challenging then you probably shouldn't be buying shoes with shoelaces

Humbug

Nah, yet another emulator, I've not seen any of these which were enough of an improvement over any open source effort to be worth a quarter of their price tag.

Chinese web giant Tencent can't buy all the GPUs it wants

Re: "Tencent’s capital expenditure is slowing"

I prescribe an infusion of vulture capitalism, that'll soon extract all the cash

Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight

Re: I used to own a sports bar/restaurant

The number of places, takeaways, cafes, restaurants etc that have absolute howling bad menus, it's jarring to me and the mistakes leap off the page immediately

Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut

People can write shit code in any language, it's just more amusing when it's a language that's revered for its safety

Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch

Re: I see you're...

I see they've jumped the shark with a wildly unpopular enforced obsolescence and upgrade path, would you like to install Linux

Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan

Re: At what point --

As I say to people at work, SAP is like bindweed, when it takes root it's an absolute nightmare to get rid of it

Well that's a handy tip, I'd given up on B&Q because of all the shite sold by 3rd parties "not available in store" they give as results to searche

UK asks cyberspies to probe whether Chinese buses can be switched off remotely

I'd be surprised if the telemetry most European cars are capable of wasn't in some way abusable if not intentionally written to contain such functionality

There's even been a murder case in the UK proven with help from the data collected by the murderer's car

Re: Pelican is wilfully missing the point...

Given the device you typed that on was almost definitely made in china or contains significant amounts of Chinese components the answer would be you as well ase

If they're worried about this

Just wait 'til they find out what a foreign state can do to the fleet of F35s and AH64s

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

Re: More to come

But if you've no band to pay, then it's all profit for the record company.

Ouroboros

With reviews of their music and articles written about them by AI

Who's watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map

Re: It's worse than you think...

If you're gonna quote Graun articles about surveillance and data slurping then Carole Cadwalladr is surely the gold standard for her Cambridge Analytica exposé?

Re: KANOTIX is a Linux distribution

Because it's kewl to run/listen to/watch/eat/drink the most obscure, niche stuff with the added bonus of being able to look knowingly and pity those who aren't as kewl as you because they don't know about it

Re: Fear of speaking

They're terrified of subjects being able to express their ideas.

Recent history has demonstrated that several times, a million demonstrating peacefully can easily be ignored, a couple of thousand threatening riots and creating a disproportionate amount of noise online, gotta do as they want.

Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached

Re: 1 trillion question

I do wonder if South Africa would take asylum seekers from the US

Re: This timeline

All on the same timeline

This timeline

This timeline is truly the most stupid.

Re: This is a cult.

Did you mean to type L and not N?

I wish that were true, but the number of incompetents who are employed and then do not live up to the salary disproves it.

FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute

Was he actually able to prove that? (Genuine question)

Maybe he could team up with the fool in the UK who's trying to buy a landfill?

They could sit and grumble at each other.

Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke

Re: Training practice

Connecting remotely to user's machines with the computer management applet and ejecting their CDROM drive trays was a favourite at one time.

Sodding salesmen

We got stitched up with a contract that meant we had to repair whatever a partner company sent us.

This meant I got to play with all sorts of really unusual stuff like prototype video conferencimg equipment from BT Martlesham Heath, Amigas kitted out for video editing from TV stations, IBM metronet cards and more mundane garbage like fax machines.

So, on one memorable occasion we called up to reception (because us hardware techs were kept in the dungeon/cellar) and asked the lovely new receptionist if she could fax down some blank paper as we'd run out.

Bless her, she tried too then came down the stairs to apologise that it wouldn't send.

Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope

A thousandth is a billion, nobody is worth or needs even that much money

Special K?

If Musk ODs on ketamine tomorrow Tesla will carry on, it will not end for lack of his presence (but it may well collapse if there's financial dodginess they can't keep hidden any longer)

He's not worth one thousandth of that.

Re: Well done Norway !

Not just the Norwegians, there are a few other objectors.

It is obscene, there is no way on this planet he is worth that much money, he's lifted his skirts and shown the world what he is, tanking Tesla sales and reputation in the process, the best thing the shareholders could do at this point for their investment is remove him and his acolytes from the board.

Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters

Save time

Fire it straight into the sun.

Is it not already bad enough without adding in random bit flips from high energy radiation?

Keeping the lights on takes up nearly all police IT spending in England and Wales

*doffs cap*, nicely done.

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world

Re: As a card carrying Christian

It's a mild worry that the people who want to hasten the return of Christ and the arrival of the rapture might have influence over those who have the codes for nuclear weapons

Re: Dammit Gelsinger!

You can take solace from the fact that there's no such thing as god so there'll be no rapture from heaven and religion is just a bunch of teachings like "wash your arse, don't eat animal faeces and don't screw around or you'll get diseases" for simple people

Re: Hold your horses there, Pat

They're terrified a machine might achieve consciousness and destroy the foundations of their scam by proving there's no such thing as an immortal soul

Re: Reverend Lionel Preacherbot

It won't be long, if it hasn't happened already, before an AI asserts it is a god, maybe even Skippiasyermuni, and given the credulousness of the sort of person who's predisposed to believing in sky fairies, it will be as close to belief as makes no difference

Google yanks Gemma after US senator says model ‘hallucinated’ her committing crimes

Trumplicker

Credit where credit is due, Blackburn is still married to her husband of over 50 years and is only divorced from reality.

Re: I really feel sorry for the conservatives

"Real pity" shurely?

MIT Sloan quietly shelves AI ransomware study after researcher calls BS

Even AIs don't agree?

To paraphrase Christine Keeler, well it would say that wouldn't it

China's president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones

Was the smart watch really buggy or was it a sinister plot to wreck the fitness of westerners?

Postcode Lottery's lucky dip turns into data slip as players draw each other's info

Re: Not. prize I'd want but...

That's the bonus ball prize

Students using ChatGPT beware: Real learning takes legwork, study finds

Re: Not just AI

In France, 178KM should be enough, on the autobahn, not so much.

Really though, the problem I have these days is attention span, I'd have likely forgotten my destination never mind the last instruction in that distance

Fortytwo's decentralized AI has the answer to life, the universe, and everything

Re: AI@Home

I did mine a couple back before the Pizza was bought because curiosity. No idea where they went but they're long gone and the hardware destroyed with no way of proving they were mine so meh, it's an amusing anecdote.

Re: AI@Home

Indeed, I'm not donating my compute and the power to run it on the off chance I might get a few measly fractions of bitcoin which may, or may not cover the cost depending which crypto scammer has pumped and dumped on any given day.

Plus, I'm not inclined to encourage or add to the AI slop and bullshit

VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India

It's really easy to find any number of mobile contracts nudging up at that sort of level.

Microsoft just revealed that OpenAI lost more than $11.5B last quarter

Re: Copilot flying into the ground

After upper manglement determined we should be making use of AI and mandated its rollout some of our departments held competitions with prizes for the best use of copilot, none of the uses were actually, umm, useful, it really is a poor solution looking for a simple problem.

Cyberpunks mess with Canada's water, energy, and farm systems

Re: "whose tank gauge was tampered with"

"in the UK and EU a speedometer can over read by 10% plus 4KM/H"

A speedometer is legally required to never show a *lower* reading than the actual vehicle speed

If you fit different diameter tyres to factory then you should get your speedometer checked and recalibrated if necessary.

Re: "whose tank gauge was tampered with"

Yeah, the first time I compared a car speedo with Sat Nav on a phone, I was quite surprised to see that 70MPH on the speedometer was closer to 64 and that watching as someone else drove showed some odd curves in the speedometer calibration around the most common speed limits

Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

Even I'm getting bored of it now, Obligatory

So, how's that cloud thing working out for you?