Posts by ShipyardTechWork

A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws

Re: 90s classic cars

Well that goes for just about any Ferrari/Lamborghini/McLaren part. They're ment to be insanely expensive. For some reason that's part of the appeal

British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network

Re: And this is why...

TBF I misremembered the story. The gentleman in question had a few drinks (and had a MASSIVE drinking problem but that's another story... Seriously this guy shouldn't have ever held the position he did) then went in and pulled all the modules/cables/cable tags. Then went up to the Captain and screamed that he quit. The gentleman was then escorted off and his second/replacement was tasked with finding out if he'd done anything before announcing his impromptu retirement.

And this is why...

You revoke access BEFORE (or while) you're firing someone. Then again that doesn't always help. Had a guy get fired while he was carrying the keys to the LAN room. Pulled every single module out and cut off the tags before they found him.

Russia arrests one of its own – a cybercrime suspect on FBI's most wanted list

How about:

E) He wouldn't change his efforts from profit to whatever scheme the FSB/GRU is cooking.

That one seems more likely than anything else.

Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'

Re: Home Taping Is Killing Music

Ah the classic LTT argument. A bold move considering that site is almost unreadable without an ad blocker.

Nintendo sues alleged Switch pirate pair for serious coin

If you're going to Pirate

Perhaps DONT announce to everyone that you are pirating.

Microsoft claims it didn't mean to inject Copilot into Windows Server 2022 this week

And when the world wanted Him least, He returned...

Clippy. Risen from the dead and fused with abomination that was Cortana. He's come for your Windows 11 AND NOW, He's coming for your servers.

Clippy has already taken over Microsoft, and now your organizations are next...

I mean seriously. "Accidentally" installed on a server? This is why auto-update is turned off and I have to manually install patches. Thanks Microsoft!

Google fires 28 staff after sit-in protest against Israeli cloud deal ends in arrests

If Google is terrified of the AWU I'll eat my hat. They're an annoying fly at best and when they pull stunts like this (getting members fired because there are regulations surrounding strikes) it just makes them look impotent.

Compare AWU to an actual functional Union like the Teamsters (preferably WITHOUT Hoffa) or the Mariners Unions. They actually get things done and have largely done so since inception.

JetBrains is still mad at Rapid7 for the ransomware attacks on its customers

Re: Ranty-rant

My question is why they published the vulnerability WITH the exploit code attached in a manner that makes it easy to copy then use.

Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11

Can someone please tell them to stop?

No one wants this parasite on their desktop. Anything it says should be verified since LLMs and "AI" we have now are prone to errors. All it's doing is driving folks up the wall trying to figure out how to remove this "improvement".

Go ahead, let the unknowable security risks of Windows Copilot onto your PC fleet

Re: Cortana

Enterprise has it managed by GPOs so it's not that bad. Still annoying.

Unfortunately if you're turning it off for non-Enterprise managed machines it means going into the registry (can't remember exactly where) and creating two keys to shut the thing off. Doesn't seem to break Office yet.