Posts by Baird34

Mega money, unfathomable violence pervade thriving underground doxxing scene

ViLE by name, vile by nature.

Secure Web Gateways are anything but as infosec hounds spot dozens of bypasses

Re: Free tool

Cheers.

The link to the free tool doesn't work. Either that or I'm a newb and fell for a trap and my browser explodes.

Pro-Iran groups lay groundwork for 'chaos and violence' as US election meddling attempts intensify

"significant influence activity by Iranian actors"

Iranian actors are a mischievous lot, I'd take away their equity cards.

Georgia's voter portal gets a crash course in client versus backend input validation

It is a real pain, believe me. It keeps me up at night wandering the house rattling chains and making ghastly noises.

Michigan probes Musk-backed PAC website that weirdly tried and failed to help register people to vote

I think they have enough problems just now.

Bring the hammer down on Nvidia, US progressive and antitrust orgs urge the Feds

I note in their statement "we scrupulously adhere to all laws". The refrain of all corporate miscreants.

CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence

Might be a naive question, but as China's Kylin and OpenKylin are based on Ubuntu (which I believe is based on Debian), then aren't the Chinese forks in some way affected by any changes Canonical make? So they are not 'that' independant?

FTC grabs controller as Microsoft jacks up Game Pass price by 81%

Reminds me of the parable of the frog and the scorpion, and misplaced trust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

If you think AI labs wouldn't stoop to using scraped YouTube subtitles for training, think again

Re: "quantum chromodynamics" to "flat earth."

The 'Information Super Highway' has turned to highway robbery.

PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11

"I suppose this is related to the removal of underlines indicating the appropriate keyboard shortcut on menus, buttons etc."

You've brought up an old wound, I had forgotten about these being removed. Now I'm annoyed again! :|

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

It is his perogative to work as many hours as he likes, and he is extremely well financially rewarded for doing so. To ask salaried people to work that many hours is the height of narsacistic bullcrap.

Coders' Copilot code-copying copyright claims crumble against GitHub, Microsoft

Re: This is scary

Place lots of bad code on github and let them slurp it up, malicious compliance.

Texas court blocks FTC noncompete ban, and you can blame SCOTUS

"we don't like rules against business...".

However in many respects it is anti-business as it disadvantages competition. It favours existing large (rich) businesses, but then the whole 'competition' thing has always been known to be a lie.

Microsoft makes it harder to avoid OneDrive during new Windows 11 installs

Re: Nasty

"the files you save on YOUR computer are not necessarily actually on YOUR computer at all!"

This is why I eradicated OneDrive a few years ago. Working on documents in Word I was getting flabbergasted by which version am I working on here, and where is it located exactly? Bugger that for a game of soldiers. I'll keep my files local, then add to a dedicated cloud folder for backup only if and when I choose to.