Posts by harrys

UK to rethink tech buying after Palantir contracts

Re: Out of the frying pan.....

"those in post are either extraordinarily dedicated public servants, or people who cannot get employment in the most rapidly expanding sector of the economy"

This situation has simply occured because needed recessionary periods have been kicked down the road by artifically increasing assett prices to compensate, especially house prices, which is a double wammy in this regard to the needs/expectations of the "clever people"

Recessions are so needed on a cyclic frequency (the periods can be argued about) so that there is a rush to safer public posts forcing out the lower quality cohort of waste/indolence, hopefully whilst retaining the dedicated staff

Luckily only human hubris think recession can be avoided

"the times they are a changin", those that can adapt well.......

Iran's cyberattack against med tech firm is 'just the beginning'

Sadly this was needed

Why, because necessity will dictate that in the security verses cost equation, only now will the former start winning by default

Another probable consequence, next gen overlay vpn's fully transparent to the end user, baked into the OS's network stack, will start decentralizing the gubbins of the internet into distinct geographical/political/corporate areas, especially as the percentage of global trade decreases over time between said areas ... (aka decentralized "firewalls")

whats probably surprising is that its taken so long to mature, or putting it another way finally out of the hands of emotionally challenged monied geeks on the "spectrum"

Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China

hypocritical cowards

willing to sacrifice their greed, have they no principles :)

still i''m sure they will continue living the "american dream", now on steriods, but only for the chosen few!

Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions

Re: Lloyds shifts skilled IT jobs from UK to India

ive sent the ft link to a few friends who are customers

some are also very gung ho about uk jobs in the uk.... reform style

sadly i know most will still be banking with them this time next year

human beings are not rational :)

NASA watchdog report pokes holes in Artemis lunar lander plans

careful "mr inspector general"

Whats with the negativity man

Your not drinking from the make america great again chalice

You'll have the orange bufoon after you soon

China’s rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan

Hubris......

They actually think that the enviromental tipping points that they have accelerated because of their aping of the shitty comsumerist western models is less important then this jingoistic rhetoric

Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US

give the guys a break

their just rearranging the infrastructure to make room for openai

when u make an IT change, shit like this happens man (pun intended)

Huawei brings its flatpack AI datacenters, packed full of Chinese chips, to the world

you gotta admire them

true masters of propoganda

unlike the bozos in the white house who used to be the kings in this game

Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays

silver lining

global delay .... enviromental respite

one can hope its a begining of a continous decline

Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge

Convo

Hey our financials aernt looking too good in the coming years

Lets tie ourselves to the AI shite in our new shiny marketing material and get some funding in

Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on

Pathetic

Only word left now

Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions

Re: This

I dont think its easily fixed, until you get a deep recession you wont get good peoples going into these jobs (out of sheer neccessity) to make this happen in a competent way (they'll be plenty of peoples writing the reports on how to achieve it though charging silly consultancy fees)

In the mean time out of sheer necessity, shitheads like g4s are just needed to stave off collapse of the system

It will happen once assett prices start declining, especially the stupid rise in house prices since the thatcher/regan experiment began, sadly were all complicit here, how many were out there demonstrating against it?

Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother

+1 for waterfox here

Very boring and very stable ..... what more could you ask for in a browser

Run it on fedora kde and you have a really nice computer that doesnt get in the way, but has the xtras for power users, especially those with the latest hardware

for normie users waterfox on mint

AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement

pump and dump.....

Gotta time that dump baby or else ur fecked

Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

it'll happen..... even if its a total shite

Why, because the ego's of the filfty rich bastards will make it happen

Who cares what the speadsheet says.... crony capitalism being the norm now

Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT

Clever morally wasted individuals wanting to make a shed load of money from "foced to buy" software signing certs

SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists

Re: We ain't seen nothin yet

"The lowest orbits are self cleaning" !!

Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

Re: Misleading article

So says anonymous amazon marketing droid :)

"anonymous coward" .... nice one theregister, very apt in this case hahahaha

SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping

'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants'

That statement alone made my chuckle

Irony irony everywhere irony..... :)

India’s top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook

make "substitute your country of choice" great again

this is propadanda!

how many of these initiatives actually produced any "greatness", thay all fizzle out

looks like this oxymoron applies all over the world :)

China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using 'ghost NICs' to avoid detection

This is big!

But just like microslop getting their crown jewels hacked .... no one will be discussng it after a few days

Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college

knowledge control.....

Dependency on coroporate profit and unelected executive ego's

Its the american way man, aped by all and sundry .... including the psuedo communists

SF writers should write about this, oh my mistake

Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production

waste.....

lets not talk about...

ps chrony capitalism .... feck the spreadsheet

Were telcos tipped off to *that* ancient Telnet bug? Cyber pros say the signs stack up

who maintains telnet....

Jim the builder, in his spare time free of charge on the weekends?

Must make him the only socialist builder in town :)

Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign

hardware tokens....

WOW.... lets go for it ....

Couple of days later......

How much, lets stick to sms, ive spoken to legal and marketing.... the cost of a hack will be cheaper, our dumbass insurance provider will cover us

But thats the same argument you gave against anti ransomware immutable realtime backups

Yeah i know, drinky poo's all round

Emmabuntüs DE 6: A newbie-friendly Linux to help those in need

not again.....

why didnt they just devote their time resources to an existing distro like mint

oh yeah. ego

UK border tech budget swells by £100M as Home Office targets small boat crossings

GDP .... keep it flowing guys

The 100M is just paper money ...... it will keep flowing as long as the gdp figures look good, so uk.limited doesn't have to do a klana :)

Musn't slow down, "whats that u say.... the enviroment is a zero sum game", boohoo u kill joy, Spend and enjoy is, yay u can afford that bigger mortgage now from these new juicy gov.uk contracts

Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena'

dual boot mode.....

find any "normy", shrink windows partition in disk manager then install it on a their windows pc in dual boot mode, mint install sets itself up as default in grub

tell them about how to select windows at startup if they have any problems

you never hear back from them, especially (hate to say this) if you install chrome as default browser :(

few weeks/months later delete the windows entry in grub!

for every power user .... there's fedora kde for a similar dual boot experience!

Trump wants big tech to pay for big beautiful power plants

another boring US centric trumpton article

its getting tedious now :)

China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware

propaganda

No statement out of china can ever be independently verified

So your default attitude should be "whatever"

Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it

XCP-ng

If they win, should throw it to them!

But being the arseyole's they are.... will prob get something cheap and nasty and spend it on themselves

Maximum-severity n8n flaw lets randos run your automation server

amazing application

self hosted and used for automating internal workflows, and over overlay networks

wouldnt dream off opening it to the great unwashed, madness!

with great power comes great responsibility :)

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go

It'll get hacked.....

and start redirecting all peoples on PIP to dignitas

money saved, job dun

AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far

they acrtually had a sad american trump sychophant tosser on stage

its all about the (tax payers) money honey :)

HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations

been using bitwarden for years, but.....

they should not have the autofill feature enabled by default .... its an attack vector that is too dangerous for something holding such valuable info

also go to your settings online and enable some of the highest crypto stuff on your cloud stored wallet, so if the bitwarden site gets hacked your wallet would take centuries to decrypt (lastpass wallets are prob still being decrypted way after their leak)

ps u are using a strong inconveniant master password, yes???

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

iot shite

geez get a broom and a dustpan!

get it with a golden handle and a vanity ddr5 memory slot, as u obviously have spare money to waste :)

Oracle isn't done with Ampere yet as A4 instances arrive on OCI boasting 96 cores

free tier....

still running the free two micro x86 instances and one free 24gb memory multicore arm64 instance in a nice little "cluster"

hosting quite a few services with room to spare (saving on homelab leccy costs), just find their vm/network management plane a bit of a pain as its geared more towards bigger workloads/infrastructure

been expecting them to kill this "golden goose" for a while, but no, still available me thinks

Ford shifts gears to build batteries for datacenters

electric cars were always....

1. a middle class "wank"

2. usefull for fleets, clever taxi drivers etc etc with the right "excel sheet" doing the sums

still are, nothng wrong with either :)

When the data centre ponzi scheme hits the rails... a lot of cheap kit is going to hit the used market during the next decade or so off recessionary times ... opportunities for the frugal (a rare quality these days) mindset

Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system

once the recession kicks in

IT pro's will be rushing to these jobs as a safe haven and things will improve big time

But above all you wont have to hide your occupation from professional fellow IT bro's, they will look at you with envy instead of an "uncomfortable silence" :)

Recession.... a natural process that even fiat currencies can't beat.. and needed at least once in every generation to bring a dose of reality to hubristic big heads

What did that scottish idiot say ...... "were gonna lick boom and bust", hubristic arse wipe.... should have ahipped him off to silicon valley with all the other arse wipes there :)

Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software

hyper individualism rules ok

1. excellent for the short term and ego of the vibe developer

2. terrible for future generations of dumbed down developers running around in nappies at the mo

but hey they wont know how dumb they have become, so probably ok :)

Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks

esxi 6

I wonder how many of these are still esxi 6 or less?

Twas when vmware started their "artificial" hardware requirements for v7 .... windows 10 to 11 style!

If they are out there.... thats some decent hardware :)

Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals

API's

Means your essentially just someones bitch (unless their is a locally hosted option), mostly evident once someone new comes in to the board with a remit to generate additional revenue etc etc etc

I'd look closely at any recent changes in xeros financial statements on where the future is going

If the only product/service you offer is to your zero customers via the API your essentially just a xero employee with non of the employee benefits

Samsung reveals its first tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode

samsung phones

Avoid them like the plague ... they are riddled with nasty samsung software

Running on top of the nastier insidious layer called google play services .... a peice of crap beloved by lazy android developers

OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI

retirement nest egg

check how much your pension provider has invested in this incestuous crony capitalistic kak!

Makers slam Qualcomm for tightening the clamps on Arduino

hey ur slamming the wrong guys

the real bastardios are the guys and gals who made the big monies selling it knowing what it would turn into

but hey they profited handomely and as such are lauded and envied by all and sundry

its capitalism baby, but not as we know it :)

Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage

this happens because in larger companies

peoples these days see work as a lifestyle not a shite necessary activity

the clever ones know this and just pretend to be part of the "work family"

the foolish ones actually believe its true

in reality no one should trust anyone in the workplace and put in adequate systems, whilst trying to hide this fact from the fools without upsetting them too much.

Also you can get more work out the fools for less as long as you can sustain their delusion :)

Fortinet finally cops to critical make-me-admin bug under active exploitation

closed source is crap

latest of many fortinets f ups

these are expensive firewalls....

they have simply chosen to prioritize renumeration over engineering costs over the years

if it was were open source, they would have been taken to the cleaners years ago over their shoddy engineering

but hey the bigger pay packets and shareholder dividends must have pleased

the idiots are the fools who paid premium price for them because they believed the marketing crap from the sales droids, using the jargon word "enterprise" again and again and again

then their are the super morons who open up WAN access to their firewalls, especially these crap ones... surprisingly a lotta of them about

UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK

in a few months time......

This will be watered down to hell

why because ms has the spare change to keep firing legal shots over and over and over again

sadly though, bigger reason is ..... if your a good legal eagle, you'll be working on the microsoft team at X times the salary of the other side

with the other side looking at you will jealous envy

these companies should never been allowed to get so big and dominant... too late now

Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting

positive slant ......

"The decision is a blow to the local tech sector"

Really!!!

Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches

once this becomes normal

Humanities excrement will go boldly to places it has never been before!

And when it gets cheap and commoditized and ryan air starts up a service ... it will be dumped unceremoniously towards the sun ... because it cheaper

Probably boomerang back to the earth because ryans air miscalculated on their unmaintained cheapo hallucinating otbital excrement firing trajectory AI calculator :)

years from now you'll be able to look up into the night sky and see beautiful shooting stars of returning burning turds excreted by your ancestors :)

How apt and poetic haha