Posts by harrys

DoorDash scam used fake drivers, phantom deliveries to bilk $2.59M

"Bottom" line

food gets delivered to your door....

did the person who cooked it wash their hands after doing a number 2?

no guarantee's.... but at least in "older times" you actually went to the takeaway to order your food and see the level of hygiene

so .... eat some food delivered to your door by a random stranger, cooked at some random location in god knows what conditions and quality of ingredients

when at home, cook your own u "lazy bottoms"

PS proof that idiocracy has arrived.... klana partnering with doordash, hahahaha

Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America

litmus test

Would be fascinating to see the numbers here, as it will give a true indication of what percentage of americans are ...

1) desperately poor

2) unbelievably stupid

3) more sadly, a combination of the above

my gut feeling ... very high :)

Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors

If i had a million pounds!!!

I'd spend it all on training an ML system to shadow CEO's and eventually replace them

It'll be shite, but still shareholders will demand it replaces them

ps a mill prob not enuf :)

Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025

extortionist b'stardo's

Hey sysadmin ....

How long can u keep bending over to keep "taxxxx xx xx xxx xss", before u say enuf is enuf

stop being lazy and start your planned slowmo migration and gradually get of the active directory coolaid!

get back some self respect and dignity and be a happy bunny again :)

Asia reaches 50 percent IPv6 capability and leads the world in user numbers

ip6 invented by nerdy idealists....

on paper its a wonderful thing

in reality will be a lot easier to keep track of your populace

not supposed to be but its a messy dirty world and will be misconfigured/abused

the chinese absolutely adore it

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

big cultural diff across the pond

It was more obvious a few decades ago

just got hidden by the "tech"

ask any peoples who have migrated between the two, in reality u share the language but each dont really fit in the others culture

the underlying values are distinct and different

In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield

no incentive for change

digital forensics is hard but if there was an automatic custodial sentence for boards who didnt keep proper records, can guarantee it would then get done

neccessity is the mother of invention

cant see it changing as the companies/consultants are making monies

and everyone from politicians to corporate types happy to live behind the "tech error" when they were about to get caught

ill eat my shorts if any exec in the horizon scandel ends up going to prison... thats for the plebs who cant afford the highly paid (morally difficent) clever legal big wigs

its all sophistry jim .... but not as we know it, as its techy wechy :)

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way

nothing to see here, its just capatilism, thats all

At the time of being bought.... the peoples who made loadsa money by happily selling their bit to broadass for a nice earner....

...those peoples will still be happy

(like those who did the same when selling twitter... even the bleeding heart liberal ones!)

bottom line .... i aint gonna make a profit out of principle.... it aint ever happening these days except in rare cases, even more so in the US system where "its the real religion"

not knocking it .... just an observation, in some ways its freshened things up (evolution 101 style) vmware were already going big and bad, how many perfectly good non upgradable esxi 6 servers are out there simply because they yanked hardware support from version 7 .... microshite style :)

BOFH: There's a fatal error in the blinkenlights

The better you are the job, after the initial crazy sort out the mess period, thats when you you have loads of time on your hands (because ur good)

thats the time to stop makng any changes and make yourself look busier and use it to build up your own customer base as a sole trader, build upto limited etc,....

bottom line always start of in business "on the side whilst you still have a paye income paying the bills"

ps can even be a bit naughty and use your paye job to beta test new stuff/ideas out before offering it as a service to one of your customers ... the latter will expect things to work fully from day one :)

Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

Re: Resistance is futile

read the bio, she sounds like a really really nice person, no sarcasm intended!

shame, as we live in an imperfect messy analogue (very uncopiloty) world

wouldnt rate her chances much if society ever became "disruptive"

but then again u never know :)

Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised

use and abuse

Is their free 24gig ampere offer still going .... been using it for various docker workloads and as a "backup xfce with thunderbird mail" desktop for ages :)

plus add their free low powered 2 x x86 vm offer, put them on all the same virtual lan and have a nice neat "virtualization lab" in the cloud :)

icing on the cake... connect the virtual lab using your overlay vpn of choice and add the whole lab to your "real lab"!

30 minutes to pwn town: Are speedy responses more important than backups for recovery?

immutable snapshots....

every 30 mins say

mind u its gonna cost in terms of performance/storage requirements

willing to pay ???????

Hm, why are so many DrayTek routers stuck in a bootloop?

after using them for years, removed this crap everywhere months ago

.....after the last reg article pointed to a pdf that showed how they were putting sticking plaster over past disclosed vulnerabilities

closed source ... stay away.... the suits will always override the techs and keep the decision hidden behind closed doors .. its all about the money honey :)

all now replaced with opnsense running on no name small entry level x86 boxes (with intel nic's)

ps can even get two and put them in HA ... https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/hacarp.html

BOFH: Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

tip....

order another one, find out what the restocking fee is, then once it arrives do the update!

0% stress :)

CISA pen-tester says 100-strong red team binned after DOGE canceled contract

Yawn

Another boring US centric story involving humpty and dumpties shenanigans

Come back home u expat register journo's

u know u want too, u only went there for the money :)

iOS users left refreshing in vain as Microsoft Outlook woes drag on

Re: Shitshow

why the negative sentiment?

Sounds like a perfect oppurtunity to begin the discussion on potentially moving away from ms and reskilling with alternative toolsets/solutions with healthier profit margins to boot

Either way. its office 365 so its not your problem, just send the relevant ms cockup info to customers and aspouse equal frustration, your off the hook :)

Consider nightmare scenario of running your own exchange server and the same thing happening, shudder shudder

Guaranteed..... after this is over, your customers will happily go into blissfull amnesiacal ignorance once again

Bottom line... they won't hold payment for "acts of god... sorry... acts of ms" beyond the control of us mortals, hahaha

Broadcom starts beta for VMware Cloud Foundation 9, the release it reckons will douse user anger

Yawn!

Boring boring boring.....

Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud encryption for UK peeps

Hyprocitical B'stardo's

They should not have been offering this level of encryption when they have it turned off for china for years

It's all about the money honey :)

Wakey upy peoples!

Never purchased an apple device, yuk

Plus their profit margins are obscene

Finally some less cowardly politicians, well one can hope ....

Your days of driver sync via Windows Server Update Services are numbered

the long road......

Of steady as you go diversification away from the MS ecosystem... still present but less and less dominant

Should have started years ago

Better late than never though, every bit helps :)

Even if you'll probably be gone in a few years, the skills gained will open doors later, so worth doing in your own time if need be

Palo Alto firewalls under attack as miscreants chain flaws for root access

tripple wammy...

anyone who exposes ssh / rdp / web management to all and sundry deserves...

if ignorant ..... training and education

if knowledgable ...... shot/hung/drawn and quartered :)

SonicWall firewalls now under attack: Patch ASAP or risk intrusion via your SSL VPN

someone please please leak the code....

Its the only way sonicwall users are going to get a proper independent third party code review done :)

the only way i would trust a closed source firewall, is if they gave monetary compensation for every exploited flaw and/or a truely independent code review

that aint happenin, especially if the company is listed on the stock market

the cost of fixing the techical debt which could have been allocated for yearly will scare investors

draytek anyone, caught putting on sticking plasters, bets sonicwall are doing the same

DeepMind working on distributed training of large AI models

reality hits home when u run it locally

told it to write a bash script to email out when resources hit a particular value

it did it fine, but....

looked at the cpu usage history and the felt the extra heat generated in the room

my brain could have done it for a few watts, or found the script somewhere online

never again will i run a local model, this stuff is replicated millions of times right now in countless racks in data centres around the world

its even worse then the shite that is called crypto mining

Microsoft 365 price rises are coming – pay up or opt out (if you can find the button)

get the basics right first hey..... wrong

had a customer who couldnt **purchase** licences due to a partner id error

it took them 23 DAYS to fix the issue by sending it "upstairs"

sheer bloody arrogance

but hey customer is always right, can give them a perfectly usable solution based around mint desktops/libreoffice and a synology nas or two with a few windows vm's for those who really need them

but some peoples just dont like change and will pay the price, who am i to complain, can but advise, get paid either way

shame as the few who have made the change love it :)

DeepSeek's iOS app is a security nightmare, and that's before you consider its TikTok links

Elephant in the room.....

Google play services in conjunction with lazy/budget constrained developers .... nasty!

Atleast motorola phones allow you to disable it without rooting, then install fdroid

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

bigger problem......

will they be able to attract younger devs in the future

the future of open source rests on it me thinks

linus really needs to start doing less and look at his workflow and start shelling bits of it out, how old is he?

the best leaders leave early and quietly :)

Democrats demand to know WTF is up with that DOGE server on OPM's network

centralised power!!

Dems or repubs, labour or tory, left or right...... makes no diff, power will be abused one way or another allbeit in different ways

decentralise power, a more loose coalition of states, then go and live where your values match

increase diversity bring back resiliance

haha, aint ever happening baby, why... money talks and its gravity is super strong :)

Google torpedoes 'no AI for weapons' rules

batman and robin ...

Go James Go Demis ... make america great again

And boys, don'r forget to make shed loads of money as your doing it, its your patriotic duty :)

Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

does not make any diff in medium/long term....

Only one constant, no matter who is in power ....

the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer, with more of the middle class joining them

then the whole thing tumbles, becomes more egalitarian due to necessity

rinse and repeat ad nauseum, evolutions a bitch :)

US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs

Re: Objects

stock up on immodium!

Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP

they are now.....

disabling public access by default

getting rid of the ability for customers to create unencrypted clusters

enforcing secure connections by default.

way way too surreal for a monday, even with everything else gooin on :)

Windows 11 stages a comeback – still miles behind older sibling

moved over a dozen peoples to mint recently... not heard a a squeek back from them :)

Re: Not really

disable TPM in the bios :)

DeepSeek means companies need to consider AI investment more carefully

stating the bloody obvious.....

500W plus gpu's, even in home PC's

look out the window!

Fear of the unknown keeps Broadcom's VMware herd captive. Don't be cowed

Been using proxmox for years

If you know your way around linux then its def the way to go, less need these days as you can now do virtually everything in the gui

Have to admit though, if i was recommending a direct replacement, xcpng is a more natural fit replacing vmware, especially for larger installs

The lack of 24/7 proxmox support is also a problem that xcpng has

Another biggie is thats its easier to break proxmox as its just running on top of vanilla debian whereas xcpng has a bespoke customised smaller kernel

Either would do, why, they are both open source

i usually walk away from anything closed source, never trust closed source never will

the only people who benefit from closed source, shareholders and executives

trust has to be earned, only open source allows that to happen, with closed source you HAVE to believe whatever comes out of the sales guys mouth, no questions asked

PS NEVER played the stock market, if you have then you cant really attack broadcom, if u do its just hypocritical

Microsoft admits January's Windows Update broke USB Digital to Audio Convertor

Re: Just another reason NOT to upgrade to Win11 then...

simpler solution :)

install macrium reflect, my goto for backup software

attach an external or internal drive

quick restore to previous state after ms shenanigans, surprisingly quick and easy procedure

easy to create a macrium iso usb in case of major microsoft shenanigans :)

ps the fully free version can still be downloaded legally and allows the iso creation too

US AI shares battered, bruised, and holding after yesterday's DeepSeek beating

luvin it :)

hahahaha

could happen to a nicer bunch of hubristic up their own arses silicon valley american tossers :)

even if been given a bloody nose by another bunch of american cloned chinese hedge fund tossers!

nice no bullshit 2 min pragmatic clarification from a UK centric angle .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY4Z-9QlZ64&t=1048s

Robots in schools, care homes next? This UK biz hopes to make that happen

simple solution....

a recession will result in good quality people going into these jobs and not feel devalued when telling friends what they do.... as everyone will be in the same boat

SonicWall flags critical bug likely exploited as zero-day, rolls out hotfix

Always wondered why peoples would choose this for their SME customers over pfsense?

First time I came across a sonicwall, looked at its pricing structure and thought jeez the monies i can save the customer with a vastly superior, but above all OPEN SOURCE, product

swapped over quite a few in my time

closed source ..... "sales tactic to maximize revenue by hiding technical debt" :)

User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?

ghost.exe on a floppy disk.....

worked wonders for virtually zero onsite tech support :)

use partition manager 8 to shrink windows partition

boot from same floppy and use ghost to create a windows image in the free space

configure bios to boot from floppy first and configure the ghost to autorun and restore the backup image onto the windows partition

easy fix over the phone for when things went really really wrong

floppy was labelled ... "DANGER : you will lose all your files.... back them up first", same pause 0 message in the batch file :)

Samsung Galaxy S25 is so smart it wears Crocs, allegedly resists quantum decryption

the great unwashed choose samsung phones as they have no idea that they are literally ***the worst*** phones you can buy wrt "invasive unremovable software"

what always astounds me is that IT literate people use them, crazy!

the only logical reason i think is..... the usual combination of laziness and the convenience factor

one definition of irony... samsung phone users complaining about the miriad of data privacy issues surrounding us, FROM THEIR SAMSUNG PHONES!

hahahaha

Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users

my experience for a simpler life then windows....

tried them all over the years :)

1. mint for normal users

2. fedora kde for power users

hate to say this ... but chromium runs better on linux then the default firefox no matter what distro

remmina works well for rdping into windows desktops if needed

majority of vpn and overlay vpn clients work ok under linux now with easy setup, even have a gui :)

latter two is a biggie for remote company users

VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns

semi true....

For the top customers with tens of thousands of vm's in disparate location, true

for the others, def not!

how big are these other, 50%, 70%, 90%?

who knows, only the broadcom execs have access to the spreadsheet, their jobs depend on getting this right so that they can keep the shareholders happy and get their bonus's

Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?

hey clayton u dork....

Dont u know..... lifes a zero sum game, u got kids?

""For stuff that simply doesn't fit on a PC, you run those on GPUs in the cloud, where you have effectively unlimited performance," Clayton added."

GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums

damn!!

sounds like a really good way of getting your premiums down....

install it on a burner phone with your details and leave the phone in a low mileage careful owners car

shame stories come out....

Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day

hey andrew....

how does it feel to develop a tool used extensively within rich mega corps

not fussed?

your a dying breed

respect :)

Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading

closed source firewalls are a bad bad bad idea

the secrecy will always allow them to put financial considerations before security

but they'll keep being installed and they'll keep milking it in collusion with their "compliance/insurance buddies"

Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V

Litmus test

Dealt with companies who after initial advice keep their rdp port open to the web

I then quickly make my apologies and scarper out asap

Its a true indicator of a company you do not want to deal with EVER

Nominet probes network intrusion linked to Ivanti zero-day exploit

Best on who gets paid the most out of this ...

1. mandient

or

2. the public relations consultants who are managing the flow of info now

me thinks the latter, their grubby little hands are all over the info releases ...

rule number uno... drip feed the flow of *already known* damaging info .... ""We will update you when our investigation concludes, or as necessary,"

the only difference here being "or as necessary" ... arrogant sods

WordPress drama latest: Leader Matt Mullenweg exiles five contributors

the only time to use wordpress...

1. Default install, no plugin's

2. Set to auto update

If the above works for you, go for it

If above can't do what you need.... DON'T DO IT, don't be lazy .... go elsewhere!

PS The guys obviously on the spectrum, unfortunately with no "self awareness" that he is, tempering his emotive interactions and ego power tantrums, sad .. lotta them about in business!

Europe coughs up €400 to punter after breaking its own GDPR data protection rules

Oh WOW

They called themselves gravy analytics!

Thats really really really are taking the p**s

Think about it... if your still going about willing to accept your data being abused this way for the sake of convenience

Even better, there are planty of ways for the techically englightened to use and abuse the big tech services without paying a penny

been doing it for years, seen it as my moral duty