Posts by BasicReality

AT&T store worker gets 16 months inside for SIM-swap side hustle

Now, if the banks simply didn’t require that damned 2FA, none of that would’ve happened. Strong passwords are still best.

Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you

Grok Bot

They’re just trying to catch up to Grok Bot. I set up a bot the other day, gave it a shopping list of a handful of items, told it to price comparison between three different local stores and it came back with all the information I needed. I told it to put together the shopping cart for me, and it went to one of the sites and put together my cart. All I would have to do is finalize the order.

CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian

> the real original mistake here was adopting CentOS and making it official in 2014

I disagree on that part, I think the problem was the IBM takeover. Folding in CentOS was helpful, but what choices IBM has made, definitely not. RedHat could have been far better off without them.

Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have

Another judge to impeach.

Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds

What a joke. Track them down arrest them, make them spend a couple years in prison, who cares. More keep doing it.

Better option, find them, publicly execute them and make sure the other groups know their next.

Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it

Back when software developers had talent.

(yes, I'm in the industry)

China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing

Oh the debt is its own problem. You wouldn't like my solution though. I'm fully in favor of eliminating most government spending and paying off all the debt. Once that's done, lower taxes for everyone.

I'd put Social Security and Medicare/Medicade on a 20 year plan to shut down entirely. No, we can't cut off people who rely on it now, but wind it down over a period of time.

Government isn't your parent, you should never rely on it to live off of. Any type of welfare program, gone. I did have a friend recommend a compromise that was interesting. Keep the welfare programs available, but a hard lifetime limit on them. You can collect for a period of perhaps a year or two, any time for any reason, but after the lifetime limit reached, no more.

But overall, people need to be responsible for themselves, not depend on the government to take care of them.

> How can you consider a government existing beyond the eternal rule of the Great Leader !

Easy, I’m not a Democrat.

We've been working on it. We've seeing less democrats elected these days. The government is doing well at removing criminals who don't belong here, the border has been closed off pretty well, crossings are far below where they used to be. Gun rights and religious rights are being upheld. We have a ways to go yet, but I'm confident in the direction of the country. Get Vance or Rubio after Trump and we can keep the progress going.

Congrats to them on successfully stealing American technology.

The world really needs to step up and end the Chinese government and military.

Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic

Re: But... but... but...

> I tried New Outlook, it's shit.

But the old one was too.

Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore

Re: And?

Fixing it is a job for the AI agents.

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

Not sure what they're investigating. Doesn't seem to me like any crimes were committed.

Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth

If you don't want the device, you should be able to force the dealer to remove it.

Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party

Re: Sad but not surprising

And here you are, blaming “the others” again. Your version is rich people who run corporations, if only they’d spend their money on what you want everything would be fixed.

Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows

So, they finally figured out network installations that Linux has had for years.

UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse

We Must Regulate! Always the government answer, never the solution.

T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out

These moves to subscription only should be outlawed.

But I did find one line very interesting, "Broadcom continued to provide support but also sought damages on grounds that the injunction meant it missed out on a new deal with T-Mobile."

Are they admitting extortion? They have to discontinue support to force someone into new contract terms?

Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess

If nobody sees you drop the expensive device, it never happened.

Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands

Just have to keep pushing this garbage. None of it ever comes true, but that doesn't stop them.

Security boss thought MFA would be too much security

Worked at a call center several years back, it was fun telling the customer I was speaking to that the fire alarm had gone off and we had to evacuate the building. Call back and your call will be routed to another center. At least the customer was pleasant about it. Happened with a tornado warning as well. “I’m sorry, I have to disconnect now because we’re all supposed to sit under our desks.”

Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list

The world really needs to work together and end the Chinese government.

Citrix now lets you run virtual desktops like a cost-conscious private equityeer

We use Citrix VM's at work. What absolute trash.

The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess

Re: I use Spotlight search like that also

I found my iPhone is much better if I go to the Bluetooth settings and tell it my car stereo is only a speaker. It removes some of the driving locked out features.

Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!'

I already paid the $60, well worth supporting them. I'd much rather give it to a company I support.

Firefox, not so much.

Yes, I've read the article before. On point number two, he donated to a cause that CA voted in favor of. Mozilla was wrong to get rid of him.

Mozilla has also come out in favor of internet censorship in the past. No thanks, I'll avoid that.

Brave Origin is working great. Would love to see more browser makers adopting their ad blocker too, I know Firefox is experimenting with it.

Britain plots digital bedtime after kicking under-16s off social media

Damn these people. Shut down every damn service provided to the government. End their entire ability to function.

Apple version of Office 2019 becomes useless in a month

This is the kind of thing that should be illegal. Just issue a patch that stops the software from checking and be done with it.

It blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts

Re: Boiling frog

An argument going on for several years in the social media space.

Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

Always starts in the UK, but spreads from there. Tech companies need to stand firm against this, but they won't.

Raspberry Pi's profits are up. So is its DRAM bill

It's just me. Had I posted anonymously they wouldn't have.

I helped a team this year in the First Robotics competition. For the 26-27 season, they're changing from the RoboRIO to a new one called SystemCore which will be Raspberry Pi based. That's probably got their production up quite a bit as well.

No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel

Funny, you think you'll be able to turn this off.

'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club'

Countries really need to turn their militaries loose on these people. Stop treating it as law enforcement through the courts. These criminals start getting their houses blown up or raids in the middle of the night were they don't survive, it'll stop. Similar to the drug runners at sea. A few random explosions and the problems start going away.

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

What a nightmare this would be.

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Nice to see good news like this, especially when the idiots at my company are making a push for us to start using copilot.

Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops

Did I ever say it was easy? No. I'm a software developer, I fully understand the difficulties. But that doesn't mean companies should move as much as possible now and work on finishing over time. Find alternatives.

I'm in full favor of him releasing whatever exploits he finds. Microsoft is garbage, maybe when companies suffer breaches they'll finally wake up and move to Linux and Mac instead.

Microsoft shuts down illegal code-signing operation used by ransomware crims to mask their malware

"Microsoft seized websites and took down hundreds of virtual machines"

Since when are they a law enforcement agency?

MPs want social media treated more like unsafe toys than harmless apps

Re: In short

I think some people just see my name and downvote automatically. I'm used to it. People don't appreciate common sense.

Re: Yeah, sure

Put a bounty out, let an armed public deal with it, you very well may get better results.

Re: In short

It's the parent's responsibility, not the government. I don't know why that is so difficult for people to understand.

GameStop CEO's eBay account reinstated following takeover PR stunt

They should name the combined company eStop.

Meta U-turns on encryption push for Instagram as DMs go plaintext

Opt in?

"Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs"

Encryption should just be the standard, not an opt in feature.

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

I have discovered an issue though. I use Brave on all my devices, on macOS and my iPhone everything looks fine. Trying it on the iPad tonight, all of the stories load with the text in a column down the center of the page. It’s about a third of the page wide, the left and right columns just as wide are just white space. Happens in both portrait and landscape mode.

That explains the company I work for, they’ve got their heads deeply up Microsoft’s backside.

I can tell you’re not a professional developer. Production is always where you test everything out.

Re: No complaints!

But they'd like people to actually see their stuff.

So far so good. No issues that I see. Ever think about a dark mode?

Edit: Just noticed, minor inconsistency, on the homepage the hamburger menu is on the left and "my account" on the right. Clicking "my account" takes me to a page where that's reversed.

GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain

Don't I recall a similar story with Hotmail? Microsoft buys them, and destroys them. It takes time, but it's just the pattern.