Posts by Always Right Mostly

Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days

Re: This makes me glad I recommended Mint

Very late to this thread, but I have to say yes it is precisely that attitude that is the turn off for me for one. I can’t even imagine what it does to people who are not technically oriented.

NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck

Re: WankPanzer versus MRAP

Upvote for the word WankPanzer.

New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

Stretching a dead horse

The “words clean sheet” do not exist in the Boeing lexicon.

Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers

Let the countdown begin to discover hundreds of security holes in this.

Slothful summer app lets you scroll simply by tilting your head

One can already see the uses of this on porn sites.

I can foresee porn uses for this

Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable

Link(s) to how to get this anyone?

It's do or die for Apple AI

Re: iOS 27 dev beta [...] dropped today

Thank you! I go into rage rants in my head about the use of this phrase by guys in work causal in an office about next month's progress report...or anything that isn't a new song/album (and sometimes these), but those kinds of things are especially rage inducing.

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

Re: The usual snide jab

For now…give it time.

Outlook has an image problem

I wish my company could fuck up stuff even 10% as often as Microsft without losing all our customers. It would make our work a lot easier.

Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage

Re: Google support....

Wait, they have support?

America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames

Our company has to deal with CISA. This confirms what I have always thought ot them - fuckig morons, security theater that explodes developmet costs.

SAP customers warned AI agents could put costs on autopilot

So my hunch was correct - SAP users are saps.

Cerebras risked it all on dinner plate-sized AI accelerators a decade ago. Today it's worth $66B

Sorry, didn't read the article becuase the find is like 99px. New re-design hatred still here.

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

Re: Seems designed for narrow screens, i.e. phones.

Or, you know, admit they fucked up galactically, swallow pride, write off the cost and go back to what it used to be. Really, there's no other way forward. You can successully make shit not stink.

This redsugn is a form if abuse in that it objectivelt sucks in every way that a web page can suck.

Re: Refreshing

Really? It's objetively crap. On every possible level.

If this redesign is "quite mild", what on Earth would qualify as a total dogs lunch/bloody abortion? NOTHING has been improved and EVERYTHING has a Homer Simpson's Website "Look what I did, Marge!" effect.

Just…

No

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

I’ll be happy to take all the downvotes that I’m likely to, but I can’t stand this sort of writing. It’s not funny or clever. The Macelope comes to mind.

That said, the short version is Github has gone to shit because Microsoft is shit. The media is duly alerted.

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

Isn’t this the square root of Pi x ∞ time we’ve heard this bullshit?

Here’s the first step to fix it: fire Nadella.

Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser

Google's slogan went from Don't be Evil to Suck it.

Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive

Re: Very good software

Make the pile of shit bigger with extra helpings of security challenged AI driven, er meant subscription-driven AI shit.

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver

Re: clean, maintainable, thoroughly commented code

Shssh, don’t give management any bright ideas!

Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan

Meanwhile, Ryanair is introducing a new fee called “Fuck you just because we can”, which provides you with nothing.

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue

Final check

Tester: This is shit.

Suit: So, ready to ship it is.

Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs

It's a testimonial to how terrible Microsoft has become that fear of updates is way higher than fear of what they're meant to protect me from.

Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus

The fish rots from the head

Nothing will improve or change with the leadership that's long ago demonstrated they are incapable of even basic levels of quality and security across all Microsoft products.

Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

As someone that proudly doesn’t use nor gives a damn what Wordpress has to offer besides making your site more vulnerable because big fat targets draw more attention, I find a lot to laugh at because “Now with AI” just got a good reception from the ordinarily sharper knives that comment here.

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures

Postpone accordingly

Happens on days that end with a “y”.

Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption

Attention all pigs: prepare to fly.

Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents'

So cq will be full of moderators that don't understand your question and shut down answers because they are twats?

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

Define foreign?

Re: Starlink Wi-Fi routers being manufactured in Texas: that is a foreign country as well.

Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates

Re: The really sad part is the Windows core is, or was better than this

Yes but then there was 8.1 and that was actually pretty good - and compared to Windows 11 is was glory days.

We tested Intel's new chips for cash-strapped hardcore PC users and they're impressive

It has the words Ultra *and* Plus in the name. Yeah, tracks that it's aimed at home users.

Be nice to see someone, anyone anywhere, review chips in terms of users that a) don't play video game, b) don't edi videos, c) don't use any Adobe anything. Not that it applies here so much, but that's usually the litmus test for most reviews.

Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web

"Google deeply cares about protecting user information."

HAHAHAHAHAHABULLSHITHAHAHAHA.

Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11

Care this: extend Windows 10 until the next Windows, one that is nothing like Windows 11, where we choose what else than an OS that does OS stuff only so we can, you know, work.

Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst

Does Bezos know anyone that ever said “If only there were other phones than iPhones or Android.”

What could such a thing offer that isn’t already on offer?

Howard Hughes syndrome.

Lock down Microsoft Intune, feds warn after Stryker attack

When you put all your eggs in one basket you make it easier for folks that want to smash eggs to hit their target.

Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley

I swear, I read the headline as DSL 5 and got a bit faint.

Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them

Re: Voting schemes

Must not be SVP in your household.

Re: Voting schemes

Alas they also vote on things that are shocking e.g. to disallow Afghan asylum seekers from receiving housing benefits unless they are employed but an’t get employed without proof of being in a flat of their own and not a shelter. it trumps cantonal law unless a lengthy and costly appeal to the courts.

Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027

Microsoft is not only making my job suck it's genuinely affecting my health. When you're contunually handed "this is the new new, suck it" changes where failure to adapt/adopt is not an option...well have a nice fucking day.

Kaspersky dismisses claims Coruna iPhone exploit kit is connected to NSA-linked operation

"The Register has asked the NSA for comment."

Talk to the hand.

Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother

OMG, the words Waterfox, Linux, Ubuntu, and tarball in a single post. Its like the someone that hasn't bathed in months using words like Tofu, mung beans and off-the-land to extoll a better lifestyle.

Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook

Please stop, for God's sake, please!

Everything Microsoft has been doing for at least the past three years has made life a hellscape of stuff that makes what use to be doable if not easy, predictable if not totally reliable into a grotesqe babel of new and ever changing product names that are just latyer upon layer of brittcle crap to congure and maintain. Now with AI everywhere. Leave us alone, leave things be. Go count your money and be happy with it. Oh, and one more thing: fuck Nadella.

Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint experience’ with added AI

Re: Here we go again

But the toddler gets older and smarter and stops those behavours. Microsoft regresses by cotrast.

Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read

Re: Wow, the urgency to provide a fix is palpable

Yes, Prime Minister.

Notepad++ declares hardened update process 'effectively unexploitable'

Portable version not affected?

I presume those of us that download and use the portable version are in the clear, yes?