Posts by Jeroen Braamhaar

Right to repair advocates have a new opponent: Scientologists

Re: This thing measures your *soul*?

"We need a machine that measures irony - but the scale would have to go to 11 ;)"

It would be stuck at over 9000.

EU antitrust team closer to full-blown Microsoft probe, say sources

classic case of tail wagging dog

Cunningly camouflaged cable routed around WAN-sized hole in project budget

Sir: this icon is for you, bloody brilliant!

What if someone mixed The Sims with ChatGPT bots? It would look like this

I can't let you do that, Dave.

Unlucky for some: Meta chops 13% of global workforce

Re: Zuck and metaverse

The old investment disclaimer comes to mind:

"Past results are no garantuee for the future"

Luxury smartphone brand returns with $41,500 device

Fools, money, parted.

PT Barnum still hasn't been disproven.

The perfect crime – undone by the perfect email backups

Re: ahem...

Two kinds of people:

those that manage what they do not (want to) understand

those that understand what they don't manage

sometimes supplemented by the third kind:

those that don't manage what they don't understand (but collect big consultancy fees for)

Big Tech revenues under threat from EU law proposals

Not to mention being able to drag out paying up for fines (and compliance with regulations) for years -- all the while browbeating both public and politicians into abandoning the rules.

Deere & Co won't give out software and data needed for repairs, watchdog told

Re: Goods vs Services

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b454Q_FvQ2c

Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids

Omni Consumer Products

obivously ....

Things that are not PogChamp: Amazon's Twitch has its source code, streamer payout data leaked

Re: House of cards...

Rather someone pull out the joker card (Google) first.

Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps

Are those two mutually exclusive then ?

Latest Windows 11 Preview a well-rounded update – literally

Re: Needs a better name

It would have to be of at least dogfood quality then.

Evidence not found.

IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO Group successor Xinuos

Ah shit ...

... here we go again.

Break out the popcorn.

Robots that take out your garbage? Oh What A Feeling, says Toyota as it opens its very own smart city

I bet the way citizens will greet each other will be ...

"Hello citizen, be well!"

Beagleboard peeps tease dual-core 64-bit RISC-V computer with GPU, AI acceleration, more for $119

but ....

...will it run Crysis ?

'I'm telling you, I haven't got an iPad!' – Sent from my iPad

Re: Which is why I always turn off email sigs...

I'm fine with sig blocks .... so long as they keep it to the McQuary limit.

Trello! It is me... you locked the door? User warns of single sign-on risk after barring self from own account

CLOUD

Complete

Loss

Of

Uncontrollable

Data

Microsoft picks a side, aims to make the business 'carbon-negative' by 2030

It's nice they plan to be emissions-negative of a beneficial addition to our atmosphere.

Perhaps then it'll be clear what damage they're doing ...

I have no mouth and I must scream: You can add audio to wobbles in latest Windows 10 patch

Re: Windows 10 audio _never_ works properly

Nono, Redmond IS consistent - they still reliably fuck up.

The April 2018 Update is so 1803, snort Windows 10 faithful as more settle down in 1903 town

I wouldn't trust windows10 to run on my doormat, not even letting it near anything secondary OS or better.

Consistency IS a thing in the world of the Microsoft team.

They're still consistently fucking up.

Don't press the red b-... Windows Insiders' rings hit by surprise Microsoft emission

no, it'd have to be full of bullshit, and not even Microsoft can approach Augean levels of that.

Even though they do try.

I think holding off on Win10 until it's stable and properly tested was a stellar choice.

Furious Apple revokes Facebook's enty app cert after Zuck's crew abused it to slurp private data

I'll help Facebook do better!

... bulk erasing one of their servers at a time.

Total Inability To Support User Phones: O2 fries, burning data for 32 million Brits

Related ?

In Japan, SoftBank's mobile network also went down for 4 hours .... allegedly due to Ericcson sfotware going titsup as well ...

(Caught this on NHK World news)

LastPass? More like lost pass. Or where the fsck has it gone pass. Five-hour outage drives netizens bonkers

Moral of the story:

Put nothing in "the cloud"

- that you don't have a certified, current and regularly checked, usable and updated (local) backup of.

- that is too important to lose (for whatever reason)

- that you must have access to at critical moments.

Completely

Lost

Our

Unmissable

Data

;-)

Google vows to take claims of sexual assault, harassment seriously, just like privacy

If Google takes this as serious as they do privacy, I expect many more enraged protests lamenting the problem for a long time to come.

UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections

Erhm ... here in the Netherlands it's been commons for as long as I can remember you have to bring proof of ID (driving licence, passport or ID card) in order to be able to vote ...

Quaint British.

Some of you really don't want Windows 10's April 2018 update on your rigs

Re: Why so traumatic?

Because MS insists on shoveling features they haven't fully tested (if at all) at their hapless victims (otherwise known as "users") in a desperate bid to prove their OS is ready for primetime.

And rather than STOP and fix the mess they made last update (or any of the previous ones), they happily/blissfully move on to the new flavor of the day insisting that this time, they'll get it right!

They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results ... making the institutional mental health of the Microsoft edifice questionable at best, mythical at worst. Take your pick.

Skype Classic headed for the chopping block on September 1

Re: People still use Skype?

Nope not me anymore ... Discord pretty much does everything Skype did for me (and more) -- but with less ads and more convenience.

Forking hell. It's summer, and Windows 10 is already thinking about autumn

That implies there are stable, non-beta builds of Windows10.

Found in the same category as hen's teeth, unicorn farts and honest politicians.

Sysadmin cracked military PC’s security by reading the manual

Re: Only cracking I have done is

"Locks exist to keep honest people honest" - some wise person whose name I forgot.

Have I been paid, Sage? Cloudy wage service locks out users

Cloud:

Complete

Loss

Of

Uncontrollable

Data

Um, excuse me. Do you have clearance to patch that MRI scanner?

obvious solution ...

... don't connect your damn hospital's internal system to the damn internet!

How to stealthily poison neural network chips in the supply chain

Not a new problem ....

So this is just like the infamous "Clipper Chip" brouhaha except it's done on the sly ?

Which? calls for compensation for users hit by Windows 10 woes

Win10 security by inability

"to be fair, Windows 10 has excellent security defences in spite of its faults."

if it doesn't work, you can't get infected by malware either, right ?

(would use BOFH icon if there was one)

How could the Facebook data slurping scandal get worse? Glad you asked

Basically what Facebook is doing ...

...is a China-style crackdown, emphasizing that nobody, and absolutely NOBODY but they themselves gets to spy on their citizens.

The irony of their position is scorching.

Best thing about a smart toilet? You can take your mobile in without polluting it

C|N>K

"integral intestinal jet pack"

GCHQ boss calls out Russia for 'industrial scale disinformation'

Pot, kettle ...

..black.

On an industrial scale.

Five things you need to know about Microsoft's looming Windows 10 Spring Creators Update

I don't know what I'll be using for OS on my next machine ...

....but whatever it will end up being, it will not be any incarnation of this directionless "Windows 10" rolling beta malarkey.

F-35 'incomparable' to Harrier jump jet, top test pilot tells El Reg

of course the F-35 is incomparable to the Harrier

...because the Harrier actually worked and flew.

Least realistic New Year’s resolution ever: Fix Facebook in 365 days

Not as unrealistic as you think ...

...unless of course, it takes more than 365 days to bulk erase Facebook ....

(not entirely sure I'm kidding though)

FBI tells Jo(e) Sixpack to become an expert in IoT security

I am an IoT security expert

...because I know how and where to wield a hammer to smash the damn things, therby preventing any IoT item from becoming a security hazard.

;-)

YouTuber cements head inside microwave oven

It's a good nomination though, although not (yet) worthy of an Award.

US intelligence blabs classified Linux VM to world via leaky S3 silo

CLOUD:

Catastrophic

Loss

Of

Uncontrollable

Data

Windows Update borks elderly printers in typical Patch Tuesday style

Because VueScan's business model relies on them supporting the hardware.

MS's business model relies on locking people in and then pumping out as many useless brittle features people didn't ask for and can't control, all the while only caring that that the customer's computer supports the downloading of the latest version, and the customer's wallet supports paying for it.

American upstart seeks hotshot guinea pig for Concorde-a-like airliner

Hmmm

Interesting how the XB-70 Valkyrie has been completely forgotten.

This was a plane contemporary with (and similarly sized as) both Concorde and the Tu-144 ... yet was capable of cruising at Mach 3.

Only 2 prototypes were ever built, and the 1960's emphasis on ballistic missiles (plus a fatal midair crash on a photo op flight of all things) put an end to the program before it ever had the chance to fully develop.

AFAIK, the second prototype achieved Mach 3.4 on a test flight ...

both planes were turned over to NASA Dryden Flight Research Center where they conclusively proved that sonic booms and population centers were an incredibly poor mixture :D

http://xb70.interceptor.com/ for its intriguing story!

Storms blow away 2017 Solar Challenge field

If the idea is to get these contraptions ready for actual real world use, wouldn't testing them under real world conditions make more sense ?

Which they just ran into. And complained bitterly about.

The Wright Brothers had brass balls of steel to venture into largely unknown territory with things nobody had even tried before. Electric and solar power hass been tried for the better part of 25-30 years and it still doesn't work (and if you believe it does, I'd gleefully remind you of South Australia's ability to keep the lights on), and barring a shift to an absolutist world government decreeing it the winner, it won't (something to do with lack of energy density, overly large dependency on 'just the right' environmental conditions etc)

But I admit, it makes a wonderful festival parade.

"Team Arrow founder Cameron Tuesley explained the conditions that made finishing so difficult this year, saying “we had 40 degree heat, tropical storms, major thunderstorms, severe cross winds, dust constantly, animals all over the road, major trucks, pretty much everything you can throw at something were thrown at us”."

In other words, they had all this icky nasty weather that normal vehicles drive through everyday ?

And that was a problem ?

*walks away laughing*