Posts by cookieMonster

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

Re: Group policy

All this just to use a monitor, and I can’t fucking believe I’m about to write the next bit, securely, on windows. FTActualF.

New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation

Re: First Post from New Horizons .....

We used to get tasks such as count the “yellow cars” or how many “buses can we see” for 30 mins etc. or the first one to spot a cow etc etc. good times.

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Re: Fucking idiots

Why not use an app, The BRAKE App, make it available for iOS and Android (latest models only), connect via Bluetooth

Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft

It’s fucking hilarious hearing this shit from microslop, but not surprising.

France probes compromise of gov messaging platform after account hijack

What’s the word I’m looking for???

Oh yeah, Merde !!!

Anthropic, now atop the AI bubble, files for its IPO

Re: It would be a shame if something went wrong for them today

That’s EXACTLY what happened, check their stats page

UK copper fired after faking keyboard taps using photo frame

Performance measurement

A loooong time ago in an IT career far far away some fucking H fucking R drone decided that a good measure of our productivity was how many source code check-ins we made to SourceSafe (yes, it’s really that long ago). So in typical out of the box thinking I wrote, tested and documented the code, then checked it in bit by bit, instead of a single check-in I did it in 5 or 6 stages. My performance reviews were great.

Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost

Re: 2028 sounds like a death sentence for Hubble

Oooh, given the chance I’m not sure… that’s a real difficult choice

Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia

Typical American Bullshit

“we will ensure any who attempt to profit at our nation's expense face the full weight of the criminal justice system.*”

* Terms & Conditions apply.

O say, can you see: FCC pushes patriotic programming for US 250th

If they keep their noses clean, about 500 years, give or take a decade or so

Artemis II headed back to the bay; helium issues force another delay

Re: Made in China?

At this rate China will be on the moon before the US

'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation

Re: Google Colab?

Same here, run it in a docker container, thus avoiding the Python env hellscape. Works great, always available and always local

Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution

Ha ha ha ha ha

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Fucking muppets

Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on third party

Wow

They still around?, that’s the surprise from this story.

AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say

Can’t wait for the Who Me? On this one

Wonder if “frick” reads the reg??

Curse of AI to push up PC prices as memory and CPU shortages bite

Re: Toast

Probably not, but your subscription to run it probably will

US Army looks for robots that can clean up chemical and bioweapons messes

Pint for you sir

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

This is nothing more than firewalling

These two are the future heads to roll, he’s hired two chumps who will take the fall to protect himself and his idiot cronies currently running what can only be described as a shitshow

'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP

I’m not qualified to enter into a detailed discussion on this topic, but here in France a large number of wine producers are installing solar panels in their vineyards. The are two benefits in doing this, they sell the generated electricity thus subsidising their income and also have a protective shield for their crops when the hail storms come, thus reducing the damage to the crops. How effective this is I’m unsure off, but it’s a thing down here now.

Pint icon as there’s no glass of wine icon.

Azure outages ripple across multiple dependent Microsoft services

Re: Ha ha….

I’m joining in……

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Use the cloud they said

It’s cheaper they said

It’s resilient they said

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Tesla Full Self Driving subscription to rise alongside its capabilities

We’ll have fusion working economically before Tesla have real FSD

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

Re: Move along there. Nothing new to see

Thumbs up for MicroSlop

Cop cops it after Copilot cops out: West Midlands Police chief quits over AI hallucination

Re: Wadda Crock!

Now THAT’S a headline we would have seen in the past, kinda miss the old days.

Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services

Re: Europe needs to follow suit

It couldn’t be any worse

Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data

Re: Darn, they must read El Reg.

Try “password” or “123456789”

Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first

Re: A secret cloaking device made out of gold?

Here’s mine

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

I guess my current email address may cause problems

[e-mail]

'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole

Re: WWW != Internet

Yet

Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer

RetroPad

Dave Plummer released a video on his YouTube channel last night, where he got an Ai to write a version of notepad without the shit MS had added, source is open and on GitHub

Microsoft wedges tables into Notepad for some reason

What’s the point

Seriously, what’s the f€&@ing point of this?

Avalonia brings Linux, browser support to Microsoft's MAUI cross-platform app solution

Xojo

Not connected with the company, but I have used this for small personal projects on Linux. It is cross platform, might be worth looking into. The Linux version does (or did when I used it) allow you to build binaries, other platforms require a license.

YMMV

Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut

sendmail.cf

Can confirm, naively attempted modifying this file as a know it all teenager.

A very humbling experience. Got it working, eventually, but never told anyone, in case I was ever asked to look at sendmail again.

VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong

Bravo

And merci Mr. Kempf

China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Captain

There are Klingons on the Starboard bow

Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit

Absolutely brilliant

The old spirit of sheds and boffins is alive and well, there’s still hope for the world.

New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails

Re: The only thing I find odd about this story

From experience these are the worse types. Not good enough to do the actual work professionally, but have enough information to think that they can.

Microsoft suggests temporary registry hack for stricken smart card users

Broken, by design

Sums up the windows experience perfectly.

Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode

Re: The icing on the cake ...

Microsoft engineer: Hold my beer

Kicked from RubyGems, maintainers forge new home at Gem Cooperative

FAFO

Open source 1, VCs 0

Pentagon ends Microsoft's use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud

Ha ha ha ha

FFS !!!

I just cannot comprehend the level of stupidity that must be everywhere in that company

Google yet to take down 'screenshot-grabbing' Chrome VPN extension

Re: Big Brother is always watching

Pedantic. I approve :-)

Space industry frets as UKSA set for bureaucratic re-entry

This guy is perfect

From Wikipedia

Born in Cardiff, Bryant was privately educated at Cheltenham College before studying English at Mansfield College, Oxford. After graduating with a further degree in theology, he worked as a Church of England priest, as well as having roles at the BBC and Common Purpose. He was elected for Rhondda at the 2001 general election.

Watch out USA & China, England is serious about space

FFS !!!!

Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them

Re: Questions will be asked.

See icon

How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier

Re: Daleks

Very good, have a pint

Microsoft bolts Copilot Mode onto Edge to chase AI-browser crowd

What actually happened

“It looks like it'll be a sunny 98 degrees so I've booked paddleboarding next Wednesday at 6pm.”

Amazon Prime (it subscribed you) delivers a sex toy to your sister (it got the address from your contacts), as it’s her birthday next Wednesday and also orders 98 mouse traps as your video search for Mickey Mouse in your history indicates you’ve a mouse problem.

Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything

I made a ton of money off the back of Y2K, I don’t think I’ll be making any money off of the next panic though.

Anyway, to not actually quote HGTTG, so long and thanks for all the cash.

As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out

Re: try the real world

A simpleton implements a database in Excel.

Former and current Microsofties react to the latest round of layoffs

Re: Micro shafted

Wish I could upvote this more.

You are spot on.

AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all

For a moment there I thought you were describing Donald Trump.