Posts by Khaptain

A working Turing Machine hits Lego Ideas

Re: No Annoying Music

If you mute the sound, you lose the narrative which is quite interesting.

Elon Musk's X mashed by Australian court for evading child protection reporting

Re: Corporate fines ...

Isn't X running at a loss which would them mean that they are owed monies ??

Re: I'd love to see the Lawyers get some sort of punishment here...

Are you responsable for the sins of your father ?

Is Jack Dorsey not responsable for what happened under his watch ?

Are the users not responsable for the content they upload ?

Should Canon/Sony etc be held responsable for making devices that can record illegal images ?

Should missile manufacturers be held responsable for the death and destruction caused by their products.

It's not a black and white situation.

It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives

Who is the judge ?

Every time that the word "misinformation" is deployed one should immediately ask oneself, who is the Judge ?

Misinformation, at least in my opinion, now seems to mean anything that doesn't agree with whoever's narrative.. Whether that be on the left or the right..

Since most of the media is controlled by the left it is to understand why those on the right are most often targeted.

This is pushing everyone, left and right, to the extremes and nothing good will come of it.

If the narratives don't start calming down we are headed straight for our own societal destruction, there will be no winners on either side, everyone will lose...

US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene

"How about because it's morally and ethically the right thing to do"

That's two of the subjects that Corporations and the Government really don't care about unless they are using them to gaslight electors into believing that they will do things for them.

Re: Yet another way Trump admin fucked the public

"The only thing trump has been successful in is lying, scamming investors and using the financial laws to escape responsibility."

Before you vote , ask yourself this question "What has Harris been successful in ?" Is she capable of leading 350 Million people successfully over the next 4 or 8 years.

Trump wont run again after this election, so at most if he won you would only suffer him for 4 years whereas you might have to suffer Harris for 8 years.

Ever time Harris speaks people within a 5 mile radius fall to the ground due to the cringe factor, her word salads are simply unbearable. At least with Trump you can have a laugh....

Re: Yet another way Trump admin fucked the public

"And BTW I don't misspell Trump because it means "fart" and I appreciate that but you have no real reason to misspell Biden other than your low level of skills in a non-native language."

Spelling mistakes are not what is important here, an intelligent person would simply overlook these rather minor faux pas and move on in life.

Mais, si tu prefer parler en Française , ca me vas. ( Please, don't judge my skills before knowing what they are.)

And btw, I would not vote for Trump or for Harris. I have simply stated that I feel that Harris is going to be far worse than Trump.. Trump is a big mouth but I don't remember any of his policies being particularly bad for the country, certainly no worse that his predecessors.. Harris has no track record of being successful in anything and you think that suddenly she will be capable of leading America, that's simply not reasonable. Harris and Biden have had almost 4 years to make changes, and done almost nothing except spend money they don't have...

What can you possibly imagine that Harris will change in the next 4 years when she has done almost nothing in the last 4 years..

Re: Yet another way Trump admin fucked the public

And what exactly stopped Bien/Harris from doing some kind of Governmental act that opened up the data ?

Who's worse , Trump for signing the agreement or Biden for doing nothing. ?

The real truth is that any sitting president would have signed it because it's always about the money.

The Burden/Harris administration is a catastrophy when it comes to domestic or foreign politics. Word salad is helping no-one. So think before you vote, Trump is bad but Harris is far worse.

Can you imagine Harris negotiating with Putin, Netenyahu or any other intelligent world leader, really ?

America needs to change sometime very soon and get rid of all the people in Govt especially Trump and Biden/Harris.

But, you gets what you vote for...

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Starlink-branded hardware reportedly found amid wreckage of downed Russian drone

Re: Space Karen

" So what exactly is the space Karen playing at? Whatever it is, it's usually for political gain of his mate trump."

I don't understand the point of your remark.

Would it have been acceptable for you if the technology had been built by someone on the democratic side of the balance ?

What usage ?

It would be interesting to know the purpose of using a piece of a Starlink router/access point, or whatever it is exactly, inside a missile ?

Can Starlink equipment actually receive a signal when travelling at several hundreds of KM/h ?

Huawei to dump Windows for PCs in favor of its own HarmonyOS

Re: Sounds like a massive blow to Microsoft to me

Never even heard of it , but effectively it failed, badly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux

Re: Sounds like a massive blow to Microsoft to me

Yup, it will be a major blow if the CCP decide that it is to become the defacto system for anyone wishing to use the banking, medical, voting etc systems.

Huawei are easily capable of making necessary party required changes to a kernel especially when backed by the state. 1st block all Comms then slowly add in the state authorized channels ..

Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals

Re: How come there's no regulation?

https://www.fcc.gov/document/partial-grant-spacex-gen2-application-allow-e-band-operations

Putin really wants Trump back in the White House

Re: Microsoft's threat intelligence team

Definitely not MAGA, and don't use Twitter, or any other of the social media platforms... Try again..

Microsoft's threat intelligence team

"Russia really wants Donald Trump to be the next US President, judging by reports from American government agencies and now Microsoft's threat intelligence team."

Remind us again how Microsoft is just a software company and not just a sidearm for the 3LAs.

So everyone in this group/team is a "Microsoft TIT" , that's nothing to be proud of.

Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure

$100 billion

I wonder how much of the world's poverty could be lifted with $100 billion ? Cure for Cancer ? Finding an alternative to plastic bags and filling up the ocean with filth?

What do we really need all this AI for, is it just corporate greed or is there actually a valid reason ?

Just asking.

New RFC explains how protocol developers can avoid building human rights abuses into the internet

Re: "New IP 'would enable mass surveillance' "

"People do very bad things on the Internet"

And what would be the result of removing anonymity ? Could it be a viable solution..

Anonymity exists for some good reasons, Whistleblowers, political victims etc , and some means needs to be put into place for them, but I presume that it is in the majority abused.

China wants red flags on all AI-generated content posted online

After reading your post a thought came to mind that there will be so much AI in the web one day that no one will eventually go there in order to communicate.

Maybe, and this is a huge maybe, one day people will once again prefer to meet and talk in person once more.

"Of course they want hard attestation. Helps to track down anyone critical of them for shipping to reeducation camp."

We're only a few years behind but closing in fast. I've now seen how people are being arrested in the UK for online posts which don't agree with the current narrative. I don't see that as being any different than what the CCP are doing.

What's important is not the subject, it's just the fact the not agreeing with the narrative has become a crime .. which means that as the narratives change then so do the laws. In other words they will change their narratives to ensure that you have commited a crime as they see fit.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/04/gender-critical-feminist-charged-over-allegedly-transphobic-tweets

Thank you, Reg Readers: On Call has turned 500!

Yes, Thank you

Both of the topics On Call and Who, me are a healthy reminder that we are not alone, fixing, repairing, installing, breaking , twiddling, upgrading , commissioning, decommissioning, swearing, laughing , pulling our hair out a little bit every day.

Been following El Reg since 2008, I've a few more years left before I hang up my mouse and keyboard so I will keep going at least until then .

Cheers El Reg.

Boeing union workers in US reject contract: 96% vote to strike

"So you are working for about 60 percent today of what you were getting paid 5 years ago (buying power"

Where do you live that you have lost 40‰ of your buying power ? Venezuela.

I am not complaining, i'm just making a statement, I have a good salary and I work for a very good company, the last thing I want to see is a union.

But, when I see what Boeings employees are being offered and see that they are turning it down just doesn't make sense to me. 25% is a huge increase for anyone.

"25% over 4 years = 6.25% per year. That's pretty poor."

Cough, cough......

I could only dream about such a pay rise. I got a pay rise this year, the first within the last 5 years, and it represented about 2%.... And I know that I won't be getting that each year for the next four years.

Post-CrowdStrike catastrophe, Microsoft figures moving antivirus out of Windows kernel mode is a good idea

How will AVs function without being in the kernel

I can only imagine that this then means that MS will provide API's rather than direct access and this is not appetizing.

Anyone that has done some assembler and worked with interrupts will know about chaining and hooking, when you are in the kernel you can do both directly , outside of the kernel I don't see how it can be done without APIs and a lot of overheads. When an AV can't do hooks or chains I have no idea how it can control file access or data throughput and still retain the control that it requires to function and immediately stop any suspicous activity.

Also, I believe that outside of the Kernel, third party malware could possibily gain the means to block/stop the AV services.

Will we end up going back to the days when your AV slows your system to a crawl ?

Thanks, Edward Snowden: You propelled China to quantum networking leadership

Re: Not Snowden

what are Americans? the politicians or lawyers everyone hates?

Add in the industrialists, venture capitalist, bankers etc and yes that is the Americans. Why because they are the one making the decisions, the are the ones deciding on the direction and the force behind it. The average American has no say over how his country proceeds.

It's also representative of most, but not all, nations.

Not Snowden

Snowden is not the problem, pride is .

The Americans considered themselves at the forefront of everything for so long that their pride gave way to lackadaisical ignorance.

Never forget that the same amount of intelligent people exist in China too except that their government is pushing to get ahead rather than remaining all high and mighty on its laurels.

America is splitting itself apart, it will very soon become a extremely divided nation. The glue that held it together has been lost by corporate greed and individualism.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change

Recurrence

It's a super initiative, I truly hope that it achievable.

However, how does one educate people to a level where they will no longer use the ocean as a garbage disposal unit ?

It should be a achievable in the 1st world countries , the 2nd and 3rd world present a whole other set of problems.

We were recently in Thailand and as much as it is a beautiful country it appears as though zero effort is made to ask people to not throw plastic and rubbish into the roadside. I would presume that most of the neighbourimg countries are the same. We saw the same thing in Egypt and Morocco.

Is it just a case of financial dynamics or are the rich countries just better at shipping of their shit to other countries.

MI6, CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven enemies

"The Ukraine war has highlighted how technology, when deployed alongside traditional weaponry, "can alter the course of war," according to Moore and Burns."

I often wonder if those at the top of the Military ladder think of war as a king of oxbridge exercise in strategy as opposed to the endless theatre of misery that it must be for those at the bottom?

'Error' causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump

Re: Regardless of your point of view or politics

"But it does show that Ai is a decent judge of character"

No, it only shows that AI can be manipulated. If it was a good judge if character it would tell you things you really wouldn't want to hear.

Re: Regardless of your point of view or politics

"This is nothing. If anyone is seriously looking to a shopping appliance to formulate a political opinion then there are far far more overwhelming issues to deal with."

If we don't teach children to think critically then this can only be expected. And if we choose to teach them less important things instead then one should question what's really going on.

Regardless of your point of view or politics

Everyone should be worried about this. This is not a positive incident when looking into the future.

Telegram apologizes to South Korea and takes down smutty deepfakes

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The software will have legitimate uses as well as illegal ones"

Agreed but without the software no videos can be made.

The videos makers could be forced to add watermarks, certificates , add some steganography. Legitimate users would probably welcome the idea.

"So in fact it's often difficult or even impossible to go after the actual creator."

If you can be tracked through the Onion ( TOR), you can defiantly be tracked through Telegram.

"Especially when it comes to crime-centric social media groups"

That would be considered as organised crime, a far more serious offense than simply posting Fake Porn videos. It would make sense to track these people down.

In that case why not go after the creator of the fake porn or the published of the article ?.

Taking posts down doesn't stop new ones being created.

"As detailed by Human Rights Watch, "South Korea faces an epidemic of digital sex crimes, hundreds of women and girls targeted through deepfake sexual images being shared online." "

Why are the makers of the Deep Fake software not being held responsable ? Surely they should have been the 1st bunch people to have action taken against. Deep Fake software doesn't have much purpose other than for these kind's of idiotic acts.

Veeam debuts its Proxmox backup tool – and reveals outfit using it to quit VMware

Proxmox is now undergoing tests in order to establish if it's ready or not as our next platform...

We truly hope that it is Enterprise ready.. We have 3 years, due to recent purchases and bean counting necessities, before us so that's gives us plenty of time.

France charges Telegram CEO with multiple crimes

Re: "It looks like he didn't comply"

"Because when you report those accounts, they remove the offending material and ban those users."

And that changes what exactly except for wasting police resources. ( If the police are even involved")

Here are 2 examples 1 for France and 1 for Switzerland. ( You have to read French or translate using Google)

France

Switzerland

Both of these sites are extremely mainstream media sites. So lets not pretend that no-one knows, or that the police are unaware, or even that they are doing anything about it.. It's rife, everyone knows it, yet no-one seems to care. And I can easily go back and find articles from 2021.

The governments don't actually care about drugs, or CSAM, it's a scam to lull you into false belief that you are being taken care of. It's never been so rampant.

The truth is that the Governments are helpless, they have no idea at all how to stop what's happening on the web.

"It looks like he didn't comply"

Drugs are being sold openly on TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram etc So why are the Governments doing nothing to stop them too. It literally takes 5 minutes to find, select and pay for almost anything you want on these platforms and nothing is being done about it. Telegram is doing nothing that these other platforms are not already doing openly..

So what's the real take :

"It looks like he didn't comply"

The very heart and soul of the matter lies here, comply or be sent down like a scurvy dog.

Facebook whistleblower calls for transparency in social media, AI

Re: Kitemark

1) Teach critical thinking in schools

It seems to me that a preference to teach a whole load of nonsense subjects that only ensure the student remains as dumb at the entry as they will be at the exit.

It's almost as though someone very high up prefers to keep the "educated" at an extremely low level of critical thought.

Re: nobody ever dares interfere with big (domestic) websites

"On that point, I really do think we should follow China's example and just throw Zuckerberg in jail for three months"

Unfortunately that wouldn't change the nasty bastards that use the web for all the wrong things. I am more for bringing back capital punishment for the CSAM and Fentanyl pushers.

Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum

Re: "police declined to pursue the matter"

"Insure your bikes and don't leave them in places where they're easy to steal."

Please read the Insurance Policies thoroughly before going down that path.

Some of them will insure you but only recompense if the theft was at home, you insurance might not cover theft from a public location.

I had a look at some of the nicer electric bikes and then had a look at the quantity that are stolen here everyday, no thanks, it will probably disappear in less than a month

Telegram founder and CEO arrested in France

Re: I hope Musk travels to France

Be very careful about what you are wishing for.

Ok , Musk first and then who Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg.

I don't particularly care for any of these people but they are providing servicers which I can use quite freely. If any govt or 3LA starts cracking down on what can and cannot be said then we are heading straight for a dictatorship, and no-one wants to live through that.

It's one thing to be ideological but one has to remember that that very ideology will eventually be used against you by those at the top.

If Durov is being held responsable for the actions of Telegrams users, then should God/The Pope be held responsable for the actions of their followers. Should Bill Gates be help responsable for the platform on which Telegram can run, should Linus Torvalds be held responsable for Kali and the possibility that we can hide our actions ?

Be very, very careful, you will get bitten very hard for what you are wishing for. There is no end to the madness to which you aspire, it will only end in a lose/lose situation for all.

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

You can always do a CTRL+C in the Explorer window path and then do a Right click in the CLI

That should have read

“so we do NOT benefit from the larger suite of tools like SCCM“

You guys must be living in hell if you're doing all that kind 9f shit time and time again.

For crying our loud we have GPOs , roaming profiles, users with at least a minimum of intelligence, user guides , you can use key users, group leaders but you still prefer to do it yourselves. That's just plain idiotic.

The golden rule in IT is never repeat a task that can be done automatically. Or, no one is lazier than an IT because they can script or perform minor magic tricks that don't involve having to do it oneself.

I can't even begin to imagine how you are rolling out certificates, radius authentication, WiFi connexions , téléphonie configs, updates , new machine installs , user rights on shared malboxes, auto install shared mailboxes etc. The list goes on and on but you guys are doing basic shit like manually.

Do you even know what PowerShell, Batch Scripts , Intunes, GPOs do ? And we are a small outfit so we do benefit from the larger suite of tools like SCCM , if that still exists.

Think again ....

LOL, you've obviously never worked in support :-)

You couldn't be further from the truth.

"Presumably because they want to reset them to the previous values once done, so as not to confuse people with sudden change?"

And what could possibly justify doing that several times a week ? What work is someone doing that requires un-hiding, then un-hiding file extensions/hidden files several times a week.

I can understand doing it once or twice a year on specific occasions, but several times per week just doesn't sound correct.

It's one of those options that you set and never change. Any why is support not teaching their users how to do it for themselves. What a waste of supports time doing those silly tasks.

Why the thumbs down and no replies , outside of the little orthographic error ?

I am quite happy to learn how you are all doing things if it's not through GPOs, scripting or similar. I really don't believe that anyone is clicking "users options" as part of their daily support when far easier methods have been available since AD/GPOs existed.

Either that or you are in some very tight companies or start-ups that don't want to pay for training/experience.

Linux Deepin 23: A polished distro from China that Western desktops could learn from

Looks good but

"You might not want to run a Chinese OS on your own PC"

Correct , very correct. Unless someone spends a lot of time analysing all the incoming/outgoing traffic.

It would be nice to see a nice European version of the same as it definitely looks very nice.