Posts by beast666

US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties

The gravy train has hit the buffers.

EU tells US scientists to dump Trump for a lab in Europe

Re: Don't forget the non-monetary advantages

Lol. Wikipedia.

You better wake your ass up.

Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us

The anti-EU picture for this article is interesting...

X marks the drop for European users

Re: Just wanted to delete my account

How stunning.

How brave.

TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech

Thomas Massie is awesome.

State Dept reorg could harm US in tech battle with China

At least the massive USAID corruption got addressed.

DOGE may help Elon Musk's biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe

Yay for Elon!

Satellite slinger AST reckons newer birds won't outshine stars in night sky

Hope the NSF director didn't let the door hit him on the way out.

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline

No, generation IS the issue.

As you point out it is the unreliable, intermittent, non-dispatchable generation like solar and wind that is unsuitable for decent civilisation.

I wasn't joking.

You have explained what I was getting at. I couldn't be bothered to explain further to the dumb masses here...

Probable cause being the surge in unwanted and unreliable solar power being fed into the grid around local noon. Bring back coal fired power stations.

EU Chips Act heading for failure, time for Chips Act 2.0

The EU is not fit for purpose.

Rumour has it that Ursula will resign soon - That won't fix the undemocratic totalitarian mess though.

Back online after 'catastrophic' attack, 4chan says it's too broke for good IT

That'll be Bluesoy.

No rest for the rocketry as NASA's Easter weekend heats up

Scrap the ISS.

Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts

"We're also terminating, on the DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] front, 11 more contracts for DEI, climate, COVID-19 response, and related non-essential activities across the department," Hegseth said.

Sounds great!

MAGA

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

Please Mr President we can't take it anymore, laughing at the deluded masses. Have mercy.

Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox

If you dislike advertising, use Brave. Simples. Good for Zorin.

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

The EU is not fit for purpose.

Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block

If Intel were to offer SKUs without any NPU nonsense whatsoever they would be instant top-sellers.

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

Pi-hole doesn't block YouTube ads nor does it blocks ads served over the mobile network or when you are on friends or family's WiFi.

This makes it useless compared to simply using Brave on desktop and mobile (and not using the YT app obviously.)

Winning.

Trump says US should kill CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt

Re: Sooo

The winning is so much it hurts. Please Mr. President have mercy.

Firefox 136 finally brings the features that fans wanted

Brave doesn't need the uBlock Origin extension to block all adds so is resistant to the manifest version change.

C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'

Bjarne is correct, we need someone to free us from the Rust scourge.

uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

Re: uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

You don't need an extension for Brave to block all ads.

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

Re: Cale here for the comments

I agree bigly.

Probably we differ on who they are though.

Winning.

Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

"...exposing our sensitive information to potentially hostile foreign regulators,”

100% this.

Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027

Re: Musk has called for the International Space Station (ISS) to be deorbited as soon as possible

Please, please. It's too much winning.

We can't take it anymore.

Mr. President, it's too much.

ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics

Doomscrolling is over.

For just over month now it has been replaced by pure joyscrolling.

Thanks Elon. Thanks Donald!

Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code, says its rise is inevitable

The enshitification of Linux commences.

Looks like paywalls are coming soon to a subreddit near you

What could possibly go Wong?

Have I Been Pwned likely to ban resellers from buying subs, citing 'sh*tty behavior' and onerous support requests

The answer almost all commentards will receive from HIBP is a resounding YES! Lol

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

Re: Next Trump executive orders

Panama Canal --> Panamaga Canal

#winning

Boeing warns SLS staff that job cuts could be on the way

This deserves a recursive acronym.

So Long SLS

T-Mobile goes live with beta of satellite phone service for the US

Thank you Elon.

I hope we'll be able to utilise your genius for making mobile calls etc in the UK soon.

Judge says US Treasury ‘more vulnerable to hacking’ since Trump let the DOGE out

Re: WAS hacked

Beware the MIBs. Lol

Re: Protection racket

China has the world's largest economy.

2nd is USA

3rd is India

4th is Russia.

All by PPP. Check the IMF, World Bank, CIA etc etc.

US news org still struggling to print papers a week after 'cybersecurity event'

The USAID money probably dried up. Lol

Huawei revenue growing fast, suggesting China's scoffing at sanctions

Funny how sanctioned economies - China and Russia - are powering ahead of economies in the West.

Maybe they should rethink the sanctions?

Does DOGE have what it takes to actually tackle billions in US govt IT spending?

Re: We're fucked

#winning

Re: "Any return at all seen directly in the US, is merely a side effect."

LOL!

Google, Newsweek and NBC.

You'll be giving us links to The Guardian, BBC and The New York Times next.

ROFLMAO!

Re: "Any return at all seen directly in the US, is merely a side effect."

The thumbs down come from the impotent seething and coping from Libtards who are seeing their fake worldview shatter around them like a cheap vase.

Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out

Re: I’m very environmentally minded

You have no idea how oil and gas are made.

Good.

More winning.

New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned

Re: I miss Rogo. At least he had some balls!* /s

Take your fascist Banderite slogans elsewhere please.

I bet you are the sort of idiot that complained about Professor Musk's throwing-hearts action too.

Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov

Re: Check out reddit

Lol. There are no Trump voters on Reddit - You've been fooled again.

Re: "You're driving towards a wall!" "No I'm not!" *smash*

Yes, join the BRICS+ community.

The EU is collapsing.

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

Make Linux Great Again.

Deport the Rust.

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

I hope Emperor Trump and Professor Musk do something about the fascist two-tier Starmer and his corrupt and incompetent cronies before they do any more damage to Blighty.

DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims

NGO’s spared no excess,

In funding left woke and left press,

And any DEI project,

Tax dollars no object,

All paid from USAID largesse.

Winning.