Posts by RPF

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

Re: Build your own planes domestically

Jaguar was originally designed as a trainer, unbelievably.

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

I remove all AI (and many other undesirables) from Win 10 and Win 11 with Winhance:

https://github.com/memstechtips/Winhance

Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir

Re: First hand knowledge

More like you didn't have a big fat brown envelope, or a Swiss bank account.

Re: We should be decoupling from US Tech giants

Risks can be insured.

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue

Re: "a large US-based aircraft company"

You cannot read instructions that aren't there.

HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations

Re: Don't Use Apps

Or even better: https://use-their-id.com/

Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers

O_ne

R_aging

A_rsehole

C_alled

L_arry

E_llison

Yep name still checks out.

Apple goes all in on AI acceleration with M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros

Re: Arvfifi hole invfefe gents?

Yes, he only needs one more grope and he'll make it to 20 women who have officially accused him of rape (and that includes Melania, btw)...... what a guy!

Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL

Re: Can someone remind me ...

Exactly this. The industry has to look itself in the mirror and ask: why ARE we so bad at upgrading?

Californian man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he's suing Microsoft

*Cough* Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC *Cough* About $15 *Cough*

Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers

Re: get off the internet

Is that you Alex (Jones)?

Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network

Re: 10TB of backup files

You do know the Kremlin can no longer afford the potatoes it normally pays you, right?

Also: you appear to have run out of your medicine.

Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet

No way that's going to happen. They got to pay for all the grifters running the .org

UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers

Close, but "knickers" or "BIF" (bomb in face) means dropping any free-fall ordinance into the chasing aircraft's path, not nukes in particular.

At low level (the only place knickers worked) dropping a nuke would be suicidal; the aim was to be many miles away when it went off.

Ex-CISA employee: 'This culture of fear started permeating the agency'

Orders from his puppet-master in the Kremlin.

Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all – at least for consumers

Re: Maintaining passkeys

No idea why anyone would down-vote your comment.

Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances

Re: fluctuat nec mergitur⁽¹⁾ ...

"unlike the millions of "ordinary" Americans who have been hording weapons ostensibly against the return of a King and yet FACILITATED his arrival."

Re: It is so refreshing and hopeful to see some people with integrity and a backbone.

Luckily our forefathers didn't subscribe to such weak pessimism 80 years ago.

EU lands 25% counter tariff punch on US, Trump pauses broad import levy hike – China excepted

Re: Trump blinked

Would make the current debt look like a blip and be unaffordable. Also no-one would ever buy T-bonds again and reserve-currency status would be under serious threat.

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

Re: MAWA

Make America Gormless Again, more like.

OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts

Re: Idiocracy was a documentary

Especially if it's Fox.

Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords

Re: Vivaldi uses Chromium

Trying it out and it seems very quick and very easy to customise. Like the integrated mail, calendar and feeds, too. Have made it my default.

With millions upon millions of victims, scale of unstoppable info-stealer malware laid bare

Any news on the malware? How to detect/kill it?

Intel losses hit $16.6B in Q3 and Wall Street is … loving it?

Yep, but the CFO keeps his job, while 15,000 get laid off. Standard corporate amorality.

China's top messaging app WeChat banned from Hong Kong government computers

What they actually mean

FIFY:

"Although various government departments have deployed multiple cyber snooping measures, the use of end-to-end encryption technology in services such as personal webmail, public cloud storage and instant messaging may circumvent such measures and make it impossible for us to snoop", it explained.

Feature phones all the rage as parents try to shield kids from harm

Re: Why place physical limits when virtual limits will do

Kids need to buy airline tickets from their phones?

Amazon, Tesla, Meta considered harmful to democracy

Re: The Union makes us strong!

Corporate lackeys spotted down-voting your comment!

Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union

Speed limits are for safety reasons?

The fundamental principle this is based on is that speed limits are set for reasons of safety.

Here's some news (from a Police Chief Inspector, by the way: in the UK, the lower the speed limit of a road, the LOWER THE STANDARDS OF MAINTENANCE needed.

There are no hard-and-fast rules on speed limits and safety; it is completely arbitrary. However, the maintenance requirements (and the savings thereof) have a huge bearing on the limits set by the authorities.

So lower speed limits are not about saving lives; they are about saving money.

Command senior chief busted for secretly setting up Wi-Fi on US Navy combat ship

Re: Should be given a medal

What an utterly bonkers thing to say.

Google to push ahead with Chrome's ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest

Deliberate pun? "Ad the link"?

Tesla slams advisors for not loving Musk's $44.9B payout

Tye 1860s may have been racist, but this has nothing to do with racism. Just because Elon is a rich white guy, that does not automatically make this racist. That is just a nasty little insinuation.

So you've built the best tablet, Apple. Show us why it matters

Re: Best Tablet?

Read some reviews on the TCL Nxtpaper 11 and it seems to be extremely average.

A Chinese crypto farm next to a nuclear missile base? Not on my watch, says Biden

Re: Says Biden?

The President who isn't a convicted rapist, defamer and soon-to-be jailbird, you mean?

Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable

Re: That was my thought, too.

1 Rouble for you, comrade.

UK Civil Aviation Authority ponders vertiports for flying taxis

Re: Re:Going point to point

Deeply ironic that a glider pilot should complain about other traffic encroaching "their" airspace, when sites like Dunkeswell deliberately infringe EGTE approach path all the time *serious risk to airliners). Most glider pilots are in the "know just enough to be dangerous" bracket.

Women in IT are on a 283-year march to parity, BCS warns

Or brick-layers (99% male), or electricians (97% male)......

Or male models getting around 50% of their female counterparts.

Funny how you rarely hear women up in arms about all those facts.

UK will be HQ for high-flying next-gen fighter jet treaty with Italy, Japan

Re: Still fighting the last war

Just because drones have proven effective in some roles, that does not mean manned fighters are a waste of money. There isn't a drone around that could take out a Bear turbo-prop bomber, let alone an Su-23 or even Su-31.

Surprise! Email from personal.
[e-mail] is not going to contain good news

Re: BTC price

Bitcoin is designed not to do that, which is why crims love it.

How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators

Re: Re-purposing Already Happening

Despite the downvotes, you are correct. 98.27% of electricians in the UK are male.

https://careersmart.org.uk/occupations/equality/which-jobs-do-men-and-women-do-occupational-breakdown-gender

Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch

I cannot even being to imagine the regulatory headaches - never mind the technical ones - of bringing in a passenger service like this. I get the feeling Stratolaunch have no idea what they're getting into in that regard.

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

Re: I'm actually on Musk's side on this

Don't be so naive. Every company gets the union it deserves.

If the company was run reasonably, there's no way people could be "forced" to pay their own hard-earned money to subscribing to a union they didn't want.

As for Musk not liking organised labour, that's a very strong cue that he has no idea of the positive outcomes achievable by working with a union (making his workforce happier, more motivated, etc.).

UK immigration rules hit science just as it rejoins €100B Horizon program

Re: Crabs

Correct.

The UK economy as a whole needs to wean itself off cheap labour. Manual farm-labourers, cheap coffee-shops and cheap foreign-sourced scientists or health-care workers are not going to move the UK forward as an advanced economy.

In this case, home-grown post-doctorate researchers will just have to be paid a fair wage, which is absolutely not a bad thing!

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

Re: Delusional narcissist

Thing is though, you're claiming MM don't have a right to "free speech"; only you and Musk do.

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

Librewolf user here; happily not affected by this as of yet.

Also to those affected, there are some good YT videos on how to get around this, hilariously.

Apple might have to pay that €13B EU tax bill after all

Re: Simple

Hong Kong's tax code is amazingly simple, isn't it? Also, Hong Kong government is very rich. Sceptics might think our tax code is labyrinthine for a reason.

Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable

I know several companies where all employees use Apple hardware. UX companies.

You can now install Linux on even M1 Apples. You can install Linux and Windows on older x86-chip ones, too.

TaxWatch finds astute scheme minimizes Big Tech's UK tax bill by over $2B

Re: Amazon misleading!

VERY misleading. Zero corporation tax in the UK 2 years running....on a turn-over of billions.

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

Re: Taken in bits it need not be too soul destroying

https://bgr.com/tech/app-privacy-labels-facebook-messenger-vs-imessge-signal-whatsapp/

Meta's Oversight Board wants a prime minister banned from Facebook and Instagram

Re: "quit Facebook and said he may block the service in Cambodia"

Hun Sen is Cambodia's Putin.