Posts by Steve Davies 3

Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%

Who wants to risk going to Trumpistan

while he is runinig the show?

You might end up in El Salvador with a shaved head and gone forever without due process.

The risk is far too great for anyone who isn't a MAGA faithful.

AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge

If AWS want Nuclear power then

for their AI DC, they can pay for it. Otherwise FSCK OFF.

AI is a bubble that will burst in 12-18 months. People will get fed up with the shite coming out of the LLM's

Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI

You will be able to tell if it is a Trump voice

as it will not utter a blatant lie in every sentence. Everything will still be Joe Biden's fault but that's Trump through and through.

Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb

Re: The only power META understand is money - so stop the flow

Give META and all other (Anti)-social media platforms the big finger.

Stop using them AND block all Meta owned IP addresses from your devices. You know it makes sense.

Do it NOW!

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

If the USAF had any sense...

They'd get the plane, paint it grey and let it rot in the Arizona Desert alongside a get thousand other aircraft. Park it, take the engines off and gut the interior.

Chump will never think to look there. As long as there is no gold inside, he will be blind.

Failing that, I'm sure a wayward missile from an F-35 would save the taxpayers a lot of $$$$. Doge? Where are you when you are needed?

Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull, middle managers first in line

Coming soon...

20%-30% price rises across the board.

They have to keep Wall St happy especially when Dear Leader is doing his best to tank the world economy but expectations have to be met every 90 days otherwise C-Level heads will roll and they can't have that now can we?

OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release

Re: Brown screen of death?

As the shit hits the fan and covers the whole of Redmond in smelly shite.

Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests

Tom Cotton?

Typical of someone who simply does not have a clue about technology. He's just like the rest of Trumpian lawmakers.

I'm surprised that he didn't suggest putting 1000% tariffs on all of them.

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

Tariffs galore

on almost everything but Herr Trumpf will struggle to put 100% (or more) tariffs on software moved over the internet unless he cuts the USA off from the rest of the world.

Doing that will cause huge ptroblems for people and business but it will adapt to avoid the USA.

Re: moved to Linux

One big step for you, one small step away from MS.

W12 could very well be the tipping point for a lot of users. More perfectly capable PC's destined for landfill/recycling if the WinTel cartel is anything to go by. Just repurpose it and run Linux.

Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington

Re: SCOTUS

The Orange Jesus said recently that he 'Did not know' if he had to obey the rulings of SCOTUS.

His 'I Don't Know' response showed just how demented he is.

I suspect that his next move will be to arrest all 9 judges on SCOTUS on charges of treason, suspend the constitution and declare Martial Law. That way, the elections this year, next year and 2028 will be cancelled. He promised that 'I only need your vote this once. After, it will be fixed'.

Re: largest contributor

Wasn't that Elongated Muskrat with his $250M bribe?

Once upon a time, he would have supported this sueball what with him owning a plant that makes solar stuff... but now? Forget it. His DOGY crew will be busy digging up dirt on the AG's so that the Orange Pope can sling it all back at them.

Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills

Re: why not just build a foundry in the USA and sell chips?

Doh!

Biden (when he wasn't sleeping) got the Chips Act passed into Law. TSMC are (or were the last I heard) building a FAB in Arizona. Totally the wrong place if you ask me due to the water shortage... but they were.

Now that the Orange Jesus has take almost as bad a dislike to the EU as he has for China, those cutting edge machines to make the wafers are going to cost an awful lot more to import. That might dissuade TSMC from going ahead with the project. The laws of unintended consequences and all that but that is way beyond the understanding of Donald 'I know more about everything than anyone ever' Trump does not have the brain to understand that. Why? There is nothing in it for him personally. Pure and simple.

So, BombasticBob, what is the plan if Tariffs won't matter much? Remember, he's tariffing nations that did not have a trade surplus with the USA AND ones where Trump 1.0 negotiated a trade deal with last time around.

Please tell us this cunning plan. Every day, Trump comes up with more wild ideas that really do remind many of us with Baldrick.

Chris Krebs loses Global Entry membership amid Trump feud

Re: even worse than that

When Mr Garcia is returned, he has a slam-dunk defamation case against everyone from Trump down. One commentator was talking $500M just from Donald alone. That's probably why they don't want him back.

Bondi is in deep do-do for publicising the address of his wife and children. All in all, it is one big Cock-up and just what the world has come to expect from Donald 'I know more about everything than anyone who has ever lived' Trump.

Time to leave Mr Krebbs

Donald 'Thin Skin' Trump won't stop until you are in Gitmo/Rwanda or somewhere worse.

He hates people telling the truth. He surrounds himself with useless 'Yes Men' (very few women in Trump's cabinet compared to Biden's) who will never tell him 'Sorry sir, you are wrong'.

This is evidenced by him saying that his lawyers told him that he won the Garcia case in front of SCOTUS 9-0 when he lost if 9-0. He refused (in a recent interview) to accept that his lawyers were telling him what he wanted to hear rather than the truth.

The sooner he is confined to Mar-A-Lago for life and a 30ft razor wire fence installed around it to keep him inside the better.

Thunderbird joins Firefox on the monthly treadmill

re: Verification

This:-

When I set up a new account in *MY* domain, I do not want you to ask for a mobile number to 'verify' the account I have just set up, thank you..

Is a sad fact of life these days. That's why I have 512 extra email addresses on my domain. I use a new one them for this sort of crap. Helps you find out who has wonky security/leaks but this whole verification thing using mobiles is a PITA. Lose the phone (aka having it stolen) and you are in deep, deep shit as you try to recover your life. IMHO, using email on your phone only makes identity theft so much easier.

Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

Re: I'e already said this

Why wait for retirement? Do it now so it will all be up and running on the day that you call it time on your job.

I gave windows the middle finger for personal use in 2008 but didn't retire until 2016. While I use Linux for many things, I use a MacBook with MacOS as my daily workhorse.

Windows is now a distant memory for me and given the regular reports here on the never ending shit show that MS is determined to turn it into, I don't regret it one little bit.

Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%

Legal Requirements?

Well, the forthcoming Trump/Musk engineered recession would be a great time for businesses to file for Chapter 11, restructure with a new but very similar name and then give the finger to Elon.

Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims

You clearly forgot

making the MAGA hats that following yet another presidential exec order, will be made compulsory for everyone 24/7.

America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired

Re: The UK court accepts the existence of women now ?

Whereas in the USA and according to the current Government's list of approved words (that ban the use of Trans anything) WOMAN or WOMEN is not allowed. MAN and MALE is.

This is clearly the prelude to 'A Handmaids Tale' society being introduced by Stephen 'Goebbels' Miller.

Re: IYou know the environment? It's that thing that surrounds you.

Yeah, that same thing that was managed by the EPA that Trump has just removed all rules and regulations on it in one horrible signature of an Executive Order.

Trump has just given the green light to pollute everything in the USA in search of the $$$$.

Those researchers will find plenty of new areas to investigate and problems that need solving

Oh, and watch out for more animal species in the USA going extinct. The rules protecting them have gone just like all the EPA ones.

Re: It's an opportunity

France has already rolled out the red carpet to welcome them. Other countries will follow suit.

Trump wants the USA dumbed down? The rest of the world will say thank you.

So much damage in such a short time by so few.

That will go down in History.

Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234

Re: we don't have the budget"

Even less after DOGY have been and crapped all over the department for no good reason.

Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure

Re: Where are those WWII profiteering laws when we need them?

Totally irrelevant when a big wad of cash has possibly made its way to Trump's bank account.

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

Doh!

The Dalek's used to say

"Obey! Obey or you will be exterminated!"

followed by

"Exterminate.... Exterminate.... Exterminate"

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

The USA... Well specifically Trump

has done this because he is an idiot who does not know how the world economy works.

The drop off in Tourists going to Truimpistan is going to hit places like Florida and Vegas. The latter, by all reports is more dead than alive.

With businesses now avoiding the USA for travel and now cloud services... Good. Hit Trumpistan in the wallet. $$$ is the only thing that Trump worships.

Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze

Re: But they’ll never (need) to do it again

Errr.... His people are already working on ways to allow him to run again in 2028 and 2032 and 2036. Listen to Steve Bannon. He is supremely confident of Trump winning again in 2028.

Trump/MAGA has already shown pure contempt for the Constitution.

Re: You only need to look at Ukraine

Don't you mean Russia? You know, the evil empire that started the war or do you believe Trump when he says that it was Zelinski?

Re: PCs will be exempt from Trump's tariffs

His Trade Sec said to the press that NOTHING will escape a tariff of some sort and that includes PC's.

What a shit show of fools running the US Asylum we have.

Trump's new book (ghostwriten naturally)

The art of the Steal

Subtitled

How I Bankrupted the world's biggest economy inside a year.

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

Or...

Is this MS saying to you

STOP using MacOS, it is inferior in every way to the almighty and perfect Windows 11... (Tongue in cheek)

You will come to love Patch Tuesdays... Honest.

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

re: Chris Krebs

Whose only crime as I see it was to say that the 2020 election was the most secure ever is now under threat of 'Trump's Retribution' as President 'Thin Skin' is still griping about that election.

If some of the statements coming out of Trump's Reichstag are to be believed, then Mr Krebs might be the first US Citizen to be sent to El Salvador without 'due process' or if there is any, it will be done in secret and Drumpf does not want his dirty linen being exposed to the great unwashed MAGA cult.

Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy

8.5 years post Windows.

With no regrets whatsoever.

MS can faff around all they like and for people like me, it provides endless entertainment that is also tinged with sadness at all those who have tied their IT life to the MS Mast.

The redmond crew seem to be spending more time fiddling while rome burns recently and ignoring their customers.

I look back at the years I spent fighting the Windows Weirdness and can smile. What is not so funny is their total lack of quality control over their patches.

A long, long time ago, I wrote device drivers for some other operating systems. From time to time, making the changes to the kernel and rebuilding it was a journey into the unknown. The more recent W11 patch releases seem like that.

Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff

Re: they are no longer capable of performing their statutory duties

Sorry, already happening with Social Security.

Don't worry people, the Trumpistan militia (DOGY) are already going after other targets such as attempting to get Amazon etc to stop stocking books that are critical of the 'Dear Leader'. Books by Mary Trump, Brian Tyler Cohen and David Pakman are on the list for being removed which is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment but that won't stop these N***s.

Microsoft puts $1B US datacenter builds on hold amid AI, tariff uncertainty

How's all that 'Winning' Donald?

Yeah right. He's still 'trumpeting' on about how foreign countries pay the tariffs he's imposed.

Thinking of the children is the last thing he would ever do. Even his own kids are secondary to putting more grift $$$ into his offshore bank accounts.

Google's got a hot cloud infosec startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft's $20B+ security biz

GUS

Great Unwarranted Slurpage.

Will this be a 'Here today, gone tomorrow' Google product? My guess is yes and the poor sods who sign up for this will be left high and dry.

SpaceX scores $5.9B lion's share of Space Force launch contracts

Don't feel sorry for Boeing

They have been 'commanded' by Drumpf to build the F-47. Perhaps he can sell a few to his pal Putin?

Windows 11 poised to beat 10, mostly because it has to

Never mind the OS think of all those extra Costs

[FOR USA ONLY]

they may well end up in Trump's pocket.

Those shiny new PC's/Laptops for W11 will now cost more than a week ago. Well done Donald. I hope that [cough][cough] donation to your PAC from Microsoft was worth it.

meanwhile, the rest of the world is thinking long and hard about their relationship with the USA. I expect a lot of people will give MS (And thereby the USA) the finger and move to Linux.

Personally, I have deferred buying any IT kit or software from US companies until Trump is out of office.

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

Re: why thr downvote?

There are MAGA diehards here doing their duty to their King Trump. You can't have any dissent in the ranks.

Watchout El Reg, I hope that you have a plan to relocate your servers back to the UK when ICE come for you.

Re: Reaganomics

Even Ronald Reagan was against the use of blanket tariffs. There is a video of him speaking about the use and misuse of them. There is a post on the Meidastouch network about it earlier.

It goes without saying that Trump the Toddler can't understand things that complex.

And for the current Treasury Sec to NOT be part of the team developing tariffs speaks volumes.

US companies are already laying off workers. Stellantis and Whirlpool to name two.

Yet, according to Trump, they are still winning. He's off to Mar-a-lardon playing golf again. Part time President.

Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus

Re: Don’t renew coal, that’s stupid!

Didn't you get the message from VP Trump? (Elon is the real POTUS)

Coal baby, coal (not cola) is back. Good Clean Coal is back on the menu for the Orange Idiot. He has commanded it so it will happen... around 2030.

Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival

Re: everyone is using webmail

Sorry Adam.... We are not all using webmail.

Ok, so you have your own email server so using webmail to that is ok in my mind. Most of us don't have or even want to run our own email server.

Having all my emails to hand when I'm offline is brilliant. Yes, there are times when I disconnect from the internet (by choice). The lack of notifications and email bleeps is wonderful. Perhaps you should try it again....?

I've been using T'Bird since around 2007 and have shifted my use from Windows to Linux and now to MacOS. With T'Bird, just copy all the files, edit your profile to point to these files and you are away and running on a new device.

could I change to something else? Probably not unless I could import all my emails from T'Bird and export them if it turns out to be useless then I might try something.

I, for one, will continue NOT using Webmail and yes, I do put some money into T'Bird development. Not a lot but not zero.

Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid

Re: find you at the bottom of oceans

If that is true then why haven't they found MH370 yet then? Or... is it parked on the Dark Side of the Moon?

Surely we deserve to know.

Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’

Hey Microsoft

How about fixing the kernel so that it does not crash?

Yes, that is Fscking obvious but.... isn't that your job rather than fiddling while Redmond burns?

When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making

Re: Adobe Reader

If you are a real IT Pro then you will know that there are alternatives to that bug ridden POS called Adobe Reader.

My personal favourite is FOXIT.

That said, MS is a POS big time. Lookout is a prime example of how screwed up they are by the whims of the marketing drones. We don't need AI in everything. Many bits of software do what it says on the tin perfectly and has no need for any AI Enhancements to make it [cough][cough] better.

As for Chrome... best avoided.

Windows 11 roadmap great for knowing what's coming next week. Not so good for next year

Re: the highway to hell

Followed by

'Careful with that Axe Eugene' for when you want to destroy your PC/Laptop once MS screws it up.

As for the future, it will be AI with everything. Wanna play Solitaire? That will be AI enabled Solitaire at $9.99 per month.

Dems dub Trump cuts to chip export controls a 'gift' to Xi and Putin

Re: There is no intelligence in sight

It has spread to the UK and the current government. None of them have a clue about running a country. I'm sorry, I haven't a clue' sums them up.

London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, and timing of Huawei ban

Re: In any case 5g and 4g coverage in the uk is poor at best.

Then we are truly FSCK'd when they switch off 3G if your claim is correct.

I don't see it that way.

Yes there are still phone dead spots. 2G on a good day at best. One of those near me was 'fixed' only months ago and I'm 18 miles from the M25.

Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts

Re: needing more lawyers

Well... Elongated Muskrat can afford to hire every lawyer in the USA (and beyond) but that won't be needed.

Trump will sign an executive order dictating that all court orders are to be ignored and that all judges are to be sent to Gitmo. No one talks back to Trump. The supreme leader must be obeyed.

Microsoft tastes the unexpected consequences of tariffs on time

Re: The slow TV trend

is only slow when the consumers of TV are so used to everything being solved in 42 minutes of programming and lots of guns, car chases and explosions.

Bring back the Potters Wheel instead of endless ads for chemically enhanced washing crap (smells so fresh that it must be nice), funeral plans and shampoo.

Give me a Guiness Toucan ad everytime.