Posts by sabroni

Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life

Users have tacitly agreed to weave AI into the fabric of their daily existence

Like fuck they have.

10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet

developers' rush to adopt AI

Developers aren't rushing to adopt AI, they're being forced to use it by management. They might like the fact an "AI" can generated some tedious code for them but the idea that most developers are thinking "What this system needs is the ability to get things wrong!" is deluded.

Yes, I'll let it go through the code base and add this new property in the 50 places it's needed. No, I won't link my accurate, tested code with a system that's only unique feature is "making things sound plausible even when wrong".

Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday

Re: a big change in how the Linux kernel assigns CVEs

That's called "getting your excuse in first".

Re: I've patched a couple dozen Win servers (2016 -> 2022) and Win 10/11 machines today. No issues.

Ahh, but you're trying to patch them, not fishing for upvotes from the linux crowd.

Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA

Sponsored Content or Promotional Feature

Article needs a label.

Microsoft won't fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say

"They soon found that its SOAP API method could be accessed with no authentication"

Ok. I notice the article kind of just skipped past "User didn't set up authentication and authorisation on their endpoint kind of making the rest of the article moot".

Plenty of linux lovers posting that this is MS being evil again though.

So easily manipulated.

I hope you're not on Twitter.

Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software

It's not vibe coding when you know what your doing

Vibe coding is a non-developer with no development experience driving an LLM to make code.

Re: Mixed opinions

The journalists here actually have different opinions so articles can contradict previous ones. That's a useful attribute that prompts debate and discussion.

Read both the articles and make a decision for yourself.

(also, use an anchor tag and you'll get an actual link in your post: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/opinion_column_vibe_coding/)

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

Oh just do html, css and JS!

Tell me you haven't worked in web for the last 25 years without telling me you haven't worked in web for the last 25 years.

I'll roll my own crypto as well, shall I?

TryHackMe races to add women to Christmas cyber challenge roster after backlash

Years later I asked why it was never implemented...

Cool story bro.

Got any data? Sounds like a study like that should have some output beyond "I was told...."

Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new ‘Digital Signage mode’

Re: a Windows Update nagscreen. Will they blank that out too?

"Microsoft’s announcement says that Digital Signage mode “helps ensure no Windows screens or error dialogs will show.” PCs that produce pop-up dialog boxes reporting errors on public displays will therefore also go dark after 15 seconds."

Third paragraph of the article. Couldn't be arsed to read that far before spreading your pearls of wisdom?

Fail indeed.

OWASP Top 10: Broken access control still tops app security list

Re: Devs are rewarded for getting code written within a sprint that works

not necessarily that works well.

Well you need to work on your Definition of Done. If things are in Done and you have a problem with the quality you need to be able to clearly explain what needed to be done better and make it requirement for a piece of work to be completed.

Agile needs iteration, it needs the team to be involved in managing the software quality. Complaining because something is in "Done" that doesn't meet your standards means you were slacking when the standards were put in place.

Don't moan about it on a public forum, bring it up in the retro and come up with some experiments to try and fix the problem.

You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will

re: this problem will linger long into the future.

You know Start Trek is fiction, right?

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all

Re: surely such contracts are socialism

It's only socialism when you give government money to the poor, silly!

Fortytwo's decentralized AI has the answer to life, the universe, and everything

That power isn't wasted

You can't hallucinate an answer using normal computing!!

Re: just to annoy them

I'm sure they noticed and got really upset!!

Linux vendors are getting into Ubuntu – and Snap

How do I

configure Ubuntu to install FireFox from a Snap but let me decide when I want it updated?

AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay

AI Layoffs backfire

Are you sure? Sounds like they're working exactly as expected. Great way to offshore without saying you're offshoring.

This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet

Re: my local rag causes NoScript's list of domains ... to fall off the bottom of the screen

And yet, without those scripts, you can see the actual news much more easily.

You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training

Re: Am I paranoid, or....

UBlock helps with that. It will pop up a warning when it spots the tracking domain but if you proceed it takes you to the final destination directly.

The Chinese Box and Turing Test: AI has no intelligence at all

Re: any role that you can reduce down to a set of rules and procedures is ripe for AI replacement.

You don't need AI to implement a set of rules and procedures. Traditional development allows us to handle all the rules and procedures we need to.

You seem to have it arse about tit. The easy bit that is just rules and procedures does not need AI to be automated. When users require something that isn't covered by the procedures, that's when a notional "AI" would be required but an LLM wouldn't be any use in that situation by defiintion. This is something outside the rules and procedures so does require actual thought.

A decent implementation of your support system would be a non-AI computerised system that handled normal requests and funneled users with unusual requirements to human operators.

Re: It’s like, where do these knuckleheads come from??

Indeed.

Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease

Re: I know some people have a thing for them

I have a thing for reliability, for simplicity, for things that are understandable and straightforward.

Ear buds on a wire are just like wireless ones except no need for batteries, no need to encode and send the audio over bluetooth and something keeps them together if you drop one.

Some people have a thing for expensive, easily losable, battery powered earbuds but some of us never saw the attraction.

AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds

Re: which are useful metrics

Not for measuring productivity.

Productivity has nothing to do with number of lines written or time spent. It's the useful output that dictates how productive you were.

We need the widget dispenser to handle the new widgets. The number of lines it takes it irrelevant. Whether it toook you a week or an hour is irrelevant. Number of new widgets dispensed is the only metric that matters.

CISA exec blames nation-state hackers and Democrats for putting America's critical systems at risk

Every accusation

a confession.

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist

Re: doesn't matter if it wasn't you that sneezed your still guilty

These days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you're English.

It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic

No you do!

Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere

Re: cue the fingers in the ears, la la la, can't hear you.

If I don't study it it can't be a problem!

re: Let me answer that for you right here. Absolutely nothing.

With all your detailed knowledge on the effects of rare metals in the upper atmosphere, presumably gleaned from multiple studies of other civilisations on other planets, that's certainly put my mind at rest.

Who ever heard of a small thing causing a problem?

JetBrains backs open AI coding standard that could gnaw at VS Code dominance

Re: I miss writing pure C and assembler in vim.

I bet. We don't miss the memory leaks.

Have you tried using an IDE? It can highlight all sorts of potential problems for you, give you a list of methods off a class to pick from, format the code so it looks consistent....

the ACP Standard, designed to work with any editor that implements it

Hmm, that's A design goal, certainly.

Having control of the "standard" interface so they can constantly fuck with VSCode integration is also a feature.

Readers of this site remember the way Google used Youtube to repeatedly fuck with Edge and it's JS integration.

Leopard, spots.

How your mouse could eavesdrop on you and rat you out

Why make a mouse that sensitive?

Does it help the user in any way or is it just so you jump to the top of the list sorted by resolution? I doubt any human can move their hand to within a 20000th of an inch.

So stupid tech enables snooping while providing nothing of value to the user?

Well done.

No really, well done!

Level-10 vuln lurking in Redis source code for 13 years could allow remote code execution

Re: I've got a novel idea.

No you haven't. You're idea is "Get gud".

We have decades of security vulnerabilities created by the inability of C devs to: Keep track of the memory you're allocating, free it when you don't need it any more.

Get back to me when your own house is in order. The data says that your way produces way more vulnerabilities.

Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast

And relax!

Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority

From the article: Copilot's level of access "is strictly governed by the user’s work account permissions, ensuring enterprise data remains protected."

So if an employee can see it MS can see it. Yeah, that's super fucking secure.

Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told

Re: People take cash in hand for a reason

Because massive wealth inequality and soaring rents mean that working within the system doesn't pay enough to live on.

Re: If only the UK had a 2nd Amendment ...

Yeah, not enough shooting, that's the problem.

Short on the brain Stuff?

Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down

Bubba's new special friend

Ahh prison rape. Is there anything funnier?

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead? No, wait – it's on Windows

Since then they've "embraced AI".

Oh well, I don't need a new IDE anyway.

LockBit's new variant is 'most dangerous yet,' hitting Windows, Linux and VMware ESXi

Re: I did a grok on it

Of course you did. Why get a normal LLM to "explain" something when you can use a racist one?

I'm NOT convinced that BOB'S account is still BEING RUN by bob though, something SUBTLE seems to have changed.....

Workers: Yes, RTO makes sense. No, we’re not going to do it

bums in seats is the least fuss and risk

Providing no bums are attached to people who's skills are transferable. Then the "least fuss and risk" approach just lost you all the good quality people who have easily found somewhere else that wants them.

I don't think you understand risk management.

Re: Also gets them sacked

Sure Jan.

Boffins fool a self-driving car by putting mirrors on traffic cones

Re: adaptive cruise?

FFS, it's not tricky to regulate the speed to keep a safe distance from the car in front. If you can't be arsed to do that I'd argue you shouldn't be driving at all. Fucking pay attention!

RubyGems maintainer quits after Ruby Central takes control of project

Emboldened racists everywhere

The one thing Musk can credibly claim responsibility for.

Google pushes emergency patch for Chrome 0-day – check your browser version now

Re: web browsers were meant to display remote text, not run remote programs.

I wonder if technology will ever progress?

Charities warn Ofcom too soft on Online Safety Act violators

Re: Just make sure you don't misgender people and you'll be OK.

Jimmy has a point and she's made it well, give her a break.

Intel and Nvidia sitting in a tree, NVLink-I-N-G

Fucked up headline

It's K. I. S. S. I. N. G. so N. V. Link. I. N. G. isn't enough sylables.

What the fuck are you playing at?

Experts scrutinized Ofcom's Online Safety Act governance. They're concerned

Re: But I'm sure they thought of that.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/08/uk-age-verification-data-confirms-what-critics-always-predicted-mass-migration-to-sketchier-sites/

Microserfs ordered back to the office, given 10 days to appeal

Re: "Importantly, this update is not about reducing headcount,"

How do these fuckers keep a straight face when they're spouting this bollocks.

China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results

Re: One would imagine that, after almost 40 years on the job.....

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/

"On Friday, a lone Microsoft developer rocked the world when he revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted in xz Utils, an open source data compression utility available on almost all installations of Linux and other Unix-like operating systems"

One would imagine that, after almost 40 years on the job, Open Source Developers would have a clue, but apparently, no.

See, it's easy to be a dick about things.