Posts by Al fazed

Halliburton probes 'an issue' disrupting business ops

Re: Robocalls

The robocalls is the attack......?

ALF

Oreon Lime is AlmaLinux with a desktop twist

Liam

you are a star. Your presentation of the facts, good, bad and ugly came across clearly. I gained a comprehensive, professional opinion on potentially a new and more useful/useable Operating System.

Thank you for contributing such clarity to what can otherwise be quite a confusing scenario.

ALF

Thunderbird is go: 128 now out with revamped 'Nebula' UI

Back to the drawing board then !!!

I don't know about anyone else, but my own experience with this latest issue is, OMG what a pile of shit ! Wishing I had stayed with the previous version now...

First bloody annoying crap is the missing menus, all of them. No ! Not hidden ! Black font on a Black background. I eventually worked out how to change the colours back to their original config, only to have them change back again next time I opened the damned thing. Eventually I found the correct config panel, not the config panel I had used previously, there are two, possibly three config panels now.

Second complete waste of my fucking time:- The language has reverted to American English for spell check...........Sort that out,

Oh No ! The Menu language is still American English............. WTF ????

Repeat Config change: English English language.

Third:- I had set up a folder for SCUMBAG mail, you know the sort that claims to have film of me in potentially embarrassing activities..........GONE, no not the folder, the FUCKING COLOURED LABEL I use to identify such pieces of garbage.

FOURTH:- So there is apparently a filter for sifting out SPAM........... IT DOES NOT FUCKING WORK...... I am still receiving eMails from Steve Logo Mats after 10 frigging years......

As there isn't anything better and I have now spent umpteen hours reconfiguring it I might as well continue using so0ftware whicgh again falls well below par, especially as the latest DEVS have undone a lot of really usefuyl stuff that earlier DEVS spent umpteen hourts DEVING...

Does it never end ??????

ALF

Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall

Well

It looks like in future firms like Huawei will be providing better security and productivity than the behemouth Microsoft.

When it comes to handling my data, Microsoft has long been the thorn in my side.

Maybe all this internal data storing is the only way Microshite can get anyone to use it's software applications, as no one would be using them by choice. basically because they are so shit compared to other software manufacturers current products. Oh, and they are getting even shitier with every iteration and their replacement of previously working software. (Notepad and Paint)

In Windows 10, it became apparent that I am no longer in control of my own desktop PC.

Along with many other background tweaks, we are now unable to switch off RPC. After that, I no longer trust any Windose boxen to be secure. Then it appeared that I am unable to work without Microsoft Defender using my resources in the background and bringing the other apps I do use - to their fucking knees. I am talking about playing locally stored audio files using VLC etc. I can now forget altogether the years I have spent editing and producing Videos. It also appeared that Defender had borked Sophos, something which I pay for.

Looks like Microsoft shot them selves in both feet good time. Roll on Linux desktop or <joke> even Huawei if I want security, </joke>

Toyota plus 4 other Japanese automakers caught cheating on certification tests

Re: Senior management, lying?

Here in the UK it's something which appears to affect many industries, not just car manufacturers. There's the Post Office scandal, the NHS infected blood scandal, the Social Services recent admission of their deprivation of children's liberty. Then there's the Social Housing providers penchant for financial reporting fraud, combined with the bullying of vulnerable tenants, not to mention the construction industry and local government getting down with their deceptions, the like which led to the Grenfell Tower disaster. Add these serious embarrassments to the number of dodgy police officers going about their business unchallenged, the sewage pumped into waterways, and our Go Vermin says, "lets get fracking" and "it's safe to go nuclear", so we can share more cat videos and they can make even more money etc, etc. What UK CO2 targets ?

Are you depressed yet ?

Now to add salt to your wound, I have been told IN WRITING by BOTH, the Information Commissioners Office and the Solicitors Regulation Authority, that it is NOT a breach of ANY regulations when a prosecuting solicitor hides the defendants evidence from the judge, by not including those documents in the Court Bundle. Additionally, altering a defendant's evidence which does appear in the Court Bundle - is also NOT an issue to WORRY about THESE DAYS - in here in Rishi Sunaks unicorn UK.

The social housing provider and their legal beagles are now UNLAWFULLY DEMANDING that I take down a legitimate web site which forms a case study of their performance between 2018 and 2022. So much for our Data Protection Act and GDPR.

Way to go UK. I often find myself wondering why I ever bothered to learn about all this at University, as anyone in employed in the management of the above industries/services seems to think that regulation is a load of bollox.

ALF

Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall

Funny

when I first read about this I thought "I wonder, if this is what happens when China hacks into Microshafts GitHub palace of jade repos..........

Stop it, I can't breathe for laughing.

ALF

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bets big on small turbines for datacenters

About time

A physicist friend who is well into plasma got head hunted by that Aldermaston research shed, oh well over ten years ago now. He outlined the gas engine to me some time before that and I am wholly surprised NOT that we still do not have these things generating electricity in the home.

There are numerous myths still shrouding the subject. For a start, academics still assume that you have to compress the stuff before it's useful. The greedy always want to see this implemented "at scale", and including "mega power" suppliers and the inevitable power "grid".

Whist we are stuck with development being driven by greed and profit, we will never see the advantages or benefits at consumer level, unfortunately. However, I do believe my mate Neil about the efficacy of small, local, electricity production, and maybe that's why he's disappeared into a UK research facility many ears ago...........

ALF

NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack

Here on Earth

we tell our kids to take their rubbish home with them.

In the USA NASA blow a trumpet when a fucking robot chucks into Earth orbit a "pallet" carrying tons of their space rubbish. ALSO, knowing full well that it will rain down on all of our heads - as dust and ash if we are fucking well lucky. Lumps of heavy metal if we are not !

And then they go passing the blame onto one of the few companies that get most of the big bucks for big the deals to build this shite in the first place. Again knowing full well that they (BOING) continually build very expensive shite - to toss into the air ..

With the current political climate in the USA, I'm fairly surprised that they didn't arrange for it to drop on Gazza, or Russia, or Haiti, ........or China.

Just saying......

Pity it didn't land on the UK Houses of Parliament, it might have made an improvement to it's workings, or needed an additional passage adding to the Rwanda Bill.

ALF

Don't

make me laugh !

ALF

US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all

I don't see

what all the fuss is about. It's common knowledge by now that, no privacy is guaranteed.

So UK give NHS folks data to a US org for processing. Why don't we just give it to the Chinese and miss out the yanks ? I'm sure that China are just as efficient, if not more efficient than Micorsoft, Amazon, Apple, X, et al, at handling customer's data.

Ooops, hat, coat, silicon gloves...

ALF

Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships

Oh Yeah,

I wonder if Rishi is planning on giving the job of stopping the boats to Palantir ?

That would make sense of UK/Microsoft 365 data sharing ambitions as it would allow the go vermins to pass any blame for the emerging cockups onto some shonky database tech which, OBVIOUSLY has been hacked by the Isreali's, the Russians, the Chinese, The Americans, etc....

ALF

Microsoft breach allowed Russian spies to steal emails from US government

The question

I have been asking since 1995 is, "Why are they still using Microsoft anything ?"

Why is any pro democracy go vermins still using anything which is sold by Microsoft ?

Oh, UK go vemins has signed a new contract with Cosy Bear to try to get our data back outta da Microsoft cloud........

UK businesses shockingly unaware of how to handle security threats

Why SME's and not for profits DO NOT bother

In my role as director of a very small not for profit working in the community, I have experienced PHISHING attempts - like any other eMail User.

As a university educated IT pro, (BSc Information Technology) I have done the right thing.

I found the time and sought out the correct organisation to report the SCAM to and dutifully sent off the report, as advised on:

https://www.gov.uk/report-suspicious-emails-websites-phishing "Forward suspicious emails to [e-mail]"

I received shortly after a very nice eMail notifying me that they did not read my message because it had something nasty attached to it...........................

Way to go ?

What a waste of my time and effort. It did not inspire confidence in the Governments ability to receive suspect eMails - forwarded as directed......

The result indicates to me quite clearly that in future I shouldn't bother wasting my time or effort, if no one at the receiving end is capable of reading/receiving the FORWARDED message.

Up yours UK Gov.

ALF

Canva acquires Affinity, further wounding a regulator-bruised Adobe

More Bollox

Just signed up for what at first appeared to be a great software offer - at free price for non profits.

Just cancelled the CANVA account as it does not recognise a real not for profit organisation and was unable to differentiate my not for profit from a government QUANGO non profit. Mine has to be registered with a QUANGO in order to qualify as not for profit. What a load of shit.

Governemnt QUANGO non profits are recognised as not for profit whilst my real not for profit does not qualify.

SHEESH, there is so much shite in this world dressed up as good food to eat. Is it getting worse ?

When their Privacy Policy meant I had to sign up to agree or not agree to my works being fed into an AI, it was the last hurdle and I bolted to the green green grass of home.

They are not getting their greedy little paws on anything of mine. I have been perfectly happy with all of the apps I have already for making art, this crap offers little more than WORDPRESS for lazy twats who will get all that they deserve. Serif products are still brill and still free for me to use.

SOZ.

ALF

Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage

Google shmoogle goshomgle

Just reaffirmed that Google must be the shittest search engine on the planet.

without agreeing or disagreeing, ie; no pop ups on my Google page, I did a couple of serches for my own name to see where Google would like me to end up.

I used just the words David Urmston, as you'd epect there are numerous English speaking David Urmstons world wide, however, the one site I was hoping to see did turn up halfway down page one.

Surprise surprise, when I attempted to refine the search with a variety of <H1>'s which are in use on all of my web sites, the results got worse each time. Much worse.

In the end I typed the whole URL into the search box AND got nothing at all from the web site I wanted to find, but lots of crap - the same crap which had appeared on all of my previous searches using the same terms "david" "urmston". There was so much page padding with results beginning with "B" and other letters I had not even used.

Is this the end game for the Internet, where one is unable to find one's own web site, unless one types the unexpurgated URL into the address bar ?

ALF

UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings

Tory Go Vermin is NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE

I've said it before and I'm saying it again, the folding money will only go the the IT favourites, Palantir, ATOS, Capita, Microshaft, Amazon. Did I miss someone ? Ah, yes Oracle! Here we go again, let's build an IT system not fir for purpose, then we get to re-invent the IT wheel in another 10 years or so of over budget and under delivery.

Please tell me exactly how this world wonder health system will include ANY of the complimentary health practices, lie chiropractics, homeopathy, herbalisms including the use of the politically repugmant cannabis for skin cancer treatment, ADHD. Psilocybin and lions mane for treating depression, etc.

What we will have is another generous gift of sweeties to the American pharmacey/insurance fascists. Maybe our Tory twats have shares in these edifices of serious IT blunder ? Maybe it's the rich twats who fund the Tory Party who have the shares ? Who gives a rats arse. It wasn't the lack of an IT system that caused 5 year wait to get on an NHS dentists panel, 4 x attempts over 5 years to hopefully get an ADHD assessment, still waiting, etc...etc...

Just give the Tories the UK's purse strings and 2p deductions in Tax and Employment Insurance should keep the Goggle Box watching British in their places, queueing...........

Don't make me laugh, I just broke a couple of ribs, and after being advised by 111 to attend the A&E I saved them an ambulance 4hours wait by getting myself there at 6pm. 4 hours later, I am told there is 7 to 8 hour wait to see a doctor. I have had a basic examination to satisfy that I will last 7 to 8 hours in the waiting room and decide to go home without an X-ray, just in case they decide at 6am that I need to stay in hospital. If I am going to die from broken ribs, I'd prefer to be at home with my family rather knowing that I'm going to die whilst waiting in A&E.

It's the continued lack of spending on dentists, doctors and nurses, not the massive free gifts to American companies that is killing the NHS. Think of all the money them Tories will make when we all have to go private in order to get ANY treatment.

ALF not convinced...........

Tiny Core Linux 15 stuffs modern computing in a nutshell

investigating whether it can turn some geriatric laptops into useful tools once again.

Thank you for this Monday news item. A positive story about a good Operating System and so the future appears great once more.

As a geriatric computer user I now have something to look forward to, a foray into my cache of almost antique x86 machines. I am also pondering if I can successfully dual boot this MacBook Pro with TCL. Not that there's much wrong with it other than it's become rather slow compared to how it used to run.

Thank you for brightening up the weeks ahead.

ALF

Top Linux distros drop fresh beats

So happy

to have MX Linux available as Windose has finally hit the rocks. So much background shite that I am now unable to switch off without breaking the OS, that even playing a music file in VLC is interrupted by system calls. It's made video editing impossible on the machine which until a few months back was absolutely the best hardware I'd ever had on the desk.

Now the same machine whizzes along under MX Linux, however all is not clear as there is bugger all support for the integrated Intel Graphics chip. The result is shit.

On this machine I cannot draw a true representation of a circle and A4 paper looks well squashed. The only way to get the screen correct means running at 800x600 which means the menu boxes are chopped off at the bottom and have no buttons to Cancel or Accept, thank the dog for the Enter key....... It looks like Windows 3.1 all the way, none of the application windows fit the sodding screen, no matter what the fucking resolution.

MX Linux It's so shit at this that I have to use the Windose 10 box in order to use Libre Office Draw with circles appearing as circles and A4 paper looking like A4 paper.

Come on guys n gals............please

ALF

Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook

So, just who is tracking me ?

Farcebreak's final insults to my waining intelligence occurred when they were happy to cover my Home page with (very sneaky) "the text in a photo" adverts - promoting Isreal as "the" best country to lead the world.

I don't need to say much more, other than I had already been bombarded for many months with ads promoting all the different flavours of Christianity. Since I've been a practicing atheist since before I was 16 and I turned 71 last week, I am happy to report that the targetting of these adverts is somewhat off - by a good number of miles.

It wasn't the absolutely ludicrous suggestion that Isreal could and should rule the world which made me decide once and for all that Facecreep is a complete waste of time. It was the fact that posts made by my family and friends were so very much lower in number than the number of useless ads (which had supposedly been targetted at me).

In the past I have satisfied myself that FarceBreak was pretty poor at targeting me with advertising, partly as I live on the breadline without a disposable income - but now I am convinced that their mediators are attempting to wind me up, with the sole intention of making me rather angry. Still, Isreal ruling the world has to be the least believable advert I've seen yet. And most definitely, it is time to make for the exit ensuring to throw the key into the nearest river.

Influencers ? Listening ? Targetting ? WTF ?

ALF

Kaspersky reveals previously unknown hardware 'feature' exploited in iPhone attacks

'Security through obscurity' just doesn't cut it anymore.

A superb article for a Friday any week of the year. The only gripe comes from the authors last sentence,

'Security through obscurity' just doesn't cut it anymore.'

I was given to understand that "security through obscurity" does defintitely "not" provide security.

That a major provider of hardware thinks they can use this to pull wool over the customers eyes shows how fucking retarded capitalist thinking is.

I've never bought an Applie product and after this "news" story I will continue to scoff at people who still believe that MAC's users can't catch viruses or other malware.

Not that Microshite is any better, after more than 30 years in the field I finally got my first trojan and crypto miner on my Windose 10 box. Not surprising really as my chosen Anti Virus Sophos will no longer work on Windose 10 without crippling the machine - as it is attempting to work along side Microsoft Defender. Microsoft Defender had failed to notice that I was unable to log in to my bank. I had to start poking about ahem...... before Microshit went, ooh, look, you just had x, and y, never mind we have dealt with it. No don't bother checking the logs we deleted those as well.................

Is there any hardware software combination which is safe ? Seems like everyone in the business has chosen the "fuck you by obscurity route..........."

ALF

Biden urged to do something about Europe 'unfairly' targeting American tech

Re: Shall we go back in History,

why? When so much of it is sheer b*ll*x.

American subjugation of their own first nations, the way that decendants from African slaves are still treated today and the continual down grading of women in science and politics provide very good examples of why American enterprise needs to be policed. Those attitudes underpin financial interests which take American companies abroad looking to exploit foriegn markets and make huge unregulated profits.

Yeah, let American greed rip. No worries eh ?

Did America import such rapacious behaviour from Europeans over the passed centuries ?

Does it matter ?

Yes, we don't want it back, thank you. Keep it to yourself. We can see the huge pile of human detritous, everywhere, living on the outskirts of American economic success story.

We don't need any more here as we are doing just fine ourselves, creating such a shitty world already.

I won't mention Isreal, honest................

ALF

UK government to set deadline for removal of Chinese surveillance cams

F'in Bollox

No more noodles or paper moon lanterns for you then

ALF

Europe doesn't just pass laws on Big Tech algorithms, it sets up cop shops to police them

As usual

It all depends upon who you are and what you are peddling.

Of course "Anti vax" stuff will be filtered out. Even if it's relevent ?

What else will be filtered out to suit the status quo in acceptable output ?

How do you know that the unacceptable bit isn't the truth ?

How do we know the "actual truth" isn't being twisted to fit the output requirements of the system ?

Who says what is acceptable and what isn't ?

At the end of the day, I suspect that we are just building bigger and more powerfully biggotted AI designed to suit the requirements of someone in power, as opposed to real people without power.

Oh, similar to what we have today ? Yes, built on the same guiding principles................some of you are just not worthy.............simple

ALF

4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML

What is real data ?

A few years ago a close friend submitted his doctoral thesis to an Oxford University, five times before it was accepted "as is".

Four times his Doctorate was refused because the Don disagreed with the challenge to Ampere's Theory contained in the thesis. The Don told my friend that he would accept his thesis if he simply removed the "offending" chapter.

You can see where this is headed ?

If my friend had been a simple twat, he might have ben persuaded to remove the offending chapter, even if it meant that his thesis amounted to a load of nonesense.

The load of nonesense would have been loaded in an AI model under the label "authenic" or "science".

Personally I don't see the logic.

Neither did my friend.

He eventually got his doctorate on his original material, after the college switched Heads for the purpose.

Trust in scientific process............?

I'd rather trust Google's AI..........

ALF

Trade ministers flag researchers as possible vector of tech sanction-busting

B*llox

The ban doesn't include Microsoft 365 , Exchange etc................

Oh, now I get it, Russians using this shit software on a daily basis - is gonna fuck mother Russia far better than any missiles.............

Yay !

ALF

Drones aim to undo Ukraine's landmine problem

Re: great respect for Ukraine here

Yes I up voted you because I agree with you about those who plant landmines.

I am however unable to down vote as well. I'd like to down vote 'cos Britain is amongst the world leaders in land mine production and export. Something which BREXIT did not have much of an effect on.

As far as I am concerned, those who make profit from munitions manufacture are really the lowest of human kind.................

ALF

Hands up who DIDN'T exploit this years-old flaw to ransack a US govt web server...

Who needs

mandated backdoors when we already have access routes a plenty created by our own favourite cheese makers ?

ALF

OpenAI claims GPT-4 will beat 90% of you in an exam

The problem

being that 90% of folks couldn't pass a maths exam without cheating or looking up the answers.

Back in tha days of study it happened that 200 students each year for 10 years gave the wrong answer to a maths question. They all gave the answer that was printed at the back of the book and passed the exam. Unfortunately around 2002 it was discovered that the printed answer was wrong.

The majority of these students went on the "secure" a job in the industry.

HELP

ALF

Pentesters' fave Kali Linux turns 10 with version 23.1

Unsavoury

Hmmm, sounded great in the article, especially versions for Android phones.

Well that was a little nightmare. Won't be doing that again in a hurry.

The NetHunter I installed lasted 5 minutes. The first annoying shite was "this is your chance to win digicoins, Argos vouchers...........oh FUCK, what have I done. OUT you come.

Yes, I won't be doing that again in a hurry.

ALF

'Robot lawyer' DoNotPay not fit for purpose, alleges complaint

Typical

lawyer double speak

ALF

The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt

Kettle ? pot ? WTF ?

As usual it's what "they" want "us" to do, have, do without, etc.

Someone earlier said "The opinion of what the culture secretary deems appropriate is arbitrary and deeply worrying." And I strongly agree.

Who are these people to be dishing out their opinion on anything ? Privileged twats as usual.... Don't get taught anything useful at school, just how to rule.

Hence we are stuck in a slow spiral of death as these peeps are too far removed from reality to know their arse from their elbow.

The world is laughing at them and they arrogantly think that they are laughing with them.

So if hardware from China may be able to be used by Chinese government agencies to spy on peeps over here, why didn't we just ask the Chinese to share the fucking data and save ourselves the sodding embarrassment all round ?

ALF

60% of Germany's 5G network is Huawei, says Chinese embassy

Re: Proof???

Mate,

my humble pc became victim to a none existent BIOS update many years ago.. The only peeps utilising such a means to gain undetectable access and control at that time were UK GCHQ and some US outfit operating under some acronym, with acrimony...........

Maybe my support of various none governmental orgs at that time warranted such efforts to gain info ? Who knows ? It wasn't the Chinese I know that much.

ALF

Re: Proof???

Why have a secret back-door if your

"Windows"

are open?

Exactly ?

ALF

Re: Proof???

smear Huawei with

"Trumped"

-up charges.

If I remember correctly

ALF

Boffins find 'missing link' between interstellar ice and what comes out of the tap

Hmmm.

Now the Register readers are being sent to Wikipedia to verify "facts"................

OMG!

Are you certain no AI was used to write these comments ?

ALF

Humanoid robot takes a retail job, but not one any store clerk wants to do

(a) for every few thousand menial jobs taken over, there will be a few hundred far more satisfying, interesting and high-paying jobs in designing, building, operating and maintaining the robots,

Sorry, these jobs have already gone to the robots...............

and

b) most busy retail stores I've been, the staff are spending a lot of time folding, packing, tagging and whatever else while at the same time not being available to offer customer service, advice, etc

Sorry the last remaining retail store closed 10 years ago, everything you WILL NEED can be found within 15 minutes of your home

and you have 30 seconds to complete your objective..................

ALF

Warning on SolarWinds-like supply-chain attacks: 'They're just getting bigger'

Hmmm

It's probably not a lot different here in Blighted

ALF

UK space faces cash freeze unless watchdogs step up

The article clearly pointed to the bottleneck, they can only submit one application...

No wonder we are in the shit...

ALF

Find pushes back birth of Europe's steel hardware to about 3,000 years ago

Known just not shouted about

Fact, in South Wales archeologists working near Neath discovered a previously unknown iron smelting facility which had been burried beneath the known and much later, Middle Ages iron smelting facility assocaited with the Abbey.

Upon further investigation it was discovered that the original facility had been visited by the Romans, NOT built by them.

I am not sure of the final outcome of the research, but I am sure that there is some paper written about steel production in South Wales prior to the Roman invasion of Britain.

ALF

Re: People move around shocker !

No one in their right mind is going to carry from coast to coast great armfuls of iron ore and limestone. This sort of shit is a modern affliction.

I assume that in the days before international transport, flint knappers knapped flint where they found it, or where it was dug it from the earth, ie; Dorset, etc. Clay does not carry well when wet and it is damned heavy, so potters of yore dug pot holes where ever they could find clay emanating from the ground. They did not have the machinery to mine it like it is produced to day. No generally speaking "they" did not carry the raw materials with them unless the material was small and light in weight.

Some enterpising Romans, Greeks, Egyptians etc, did cart stone and timber thousands of miles before working it, but this was not a gereral practice, just something folks managed to do over thousands of years of human history. Presilli Blue stones carted to Wiltshire to build Stonehenge, I believe is not something done every day.

ALF

Re: People move around shocker !

In the olden days, I believe it was customary for an invading army to preserve for export, scribes, metal workers, ceramists, healers et al.

The producers did not give away their secret formulas, they were kidnapped and had new masters, if they were lucky. Otherwise, what they knew locally died out with their family during the take over.

ALF

Re: People move around shocker !

In the Ashmolean museam in Oxford, there are examples of "Imperial" ceramic wares covered with a beautiful red glaze.

In the past, this red glaze was referred to in order to prove an unbroken line of Imperial rule in China.

However, recent examination of these artifacts glazes has shown that the glazes were in fact made from three independant formulas, each glaze having been re-invented after breaks in production of several hundred years. Source locations of the material used in the glazes had apparently been dug in three different regions, in different periods of China's long history of Imperial rule.

ALF

Re: People move around shocker !

A friend recently went to India with some tin he had collected in Cornwall. In a market in Calcutta he found someone to buy his tin. The purchaser pointed out that my friend was the latest person to bring tin from Cornwall to Calcutta where they produce pewter using the Cornish tin. Apparently the Phoenecians were amongst the first traders to take tin from Cornwall to Calcutta.

ALF

UK consortium set to bid for £480 million NHS data platform

Hmmm

The article was possible written in America or Oz.............

ALF

PlugX RAT masquerades as legit Windows debugger to slip past security

Re: Hard hat and a ladder

Or a high vis jacket

ALF

White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake

Avalanche

Well this could start an avalanche. I know of several company's that collect data and do not do it properly, according to the law or even their own company policy.

Good to see some are being taken to task over their total failing to follow the law.

ALF

Google unleashes fightback against ChatGPT, a Bard by any other name

It appears to me

That any number of lame ass m*fos will be queueing up to use this shit. As it has been shown, folks are happily playing in the dodgy AI shit wot is already available.

Judging from the number of hilarious errors I have seen already being outputed by these Intelligent ? things, most people do not even notice the obvious/trivial errors in English language, when they have been generated. Are we expecting mere mortals to be able to spot the maths errors, like those published recently in Wired magazine ?

Well, it occurs to me that if an idiot is using AI then they aren't going to spot the errors are they ?

So on we go with morons relying AI to teach and serve the other morons........................here's how to use AI, with AI

I feel a song coming on..........AI, AI, AI. Now then, now then, now then, let's be avin you, 'cos it doesn't add up, no it doesn't add up, it can only take away IA, IA, IA, what a wonderful day

When will humans start to use their brains ?

Once these small/trivial errors (like bad/American spelling) have been outputed several times without a challenge by software or human, the error will be accepted as an acceptable answer in future, will it not ?

Quid Pro Quo American English will win and "proper" English will be a thingy of the past which children in UK will no longer need, 'cos everything will end up being spelled the American way everywhere that American commerce oriented AI has had it's wonderfully malformed mits.

TWITS. You won't be capable of telling the difference between talk and mutter.

ALF

Twitch bans AI-generated Seinfeld show for making transphobic jokes

Well ?

We are in the age of the Artificial Idiots, are we not ?

Trust I read somewhere today in this news organ, is all that we need but will never manage to attain, is my spin on "the achievements of AI"

Well done.............

ALF

Latest Windows 11 build shares desktop real estate with, er, Spotify

So

the Windose experience gets even worse...............

It's almost got to that point where I stop taking any interest in Windose whatever..........

Thankfully there are some half completed Linux OSes that are more finished than Microsoft Windose, any version - ever was............

ALF

200MP smartphone and first premium PC spearhead Samsung's pro push

Re: You're kidding, right?

Weill I didn't have problems with FOSS on Windose 10, - until two days ago. Now some unknown update means Wow Slider simply crashes rather than SAVE a project.

Wahey

A:F