Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative

Re: Couple Of Things....

Switch to telegram. If it really is controlled by KGB V2, you can be pretty sure they aren't handing data to the CIA

Re: Couple Of Things....

That's why you need to secure the users.

A cunning plan

So users won't be tricked into handing over their passwords to the bad guys when the official mSzyfr government password inspector calls because the bad guys won't have mSzyfr

Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything

"Why not" would also be a perfect title

Re: Intelligence

IIRC modern Unix shells block "rm -rf /" by default

Doesn't help with the: RAID labels drives from 0 but chassis labels are from 1 "error"

Re: Who me? 1988

I went to Catholic school, with nuns.

The example of the kid that got nailed to a plus sign for getting sums wrong certainly encouraged the rest of us.

Re: Who me? 1988

You can't even beat the minions these days without the political correct mob getting on your back.

Bring back capital punishment in schools

Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess

Re: vote reform

But at least he's cheap. NordVPN should be able to come up with 5million quid to have him make it compulsory.

At least then they won't have to insert ads in my podcasts

Re: The government doesn't care

Why? What can the citizens do to worry the government?

What they really need to crack down on is those back bench MPs.

No the solution is to nationalise the ISPs and have the GPO handle internet.

Your packets will be delivered by 2nd class post next Tuesday unless your have your own telegraph office.

Re: vote reform

This is why we need to vote Reform. A party that isn't going to let some softy lefty concern for children interfere with their donations from American tech companies. If the Eu wants to ban VPNs will make VPNs compulsory for all children.

Vote Reform, corrupt policies for a corrupt Britain.

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Re: Won't someone think of the politicians?

Just so they can look at age-appropriate pictures of tractors ?

Wanted: Digital chief for England's schools. Must enjoy data, AI, and concrete problems

Re: and lead work on a unique identifier for children and other learners in England

To unify the other 3, obviously

Also to avoid confusion it will be the only thing that the creatures are referred to by in school.

ab5785feg6785fda, leave df259437ac3565 alone you little @$&$#

UK reloads artillery plans with £1B remote-control howitzer order

Re: The ultimate British weapon

Only this time they seem to have misunderstood the brief

We've invented a howitzer in a shed.

Great, bring it here and we'll put it into production

No you don't understand, we've invented a "howitzer in a shed "

The ultimate British weapon

Is it just me or does that look like just a shed on the back of a lorry ?

Has Britain invented the cannon shed ?

Re: Nice

>truck speed (90/110Kmh) on paved road and decent unpaved ones.

Hence Britain's strategic investment in a nationwide network of defensive potholes

Re: Nice

Calling it CAESAR is a bit defeatist isn't it ?

At least call it Vercingetorix or Abraracourcix

Re: Nice

You laugh, but wait till Germany unleash the Bagger 288 division.

Having learned from previous misadventures, this time when they capture land they are taking it back with them.

Re: Nice

Whose a good little Kremlin-bot?

Keep it up and you'll earn this month's potato

Re: Nice

>They'll be fighting a land war in eastern Europe in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania etc.

Makes a change from Belgium I suppose

Re: Nice

Why bother with the howitzer?

Just an army of remote controlled 30ton Volvo dump trucks rolling over you

KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own

Re: 2036 will be the year of Linux on the Desktop!

Below / Belong - damn automangler

Re: 2036 will be the year of Linux on the Desktop!

Tell him that the IP addresses are valuable, that they all really below to America and he should seize them and sell them to Musk, "who knows all the computers"

Re: By Toutatis!

There's a (now out of print and expensive) book by the English translators about Asterix

A lot of the jokes in 'Asterix in Britain' were from French English language textbooks that Brits wouldn't get, so they replaced them with jokes from British Latin school textbooks that today nobody gets.

Re: Wouldn't it be nice..

A million civil servants across Europe all build their own computers and choose their own OS/Window system ?

Might mean you have to hire 2 BOFHs to make it all work together

Re: Wouldn't it be nice..

If you can get open source devs to all agree on tabs/spaces then getting 27 Eu countries to all pick a single window manager should be a doddle

Re: So...

What's the German word for "governments backdoor into a windowing environment for security reasons" and how long is the word ?

Suse

Can't help feeling if back whenever, Munich had just called Suse, instead of half-arsing it, we might have an official Eu-wide government-approved public sector Linux

(Except that the French would object and insist on a separate alternative OS where all the commands had accents)

Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028

Re: Digital sovereignty in Europe

It's not a question of where the chips come from.

Nobody is entirely sovereign for their chips, without Dutch machinery built with German glass in Taiwanese factories using Chinese silicon and Japanese chemicals to make the devices.

This is so that when Trump tells Microsoft/Google to cut off all the accounts for a European judge or political party or company they don't like - that customer can at least get email.

In other news

McDonald's demanded a ban on exports of hamburgers to China, warning of a threat to American mealtimes if China developed their own cuisine

Possible Samsung strike puts even more pressure on memory pricing

Another 80s reboot

Russia invading eastern Europe

A brain damaged US president starting wars in ME

Now t'data miners are on strike

At this rate we'll have synth pop and new romantics back by Christmas

On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off

> had a drink and are unable to work!

Never heard of the Balmer Peak ?

Re: "I can't remember the name of the wine we were drinking"

Always seemed a wasteful way of dealing with an exit interview

US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins

Re: Krasnov

To be honest, right now discovering that he is a KGB Colonel would be a relief. At least it would make it all make sense

Real men don't need body armor

Picturing the scene from Catch-22, you open the parachute and there's just a note promising you a TrumpPhone

Re: Meanwhille, the Army eliminates vaccine requirements

But if you aren't a Super-Secret-Delta-Seal-Ranger-Ninja like Hegseth you wouldn't appreciate quite how scary needles are

Re: Meanwhille, the Army eliminates vaccine requirements

Eating vegetables sound awfully effeminate. Shouldn't our new more lethal manly military be hunting their own food while in the field?

Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads

Vietnam is to blame

After defeating Nazi Germamy, the allies worked hard to rebuild the industrial and political infrastructure of the defeated Germany so it could become once more a free and democratic nation instead of lapsing back into fascism

I think it's clear that Vietnam really didn't do enough.

FCC walks back router update ban before it bricked America's network security

Re: The world needs to block the USA

Just ignore them, they're only doing it to get attention.

Probably just overtired or teething, they'll be better after their nap

So ....

Executive order 947 announces some insane bold proclamation

Fox news acclaim to the faithful that this will finally make somewhere great again, bring balance to the force, make butter spread straight from the fridge

Experts point it that it won't work, will cause chaos / financial ruin / end of the world

Plan is postponed / quietly shelved / ignored

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Executive order 948 announces some insane bold proclamation

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I think I'm spotting a pattern here

The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains

Re: Schrödinger trains

I suppose compared to many other German scientists of the 1930s .....

Re: Schrödinger trains

Don't look into his personal life and why most other countries weren't keen on him teaching at their universities

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

Re: Radiation hazards are often overblown.

So long as it's only a one-banana-problem

Re: So the Police could set up a series of police boxes to secretly spy on local Dr Who fans ?

Obligatory VIZ

Re: "it's like camouflaging a TARDIS as a police box"

>serves as a little shop selling CBD products.

But is it bigger on the inside?

Re: "it's like camouflaging a TARDIS as a police box"

So the Police could set up a series of police boxes to secretly spy on local Dr Who fans ?

London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool

Re: Just be cause you can do something ...

But if it distracts them from rugby, we have fewer huge hairy barbarians to worry about

Re: Just be cause you can do something ...

There are lots of underdeveloped regions of the British isles with an excess of mountains

These could be relocated to the south east to create scenery, skiing opportunities and power storage for AI data centers.

In addition the resulting flat parts of Scotland and Wales could be repurposed as cricket pitches, thus finally bringing civilization to the troublesome natives

Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that's coming off the tracks

Re: change code,redesign

Couldn't they just rename the system and keep the new name secret ?

That's usually a cheaper and easier security solution.

Incoming Govt solution

>SDRs can’t be banned as a class, especially open source ones

Just ban software or require a license for computers like they do for drones or dogs