* Posts by cd

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FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket

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Re: "...only way we could find to install the Signal messenger..."

Obtanium will fetch and install Signal updates as well.

I keep F-Droid around, but mostly as a catalog.

/e/ OS 3.0: Slightly less clunky, slightly more private

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Re: stock motorola phones.....

And Obtanium.

Salesforce adds AI to everything, jacks up prices by 6%

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Sales-FORCE

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

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Re: Vivaldi

This is the perfect time fir Vivaldi to change horses and base on Firefox or one of the hardened derivatives like IronFox or Fennec.

The result would have the plugin array of Firefox with the bookmark handling and UI of Vivaldi.

I don't think it's right to blame the victim here, as Google has clearly embraced being as vile and evil as possible. I'm thinking that gmail has given them enough kompromat to fend the regulators off from the sleigh, but the damned wolves keep changing with elections.

Single passenger reportedly survives Air India Boeing 787 crash

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From another source...

"Another medic said Ramesh told him that immediately after the plane took off, it began descending and suddenly split in two, throwing him out before a loud explosion."

Composite airframe problem?

Agree that he's fortunate to be alive, and also that we're fortunate to hear about that splitting because he survived.

Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in ongoing WordPress scuffle

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I agree with some of that; I don't get along with either WP or CP people and don't care about it.

I want a tool. Not joining the Hammer Assoc. because I want to pound nails.

Have several sites running CP converted from WP with no problems, but I had stopped upgrading after nicht-so-Gutenberg arose and the mental health concerns became more obvious, so my favored plugins are sometimes old and I kept my own repository, so I can use CPs plugin Upload feature to add the ones I like. Some of us have backups for some inexplicable reason or reasons.

At some point I'll either quit or move on, CP allows some procrastination.

So far everything else I've tried looks worse. All those plugins, self-updating, large enough community to populate -cons all over the globe, etc. make it hard to beat.

The one Molly White wrote for her own sites looks interesting and simple, but I haven't tried it.

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Stop

Classic Press is a viable fork that the Reg ignores (despite Situation using WP itself in one of its spinoffs and therefore having a perfect opportunity to report on CP firsthand).

It started with using 4.9, the last WP version before Gutenberg, now uses current versions with that removed.

It uses WP plugins.

The community hired its own devs, has its own forum. Far as I kniw, it doesn't sell hosting, but I haven't delved.

While it's fashionable around here to dismiss people who use WP, it's been around a long time and some now have decades of personal IP on their site.

At the time (2003?) that Carthik made his post about its beginnings, and switching to it, the other big choice was Movable Type, which was not run well.

Matt possibly had issues back then, his site's subtitle was Unlucky at Cards, which I thought rang weird, success tends to magnify quirks.

I see Classic Press as the way out. It's straightforward, uses the same bones.

If someone wants to put down their dismissively ironic waving hand and provide a way out that's better, my gantlet is hereby thrown down.

Until then, CP works and it converts a WP site to CP with a plugin and a few minutes, bye Matt.

Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns

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Re: Oh dear god

They're saving money by not hiring anyone okd enough to know better.

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Google warning about data theft and extortion seems somewhat ironic.

IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight

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There are people reading this, or the recent Dali transcript, quietly nodding in acknowledgement, knowing they could have helped if they weren't forced out by nepos who knew everything.

US community bank says thieves drained customer data through third party hole

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Would appreciate a name-n-shame on the 3rd party. Too easy an exit for the primary vendor, this shouldn't be a habit.

Feds arrest DoD techie, claim he dumped top secret files in park for foreign spies to find

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custodes3

German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal

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Re: Legacy

In the USA, VW is a dumb driver brand, like Nissan and Jeep.

Anything Stellantis, really.

SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again

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These stubborn pod-bay doors... might they be controlled by an AI with the acronym HAL?

'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers

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If only...

...there was an alternative to using cloud services.

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

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"The FBI didn’t identify that platform or say which government officials have been deep faked."

Could they please be more Xact?

Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'

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Luckily, the TARGET was a big company with a big security budget...

Snowflake CISO on the power of 'shared destiny' and 'yes and'

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Great

The AI companies steal my creative works, then Snowflake helps them secure the loot.

Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app

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Re: Only took NINE MONTHS

F droid makes a good catalog, but Obtanium is my pref.

First thing I do on Android is disable Play Services and Play Store.

AI infrastructure investment may be $8T shot in the dark

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There's a way...

Start by replacing the worthless employees first, HR.

New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant

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Re: Just fuck off.

Lip service...

AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume

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Since they steal everything from everyone, tax all AI companies to fund UBI for everyone.

Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek

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After all, they're just using them for training.

Satellite phone tech coming to your mobe this year – but who pays for it?

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I'm only talking through Sputnik.

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right

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Re: Trump doesn't think

Another correction: President Truss

Dev loudly complained about older colleague, who retired not long after

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Re: Older Employee

Knowing where one fits and where one is.

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

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The issue...

Is not with supplies, but MBAs.

UPENN is mightier than the sword.

Ex-Googler Schmidt warns US: Try an AI 'Manhattan Project' and get MAIM'd

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In which...

Squirrel boy tries to protect his nuts.

Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke

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Little Snitch

I want the equivalent of Little Snitch on my Android phone.

But I also recognise that even uBO can see where I surf, in order to work.

A new paradigm us needed all around, going beyond browsers, it can utilise fake user creds and be useless for data collection, yet display content.

We need to make the web useless to big tech, to shut them out from real humanity, their C-suites included.

Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?

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Re: "for mine own part, it was Greek to me."

Uncle Fred needs to be invited.

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No Hawkwind?

Humph...

Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

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Re: Formula 1 Scam

Railroad in USA ran (might still) a car and engine tracking system for their entire system on Access. A disaster in my eyes, but they sold a copy to a Canadian railroad and I did well training their people to use it.

They had a row of techs in their center with big screens with multiple terminals running on them for "data quality", who were very busy lads. Every time anything didn't work IRL the floor manager typed DQ in entire columns and sent them off.

uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

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Alts

On Android, Fennec via FDroid is slightly hardened FF and IronFox continues the former Mull since its dev stopped. FF plugins work on them. For financial logins, etc.

Still use Vivaldi v1.x for unimportant logins like here and weather and misc chrome/blink reqs because it renders old Reddit better than 2.x for me.

Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash

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Re: An interesting detail

Could we out them on sharks as well?

WordPress.org denies service to WP Engine, potentially putting sites at risk

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There is a fork...

It's called ClassicPress, doesn't have the Gutenberg stuff.

1.x is based on WP 4.9

2.x is based on current releases with Gutenberg removed.

They have paid devs..

Work very well, both of them.

One can install the conversion plugin and run it on a WP site.

Who’s watching you the closest online? Google, duh

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This...

...is a more cogent reason for Kaspersky's banning.

Some US Kaspersky customers find their security software replaced by 'UltraAV'

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Protection racket

AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody's buying that

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I agrre. But sometimes they hit. I thought Cloud was ridiculous.

I think that spin of the wheel still taunts them.

CISA boss: Makers of insecure software must stop enabling today's cyber villains

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Meanwhile scroll down to the article about IBM purging experience yet again. NLRB seems absent.

HPE CEO: 'Best interest of shareholders' to pursue $4B damages from Lynch estate

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Re: A storm off the coast of Sicily

The ship's builder has commented about its unsinkability and how no threatening incidents happened before Lynch owned it.

Some crew are under investigation.

Why?

Because there is an access door on the side that was "never" used but could foment fast ingress of water.

This is not an IT mag, but has more current coverage...

https://www.maritime-executive.com/search?key=Bayesian

I find it interesting that The Reg is covering the civil damages case but not the current criminal cases.

Boeing union workers in US reject contract: 96% vote to strike

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Meanwhile at Hyundai....

"Without comment, the NTSB posted a 41-page document summarizing the findings of the Engineering Group formed to inspect the systems aboard the containership Dali which blacked out in March and destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge. The report lists a few minor issues while also showing a loose cable found in the breaker system when tested in a simulation caused a brief blackout.

The NTSB notes that initial troubleshooting led to the Engineering Group narrowing its focus on the vessel’s electrical switchgear. The tests detailed in the report took place during April in four separate examination sessions.

The check of the wiring on the transformer and a relay found a “cable was loosely connected,” a condition which representatives from Hyundai informed could create an open circuit and interrupt the 110VDC power on the HV side of the board. According to the report, the engineers said it would trigger an under voltage release trip which would result in a 440V blackout.

After explaining the situation to the NTSB and the other participants, Hyundai conducted a simulation. When the engineers disconnected the cable, all the equipment powered by the Low Voltage (440V) Switchboard blacked out. These included lights throughout the vessel. The report says the system recovered making an automatic transfer and regained power after approximately 10 seconds.

The inspection and testing were conducted by a team of experts including representatives from the vessel’s owners Grace Ocean and operators Synergy Marine. HD Hyundai which built the vessel in 2015 participated in the four examinations in April along with ClassNK as the vessel’s class society and the Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore as the flag state.

No further analysis was provided on the results of the tests and the NTSB declined comment. Its teams are continuing their analysis. They are not expected to release a report until up to a year after the incident."

<https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/loose-cable-found-during-ntsb-dali-investigation-could-cause-blackouts>

BOFH and PFY need a field trip aftet their office fire. Let's get them out thete to see if a Hyundai-made vessel can be stolen with a USB key.

Avis alerts nearly 300K car renters that crooks stole their info

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Re: Dodged a Bullet, this time!

In the US, cheapest one-ways I know of are moving trucks.

Thete were "drive away" companies that would reposition cars for students and rental companies, but they seem to be mostly gone these days.

AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract

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Of all the companies to complain...

...about sharp practices and bad faith.

Salesforce mulls charging per AI chat as investors sweat over fewer seats

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I'd like to see governments start thinking along the same lines when it comes to interacting with corpos. Monetize for every interaction with them.

It's a language the corps understand.

Zuckerberg says Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts

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His only concern was lost profits.

Body of IT tycoon Mike Lynch recovered after superyacht sinks

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The ship builder is claiming crew incompetence, pretty damning...

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/lost-superyacht-s-builder-blames-crew-for-sinking

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Never attribute to conspiracy what can be readily explained by karma.

Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 – but it'll be back

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Vivaldi

I have it on MX for sites written only for Chrone/Blink, has its own script blocker.

Heard various things about what will happen with Man V3, but why upgrade.

Euro antitrust cop Margrethe Vestager to depart after decade of reining in Big Tech

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She's a hero

Long may you run, Margrethe Vestager.

Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

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Re: Silver Hammer...

He had Autonomy. Now he doesn't.

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