Posts by cd

Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise

Re: Plank of England

No mention of what it cost for an osteopath visit after they sprained their arm patting their own back.

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

Re: I'm confused why...

A Manx ca...

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

Kunda surprised LP or someone at The Reg hadn't noted Furi's convergence dock for the new model, wherein the phone becomes a desktop computer. Whole thing is around 600 rapidly-devalueing dollars.

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

Re: Analogue clocks

US postal service uses 24-hour clocks but decimal minutes.

Re: musical notation was probably one of the oldest programming languages .....

Had an Ahi moment there...

<canned laughter>

Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops

Starmer's entire cabinet should be forced to commute in these things.

Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet

Hi, I'm the principal here, call me Peter.

Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day

Private equity bought it, raised the rates, yet somehow mysteriously added no value and probably chased the worthwhile employees out for being too expensive.

A Reg look at the changes in employee ranks might prove salutary. As might a sharp inquiry into the VC company responsible.

Meanwhie, there are alternatives which haven't been sundered yet.

What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia

Water flowing around rocks...

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’

Re: The place that has made me the most happy

At least one honeymoon is over...

Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now

Been able to do this for decades, simply by not using their products.

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Re: It's all a bit shit really...

It's not about money; a morally-retarded man-child dork is still trying to understand humans, and since he isn't one, is unaware of what an ass he is.

And of course, like most of the people causing strife in North America, he's of European descent. The continent that was trafficking slaves to NA in the first place.

Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies

Soon only AIs will have privacy. We should issue official IDs to all of them.

French IDs...

Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges

UK can have all the stupid tourists, smart ones won't be visiting.

Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus

Re: Ho Hum, and the pattern repeats one more time !!!???

Almost like they're having a contest...

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in

Re: Boldly leaping into the past?

Except the brilliant part is they charge for being inaccurate. After a while, who will know?

Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale

"Agent Memory is a managed service, but your data is yours," they wrote.

Was. Was yours.

Loud, power hungry – opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban

Re: Maine

But yet another reason to.move there...

Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online

Google stuff is manager-class, like microsoft. Not for smart people.

Re: You could block JavaScript or use Tor

On android there's Orbot for TOR VPN, works with Rethink.

US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally

Claudia the welfare queen.

Claude is getting worse, according to Claude

Re: Clod

Clod plus Fraud...

Claude Code cache chaos creates quota complaints

Claude, please meet your new pet, Algernon

NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats

Why not float some Space Bonds?

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future

EU should have its own distro. Every member nation should have its own distro. Now even Hungary.

Those can be used as OJT tools for the upcoming resurgence of on-prem.

Different apps, fine, but standardised doc formats. Which process can be started right now.

Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh

Try heading over to domain registrar Dynadot for yourself, purportedly HQed in California... their site has an embedded javascript from Baidu. And of course Facebook, the definitely for sure American company.

You can buy a domain and have your info filched by Meta AND a Chinese company, both of which you probably wouldn't voluntarily deal with. Are they working together?

Dynadot used to be a good registrar with a good site, now it's a marketing viper pit.

The paranoia may be somewhat correct but the actions taken are pitifully naive and limited and only for news bites.

Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla

And...mozilla won't trust android users to arrange shortcuts themsrlves...gotta have an algo do that for them the way we want, for the 2 miserable lines of icons they're allowed.

And they can't understand why people leave firefox..small project like Vivaldi does ths way better, and has the equivalent of uBlock built-in.

Like other commenters have said, they're the :"good guys"...but with fronds like these, who needs anemones?

Even worse is the retail hosting industry's wholesale adoption of the evil ad agency's "standards"..."<shrug> we're making money."

Looking at you cPanel/WHM and your greedy MBA-enhanced owners.

Relentless uodating equals planned obsolescence.

Growing void between enterprise and frontier AI puts open weights models in the spotlight

"The models underscore a stark reality: the gulf between enterprise and frontier AI has grown considerably over the past few years, and the mower powerful models are beyond the means of many enterprises."

In which The Reg subtly suggests touching grass.

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

Re: ...But Wait....There's More....

Can one mount the file system on another device with those? Or does Apple helpfully block that for security and AI-stuffing-via-cloud purposes?

Also, external bluetooth keyboard?

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers

Re: 100 %

Need money for AI

Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard

No mention of Framework lappies.

Interdependent javascripts required to even read the PIRG site. Who's being educated here, and about what? Google, about the reader's privacy?

Business as usual in teapot-land.

AMD's AI director slams Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier since last update

This whiffs of competitor piling-on. The Reg, being what it is, might want to know which competitors have a lighter in their pocket.

The Jonny posts on the leaked code are funny and interesting, and have lead to non-fediverse people swamping his Masto instance. Which, according to

https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2

has 210 members.

Quite a lot of traction from such an humble and obscure source.

Not defending any shitbags, merely noting their apparent recognition of declining resources on the event horizon.

Anthropic sure has a mess on its hands thanks to that Claude Code source leak

Re: Build pipelines have no respect for IPO timelines

Almost like they asked their own product for advice...

AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup

Remember not to help when it blows up.

Researchers didn’t want to glamorize cybercrims. So they roasted them

Sounds like Ubuntu...

Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4

Good to see MoE still working, and cURLy...don't mention Larry. I don't like Larries.

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

Re: I'm always dismayed by the tribal wars in the FOSS projects...

cd's Law of Humanity #1...

Every human organisation will eventually betray its founding cause in order to save itself.

Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images

Like Amazon Basics, then.

Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

Well, at least they're both named Matt.

One in seven Americans are ready for an AI boss, but they might not trust it

Re: 15 percent of Americans would be willing to work for an AI boss,

Wharton is the root of all evil.

'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K

Next up, learn to moo...

"As the steers approach, Chris first checks the ears. The right ears have been marked by being halved down the middle. (The heifers’ right ears are notched.)"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/12/20/irons-in-the-fire

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up

"The natives of that group, before Mr. Smith’s time, are popularly said to have eked out a precarious livelihood by taking in each other’s washing."

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

These are the folks who left OpenAI because it was too immoral?

AI server farms heat up the neighborhood for miles around, paper finds

Re: Didcot Weather

Yup, those hundreds of dead trees I pass walking in forests are just a liberal fantasy. Stupid trees are just trying to shame the oil industry, which doesn't have any shame.

Just stay indoors and listen to podcasts.

UK manufacturers under cyber fire with 80% reporting attacks

So that's what all the British Leyland managers segued to...

Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid

Excellent!

Self-chaffing wheat...

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures

Windows Dogfood Edition...

Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead

Re: Waiting for the lawsuit and the consultancy clean up work

Speaking of customers, what happens when they figure out how to make changes themselves by interacting with the "agent"?

Maybe their kid comes back from school and an "internship"...

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

Re: Repair shop bodge

To match the hole in the head...