Posts by JimmyPage

The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters

The most famous brand in physical security

Well if you count the Brinks Mat robbery then you are probably right.

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

Re: Group policy

But even the, MS have been know to merely treat GPO as advisory

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting

Why. It's *almost"

as if "AI" isn't.

Who could have foreseen that ?

Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows

In 2006 I was able to boot an old Ubuntu LiveCD

on my machine which found the ADSL and downloaded the latest ISO to install on that machine.

How is this any different ?

Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma

A lesson from the 19th Century

I can't help but recall a comment about the Difference Engine from a cabinet minister

Which was that it's ultimate application would be to calculate how much had been spent on it.

Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters

Shame this comes at the expense

of sorting their fucking stock out.

If you use the online site to shop from favourites, you will be aware of the parade of items that are "Out of stock". If you don't use favourites it hides the entry for them to give the illusion of their being somehow competent.

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

In other news

The UKs Attorney General has been instructed to lay proceedings against the US government for

"The divers and repeated use of His Majesties Common Law of England, most egregiously exploited in the Supreme Court therein and without honour or restitution to the originating party as is the ancient custom and practice of this land".

Because as quoted last week, the US still relies on English Common Law (and why not, it's clearly superior to anything they have cooked up in 250 years).

Four years into Ukraine invasion, Russia turns influence-ops back to US and Europe

Fuck you Vlad

That is all.

Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars

The question is not so much was (is) there life on Mars.

It's much more is it in any way related to life on earth.

If not, then we can still consider that life can emerge under the right conditions.

If it is, then it raises the further question of where it originated whilst still not answering if it's unique or not.

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

Now *this* is what "AI" is perfect for

Clever pattern matching at the speed of light.

I mean it has nothing to do with intelligence and could have easily been just as accurately reported leaving the buzzphrase out.

But still, beers all round ->

Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors

Surely a waste of time ?

I mean we are being told hourly how AI is indistinguishable from humans ?

So who's right ?

There's no such thing as an agentic CPU

Er, missing the point ?

Computers are universal machines.

Ponder that awhile.

Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day

Diversity ?

Surely the safest outfit is one that has spread the risk, using all flavours of OS and application software to mitigate a single point of failure ?

And the role of compliance is to say to the lock in vendors "That's nice dear, but we're the ones paying"

I have zero sympathy for Microsoft here. And only marginally less for any organisation that has allowed it to become their problem too.

Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

Re: Mary Whitehouse was a well-meaning

She was not. She was a narrow minded little bigot who would have got cross that outfits like Reform nicked her tricks.

She headed an organisation that would happily have perjured itself to send people to jail if they hadn't been rumbled by a court.

Do not rewrite history. *My* history.

Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach

Don't worry

no danger of any of the victims seeing compensation -crack on.

Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder

Re: Mass email using BCC

It's not as if they don't pay $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for their systems.

Luckily they won't have to compensate anyone

so that's all good.

Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

There is almost nothing

you can't do in BASH, with the right few programs.

Troops’ phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries

Here's an idea ...

Just rip out the "AI" shite and tracking shite for *all* phones.

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Very little sympathy, I am afraid

downvote all you like. As you explain to me what it was about the previous 30 years of MS behaviour that made you think "You know what ? This time thins will be different".

I have been using "AI" for the past 5 years in a professional capacity. And my original observation that it's most useful feature is to work around the shite that is modern IT still stands.

Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

So like a pre compiler

for A| then ?

Good idea. get your local AI to write your cloud AI

NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon

Astronauts ?

Surely this is a perfect use case for robots ?

EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project

Amazing how a failure to define "sovereignty"

can lead to so many profitable discussions.

Also, the reasons for wanting sovereignty can change the definition. Are you cost cutting ? Are you trying to ensure resilience ? Are you wanting to control expenditure (not the same as cost cutting) or are you trying to eliminate any possible insecurities ?

I'd wager that well over 80% of businesses interest in sovereignty is to avoid subscription price gouging and to retain the ability to put their data where they want, when they want with not extra costs.

Which means this article is really aimed at (checks notes) less than 20% of companies

The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors

Wot

no PR1MOS ?

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

A great use for "AI"

would be to advise on how to avoid being gouged like this.

Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner

A lot depends on what you take "sovereign" to mean.

and it's not owning every single component and it's means of production.

It's about having control over what you have paid for.

The two are not synonymous. And anyone who conflates the two is dim, or has an agenda or both. Either way their contribution is of questionable value.

GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet

I expect this comment will be deleted

But for the love of God can we have a "revert to previous layout" option for El Reg please ?

Or is the hope that preventing any user feedback will allow the money men to say "but no one has complained" ?

Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation

SIEMs are all about RegExes

'nuff said.

Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt

The problem is

that all the money that should have gone into half decent code is long been passed upwards.

This is like having to backfill mines once all the gold has been nicked. A task that is best accomplished with the cheapest labour possible. You can see how slavery happens.

Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’

Re: Everyone wants smartphones from a few years ago, just way cheaper.

That has faint echoes of Henry Ford

"If I had listened to what my customers wanted, I would have made faster horses"

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs

Seems they can dish it out

But not take it.

Not quite sure how that is supposed to increase my respect ?

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

It's like maths reveals deep secrets in the universe

This is revealing deep fails in the understanding of intelligence,

(HINT: Intelligence is evolutions way of moving towards more efficient use of energy).

Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager

Re: I did so that you don't have to.

Where is the "Oh FFS !" Icon ?

Trowels

Ever seen a Roman trowel ? Identical to one you could get at B&Q.

Somethings just work.

(I daren't google to see if there's a smart trowel)

Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's bug-finding powers

Versioning ...

consistency is more important than implementation.

WARNING: Oracle's AI obsession could mean higher prices and worse support

So what exactly are the benefits of AI ?

if you end up paying more for less ?

Investors are going nuclear to keep UK's AI datacenters fed

The end justifies the excuse ?

Microsoft calls time on ASP.NET Core 2.3 on .NET Framework

I am reminded of all the remixes in the 90s ....

"Do you want the Smooth mix, the rave mix, the club mix or the extended dance mix ?"

"Just give me the one where they got it right."

Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed

Re: Idiots never reboot

Downvoted, because soundbites like that are a magnet for morons.

The true quote is "Idiots never reboot without a plan for failure".

WALOB

If a "broken" machine can run fine in Linux then it's Windows - no matter how it was borked.

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

Debian expert here

if anyone has a remote role ...

Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds

Unlike those foreign workers

You can't be racist to "AI".

AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

I am reminded of the Peter Principle

no matter how competent "AI" manages to become, it will inevitably be promoted into incompetence. Which for "AI" should be a familiar feeling, admittedly.

YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply

Hmmmm

From memory the Apollo computers were bespoke in a way they had to be, Whilst you may be able to simulate them with more general purpose kit, I *really* wouldn't like to try it for real.

Remember for Apollo 11 the computer had to deal with overload without failing - and it was needed.

However all of that being said i am supremely happy that space travel still inspires the nerdiverse.

Virtual pint --->

Telling an AI model that it’s an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer

My takeaway from this article ?

I am not "most people".

EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers

As ever, looking completely the wrong way

The real issue here is by incorporating everything into "the cloud" these service providers get to break things - and the associated costly hardware - with nary a pretence of accountability.

Something Google Home users know only too well.

Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds

Such an easy job too

just rip out all the "AI" shit and see Windows improve 100 fold.

The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope

Re: This report is bizarre

Why ?

Esteemed though El Reg is, if it is reporting even 10% of the reality, that's 9% too much.

How come media outlets - which are approaching pisspoor from the wrong side - suddenly become siren voices of truth when writing about the purported woeful inadequacies in UK or NATO defences.

Did no one stop to think maybe this in itself is part of our defences ?

UK to rethink tech buying after Palantir contracts

Starting point ?

NO ONE can be trusted with our data.

Let's do all our working with that in mind. You'd be amazed how quickly you stop doing things the way you have always done them.