Posts by ecofeco

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

Re: @gnasher729

Chodemonkey, the voices in your head love you like no one else!

Re: @gnasher729

Chodemonkey, the voices in your head love you!

Re: Dementia

Oh dear chodemoneky, you silly blithering idiot.

Ninite to win it: How to rebuild Windows without losing your mind

Ninite is still around?

Very cool!

Yeah, I hate M$, but there are a ton of third party tools that are very, very cool and helpful.

Them, I like.

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside

Re: Surely

Ironic, ain't it?

Dunning-Kruger is bad enough. Rich Dunning-Kruger dooms us all.

And here we are.

As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses

Re: We're Already Boned

There are a LOT of savants passing themselves off as intelligent and many other savants who just accept it.

Re: Wikipedia?

Wiki is good as a VERY general reference, but I've seen, first hand everything you've described and I now often cross check Wiki with other sources.

Have to.

We’re calling it now: Agentic AI will win RSAC buzzword Bingo

Damn that is ballsy!

Plus, there are privacy and security concerns tied to the data used to train these models: Where is the data stored, and for how long? Who has access to it? Can it be deleted, and if so, by whom?

The data THEY stole from US?

I would suggest the safest place for them to store it would be to put it where the sun never shines. And then rotate.

Two CISA officials jump ship, both proud of pushing for Secure by Design software

Re: Oh dear

National security is NOT a corporate matter, ya numpty.

Nvidia rolls out NeMo microservices to help AI help you help AI

Re: Delusional

Exactly.

Oh, and those interviewed were also holding AI companies stock in their portfolio. What's a little legal pump and dump among friends, eh?

Re: Word Salad

It goes to eleven?

What fresh hell?

...is this?

Who knew even AI would have Idiocracy?

Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet

Must be one of them Panicans.

He just needs to deal with some short term pain and then the winning will start rolling in!

Re: Oh the irony...

I see you are one of the few who have thought this through.

Have my upvote.

A pot of $250K is now available to ransomware researchers, but it feeds a commercial product

Want to eliminate ransomware?

Maybe, I dunno, and I know this will sound radical and crazy, but maybe MAKE THE SOFTWARE COMPANIES SECURE THEIR SHIT? By law?

European biz calls for Euro tech for local people

I've said it before

Europe needs to do whatever it takes to distance itself from the U.S. as much as it can as quickly as possible.

Stability and law equality are not coming back to the U.S. for a long, long time.

When Microsoft made the Windows as a Service pivot

Has been for a long, long time.

The adverting began with Win 10. Impediment PLUS advertising! So much winning.

Re: Lessons skipped and still not enough paranoia

That's the other part. :)

Re: Lessons skipped and still not enough paranoia

What's the old joke? "Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you."

Dentists sue ex-contractor for holding web domains hostage in biz fight

It's either in a contract or it's not

Seems simple enough. There is either a contract for this or not.

Only the judge is going to know before we do.

Today's LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed

Imagine generating endless exploits every hour of the day.

THAT'S what this means.

Now imagine what it takes to counter that. Yeah, nothing. We're screwed.

The well has now been poisoned beyond fixing.

Re: Private fight

We could have except for tech douche bros.

Re: Patch Hour?

Exactly. There is NO way to keep up with that.

Hence my other post here.

Re: AI bubble bursting

Apparently at least 7 numpties here looking at your downvotes. Assuming you mean they still fall for the AI as savior bollocks

They just mad about their cryptocoins.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

"Sergai you arrogant ass, you've killed US!"

Well, it was fun while it lasted and now it's self destructed.

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux

LOL, it's harder to keep M$ running that ANY flavor of Linux.

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

LOL

Maybe they should be more worried about ASML tech getting through. Type ASML and China into a search box and see the results. All kinds of goings ons and abouts.

Chasing nVidia is Whack-A-Mole.

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

Re: What’s “CVD” in Russian?

NYET!

Re: You're missing the obvious solution.

Federation? Confederacy?

I know! How about an Idiocracy of Specifications! To be known as IOS 9000. Because all our base are belong to them!

Enshitification intesifies

...and it all fell gloriously to bits!

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

Turbo encabulated Clippy!

Now with larger spurring bearing valves!

Uninstall

I uninstall it on every PC I have to use. And when M$ puts it back from an update, I just uninstall it again.

Really, it only takes a minute.

I learned how to fix PCs since the late 1980s to make things work. Now I spend far too much time making things NOT work, on purpose, because they break things.

Good job M$.

What to do once your Surface Hub v1 becomes an 84-inch, $22K paperweight

What a nightmare. Total insanity.

Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users

Linux is EASY compared to Windows. Just stunningly... easy.

Faster to. Mostly because it's not spying on you 24/7 and mostly because because the devs actually care about quality.

Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure

Re: It's an old old story...

South Pacific, with Ray Walston as the grizzly yet flamboyant veteran sailor.

Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog

Re: It may not be Russia.

It's Russia. It is a documented fact that Russia OWNS Trump.

If?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-praises-elon-musk-compares-him-father-soviet-space-program-2025-04-16/

Putin praises Elon Musk, compares him to father of Soviet space program

Datacenters selling power back to the grid? Don’t bet on it, say operators

LOL wut?

Datacenters bringing benefit to the community?

Absurd on the face of it.

Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh

Re: Offline

Nailed it.

The only thing worse than a tech douche bro is fin-tech douche bro. ------------------------>>> encyclopedia photo of fin-tech douche bro

Hey, let's reinvent the wheel!

Only this time, let's also make it as Rube Goldberg as possible!

Modern times require modern idiots. ©®™

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

Re: Still can't write clean code after forty years

GIGO

They've never fixed it and now they never can. The flaws are literally written in stone and their corporate culture.

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

Re: How hard can it be to RFI/EMI and Radiation-Harden your electronics?

Cool, now you have an expensive drone with reduced range and payload.

I don't think you and all the posters saying "just shield it!" understand the flight requirements of small drones. Every single OUNCE counts. Every single price increase adds up to less weapons.

20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit

I'd say mission accomplished

The thing with experiments of this nature: you learn something valuable one way or the other.

Trailblazing is like that. There's no previous map, see? No large body of knowledge. No easy look-up tables.

What's the old saying? "Space is hard."

It's VERY hard. And unforgiving. Cold and impersonal. And very, very dangerous.

ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK?

Not everywhere and not as thorough as you think.

In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield

Re: It's not just a data integrity issue.

That's the bottom line.

Chain of evidence custody is everything. And that chain is broken, on purpose, by the very people being investigated who SHOULD be charged with evidence tampering and perjury, but of course are not.

Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz

Re: huh

Yep. The greatest data heist is history was made by a musky smelling doggie.

Re: 99.5% breached

That SSN myth died decades ago.

"Not supposed to" and reality are too different things. I cannot get one single utility connected without my SS. I cannot bank, without my SS. I cannot get a credit card, without my SS. I cannot get help from any of those as well, without my SS.

Law is one thing, defacto actions, is another.

Perfect and ACCURATE summation is perfect, and accurate.

Fin-tech douche bros gonna douche bro.

All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK'd judge

Insanity

For those who don't understand the gravity of this, let's just say it's a coup level problem.

TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails

Re: "Rock-solid resilience"

Well played.