* Posts by krakead

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Red team hacker on how she 'breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy'

krakead

Re: David Avocado Wolfe

Are you sure? Have you looked at Xitter lately?

Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year

krakead

Re: Why do people still buy this junk?

That explains the excessive number of Wolverhampton-plated taxis in my city. Always wondered about that. Thanks :)

Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks

krakead

100% this! If I'm paying Amazon, Amazon are shipping it to me, and it comes in an Amazon box then I bought it from Amazon. The incidental fact that Amazon have a supplier/stock holding arrangement with some tat factory in China has no bearing on the transaction - they are Amazon's supplier, not mine, and I'm pretty sure British consumer law backs me up on this.

Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training

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Mushroom

Ah, Alibaba Cloud! The source of so much rogue bot traffic, we've blocked their entire ASN in the WAF!

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

krakead

Oh hell no! Even if I'm able to disable this shit, that's not good enough - I want to be able to eradicate every last shred of it from my computer. Oh, and Microsoft, yeah - that's right - MY COMPUTER! Just because it's running your increasingly unacceptable bag o'shite OS, doesn't make it yours.

Seriously thinking it's time to switch to Linux, especially now that it's a viable gaming platform.

Apple says if you want to ship your own iOS browser engine in EU, you need to be there

krakead

Malicious compliance at its twattiest best. Read the room, Apple!

ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off

krakead

Or, as C3PO said, "No, shut them all down!"

Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher

krakead
Facepalm

Musk is so utterly full of shit. That is understandable - he lives in his little billionaire's bubble surrounded by sycophants. What I find hard to fathom is the adulation he gets from otherwise sane people. Take my boss: he's a decent bloke - kind, sharp and savvy - yet he's totally convinced Musk is some sort of 'disrupter genius' and that all his monumental fuck-ups are part of some subtle plan. Unbelievable...

Amazon on the hook for predictably revolting use of concealed clothes hook spy cam

krakead

Re: Another frivolous case

Arguably, in this tortured analogy, Amazon is the smuggling operation that gets the drugs to the pushers.

Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him

krakead

Re: The witch hunt of the leftist mob

But if Twitter can't stand on its own two feet without being propped up by advertisers then surely that's just the capitalist market, which you clearly love dearly, speaking? Musk is, among his many failings, a first-class hypocrite.

krakead

Re: It's about the blackmail

But it's not blackmail - not even close. It's business exercising their freedom not to associate with a company whose behaviour they do not agree with. It's not hard to understand once you remove your head from Elon's rectum and take a look around.

Unity CEO 'retires' in the wake of fee fiasco

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Childcatcher

Shame it's not a Blade Runner-style retirement. However, Riccitiello is one of the corporate undead, so he'll swoop back to the nest for a while, but then be out looking for another victim after not very long at all.

Microsoft to snatch Visio app away from iOS users this summer

krakead

Thanks, Microsoft, you've just made things easier for me. I have two Visio Pro licences, one on my main PC and the other on my laptop, but occasionally have to look at diagrams on my iPhone. My work is switching everyone to Macs, and I wondered how to keep Visio. Now I realise I neither want to nor need to if it's yet another product that I paid for that I now need to pay for again via a subscription.

Cops swoop after crooks use wireless keyfob hack to steal cars

krakead

Re: Progress of car security

My parent's Cortina was stolen and recovered twice in one week due to Ford's comedy locks.

My latest car has this keyless nonsense - keep the fobs in faraday pouches and a substantial, bright yellow lock on the steering wheel to compensate.

Amazon fears it could run out of US warehouse workers by 2024

krakead
Trollface

Bezos should talk to the Tyrell Corporation; I hear they may have a solution.

Makers of ad blockers and browser privacy extensions fear the end is near

krakead

Re: Question for knowledgeable people here

Yes, using Pi Hole

https://pi-hole.net/

Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee

krakead
Facepalm

They do, but the domain has to be hosted with GoDaddy *shudders*

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-a-personalized-email-address-in-microsoft-365-75416a58-b225-4c02-8c07-8979403b427b

Price of Microsoft's Surface Duo plummets to better represent middling hardware ... but only if you're in the US

krakead
FAIL

I was a big fan of Windows Phone but now I wouldn't touch a phone from Microsoft with someone else's barge pole. Launch price of the Duo was laughable, even now it's way too much for an admittedly interesting gimmick of a design running on mediocre hardware.

After flirting on and off with Android, I'm going to stick with iOS - at least I can expect decent long term support if nothing else.

Up to £80m on the table in University of Nottingham's search for service provider to lace together IT support

krakead

The University of Nottingham has a history of abject failure when it comes to outsourcing (sorry, "partnering"), failure to support it's own internal IT staff, or listen to them or allow them to do their jobs. This will be another disaster that someone will use to springboard their career just before it implodes.

Proof-of-space cryptocurrency Chia triggers HDD sales boom in Europe

krakead
WTF?

Can't crypto currencies just cut to the endgame already with a Proof of Stupidity model? There's an endless supply of that around it seems,

Ubiquiti iniquity: Wi-Fi box slinger warns hackers may have peeked at customers' personal information

krakead
Big Brother

This is why I asked for recommendation for kit that isn't reliant on cloud accounts. Aside from convenience and ease of use, there's no valid reason for a LAN router to require an externally hosted service to configure it.

krakead
FAIL

FFS - I bought some new Ubiquiti wifi kit for home an hour before this announcement. Before I send it back does *anyone* do a decent mesh kit that is reasonably priced (under £500), suitible for a large, old house and doesn't either rely on cloud accounts and isn't ridiculously overcomplicated to set up? Oh, and isn't from Netgerar.

Google reveals version control plus not expecting zero as a value caused Gmail to take an inconvenient early holiday

krakead
FAIL

The corollary to this is the client insisting that the updates go live NOW despite having not been tested.

Planet Computers throws Linux fans a bone, improves calls, and adds virty trackpad to Cosmo Communicator

krakead

My Gemini is now pretty much a novelty paperweight. Still works fine, but it was never quite good enough as an everyday phone. Skipped the Cosmo as that came out too soon after the Gemini, but I'm semi-tempted by the Slide, but given the poor support the Gemini's had I don't fancy finding myself in the same position a couple of years down the line.

Microsoft has made an Android phone. Repeat, Microsoft has made an Android phone. A dual-screen foldable mobe not due until late 2020

krakead

Re: No thanks

Give Launcher 10 a try - it's as close as you'll ever get to a Windows phone UI on Android. Been using it on my Note 9 for the past 6 months and it's very good.

krakead

Re: If you can't beat 'em

Having been thrown under the bus on Windows Phone/Mobile/Whatever there's not a chance in hell I'd touch this thing even with someone else's 12' stunt cock.

Nah, it won't install: The return of the ad-blocker-blocker

krakead

Is there anything advertising can't make worse? Venturing onto the web without an ad blocker is, these days, like voluntarily walking behind a farmer's muck spreader at full flow while trying to admire the scenery, and that's before you even consider it as a delivery vector for malware.

Fuck that.

Troll seeks toll because iPhones work

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Trollface

Re: I've got an idea...

Not that prior art has ever stopped a patent troll from chancing their arm.

Picture this: An exabyte of cat pix in the space of a sugar cube of DNA

krakead
Thumb Up

Re: re: No word on actual data transfer rates.

Reminds me of Harlan Ellison's Demon with a Glass Hand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_with_a_Glass_Hand

Sysadmin's £100,000 revenge after sudden sacking

krakead
Coat

SOP for this outfit

I worked for this gaming outfit back in the mid-90s and this was very much Standard Operating Procedure for them. I witnessed several 'nights of the long knives' where whole swathes of employees were escorted off the premises, often once the naive wide-eyed youngsters realised how they were being taken for a ride and started grumbling about being paid so poorly. Only true believers got to stay.

I left before it inevitably happened to me.

AT&T fined about 3 days of profit ($100m) for limiting 'unlimited' plans

krakead
Devil

And how exactly this is a bad thing?

DNS cockup locks Virgin Media customers out of ntlworld.com email

krakead

Looks like it's working again now.

Rotten Apple iOS 7 fury: Glitchy audio or is today's music really that bad?

krakead
Childcatcher

Phone updated in about 30 mins starting at about 7pm. iPad I left overnight and it was all done in the morning.

But there's a serious lack of perspective from both sides of the (very childish) device divide.

Adobe kills Creative Suite – all future features online only

krakead
FAIL

Re: What a huge fraud! Adobe worse than Electronic Arts (SimCity fraud)...

Sorry, as much as I think Adobe's pricing model stinks, I have to question your business sense. You do realise one of the biggest problems faced by small businesses is cash flow don't you?

Ten ancestors of the netbook

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Pint

Re: Any HP 320LX love?

Get yourself another one - they pop up on ebay fairly often.

I too sold mine, to fund the purchase of a Psion 5, which was superior in every way, especially once you'd got over the novelty of a having a baby version of Windows. At least mine went to a good home - I advertised it in Micromart and it was bought by Professor Heinz Wolff, who undoubtedly went on to do some serious boffinry with it!

krakead
Coat

I wrote my dissertation on a Portfolio - the fun part was trying to get it printed!

I'm obsessed with miniaturised/portable computing and had many of these over the years. I've even started buying them again on ebay and am proud/sad* to admit that I have a display case full of pocket computers going back the old Sharp PC-1211. My Psion 5mx still goes everywhere with me.

* - delete as applicable

Apple's brilliant plan to fix iOS Maps: Get YOU to do it

krakead

Re: OpenStreetMap

So, I just need to nip out and buy a theodolite then and taking surveying course online then? ;)

Anyhow, just checked again and we now exist! Must be a very recent addition - within the past 6 weeks.

krakead
FAIL

Re: OpenStreetMap

The road I live on doesn't exist on OSM (fair enough, it's only been there for 13 years) nor does the road it comes off (again, it's only existed for 20+ years). So no problems there.

To all the Apple apologists out there, it doesn't matter that Google's satellite views were a bit shit at first. Apple are competing with Google Maps as it exists *now*. You can't replace one app with another that's significantly inferior without expecting to get kicked for it.

Tablet tech is really a Psion of the times

krakead
Facepalm

Re: No one wants to mention the HP Jornada 720?

I really should stop doing this, but I've just pushed the button on a 720 too.

In other news, my Psion 5 arrived this morning. I'd forgotten how ahead of the game they were - shame they threw it all away in the end :(

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Thumb Up

Re: No one wants to mention the HP Jornada 720?

Quite alright old chap. As well as the Psion, I went for a Jornada 680 (rather than a 720) - less than £42 for the pair. If the Jornada proves to actually be useful I'll upgrade to a 720 or 728.

First order of the day will be installing JLime on my IBM 1GB microdrive! It still makes me wince when I think of how much I paid for it back in the day...

krakead
FAIL

Re: No one wants to mention the HP Jornada 720?

I take it all back - just bought a Psion 5 too.

Damn you nostalgia, you are a harsh mistress!

krakead
Devil

Re: No one wants to mention the HP Jornada 720?

Damn you! I'd forgotten about these. I desperately wanted one when they were new but couldn't afford it. Roll forward to now: a quick trip to fleabay later and one will be winging its way to me shortly. I have absolutely no need for it now, but I absolutely must have one!

I really must stop looking at Psion 5s as well...

Apple ejects FT app from iTunes

krakead
Headmaster

Server farms and bandwith are FREE now, apparently...

Nothing? Really? Just how much do you think it cost to build and maintain the infrastructure to support the app store? I'm hardly the world's biggest Apple fan, but you, Sir, are an idiot if you think Apple add no value whatsoever.

HTC Facebook branded, buttoned phones appear online

krakead
FAIL

If it's anything like Facebook on the web...

...there will be updates every week that will, without warning, rearrange the interface and change how key functionality works.

Star Wars set for 3D rehash

krakead
Stop

George, please put down the stick...

Dear god, *another* version of Star Wars? Put down the stick, George - the horse is well and truly dead. Someone really ought to enforce Mr Lucas's retirement - no amount of re-hashing or technology of dubious value can hide the fact that it's been a long time since he's done anything even vaguely decent.

iPhone 4 jailbreak banks on browser exploit

krakead
Jobs Horns

@Mick F

Try restarting your phone first. My 3GS kept hanging when I tried the jailbreak. Once I'd rebooted it worked straight away.

Minister admits thought crime is on the agenda

krakead

This is all going to end in tears...

So, if I draw a picture of someone robbing a bank would that make me a bank robber? What about it a draw a picture of a government minister robbing a bank?

Curious...

Universal thaws out The Thing

krakead
Paris Hilton

Re: Takeshi Kovacs

Joel Silver optioned Altered Carbon for a reputed seven figure sum. My guess is that it's still in pre-production hell while they figure out how to make a film where the hero swaps bodies multiple times without confusing the hell out of the rednecks ;-)

Paris, because she's not had experience with multiple bodies, or so she says...

Jeremy Clarkson tilts at windmills

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@Matt Eagles

"As soon as Clarkson and his Leftie cronies are removed from TV the better."

Clarkson a leftie? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Idiot.

Anyhow, while all you sheep are happy for nanny to tell you what to do, some of us prefer to think for ourselves. Clarkson may be a bit of a twat, but I'd rather have him making policy that the current mob.

Microsoft urges developers to tag sites for IE8

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Paris Hilton

@Jon Kale

Have to agree wholeheartedly with this. As much as we'd all like to tell Microsoft where to stick their 'standards' the real world doesn't work like that. I can only assume most of the posters here don't work in web design/development on a commercial level. To adopt such a stance would be a very swift route to zero clients and bankruptcy.

Paris, 'cos even she knows clients pay for results, not standards.

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