* Posts by poohbear

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Anonymous: We've leaked disk images stolen from far-right-friendly web host Epik

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Journalism without ad hominem attacks would be nice....you know, convey the impression of objective reporting ...

El Reg is not what it used to be ... :-(

tz database community up in arms over proposals to merge certain time zones

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Might as well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

'This is the new normal,' Microsoft tells US workers: Work from home until further notice

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Show me the Stage 3 Trials Safety Report and I'll consider it.

Until then, I'm not a guinea pig.

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Re: Leftanistan

If you are 'vaccinated" and allegedly "safe", what are you worried about?

Or don't you trust those 'vaccines"?

The lack of logic on this issue is astounding .. I expected better here.

Those shots neither prevent infection nor transmission.

Allegedly "you get less ill"... like last year, when "most people will only get a mild form of the disease"... so tell me again, what exactly ARE those shots doing except directly killing several thousand people and making huge amounts of money?

What happened to "vaccines are only for the elderly and vulnerable"?

Short term memory loss?

This game is not about Covid ... it's a power and money play.

!00 years ago we beat Spanish flu without vaccines. and it wasn't "herd immunity".

Why we abandoned open source: LiveCode CEO on retreat despite successful kickstarter

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Re: English like code ?

Sample code on their site is COBOL v2.

UK government names suppliers on £3.5bn contact centre, shared services, and outsourcing framework

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"Reading like a rogues' gallery of repeat offenders" .... did you mean "Reading like a list of Tory party donors" ?

GitHub's Copilot may steer you into dangerous waters about 40% of the time – study

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Re: Copilot considered harmful

Is that you, Clippy?

I was offered $500k as a thank-you bounty for pilfering $600m from Poly Network, says crypto-thief

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Is Dark Avenger still around?

Ad tech ruined the web – and PDF files are here to save it, allegedly

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FWIW back in the 90s Adobe was pushing very hard for PDF to be what the web was built on, rather than HTML.

Verified: UK.gov launching plans for yet another digital identity scheme

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" trusted organisations"

How much did you donate to the Tory party in the last three years?

You'll want to shut down the Windows Print Spooler service (yes, again): Another privilege escalation bug found

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Re: Non-fix fix

I thought Windows 10 was going to be the last version because it was going to make like Apple and use 10 / X as shorthand for *nix and morph into MS Linux ... and the whole 'Linux subsystem' thing were steps on the road.

Maybe Adobe or Autodesk said NoCanDo....

Microsoft, Google, Citizen Lab blow lid off zero-day bug-exploiting spyware sold to governments

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Country of origin

This would have been written differently if that outfit was in Russia.

Now that China has all but banned cryptocurrencies, GPU prices are falling like Bitcoin

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Re: ...........will only tolerate digital coins whose supply they can control

Nope, they don't went currencies that they don't get the interest on ...

China all but bans cryptocurrencies

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Re: "And then there’s the Digital Yuan"

" its issued like any other currency by the country's central bank" .. in other words, funny money.

Fiat money is not money, it's currency.

Microsoft demotes Calibri from default typeface gig, starts fling with five other fonts

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Re: Don't forget the users with reading difficulties

Apparently things improved when Linux replicated the bugs in Microsoft's renderitg engine.

Did anyone tell Logitech about lockdown? Biz launches pricey video chat kit for office conference rooms and 'huddle spaces'

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The auditors will query every department buying a mini-bar.

Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere

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Re: B, H

So we're not talking about pencils here then?

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Certification renewals to be free ... but annual

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"also free of charge" ... for now.

I work therefore I ache: Logitech aims to ease WFH pains with Ergo M575 trackball mouse

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Easier to put mouse / trackball on the left .. than right hand can access the nav keys, enter, etc.

YouTube is going to splash adverts all over your videos, and won't pay creators unless there's a big enough audience

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That is why ad blockers are such a big problem.

Mea Culpa.

Linux Foundation, IBM, Cisco and others back ‘Inclusive Naming Initiative’ to change nasty tech terms

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What exactly do you have against breasts?

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KISS

What does KISS stand for now?

Windows Server robocopy to gain auto-compression ahead of big file moves

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Joke

Did you enable the "Must try harder" option?

Google reCAPTCHA service under the microscope: Questions raised over privacy promises, cookie use

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I don't mind ticking a box but no one is paying me to count the blue cars.

So I leave.

Developer survey: C# losing ground to JavaScript, PHP and Java for cloud apps, still big in gaming

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Cherry picking

This report cherry-picks certain industries... : mobile, desktop, IoT, cloud, web, games, augmented and virtual reality, and data science and machine learning.

Missing: legacy corporate code that still gets maintained daily, and probably assorted other categories.

So this is STILL not an accurate picture of the development world.

'20,000-plus staff' could face the chop in spin-off of IBM's IT outsourcing biz, says Wall Street analyst

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"Linux is the de facto operating system standard and market share leader. "

Can't we give Linus a Nobel Prize for something now?

Corsair's K70 MK.2 does nothing a cheaper keyboard can't, but the steep price gets you top-notch components

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Re: There's nothing the Corsair does

There's more than two.

Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of COVID-19 – and anti-vaxxer cranks aren't gonna like it

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First prove your vaccine actually works.

Get ready for Clippy 9000: Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's mega-brain GPT-3 for anything and everything

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Thus endeth :Remember people, your essay is due on Friday..."

.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

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The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it.

Should be fun.

China, Russia and Iran all attacking US elections and using some nasty new tactics, says Microsoft

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I'm just wondering how they differentiate these alleged attacks from the normal persistent criminal activity on the net. My own servers have a constant stream of people/bots from around the world trying to get an SSH login, or to break Wordpress, or my mail or FTP, on top of all the spam and phishes ...

So is this actually news, or MS looking for free publicity?

Google Chrome calculates your autoplay settings so you don't have to - others disagree

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What worries me about all this (and similar-but different stunts from Mozilla) is that browsing becomes increasingly risky and unpleasant, especially on mobile.

And then people just surf less.. and my websites get less traffic and my income goes down (again).

I'm already seeing Adsense put two ads one right after the other on my sites ... which is the sort of thing that drives people to adblockers...

Netcraft August survey:

In the August 2020 survey we received responses from 1,230,576,586 sites across 261,821,287 unique domains and 10,349,486 web-facing computers. This represents a loss of 3.65 million sites, but a gain of 1.16 million domains and 128,000 computers.

Classy move: C++ 20 wins final approval in ISO technical ballot, formal publication expected by end of year

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Please keep it away from flying machines.

Google, Amazon pass on UK Digital Services Tax by hiking ad prices, fees at same rate the government takes

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Ad budgets will stay the same, they'll just get less ads, and websites that rely on ad income will lose.

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended

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FAIL

"That’s why we decided to roll the new Firefox for Android out gradually in order to provide users with a positive transition experience."

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SUSE plots edgier Kubernetes with Linux behind the wheel

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Running the car? Is it written in Ada?

C++ still rules the Chromium roost though Rust has caught our eye, say browser devs

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Re: Kinda sad.

"C++ is 'safe' enough that it has been certified by the DoD to be used to program the avionics of the F-35 jet." ... you mean that one with all the software problems?

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

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People working from home don't surf so much (not on their tickey, they don't).

So apart from Mozilla losing traffic, so too are the millions of small websites that made the we what it is.

And on Android, most people won't install alternate browsers. Most of the traffic to my own sites is mobile these days.

When it comes to hacking societies, Russia remains the master at sowing discord and disinformation online

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Not a word about CIA embedded journalists at assorted main stream media?

Shoddy research.

USA decides to cleanse local networks of anything Chinese under new five-point national data security plan

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Re: Doesn't the US have a huge debt with China?

We won't pay because we have more bombs than you.

Linux Foundation rolls bunch of overlapping groups into one to tackle growing number of open-source security vulns

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Just wondering ... are Chinese companies allowed to join?

EU tries to get serious on cybercrime with first sanctions against Wannacry, NotPetya, CloudHopper crews

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Now how about the NSA?

YOU... SHA-1 NOT PASS! Microsoft magics away demonic hash algorithm from Windows updates, apps

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Re: "a legacy cryptographic hash that many in the security community believe is no longer secure"

FWIW Gentoo does a three-way check:

Blake-2B

SHA512

File size

Curiously the same two hash functions I picked for one of my projects.

Cabinet Office takes over control of UK government data: Mundane machinery or Machiavellian manoeuvrings?

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Re: Keep it out of parliamentary scrutiny

"Everything'll be Okay"

Microsoft wants to show enterprises that Edge means business, rather than the thing you use to download Chrome

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You might find Linux better behaved.

Ex-boss of ICANN shifts from 'advisor' to co-CEO of private equity biz that tried to buy .org for $1bn+

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"audit the notoriously secretive non-profit organization based in Los Angeles" ... do it anyway.. for all of us.

FYI Russia is totally hacking the West's labs in search of COVID-19 vaccine files, say UK, US, Canada cyber-spies

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Pot kettle black and all that.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/16/cia_secret_cyberwar/

Google gives Gmail's collab chops a good buffing to make it the 'home for work' while we're working from home

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Re: Meanwhile . . .

Kmail has an option to ignore return-receipt requests.

Report: CIA runs secret cyberwar with little oversight after Trump gave the OK, say US government officials

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What colour are their hats?

Rust code in Linux kernel looks more likely as language team lead promises support

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Re: Rust pushes developers away

Linux has become mission-critical software, and therefore they really need to move to something like Ada, which is designed from the ground up to be maintainable and suitable for mission-critical applications.

Any compiler changes are carefully vetted. With Linux as a major user, they will be even more carefully vetted.

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