Posts by wolfetone

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver

Strange behaviour

Reading through the comments this morning, all I am left wondering is what has happened to people's heads. So many are commenting "what is the point?" of this I almost thought it a joke.

Linux is used in so many different ways you'd run out of fingers and toes to count them on. People, rightly, have long since left Windoze behind and only run with Linux (or BSD) now so all of their hard drives, pen drives, external USB drives all run on some sort of native Linux filesystem. This development won't have any bearing on their day to day Linuxing. But what we are seeing right now are more and more Windoze users trying Linux via Bazite and Steam who want to leave Windoze behind. These users will still have Windoze machines running NTFS, with all their data etc on there, and they will need to access it. The same way all of us former Micro$lop whipping boys did when we were migrating from it to Linux.

These users who bellyache going "what's the point" would do well to remember where they've come from. There are plenty of them out there who haven't come to Linux yet, who will come to Linux, and their path to enlightenment needs to be as smooth as possible. It does no one any good to kick the ladder away after we've used it. We also need to make sure the drivers can be updated as and when Micro$lop change their minds on how it's used.

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war

There will be people who will automatically think "Iran are lying", and there will be people who will automatically think "Well duh Iran of course". But then there will be people who remember the Snowden leaks and they will rightly say "You want us to be surprised by this?".

Everyone is at it.

Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

You mean, the mail nearly sunk their battleship?

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

Re: Finished

I'm more curious now - what did she feel she was missing that she needed to visit Basingstoke?

Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket

Didn't they already send two Outlooks to the sky and it caused problems on Artemis?

Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure

If it doesn't move but it should, WD40.

If it does move but it shouldn't, gaffer tape.

I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable

Do you know what AI can't do?

Farm Goats.

So that is where my career is going, fuck AI, fuck the tossers who use it to put devs out of a job. I'm going to look after the goats.

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

Re: Incompetence, malice

"The company published a blog in October, giving devs a two-week warning that if their accounts had not been verified since April 2024, Microsoft would issue mandatory account verification notifications.

"We worked hard to make sure partners understood this was coming, from emails, banners, reminders," said Davuluri."

So it took 2 years for their accounts to be deactivated? Or 2 years for Micro$lop to get around to sending out notifications to these guys?

I'd say it's a little of column A, and a little of column B.

Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school

Re: Nevermind the Zuck breaking his stated principles (dog bites man)…

Quite right, it is indeed unusual behaviour for an automaton.

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

You know what isn't spoken about enough? Amazon completely failed to kill off the printed book with the Kindle. It has failed in that regard. What it has done well in is creating more landfill.

Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo

I think the cameraman was also expecting it to be delayed or scrubbed at the last minute, given they just kept the camera filming the ground while the rocket took off above them!

US foreign router ban criticized for being ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’

Remember in WW1 and WW2 they did those war bonds? Or you could put money in to something and own a quarter of a tank?

Well, that. But with routers.

They knew what they were doing.

They have to find new and exciting ways to fund the forever war they've started in Iran.

UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful

My wife took our baby for a health check this week. Long story short, in the cubicle next to her was a mother telling the nurse that her toddler eats really well. Quote: "She'll eat a full pot noodle to herself".

You're educating people like that, who seem to think a Pot Noodle is edible. Let alone fine fare for a baby!

Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs

Re: Is it time to ditch FireFox?

I really do like LibreWolf when I'm on my mac.

But it runs like absolute arse on Debian. I can't understand it. The pages load so slowly, YouTube especially takes minutes to load. But I don't have these issues on the Mac.

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

Re: systemd-free distros

"> Who is going to verify the age you enter into Fedora you downloaded for free and installed yourself is true?

Nobody, but fortunately the law does not require anyone to, either."

YET. And that is exactly the problem with asking for the DOB in the first place. It's not what it's to be used for now, it's for what they will use it for in the future.

It should not be allowed, and thankfully I fully believe that there will be good enough people out there to provide us with an OS that won't ask for this check. So I have no worry on that front.

What I worry about is the end game of what all of this age verfication will lead to. That, I do not like. That, I worry about. And that is what the question should be all about.

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

Re: I'm not opposed

You deserve a pint! THANK YOU!

Re: I'm not opposed

All you've made me hanker for is Eurotrash.

Bring that back!

Re: Big brother is watching and listening to your TV

"Still looking for a new TV, but finding one that simply displays the image thrown at it is getting harder. "

I have a Samsung TV from 2013 with none of this Smart bollocks on it. The day is breaks I will be heart broken because I have absolutely no idea what I could put in it's place that doesn't have the smart shite enabled.

Even worse I decided to have two young kids, so every day is a cliffhanger as to whether or not it'll survive play time.

Goodbye, Lunar Gateway: NASA ditches Moon station for Moon base

Re: Goodbye, Hubble

Someone ought to tell Trump that Hubble has a metric fuck tonne of oil onboard and that the Chinese are going to get it first.

Then you'll see a budget.

Half of VMware users plan to reduce usage by 2028

He's optimistic that there'll be a hardware refresh! Not in this climate buddy!

Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor

Re: "if any other party gets into power."

Well she's just a former working class girl isn't she. She had a bit of a saturday job doing something at McDonalds. And we all know the sandwich is the mortal enemy of the Big Mac.

NASA sets 'impossible' ground rules for relocation of 'flown space vehicle'

Don't suggest that.

That Tango Twat genuinely thought he could inject sunlight and bleach in to the blood stream to cure COVID. He'd probably go for this.

Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say

Not like how it happened to me you didn't.

Re: On kids?

Cambridge Analytica gets forgotten about, but they're the ones who really crystalised this bullshit.

I was in a pub once and it was busy. I was with 3 friends. We all had a pint of Guinness. Bouncer comes up and shouts "What have I told you before? No drinking until you're 18!". So he confiscates the 3 pints, but I had held on to mine. He goes to me "What about you? How old are you?"

"18." I says. I'm not, I'm 16.

"I believe you because you look it". And walked off. The face of my mates ranging from despair to anger at me. While I sat there grinning, supping my pint.

Now I can guarantee you there are at least 4 billion people that hasn't happened to.

While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?

I heard FInland's navy all have barcodes on them.

That's how it Scandinavian...

Lock down Microsoft Intune, feds warn after Stryker attack

Re: All egs in someone elses basket

Some of us just want an omlette and we don't give a shit whos eggs we smash.

Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave

"we feel sure that this release will win it yet more admirers."

Never let it be said that you don't have a sense of humour about these things!

Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination

"Ofcom says that it recognizes that BT, the former state-owned telco, still has "significant market power" (SMP) in a number of markets, and so will continue to impose regulations on Openreach, its infrastructure arm, to address its monopoly-like influence."

Why? They're clearly not working. Unless, an Openreach with SMP is a benefit to Ofcom...

Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers

Don't blame me.

Blame the fly.

"San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors."

Ohhhh, so is that why Trump's been acting weird then?

Repopulate! Repopulate! Two lost Doctor Who episodes turn up in private collection

Re: Wiping moon landing video

I heard that the WWII bomber he flew up there broke down when it landed. So he got out and shot it with his Magnum.

Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble

I think we've found one of Gerald's IT men!

Re: And if you do need to keep them both live

Not even a banner. A simple "old." in front of the domain should be more than enough to indicate what the website is.

I feel incredibly sorry for Neil that it ended the way it did. It's all well and good keeping a back up of the code but it's quite another to spin it up to compare it to the new one.

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’

I remember reading this at college, and everyone could not understand why a retailer would get involved in servers.

How silly we were.

Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years

He did that with Acrobat.

Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12

So you want more kids with no future on the streets causing more crime?

Seems like you have shares in the penal service.

Why punish them?

Give them a job. Put their talent to use. No one, not the child, the family, society, benefits from them being dragged through criminal courts.

Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns

Re: Pardon my ignorance...

Do as they say, not as they do!

Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought

Re: So it's keyboards on the ground, then ?

Trump also ran a campaign on no more wars.

So by the Tango Twat's own performance, expect 500,000 American soldiers in Iran by Christmas.

All because he can't admit to the American people that he's a nonce. People will have to die before he admits that. Not any of the people he cares about of course, his own sons won't be anywhere near a military garb.

Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification

Re: Brilliant

The bit about the dead granny photos hit fairly hard.

"You might own the memories, but I own the photos" - dark and unfortunately true. So much of what we record our memories on are increasingly being taken away from us.

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

Re: Downvote - really?

Took you a while to develop that, didn't it?

Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet

I think it's important to understand something right now.

All of us are here and heading towards this "data sovereignty" thing in a knee jerk reaction to both the Tango Twat in America and all of the other TechBroDoooods with their AI bullshit. That is no bad thing.

But things do change. Life will ebb and it will flow. What is happening in America, and what is happening in the tech world, will not last forever. But like I said, it ebbs, it flows, it'll ebb again, it'll flow again.

The one thing about this all that is not being said yet it's the most important thing to remember about it all is that you must treat this like a bad relationship. Remember why you have moved on. Never go back. No matter how much they say they've changed.

Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays

Re: "four to five weeks"

"four to five weeks" is the modern equivalent of the rhetoric "our boys will be home for christmas" used for WW1.

Actually, thinking about it, I'm sure that was uttered when debating the invasion of Iraq too in this century.

French DIY etailer ManoMano admits customer data stolen

"In its notification, the retailer said it "immediately took all necessary measures to protect your data," "

I mean this is a new one. Usually it's "we take customer security very seriously" or "this was a sophisticated attack". But I've recently seen this and a few others go, essentially, "we've taken the decision to shut the stable door".

Won't be long before one of these hacks results in the company going "yeah, well, shit happens".

Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix

Re: Outrageous

I think it's the first thought most experienced people would do. I mean for me I'd have marched back in to the gobshite who was dictating I was held and rip him a new one until I was let go. Or the fire alarm. Either or. I also know I'm a fairly confident kind of guy. I haven't always been, but you end up getting the raw deal from enough people you do learn to stick up for yourself. I think from this story, Kent was either still a bit green or the type who didn't like confrontation. There is nothing wrong with either of that, but I can understand why he waited.

Still, it's good that he was banned! Bet he was disappointed finding that out!

Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost

Can confirm this is true.

I saw one for sale on Temu.

You can't put a price on military supremacy - which unfortunately is what kept the Shuttle going.

GhostBSD to ditch Xorg for XLibre as Red Hat's Wayland crusade leaves X11 fans out in the cold

Re: Long-time FreeBSD user and occasional dev

I'm just impressed, as a Linux user, that the caps lock key works so well on FreeBSD.