Posts by Smartypantz

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

Crickets

Read that as "Crickets! ... coming home to roost" ... hat-trick :-D

Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city's public EV chargers

Gravity

I like EV's and also own one, but i like the fact that the only way to hack my old BMW motorcycle from 1981 is to hack gravity ;-)

'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP

Nothing has changed

Except today its "Energy" (of which a lot is still coal) and "Rare earths".

Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows

telnet

Then we just need them to put telnet back in the default install. Eliminating this, the most basic of network testing tools, says it all about how serious a developer of operating systems Microsoft are!

Java developers want container security, just not the job that comes with it

You don't need "containerization"

Running Java applications is easy on any regular operating system, there is perfect separation of applications. The "containerization" is for the shcmucks that don't know what they are doing, A. K. A. the prey of the tech oligarchs..

Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

The 20'th century

Is over!

Telnet is a TCP testing tool! Anybody actually running a telnet server deserves what's coming to them!

Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers

Roadblocks

Any algorithmic driven "Personalization" of content is just a roadblock for discovery, It's the greatest lie of the 20'th! It's the platform owners and their puppet masters sticking it up your ass. I can't believe how many brogramming fools being apologistic about this bullshit. Stupid f******

AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty

Re: Bullpoop

Oh yeah? So you think you can access data on any server in China just as easily as if it was setting on you own little hobby-LAN?

Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure

Translation

“If you look at the enterprise, there's just enormous enthusiasm to deploy AI, but the problem is that the infrastructure, the power, and the operational foundation that is required to run it just aren't there,”

Translation:

Reality just doesn't fit with the simplistic view of the world that our bullshit engine needs to be useful.

10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet

Stupid is who stupid does

Who would have thunk that if any dumbass could deploy any number of instances of any server application, without knowing jack-shit about anything; that, that could backfire?

Doooehh..

Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life

Your friendly new companion

This is the real threat from the AI Insano-bonanza.

I can already detect signs from my social circle that "the chat" is their new confidante. I'm sure this will do wonders for the psychological welfare of our young (and older), and the power balance in general.

The stupid epidemic has clearly taken hold and is on an exponential climb.

I fake optimism when talking to the young, but in reality i believe, we are already in dystopia, up to our navel, and happily wading forth.

Microsoft's fix for slow File Explorer: load it before you need it

More worried about sluggish operation

Anybody who has used something like dolphin from KDE must wonder what the hell is wrong with the lame, blind, deaf and three-legged donkey that "explorer" is in comparison!

The responsiveness of dolphin on anything (mounted sftp, mounted smb or local file systems is astonishing!

Microsoft gives Windows 11 a fresh Start – here's how to get it

1UP

My start menu is called 'ls -l /usr/bin'

Re: I have a question

Not any longer. Now it's an advertising platform/AI feeder

To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity

Re: Groups

AD Global groups, AD DomainLocal Groups, Security groups distribution groups, Default group (posix compliant) :-)

Zorin OS 18 beta makes Linux look like anything but Linux

Debian

Or.....

You could just install debian, KDE and get on with your work. Re-designing "User experience" without purpose is a slippery slope to the Kafkan dystopia computing is today ;-)

Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything

Arthur C. Clarke

Lazy bums didn't read enough ACC.

Surprise, surprise: Chinese spies, IP stealers, other miscreants attacking Microsoft SharePoint servers

Win-Win

1. Post anything to company sharepoint

2. Tell boss that you published suchNsuch

3. nobody sees it again or have any chance of finding it

4. Win-Win

I just deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – and I'm a citizen

FTFY

Don't go there/Flee!

Re: No social Media presence -- First they came for.

Come on! the most stupid argument in the world (iv'e got nothing to hide/ i don't SOME etc. ):

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

The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge

I want out

People want to be idiots

LibreOffice adds voice to 'ditch Windows for Linux' campaign

Re: As I've said before

OK Donald

Another fine simple solution to a complex problem. The whole problem with modern IT is the "winner-takes-all" inherent property of the way our tech works. Choice, and sensible standards are the way to go to create a diverse eco-system of tech with real competition and choice.

Mussolini-boistering like your post just leads to ever more stupidity which leads to the strengthening of the tech-bros, monopolistic stranglehold we have today.

Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping

Debian is easy

It doesnt get any easier than debian. No telemetry, no built in enshittification, world class quality and documentation. Cool and calm computing.

Ofcourse you can't monetize that unless unless you do a lot of shifty spin-branding, change the colours and name it something sexy ;-)

KISS -> Use debian!!

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

And a hell of a lot faster! Why is Windows taking 10-20 s to access a simple SMB share???? In KDE if you have done it right (fstab and so on) its instant! Even over the Internet and VPN.

Still can't get to your Outlook mailbox? You aren't alone

I haven't seen it, but i'll check the logs, been running my own mail server since 2006, so lives in peacefull bliss :-)

Microsoft warns Trump: Where the US won't sell AI tech, China will

EU support

If the EU put their money where their mouth is and pour some serious financing into Open Source and the European tech sector, MS better put their gloves on :-)

Fingers crossed..

Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl

Digital natives

It turns out that the "Digital natives" know jack-shit about the way things like the Internet works.

So "AI" are going to save the Internet from falling apart when the old guard takes a rest and the replacements thinks that the Internet is the same as SOME?

*BOOM*

Best regards

Boomer-techie

Want Intel in your Surface? That’ll be $400 extra, says Microsoft

Why?

Who would want windows 11 on anything? That hellishly nagging piece of noisy spyware, that keeps changing the ground beneath your feet with no warning, A weird schizophrenic experience where you don't know if you're on some kind of psychedelic spying social media or an operating system.

No thanks!

I'll take the calm of a Linux desktop any day. I need to get shit done, you know

Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5

Not a shock, but a blessing

" but Debian's very slow-moving release cycle can come as an unpleasant shock"

The slow moving release cycle is one of the things that makes debian so attractive. Some of us has to actually use our digital tools, not just play around with endless patching and change for the sake of change.

AI PCs flood the market. Their makers hope someone wants them

Double whoosh

Double whoosh

Whoosh

Whoosh

Google Cloud burst by 12-hour power outage in German region

Re: Is It Possible ...?

Off course not what you are asking is "is there a perfect system that never fails if i throw enough money at it?" -- NO!

Monocultures are ripe for pandemics. This principle is universal. Cloud services by their nature are monocultures. therefore they are a global disasters waiting to happen.

Is my custom setup on-prem safer?

Yes! If you know what you are doing!

Windows 11 user hurt by the KB5043145 update? Microsoft offers a way out

Re: 25 years difference

Microsoft is not in the "Install our Operating System and be vendor locked-in" Business any more. They are in the "Rent your computing from us and be forever enslaved" business now. they are teetering on the edge of sabotaging their own on-prem offerings.

The servers

Remember: All this shit is coming to your Windows servers too!...

All of our DB and web stuff is moving to Linux, The MS stuff just isn't trustworthy anymore, and we only run it when we have to. Unfortunately we still run a lot of Citrix servers and they are a pain in the 1ss.

Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK

Its the tooling stupid

I have never understood why the different stewards of Java (Sun, Oracle) did not create the tooling needed to use this great runtime. This was obviously the way to make money on java. Just like Microsoft does with Visual studio and all of that ecosystem (.NET CLR is "free" but the tooling end frameworking is not).

Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'

Antifeatures and lazyness

If you use "Chrome" or Edge" you either:

1. Like to bend over and hand over your shit to the tech-titans

2. Are to ignorant to realize how the Internet works these days

Microsoft squashes bug that sent Windows devices to BitLocker recovery

Don't use laptops

For anything else than terminals to your secured workstation

Problem solved (no software involved = success)

Survey finds that four in five enterprise endpoints could run Windows 11

Re: Five out of five could run...

Well you just have to hope MS wants to keep supporting your needs don't you?

"Hope is the best strategy..." Hey wait.... ;-)

EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft

Who needs enemies

When you have friends like Crowdstrike? ;-)

Re: Linux only had problems if the Linux admins were stupid

Maybe proper separation of code and user data would have helped, then you didn't have to emit all that CO2 to stupidly encrypt and decrypt the OS code over'n'over.

Re: Linux only had problems if the Linux admins were stupid

KISS has gone out the Window(s) This is a result, it will only get worse..

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

Re: Gluttons for punishment

Let me translate the issue for you: Laziness!

GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes

Looking forward

To genAI taking the shit right out of modern Internet enshittification.

What was that definition of insanity again??

Microsoft forges One Teams App To Rule Them All

That Franken-app of a Cluster F*** just needs to die

EOM

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

Re: I need classic outlook

Not an issue if you run your own mail server. As you should! ;-)

KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion

fluxbox

Luckily fluxbox stilll works perfectly, nobody's touched it for decades.. Hurrah!

Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it!

It's supposed to increase the lock-in to the MS Eco-system. Any user concerns was lost in enshittification decades ago. Windows is the prototype for this process

Re: Win2k was peak windows

"I just don't have the time to invest in making it do what I need/want it to do."

Expressing yourself in a precise manner, in any language, takes effort!

The Linux and UNIX OS's are very powerful, they are user-friendly. They might not be beginner-friendly, there's a difference. Often overlooked

So much this

I still have Windows server 2003 instances (I know, not pure win2000, but still) running on kvm. It's insane how fast that s*** is on modern hardware!! With just 1 GB of RAM. UI is "instant-anything!!"

Microsoft touts Visual Studio Code as a Java juggernaut

netbeans

IMHO netbeans is the best java IDE hands down, the layout is intelligent and intuitive, it has a full featured swing WYSIWYG editor. It has great support for PHP and C/C++ if you use the old 8.2 plugin.

Of course swing might look a bit dated if you are doing GUI's, and the other hand it's an easy way to do UI's that are not insane