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Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

I don't Carrefour all these puns.

ATM takes a kicking yet keeps on ticking

Re: Vandalism

Have you looked at what's happened to the Internet over the last 20 years? A tragedy of the Commons.

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

Temperance

Warm climate. Cold beer. Uncooperative fridge. The mind boggles ...

'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work

Re: Not today, no thank you

As in "Artificial Intelligence - New Technology"?

Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one

... with 2 little curved horns, pitchfork and a pointy tail.

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

This far into the comments, and nobody's mentioned beer? B.E.E.R. Here a little ditty releases by a former NBA center (Portland Trailblazer at one time).

https://youtu.be/Hu3JWy7Yo9M?si=MAgHZFSZJcwfGvOJ

Some of us did grow up on gravel roads. As teenagers we rebelled listening to AC/DC. Led Zep, Black Sabbath, the Kinks, ... but that don't mean we can't enjoy simple, fun music once in a while, too.

MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech

Re: Every 'phone stolen results in a replacement bought

And, as an earlier commentard noted, the manufacturers also want to avoid additional customer support costs if a phone is recovered.

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

I "performed an intentional action for an AI-powered capability ... " last week. The laptop has been for shite about three weeks. So I went to "Add or Remove ...", and removed Copilot. Rebooted.

California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car

Tow it. When the owner wants their car back, bill them for the tow (at suitable margin), storage, and the fee for violation. When the payment clears, they can have their vehicle back.

Any passengers will just have to find a new ride.

Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all – at least for consumers

Re: Windows is no longer an option.

You forgot "Install our Toolbar".

Junior techie rushed off for fun weekend after making a terminal mistake that crashed a client

Re: "Anyone who claims they've never done something similar is lying."

Yes.

Tired techie botched preventative maintenance he soon learned wasn't needed

I'd wager a bottle of decent whisky that after this encounter, Mr. Tim starting checking/using that write-protect switch. He's lucky to have a switch too. My PFY years involved putting pieces of tape over the "write-permitted" notches on the floppy cover.

Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional

"I can assure the American people, the Chinese government is not tying its hands behind its back. It's going the other direction, and we need to do the same."

This attitude is just a race to the bottom.

I have little desire to live in China. If he likes it so much he can go there and work for the CCP.

China’s infosec leads accuse Intel of NSA backdoor, cite chip security flaws

It wasn't that many years ago that Bloomberg was publishing stories about Chinese factories putting little microdot chips on SMC motherboard which forwarded copies of all Ethernet packets back to Chinese interference agencies.

NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station

Boeing should provide Test Pilots

They can send two Boeing employees up in the SpaceX ship to pilot the Calamity Capsule back to Mother Earth. The NASA astronauts can come back on the SpaceX ship.

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

Re: Holidays

If the computer was turned off while on holiday, the faulty update would be skipped! Another good reason to unplug during vacation.

BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment

Re: Shiny button software...

Can't do that. It'll be immediately apparent no one is looking at the numbers when no runtime credits are consumed.

BOFH: Generating a report the Director can show the Board – THIS is what AI was made for

Re: Hey, wait a minute!

Well, if that's a sample of AI/ChatGPT work, I'd say Simon needn't worry about the competition.

How Wi-Fi spy drones snooped on financial firm

Re: I think we're reaching a point...

> I wonder how many people work in the local Starbucks, etc., without a thought of Wi-Fi security / snooping / infiltration / etc.

Shoulder surfing? A quick smartphone pic of screen with customer name, address, dob, acct numbers and balances. Jus' sayin' ...

Fisher Price's Bluetooth reboot of pre-school play phone has adult privacy flaw

Re: Dial-up

> Which aforementioned operator then listened in to every call and knew everyone's business . . .

Like nobody's listening now?

BOFH: They say you either love it or you hate it. We can confirm you're going to hate it

Re: Jim and the long game

Doesn’t the PFY have a lodge in Scotland?

Ummm, about the directory separator char?

C:\dos

C:\dos\run

\run\dos\run

Richtig?

Chrome 90 goes HTTPS by default while Firefox injects substitute scripts to foil tracking tech

Re: Good ol' days

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.

Prince Philip, inadvertent father of the Computer Misuse Act, dies aged 99

Re: Now we will never know his views on systemd

Only in our dreams. Unfortunately.

Turns out humans are leading AI systems astray because we can't agree on labeling

Re: And of course people are bloody minded ...

Aye, but computers can make them a thousands times faster.

Shedding the 'bleeding edge' label: If Fedora is only going to be for personal use, that doesn't work for Red Hat

Re: s/Red Hat/IBM/g

Alpha.

Microsoft nudges Windows 10 21H1 toward commercial customers

Re: "users should not expect much whizzbangery"

Except ATIOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS mods were easily fixed. Edit. Reboot. Sorted. That bloody ship has sailed, mate.

Hacking is not a crime – and the media should stop using 'hacker' as a pejorative

Re: A long, long, long time ago...

Dude - didn’t you get the memo? We’re most certainly not allowed to use black/white adjectives in this fashion any longer. Catch up, Boomer.

Re: The big book of what "hacker" means

... someone with a hacking cough (predates computational microprocessors entirely, I believe).

Re: The quick hack

... and in turn is later cracked.

The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now?

Re: No it can’t, not when 3rd party vendors won’t certify their products on it.

SUSE hasn't been under the Novell umbrella for a number of years now. (10+?)

Robinhood plays Sheriff of Nottingham as it pauses GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry etc stock sales, gets sued

2LIPS

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Top engineer who stole trade secrets from Google's self-driving division pardoned on Trump's last day as president

Affluenza

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Re: 404

Actually mac, it's a good thing to archive the record. History and PoliSci academics will be making hay out of that 1-term administration for 'nother hundred years, me guesses.

Singapore changes the rules and will now use COVID-19 contact-tracing app data in criminal cases

Just leave the phone at home ...

This need to carry the fondleslab is phenomenon younger than a single generation. Leave it in your flat when you walk to the store, pub, drug store, bordello ... you get the idea.

Welcome to the splinternet – where freedom of expression is suppressed and repressed, and Big Brother is watching

Re: HORNET or death

How about we just fucking ignore social media and socialize more in meat space? We'll all be happier for it!

Open-source contributors say they'll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only

Re: Open source

Mmmm ... I know quite a few people who are paid reasonably well to develop device drivers for the Linux kernel. They're producing open source code, GPL, and being well paid to do it.

President Trump's rushed-through H-1B techie visa crackdown halted by federal judge

Re: corrupt liberal judges

Congress was supposed to fix this back in the 80's. They haven't. The "Process" is owned by BigCorp and the American workers just gets told to bend over and take it!

Re: This will end up in SCOTUS

It's been closer to four decades ...

President Trump to slap fresh restrictions on H-1B work visas, refuses to hear public comment on changes

Fund skills training with H-1B surcharge

Require companies using H-1B labor to pay an annual fee of 5X the workers' salaries into a training fund for the displaced American workers.

With H-1B workers not exactly rushing to America this year, Uncle Sam plans to spend millions home-growing IT staff

Make H-1B using companies fund the grants

Fund the training by charging each company who receives an H-1B visa a fee which is 5X times the complete, burdened cost of the employee being hired. If the skills are truly "special" and "rare", then the extra fee to fund this Grant Program will just be part of the cost to do business.

Who was behind that stunning Twitter hack? State spies? Probably this Florida kid, say US prosecutors

Re: "The Twitter VIP hack undermines public confidence in those information platforms."

... and even if they died, the family would sue.

Sick of AI engines scraping your pics for facial recognition? Here's a way to Fawkes them right up

Re: Yabbut...

The farm boys' decoder ring says "artificial insemination".

Boffins baffled as supergiant star just vanishes – either it partially blew itself apart or quietly turned into a black hole

Re: Open a window

That would explain pulsars! The sphere is rotating, so we just catch the burst when it's pointed our direction.

Ex-eBay security execs among six charged with harassing, threatening bloggers who dared criticize web tat souk

Re: Bunch of tossers

How much severance was paid upon their termination?

You know Facebook has an image problem when major nonprofits start turning down donations over political lies

Re: Political lies

Yes, a Ministry to enforce Truth. I read something about that once ...

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

Re: Ah, customers.

Accepting the bodged packet might be fine for Customer A, but Customer B probably wants an error code if his client sends bad data to your server.

Man responsible for least popular iteration of Windows UI uses iPad Pro as a desktop*

Whatever happened to "eating your own dog food"?

The silence of the racks is deafening, production gear has gone dark – so which wire do we cut?

Re: SCO SLIP?

Perhaps a SLIP interface?

We're late and we're unreliable but we won't invalidate your warranty: We're engineers!

Re: Steps for working with electricity in the home

Step 2.1:. Restore power and verify light comes back on. Now you know your test equip (light bulb) is functioning properly.

Step 2.2:. Turn off power.