Posts by Claverhouse

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

He Doesn't Expect Any Response

By now, he's simply Performance Art.

Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

Re: Firefox everywhere

Ditto to all, except DDG. Particularly Australis. It is so ugly, I would prefer not to browse.

Don't forget Basilisk; Palemoon's little brother.

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However I don't worry about ad-blockers since I just use a hosts file.

( the vanilla Steve Black's famous hosts. )

NFL to begin using face scanning tech across all of its stadiums

Security

" Boehm wrote. "This will ensure that properly credentialed media, officials, staff, and guests can easily and safely access restricted areas, including the playing field, press box, or locker rooms."

Wonder how they managed before technology...

UK axes plans for Edinburgh-based exascale computer

The Road to Perdition

Barney Hussey-Yeo, founder and CEO of Cleo AI, took to X to criticize the move, warning that a reduction in investment and a raising of taxes risked pushing entrepreneurs to the US.

So the answer is to cut taxes and simultaneously increase investment from the government pot ?

Seems very Thatcherite.

The incoming administration

Not very British.

No, really, please ban Chinese DJI drones from America's skies, senators are urged

Re: Here in the EU generally and specifically Spain

Being pragmatists, though, they recognize that they can't hover over every person's shoulder to enforce their regulations.

Nice.

School gets an F for using facial recognition on kids in canteen

Yet Another Brexit Benefit !

So in the bad old days of dependency to EU Tyranny, we had whatever, and then UK GDPR, and now we are Free, we have the FRT.

I hope the kids are appreciative.

VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner

Fall-Back

Off-grid power – Essentially privately owned generators yoked to datacenters reduce dependency on the grid, to ensure it's possible to expand. Hydrogen-powered datacenters also made the rising techs list, nuclear fusion rated a mention for its potential to provide "abundant and affordable energy," and Small Modular Nuclear Reactors are also seen as a tech to watch;

Hopefully these can be commandeered in the event of a power failure, prolly caused by data centres having sucked too much from the regular grid.

Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software

Re: Amanda Doyle -comment.

Well, her chiding tone seems unlikely to convert doctors to her beliefs.

How tech went from free love to pay-per-day

Re: The ribbon

Try out SoftMaker Office.

https://www.softmaker.com/en/support/installation/linux/office-2021

War on Texas law requiring ID to savor smut online heads to Supreme Court

Sex Obsessed

Censorship is appealing to both Democrats and Republicans over there, so one has to assume that in this particular case this was the result of a Republican dominated assembly. Just next door the great state of Louisiana is readying itself for it's new law of surgically castrating sex offenders

Perhaps the endgame is to castrate porn viewers.

https://boingboing.net/2024/07/01/louisiana-ready-to-take-something-other-than-an-eye-for-an-eye.html

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ludicrously boingboing ends: Who knows what the SCOTUS will do with this, as cruelty seems to be something they feel the founding fathers would stand behind.

This is actually within the great tradition of the tar and feathering Revolution. The Apostle of Freedom, Arch-republican Thomas Jefferson specifically prescribed castration for rape and buggery in his proposed Virginian legal system. His admirers defend this in that probably it was not purposed for his fellow burgesses, but mainly to keep the black folks down.

Feds put $5M bounty on 'CryptoQueen' Ruja Ignatova

Overreach

What's she got to do with the Yanks ?

Microsoft founder Paul Allen's tech museum closes, sells off collection

Who will Weep for the Forgotten Ones ?

I am sure Mr. Gates & Mr. Ballmer, although grieving for his passing, will be pissed they didn't get hold of this loot.

From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What's up with the Kaspersky US ban?

I neither watch boring videos nor listen to podcasts, but I will read. So yeah.

Tesla slams advisors for not loving Musk's $44.9B payout

Re: Time to go, democracy

But the Democrats have managed to achieve something unique in US history, emulating a tin-pot dictatorship that locks up political opponents. It has demonstrated to the whole world how 'international rules based order' really works.

Don't forget they also wanted the ex-president's wife in line for that position. Something not unknown in such countries.

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Still, my opinion of the American polity is so low anyway --- most American presidents since FDR have been deeply damaged individuals ( and the exigencies of that immensely powerful position no doubt damaged them further ) --- that however repellent Trump may be, he doesn't even sink to the level of most of his predecessors. And successor. And that's coming more from a comparatively leftist position.

Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive

Re: Please correct me if I'm wrong

The BBC exists solely for the BBC.

2.8M US folks learn their personal info was swiped months ago in Sav-Rx IT heist

Protection For The Future

Sav-Rx is providing everyone with two years of free credit and identity monitoring, as seems to be standard practice.

How does this work exactly ? Let's say an inhabitant of the United States suffers 4 such events in a year: do they roll up into one Super-Credit etc., or do they make it eight years straight ?

Parliamentarians urge next UK govt to consider ban on smartphones for under-16s

Alternatively..

They could ban all adverts on childrens' phones.

Re: In short....

Actually, the delightful Archangel of Terror, Louis Saint-Just, wanted something like that: all children were to be taken from their parents, and raised by the State. In dormitories.

No fear of bullying there...

China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy

Dawn of a New Era

Bet they wish they had these during the Hong Kong demonstrations...

Venerable ICQ messaging service to end operations in June

Amour - Propre

...a task made difficult by its reputation for having many criminals as members and for the prospective buyer being Russian firm Digital Sky Technologies. US authorities worried that the sale would make it harder to investigate ICQ users.

Very proper: anyone who grew up during the Cold War knew those rascally Russkies wanted nothing more than to install a universal monitoring system to gather every scrap of data on every person.

iFixit divorces Samsung over lack of real commitment to DIY repair program

Re: There was separate news today

Yes that is in this article --- and I must say that admirable as they are, that is one of the most fugly [ and barely readable 'white font on black background' ] websites I have ever seen.

US Space Force says it needs more practice at responding to orbital emergencies

The World's Schoolma'am

Even when hypocritically engaged in 'Do What I Say, Not What I Do', the US can't stop moralising:

"...ability to respond to irresponsible behavior on orbit,"

"Adversaries are continuing to exhibit poor behavior,"

'Little weirdo' shoulder surfer teaches UK cabinet minister a lesson in cybersecurity

Disneyification

What are 'veterans' in Great Britain ?

Red Hat middleware takes a back seat in strategic shuffle

The Grand Consultants

McKinsey, like say, the Rand Corporation, appears to be one of those companies, much respected, mysterious to most people, whose recommendations are like little Bonsai Upas Trees.

Re: Still sad about this

Fortunately for new entrants, their motto appears to be 'First In, First Out'.

Julian Assange can appeal extradition to the US, London High Court rules

May He Be Free

All the villains against him will fight tooth and nail to keep him locked up anywhere.

An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen

Land of the Free

The Feds, under the US Patriot Act, demanded library patron information without a warrant and imposed a lifetime gag order that forbade disclosure of the NSL.

Come on. We're adults. What is this hyper specific book category that can not possibly ever show up in a random ad?

She wants her privacy respected.

Dublin debauchery derails Portal to NYC in six days flat

If we could do away with "live", it's possible in theory to record on both ends and rebroadcast at the same (destination local) time later -- FIFO with a really looooong data queue.

Yet if censored, and not live it's just going to be as authentic and real as a staged meeting of that fearsome old bore Mr. Biden and whomever is current Prime Minister sharing their mutual delight at being Irish and discussing trade policies.

Re: Dublin lord mayor Daithí de Róiste (Da-Hee De Roast)

Ashamed to say even with an Irish name --- though not the Gaelic --- I had no idea whether this name is male or female.

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Male, it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daith%C3%AD_de_R%C3%B3iste

Mayors are bad enough, but worse: He has worked in marketing and communications for over a decade

Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed

Re: Mesh

What an utterly loony conspiracy theory.

And antisemitic too, knowing you.

A quarter of 5-7 year olds now use smartphones, says regulator

A Quarter Of 5-7 year olds Now Use Smartphones, Says Regulator

And suddenly two million Marketing eyes lit up and their owners screamed with glee.

Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear

Cold as Ice

...the optics of the Euclid spacecraft have suffered from an accumulation of water ice.

Cataracts of water...

US sanctions spree continues with 15 more for Russian entities

Ignorable America

Just bring in a U.S. law declaring all Russians to be sanctioned from birth.

UK health department republishes £330M Palantir contract with fewer ██████

In Some Cases...

"Large sections of the documents were blacked out, including most of the section describing "protection of personal data."

It is at least heartening that they fully recognise the need to protect personal data.

Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB

As Always

"The integrity of our register is of paramount importance to us."

YouTube creators must now 'fess up to using AI in vids

Artificial Voices

I rarely go to Youtube; but I was just downloading some Light classical, and on one of them one of those obnoxious adverts --- this was for a medical thing so doubly obnoxious --- a male testifier was reading out a spiel, and the rendition was imperfect; as if each sentence was a thing of beauty in itself, and with unwarranted gaps.

So I'm only guessing, but am assuming they saved money by not paying an actual actor, and rather fed the dopey script into an artificial voice generator. No doubt this is the future we were promised.

Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in

Re: Hostile state action ?

Is Bubba mentally ill ?

'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city

Vile

God be with the cat.

Ruggedized phone group takes the Bullitt, calls in PWC as administrative receiver

I miss the Razr. The old long one.

Re: The final death of phone design in the Thames Valley

When it comes to Microsoft, I generally assume the same likelihood of probable guilt as with Jonathan Wild Thief-Taker General.

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( Born in Wolverhampton, incidentally. )

German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

Fast Response

Asked about developments in the investigation, the Bundeswehr told The Register it had nothing further to add, but pointed to defense minister Boris Pistorius's comments.

Unlike, say, Apple...

Micron New York mega fab faces an environmental exam

Environmental Considerations

Good they're taking these seriously.

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And I propose a Frog icon.

Sandvine put on America's export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying

Go For Broke

The Americans, private citizens as well, should all rip out any and all computing/networking gear straight out of all governing entities including the Pentagon, and all state governments, and homes, schools, and businesses, that was manufactured even in part in the PRC.

Underwater cables in Red Sea damaged months after Houthis 'threatened' to do just that

Biden: “...then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”

No doubt the Houthis can be blamed for the Nord Stream Gas explosions.

Crowning glory of GOV.UK websites updated, sparking frontend upgrades

Minor

For websites, wouldn't it simply mean uploading a new png to the path of the old png ?

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Anyway this is small change compared to the ludicrous Gordon Brown's brief phase of changing the names of agencies etc. to the Soviet-inspired prefix of 'The People's'; as in The People's Post Office.

Now that was embarrassing...

Biden asks Coast Guard to create an infosec port in a stormy sea of cyber threats

Origins

"[Chinese] manufactured ship to shore cranes make up the largest share of the global market and account for nearly 80 percent of cranes at US ports. By design, these cranes may be controlled, serviced and programmed from remote locations,"

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Perhaps they should have bought American cranes.

The odious Jefferson had an Embargo Act to prevent trade with foreigners; and since 1920, the 'Jones Act requires goods shipped between U.S. ports to be transported on ships that are built, owned, and operated by United States citizens or permanent residents' so it's not like they don't have form in protective legislation.

London's famous BT Tower will become a hotel after £275M sale

They Will Sell Any Heritage For A Mess Of Pattage

And back in 2016 the handsome old War Office, the baroque building, was sold to an Indian firm as an hotel + apartments, for a £350 million lease.

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

Southern Water cyberattack expected to hit hundreds of thousands of customers

Re: National insurance numbers?

Exactly.

Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion... but what about Firefox?

One of my few caveats about Gwenview, is that by default, it has no menu bar. As with some other applications it can be restored by hitting CTRL+M; but people new to these apps won't even know what is missing on the vanilla experience.

Plus removing such things is so needless. Like Fat Slab design, it seems merely implemented to change the usual in order to change the user. No more stuffy old WIMP !

Same with Fx's move to Australis. People weren't hankering for such inelegance or pining for minimalism, and for those who were it could have been incorporated into several Fx themes; but no, designers' desire to make their mark generally means removing useful tradition --- and if possible prevent any restoral of things liked just for sweet fascism's sake.