Posts by Wolfclaw

The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive

It's not just Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Apple that we want shield our data from, but all the other big players too from gaming, Sony, Valve etc should be held in region, yes they can still access the data for analytics but it stays in region and should disappear to USA, SKorea, Japan etc. Business have to now accept the wild west of data handling is over and people have and regulators have woken up and dare they try anything funny line auto-optin, yes looking at you Meta scum !

Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds

What you are talking about was the Windows Mobile interface, that could have been the future but like most thing Microsoft screwed it up, a sit it had to many chiefs deciding on what direction it should take and not enough input from the clever designers and engineers.

Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage

Very handy GMP loses the exact footage the FOI wanted, seems they do this a lot or the cameras got broken or failed to download the video or never switched on and we all know it is to protect the UK Gestapo breaking the law or our rights !

£136M government grant saves troubled Post Office from suboptimal IT

Post Office should be sold off and counter services run by private companies, with SLA targets and severe penalties !

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

Here's a thought to make you have suicidal thoughts, next election ... POTUS Musk and his attack dog VPOTUS JDV !

I hear Trump plans to finance a remake ... Escape from Megaland, starring Snake Putin.

Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

Looking forward to the first law suit when Recall can be seen to have been opted-out and yet spied on it's user and leaked data, hopefully in the EU and Microsoft get slapped with 4% fine.

Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy

Image a world, were Windows didn't evolve in a Toys-R-Us interface of mishmash coloured graphics and animations, but a desktop interface that remained at it's core based on Windows 2000 but with todays machines capabilities and yes even Linux is bloating a bit with the GUI's eating resources.

On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia

That parasite liar Blair back, he's just like a cockroach and will not die for the benefit of humanity. If AI gets the right to access anything it likes for it's education, then send me a download link to all books on Megacorps software, as I want to learn too, but don't want to pay !

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

EU wants lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement ... we have that, it's called a court order and not some blanket privacy invasion by unelected and unaccountable dictatorship, did they not take note of UK attempts and how Apple just stuck up 2 fingers and crippled security slightly for UK owners !

RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory

All our current OS's should be x64 only, drop 16/32 support, remove the bloat and a lot of very dodgy patched code.

If Microsoft had nay sense, they would would support x32/x64 only with Windows 11 branch until end of life and target Windows 12 as x64, I bet we may even see a speed boost ?

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

Recognition tech only works if they can see your face or if the clothing worn is know to an offender, most sensible criminals cover their faces so as not to be recognise, as in Police riot and snatch teams, who never wear identifying numbers, just us innocent members of the public who will be wrong tagged and heaven help the ethnics, as we know the accuracy sucks for them with racist profiling !

It's the Police, you know they will abuse them, like they abuse all new tech until prosecuted and even the laws are broken daily, because of the "above the law attitude" of most coppers, plain ignorance of of the law or the worst of the lot, making up their own laws and then charging you with a fictitious charge once in custody!

ReactOS emits release 0.4.15 – its first since 2021

"IF" Microsoft sue they will probably have just cause, especially having access to the full source code, but if they are wrong, will have left themselves open for a massive compensation claim, hence the vigorous code validation.

Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data

So UK and EU both come up with the same idea and as usual both look at different directions, when it would be I don't common sense (yes I know we are talking politicians and unelected unaccountable bureaucrats) to work together and speed up development, cut costs and inter agency connectivity ?

Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent

Shame Lotus SmartSuite was never gifted to open source by IBM when it stopped being competitive and let the community drive it's development :(

No big changes to UK broadband regs, despite no real competition for BT

Some suggestions for OFCOM.

1. No charges for changing packages for customers in or out of contract.

2. If out of contract, existing customers must be offered same deals as new customers.

3. No signup or connection charges.

4. Failing to meet customer care levels, £10m fine per percentage point missed.

5. Old copper cabling/coax to be phased out by 2030, including in home cabling.

Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update

QA costs money and on a balance sheet has no practical value, as Microsoft and many others have switched to let the users do the testing, not like they will get any financial penalties?

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

Minipc as router running Opnsense + Unbound + Adblock = no adverts or calling home

Trump tariffs forcing rethink of PC purchases stateside

Will somebody not think of Microsoft and the OEMs profit margins and corporate bonuses, if nobody is refreshing estates. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft abandons PC requirements to boost Windows 11 licence sales to corporates at the expense of new OEM PC sales. You are only a Microsoft partner, so long as they don't have revenue shrink and will abandon you the first chance they get!

Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight

Simple solution, if the Megacorps want our business, they open datacenters in the appropriate regulatory zone and no data gets shared back to US based companies, not the data or the reports based on that data, until the USA becomes a respectable data citizen obeying everybody's laws and that won't happen under Trump or the 3 letter agencies ! As for governments using US clouds, that is just plain stupid and asking for abuse !

Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface

Microsoft is like your street corner pimp, just say no to their crack !

The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t

One more step towards UK Gestapo and a fascist state, although many believe the UK Police have reached the level.

uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

When I switched to using an old PC as my router running OPNsense, installed the Adguard plugin and some extra firewall rules, watch all my worries get blocked before it hit my internal network. Some consumer routers allow 3rd party plugins to do this too, if your an Asus user, checkout https://www.snbforums.com/forums/asuswrt-merlin.42/ and https://www.snbforums.com/threads/asuswrt-merlin-addon-software-catalog.82059/

New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned

Well, he hasn't had to leave the building via a 6th floor window, which is what normally happens to people who upset Putin.

US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme

1. Unauthorized damage to a protected computer - No, he used their own broken code to beat the system, no physical damage to the system can be proven, no different to somebody beating the odds at gambling

2. Wire fraud - Yes

3. Attempted Hobbs Act extortion

4. Money laundering charges

He's going down though, when they catch him, although a few millions Dollars, you can live well in a country with no USA extradition treaty.

Brit competition watchdog takes aim at Google, Apple's mobile ecosystems

Starmer will soon be getting a nice visit from Google/Apple asking him to dial back the inquiry in the name of business and few pieces of silver donated to the party to sell out.

Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club

Google just had over Chromium to open source and let us have the browser we want, quick, bloat free, spy free, plugins free and Google/Microsoft etc concentrate on their other businesses.

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

Wonder when it gets a v1, if it is as simple and quick as they say, porting something like Proxmox/OPNsense or even as a router OS?

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for

and too make it even more Windows like, to have the full capabilities, you have to donate for a licence, yep almost a Windows clone !!

Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention

Somebody with enough dosh, needs to take all these Windows 11 restrictions, requirements and unwanted changes to a court and see if what happens if legally challenged.

SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset

Don't make them like they used too, another round of beers on me for the designers and builders.

Microsoft says premature patch could make Windows Recall forget how to work

Another botched patch, business shrugs its shoulders, sighs and the world continues as Microsoft knows, businesses have too much invested in any other platform for them to be concerned.

D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify

The product isn't what is dangerous, but the badly written code and firmware from these companies, who do the bare minimum for consumer products.

'Consent' LinkedIn used for data processing was not freely given, says Ireland

Why hasn't the Irish DPC told Microsoft to delete all data collected since it wasn't compliant and make them ask each member again, maybe a they have €310m reasons to be happy, brown envelopes stuffed with pay rises all round with a postal address of Redmond, Washington, USA?

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise

Re: YMMV

Opensense with Adblock does everything but YT ads and something I have to live with, as I only watch YT in private mode anyway to try and keep as private as possible.

Re: A great idea

Chromium still has to keep itself compatible with Chrome, just can't rip out everything, same problem with Edge had and Microsoft surrendered, as just too time consuming and costly to maintain your own fork.

Yes, your network is down – you annoyed us so much we crashed it

Re: Important word

in this case they didn't disable, they wiped a configuration on equipment owned by another party that they had access to maintain. Once wiped, they stopped the owner being able to use their own property, effectively initiating a situation that if they didn't pay they couldn't get service back, that in any book is ransom, even if the owner wasn't aware of how the situation occurred.

Rival browsers cry foul after Microsoft Edge slips through EU gatekeeper cracks

Edge's market share, at just over 5 percent, yes, but if you take that % and put in business customers, they practically have a monopoly, as most business just go with the flow and choose the simplest option to support, especially if they still need legacy browser support. !

'Uncertainty' drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux

I always wondered why Microsoft haven't put the resources into a home grown Linux, with the simplistic interface of Windows and have it's own Windows emulation, they have the experience of emulation and the chance to start from a clean slate?

China’s preferred desktop Linux, openKylin, chases the AI PC in version 2.0

and the included AI bypasses the need to be arrested, being found guilty by a judge and sends you directly to re-educational facilities.

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

Some say, they deliberately let things get out of control so Sir Stammer can enforce draconian laws and surveillance state, you have to wonder?

Pro-Palestinian marches little or no police presence, lots of laws broken and nothing done, right-wing lots of coppers, some minor disturbances but nothing major and heavy handed police.

Not going to go all political, but Policing in the UK is a shambles and inconsistent but what grinds my gears is when Sir Stammer puffs out his chest and says he will get tough, were was he getting tough when head of CPS and did nothing during grooming scandal due to the powers that be not wishing to upset a certain racial/religous group!!

The Labour nightmare is starting to come true !!

Game dev accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs

Intel selling broken CPU's, then try their best to cover it up, not like they haven't done that before!

Microsoft admits to problems upgrading Windows 11 Pro to Enterprise

Well Microsoft maybe right that Win10 is the last OS I will need from them, after many trials of distro's I'm now using Debian + KDE plasma and liking it on my laptop, so my desktop may go the same way with WINE taking over and stripped down secondary boot partition just for Windows 10 gaming. Even my servers are now going Proxmox rather than WinServer and my router being replaced by a Proxmox+opnsense box.

Privacy features lose their way in latest Firefox update

When it comes to Firefox Mozilla has lost the plot and any direction, maybe time for the community to give them 2 fingers and fork it back and start reverting some of the dumb changes that have ruined a very capable piece of softwrae.

PC makers hopeful that Chromebook refresh cycles about to kick in

5 years, your lucky, I had boxes full that Dell tried their best not to repair using any excuse, always handy to have a purchase order for thousands of units at hand to cancel.

Google’s in-house docs about search ranking leak online, sparking SEO frenzy

So what this story basically says is Google are bunch of lying scheming scumbags, who you should not do business with with major antibiotics in case they pass on their disease. Now about those regulators that obviously lied too, will they do anything or just roll over at the next wine and cheese party held bribe, sorry entertain by Megacorp or maybe seriously start thinking about breaking up the company?

Fancy climbing the peaks of Alpine Linux? 3.20 is out

I'll be testing this one on my older laptop to be my XCP-ng Orchestra machine, will report back.

Manjaro 24 is Arch Linux for the rest of us

No Thanks

OK I'm a true Windows user and a complete Linux noob, only played with early stuff years ago, so thought I'd give this a go at the weekend, as I needed a simple and light distro for an older laptop that was to build and manage XCP-ng Orchestra to manage my VMs.

What a nightmare, simple stuff that Debian handled wasn't installed with the default or installing was harder, as it sometimes referred to a fork of some sort. (Git, Curl)

So in the end, back to Debian, that compiled and run first time. Sorry but until Linux gets their finger out and makes it all idiot proof, standardised and idiot proof as Windows (go on hate me), it will never be a serious consumer competitor to Windows.

Microsoft claims it didn't mean to inject Copilot into Windows Server 2022 this week

Once again Microsoft updates quality control is a joke, how do you accidentally release this to your server product, this is just incompetence and another reason why Microsoft cannot be trusted to manage an evergreen OS, when it can just install stuff as and when it releases it, without local oversight.