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 !
Posts by Wolfclaw
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The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive
Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds
Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage
£136M government grant saves troubled Post Office from suboptimal IT
EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits
Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs
Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy
On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia
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
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
Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data
Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent
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
Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you
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
The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t
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
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
Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club
Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well
Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for
Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention
SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset
Microsoft says premature patch could make Windows Recall forget how to work
D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify
'Consent' LinkedIn used for data processing was not freely given, says Ireland
Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise
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
'Uncertainty' drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux
China’s preferred desktop Linux, openKylin, chases the AI PC in version 2.0
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
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
PC makers hopeful that Chromebook refresh cycles about to kick in
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
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.