Posts by Derezed

UK-US data deal could hinge on fate of legal challenges to EU arrangement

Re: Sovereignty

THEY TOOK OUR JERBS!

Re: Aw come on

The British system is far worse. No anti SLAPP and libel tourists from dictatorships and kleptocracies come to London to sue journalists, human rights activists and any other little people.

95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers

Shocked

Nobody saw this coming. I am flabbergasted. Clearly NFTs are just better than fiat and are so much more fungible. My friend Brad sold me an nft of an adorable Roger smoking crack for $20k and now you say it’s worthless? Whatever.

Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

So

Windows 11 doesn’t recognise my aging Samsung printer. They talk the talk…but they don’t walk the walk

Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia

Re: So Musk has blood on his hands

I think it was Shakespeare who wrote “they’re still fucking guns and they still fire fucking bullets “.

An armour piercing round from a shitty tank in the right place is still an armour piercing round.

Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads

Another win for Brexit

“In the EU, as required by law, the notification is an invitation to opt-in to interest-based ads via Topics.”

Another Brexit dividend…why would I want the hassle of opting IN to something which Google knows I’ll love.

FUCK privacy.

IBM Cloud to 'uplift' prices by up to 29 percent

Prices go up in areas with high inflation. Stop the presses.

I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation

Re: Outlook...

I wish I’d been to collage to study English.

More UK cops' names and photos exposed in supplier breach

Re: "Security measures have been taken by the MPS as a result of this report," the statement said

I believe there was no money left for lasers…it is said that they are both mutated and Ill tempered

And if you DO trip, don’t get accidentally rolled up in the loose carpet and hit those loose rubber hoses on the way down

Re: "Security measures have been taken by the MPS as a result of this report," the statement said

I think they cut the sharks in the last budget. Outsourced to Anchovies I believe…more cost effective

World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems

Re: Everything is impossible until someone does it

I’m going with something climate related.

Not sure what a wheel is, or its purpose. I’m enjoying this hot yellow stuff I made with some sticks.

Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI

Re: Unsettle law

I'll have you know the MP pay board is 100% independent and definitely not in thrall to the merry-go-round of corporate pay and mutual back scratching. Whatever our hard working MPs get paid I am 100% sure it is 100% worth every penny. 100%. /s

Elon Musk's Twitter moves were 'reaffirming' says Reddit boss amid API changes

Re: I suspect that Twitter has a profitable future ahead of it

Sounds valid and rational to me.

Not sure on actual cost savings vs not paying for stuff. I'd be interested to see what twitter needs data centre wise vs what it has vs what it pays for. You can't just stiff your suppliers indefinitely.

On the engineering solutions front, do Twitter have an R&D function that would be able to progress those engineering solutions to reduce costs? That sounds like something someone else would do and Twitter would lease/buy in whatever they manufacture. Wouldn't this be largely what any competent company would do, not specifically Twitter?

I don't know about the business focused leader thing...I'll take your word for it, but the upshot appears to be:

1) Twitter had too many staff that cost too much and weren't required

2) Twitter had too much hardware that cost too much and wasn't required

I guess the proof of these statements will be in whether the service continues to be a service in the medium/long term.

Re: Reddit's CEO doesn't realize

As soon as Facebook "works out" how to make money out of WhatsApp I'll ditch it like a politician in a COVID enquiry...it won't be for my benefit!

Re: Nobody Mentions Why the Mods Are Upset

How does one suck off an ego?

Re: I suspect that Twitter has a profitable future ahead of it

I'm interested!

What combination of things?

Over 100,000 compromised ChatGPT accounts found for sale on dark web

Re: Is this worse that other products?

Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?

Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse

Along with the early-middle, middle, middle-late and late internet.

Re: Won't be pR0n.

Mike Strutter called, he wants his IP money!

Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy

We need to look closer to home for a real low point.

Namely the Lancashire town of Nelson.

Patricia Hannah-Wood was named the winner but...er...she didn't win...the wrong name was announced. The Tory Julie Green expected Pat to step down (since she had lost), but Pat is not for turning! Win or not, she's got her seat and it's her constituents' problem! ...local democracy in action! Your vote really does matter...unless it doesn't.

I guess there's no IT angle to this shit show though.

British Airways, Boots, BBC payroll data stolen in MOVEit supply-chain attack

...or did they? The truth will out.

Re: Ahhhhh outsourcing

What's your point? They still "saved" the money...all that's happened is all of their employees personal data is all over the internet...no biggie...a year's supply of Experian credit checker will be enough to sort all that out.

The cost to the business of this breach is...zero. They don't care.

Yaccarino takes wheel at Twitter early as advertising woes become public

Re: I expect the landlords to continue to be stiffed on rent.

Only if the interweb link is disconnected...and maybe the air supply.

Re: Wolves at the door

What meat is there? Does Twitter have an R&D department? Does it control lots of IP/Patents? Genuine question. Not sure ex ad revenue can be liquidated. Maybe it was that tat that the chief twat was flogging on ebay...ebay signs and merch and such...might be a lean corpse for the creditors to fight over.

I don't know about that...it is pretty funny.

Crypto catastrophe strikes some Atomic Wallet users, over $35M thought stolen

Re: Stop calling it crypto -- it is crypto-currency

I liked the other thread where it was called "Kleptocurrency". That made me happy.

UK tech industry pushing up salaries – but UI devs out of luck

Re: How are these going rates?

Sounds like envy. Influencers are a tiny percentage of the overall work force and most people don’t give a toss about what they do.

Your analysis is likely overly simplistic. The other day when banks offered 100% mortgages as a solution to the deposit problem , some dick head said they can’t buy a house because one isn’t available local to them. That’s a massive fail and shows a cringey level of entitlement.

Under 30s are more than capable of being crippled by mortgage debt just like over 30s.

So £60k is not a low salary. £80k plus puts you in the top 5% of earners nationally. There are lots of jobs that need high skill and intelligence so I’m guessing a few of those in that 5% aren’t IT folk.

AI, extinction, nuclear war, pandemics ... That's expert open letter bingo

Nothing cynical there. Feels like a letter written by the NRA talking about the dangers of guns.

BianLian ransomware crew goes 100% extortion after free decryptor lands

Re: Let's take full control of our borders!

I’m a remoaner.

What has membership of the EU got to do with this specifically?

Dropbox drops 16% of staff, points finger at hard-up customers and AI

Re: These transitions are never easy

That’s not HR, that’s c-suite grade bullshit.

Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a delusion little seen in this day and age.

Echo chamber, emperor’s new clothes. AI. Whatever.

Cancelled

They kept spamming me with eye wateringly expensive offers for cloud storage. I removed the dreck I had stored there and shut my account. No more spam! Reason given? Not an end consumer product.

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch flown to US for HPE fraud trial

Re: And now, what's really up with this.

As Private Eye would likely say, damn that pesky due process. Outsourcing justice when we’re all destined for the sunlit uplands? I bet it was EU laws that made it impossible to convict fraudsters…can’t think of any other plausible explanation other than the entire shit show of a country is run on massive fraud and this is the US saving our blushes

Capita admits some pension data 'likely' to have been accessed in March breach

Re: Stupid

If you upgrade, might I suggest a T1 Line, that is if you can find an IP router compatible with your token ring LAN configuration.

Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster

Re: The old old story?

Whatever the system they’ll be a back end uploader. I remember my migration and the complete anti climax of the data just flowing in. Took about half a day. We’d done it 4 times before then. The system was fully backed up before hand as a rollback if it went south. Shocking, shocking planning.

Wow

They broke the cardinal rule of ERP implementation: everyone gets paid on time, full stop.

Also…some kind of non production system is in order?

I’d love to know what hideous manual tasks they were performing that couldn’t be completed in time. I vaguely remember CSV uploads of historical data and metadata but this was in the dark ages of 2010…this is 2023 where I assume they had an army of administrators keying in their forecasts and budgets and only realised nobody knew how to use the system and that the god awful web interface was a piece of shit after they started. Ooops.

Anyway, can’t AI just do this routine implementation now? What’s with the meat sacks getting in the way of our glorious new masters?

The end of Microsoft-brand peripherals is only Surface deep

Not great

I replaced my Curve mouse/keyboard combo with a Comfort 50/50 setup. Horrible ambidextrous brick of a mouse, ok keyboard for around 100 quid. Not good, both buffer and suffer interference issues. Have to use my Logitech mk backup keyboard and bought a Logitech H5 hero…all wired. MS are dead to me

Capita IT breach gets worse as Black Basta claims it's now selling off stolen data

Re: "There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Capita"

No it’s incompetence. Wrongdoing has intent.

US changes rules on tax credits for electric cars to cover American-made only

News

Protectionism? In the land of the free (market)?! They’ll be letting them own assault rifles next…

Theranos founder Holmes ordered to jail after appeal snub

Just a tasty appetiser

This is nothing. I can’t wait for the SBF kabal sentencing.

CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus

“Click on two…three is binding…and it’s open. This is a pretty powerful lock, I really am just that good”

Re: Why

I’ve had my car 10 years…I’m thinking of throwing it in the bin and getting a new one.

Psst! Infosec bigwigs: Wanna be head of security at HM Treasury for £50k?

Re: Hackers of the world already headed to the UK

So you think they’re not already here? You don’t work in government information security do you? Didn’t think so.

Re: Parliament is little better

What risk? Diabetes? Did I miss the line that says you get beheaded if you fuck it all up? If you mean risk to the country I wouldn’t worry. Gov it is constantly under attack and has very skilled people working to handle it. Probably on “pathetic” salaries.

Re: Reg readers might expect the vacancy would come with a salary that reflects its criticality

“I'd be expecting the head of security at the treasury to come from GCHQ or MI5,”

They may do…but jobs need to be advertised to get the widest candidate pool. The salary will be supplemented with a non pensionable allowance which may be substantial.

To those bitching about the salary…what do you think people in MI5 and GCHQ are on? Hint. Civil service pay scales.

British govt tech supplier Capita crippled by 'IT issue'

They need the map for exploring new pork markets too.

Re: Slow news day?

Fair point. However I’m crippled daily by IT issues. Hey-ho.