Posts by Valeyard

Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment

"highly sophisticated", usually boils down to "had my password and changed the account details" or "the fake invoice they sent had the right logo and EVERYTHING"

The article isn't very informative from a tech standpoint.

Ok they won't say how it's done but it's then mentioned it's a familiar scenario so some examples of how it has happened in the past would have been more relevant than simply saying "aaaaand it's gone"

'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K

Re: Buy way into Irelands

Is it?

I'd only ever heard it on Father Ted but not on the wild. Just the usual (far superior) frigging or flipping

One in seven Americans are ready for an AI boss, but they might not trust it

One in seven Americans are ready for an AI boss

then one is seven Americans deserve an AI boss...

We know what day it is but these Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke

Love my pis. still use a few of the original lineup and a zero w, but everything since and in between has been too much

Lloyds app glitch turned transactions into shared experience for 447k users

Re: "a flaw in how the updated API handled simultaneous requests"

They will agree with everything, not daring to challenge.

The dangerous thing is that this is exactly how Indian QAs act, which makes them worse than pointless since you think something has been checked

1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack

In the words of Chris Morris

This is the one thing we didn't want to happen

Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo

many a lap was ran on the deck if you committed the cardinal sin of raising the flag upside down!

Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach

oof. as a catholic who's secretly in the army reserves, having my name and address out there would mean not only upending my own life but probably several of my close relatives having to consider doing the same. £7500...

NS&I's IT car crash considers cutting legacy links to stop the bleeding

Re: What do they actually do with all this money?

The usual suspects line up like piglets to suckle at that government teat

Ns&i

The absolute irony of this article and those sums for no return being associated with the words "NATIONAL SAVINGS AND INVESTMENTS"

Meta to pour the GDP of Kenya into AI infrastructure push in 2026

new users!

Well they need some bots to pretend to be users to try and reclaim some relevancy

I can pretty much pinpoint facebook's collapse to reordering timelines away from chronological, and since then they blew the other foot right off with the metaverse, forever a monument to Zuck's Folly

Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble

Re: not a time for sneaky revenge

you're right, which is why Direct intervention is only one option of being an Active bystander which was mentioned in my post, you can take your pick among the rest, all of which are better and more productive options than "nothing"

not a time for sneaky revenge

When a new kid who can't stand up for himself is subject to raised voices that's when one of the old guard (who knows too much about how the legacy stuff works to ever upset) traditionally steps in and calmly throws his weight around, liberally invoking manager names and HR meetings.

Preferably during the event so the kid can see this isn't acceptable before he jumps ship for a new job and the bullies are caught redhanded

Active bystander 101

Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it

Re: "all this is old news"

my TV is 13 years old now and I've wondered how I'll ever replace it.

There are sites I came across that gather together the current new dumb TVs and I can only imagine this news (And of course the likes of Samsung sending ads if you change the volume...) will only make that more of a popular thing people look for

pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree

Ironic when I prefer to use a Mac for work due to being able to live in the unixlike terminal

The explorer for example is incredibly awful and it's easier to do file copy or move operations by command line, let alone something as simple as changing the current location in an address bar

Why are commercial modern OSes unable to do something perfected back in the days of windows 95

Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits

Re: The kids are alright

it could be said a moderate amount of asbestos to breathe is "none" rather than "a little bit"

but of course you couldn't post your amazing comment then

The kids are alright

The internet is fine, as a series of useful resources which are searchable. It's a tool to be picked up, consulted then put down again and it's amazing for that.

For idling on and anything social media, not so much

Same with beer, pick it up now and then for a chat then leave it and go, amazing. Drinking for 6 hours a day every day while you ignore your family, again not so much.

everything in moderation

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

Re: Trust

Yeah it might've been better if it hadn't porported to be based on the watch series, but they took that piece of crap knock-off handbag and slapped the Gucci label on all the same so the whole thing still makes me bitter

They can do fantasy, before twitter directed BBC policy Gormenghast was great

Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job

Re: Connection "Problems"

Yeah it gets to the point where you contact them at 9am and maybe get a reply before EOD if you're lucky. I'm not their manager but I was certain it wasn't gonna happen when I hire

had a guy reschedule his interview 3 times as he "lives in the sticks and has a really dodgy connection a few days at a time"

after working with team members who are in maybe 1 daily meeting per week due to connection issues, I had enough annoyance built up to say sorry mate but you're applying for a remote role here

Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

vibe coding

just like, chill guys, you're interfering with the vibes

TryHackMe races to add women to Christmas cyber challenge roster after backlash

Re: Role Models

and let's face it. computer users on 80s/90s TV and film were not exactly portrayed as role models for anyone to emulate and yet here we are...

Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul

dear council

whatever cumbersome piece of crap you're currently using, it's better than what you're planning

Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records

Brsk

The most secret and obscure bit of information they managed to obtain was that this company exists, I've never heard of them

OBR drags in cyber bigwig after Budget leak blunder

classic IDOR

NCSC guy will be wondering how he can stretch this from 5 minutes to at least a second day at his contractor rates.

so far after 4 coffees he's gotten it to 45 minutes and he's getting too jittery to try for a 5th or he'll be dead by lunchtime

> Me who wrote the scheduler a few months ago and have just found out very publicly I forgot to account for when the hour goes back

An old memory a good amount of us might share. Not the sexy scoop the papers will be expecting.

Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers

true but i think in this instance it's the older generation at fault

Re: Better for parents

It was a solved problem in the 90s.

The computer was in the living room corner. The parents could see what you were doing and how long you were spending.

Re: Jonathan Haidt on the Anxious Generation

my wife and I don't use our phones when the child is in the room, don't want her growing up with the opinion that your face stuck in a device all day is at all normal, nor do i want her to have to keep prompting for someone's attention

she only watches proper approved TV. Her nursery kept trying to show her online videos such as the likes of cocomelon which is insanely fast-moving quick shots of constant motion to constantly overstimulate. She's exposed to long-form media more, and now she's just started learning to read she's limited to 30 minutes of TV per day (or 1 full-length film) as she can entertain herself more that way instead

When she gets older there'll be the FOMO and peer pressure of needing a smartphone, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I use a dumbphone myself so I'll try to pass that habit along

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

Re: I remember an SAP gig

we just made a big red "rollback" button

at the slightest sign of new errors after go-live the button is pressed which backs out the code and undoes the migrations then you investigate at your leisure, because no one wants to investigate while the fires are still burning. no easy rollback strategy = no go-live without a big risk assessment.

and that's AFTER a fucking massive set of CI tests

Hacking LED Halloween masks is frighteningly easy

if only each mask could in turn pair with and share the image with other masks it was near that'd be a great zombie theme

Shield AI shows off not-at-all-terrifying autonomous VTOL combat drone

X-BAT is designed as a tail-sitter like the infamous Convair XFY-1 Pogo, taking off and landing vertically, before leveling off for normal flight. It resembles other jet-powered autonomous drones such as Northrop Grumman's X-47B.

and more importantly, Thunderbird 1

X says passkey reset isn't about a security issue – it's to finally kill off twitter.com

Re: Hmmm?

Thank god for Archive.org

you say that as if there'd be any great loss if twitter or indeed X stopped existing

SpaceX pulls plug on 2,500 Starlink terminals tied to Myanmar fraud farms

Re: carries "a risk of misuse by bad actors"

ha i love the thought that you were trying to think "hm what's the worst thing i can bring up that elon musk has done recently... ah yes he's a bad actor. that's literally the worst aspect of elon musk"

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch

Re: Nasty tactic

New houses I'm not averse to, assuming they come with doctor and dental surgeries since the existing one of each to support our entire town is stretched to breaking point

(They don't)

Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint

Re: when the answer comes right out of nowhere

El Reg idea generation algorithm confirmed

when the answer comes right out of nowhere

This had confused me for so long I was talking to someone about it the other day and then this article comes out of nowhere with the answer to put it to bed

Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects

Social rejects getting together to fight each other on the internet like monkeys throwing shit at each other in the zoo while the real people just try to avoid being hit by the strays

A tale as old as the internet

Amazon grounds drone deliveries in Arizona after two crashed into a crane

Re: HLM's, please parse this:

what an absolute gent

Re: HLM's, please parse this:

there's always one isn't there "let me ask an AI because i have no input of my own"

no one cares or we would've done it ourselves

Nextcloud withdraws European Commission OneDrive bundling complaint

the famous European beaurocracy

Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it

"If you see this then talk to 'Pete'".

I've seen this in-house once or twice. with nothing else to do i'm like "may as well send x a message see if he still cares"

only to have the dev run to my desk to find out how I managed to trigger it as it's been wrecking his brain that something that should be impossible is occasionally happening

Submarine cable security is all at sea, and UK govt 'too timid' to act, says report

Re: There are a few areas that spring to mind

oh that could be it!

top work, I couldn't find it myself

Re: There are a few areas that spring to mind

3. How on earth do you begin to think about securing these cables from external interference

someone help me here but didn't the register have an article years ago where they followed some huge important undersea cable to shore in what was essentially an unlocked shed or something

UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029

Re: What the House of Lords is for..

Those of you that wonder why we have a second house that is full of people who weren't voted in are about to find out why it's there.

it shouldn't work but a load of rich people who can think on a longer cycle than the next election really does work

A few times they've been offered bribes and walked away laughing and telling everyone all about it because how can you bribe a rich guy with a perma-job. Wasn't there a big event around the EU ministers taking huge bribes from big tobacco or something and our guy just going right to the papers telling everyone all about it because he was worth many times more than they were offering

Callous crims break into preschool network, publish toddlers' data

Re: Whatever happened to ...

oh.. naggers!

The sweetest slice of Pi: Raspberry Pi 500+ sports mechanical keys, 16GB, and built-in SSD

Re: I have no use for this

Yeah a cool little web book would be nice.

*Slinks back to eeepc

Workers: Yes, RTO makes sense. No, we’re not going to do it

adapt to the times

My company was about to get a lease on a larger office than the one we had, which was already huge, then covid hit.

After that, they went the other way and downsized the office to accommodate around 10% of the staff and are saving hundreds of thousands.

The only time the office is used is if people can't work from home undistracted or if a whole team has to come in for a whiteboarding session, in which cases they book in advance and get free reserved parking etc, all whilst still being a massive cost saving for the company that keeps everyone happy

also widens the catchment area for hiring devs from commutable-to-office to the entire UK