Posts by Naich

As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them

Re: DEI

Spending money to create a fairer society and a habitable planet? The horror.

CISA slammed for role in 'censorship industrial complex' as budget faces possible $500M cut

Re: Dumb

He won't be a mistake because the leopard he voted for would never eat HIS face.

OpenAI pulls plug on ChatGPT smarmbot that praised user for ditching psychiatric meds

Hi I'm Eddie!

Douglas Adams nailed it again.

Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends

He has servers in the UK, so it absolutely does fall under the law.

DOGE may help Elon Musk's biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe

"No one individual, no matter how prominent or wealthy, is above the law," the report concluded.

Have the authors just arrived on the planet?

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

Surprised

Who would have thought that the staff of an agency set up by an over-privileged narcisistic fuckwit and staffed with his friends with shady pasts, one of who is called "Big Balls", would turn out to be useless fuckwits?

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

Re: "they will only be turned on when officers are in the area"

"and if the person gets the all-clear, the image of their face will be deleted."

Funniest joke I've heard this year.

Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder

Is this not libel?

Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament

It's genuinely impressive how fast Trump is driving the US into the ground on the world stage. By the end of his term, they will be a noisy irrelevance.

US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space

If only

Just imagine where the human race could be now if we worked together for the good of all mankind rather than being unmitigated arseholes hell-bent on wrecking everything to stroke the egos of narcissitic psychopaths.

We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is

Wishful thinking

If only there was a way that both of them could lose.

CISA pen-tester says 100-strong red team binned after DOGE canceled contract

Re: New Orleans

Donald is a beef curtain.

SpaceX's 'Days Since Starship Exploded' counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now

Re: "Blowing up Starships can’t be cheap."

I thought the correct name for them was "swasticars"?

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

Self host

I've been using Immich on a RPi at home, and it works a treat. No need for Google Photos any more.

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

1. It's not happening.

2. It is happening but it's not that bad.

3. It is that bad but it's not our fault.

4. It is our fault but it's too late to do anything now.

You are speedrunning this in a single thread, moving from 1 to 2 in just one post. Slow down or you'll hit 4 and have nowhere to go.

Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy

Re: Now let me put the taskbar where I want it

Doesn't work for me. When I restart explorer it sets the value back to 03 again. Bastard.

Looks like paywalls are coming soon to a subreddit near you

Lemmy

Lemmy is shaping up to be a good decentralised replacement for Reddit.

Another banner year for ransomware gangs despite takedowns by the cops

Kill it stone dead

Make it illegal to pay a ransom. The only reason this persists is because people pay.

Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors

Re: Too many white men

Why do you mention Morgan Freeman? Is it because he has a solid track record of knowledge of employment matters, or because he's black?

Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars

Re: and the corruption begins

Musk doing a nazi salute twice means Godwin's law no longer applies. Anyone with any intelligence can see what is happening.

Trump hits undo on Biden AI safety order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more

Re: scrapped the goal of transitioning half of passenger vehicles into zero-emissions vehicles

The owner did a nazi salute twice on live television and the share price barely blipped.

Bluesky keeps growing, and so do its problems

Re: better ui and feed

Don't mention the "M" word. It's got enough people on it now that it's actually quite good, but the hords of arseholes haven't discovered it yet.

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 cranks up the power – and the heat

Nice little shout-out to KiCad on the PCB there.

Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him

I think the next stage involves whips.

Hide the keyboard – it's the only way to keep this software running

Sloppy

Can you stop putting AI slop photos on your articles please? They just look shit.

Viable fusion power in a decade? Tokamak Energy dares to dream

Re: Fabulous progress...

Well, research began in the 1940s, when it was 30 years away, and the time to fusion power is now 1/3rd 80 years later. So in 2100 it will only be 3.3 years away and in 2180 it'll only be a year away. We'll get there eventually!

Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'world's largest dark web market'

As with all these things, it's a constant game of cat and mouse between authorities and Tor developers. Occasionally the cat wins before the mouse has time to mitigate the issue.

World Wide Web Foundation closes so Tim Berners-Lee can spend more time with his protocol

My understanding is that you have control of your pod and can fine-tune who has access to what. Personal information is not stored anywhere else so access can be revoked and Evilbastardcorporatetakeover can't use your data any more.

Post-IPO Raspberry Pi results in: So you can make money in tech without added AI

Re: Awesome

* Laughs in Thames Water *

Amazon, Tesla, Meta considered harmful to democracy

Re: Well...

How about that massively corrupt and poor country Norway?

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

Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls

"sudo rm -rf..." should do the trick in hardened systems where they aren't running it as root.

Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode

Re: Throw the book at him!

God forbid that there might be consequences for driving your two ton high speed battering ram in a way that results in someone being killed. Vehicles are dangerous and it is up to the driver to make sure that it is being used safely. If there were real consequences for dangerous driving, fewer people might do it, but the public (and often the courts) seem to see being a driver as a get-out-of-jail-free card for any carnage inflicted by them.

World's top AI chatbots have no problem parroting Russian disinformation

Mate you are logged into the wrong account. Your sock puppet did the original post.

Adios, accountability: X to hide 'likes' for everyone this week

Re: re: The Register does not even try to hide its hatred of Musk.

Only for them. Everyone else has to STFU and be forced to listen to what they say.

Raspberry Pi prepares to boot up a London listing

As happened with..... ?

Reported $60M Reddit deal signed to train AI models with user data

Reddit alternatives

Lemmy / KBin are tiddlers compared to the vastness of Reddit, but they are growing and the quality is generally pretty good.

Critical vulnerability in Mastodon is pounced upon by fast-acting admins

"There are other reasons I have no interest in it, though"

Is that you, Elon?

Wait, hold on, everyone – Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair

Amazed that FF isn't used more

Does everyone love adverts on their mobile or something? I installed Firefox and uBlock Origin on my mobile and I can actually see the websites rather than just a screenful of adverts. Why isn't everyone else doing this?

Cyber sleuths reveal how they infiltrate the biggest ransomware gangs

Re: "Proving themselves"

I think we need to read between the lines. It's a no-brainer, but if they did do something like that, there is no way they could ever admit it.

What's really going on with Chrome's June crackdown on extensions – and why your ad blocker may or may not work

Just use Firefox

I moved to FF a few months ago and it's just as good, if not better in some ways. It imported my saved passwords and bookmarks, so it was a painless experience.

Lyft driver takes off with cat, global search ensues

Going down the Xitter.

Rathe than "tweeted/X’ed", can I suggest "Xcreted"?

The Anti Defamation League is Musk's latest excuse for Twitter's tanking ad revenue

When you post on it, you Xcrete.

Twitter says it may harvest biometric, employment data from its addicts

Xeeted?

Shouldn't that be X-creted?

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

Big brains

Magical thinking from the government is usual. Just because something is logically impossible doesn't stop them pursuing it as policy - see Brexit and how they thought we could "have our cake and eat it", despite everyone who actually knew anything about it telling them it was fucking stupid and wouldn't work. I fully expect them to ram this through and it to be just as successful as Brexit is.

Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers

Re: Arrogant Muskrat

Of course it's possible to dress hate speech up as disagreement or opinion. Your kind know that and we fought against them twice. See what I did there? See what I called you, without actually saying it?

UK watchdog reopens consultation on Microsoft's bid for Activision Blizzard

They will get it

MS will keep hammering away until they get approval. It's inevitable. Then they will use their uncompetitive power to make things shittier for everyone. It's a story as old as Microsoft.

Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal

Good old Brexit

It just keeps on giving doesn't it? And these mucking forons seem to want to squeeze every single disadvantage they can out of it.

The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111

Good dog, I can't believe I had to scroll down this far to see this.

Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law

"Strong" encryption?

I'm a bit confused about the use of the phrase. It implies there is "weak" encryption, with a line drawn somewhere between the two. I'd be interested to know where the line is and if there is any consensus about where it is. I'd imagine that the security services would like to class anything above ROT13 as strong.

Can I suggest everyone stops calling it "strong" encryption? Strong encryption = encryption, any other form of "encryption" is meaningless.

Europe seeks to punish Putin's infowar pals with bans on Russian tech firms

You mean when Russia becomes the old Russia.