Posts by Naich

Cursor used agents to write a browser, proving AI can write shoddy code at scale

Here's one for free

I have written a web browser that works:

telnet theregister.com 80

Or if you want to get really fancy:

curl theregister.com

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

Re: Not at the moment

Do you get paid per downvote?

Tories vow to boot under-16s off social media and ban phones in schools

Of course it's the big bad internet

It's the internet and social media causing depression in kids, not growing inequality, the rise of fascism, and their planet being rendered uninhabitable by people who feel that they don't have enough yachts..

UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos

I don't know about 2025, but X generated $2.5 billion revenue in 2024, so that'll be $250m please. We could fix quite a few potholes with that.

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger

Re: If it ain't broke....

The proposal is to have it not enabled by default. The proposal is not to remove it, but don't let details stop everyone from getting their pitchforks out.

UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now

Makes sense

The UK has first-hand knowledge of what happens when a coordinated misinformation campaign with foreign power backers gets a hold - you get things like Brexit. However much money Russia ploughed into it, they certainly got a brilliant return on their investment.

UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact

Re: Has this ever worked?

It has always worked for Microsoft. Get them hooked on your gear, sorry, get them locked in to your software, and then jack up the price. Still that's a problem for future government, so this lot don't care.

Feeling lonely? Microsoft Copilot can now listen to your every word, watch your screen

Re: Snoopers charter

Thanks to AI, it's been improved so you can be watched constantly.

BT promises 5G Standalone for 99% of the UK by 2030

Re: Good luck with that

It's 99% of the populatrion, not 99% of the land area. Most of the population lives in cities, so the reception in the country can be as crap as they want, as long as there aren't many people living there,

EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers

You can't spell "Mediocredito Centrale" without "mediocre".

FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons

Murica.

Protecting the kids by banning free wifi rather than guns.

After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus

Re: I never fail to be impressed

Somewhat better than Musky's typical 48 second lifespan missions.

Vibe coding platform Anything arrives, our hands-on suggests caution

AI is amazing

Is there any field where AI can't produce vast amounts of useless gunge? Text, pictures, video and now apps are flooded with uninformed digital slop, pumped out as fast as we can burn up the planet.

Microsoft bolts Copilot Mode onto Edge to chase AI-browser crowd

Call me undaventuous, but if I'm booking paddleboarding, I'd like to get some idea of the company I'm booking with, other than it's the one that paid MS most to go to the top of the AI search results.

X tells the French police 'non' to its request for algorithmic data

They want data about the algorithm, not about users. You either knew that and are being deceptive, or you are so dumb you are incapable of understanding the article.

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

Re: They keep removing features. When was the last time they added one?

I love the idea that a 58 year old is a "cool kid", thanks. I've no problem with anyone using FTP in whatever arcane system they have, but in a browser for general use? Nope.

That's a problem with the site, not the browser.

Re: They keep removing features. When was the last time they added one?

They've removed:

* Ability to turn off javascript

Available in a plugin like Noscript

* Ability to not use tabs

??? Eh? Just don't use them if you don't want to

* User profile manager

Still there.

* Tab groups

Still there,

* The ability to disable cookies

Still there.

* Fine-grained cookie management ("accept/deny this cookie" dialogs)

That's pretty clumsy. You can choose in advance which sort of cookies to allow or deny.

* RSS reader

Plugins are available

* "Save tabs and quit"

Your tabs are saved when you quit.

* Ability to export history

Plugins to do this.

* FTP

It's 2025. No one should be using FTP. No one.

X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

Re: I wonder

He's the smartest man in the White House, and I don't mean that in a good way.

Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage

If the consequences for "mislaying" footage is less than the consequences of the footage being seen, then it's a bit of a no brainer to accidentally lose it.

MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2

Re: Huge quantities of molten sodium flying through the air?

You could say the same thing about aviation fuel. Anything with a high energy density is going to make a mess if it all gets released at once, whatever the energy source.

Heat it up, I would imagine.

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?

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 *