Posts by JWLong

Outlook is poor for those still on Windows Mail, Calendar, People apps by end of year

OUTHOUSE(OutLook)

I, after so many decades of using OutLook(OUTHOUSE) have 100% dropped OutLook and pretty much the entire Office Suit.

And, I don't fucking miss it at all!

Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz

Micro$oft

What a joke, and a bad one at that!

Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate

Re: Age Verification

Or, you could couple that with the bluetooth device mentioned above and .............

never mind.............!

Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online

Harshit Roy,

Makes me wonder what AI thinks of his name. I had to read it three times I was laughing so hard!

Other than that, he sounds like a nutbag.

Microsoft hits back at claims it slurps your Word, Excel files to train AI models

I suppose now..............

I don't use the Office suit much any more.......But, having to use GPO, registery settings, and 17 different firewall outbound rules to stop the M$ sniffing and taking is something people shouldn't have to do to use a paid for product.

I don't use OutLook any more (it's thunderbird now) because of how polluted it is with crap. If M$ continues down this road I may just throw Office under the truck and leave it there until the end of time. I will miss Word and Excel but it seems this option is no longer up to the customer anymore.

QNAP NAS users locked out after firmware update snafu

When did.....................

Micro$hit$how$haft buy QNAP?

Microsoft reboots Windows Recall, but users wish they could forget

Micro$oft

..........continues to walk that dead dog.

Now’s your chance to try Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall ... maybe

Let the Games.............

..............Begin..............

Datacenters could blow up your electric bill thanks to AI

Have you ever noticed that..........

As long as the price is paid there is no shortage.

Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11

Re: Win10 will be the last OS from Microsoft I will ever use...

""Who the fuck thought I wanted the scroll bars to be hidden and only appear whilst actually scrolling???""

Micro$hit$haft, of course, who else, no one!

Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional

UNIONS

I worked 30 years for a major corporation that had a 70 year mandaite starting in 1927. This mandait was that all hourly employees would be UNION.

Why you may ask?

Because they were involved with a very famous Detective agency in Chicago (starts with a "P") and were accused of murder on union protest lines.

They knew they would lose in court at trial and it would set a precedent.

By accepting this mandait, the murder charges were dropped.

People died by corporate edic and no one went to jail for this shit.

Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink at any price

(it can be entirely disabled with group Policy)

It can also get bit killed in the registery.

HKLM: Do not allow copilot.

Pirate programmer walks the plank for role in massive TV streaming operation

Re: <shrug>

It's not, it's a debt card. Just called "credit card" for the cheap, lazy, ignorant, stupid, dumb, silly, or just plain old don't know the difference individuals of planet earth!

That hardware will be more reliable if you stop stabbing it all day

Re: The boxes are labelled on the outside

No you use a subset of the assigned UPC to indicate variances of the initial code.

You should see the varieties of bowling balls. Color, weight block, but inventoried under Polyester-14lb-Blue.

Re: This is why ergonomics matters

You have to remember that the UPC standard wasn't that flexible initilly. Manufacturers had an uphill learning and unless there inventory was already computerized and able to deal with multiple UPC for the same product but packaged differently really threw the screws to some of those charge that couldn't see the forest because of the trees.

Apple hit with £3 billion claim of ripping off 40 million UK iCloud users

Re: Who do I trust most? Cook, Bezos, Zuckerberg or Nadella?

I don't trust any of the modern day slingers, all my devices backup to a portable 4tb usb drive and then will get backup to my server sitting in my living room.

I will not pay any of the internet creeps a dead penny for anything, Fuck'em ALL.

Microsoft still not said anything about unexpected Windows Server 2025 installs

Send them a bill!

Maybe when this kind of shit really starts to cost them real money they might pull their heads out of theit asses.

Microshit suffers from a·nal - cra·ni·al dumb ass disease of the greatest kind.

Classic Outlook explodes when opening more than 60 emails

Is it..........What.

First the article says "Classic Outlook" as in Outlook.exe? Then goes on to talk about Outlook 365 chrashing.

Two different things aren't they.

I do believe Micro$oft has been sabotaging Outlook.exe every month to get people to go to Outlook365.

Screw Micro$ofr, I started using ThunderBird. I disapprove of everything 365.

Microsoft accused of 'greenwashing' as AI used in fossil fuel exploration

Micro$oft

Just another corporation that paints lip stick on a pig

Intel losses hit $16.6B in Q3 and Wall Street is … loving it?

Intel losses hit $16.6B in Q3 and Wall Street is … loving it?

What I want to know is why you run a company into the ground and you get to write off your mismanagment against your taxes?

Maybe it's time to go to a straight 10% across the board coporate tax and lose all these loopholes to tax writeoffs. You fuck up your company and you get to pay for it. The real tax payers are getting sick and tired of this shit.

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

Re: Wat?

What they mean by "Air Gas" is what's called "Natural Gas" in the states.

Methane........

Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years

Russia, China, India...................

They need to be geo-blocked.............NOW!

We know what Musk will probably dress up as this year: A victim

If he does show up,

.............He should do so as a CLOWN!

Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive

Re: Midnight Blizzard? Salt Typhoon? Pfft!

I just call them "Shit Heads".

iFixit to the rescue: McDonald's workers can rescue their own ice cream machines

iFixit to the rescue: McDonald's workers can rescue their own ice cream machines

McD's has a special version of the machine that doesn't require someone smarter then ambient temperature to perform the normal daily sanitization.

I've been working on Taylors for 40+ years and this equipment is the biggest piece of shit I have ever seen.

!

Satya Nadella asked for 50% cut in his incentive payout over security failures

Lipstick on a Pig!

What about continous failed updates.

Killing product activation to push cloud crap.

Crap software with functions no one cares about.

Killing hardware to push renewal (spend, spend, spend more time, money and effort)

Refusing to fix bugs, because it's a feature.

Go shit someplace else Micro$haft, I'm sick of your crap!

On and on and on and on..........................................

Ford CEO admits he drives a Chinese electric vehicle and doesn't want to give it up

Re: :)

Go back to last winter and reread the news reports about EVs.

Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year

Re: What, no love for Multiplan?

Anyone remember an office suite called "Enable". Early 90's, I was contracting to the Air Force and was included with my workstation.

Great database and spreadsheet, had word processlng and graphics also.

FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again

Re: Broadcast licence?

Broadcast means broadcast over the air waves to consumers. Cable or satellite are not considered this and are a paid for service. That's why cable and sat communications don't come under broadcast rules, they can't be received freely.

Mouse and Company, Inc. need to have their ass kicked for this crap. But hey, corporate America owns the government now and can and will flip off the FCC while they laugh all the way to the bank.

Post Office seeks more Horizon support as it continues hunt for replacement

Start at the beginning...................

Buy the assholes in charge a pad of paper, a box of pencils, and an old mechanical adding machine and someone to teach them proper maths.

If the morons in charge can't do a proper job, what makes them able to pick someone that can do a proper job.

Would banning ransomware insurance stop the scourge?

Just like any other problem.

Companies don't like to pay for things. C-suits that only worry about next quarters dividend paid to stockholders(themselves), and board members that that only suck owners dicks for a living. Insurance companies don't like paying out for ransom cost, well here's a fucking idea, stop writing the policies for this shit, otherwise just STFU!

Take away the the tax write offs for being lazy, cheap, stupid, or just for being a thief. Make the assholes in charge pay resitution out of their own pockets because they didn't want to pay for proper network building and maintenance.

All these whinners that get hacked are the sameones making their wall street forcast come true buy cutting cost and budgets for a system responsible for most of their business. If they are so fucking blind they can't see the problem there, why are they in charge in the first place. Just more butt sucking is all.

These corporations post billions of dollars in profit every quarter, and yet the can't seem to afford to have proper staff or resourses to allow IT to do it's job. They are fucking liars and theivies and need to be convicted and spend a lot of time in prison for their bullshit.

You want to stop ransomware, start where the problem is in the corporation itself. Always follow the big money, it will lead you to right where the main problems are, the C-suit offices and the boardrooms.

Smart TVs are spying on everyone

Wiireshark

I use it all the time. I've built a HOST file with over 125K of blocked sites.

Ain't seen an ad for decades.

And for the hard coded address, a firewall rule is the way to go.

Re: PiHole!

What you can't do with a HOST file, you can do with a firewall outbound rule.

Re: Buy a non smart TV - if you can find one

V422-AVT display

https://www.google.com/search?q=+V422-AVT+display

Just one of many available.

Windows 11 users still living in the past face forced update, like it or not

Win11

I just use the server install of win 11 to stop the MS bullshit. MS has set this now to stop the bypass of the TPM and CPU check. I have a full ISO of 23H2 that allows the bypass.

No TPM check,

No CPU check,

No forced update,

No CoPilot,

No Recall,

And, I can 100% control Updates, along with a HOST file, Group Policy, and firewall rules MS can kiss my white walking butt.

24H2 has changed the TPM/CPU check now so it can't be bypassed anymore, so I just use a copy of the 23H2 ISO to install and let it update to 24H2, and no whining happens!

Have you ever wondered what that jukebox in your favorite pub is running, yep thats it.......................!

AT&T claims VMware by Broadcom offered it a 1,050 percent price rise

Hey ATT,

You been fucking your customers for decades, how does it feel now.

If your looking for sympathy, go look in the dictionary. It's someplace between shit and syphilis.

After 3 years, Windows 11 has more than half Windows 10's market share

Re: It's the TPM that kills it for me

Do you have an activation code for Win11 Pro? If so get a copy of the 22h2 ISO file, within windows mount the iso. Get a terminal window up and typein: "setup /PRODUCT SERVER", this bypasses the TPM and CPU check and installs Win11 without all the happy MS shit.

Do not use the ISO available from MS for 24h2 where they have disabled the bypass.

Campaigners claim 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' in Firefox does the opposite

Re: Someone needs to pay

Then maybe the rest of corporate America should sponsor FF.

I run Brave for basic web browsing with basic settings. I use Vivaldi for banking(and online purchases for work, I have over 30 credit cards I use for different properties).

My real defence against tracking and ads is a tight Group Policy, a big ass Host file(125K sites blocked), major firewall rules that kill the MS sniffing shit, and I take ownership of all browser folders. Also, TrustedInstaller is limited to read only(browser folders only)so nothing gets backdoored(updated) unless I say OK.

So if FF wants to suck Google's wanker, they are more than welcome to. The CEO of FF should get off his ass and start marketing their product to companies that really worry about their privacy, secuity, and bandwidth.

GOOGLE

.....gets their way again.

Here Firefox, have another million dollars for the week. Just lie between your teeth about this b.s. and hide the controls somewhere else for every platform.

Digital wallets can allow purchases with stolen credit cards

Banks often allow this because it's convenient.

No, they allow it because it's cheap and easy for them. And any incurred cost is hoisted upon the customers back.

AI to invade hundreds more Taco Bell drive-thrus this year

Corporate Junk Food

Enough said there.

Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit

Space Junk,

Gee whizzzzzzzz, billion plus spent on just one company that can't produce. Imagine that.

A company run by bean-counters and lawyers that can't get a job completed. They chased all the real engineers away with their garbage procedures that were implemented for cost cutting measures and now with two people stuck with no way home and all they can do is cry about their dividends to the stockholders of which the C-suits are the vast majority there of.

If it's Boeing, it's not Going!

Q:Hey Boeing, how much is two peoples lives worth to you?

A:Worthless to Boeing.

Such is the world today, as long as the government keeps getting their far share of taxes out of corporate America nothing will change.

And, I think even worsr of SpaceX just because of the MuskX asshole in charge. And i'm losing respect for NASA also because of the assholes they contract with.

Adobe exec likened hidden cloud subscription exit fees to 'heroin', says FTC

Adobe

Started blocking them 10 about ten years ago when they started this bull$hit.

Today, they remind me of Micro$hitShaft. But they have to be delt with by blocking 99% of their crap.

Sometimes I get so burnt out having to update blacklist and then a user will complain that they can't go to Adobe.com (or some other site). I just point them to a document explaining the reasons why web sites and programs are blacklisted.

The first paragraph of this document say's:

The reason for the blacklist are that the end user's isn't qualified to make informed decisions pertaining to the proper operation of most equipment found in the modern office today.

It goes on to say that the end user isn't stupid or ignorent, just that there's alot of hanky $hit on the web and they're not expected to know it all.

Got about 125K apps/host blacklisted, and Adobe (and their software) is defiantly on the $hit list.

Sam Altman sues builder over $27M flooded, sewage-hit 'lemon' of a mega-mansion

Dear Sam,

I can't stop laughing.

Fools and their money

Need I say more?

You know what spreadsheets need? LLMs, says Microsoft

I'm So Effing Happy...................

That my Office 2013 Pro is now EoL'ed and doesn't receive updates anymore.

Trump threatens to send Meta's Mark ‘Zuckerbucks’ to prison if reelected president

UK commenters

Or UK nutjobs with crossbows and/or knivies

Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia 'more effectively' than Putin

Re: Doing Business

Doing Business

""All right, it is true that it is shocking that IBM covered up the fact that the Nazis (illegally) used (pirated) IBM punched card equipment in running their concentration camps, so as to avoid a potential image problem. But except for that, I was struggling to figure out what it was about IBM's behavior they considered objectionable and why.""

The Nazis didn't use counterfeit punch cards on their IBM original tabulators during WWII. They purchased them(cards) through a Swiss company that IBM started, operated, and wholly owned to meet the letter of the laws.

Others tried to counterfeit the cards but never got it right, so the Germans along with IBM cooked up this scheme to defeat the object of the law. The secret to the cards was the paper it was made from, it was highly stabile and the individual card weight was very uniform. From what I understand from a family member of mine, it took about 1.5 cards to get a good one. That's why I spent my early childhood using defective punch cards as drawing paper, he would bring them home when they were defective. And they never bleached the fibers to whiten them, that's why they had a yellow tint.

The cards were precision printed on high quality, die cut stock. IBM would pull 10% of QA stock and either test punch it or send it to the manufacturing floor where the tabulators were made to assure interoperability between cards and the entire list of machines that used them. In other words IBM had their customers locked in on the supply side.Even the Nazis couldn't break this shit up and paid a dear price for it(in gold).

Google begs court for relief from Epic Games' Play Store demands

Here they go again.

.......""These estimates reflect the technical and review costs to Google," the company says in the filing. "They do not include the incalculable costs that Google would suffer from the harms to the Google and Play brands or to the security and viability of the Android ecosystem caused by these remedies."

And, they can say crap like this with a straight face...............effing LIARS.

Yahoo! Japan to waive $189 million ad revenue after detecting fraudulent clicks

Just goes to show..........

How screwed up the entire advertising system is, nothing more than a big steaming pile of crap.

And they keep wondering why I block ad servers.