Posts by JWLong

Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many

Re: Scrap the BSOD, read the sticker

Yeah, it's almost as supid as the federal law requiring Braille on drive thru teller stations at banks!

Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online

Re: Useful illustration

""Either my measures don't make me blend in (tbh they are aimed at ad blocking really) or the site is not that good at doing what it says""

As seen below it told me to use Brave, which I do. But, to even get the scan to work I had to turn off most protections Brave provides to have the scanner run. So, that tells me a lot about how important it is to kill scripting, dumping site cookies at session end, and other settings in a browser that need looking at.

Also, with a pretty complete Host file I don't see ads anywhere I go.

From Scan Site ""5. Consider using Firefox, Brave, or Tor Browser for better default privacy""

Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews

Google, MicroSlop, Whom Ever..............

I don't trust any of them with anything.............

And with all the AI slop running around everywhere it's gotten way to hard to use a search engine anymore!

Notepad sheds Copilot from toolbar as Microsoft gives subtlety a try

Hey, MicroSlop........

How do you figure you're going to fix shooting yourself in the foot(feet) in the first place?

Hiding a button is not the way, that's for damn sure!

You've lost a lot a people like me, an original investor from '86.

Good Bye...Good riddance...and I hope to never having to deal with you again!

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

It really should be renamed Lookout!

I prefer to call it OutHouse

It seems to act more as a bowl movement!.

Ground Control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwAn7_2BacM

I Have NO OutLook...........

........and it is working just as I expected......as in........

Not at All, just the way I want it to be.........

Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

Re: MicroSlop

Dear MicroSlop,

Liar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMShyXl2eks

MicroSlop

"Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don't rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk."

Then why the fuck spend billions of bucks on entertainment slop when you can't even get a monthly security update fucking right?

Pull your head out of your asses and stop shooting yourselves in the feet, fucking morons!

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures

MicroSlop QA=.........

.....Quality Absent....!

AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring

Puerto Rico........

.....isn't a state, it's an territory.

just saying you know, like a LLM would(or wouldn't)!.

Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say

Re: Why stop at kids?

<< You must have missed the news that Japan is rearming, again.>>

And so is Germany!

And I do believe they need too!

Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy

Re: The fireworks should be spectacular

Let's just go old school on this, we can supply what ever your needs be!.

https://kemptonsteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Headerjjj-template.png

I've work on a few things using mercury arc rectification tech from the far past, things like overhead cranes, subway systems and such.

DC voltage regulation, I've heard of it. (LoL)

Now, just add a bit of water cooling to it and let the fireworks begin!.

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

What we really need to do is..........

Get the general voting population to stop electing fuck'n morons to office............/s

Yeah, like that's going to happen anytime soon! ! !............

Louisiana.........

One of the true southern states where it's still legal to marry your first cousin..........

Mother nature does not care what your political party is!.

/just saying.....

Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos

Re: Basic Rule.

Much like working on an Air Force SAC base back in the 80's and 90's.

When I had to go to the flight line there was always two guys with M16's to "escort" me to the required location. And if you had to go to the head(restroom) you soon noticed that there were no doors on the individual stalls within.

Google presses play on 30-second Gemini musical slop generator

"Weird Al" Yankovic,

Oh boy, more four notes, six words, wants to be a hit shit socalled music for the masses!

Garbage is garbage, going in or coming out...............GIGO at it's best(worse, I don't know!).

Android malware taps Gemini to navigate infected devices

Android,

Is itself Malware!.

Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC email kerfuffle

Who's Incharge There?

<<Really, you have to ask yourself who was advising Microsoft's counsel on this.>>

I would bet it was a MicroSoft bean counter!

AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

Arsrechnica Retraction

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?

Windows Car

Edsel by Ford

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

Re: Americans

American population is 360+million, compare that to Canada at 41 million.

Do the math, it ain't algebra.

You will find that 99% of gun violence in the USA is in the inner city area's where even the cops don't want to go(and I don't blame them!).

Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack

>> LiquidStack will continue to operate under Trane's commercial HVAC business unit.<<

Trane use to make great HVAC equipment, not anymore. So, any division managed under their HVAC business unit is one I would run from yelling and screaming.

In days of future past, I the only issue I had with Trane was their proprietary thermostat that required an after market adaptor board to install an industry standard thermostat. Today, I wouldn't recommend their products except to a scrap metal recycler.

They are fucking junk!

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

QA at MicroSlop

That's got to be the joke of the century!

Microsoft probes Windows 11 boot failures tied to January security updates

MicroSoft has decided...........

........that the most secure operating system they can offer is one that won't boot!.

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

Re: Answers on a postcard to,...

>Please post your suggestions for a new name for Notepad.

PoopPad?

Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors

Re: A chatbot with a container is a happy efficient chatbot

Sir, please put the glass pipe down!.

Re: SNORKEL

""What are the other two?

Karen and Hommey(Homeless).

Re: using AI for everything

Welcome to the Club!

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue

Re: Unbelievable stupidity

How about a CNC machine shop, easy way to end up in hell.

Re: BS

In some print/packaging plants (even today) they use a AM frequency, as in a radio transmitter to weld the plastic packaging around the product. These packaging machines use very specialized tubes that needed cleaned every once in a while.

Some of these tubes contained radioactive elements in them that required very specialized handling and sometimes that standard wasn't maintained very well. https://www.amplitudemodulation.com.au/history.html#histtt

Can't remember the number of times I got called out because some dip-stick thought they new better than everyone else and managed to break the outter glass shielding of the tripple-shield and sending the machine into a shutdown-lockdown condition that required a crap load of work to restore.

There are people in this world that should not be allowed to operate anything with moving parts, let alone be put charge of a room full of machines with shit loads of said parts!.

Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one

Bezels, Who needs them?

Here's some of the fun stuff I get to work on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bO0vlrJEw0

So take your toys and go home now! /s

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

Heah Satya,

You don't like the term "Slop", fine with me I'll just call it what it is!.

SHIT.

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere

One of the most amazing things that I feel fortunate to have witnessed in my years was the mating of the old and new in the late 70’s where typesetters were using modern (8 bit) computers to compose type and send a digital signal to the appropriate Linotype for output.

The Star Readers which produced a punched paper tape that had to be manually inserted into a reader which would then activate solenoids on the appropriate keys of the Linotype to drop the mats, were being phased out. The individual computer terminals which the typesetters used, were networked to a mainframe that would sort the individual orders and had its output devices as a bank of 8 Linotypes.

To watch the keyboards of all 8 Linotypes whos keys were all moving as if some phantom typesetter was sitting in front of them was a real sight to see for me. I gained big respect for the Linotype Machinists who had to deal with front squirts and back squirts and cleaning mats and hanging pigs each shift.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/linotype-operators-library-of-congressscience-photo-library.html

Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance

Re: Hypoxia

>>Bravo Zulu<<

Your navy is showing.........

Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming

Re: MOP — My Oriface's Portaloo ?

>>.....How long before it becomes "anything but Oracle…" as though it wasn't already that for other completely distinct piles of crap previously dumped on customers......<<

It amazes me as to whom, between Orifaces and MicroShit(softTurdage), who can shit in their own kitchen the most!

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

Re: I'm not lazy,

Hence the name "Cloudfart", right.............

Try this one.

https://www.grainger.com/category/cleaning-and-janitorial/floor-cleaning-machines/vacuum-cleaners/upright-vacuums?sst=4&tv_optin=true&searchQuery=Sanitaire+Vacuum+Cleaners

Now, Grainger is a little more spendy but they do like to sell stuff. If you can't access them you got a browser problem or something else down the tube of lube called the "Net".

Or,....................

https://www.google.com/search?q=sanitaire+commercial+vacuum+SC684

It really ain't that hard and there is no AI involved.

I'm not lazy,

I clean my house once a week, like I learned to do it when I was a kid. That's what saturday morning was about before cartoon time on TV.

We had a Hoover, which today I wouldn't buy one because they are junk.

In my working days I was a "facility manager" or "building engineer", what ever name mis-management stuck on the description.

Want to know what is used by commercial properties by janitoral staff to vacuum. Here you go!

https://www.thinkvacuums.com/sanitaire-sc684f-commercial-upright-vacuum.html?

And repair parts are available at decent prices along with ease of repair and built like a brick shithouse compared to the junk consumer shit sold today.

BOFH: All through the house, not a creature was stirring except the homicidal vacuum cleaner

USA Option

On this side of the pond it's called a split level. It's a waste of space.

AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans

Machines are not intelligent!

That's what "AI" stands for...........

"Ain't Intelligent"

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

Live by the Apple...

The Apple is rotten, as hell!...........

Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text

Russians,

They ain't exactly the smartest onions in the soup pot!

But, they're good for a laugh.............

Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence

Re: What the Fark did you expect?

I wouldn't trust any of this shit any farther than I could throw an elephant.

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

Re: Not training related, but...

A verbal warming

I typed that in to see what auto-screwup would do and it maligned it all by itself.

Auto-screwup does some weird shit sometimes!

HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting

Memory

There is no shortage of memory in the market. It's everywhere, just the price has gone up. As long as you pay the price it's there.

This is called gouging and as long as the price is payed it will continue to be.

It's artificial bullshit to hit end of year bonus amounts, nothing more!

CodeRED emergency alert system CodeDEAD after INC ransomware attack

Maybe ,,...........

They should change their name to "Clown24".

Campbell's CISO canned after lawsuit alleges hour-long rant against staff and customers

Re: He's not wrong.

I, having done a bit of work for the canned food industry (Walla Walla, Wa.) can honestly tell you that you do not want to see the quality of the ingedients that go into canned foods.

Do you know that up to 30% of canned spinach is tree leaves (or other leaves)!?

I won't say about tomatoes, carrorts, or other common veggies (like potatoes)!

I've worked rendering plants that had better quality product in the door!

But, for some idiot working for a major name food company, going off like that is pretty fucking dumb!

He's probably working for ADM making animal food ingedients now, now that's the bottom of the barrel there!

Re: What would the Soup Dragon have to say?

"Sorry, BBC iPlayer isn’t available in your region."

Must be time to fire up some Bittorrent!.

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

Internet of Crap!

"Is Meta acting like a tobacco company denying cigarettes cause cancer, or an oil giant downplaying climate science?"

Meta is acting like corporate America does everywhere! And, the government is in bed with them.

Why, because of money!

The dumbing down of society is the de·sir·a·ble effect.

In America 50% of the population are overweight (FAT), 50% of the population is on a government stipend (FREE MONEY), 50% are on a goverment provided prescription (LUNEY TUNE PILL) and the government loves it.

Anti-Social websites and apps effecting kids, for shame!. They all know about it and have buried the facts intentionally as a means to gain control of the masses. If a few people (KIDS) kill themselves well thats expected and worth the gains to them.

They must know and control their servants and the internet is their way of doing that. There's one way of slowing down their ambitions of control and surveillance and that is to just turn it off, NOW!

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

Re: Reality is an illusion ...

I bought M$ stock in '86@¢0.06-0.10/share.

I accrued over 19K shares.

For the past 5 years I've been selling off because of asshole, money grubbing, cheap shit "directors".

"Encourage adoption", jamming it up people's asses because nobody wants it and are screaming in their faces about it.

Fucking blind leading the stupid is what they are.