Posts by Tubz

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads

Illegals gambling ads, so use the laws to fine them, 10% of global revenue is a nice round number !

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

Just sell it off to a company that is serious of VR and not adverts and privacy invasion.

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

How good is WINE handling Edge running legacy IE code, as a lot of business still have old apps creaking away running in compatibility mode? If that's as near compatible as running under Windows, then that's a major blocker gone for Linux take up in business. Then of course software distribution, as I believe Microsoft don't do Linux clients for Intune/MECM/SCCM but the Window client should work, if Office works?

UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence

No 2 Tier laws from 2 Tier Starmer and his dictatorship of fools and w@nkers, if it is unlawful for me, then it's unlawful for the Government.

Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug

Shame somebody like the EU can't enforce some sort of consumer QA/SLA and start introducing big fines, sooner or later it make sense to start testing again ?

UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband

Daft for a building owner to object, having 1G+ speeds in a flat is a advertising bonus, especially if it costs them nothing?

India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64

Re: Aid

we don't now, we use strategic investments in climate, research, and infrastructure through channels like the British International Investment (BII) and Climate Investment Funds (CIFs)

How many years back did we laughed at Chinese chip development and now look at them, Indian engineers just as smart, cheaper and work longer hours.

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

Governments are running scared as people are now waking up and not believing the censored narrative put out and they don't like that, we kid ourselves live in a democracy but every country is a dictatorship, just power is shared between a select few. The truth is now being believed and become widespread and so governments revert to tried and tested control policies.

Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system

and these clowns want to handle an ID system of 70m+ people, with even more valuable personal data ?

UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout

and this lot want to run an ID system on approx 70m UK population, with every scum bag on the planet just awaiting to try and breach it! STARMER FU !!!!!

Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing

Stasi talking Microsoft to court, lets hope they don't have any voluntary admissions of guilty.

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Sorry we can't replace your ships air defence missile tracking system, as you have not raised the appropriate change request, completed all the mandatory fields, for example current location, verifcation from 2 people on the approval list and the chosen date is within a change freeze window, for updates to our billing system prior to sending out monthly invoices.

Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch that refuses to die, just went fully open source

I just like a watch for telling me the time and that doesn't need charging every 2 days, yes Apple looking at you. A monthly charge is more than enough in my book and some minor customizations is fine.

70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture

Re: When it fails

so the Indian scammers can get paid quicker, brilliant !

US, UK, Australia sanction Lockbit gang’s hosting provider

His look says he obviously has a crush on her, but she's out of his league.

To solve compatibility issues, Microsoft would quietly patch other people's code

Windows 95 coders wouldn't call Windows 10/11 coders as they are incompatible pussies and they also don't talk to BOTS !

Secret setting hints haptic feedback coming to Windows 11 UI

Could be handy if my mouse buzzed if in private mode and I miss a Teams call notification, even better if I put it down my pants and call myself, to pass the time of day.

UK asks cyberspies to probe whether Chinese buses can be switched off remotely

Trust no country or corporation and vet all updates should be at the core of security, unfortunately, users won't have that as too inconvenient and so a level of trust is given that is then always abused in the name of profit.

UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support

Time For A Change

Time government departments moved to a home grown Linux OS and apps and if they need a Windows App, run it in a virtual desktop like Citrix.

My company migrated to W10 from W7 desktops, along with a Citrix solution so WFH users could use Netbooks to access them, along with laptops and rolled out a new VPN, over 5000 assets in less than a year with a tiny team, across multiple sites in the country. You just have to have the backing of the bosses, accountants and the will. We know we saved millions in the long run !

Samsung picks fights with Google and Qualcomm

"IF" it was bloat free, as quick as Chrome, supported 3rd party blockers, spyware free, didn't phone home, didn't track, easy VPN support, monthly updates, opened source code to scrutiny, then another alternative browser is welcome.

Or somebody with deep pockets, invest in Firefox and redevelop it as the go to open source again and sack the current directors.

Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out

as if you would trust HLS to delete photo after 12 hours, it will be nicely secured in a black site system outside of oversight and accessed via shadow links from legitimate agencies.

Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell

Broadcom killing itself slowly, one contract at a time.

Windows 11 tiptoes further into dark mode with new dialogs

Makes you wonder how much more experimental code is hiding under the hood and even running without the user knowledge or agreement, collecting who knows what telemetry and if lawful, not that it would bother Microsoft and it's lawyers ?

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch

So just another extension to the original ID plan to stop illegal immigration, Starmer and his corrupt bunch of inept goons just can't help lying. Just come out with what you want to do, be truthful and explain it in simple truthful terms to the voters. If they like the idea, they will accept it if not, scrap it for another 50 years, don't use the usual deception, shadow tactics to enforce it as in a dictatorship.

IBM killing mainframe coding kit for PCs this year

reason, subscription $$$, as always with IBM

Google, Meta and Vodafone want smartphone-makers to reduce their bandwidth bills

we all agree, less data usage for a video stream is good, but also consider the devices that don't support hardware AV1, the software decoders have to be good too for older devices that will still be in use for years to come and of course licence free!

Campaigners urge UK PM Starmer to dump digital ID wheeze before it's announced

Fine issue Digital ID but ensure you enshrine in law, you have the right to access any and all services without it or refuse to produce it on demand by any security services unless a crime has been committed, as per current law and any breach of this law results in an instant criminal prosecution, regardless of who did it.

Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil

This is a big step, being able to grow plants on the moon, which will be used as a space staging ground reduces the costly need to ship oxygen from Earth, as once large enough fields are growing, they will be used for the moon base itself recycling co2 and for deep space flights and of course it has to be Real Yorkshire Tea, in a Greggs shop and not Starbucks swill !

Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs

Dell on TikTok, may get something resembling intelligent support now, in 30 seconds videos, made by hipster technology influencers, speaking some sort short, phrased English.

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

Good to see all those cheap services provided during covid have been a worthwhile bribe :cough: investment !

Charities warn Ofcom too soft on Online Safety Act violators

Google one of the biggest rule breakers, if you use their image search, you can easily see stuff that falls foul OSA, yet Google has not been fined 1 penny. A case of if you're too big and American, you can get away with breaking laws?

Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services

US company, US laws, spineless and clueless UK government, access to UK data guaranteed for USA !

This is not a sovereign cloud, just on-premise storage for the UK, lies and mis-information from Liebour !

Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

First steps towards EU version of the Online Safety Act and can't they see how flawed and overreaching this disastrous piece of broken law is, for a few bleeding hearts that constantly bang the "think of the children" drum to suppress freedoms. If security services can't find paedo's online then what hope of nation states professional spies and hackers ?

UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content

So basically a "Are You Over 18 Question" that has been on websites for years and was good enough to protect the owner from prosecution, as it made sure the user was at fault if breaking age rules. Now I just send my data via Swiss VPN if I know UK snoops what to validate.

OSA is complete BS, and is just another example of overreach without thought to satisfy a few loud mouths "think of the children" and deprive people of freedom of choice.

Perfect example, have had a Steam account since 2004 and yet have now been told, that my account has had the right to some content disabled until I do the online check.

When I explained to Steam that my account has been going 20 years and hence I must be over 18 years old and do not need to prove this, please enable, they refuse saying they had to follow OSA rules.

I'm 50+ years FFS, Starmer, his retarded government if liars and his net nannies can GFT I don't need to prove anything to play a game !

Funny how I can still use Google to search for porn pictures but see no prosecutions, Starmer still sleeping with U.S megacorps.

This is just the start, online or physical digital ID's cards containing lots of juicy info to be hacked, unlawfully accessed, as security services do now and protect themselves with RIPA and once we get comfortable with that invasion of privacy, a law that makes it compulsory to hand over to security services on demand, no right to refuse as we have now, anonymity now gone.

The UK is truly becoming worse than North Korea with comrade Starmer !

Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban

Simple solution, Microsoft buys back unused licences at a published standard price, depending on age of licence and disregarding discounts offered at the time, both sides win, cuts off reseller market.

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

Voyager 1 OS will outlive Windows OS and have been far more useful in human evolution.

Norway's £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships

Sunak wouldn't fight, he would grab his African passport and go back running to inlaws mumsy in India !

We need to build ships, but have no ship yards, no a very smart short sighted moves by politicians in the 80/90s closing down places like Tyne/Tees yards, who historically built a large proportion of our ships and allowed the skills to be lost, rather than pass down by to the next generation as had been done for hundreds of years !

Minority Report: Now with more spreadsheets and guesswork

Re: Prenatal screening

I'm waiting for Starmer to bring in compulsory DNA swabs at birth to be added to national crime computer just so they can be protected by the Online Safety Act which will be power crept until it becomes the Public Safety Act and privacy is gone!

Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion

No advertising or AI company should be allowed to own any browser, too much power and they are known abusers, yes includes Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, ChatGPT, OpenAI the list keeps getting bigger.

I would even dare to say, all browsers should be forced to be 100% compliant with a basic core version, that is W3C compliant, allows all the basic things a user would do and then let them add features if they add value to entice users.

Nvidia gives its tiniest workstation GPUs a Blackwell boost

Can it play Quake in my lunch breaks?

UK unveils plans to 'transform' the consumer smart meter experience

Smart meters, lets be honest was never smart from the beginning and the amount of lies told by government and the industry was staggering, and the savings have never appeared. As for sending reading through my broadband, no problem, you pay me a few quid a year off my bill and I then I will just block you at the firewall and say it's your fault, you come out, I unblock it and you leave, I block it, prove it otherwise!

The real reason for smart meters, reduce manpower (no sexism implied), energy control, as in remote cut off, variable hourly tariff pricing to make the energy cartels more money and the government more VAT !

UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases

All these cameras and yet they can't stop one known kiddie fiddler or murdering entering the border by airplane, ship, car or rubber dinghy, after being expelled, maybe looking at the wrong people in 2TK Starmer's Fascist Britain.

Microsoft promises to eventually make WinUI 'truly open source'

Re: Endgame?

Or they just EOL Windows, put all their efforts in to porting what they can to native Linux WinUI and anything else can run under Wine or die.

Apple have done it twice now with their cpu architecture forcing developers to switch!

Tony Blair Institute: UK needs bit barns to lead in AI deployment, not training

Tony Blair should stick to blowing his rich corrupt mates, he smoothed in to bed while being PM and leave running UK PLC to todays politicians and not war criminals !

Microsoft gives in to Chromebook bullies and drops Windows 11 SE

Why aren't the likes of REG standing up and taking a stand against the likes of Microsoft to unlock devices they are abandoning allow owners who have bought for hardware that is now their property from using alternative OS's, time for somebody to challenge this in court! - The EU "Right to Repair" Directive, officially titled Directive (EU) 2024/1799, aims to promote the repair of goods and extend product lifespans, reducing electronic waste.

Kremlin goons caught abusing ISPs to spy on Moscow-based diplomats, Microsoft says

and you don't think western intelligence agencies have permanent tapped ISP lines in secret buildings without lawful orders, the ISPs can see anomalies in the networks and trace them but turn a blind eye too when they get a call from a faceless agency.

Trump pushes EU into trade 'deal' that several EU leaders aren't happy about

Now the EU feels how the UK felt after Brexit, when so called partners and friends back stabbed us, because we wouldn't bend over and be slaves to an unelected bunch of faceless unaccountable bureaucrats, sadly we got 2TK Starmer selling us out to the USA, EU, France and China, <countries please queue here to screw over the UK>