Posts by Tubz

Top EU court crushes Google appeal against $2.65B Shopping antitrust ruling

Nice one ECJ, finally found some balls, now about the fine/compensation, it should be bigly bigly big, I assume the cash goes to other companies who will now jump on the claim bandwagon or maybe the EU will split it with all the Eu members including the UK.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change

$7.5B is chicken feed if the megacorps all chipped in, just needs the will and a social and environment conscious to do so and they get a tiny bit of gratitude back from the world, hell they all need some good PR!

India delays planned space station and moon base by five years

Re: Gotta ask....

Because our pollical master like to brag about how they are helping the poorest of the world on the political stage, while ignoring home grown poverty, as it doesn't give them enough street cred. This may upset a few, but all overseas aid should be stopped, money spent at home and only then anything left over donated to Charites to use and audited. We all know billions get redirected to private accounts and terrorists and governments turn a blind eye !

Can't feed, educate, protect females, Police or stamp out electoral fraud and class elitism, yet can spend billions going to the moon. Good to see India has joined the ranks of muppet governments with screwed up priorities.

Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England

NHS like most government depts just don't understand or want to understand people's concerns, far too many times big brother and it's drive for big data has caused harm or distress. We don't mind giving up our data, especially for the NHS, if it remains between the NHS and the patient, no third party data mining without consent. I bet for example if given the option, we would all allow a cancer researcher to access data if it helped find a cure, but hold back on big Pharm using our data to boost profits, especially for a USA company, they have bad track record for privacy, playing fast and loose with rules and thinking they above laws and go crying to US Gov for protection when caught !!

Prior UK government planned £485M four-year budget for Palantir-based healthcare system

Any ex-conservatives, ex-civil servants or ex-advisors with NHS association now working for Palantir ?

Veeam debuts its Proxmox backup tool – and reveals outfit using it to quit VMware

Yes, Adguard added directly to OPNsense along with upnp, Unbound DNS and various other goodies, I like the fact I'm talking to the highest upstream secure DNS servers and not local ISP.

I'm a Linux noob and even I managed to use an old Dell Precision T3420 + Proxmox+OPNSense+Adguard to replace my near EOL Asus router for a more capable and secure router and then just use the Asus router as an AP as it's wifi is more than enough. Next is to migrate my two Windows Severs boxes. Added advantage, I'm starting to learn Linux which I wouldn't have done if I stuck to Windows.

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

Just break up the monopolies and make them either go non-profit, fight for profitability or go under, either way the consumer wins and that's what is important.

AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care

All published AI work should legally be marked as such and companies found not to be doing so, such be fined £$€100,000 per word and the work deleted with a big apology in it's place.

Is Lenovo a blind spot in US anti-China security measures?

It's not like Lenovo has ever pre-installed malware on it's goods? ..... Does a quick Google ......... oh shit they have, it's BAN HAMMER time !

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

Imagine a world ....... Prez Trump and his VP Musk ... to some disturbing, too others an interesting idea.

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

Re: Selective memory

Well if I'm a "racist cunt." then I am proud of it, for being in the minority trying to have adult discussion, with the usual gutter residents that resort to personal attacks!

Re: Selective memory

Oh please stop linking far right with Nazis, we all know what the Nazis did, you seriously cannot say the far right have done anything near this, yes they have some nut jobs going overboard, so do the far left, but the majority of right wingers are complaining about becoming the forgotten 2nd class citizens as our leaders drive for woke PC multiculturism, which isn't working as those demanding equality are not integrating. I suggest you watch the Enoch Powel interview he on US television, very interesting and a lot of what he predicted back in the 60s is now true. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR-Fwy8TqAs

Well done for an adult reply, have a cookie and go back to your finger painting!

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

Can just see Musk putting on his I.R cosplay costume as he boards his SpaceX Dragon. Q music ................ Thunderbirds R Go ......

IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim

Same old IBM, drag it out for as it as long as possible until the find some dirt on claimant, they die or court throws it out. If it looks like going to court and they will lose, settle, as they can't afford to have an age discrimination case proven, as that will open flood gates of all other employees sacked for being old and then get sued by shareholders when share price takes a hit.

Yes, I am being intolerably smug – because I ignored you and saved the project

As an ex-field engineer, anytime I was required to unplug cables on a switch or even worse a shop checkout till base unit that hasn't seen daylight since install, covered in crap and a rats nest of cables, I used decorators masking tape, easy to write on, tough enough for the job. Many times I returned to see it still on some tills years later.

US sends cybercriminals back to Russia in prisoner swap that freed WSJ journo, others

The axis of evil should be isolated from the rest from world, all trade should be stopped, companies forced to close offices, internet connectivity and all that

Too late now for canary test updates, says pension fund suing CrowdStrike

Crowdstrike "We believe this case lacks merit and we will vigorously defend the company", you have to laugh at these morons, blurting out the PR BS, they crashed the world but it's not our fault,

Microsoft Dynamics 365 called out for 'worker surveillance'

I remember back in the day working for a certain Japanese company that couldn't post a letter in a post office, wanted trackers in cars and PDA's we used for receiving jobs, they suddenly had a high rate of PDA's failures, and the cars had a lot comms failures but that may have been the dangly cables from the fuse boxes until they were returned to fleet. They also forgot that as engineers got taxed and in some places paid extra for upgrades due to HMRC rules for private usage, they forgot the off switch to comply with legal privacy laws. I remember one engineer supposedly suing the company for invasion of privacy after he was contacted by manager OOH and refused to go on a job as he said he was out with family, when his manager said he was at home according to his car and PDA, all hell broke loose.

OpenTofu hits version 1.8 with more crowd-pleasing features

I bet IBM will get the company cheaper, make a go of making it profitable give up, write off the money and offer to merge back with OpenTofu under their stewardship with a free community edition and a paid for business version that comes with support.

Google's plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumbles

I don't trust Google, so I'll play in the land of data surveillance and then use all the 3rd party tools to block all the crap out there !!

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide

The Nightmare Is Becoming Real

Why do I hear Sarah Conner in my head ....

"By the time Crowdshite became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms, everywhere. It was software in cyberspace. There was no system core."

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

So the fix is boot into SAFE MODE, good luck with that if you have Bitlocker enabled !

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate'

and by buy one item from Amazon, we have to accept a small part in the pressure on the staff, resulting in injuries!

Police allege 'evil twin' of in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal passenger's credentials

So charged with unauthorized access to devices and dishonest dealings.- Unless I am missing something, users voluntarily gave up details to access his AP and network services and he stored them like many ISPs do, so what crime was committed, unless he deliberately tried to imitate an airline free wi-fi to get credentials, if he just put up a page saying free wi-fi, then that's the users own fault?

However three charges of “possession or control of data with the intent to commit a serious offence” suggest the alleged perp was alive to the possibilities of using the data for nefarious purposes. - So just because he had the data freely given and that he "could" use it for naughty means, is now a crime, smells like he cops are desperate to pin something on him?

EU accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations for bundling Teams with O365

Microsoft says OK EU we give in, shame we already have our user base *snigger*, shame it takes you so long to get off your gravy train seat to investigate, which is the norm for most investigations.

Why are the EU not investigating the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Meta etc as a complete business and not per complaint?

If we take Microsoft and the PC as an example, how many products that are integrated are blatant antitrust violations, Media Player, Teams, OneDrive, Edge, Outlook, Xbox, as most users will just use whatever came free and pre-installed, no competition!!

A computer should come with the OS and very little else, fine have an app store, fine have random choice screens for apps, the less bloat the better.

Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit

Re: The moral of this story`

Gender has nothing to do with it here, this is purely toxic management, any HR department should have seen the red flags of unlawful behaviour and put a stop to it, unless they too are scared of losing their jobs?

Mozilla is now just as bad as any other company, non-profit has gone out of the window and it should no longer be recognised as such. It is in my opinion on a death slide and the only thing keeping it afloat is the pay cheques from Google for default search engine and whatever they can rustle up from buying the add company, which will be interesting to see if Mozilla adds code to stop adblockers from blocking?

America's best chance for nationwide privacy law could do more harm than good

Follow the brown envelopes stuffed with green backs for political donations. congressmen bought and paid for, US Of A$$ politics so corrupt, makes North Korea look democratic !

Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US

and once in Australia, the US of A$$, waits a little and then submits new charges and extradites him for life imprisonment !

'Mirai-like' botnet observed attacking EOL Zyxel NAS devices

Or put in a vlan/firewall rules in that bans your Zyxel NAS from talking to the internet and only to locals, if you get owned, then you have bigger network problems.

Apple Intelligence won't be available in Europe because Tim's terrified of watchdogs

So as a UK user I may not get AI in my phone, well call me old fashioned, maybe I just want to make phone calls, send texts and watch some cats videos, why do I need AI, oh thats right, then need to sell the next shiny shiny unneeded hyped technology, that benefits only the manufactures and s select bunch of privacy invading turds !! I'd still be using my old iPhone7 if my eyes didn't need a bigger screen and the 12 is doing just fine thank you !!

GPU-accelerated VMs on Proxmox, XCP-ng? Here's what you need to know

Just setup Proxmox + OPNsense + pi-hole + Unbound DNS to replace my router on an old Dell T3420 Xeon 8-Core 64GB mini-desktop, that I got of eBay for £86, old router is now just an AP, wi-fi is perfectly acceptable for my connection needs, just got sick of buying overpriced ARM based con..sumer rubbish that manufacturers don't support.

After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira

My company uses Jira, it sucks. Slow and buggy are its main features !

McDonald's not lovin' its AI drive-thru experiment with IBM

Not surprised it didn't work, they have enough problems getting their human workers to get the orders right, never mind AI voice recognition.

UK CMA early findings indicate Microsoft restricts cloud choice

Let's be honest here, the big boys are happy with the status quo, they don't want to see big shifts in % of the cloud business moving around as that will cost '000s millions. The losers are the smaller players as they can't compete in what is not a monopoly but a cartel with a small powerful membership that most countries can't fight with.

Microsoft accused of tracking kids with education software

"IF" Microsoft 365 Education is tracking kids and "IF" Microsoft the creators don't know what it is tracking, then the product should be instantly banned from use, pulled from sale and all data it has collected deleted permantetly, until Microsoft can prove to an independent auditor that it complies with privacy laws. Regulators need to stop pussy footing around with Megacorps and start kicking them in the nutz and wallets hard to get them play by the rules, no more give us a couple of years to take a look and maybe we'll change a few lines of code but we get to keep the data.

More layoffs at Microsoft: What's really going on here?

Just sack everybody who was involved in "Recall", job done !!

Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall

Privacy regulators around the world should just step in and tell Microsoft no, we are not having it, rip that POS out of Windows or face massive class action lawsuits, especially having it "on by default", is just another stupid idea, is Steve Balmer back in charge???

Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds around the world

and the world quietly has a few minutes of peace and quiet, from Redmond's unloved abominations!

China creates LLM trained to discuss Xi Jinping's philosophies

President Pooh's 3 philosophies,

1. I am right, the universe is wrong,

2. Do as I say, not as I do.

3. If in doubt, see 1 and 2

NYSE parent gets $10M wrist tap for failing to report 2021 systems break-in

$10m fine, NYSE too big to give a flying fig and just laughs off the SEC. Sadly thats the problem in the US companies, when a company gets big enough and too politically connected, not to care what the regulator does, they count any fines as an expense of doing business.

Can I phone a friend? How cops circumvent face recognition bans

Coppers acting like criminals, not shocked at all, isn't that part of the job requirements these days?

Oh Sonos! App update borks users' favorite features and worse

Will never buy expensive hardware that relies on server side, the idea of that the manufacturer can just switch them off at will when they have no interest in them anymore and try and force you to buy their next overpriced, incomplete, bug ridden shiny ithing. I run my own streaming/content servers for legal format shifted audio and video that anybody friends or family can access anywhere so long as they have a connection and the hardware can access a network share, either on my local or cloud servers.

Google gives in to Hong Kong, blocks fake national anthem on YouTube

Quote "In August, Hong Kong's High Court rejected a government bid to make online dissemination of the song illegal, but times and laws in Hong Kong have since changed." in English, judges are replaced by those that will do as they are told, the others are invited for re-education by the state and have unfortunate accidents or simply disappear and go off grid for the rest of their lives.

UKGov got played by China making all the promises about Hong Kong and then when they got the keys, laughed and slammed the door shut, many politicians are responsible for having people locked up or worse, for being so naive.

As in Russia, NK, Iran, never trust China !!

Cops developing Ghostbusters-esque weapon to take out e-bike thugs

How about we abandon the idea of an EMP pulse for the e-bike and just go straight to a turbo charged taser that can travel quickly and accurately over a reasonable distance to hit the scumbag. In theory the human body can conduct the charge to the e-bike so a double whammy and with luck, the copper might get two goes at shocking, to teach mummies innocent little darling a lesson.

Did IBM make a $6.4B blunder by buying HashiCorp?

Did IBM make a mistake, depends on if Hashicorp is a foreign company that the US government, legal eagles and stock regulators can help rig an unlawful claim, sue and lockup their bosses, as in HP, when they overpay and failed due diligence?

Blue screen of death or Eurovision's Windows95man performance – what's less annoying?

Eurovision Song Contest was innocent fun once, now it's just a political stage for self-righteous pro-xxx and smut. A few entries including the UKs should have been banned not necessarily for the songs!