Posts by Mr Dogshit

Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam

Don't forget alpineskihouse.com

Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work

Boo hoo

Having spent the last four years studying the sex life of a dung beetle at the University of Rutland (formerly Market Harborough Polytechnic), it looks as if I'm unemployable.

Retro nerd hacks LEGO's Game Boy into the real deal

Pics please

Of Natalie

Office 2016 and 2019 face October 14 execution date

Eighteen years on, and people are still whining about the ribbon. Just persevere with it for half an hour, it actually makes sense.

FileFix attacks use fake Facebook security alerts to trick victims into running infostealers

Re: Facebook

Don't hold back! Tell us what you really think!

Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers

Re: Blame the vendor

Zut alors!

McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

I'm lovin' it

Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act

Do you have the necessary hashtags?

Millions of age checks performed as UK Online Safey Act gets rolling

Do you have the necessary hashtags?

Not really my cup of tea.

Microsoft researchers: To fend off AI, consider a job as a pile driver

I've already got piles

Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app

There's no fool like an old fool.

Microsoft developer ported vector database coded in SAP’s ABAP to the ZX Spectrum

I don't know what this has to do with the ZX Rectum.

There were so many Z80s produced by Zilog and others under licence that even Zilog doesn't know how many there were. They still serve in vending machines and countless other things.

Ex-NATO hacker: 'In the cyber world, there's no such thing as a ceasefire'

Re: What was the point of NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union?

There would be no need for NATO if the UN did what it was set up to do, rather than being an ineffective talking shop in which Russia has a veto.

Your browser has ad tech's fingerprints all over it, but there's a clean-up squad in town

Re: "not something your grandma would glom onto"

My grandma can't even turn a computer on.

To be fair, she died thirty years ago.

Glazed and confused: Hole lotta highly sensitive data nicked from Krispy Kreme

How come Americans have a Social Security number, yet no social security?

Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data

Re: Bethan David, head of the counter terrorism division at the CPS, said

But the head of the counter terrorism division at the CPS isn't the general public.

Re: The OSA is a piece of legislation that applies to everyone in the UK

The Official Secrets Acts (1911, 1920, and 1939) were repealed and replaced by the National Security Act in July 2023.

Bethan David, head of the counter terrorism division at the CPS, said

"Hasaan Arshad knew his actions were prohibited after he signed the Official Secrets Act"

No one needed to sign the Official Secrets Act. It applied to everyone, whether they liked it or not - that was kind of the point

Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it

Re: Ve haff implemented ze mitigation for ze issue

In twenty years' time, perhaps.

M&S online ordering system operational 46 days after cyber shutdown

Thank God

I'm all out of Percy Pigs and huge granny pants.

Bling slinger Cartier tells customers to be wary of phishing attacks after intrusion

I read that as "Bing slinger"

UK government overrules local council’s datacenter refusal on Green Belt land

Re: Why not brownfield?

You ideally want to locate a data centre so that it can be fed from two separate electrical supplies, from different providers, coming into the site from opposite sides. There are certain places where that's geographically doable, others less so.

If you just have one electricity supply, then you're got a Tier 1 data centre. Not a lot of point to that due to that single point of failure.

Re: visual impact?

Ideally you want your data centre to be above the water table. That way, a local flood won't fill your building with H2O.

LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true

Re: God Mode

And you're both missing the point.

The point is not to take a child's toy and take the fun out of it. The point is to take a standardised set of components and get software to come up with a design that isn't going to fall apart / fall over. And this is clearly the first iteration of the thing. The end goal is something much more complex.

The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit

Now I finally know what that yellow diamond with the smiley face is.

Re: Remember the original Google search?

No

Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp court battle

Re: What is really interesting.........

Well DUH

If you walk around all day carrying a small and powerful computer running a complex operating system which by definition will contain bugs and you're of interest to someone somewhere, then you're gonna get fucked over.

See the book "Pegasus: The Story of the World's Most Dangerous Spyware" by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud

Teens maintained a mainframe and it went about as well as you'd imagine

That kid in the stock picture would be more productive if he plugged the power cable in.

Meanwhile, in Japan, train stations are being 3D-printed in an afternoon

Why is there a bloke in a kilt in the picture?

Polish space agency confirms cyberattack

Ooh, I wonder who could be behind this?

HP Inc to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin'

PC LOAD LETTER

Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP

Disappointingly, the IP address in question has been redacted

Although it is said to belong to a university. Probably not Oxford or Cambridge.

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/fact-sheet-contec-cms8000-contains-a-backdoor-508c.pdf

Can't we make this kind of equipment in Europe?

HPE's $14B Juniper takeover slams into Dept of Justice roadblock

Remember when HP bought 3com?

And just ran it into the ground

Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars

Re: It will work... IF

Oh, please sir! Me sir! I know this one!

It's because he's a vain, barely literate, fascist, criminal, lying, narcissistic, venal, backstabbing, bullying, incurious, intellectually and morally bankrupt, sordid, degenerate, sociopathic bag of shit, who isn't fit to run a Scout troop.

New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left

It is SO BAD

They've got the programmers (sorry, they're called developers nowadays aren't they), they could have written something decent. The current Outlook is a crappy, bug ridden piece of shit, but this new thing is just hopeless.

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

God I hate him

Thoroughly obnoxious, vile arsehole, who isn't fit to run a fucking scout troop.

One third of adults can't delete device data

Re: An Age Thing

Iz da troof innit blud dyou no wot i mean

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

Is there any practical use for this?

Apart from masochism

Fear of Foxconn reportedly driving possible Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi merger

Re: No more Rootes, no more Simca.

Are you suggesting that was bad?

Asda decided on a 'no go' for 'mass rollout' of store IT conversion

Slow news day?

Retailer implements change freeze at the busiest time of yeah.

Watchdog deep-sixes job ad that was actually pay-to-play training course

Erm... yeah

Happens all the time. Half the "jobs" on certain job sites are just an invitation to take out a loan in order to buy some crappy course which in turn will result in £££££££££ working on the service desk.

Phishers cast wide net with spoofed Google Calendar invites

I don't know what's more pathetic, the fuckwits who send this stuff or the fuckwits who click on it.

British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks

"sometime in the early 2030s"

We need this shit yesterday.

Boeing busted by employee over plans to surveil workers, quickly reverses course

"The system, used by other companies"

It's used by companies other than Boeing? Oh, that's all right then.

Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info

Re: Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking

Some l33t haxor skillz indeed

ServiceNow root certificate blunder leaves users high and dry

CircusNow

UK trio pleads guilty to running $10M MFA bypass biz

But how did it work?

Curious minds need to know

Sam Altman's basic income experiment finds that money can indeed buy happiness

Why this sounds like SOCIALISM!

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide

Re: "CrowdStrike, not Microsoft" - debatable

You clearly have no idea what kernel mode is.