Posts by Mr Dogshit

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

There's a burger van in my town that has no fewer than three Michelin

tyres.

Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely

One of my customers has one of these clusters, so this has ended up on my desk.

You get to install a clunky browser-based thing called Windows Admin Center™. Sometimes it installs, sometimes it doesn't.

That's what you use to access the command line on each host. No matter how hard I try, I can't get the UK keyboard to work inside these sessions. So doing anything that involves \ or | or whatever requires the old ALT - numeric keypad kung fu like it's 1990.

The command line syntax changes every two weeks. I spoke to a bloke in tech support at the supplier that installed the whole thing the other day, he said even though he and his colleagues know the commands off by heart, they have to look them up every time because they will have changed. The knock on effect is that the documentation is always out of date, and ChatGPT tells you to do stuff that doesn't work.

The thing requires its very own Windows domain, just to offer it Storage Spaces Direct.

Someone please tell me what the point of Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) is. I just don't get it.

Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea

Well DUH

AWS says more than 600 FortiGate firewalls hit in AI-augmented campaign

Russian-speaking eh?

I wonder who they could be.

Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

Helpdesk? Helpdesk?

It's "Service Desk" if you want to be ITIL® compliant.

Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine

Re: PC world and hard discs

Well there's a surprise.

Anyway, they wouldn't have destroyed that HDD at all. It would still have been under warranty with the manufacturer, so they would have sent it back to Seagate or Western Digital or whoever and gotten a replacement. Your faulty HDD would have then gone to somewhere in the Far East and refurbished.

Tesla drops 'Autopilot' branding in California after DMV order

Stupid Muskrat

See "The Tesla Files: The Inside Story Of Musks Empire"

Penguin Random House UK, 2025

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

Re: a cynical attempt to shutdown the last truly open forum on the Internet

Wah! Free speech! Wah! Must have free speech!

You are Muskrat and I claim my five pounds

Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake

The Official Secrets Act has been replaced by the National Security Act 2023.

Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that?

No one gave a crap about the Internet Explorer 4 "Channel Bar" either. Or the stupid widgets they tried in Vista.

How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95

I have never seen that Rob Roy thing in my life, it must have not been on the European CD. I think I've still got an OEM copy of Windows 95 on CD here, but I'm not going to open the shrink wrap to find out.

(Collectors' Item you see...)

Hover wasn't at all bad, good value for money. Quite liked that.

Those were the days

Edie Brickell may have done all right out of it. I liked that song so much I bought all her albums.

X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops

LOL

Things not going too well for Muskrat. China has just outlawed his stupid car door handles.

Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told

But but

FREE SPEECH! We have to have FREE SPEECH!

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders

AWS

With their Route 66 Elastic Beansprout

Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem

Erm

It's "Service Desk" actually, if you want to be ITIL® compliant.

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't

Re: Go, Look, See

Yep, Second Line too lazy to get off their arses and do their job.

Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads

Nearly nineteen years on, and people are still whining about the fucking Ribbon. Why don't you just persevere with it for half an hour, and you'll find it's actually an improvement, Grandad?

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 Safety 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?