Posts by cantankerous swineherd

ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US

is this a recycled state dept press release?

CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out

came across some utilities years ago written in rust that were useful and robust so decided to look at the language.

$editorOfChoice had a syntax highlighter which didn't seem to be helping. looked for a grammar, couldn't find one, made enquires and was told there wasn't one. gave up and got on with bau.

no idea what the current state of play is, but if you can't specify your language you're just having a laugh.

Rust-style safety model for C++ 'rejected' as profiles take priority

Re: Rust is the future

C A R Hoare had something to say about (amongst other things) ADA

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1283920.1283936

Zed code editor hears your prayers, rolls out AI-free mode

"about a gigabyte of dependencies"

[wanders off mumbling about 1.44MB floppy disks]

Fresh strain of pro-Russian wiper flushes Ukrainian critical infrastructure

Re: quote: the new blueprint for beginning wartime in the 21st century.

should ukraine have gone this route, their country would now be a nuclear wasteland.

Ukraine war spurred infosec vet Mikko Hyppönen to pivot to drones

<blockquote›both my grandfathers fought the Russians in the Second World War</blockquote›

that's one way of putting it..

Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data

why would a school have scans of driving licences and passports? why would anyone in their right mind allow a school to get hold of either of these documents?

Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running

air gapped windows 7 for me. classic theme pretty much the best ui ever imo.

top of the range pi5 already going for when the old machine dies.

Microsoft won't let customers opt out of passkey push

old bloke on windows 7 and a pi5 warmed up and ready to go: looks like I've dodged a bullet.

I'm in a senior persons group which uses password protected resources, details omitted to protect the guilty. time not spent discussing colonoscopys is usually spent buggering about with passwords. nevertheless, I can see people moving to chrome book and android tablets rather than futzing with a passkey. what's a passkey? look for one on line and it's something costing 50 quid that the average oap (ie someone confused by passwords) can't even conceptualize.

I see equality issues ahead...

The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

anyone got a cobol to rust converter? asking for a bank.

Classic Outlook explodes when opening more than 60 emails

regedit hklm:opening too many emails=don't crash

soz not up with the protocol but you get it?

Japan's wooden cube-shaped satellite rockets to space

it's going to exude

[sorry not sorry]

chemtrails

Ongoing typosquatting campaign impersonates hundreds of popular npm packages

javascript, work of the devil

Beijing claims it's found 'underwater lighthouses' that its foes use for espionage

there's an IT angle here?

Huawei's farewell to Android isn't a marketing move, it's chess

more of a party political broadcast than a discussion of phone technology.

Yet another UK government seeks to reform GDPR

my GP is training people to click on links in text messages, none them to nhs.uk...

betting the NHS on the internet is stupid, ask st Thomas's hospital, crippled by an attack on a supplier, never mind them.

ask maersk how much a complete new system is.

your medical record pretty much identifies you, whether names and addresses are attached or not.

NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords

just why would the NHS be sharing data with foreign countries?

FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused

looks like entrapment. not necessarily a bad thing

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster

Re: In control again

Steve Gibson still going!

one of the el reg columnists really didn't like him back in the day.

Atos will be paid $29m over $1b UK Met Office supercomputer dispute

and the Microsoft supercomputer is now months behind schedule...

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship

GO YOU

Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm's network via legacy IT

looking forward to an article about American spies, if the d notice committee would be ok with that?

No way? Big Tech's 'lucrative surveillance' of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom

"At the time of the study, Discord did not run a formal digital advertising service"

so discord used to have an informal digital advertising service which has now been formalized. amirite?

Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared

I'm old enough to remember the reg biting the hand that fed it rather than regurgitating spooks talking points.

UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B

so they haven't run out of money.

Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode

chances of getting on an aeroplane with any sort of electronic device are rapidly diminishing.

MI6, CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven enemies

nice to hear from the d notice committee every now and again

Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy

Re: Drastic (& Sarcastic) Solution

hence sanctions on China

LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape

do a surprisingly good job as they stand

i can haz proof of correctness?

US 'laptop farm' man accused of outsourcing his IT jobs to North Korea to fund weapons programs

entrepreneur uses sub contractors shock horror

Intel's processor failures: A cautionary tale of business vs engineering

Re: Shareholder Value

no one needs to worry about China shutting TSMC down. in the unlikely event of a Chinese takeover they'd make it even more profitable.

Ransomware infection cuts off blood supply to 250+ hospitals

don't put business critical / sensitive personal information on the internet?

just an idea.

Engineers fix ESA's Gaia observatory from 1.5M kilometers away

crowdstrike a walk in the park for these guys then?

CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months

root cause analysis

putting information on the internet

Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta

stick termux on it and it's a halfway decent computer

ITER delays first plasma for world's biggest fusion power rig by a decade

fusion on stream in 50 years time.

someone somewhere is well connected to a funding stream

Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software

just wait till the dwp and police get their hands on this

Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't

Re: IBM would attempt to execute a "cloud-first" strategy with Db2

this is going to be exciting.

Former Fujitsu engineer apologizes for role in Post Office IT scandal

manager refuses to take responsibility for his actions

Qilin cyber scum leak data they claim belongs to London hospitals’ pathology provider

at least palantir don't completely screw things up when they steal the data.

systemd 256.1: Now slightly less likely to delete /home

Re: Too complex!

apparent sense of humour failure amongst the downvoters.

I thought it was funny anyway.

Gates-backed nuclear plant breaks ground without guarantee it'll have fuel

not a commercial proposition then, needs massive public funding to get off the ground.

why fund a dead end technology when renewables will give you a far better return?

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Re: From what I've seen....

I'd have an inspector come round at well defined points in the work making sure everything was as specified.

London hospitals left in critical condition after ransomware attack

the nhs is busily training people to click on links in txt msgs and emails and seem to be doing a fair bit of that themselves.

personally I report txts purporting to come from the nhs wanting me to click on a link as spam. But I'm pretty sure it's the idiot surgery sending some really quite odd links, well away from nhs.uk

Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check

it's the economics around nuclear power that are the disaster, when it isn't an actual nuclear disaster.

Re: Not really a surprise

it's called batteries, flywheels, pumped storage...

wind and solar have eaten nuclear's lunch.

if solar + battery becomes enough to keep a house going it's good bye (and good riddance) to the grid and gas and electric utilities. Africa and Australia will be the first to get there.

Uni staff fall back on Excel to work around mis-coded transactions in Oracle system

Re: Does Fusion work anywhere?

excel seems to fit the bill...

A tale of two Chinas: Our tech governance isn't perfect, but we still get to say no

the chinese can't screw my life up the way Western surveillance can: employment, insurance, credit, health care, none of these are at risk from chinese data hoovering.