Posts by sgp

Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump

Re: Value

I would. It's dangerous to drive while bursting in laughter.

VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India

What has Tori Amos got to do with it ?

EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long

Re: Ernst & Young

It's been called EY since 2013.

Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything

Re: I do wonder ...

I've been using onlyoffice for my light use cases and so far it's been very nice to use. Yes, it closely mimicks Microsoft including the ribbon which I don't like but have to confess grew used to due to being forced to use Microsoft's suite of shit for many years.

Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance

Re: Does freedom of speech work both ways?

Didn't you start your argument with free speech for all or free speech for no one?

NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3

Re: Mullvad has a GUI for Linux

Yes indeed, works very well. I have it on MX

Pentagon decrees warfighters don't need 'frequent' cybersecurity training

Re: The actual point gets buried in a tide of anti-republican bullshit

Yeah because (cyber) security for sure is not a shared responsibility. You probably think gathering all of your generals in the same place to perform an inate school play is also a good idea.

RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house

An operating system should not contain any apps. Just an easy way to install the ones you want. How about that?

Trump's gold-plated smartphone can't seem to decide which design to copy

Grift.

Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL

Re: Can someone remind me ...

It's not only decades of work, it's also so very pointless.

Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them

Shame they want second hand, it would have doubled the yearly sales figures!

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools

https://territoirenumeriqueouvert.fr works for me. It's a bit strange because it seems unrelated to https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en but kind of does the same?

Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo

Re: Bad decision making

Yeah, the fact that they only operate in daylight kind of tells you everything doesn't it?

China’s trying to slim down, which will fatten the smartwatch market

Re: Iatrogenics

Obesity has little to do with caloric intake nor exercise. Diet does though, but the watch won't solve that.

Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done

Re: Nice idea

Sounds like a very expensive plan.

OpenAI pulls plug on ChatGPT smarmbot that praised user for ditching psychiatric meds

Re: What do you expect?

Of course, the articles are written by AI!

Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette

Re: The results were mostly positive. Funnily enough.

They've retrained themselves to become AI researchers..

Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs

Can't you just condense all your measle brained ideas in one post?

Dash to Panel maintainer quits after donations drive becomes dash to disaster

And oss is not foss?

This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service

Re: While I'm asking questions ...

The article states it's created via executive order, or let's call it a dictat shall we? So does it need to pass congress?

WHO-backed meta-study finds no evidence that cellphone radiation causes brain cancer

"There has been cases of doctors struck off for curing cancer using novel methods"

And those methods are? Right, you got nothing, anonymous liar.

China is beating the world at scientific research, think tank finds

Re: They're using a flawed metric

History? Really? You don't want any historians?

Halliburton probes 'an issue' disrupting business ops

Re: Good old Haribo Engineering

Huh?

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

Re: Perhaps the buying and selling of businesses should be outlawed

Regulation exists. Sadly we just went through a period of laissez faire where for example none of the regulators blocked the takeover of Waze by Google even though they already had Maps as a competing product.

Adobe exec likened hidden cloud subscription exit fees to 'heroin', says FTC

I recently deleted my creative cloud account. I was only using a free version to work on some Adobe XD files. At deletion they asked me for a reason. So I told them I thought their business practices were disgusting. Not that I think it will actually change anything but if only we could collectively do that thing...

ZDI shames Microsoft for – yet another – coordinated vulnerability disclosure snafu

I don't really get what you are trying to say. But having the web browser with the worst security reputation ever still in the codebase is just mindboggling. But sure, Microsoft doesn't care about Windows unless it's about whatever stupid fad is in swing (AR, AI,...). Removing all that exploitable code would be difficult because a lot of parts of Windows are probably still intertwined with it and it doesn't add anything to the bottom line. In a serious organization it would be done anyway but this is Microsoft so par for the course.

American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years

Re: Structural problem

Yes they are dumping, just like they did with steel and solar. For these cases it's worth defending the own industry with tariffs. But tariffs on everything is not a great idea. You just can't or should make everything domestically.

Airbn-bye: Barcelona bans short-term apartment rentals for tourists

Good. Hopefully a few other tourism destroyed cities follow suit.

Nearly 20% of running Microsoft SQL Servers have passed end of support

I think you can pay these guys to come sweep your la(w)n and they keep statistics.

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

Re: If you want to die, it's a good career

It's like being a firefighter who get's blamed for the house burning down.

Re: Murphy's law applies

I see this with all kinds of organizations that should know better. How hard is it to send an e-mail that says: "Your new bank statement is available, log on to our website to see it."?

Also, e-mail should be text only (again).

Rivian crawls out covered in $1.5B of red ink, panting that it's still alive

Re: Tesla was unprofitable for a decade

And Tesla grew in a time of cheap money. It's another reality today.

Microsoft confirms spike in NTLM authentication traffic after Windows Server patch

Reminds me of a conversion with my once neighbor: your tractor seems to be getting a little old. - Old? But I bought it new in 1973!

Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari is not so private in Europe

Re: Ah Apple

The problem is the implementation, not the ruling.

Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists

Re: a crowd of electric-powered unicyclists

Okay, dad. Now go watch your football if you please.

Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders

Re: So let me get this straight.

So saying you've used a straw man argument now is an ad-hominem? And in the same post you dare to use the word "snowflake"? Are you that thick?

Anyway, Microsoft makes ample money from Windows and all other lines of business where it uses its dominant market force and monopoly to fleece its users. So no need to start crying for the poor Microsoft engineer not getting its paycheck.

Some people's reality really is distorted. Sheez.

Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs

Re: So, the fruit cart is facing legal trouble

5% is a lot. Your average supermarket only gets 1-2% and they have a lot more costs.

San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks

Re: Have they been hacked?

My thoughts exactly. And there's plenty of new stock still around.

Re: "best in the US"

Rail is really good for carrying freight though. Just a shame there's almost no decent passenger service.

Hotel check-in terminal bug spews out access codes for guest rooms

Re: "Accor Security, the security arm of Accor, which owns the Ibis Budget chain"

Always travel with your own kettle!

Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

Re: I wonder...

Any new language or framework tends to be like this. And then come the templates, modules, new features, newer features that do the same better but not in case of xyz, etc. And by then it's time for a new language that's elegant and clear. And the whole cycle starts again. That's not to say I don't think Rust in particular has a lot of things going for it.

SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success

Re: are there legal invasions ?

Google the Hague conventions.

3 million doors open to uninvited guests in keycard exploit

In some really old fashioned hotels you still get a key with a giant wooden block attached. Mind you, asking for the key to room 106 just after shift change will work equally fine probably.

Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech

Re: Hurrah!

Explain to me how your so called technological improvements would increase the productivity of a caretaker washing the elderly. That's where the issue lies, isn't it?

Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary

Upvoted for the use of the word "waffle".

Indian telecoms leaps from 2G, to 4G, to 6G – on a single day

Re: 6G may be

With 6G we will finally get those remote surgeries which were mentioned (with a straight face) as a reason why we needed 5G.

No, GPT-4 cannot get a computer science degree at MIT

The potential benefit is time saving: it writes eloquent text and it can write working code. But that of course only works if the user actually understands the outputs. So a "prompt engineer" role will never exist. Apart from that, the big question remains if the time saved outweigh the massive cost.

Google Lens now can spot problematic skin spots, or not

To summarize

• It will unnecessarily make users panic.

• It will falsely reassure users that have a valid reason to worry.

• Google will add health related data to the profile they have on you.

What an amazingly evil product.

GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations

Because hype