Posts by Alumoi

Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI

Re: The ONLY way ransomware will ever stop is banning paying ransom

A successful attack only generates a 'we take the security... blah, blah, blah.... here's a coupon'. Unit it's their skin in the game, like in go to prison, don't collect a bonus, they won't lift a finger to improve the security. After all, it's the suckers' data, not their data the hackers get.

Now, speaking of ideas: fire all the MBAs, HR & marketing drones, the pencil brigade, (almost) all of your redundant PHBs and hire real IT professionals. Oh, wait, that would eat the profits and bonuses. Bad idea, sorry.

Now, shall I use the sarcasm tag or...

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

You can't understand what you ignore. So yes, ignorance IS stupidity.

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

Ignorance = stupidity

‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec

As long there is porn

and cat videos and memes, we're not going to be a rounding error.

Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway

Re: Switch it off, then on again

Especially ones own.

This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp …

the triple-digit August heat

Damn, over 100 Celsius.

US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data

Re: Investments

As every bank does.

The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters

Re: Words to Live By

Wrog. If the CEOs and some major shareholders go to jail you will be amazed how quickly the security will be tightened.

Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it

You just had to use HTML email, didn't you?

If you get knocked on the head and get all your devices stolen and have amnesia, Google will let you back in with a selfie

Re: Just a thought

Well, I upvoted you for being serious.

Re: Just a thought

Why the sarcasm?

Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine

Wake me up

When Google will pay the fine. Until then, it's business as usual: we ARE doing something, it's not our fault they don't pay up.

Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display

Re: Reason why the phone is lying about

An ordinary brick will do a phone in no time flat.

Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid

As long as there is at least one politician living it will never happen.

Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices

Re: Lucky here...

One word: Nextcloud.

Just saying.

Red Hat offers RHEL support 'forever' for those who need to lock into legacy tech

“no pre-determined end date.”

So it can end in 1 day, 1 year or whenever we feel like it.

Please take my money!

/sarcasm

EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope

... Meta underestimated the effect those features can have on users...

No, they know it quite well and they are doing everything they can to increase that effect.

Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU

Re: No thanks

And banking credentials. Just in case.

MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage

I'm all for MFA as long as:

1. it's a separate hardware device which NEVER connects to the internet

AND

2. it works as God intended: the site supplies a PIN/passkey/password/token (call it whatever you like it), I manually input that on the device and it generates a PIN/passkey/password/token which I then manually enter on the site.

Where's the icon for luddite?

AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing

It's Bingo!

Python dev saved from disaster by intuition... and AI

Re: Stop!

Just stop installing and running code from untrusted sources on autopilot.

That's why I always wait at least 15 days before updating anything Microsoft, Google, Adobe and their ilk.

I would have liked to add the joke icon but, unfortunately...

Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Let's play Truth Or Consequences

Don't forget to google for the best offer!

Britain plots digital bedtime after kicking under-16s off social media

Wouldn't it be nice if, just got once, we could elect some politicians who aren't self serving assholes?

Since the first person declared himself a politician and the rest of us accepted it, the game was lost.

Politics is not something a person should do for a living.

KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

Re: Lazy report writers

Intelligent people don't use AI.

Logitech knows when to fold 'em

Improved ads and tracking. No, not tracking your movements on the desk and updating the screen location.

Re: Logi Options+ app

406 MB for a mouse driver? Is the kitchen sink included or do you have to pay extra?

Ooops, sorry, 405 MB is the declared value. If you click on their download link you get a 1.2 GB file.

Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

Re: STASI

client-side scanning - sorry....the STASI will not be installing ANY software on my end points!

You will install it yourself when your end points won't be able to connect to the outside world without it.

Until then, Google, Microsoft and Apple will install it for you. Silently. For your convenience, of course.

Canonical sends Ubuntu into the AI agent era

Ubuntu, the Windows of Linux, as the saying goes.

Apple's Orwellian device controls for tots also mean more work for parents

Re: As long as it is optional

It will be optional at first, then mandatory and, when people will be used to this, mandatory for all people, regardless of age.

NSO Group back in Meta's crosshairs after alleged WhatsApp targeting

Re: Just asking

Zuck is the only one allowed to spy on his subjects.

Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators

Re: Pointless.

You're joking, right? You WILL buy a new, expensive handset if you want 6G, peasant! That's the whole idea.

Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into surveillance devices

Is there a country who wouldn't want to hack every phone it can reach? After all, if you can't use the information today maybe you can use it tomorrow.

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Re: The first one is free...

Mafia, companies, governments, is there a difference?

AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend

Re: Windows...

Allowing access to source code and having access to the full and complete code are different beasts.

BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has

Re: Faulty window latches?

"blind leading the blind" to "incompetent leading the blind – through a minefield. In the dark. On pogo sticks."

Best definitionf of MBAs I've heard in a long time.

Firefox 151 helps you edit PDFs – and switch OSes

Re: The part I like best

Did you also check the about:config options?

Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess

Re: The government doesn't care

What can the citizens do to worry the government?

Think?

F-35 software delays leave UK buying time with US glide bombs

Re: We should just give up

So the US plan is working. Make everybody depend on your military (hardware and meat sacks) and you can rule them all.

Windows boot partition runs out of space for Microsoft's May security update

Re: Skills

I was ready to downvote you but I noticed you've forgotten the sarcasm tag. And the joke icon.

Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

No, we have the idiot genius.

Google'll grab your gigs if you don’t cough up your number

Re: Enter your birthday to comply with the law...

Hello, long lost twin!

Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data

Re: The data was only resting in our account

Busines 101.

Pay now, pay forever...

Bedrock and a hard place: Claude adventure leaves AWS user staring down $30K invoice

Absolute ≥ $100

Ahem, by my maths it looks like the sky is the limit.

Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less

Re: Performative use, no duh

Slaves.

Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain

Re: mark my words

Damn it, our plans are revelead!

1. Fool people into running our AI crap locally, thus reducing the need for us to invest in hardware.

2. Connect all those machines into one powerfull distributed computer.

3. Make the suckers pay for it.

4. Profit!

Meta fights Ofcom over how many billions count as billions

Re: Aww, diddums

They will enforce them, but they won't collect. Everybody is happy.

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

Now? They've been such since they've started bundling Chrome in every installer under the sun. Remember those days?

Re: "Google Chrome will steal 4 GB of disk space ... unless you opted out."

What does it do without write permission?

Same as Windows does: it ignores the permissions and writes it anyway.

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

Re: Margins too wide

Beer! Barrels of it!

Now do the font size, please.

That's the idea.