Posts by Alumoi

Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car

Re: What, me worry?

Yeah, and all those expensive cars sold to Russia...

CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts

Spyware is OK if used by the good guys. Now, depending on your contry of origin, the definition of 'good guys' may be different.

Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability

Re: Hey, Mr Davuluri

You're joking, right? Giving people a choice? How quaint!

Ransomed CTO falls on sword, refuses to pay extortion demand

Re: Bad things happen. And once they've happened, how you respond is important.

Log in and use the joke icon or use the /sarcasm tag next time.

Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud

Re: Definition of Madness

As long as the beancounters are happy the cloud is here to stay.

Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out

Re: eleventy three zillion cheers to that!!1!!!

Relevant results? Not since, oh, I don't know, 2020? 2018?

Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI

You ALWAYS disable all of them, just to be sure. If you don't see them it doesn't mean they are not active in the background.

You know, just like the crashreporter.exe. You can disable it but it always runs. So, you disable it, close Firefox, delete the programs, start Firefox.

Amazon complains that Perplexity's agentic shopping bot is a terrible customer

Re: Screw Amazon

Bingo!

That's the real reason, customers NOT buying the crap Amazon tries to trick them to buy.

Ransomware gang runs ads for Microsoft Teams to pwn victims

Re: Imagine that ? No, I don't.

I take it you've never seen how people actually use their phones/lcomputers: type something in google search, click through the ads then click on the first link it displays.

Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem

Skype didn't have to store, analyse, share your data with every TLA, sell said data to anybody willing to pay... erm, sorry, suffer a security breach.

Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards

Re: Password manager

What's wrong with Password12345?

Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb

Funny, my 'smart' TV is now a real TV because the manufacturer won't update the 'smart' part of it.

Blaming me for expecting the smart TV to act like every other internet connected device is simply ridiculous. Right?

Let's face it, if it's internet connected it means that sooner or soonest your precious will be bricked by the manufacturer. We've had a lot of stories confirming this, so people should already know this.

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

Re: Brilliant.

Intelligence and management do not belong in the same sentence. Unless it's 'there's no intelligence in management'.

Client defended engineer after oil baron-turned tech support entrepreneur lied about dodgy dealings

Re: Fairly Minor but...

Hmm, your name doesn't sound Romanian.

The price is wrong! California goes Bob Barker on algorithmic price rigging

Damn it!

How dare they interfere with my God given right to fleece the suckers?

As high as the market can bear (and 10% extra) FTW! And what's wrong with me and my buddies deciding on a standard price? Think of the children!

/sarcasm, as some people here still don't get it.

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

Re: It's almost as if...

Hmmm, could it be that those hold-outs have the juiciest data?

Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

Re: Untested workarounds

Nope, no can do. The certificate is only available on vendor specific USB key (they sell the key, why do you ask?).

The software only works on Chrom* on Windows as it uses a 'special' addon, previously known as an ActiveX control (remember those?). Of course they could 'save' the certificate on their cloud, after all nothing runs locally and do the signing there*, but .... 'it's too complicated and not secure' (qoute from their response) so they generate the documents on my machine, sign them, upload them to their cloud then upload them to the governement servers.

Ditch them and look for another company? Next best one uses only MS SQL.

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* the accounting software does just that, I can work on Windows, Linux, Android, Apple....

Re: Untested workarounds

- Digitally signing PDFs with a hardware token (USB)

- special software for an MD, compatible with Romania's SIUI.

Point me in the right direction and I can finally ditch Windows.

Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions

Re: I wonder how they determine if you are in the EEA

That mandatory MS account? No doubt it will be verified by entering a credit card or presenting some form of official ID.

The sweetest slice of Pi: Raspberry Pi 500+ sports mechanical keys, 16GB, and built-in SSD

Re: TKL

Touchpad, so we can get rid of the mouse.

Yes, that would add some space, but they can put a battery underneath.

Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump

Full access to the database, what else. Makes TLA's job much easier.

Charities warn Ofcom too soft on Online Safety Act violators

Doing drugs, driving recklessly, drinking energy drinks, engaging in unprotected sex....... is self-harm. Do you propose to censor all action movies?

Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees

Re: +

Linux lets you do what YOU want. Instead of having Microsoft dictate what you do.

Or Apple. Or Google.

But I digress. Let's talk about systemd. And GNOME.

Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not

Re: Goodbye chrome

Plese come to Romania, try to use some government (mandated) sites with a digital ID token and we'll talk. It's Chromium with the less secure settings enabled or nothing else.

AI can now design functional viruses – not the computer kind, either

Re: Random iteration

Evolution works by trying random things and killing what doesn't work. Be afraid, be very afraid!

Microsoft thinks cloud PCs might be overkill, starts streaming just apps under Windows 365

Re: Oh?

No, Windows 11.

Toys can tell us a lot about how tech will change our lives

Re: Makes me wonder...

More Tinder and OnlyFans movies.

OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

OK, voter are dumber. Happy now?

Nope, sorry, politicians are dumber.

Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf

Re: The wet dream of dynamic pricing robbers...

Plug an AI into the loop, and it will ensure you'll alwyas pay the highest price you're going to allow plus Google's take of 30%.

Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

You owe me a new keyboard!

Windows 11 will get trust back???

Oh, sorry, I didn't see the /sarcasm tag.

Terminators: AI-driven robot war machines on the march

Re: Asimov

OK, we'll add those rules to our robots. But how can we be sure the enemy will do the same? After all, it's the enemy.

Outlook outage over North America, Microsoft scrambles to respond

The cloud version can be more easily blocked/searched/indexed/hold to ransom.

Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services

Re: Maybe repetition helps?

As Windows is owned by Microsoft, a US company, every computer using it, regardless of the country, is subject to those laws, right?

Microsoft folds Sales, Service, Finance Copilots into 365

Re: Wait

Copilot with Clippy FTW!

Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

Re: Hidden agenda

All nice and cozy, but where outside the EU? USA? China? Russia?

Microserfs ordered back to the office, given 10 days to appeal

/sarcasm

There, fixed it for you.

Apple's 'Awe Droppings' fall close to the tree

Re: At 5.6 millimeters,

Hey, that's .22, the most used type of ammo in the US. They do know their target.

Take it out of the phone as to be 80% sure they won't track you?

Joking aside, it's much faster to swap SIM cards.

Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free

Dissapearing messages?

On the internet? How quaint!

No more waiting for lines: New Windows keyboard shortcuts output em and en dashes with ease

Re: Great news

OK, since NT 3.51, but you've got to admit that W7 was a pretty damn good OS.

Re: Great news

Windows, since W7, is a permanent beta release with some alpha mixed in for the lulz (8, 12).

Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again

Re: And?

Some kind of accelerator and even a snowball can do a lot of damage to Earth. Valuable enough for you?

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

Re: Crapilot

Yeah, and Tesla autopilot is not there to let you take your hands off the wheel or glue your eyes to the phone.

Just saying.

Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector

Hmm, standards. There's an xkcd saying about that.

DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that's getting bigger. Let's kill it off

Re: Who could possibly be responsible for this?

Pssst, not so loud. Our masters decided we must push the ArtificialIdiot so we can have some fun but not too much.

LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print

Re: Reality check

If by 2030 you mean 2030 A.D., may I ask which Domini?

Uncle Sam doesn't want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China

Re: Astounding

Guess what matters most ?

The ammount of firepower and the willingness to use it without actually declaring war. And no, the war on terror is not war.

Just like the soviets, the US will stay in the 'policed' zone until the resources are depleted.

Five years – that's how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out

Re: All together now ......

Blah, blah, blah, ....except when imposed by law. You know what they say, the law Trump(s) everything.

How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out

keep getting their hands on academic and technology research

Check out the names of the authors of all those academic papers published: one Western name followed by a dozen of Asian names. And I bet the WASP is the professor, aka the slave driver.