Posts by Alumoi

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

Re: What is REALLY needed...

Yes, we are. But Microsoft give us money for NOT porting them over so... sucks to be you.

Re: app Mnaagers / installation of apps

snaps and flatpacks are NOT package managers. They are just the Linux equivalent of .exe files.

Home users don't use Illustrator, Photoshop, Xcode or Autocad or one of those hundred Windows only programs.

The article and that site are all about home users who will believe the crap MS and the 'security experts' and newspapers will spew and trash perfectly good computers because 'you will own nothing and be happy about it'.

It's about educating the common people, not the people in the know.

Yes, I do use Linux, why do you ask? Yes, I dual boot/use a Windows VM for digital signing PDFs with a hardware token. Yes, my wife's (MD) practice uses Windows as the special software imposed by the Ministry of Health is Windows only.

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

Sorry, but were you expecting peasants to benefit from this? How quaint.

Let me just check how much was a Concorde ticket back then. Ooops!

Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app

Re: Only took NINE MONTHS

Only some 15 years later. Not bad thought, welcome to the club.

Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization

Re: Picture of Elmo

What's a 2 finger salute? And yes, some dude dressed in white wearing a pointy hat is just that. There's a lot of world outside US.

Re: Picture of Elmo

Oh, come on, why spoil the fun? We've decided it's a Nazi salute and that's settled. I bet next you'll tell us about the swastika.

Here's what we know about the DragonForce ransomware that hit Marks & Spencer

Re: And that's why you should NEVER pay a ransom...

So, no different from cloud vendors. Nice data you've got on MY computers. How about you pay me more if you want to access it?

US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

Now that's creative thinking!

Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping

Re: Don't Care

But you still have to BUY it if you want to own a copy.

Feds disrupt proxy-for-hire botnet, indict four alleged net miscreants

Re: Verizon routers

Thank you for the explanation.

What trigger me was I clicked on the VirusTotal community page to see what members had said about this IP address and one foreign language community member claimed the IP address belonged to “Ruska Policia” which translated to Russian Police, hence the NCIS thingie.

Looking again at the post I've replied to, I think I was just feeding some AI bot.

Re: Verizon routers

Ahem: https://www.arin.net/reference/research/statistics/address_filters/

It's like NCIS when they show 192.168.0.x being traced all over the world as the bad guy's address.

People find amazing ways to break computers. Cats are even more creative

Your master never brought you a dead mouse?

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

Hit start button, type the first few letters of the name of the app, wait for a couple of seconds UNTIL your search is sent to the mothership, processed, sent back to you...

The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit

Don't forget the TSR programs added to the loading screen in games. What's a few 'wrong' pixels between friends.

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

El Reg, stop with the subliminal messages

I bet I'm not the only one reading the title as 'Will Windows 12 bring another shit?'

20% discount offer on Windows 365 expires around same time as Windows 10 support

You are allowed to vote, so you have an illusion of freedom. Pray I don't alter the deal further.

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

... if the US allows them to do it.

Microsoft mystery folder fix might need a fix of its own

Re: Quality control - yes we’ve heard of it

But reality is that FOSS is subject the interest, preference and availability of the developer(s). If they want a programme to work or look a certain way, then that's how it's going to be, no matter if it makes no sense to users, or how many polite request they get from users to vary that. Ditto if something isn't working properly ( or isn't implemented in the latest version because the devs aren't interested in changing the code to make it remain compatible in some way)

And that's different from Microsoft et all because...?

Re: Patching the Dumbai way...

Maybe??? It's so dumb only an AI would think of it. Oh, wait... Microsoft....

Re: Quality control - yes we’ve heard of it

The expected lifespan of a working computer is until you can't get spare parts for it.

The software, on the other hand, is at the mercy of the creator. He either makes a good, working program or he works for Microsoft and all the rest (forced upgrades for the sake of upgrading, artificial limits on hardware and so on).

Thank $deity for Linus and the people who like to write software and donate their work to the public.

Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet

Re: What will China want in return?

Wait, what? When did you think that BB's comments were anything else than sarcams?

Re: What will China want in return?

It's like Musk goaded Trump to start the tariff crap so he could justify his failures.

And that, my friends, is how conspiracy theories start.

European biz calls for Euro tech for local people

Re: It's already too late!

Forget the cloud, Windows as an OS is not compatible with GDPR. I'm not talking about Apple OS as I don't know squat about it, but as long as the OS has telemetry baked into its core, it's not compatible with GDPR.

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

Re: “unpredictable shifts in policy”

It's 'unpredictable shits in policy'. You have an extra F in there, mate.

Fog ransomware channels Musk with demands for work recaps or a trillion bucks

Re: Any fool can destroy

A few? Don't you live in a country with an elected head of state and a parliament?

It takes one click to join Uber One, but quitting might need 32 actions

Re: A company that tries to trick you

So no more Microsoft, Google, Apple, Wallmart, T-Mobile, Orange, Carrefour, Lidl, Ikea.....

Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234

And the new password is....

12345.

Right?

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

Re: A one hit wonder

Hey, not so loud! Let the army buy the thingie and then tell them the bad news.

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

Unless you have to sign documents using a hardware token and then you're SOL.

Comrade, you WILL upgrade to Windows 11

Right?

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

And sticks and stones after that.

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

Re: Good practice

So, no, they didn't receive any invitation. The invitation is supposed to be issued before arriving, not after.

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

Given this is a problem that likely affects a decent number of El Reg readers

Really? I thought El Reg readers are savy enough to disable NotYourDriveOne as soon as Windows boots for the first time.

Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts

Re: Birthday Parade

Naah, he'll just fire a gold plated M4 in the air.

'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience

Re: Safely on your PC?

As safe as what's on your phone is safe from Google/Android or what's on your Mac is safe from Apple. Your point being?

Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses

Re: Looks like...

Let me say it again: as long as EU doesn't collect the fine, the ammount is meaningless.

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

Re: Surface Hub reboot?

Well, they had some good mice and keyboards a while ago.

OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission

Re: "Our business only works when we break the law."

It's spelled government. After all government punishes stealing because it hates comptetition.

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

Re: Good news everybody

They don't forget, they just keep working for whoever elected them.

Oh, sorry, you're still believing in that old fairytale about elections. I bet you still believe in Santa.

Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid

I hope you know a lot of internet these days lives in the AWS...

Re: There is no such thing as off-grid nowadays

All of these are "on grid" to some extend and will sell your info left and right as soon as they can figure out how to invoke a 'security incident perpetrated by a hostile nation/state backed hacker group' without getting their asses in a sling.

Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole

Re: I'm so glad I installed Mint

Why did you wait until 11?

Meanwhile, in Japan, train stations are being 3D-printed in an afternoon

You just described the human body.

Re: I smell BS on the times

I'll have you know that my cheap shit Ender 3 S1 is printing fine, especially afrer upgrading it to klipper, while my friend's Bambu is shitting bircks if it can't connect to the mothership. Your point being?

Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA

Re: 'appropriate kickbacks' rule the nest.

By selling the expired products the government got a little money instead of spending a lot of money for the distribution and potential lawsuits.

Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament

..freedom of the press and journalistic integrity..

In the USofA? Bwhaaaa, ha, ha, ha. ha. You owe me a new keyboard.

AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop

Re: Peak stupid

Porn, marketing, political drivel. It's been already done, there's nothing more AI can do.

AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing

Re: They gave the AI scam their best shot, but...

Naah, that's politics.

Re: I have a colleague who wants to spend over 40K in AI hardware...

is manager material.