* Posts by Alumoi

1186 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2016

Microsoft may store your conversations with Bing if you're not an enterprise user

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Re: Oh noes!

Nothing beats Bing at finding porn. Nothing!

Honey, can you shrink the plugin? Mozilla allows desktop extensions on Firefox for Android

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about:config

FIRST bring it back and THEN go for the add-ons.

After all, ublock and noscript are there already.

Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out

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Re: "Our focus is on user privacy"

Customers. It's customers, not victims.

New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level

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Skynet?

Is that you?

We need to be first on the Moon, uh, again, says NASA

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Re: Just one question

Hopefully just their presence will be all that is needed.

Suuure, just like in the rest of the world, where the mere presence of UN troops makes the population behave.

/sarcasm

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Re: Just one question

And the UN peace troops will be armed with...?

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Re: There is a word missing

No, no, no, it's "we want to make sure that's available only to those corporations willing to pay for it" or "we want to make sure that's available only to those we're chums with".

Cops cuff pregnant woman for carjacking after facial recog gets it wrong, again

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... returned the victim's phone to a BP gas station...

Sure, BP gas stations usually have a list of people and their phone's IMEI. Right?

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Joke

Re: "Facial Recognition" is no worse than any other kind.

They identified her face, not her body.

Baidu builds AI into cars so you can distract the kids with text-to-image tools

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Re: Don't mock the assisted drawing

Or worse, some maniac is going to connect the AI to the steering!

Didn't Tesla do that?

Millions of people's data stolen because web devs forget to check access perms

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Re: Someone was bound to say it

<cough/><cough/>Malware? But they already have Windows installed!

On the record: Apple bags patent for iDevice to play LPs

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Re: If you have money to through at patents...

Are you mad? Think of the poor folks at USPTO and all those patent lawyers. Do you want them to starve?

Australian court orders Meta subsidiaries to pay $14 million over data use

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Double digit percentage, starting at 90%, to be payed in 24 hours after sentencing. From their own funds not from loans.

Microsoft kicks Calibri to the curb for Aptos as default font

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Re: ...Segoe, the font of the Windows 11 system UI

Sorry, I've skipped THAT fulgy monstrosity.

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...Segoe, the font of the Windows 11 system UI

Damn it man, when were you born?

That fugly monstrosity was baked in Windows 7. You know, the last usable OS Microsoft released?

LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions

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Re: Hell no

Damn it, you beat me to it. I was going to link to the actual TV screen, but....

After Meta hands over DMs, mom pleads guilty to giving daughter abortion pills

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Re: I'm sure some will suggest it is her fault for using Facebook Messenger to communicate

It's takes a warrant signed by a judge to get calls tapped

Only if you want to use that as evidence in court. Otherwise...

Tesla ordered to cough up data for Autopilot probe or face heavy fines

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Re: Someone who has driven one

reversing camera

Here's your problem, Use your Eyeball Mark I and you'll do fine.

Lamborghini's last remaining pure gas guzzlers are all spoken for

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Re: Ah yes - the "there aren't enough charging points" defence...

There are vanishingly few people for whom an EV isn't already suitable...

When I will be able to carry electricity in a can and fill my battery from said can... Until then, I'm still waiting for my Corvega Coupe.

EU antitrust team closer to full-blown Microsoft probe, say sources

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Re: Same old Microsoft, same old games

Until fcking Edge updates and starts changing things or pestering you to change them yourself.

California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots

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No, that's AI for you.

US authorities warn on China's new counter-espionage law

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Re: " national security interests"

China bad, US good, that's why.

Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view

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Re: my solution is...

Mine is uBlock and pihole.

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

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Re: A fitting epitaph

Just because you sign a waiver does not mean you know quite what risk you are taking.

OK, "by signing this waiver you acknowledge that death or permanent loss of limbs will occur." IF you don't know what risk are you taking when signing such waiver you're either an idiot or you just can't read and the people reading the waiver to you lied.

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

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The house is smart. He isn't.

Family-owned aerospace biz throws a wrench in Boeing IP lawsuit

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Big ass company with a lot of expensive lawyers on call stealing the ideas of smaller companies ..... nah! That would never happen!

There, much better.

Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day

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The cloud

How is it going for you?

Microsoft Windows latest: Cortana app out, adverts in

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Re: Two words for Microsoft:

He just forgot 'and Die'. Oh, wait, that's 4 words.

Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads

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Re: So Google builds a profile of me ...

Don't forget googlesyndication.com and googletagmanager.com

This legit Android app turned into mic-snooping malware – and Google missed it

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So, always update, even if it works

What could go wrong?

Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs

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Re: Back to the Future

Shirley you mean 2 computers, NSA and MSS, aka MS/ Amazon/Google/Facebook and Baidu/Alibaba/whatever.

Samsung's screens will check your blood pressure if the movie's too scary

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Re: Interesting opportunities...

You mean new possibilities for targeted ads, right?

Meta facing third fine of 2023 for mishandling EU user data under GDPR

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I'll say it again

Wake me up when Failbook/MS/Google/whatever does pay the fine.

Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not

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Why does MS (and a lot of other software maker) feel the need to modify the UI every time they bring out a new version?

When you have them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow, that's why.

Biden proposes 30% tax on cryptominers' power bills

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Re: Point

So, the politicians and their friends. You know, the ones who donate something for the cause or provide oh so cozy jobs when they are voted out of power.

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Check the number of drinkers before and after the Governments started ramping up taxes on alchool...

UK emergency services take DIY approach amid 12-year wait for comms upgrade

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Re: Services in other countries were now able to move ahead ... faster

Is Tesla they only car manufacturer in the world?

ESA's Jupiter-bound Juice spacecraft has a sticky problem with its radar

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And, a couple of months later, a new On call story.

No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final

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Re: Truly, certainly not

...Windows 11 looks more polished ...

Just like a turd.

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Re: Truly, certainly not

Throw in the windows decorations and real transparency and you're on to something.

Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia

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That's chatGPT for you...

First attempt by Japan's ispace biz to land on Moon ends in awkward silence

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Re: It's taking a dust nap

Oil

Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage

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Re: still having issues with shared calendars not being available for some O365 users

They got your money, they locked you into their software, why would they care?

Don't worry, folks, here comes Chuck Schumer with some ideas about regulating AI

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Re: Politicians and AI

I'd say they are quite the same as both lack intelligence and they can only regurgitate what somebody else told them.

Theranos founder Holmes ordered to jail after appeal snub

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Re: Never thought I'd see the day

Lava is hot. Red chili is hot. Her? Please!

San Francisco fog defeats pack of Waymo robo-taxis

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Re: Each is armed with...

Yeap, they're missing the intellingence.

Turns out people don't like it when they suspect a machine's talking to them

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Re: Undue optimism

Well, some use Latin letters, some ideograms and some Cyrillic script. The output is the same crap.

British govt tech supplier Capita crippled by 'IT issue'

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Re: further pedantry ...

many international readers with some idea of what a dollar is worth...

Which dollar? US? Canadian? Australian? Liberian?...

School principal resigns after writing $100,000 check to Elon Musk impersonator

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Re: "I am very smart"

Or "politician", "influencer", "celebrity", "expert", "CEO"...

Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records

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Re: Longevity in the US

I think I see a corelation here: good teeth means you can eat more junk food thus worse health.