Posts by CookieMonster999

EU's reforms of GDPR, AI slated by privacy activists for 'playing into Big Tech’s hands'

cookie banner

Please stop demanding the cookie banner, it does not protect any data and very annoying.

Bring back the Do Not Track flag, so that the browser sends it in the first request and make it equivalent to denying everything on the cookie banner.

AWS experiment with Lambda in cloudless configuration fails to impress

4 outages in 3 years

4 outages in 3 years is not the end of the world

Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in

American way

I could never understand why companies like Red Hat need 19000 employees.

More ads in Windows 11 Start Menu could be last straw for some

lots of possibilities

I wonder how long before cars start to show ads on the dashboard

Court erred in Neo4j source license ruling, says Software Freedom Conservancy

Why bother ?

If the license is so shaky why not choose a different graph database and stay on the safe side ?

Microsoft engineer fixes enterprise-level Chromium bug students could exploit to cheat in online tests

But can they open the developer tools ? You can get the source using that, too.

2FA? More like 2F-in-the-way: It seems no one wants me to pay for their services after all

We have a newish standard for secure authentication passwordless called Webauthn but for some reasons it's not taking up.

So secure and comfy passwordless authentication is always 3 years away.

Containers have security problems and flexibility issues. VMs will make them viable

container insecurity

Container insecurity is very theoretical imho, could you share any real life incident where hackers could utilize it ?

After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for 'policy violations'

Just wondering

I haven't used IRC for over a decade.

Just wondering, is USENET news still a thing ?

You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see

Another attach could be to train the AI with false information deliberately.

Like teaching the model that everything is an apple or a pizza

Hyperledger 3 years later: That's the sound of the devs... working on the chain ga-a-ang

no real use case ?

Without real use case it's just masturbation

Global IPv4 address drought: Seriously, we're done now. We're done

class D address space

Why don't we use class D addresses ? It's not really used for multicast

The Register's Top 20 Most-Commented Stories in 2016

2017

year of linux desktop ?

Conviction by computer: Ministry of Justice wants defendants to plead guilty online

I wish to plead incompetence

The developer died 14 years ago, here's a print out of his source code

linux, samba

My accountant had a very similar system, netware3 and dos clients.

I replaced the netware with linux+samba, ipx/spx with netbios over ip for dos and it still runs

Websites take control of USB devices: Googlers propose WebUSB API

Re: Where to begin?

A company I work for occasionally has literally tens of thousands POS like terminals with usb scanner and printer, so they could finally have a web only software which could drive the scanner and printer and without having to buy new pheriperals.

True believers mind-meld FreeBSD with Ubuntu to burn systemd

why don't they use the hurd kernel ? That'd make is much more fun.