Posts by Duvelhedz

Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV

Amazon in all its forms is a scourge on humanity.

Shopping - Destroy local businesses and send money out of the economy. (Kill those businesses and put people on the dole)

Media - Ensure creators get bugger all for their work. (put them on the dole)

Software/AWS - create a single point of failure by relying on one provider. (Single point of failure, just like this https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/25/lastpass_security/ "

Home Security (Or what they pretend it is) - Gross invasion of privacy as per article above.

Convenience has a cost.

I saw this crap 10 years ago. Ae people stupid or what?

The world's first Apple Silicon iMac is actually a Mac Mini

The issue with these 2011 machines is the the graphics cards all go bad on them (2011 AMD crap) I got mine with this fault for next to nothing. Tricked it out with a flashed K4100M 4GB card (for bootscreen, native brightness control etc) 32GB RAM and bucketloads of storage. A more modern wifi card was added to enable Handoff. They are the last gen that can be truly upgraded. Still smokes the pants off a 2018 iMac with a HDD. Here is a link to the GPU swap if anyone wants to have a go.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2011-imac-graphics-card-upgrade.1596614/

Apple re-arms the iMac with 10th-gen Intel Core silicon

Re: Their older hardware is good enough (and that's the problem)

I have a mate with a old white MacBook from 2007 that only goes up to Lion. (10.7.5) We installed Win 10 on it yesterday as it was the only way of running modern software on it.

SSD, 4GB RAM and W10 2004 on it with a bit of driver INF hacking to get it all going.

Works surprisingly well.

Re: Apple could sell a DIY replacement metal compatible MXM Graphics Card for the 2009-2012 iMac

Apple could but didn't. The rest of us got cracking with solving this.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2011-imac-graphics-card-upgrade.1596614/

It’s 2017 and Hayes AT modem commands can hack luxury cars

Old Vunerabilty

This was a bug used to unlock the iPhone 3G/3GS by flashing the iPad baseband to in back in 2011. So it has taken until now for the bug to be reported?

Guess who doesn't have to pay $1.3bn in back taxes? Of course it's fscking Google

Who would like a nice tasty sandwich? With 2 layers of course

Was IoT DDoS attack just a dry run for election day hijinks?

Electronic Voting

E-Voting is a terrible idea.

Look how much it cost the Irish government when they tried to roll it out years ago. The machines were found to be woefully insecure

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/54m-voting-machines-scrapped-for-9-each-26870212.html

http://www.thejournal.ie/e-voting-machines-disposed-phil-hogan-environment-fiasco-503678-Jun2012/

Voting systems should never be online. At least the old fashioned X marks the spot cannot be manipulated en masse with people taking notice.

PCs’ PCs pwned: Irish cops probe mystery malware attack

The Real Reason

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/08/09/we-tried-installing-windows-10-gardai-reveal-reason-behind-it-shutdown/