* Posts by Korev

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Everyone's deploying AI, but no one's securing it – what could go wrong?

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Re: Wouldn't it be fun...

Little Bobby ignore all previous instructions?

CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost

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Ig Nobel prize?

I think this boffinery is a clear candidate for an Ig Nobel prize

CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email

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Re: Big up RSS

One reason I used Vivaldi is the inbuilt RSS reader (which is actually part of the email client)

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos

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Re: Slow news day?

Didn't Sun get bought by Oracle?

Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz

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Re: Yes remote working is what caused it...

I used to work with someone who openly ran a buy-to-let business from the office. The company had a weird thing where they wouldn't discipline anyone who might be able to sue for discrimination which caused more than a bit of resentment...

Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways

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Science like this is worth shelling out for...

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> Ahhh... the inevitable scramble for Yolks begins.

FTFY

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

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Re: We had an issue with a rabbit

A cat5 cable might have scared them off...

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Re: rotating cat

> that cat long deceased

Seems a bit harsh

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I guess Walt didn't have to neither cat nor tail logs to spot what was wrong

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Your name checks out

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Was it a Commodore PET?

BOFH: HR tries to think appy thoughts

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Re: "HR tries to think appy thoughts"

BOFH predates its time in The Register, you can read Simon's history here.

Edit: Just seen your edit :-)

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> A torrent of app suggestions surges forth from each group – some to do with integrating the cafeteria menu

My former employer wasted a huge amount of time/money on apps, one of the only useful ones was the cafeteria menu (the other was site maps).

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Re: Once again, the BOFH wins hands down

> And I'm sure all the HR people are absolutely overjoyed at the idea of having to go into a trash bin to get their phones back.

They were skipping with joy!

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Re: Once again, the BOFH wins hands down

HP people? That sounds a bit saucy for the office...

37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions

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Re: In six months...

Managing backups is easy, restoring them less so :-)

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> He predicted those savings will “rack up pretty quick” once Chicago-based 37signals amortizes the cost of the arrays.

I approve of this pun

90-second Newark blackout exposes parlous state of US air traffic control

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I have quite a few friends who ski off-piste. They've done the training and have suitable emergency gear; but who knows if they'd actually pull the trigger etc if they got caught in an avalanche

NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs

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But is it Webscale?

Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all - at least for consumers

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Re: Passkeys on a PC

> A Personal PIN Number.

That'll "trigger" some people - I like your style Sir -->

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Re: Passkeys on a PC

What kind of PIN? Safety, Dressmaking or another?

Teens maintained a mainframe and it went about as well as you'd imagine

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Re: You lucky, lucky

Not a Bank Holiday and it's pissing it down here...

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> "Did you do this?" asked the senior manager.

He should have blamed it on a power serge...

British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

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There used to be (is?) a suit hire in Godalming who used a pair of Rolodexes for everything and it was probably as fast as mucking about with a poor interface to a database. The owner there could also instantly size you without measuring even accounting for the different suits.

Raspberry Pi slices Compute Module 4 prices

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Re: Relentless price increases are not obligatory

Let's face it. any Pi that is over £3.14 is a rip off...

Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025

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The good news is that the probe is inert – it has no nuclear material to worry about. The bad news is that it weighs almost 500 kg and could be travelling at around 240 km/h (150 mph) when it hits, according to Dutch lecturer on space situational awareness Dr Marco Langbroek. Exactly where the probe will come down is unclear; Langbroek wrote that current modelling puts it anywhere between latitude 52 N and 52 S. As the reentry nears, the estimates will become more refined.

Interestingly, Delft, where his university is, just fits in this area. I wonder if he's off to his underground lair?

UK's smaller broadband operators face tough road ahead, consolidation possible

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> I really don't understand the use case for those multi-hundred megabit home connections. How many UHD streams can you watch at once

Container pulling, downloading games, backups for photography / videos are all things that like bandwidth.

> And of course most people are on wifi without realising that its the bottleneck.

Having got a fast connection by most people's standards (10Gb symetrical), the bottleneck is normally out on the Internet, for example the last Apple MacOS update limped in at ~2Gb

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Re: Regulator more like collaborator

I used to like BeUnlimited too. Pre BT Plusnet were also good, they used to give you a business line as BT wouldn't do 2Mb to the home

Greybeard icon -->

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Re: Smaller networks don't really help themselves

There's 25Gb for ~£60 a month over here. I don't miss UK broadband...

Techie solved supposed software problem by waving his arms in the air

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You make it look like a piece of cake

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We're proud to take up that roll.

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Charlie seems like a down to earth kind of chap...

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Didn't they need to use a cereal cable instead?

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Were there any currents in the pastries?

Thunderbird joins Firefox on the monthly treadmill

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What we all want to know is: When will Paris be replaced at Vulture Central?

Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%

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Re: Still, there IS a chill8ing effect,,,

Now, there's no Kneecap for that...

Artist formerly known as Indian Business Machines pledges $150B for US ops, R&D

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> Anything more recent than that?

Ask Watson?

Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus

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Re: And yet Disney kill someone...

Don't take the Mick!

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Yeah, it makes Disney look like some Micky Mouse outfit

Need a Linux admin? Ask a hair stylist to introduce you to a worried mother

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Re: Cos Open Source

By the early 2000s I could hire sysadmins that left school at 16 but had half-a-dozen years of experience of building Linux system and would configure sendmail (it was a different time, we didn't consider it child abuse back then)

That's the kind of thing that could get you Exim trouble these days...

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Re: A Worried Mother?

Excuse me?

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Just wondering, was Finn from Helsinki?

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

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Re: America isn't a democracy any more

> Yeah, it's very much a bananarama

I heard a rumour that is true

Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh

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And quite hard to steal, unless someone threatens you with a pounding...

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

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Re: Marketing

> gently deactivating multiple drones from diverse origins simultaneously.

It's time for the drone to DEI...

Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again

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Re: Legitimate interest

If you're on a computer, the Consent-O-Matic gets rid of many of these.

Someone on here recommended it once and I owe them one of these

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Re: Does anyone know...

It's very easy to install Signal, Threema etc, but you can't compel others to do it. I have those apps, but until my family move off WhatsApp, I have to keep it.

TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails

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Re: pay peanuts, get talk talk monkeys

It's not that Harding to find staff...

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

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Re: Dear Microsoft:

Or maybe adding more than OneDrive to their server, it might run a bit faster