Posts by VicMortimer

Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras

Re: Well, he's got my vote!

How about "protect national parks from corporations"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxg9tx27MCc

It's the only video on his channel, but not a bad position given the current Republican threats to public land.

Well, he's got my vote!

And I'm not just saying that. He's running in my district.

Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online

So this is the guy who is responsible for that abomination?

Exchange should never have existed, it's a curse upon the internet.

US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data

This article IS about US bank

That's not an issue for the title of the article, that's an issue for the company stupid enough to name itself "US Bank" when that's a generic term.

So YES, the article IS about a US bank. It does not matter if it's about a very stupidly named bank or not.

Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene

Phoenix pigs? I'm surprised they haven't already shot the sign.

The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters

The ONLY thing that will ever stop ransomware is to make it a crime to pay ransom.

Lock up a few CEOs for paying and the money will stop. If the money stops, the ransomware will stop.

Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages

Re: Dumb Ass

I'm thinking laser welder would be ideal.

Re: Denial isn't refutation

ACAB, so....

Too many AI agents can get in each other's way

How many is too many?

One. One AI agent is too many.

Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory

Re: Back in the 1980s...

Hey, as crappy as cassettes sounded, doing that once you got a CD player was completely understandable.

I remember how bad they were. No need for a program to screw up my audio to remind me.

Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack

Misunderstood the assignment

It's cute that they think not having open models is somehow the problem.

The problem is LLMs. And the fix is to shut them down.

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

Re: Good!

Needs to be an appropriately powerful laser pointer. I suggest searching for "blue burning laser pointer" on ebay.

AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical

Re: Mission critical infrastructure on a credit card?

You know why lots of places are no longer doing that?

Because with a credit card, you get paid. Letting companies set up an account means their accounts department can fuck with you at will. You put "net 7 days" on your invoice? Nah, all our accounts are paid as net 90 or net 180, our discretion. Oh, and we think you charged us too much, we're reducing it to 1/4 of your invoice.

Demanding a credit card solves that.

Windows 11 tiptoes further into dark mode with new dialogs

E-paper makes my eyes go twitchy in seconds. I can't stand looking at it.

The only problem I've ever had with Mac brightness was that it wasn't bright enough. They're finally just about there with the current laptops, max brightness is usually bright enough now.

Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years

Yes they are.

New Macintosh Powerbook 100 Rechargable battery

LiPo replacement with adapter circuit, 3d printed case.

Re: If

They are if you sign up as a repair professional.

They're not the lowest dirt cheap prices out there. But iFixit is reliable, and I trust their batteries to be less likely to "vent with flame".

AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You

LOL

It's cute that you think I'm going to be paying to use AI slop.

I'm not interested if it's free. Why would I pay for it?

Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices

Re: Validation and quality

The old policy was "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run".

Micro$haft has NEVER been a quality company.

Ministers arm under-16s social media ban with least surprising study of the year

Yeah, anybody who thinks this "but think of the children" garbage is actually about children is hopelessly deluded.

Children don't have anything to do with it, children never had anything to do with it, it's a power grab, nothing more.

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

Re: In other news

Nope. The only US state that has a sort of dual system is Louisiana, which is partially based on old French law.

No state uses Spanish law.

SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training

This stupid AI bubble needs to pop.

I hope it brings down some major corporations when it happens.

The hits keep on coming for Cisco vulnerabilities

Cisco? Insecure?

By design?

Thanks, CIA, NSA, MI5, MI6, and China.

Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction

Too many

It's still FAR too many.

Hopefully this stupid AI bubble is going to pop soon.

Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft

Yawn

Browsers have been plenty fast enough for over a decade now.

Micro$loth is being ridiculous.

I wouldn't mind having full Firefox on my iPhone, but I have absolutely no desire to run anything Chrome-based EVER.

Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more

Homebrew is a disaster

Their dropping of support is a nightmare.

I wish I'd never installed it on anything and used MacPorts instead.

Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!'

Um...

This really feels like functionality that should be a button.

Not sure I'm even gonna remember that I can type something in the address bar to shut up the browser.

And... It doesn't work. Not sure why I expected it to.

MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd

Re: taskbar on the left!

There is a more accurate saying: Less is less.

That one is still a bit of a mess though.

Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security

Re: Scargill for the win

We got the cackling idiot.

The only reason he hasn't nuked anybody yet is that he's been told no. He tried to nuke a hurricane.

If Kamala had said "I will stop shipping bombs to Israel" we would currently be having a normal, boring, sane administration.

Re: All this will be undone

Yeah, California will be like "You want to put a what where?" and tie that stupidity up until the tiny-fingered, ferret-wearing, cheeto-faced shitgibbon is gone.

They probably have enough worker safety and air quality regs on the books already to make sure a coal export terminal can't happen.

All of this will just be a blip in the final shutdown of all the coal plants in the US and shutdown of the rest of the US non-metallurgical coal mines. They can't even try to 'refurb' the closest coal power plant to me, they blew up the smokestacks last year and I think the interior has mostly been turned into scrap now.

Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight

It's almost like

It's almost like Cisco is VERY bad at security. Kinda like a company that put more effort into spying on users than security once they got the Great Firewall of China contract would have behaved.

Not sure why anybody still trusts them. And I wonder how many more of these 0-day 'bugs' they have handy for the governments that wanted them.

Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

Re: Unions

Yep. ALL workplaces should be unionized. Shouldn't even be optional, once the first employee is hired the business should be required to provide a list of appropriate potential unions for the first employee to pick from, or of course the employee can choose their own. Union dues shouldn't come from employees, they should be assessed against the business.

Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach

Yay!

A data breach I'm definitely NOT in. Mostly because a floating norovirus swamp (now with bonus hantavirus) doesn't sound at all fun to me.

(it's not beer or coffee on the keyboard)

Logitech unveils a cushioned mouse for all-day use

I never met a vertical mouse I didn't want to throw through a wall.

As far as I'm concerned, the Apple Magic Mouse is the most ergonomic mouse. Fits either hand, and is a mouse, not a handrest and doesn't idiotically try to be one.

Microsoft says cu l8r to text message security

Re: Will still be needed

Yep. This is premature. We're not ready for the nightmares it's going to create.

Their authenticator app (like everything else they do) absolutely sucks though.

Firefox 151 helps you edit PDFs – and switch OSes

Re: why is thunderbird so loved

And that's why I hate it.

I want JUST a mail client, with separate apps for calendar and contacts. That's why I use Mac Mail, Calendar, and Contacts apps and not Thunderbird.

But my favorite mail client of all time was Eudora.

I'd probably switch to Thunderbird if the other crap was split into separate apps.

Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter

Re: NJNIMBY

Those don't really need to be legos. They could have just hired actors.

NJNIMBY

Not just not in my backyard.

We don't need LLM data centers ANYWHERE. No good comes from them.

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again

Jared, Jerry, sounds kinda similar...

Scroopy Noopers will NOT be happy about this nonsense.

Don't pay Vect a ransom – your data's likely already wiped out

Want to stop ransomware? Ban paying ransom.

The ONLY way ransomeware is ever going to be stopped is if it becomes a crime to pay ransom.

If the CEO goes to prison for paying, the money will dry up. No money, no point, no more ransomware.

SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months

Rapid Unscheduled Dissassembly

Looking forward to the big badda-boom!

Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official

Pox, houses, both, etc.

I'd love to see both companies crash and burn.

I'm honestly not sure which one is more of a plague on humanity at this point.

South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations

Re: fictional citations

Yes. That's completely unreasonable.

Expecting accurate output from a LLM is a fundamental misunderstanding of what LLMs do.

Claude is getting worse, according to Claude

Clod

It's almost truth in advertising.

"Claude" sounds a lot like "Clod".

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs

There's always one....

No. It's not the same.

Updates are annoying. But the level of annoyance is not even close to the same.

Apple is just better at this.

Linux distros are just better at this.

Micro$loth is really, really, really bad at this.

Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement

Re: This Settlement is **NOT** an excellent result for the Class

Apple products aren't particularly hard to open. The big problem with Apple products is the same thing as Deere products, parts pairing should be illegal.

Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber chief

Want to stop ransomware? Ban paying ransom.

The ONLY way ransomware is ever going to stop is if paying becomes a crime - with actual prison time for CEOs who pay.

Ransomware exists because getting money is possible. Stop the money, stop the ransomware.

Researchers didn’t want to glamorize cybercrims. So they roasted them

Is it just me, or does Evil Ferret actually sound pretty cool?

When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

Is it really a Britishism at all?

Maybe it's my bad memory, but it sounds more "old west" to me.

Re: ROFL with this:-

They still do that here.

My city didn't manage to ban billboards entirely, they just banned new ones going up.

But they did manage to ban electronic ones early enough that none got installed and grandfathered.