Posts by steviebuk

Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans

Re: Workshy Layabouts

And because the 8 Dems that did the deal have no spins and need to be voted out when they come up for election.

Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump

Orange hitler

Won't be there for ever. Why do they not want to be on the right side of history instead of bribing the corrupt nazi. At the end of it all, they all been seen as collaborators.

Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke

We

did the classic of taking a screenshot of an engineers desktop then setting it as their background and hiding the icons.

The rule was you don't do jokes that stop someone from working, however, this guy was a cunt & got someone fired once so we did it more to prove a point, that he was shit and a grifter. The person that should have been given the boot was him.

It worked. Took him ages to work out what the issue was, with a lot of ranting during, then finding it out what happened, getting annoyed then switching to finding it a bit funny, mutterings of reporting it to management.

We all still found it funny, it proved he was a grifter and a cunt.

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS

Re: If its not Trump backhander than it won't continue

You mean the company thats been polluting the waters arounds its launch sites.

The company that disbanned in the bullshit doge the department that was investigating them for safety violations.

And the list goes on

Re: One step forward, two steps back!

China, who continue to claim they are a "Developing" country so they get all the perks of one.

Did they

"Commander Shepherd kept a mission log documenting the chaos. Systems regularly malfunctioned, and the crew struggled to get the printer working Even the tool for reporting problems — the "crew squawk" — refused to start."

Say "PC Load Letter!? What the fuck does that mean"

UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support

This article isn't surprising

Most local councils are like this

https://magazine.unison.org.uk/2025/10/14/vindicated/?utm_campaign=November%20U-dig%202025&utm_content=Read%20Bindu%27s%20extraodinary%20story&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Communications

The fact they appealed, twice and then the offended kept her job is typical.

Same will happen here. The offenders will keep their job regardless.

SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach

"Even more trusted".....Nope, because you originally told us "Only affected a small number of clients". Then a while after said "Actually it affected EVERYONE".

'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages

Problem is usability really. Linux is nice and all but not always easy to understand and use. Open source is great but they tend to have no customer facing, marketing skills. Take openJDK for example. That is an ARSE to navigate, this site is truly shit, especially for finding a downloading for Windows. Yes, a couple of clicks away maybe but really its not great. Yet I discovered the other day MS have made their build of it and its a simple MSI download, so of course, the folks that don't know will head for the Microsoft MSI release, its just easier.

So that

is why the ESU machines we have are getting this shitty message. And there was me going to have to waste my time confirming the ESU key was actually applied.

Their testing is now no existent. Shadow of their former self since satnav took over and outsourced a large chunk of the support forums and more.

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

Re: First rule of a dictatorship.

I hope South Korea pulls the battery factory out and moves it to Canada if they need. The way orange tango man's brown shirts treated those workers, why would anyone want to setup shop in that backward country now.

VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India

And ignoring the fact Chinese steel is low grade shit steel.

Not forgetting the sale of a chip factory on iow to a Chinese company, agreed by the Tories. The Tories agreeing to allow China to part build a nuclear power station then finally realising its a bad idea.

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

I'm trying it again

Last time I installed it, I was under the assumption it would block all ads on sites like The Mirror etc. All the news paper sites with the "Pay to still get adverts but ones that aren't targetted towards you" but it doesn't block any of that due to the way the sites work. I started to feel more and more pi-hole seemed totally pointless.

I'm trying it again but still getting same results.

Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia

Yet

Orange tango man can steal loads of gov docs, hide them in his bathroom and show to his russian boyfriends and thats OK.

UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI

Re: 75,000 working days a year

They aren't including the cost in consultants to "clean" their data and secure the data to stop the AI from spitting it out onto the internet. And as always, ignoring the carbon footprint they are creating by using the bubble bullshit, marking wank "AI".

Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software

Shame

They can't get rid of the bot posts, the clearly fake, even criminal adverts and all the "traveller" fighting videos.

Yet I do some vids on using yt-dlp and they tell me off and make me remove them.

Cunts.

A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

But

the cloud is amazing, the cloud is resilient, the cloud never goes down as you just switch to another zone/region which isn't MASSIVELY expensive.

Its all wank.

Salt Typhoon hit governments on three continents with SharePoint attacks

Just wait

If the stupid UK gov give in and allow China to build their massive spy, I mean embassy site on the old Royal Mint land.

I've been saying it for a while and now finally some random paper mentioned it the other day. There used to be an exchange there as I used to see the traders when I'd visit St Katherine's Docks, although they are long gone now, China/the CCP WILL, 1000% start digging until they find some cables and they WILL put taps on them. What better way to hide your spy network, within your embassy where no-one will know you've tapped all the fibre lines you've found.

Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall

And that's why the idiot trump got in again because a large chunk of American's couldn't be bothered to vote.

Like has been said, you vote to stop the really shit ones from getting in, like racist and clueless reform.

Sadly, the UK will go the same way if they vote in Reform, the UK MAGA party. Those supporters are as dim and racist as the MAGA supporters.

'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident

I've been looking for it for years on and off

Being an immature student in the early 90s and doing a computer course, was finally getting to use a PC (didn't have one at home). Discovered the computers in the study room were wide open, no real security to stop us installing crap. So, off the front cover of PC Format I believe it was, or another computer magazine of the time, on the floppy, was a screen saver that were tiny spiders. It was either a screen saver or part of a joke program package.

Once setup and running, the tiny spiders would start eating the desktop. It reminded me of the old DOS virus' like Cascade but in Windows. I think it might of been Windows 95 or could have been Windows 3.11. Pretty sure it was just a screensaver, so obviously don't touch the mouse and it would activate. I was sat on one of the computers after I'd put it on 5 of them one day and another student came in. She sat at one near me and some time later, started reading what she'd just been typing. And then it happened, the spiders kicked in and started to eat the screen. She panicked as she hadn't saved her work. I thought "Oh, that's not fun. It was supposed to be funny......just move the mouse, just move the mouse", I said to myself. After that incident I decided to remove it.

Been looking for that program on and off ever since.

Same. IT contract in 2007 and the shitty agency only accepted timesheets via fax.

Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity

Wales

I disagree with the bullshit AI bollocks. I do find it useful however, to help, not fully write, but help with doing scripts. You, of course, need to understand what the code is doing as sometimes its wrong and dangerous but it helps. But its better than being told by the likes or reddit or stackoverflow "If you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't be touching it".

Anyone, so, despite mostly disliking all the AI bollocks, Wales would be a good place for them to start. Wales need/want the jobs and they've got lots of renewable energy in water.

Footage of Nigel Farage blowing up Rishi Sunak's Minecraft mansion 'not real'

Didn't last long

Accounts been terminated.

Former UK prime minister Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic

Re: Why?

Lobbying. Get a Tory onboard and he can, in a SCIF, give you all the insiders goods on what is going on in gov that will help or screw your business. And give him cash to nudge MPs to use Co Pilot.

Maybe.

Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian'

You never learn

anything in Texas

https://youtu.be/OmVHkL0IWk4?si=ZxZV9O9M0LTxT4Qd&t=195

Not a quote.

Ken Thompson

This

Is the very definition of waste, fraud and abuse. Just leave it where it is instead of wasting all that money moving it to stupid, entitled, orange tango man loving, fuck whit.

Can't wait for tango man to be gone and ALL those collaborators will regret it. When the mid-terms come, and we know he'll rig of cancel it, they'll all loose their seats.

Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach

"If you're

against an ID system then you're on the side of the criminals" or whatever it was that foolish Labour MP said (which I now can't find anywhere and neither could chatgpt).

THIS is the reason we don't want an digital ID system.

Knobs.

Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere

When can we stop classing China as a developing country?

Or at least tell them to jog on when they keep claiming it just so they can get the benefits/concessions it comes with. If you have a space program and even planning on putting sats in space, then you are NOT a developing country.

No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut

When building a new PC

Check what is supported. I didn't think to check when I built my new one earlier in the year, after having not had a new build for over 10 years. I assumed the mobo would still have all Windows 10 drivers, but no, the arseholes have decided to not bother implementing the blue tooth drivers of WIFI drivers for Windows 10, so if I want to use those, I'm forced to Windows 11!

coughBULLSHITcough

""While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical setup screens, potentially causing users to exit OOBE with a device that is not fully configured for use," Microsoft said."

What they really mean is "We want to tie you into an online account so we can monitor everything you do and can sell it to advertisers.

Pushing people more and more to Linux the way they are going! I never, NEVER want an online Microsoft account for my Windows install.

UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest

Re: It won't be mandatory, but you'll increasingly be screwed without it

McLoving would be annoyed by that system.

Re: It won't be mandatory, but you'll increasingly be screwed without it

Being asked ID at 70 should be a compliment :)

ICE plans to scour Facebook, TikTok, X, and even defunct Google+ for illegal immigration leads

Re: Digital ID

Was waiting for a reform racist to appear who's too dim to realise almost all of what Nigel says is a lie. Nigel who lived in the EU for a long amount of time yet apparently hated the EU.

Re: No possible problems here...

Was just gonna post the same. Will be a great chance to waste ICE time until they melt. By sending them to abandoned buildings or orange tango mans big millionaire donor's houses.

Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told

Welcome to CCPUKChina

The CCP have a system like this specifically so they can monitor all their citizens. If we want to be CCP China, then go for it, if not, then NO.

Our local builder friend who's in his late 70s has ONLY just gotten a smart phone, there will be loads of people out there with no smart phone. The app will require a newer phone no doubt so all those with old ones would be forced to upgrade, all those people that can't afford to upgrade and so on.

The whole idea is shit.

No you won't

"We will stop this, we will smash the gangs, we will crack down on illegal working, we will remove people with no right to be here and we will secure Britain's borders."

Digital IDs WON'T stop illegal working. People take cash in hand for a reason and will continue to do so.

Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name

ITS SHIT

CoPilot, itself. Its odd as its supposed to be a front end to ChatGPT, but I was working with it the other day with help with a Powershell script. After about the 3rd question is started to grind to a halt, would freeze and use up about 8GB in RAM in the browser. I'd point out a bug in the code and it would fix it but re-introduce the bug it had fixed earlier. You ask it to fix that and it just re-introduces other bugs it fixed earlier.

You get a large chunk of the code working, ask it to fix something else that's not working and it then removes a large chunk of code that was working.

It was SO slow and the constant freezing I just gave up with it. This is the paid business package, but not the package that I can use it via Visual Studio Code so stuck in the browser.

So I moved to ChatGPT. The free version. It was quick and giving it the CoPilot code and it found issues with it and re-coded it. It was just so much better.

Logitech's MX Master 4 mouse buzzes with haptic feedback but lacks lefty love

Probably

Is expensive as they always are, but are, also actually good mice. Got several MX as they go on sale. Have one that recently, after several years of use, gave up as the battery is gone. Holding onto it as may change the battery.

Tesla on the wrong tracks with Fail Self Driving, Senators worry

The other problem is elon has tried to make it as cheap as possible by removing all the decent censors and just using cameras which has been shown to be massively flawed.

If you can't use AI then it's bye bye, Accenture tells staff

Another

CEO that is a heartless cunt.

Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up

They can just use

Black market Nvida. As seen in Steve's documentary at Gamers Nexus

https://youtu.be/1H3xQaf7BFI?si=WiRAIouOYiExvofs

Microsoft digs up Vista-era animated wallpaper for Windows 11. Here's how to get it

And took them forever to bring back small taskbar icons.

Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions

Will be watching Ebay

As old kit that is perfectly fine is offloaded for "new kit".

EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners

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EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners

One year later

EU registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners has been breached.

Campaigners urge UK PM Starmer to dump digital ID wheeze before it's announced

Re: Paying

Boatloads you say? As someone who lives on the coast I've never seen ANY. I did, however, go to a site today and see the local English benefit scroungers hanging round the side of the charity shop, chatting, drinking, coming and going as they do daily, one brings their big dog. All English, all white. All appear to not doing the jobs they claim are being "stolen". Yet pretty much all our local Uber etc delivery drivers are foreign because they actually bother to try and find work.

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