Posts by steviebuk

High severity vuln in WinRAR could allow code to run when files are opened

Re: WinRAR security hole?

7zip.

CEO Zooms through the bad news on Q2 earnings call

Sadly

Inspite of its Chinese and even CCP ties, companies still continue to use this app. Its well know to the "hipsters" I hear it spoke of at work. Unfortunately the powers that be don't listen and it will be continued to used even in sensitive areas.

Chinese media teases imminent exposé of seismic US spying scheme

Re: Whatever China

We have 8 wumaos in the house.

Whatever China

They love their "Whataboutisims" but ignore what they do themselves. Diverting flood water out of Beijing where Winnie the Pooh is, into near by poor villages. Sending out the emergency services to help people where the bridge collapse in the floods? No, they sent out their services to put up barriers on the bridge further down the river so people couldn't see the bridge had collapsed. Its all about face for China. Sadly, the Chinese people have to suffer having a man child in power.

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

Re: Not holding my breath

Tell the local consultant. When the "local consultant" tells them, they'll do it.

Discord.io pulls the cord after crooks steal 760K users' info

Question is

Did they ever bother to pony up for any security testing of the current state? I'm assuming not.

Two US Navy sailors charged with giving Chinese spies secret military info

Re: Does the US pay that badly?

It could also even be "You still have family here in China. They won't have such a good life if you don't do this for us" as the CCP do this regularly with ex-pats to convince them to return to China.

Meta says it'll ask Euro peeps nicely before hitting them with personalized ads

Re: Ads?

Gone are the days, it seems, where there are good ones. The best two do this day that I've loved since I was a kid are:

https://youtu.be/_8GHchvvzms - 1989 Coca-Cola Can't Beat The Feeling

https://youtu.be/RVi6GgQBkwE - British Airways Flower Duet - still give me massive nostalgia for the 80s

Millions of people's data stolen because web devs forget to check access perms

Re: Funny that........

Its much like what was mentioned on Politics Joe. They had a think tank guy on recently explaining about how re-nationalising the energy companies would actually benefit the general public, would actually mean people would save money. Politics Joe said information like that doesn't end up on the front page as its not "sexy enough" which they pointed out is one of the problems. Same with info like this.

Think tank calls for monitoring of Chinese AI-enabled products

I wouldn't say

its paranoia. Just look at the way Xi is currently behaving you and can see he's up for starting a war. All within tolerated him, thinking he was a moderate. Then he got into power and it turns out he's just as bad and maybe even worse, than Mao Zedong. I feel sorry for the Chinese people that are being fucked by an arsehole that looks like Winnie The Pooh so then banned anyone from mentioning Winnie the Pooh.

Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites

Re: Scraping

The problem is arsehole like Elon are in the process of attempt to sue some Twitter scrappers. And the problem with that is even if not fully legal etc, he has enough money to burn to make the scrappers just break.

Twitter name and blue bird logo to be 'blowtorched' off company branding

More money than sense

Its like what a child would do if they were a billionaire. Yes it might be a toxic place but there are some useful thinks, WHS_Carpets, RMCRetro, The great Translation but its also a massive brand name that's been burned into peoples minds, so why would you change it. Its like changing the name of Hoover at the height of their success, everyone calls a vacuum cleaner a Hoover (in words of Alan Partridge when he explains about Tannoy)

Re: Moron alert. Again

You've never looked at WHS_Carpets. Got a world of history involving shoddy carpets in WHSmith, some of their comical pricing discounts that are sometimes 1p off and sometimes even history of the old WHSmith buildings etc. So its not all bad :)

Linux lover consumed a quarter of the network

Did his WANG curl up when the sysadmin knocked at the door.

RIP Kevin Mitnick: Former most-wanted hacker dies at 59

Freedom Downtime

I think it was around 2002 or 2003, may have been a bit later that I discovered Freedom Downtime and Kevin Mitnick.

Later I bought some of his books, The Art of Deception, The Art of Intrusion. They were a good read. Still would be a good read today.

Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money

Hate it

I want to retire. Starting to hate the IT corporate world now. Still have an interest in the history of IT but this cloud bollocks is annoying me and then this. Just leave it a fucking lone.

Had enough, sadly can't do anything else, its all I know and retirement won't happen till I'm dead.

Fun.

Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount

They have...

...the money at least for thoses drug and booze.

Microsoft's Activision fight with FTC turned up a Blizzard of docs: Here's your summary

Re: Same old Microsoft

I would argue they both stole the GUI from Xerox. They both got a look, both took the idea and made their own versions.

The reason I'd like to retired but can never

I don't have enough money or a big enough pension but if I could, I think I'd retire from IT now. Getting sick of the push to the cloud and if this is how its going to be in the near feature then I hate to see how the Windows experience is going to go. We got Windows 11 pushed to us due to a "mistake" and I suspect we'd end up with this shit too:

"build on Windows 365 to enable a full Windows operating system streamed from the cloud to any device"

Elon Musk's Twitter moves were 'reaffirming' says Reddit boss amid API changes

Re: I suspect that Twitter has a profitable future ahead of it

https://youtu.be/N_iQSRMzmRQ

https://carbuzz.com/news/teslas-fsd-beta-abruptly-makes-model-3-charge-towards-cyclist

Re: I suspect that Twitter has a profitable future ahead of it

The one where it "aimed" for a cyclist and they said "I guess we'll need to cut that bit out".

Re: He needs an icon -->

Elon lies a lot

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

Wrong

"he appeared to admit that Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter should be an example for Reddit to follow"

Apparently, can't remember where I read it, Twitter is still bleeding cash, people are deciding $8 £8 a month isn't worth it for stupid blue tick.

Also doesn't help that Reddit Steve has shown himself to be as much of a prick as Elon.

Shame, I only just got interested in Reddit for the likes of the Datahoarders subreddit, now he's decided to kill it.

If the IPO doesn't fail, watch everyone pump and dump the shares.

Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition

New Zealand lost its way

When they illegally raided his property or, I can't remember if it was illegal or just massively over the top as they went in with big guns.

Also doesn't help that because China is their biggest importer they are still bending over backwards to kiss Xi's Winnie the Pooh arse.

Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan

I can't stand...

.... outsourcing. But if you're going to do it, at least in the UK then why not oursource to areas in the UK. Areas that are remote that you know people struggle for jobs. Doesn't all have to be in the same area. Then you get IT engineers that could end up actually being good but are stuck in places like Cornwall etc where IT jobs aren't readily available. Yes, those engineers might very well get high paying roles remotely for other companies but some won't. As companies are still insisting on the bollocks "You need to be in the office one day a week".

WFH mandates bad for staff morale and stunt innovation

Re: Some people work better WFH

He's supposed to have tasks, but he doesn't do them, he balms them off to others.

Re: Some people work better WFH

Fucking annoys me no end. I've seen a manager micro manage someone so badly the person quit. She reported this upon quitting and said most of his work he was giving to her to do. Fuck all was done, she's moved on, he's still, some how, employed. More staff have been under him and gone over the past few years than any other department yet no one questions why.

Out with the old, in with the new – Accenture declares AI is 'mature and delivers value'

Re: Sources

Anyone have shares in them, sell them now. She'll tank the company. Considering how confidently wrong the likes of ChatGPT are she'll find out when its too late. It will have already sent nukes to Russia who'll send some back.

"There is no fate but what we make"

"Da da daaaaaaa, da....da dahhhhhh....da....da daaaaa........."

It’s official: Vodafone and Three to tie the knot in the UK

Re: This merger *will* reduce consumer choice *and* increase costs

Will it improve coverage? No. We are in a big town and struggle with signal in the house 9n Vadafone. Yet I just got back from Norway, was on a cruise ship in the fjords just breaking away from them and got a better fucking signal.

Thousands of subreddits go dark in mega-protest over Reddit's app-killing API prices

Re: Transition time is coming.

Yep, with have odysee a youtube alternative that is decentralised. Sync it to your youtube account and it will automatically copy your videos over to odysee. Once it becomes bigger, I suspect YouTube/google will block it from doing that.

Re: Meh

This is what I discovered. I hated it at first as didn't understand it. Why were my questions deleted all the time due to lack of karma? Then finally understood that system and found a subreddit that didn't require it. Got enough karma can post elsewhere. Then found others like the datahoarders subreddit and it opened a world of info and tools.

Lead me to self hosting and the best tool ever run into, yt-dlp.

Multi-tasking blunder leaves UK tax digitization plans 3 years late, 5 times over budget

Re: The civil service went to a brewery but left thirsty and sober despite wanting to party

Its the management that need replacing not the engineers.

Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem

Re: Oh yeah.

No. Nothing will change. Someone higher up will make some bullshit up why it happened and why it won't happen again. People like us will warn time and time again that that is bollocks but constantly be ignored.

Seriously, boss? You want that stupid password? OK, you get that stupid password

Re: perhaps the MD knows enough about Unix to know that the password couldn't be all numbers

An engineer in America was set to prison. Can't remember the details, its online somewhere. Reading it, he sounded like a tit.

Found it

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2208076/admin-who-kept-sf-network-passwords-found-guilty.html

Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive

Its not just that....

...its also because Lenovo have gotten shit and their customer service is awful. At work, still waiting for them to send back the laptop that was sent off for a screen repair. Been a couple of weeks now.

UK watchdog won't block Openreach’s discount fiber pricing

Re: FFS...

They want to eat it.

Apple, Google propose anti-stalking spec for Bluetooth tracker tags

Found one

That I assume was used to track or stalk someone. Was on the floor in a Sainsburys car park. Took it home and eventually (took ages as the Android app just refused to read it) got it to scan and it showed part of the number but that's it. No "I'm lost message". I left it for a few days, still no "I'm lost message". Left it for another 2 weeks, still no "I'm lost message". I took the battery out and its still sat in a draw. I was thinking of picking a random car and sticking it to it.

I don't like them but they have their uses. Once guy stuck one in his bag for a flight and saw his luggage stay at the airport. When he mentioned it was missing they said they couldn't find it, he had to keep telling them he could see it back at the airport. Eventually they "magically" found it.

Microsoft decides it will be the one to choose which secure login method you use

At it again

Would be fine if their cocking MFA was stable which it isn't.

Google Go language goes with opt-in telemetry

Never knew this

"The Chocolate Factory has consistently opposed opt-in data collection – you still have to rename your Wi-Fi SSID to opt-out of Google mapping your Wi-Fi access point, for example. And it continues to promote a definition of privacy that skews toward data usage rather than data denial."

People should change it to fuck Google at the end. So they have a list of devices all with fuck Google :)

Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess

Re: With two-faced "friends" like Dyson, Britain doesn't need enemies

And I could be wrong but I think he's also against right to repair.

Quite frankly, he's a dick.

EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers

Re: A car analogy

Or you buy a exercise band thing from Amazon or a Ring Doorbell with certain features. That then get taken away shortly after purchase with no refund.

Or build the doorbell yourself and put in the features you want with support as long as you want.

Britain's largest private pension scheme reveals scale of Capita break-in

Here...

...you are Crapita. We've seen your recent break in but here's another multi million pound government contract. Cause we're too fucking lazy to do a new tender process cause we know we'll just pick you anyway. Yours Clueless UK Gov.

Meta wheels out Deloitte to plug the metaverse. Is anyone actually convinced?

No clue

He has no clue what companies are like. Companies don't even want people working from home anymore let alone having to buy VR headsets for all their staff so they can have "VR" meetings. Say that to our grounds team or the painters and decorators, that they have to stick on some VR headsets to join the VR meeting, that will go down well.

Musk decides to bury dead Twitter accounts, warns users follower counts could sink

"that only the worst of humanity wishes to still part take in"

Granted, its kinda shit but if you follow only normal accounts its fine. What are normal accounts? These are

@whs_carpet All about bad carpets in WHSmith stores, their funny sale pricings, old lost historic stores. Someone on YouTube was trying to work out the location of a site from old footage and I asked on there and someone regonised the location, which was lucky as the buildings had been knocked down.

Then me have

@rmcretro about Gaming and computer history.

Show us the sauce code... Wendy's and Google to test drive-thru order-taking bot

Great

Destory the min wage jobs so everyone can continue to struggle even more. As has been said, if you're going to destroy min wage jobs you need to give every person a set benefit each month to compensate for no longer being able to do a job.

We also need to remember these are starting off point jobs. So people who run McDonald's stores are often franchise stores. They work from the bottom up. If you can no longer work from the bottom up you'll struggle to get in the middle because they're be less and less jobs available due to everyone being desperate for those positions.

China lands mysterious reusable spacecraft after 276-day trek

Re: UK vs Germany

If you enjoy a company that is partly owned by the CCP. A government who is currently committing genocide with the Chinese Uyghurs, a government that welded people into apartments during Covid so people burnt to death when a fire broke out, a government that bans all Western apps on its firewalled Internet but objects when other countries try to ban its apps, a government that doesn't view Taiwan as an independent country despite the CCP NEVER in its history ever having controlled Taiwan, a country that pumps out more C02 than any other country and lies about its green tech, a country that has now made it illegal to talk about poor people and so on and so on, then go ahead.

But there are others of us in the UK that don't want the Chinese owning our chip factories.

Re: UK vs Germany

Wingtech owns NXP and Wingtech is partly CCP owned.

India

Just given the CCP access to fully to snoop on all your phone calls over their network. Well done India.

"Zoom awarded full Indian telco license

Zoom's Indian outpost was last week granted a full license to operate as a telco provider in the subcontinent.

In India, as elsewhere, the company's voice and video chat services were a lifeline during the COVID-19 pandemic. But Zoom's cloudy PABX service was not licensed in India, meaning it could not operate that function or extend its services to calls that touch the public switched telephone network.

ZVC India, Zoom's local subsidiary, last week announced it had won the license required to offer those services, and intends to do so as soon as practicable."

Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams

Re: Deja vu all over again

Wouldn't put it past them its how they got DOS to be bigger than CP/M convincing IBM to sell DOS for a whole lot less with each IBM than what they charged for CP/M.