Posts by steviebuk

Microsoft tightens Edge security for less visited websites

Re: Please stop saying

I'd argue its only because its forced on users. Especially with the default browser randomly getting reset to Edge.

Windows 11 got pushed out to our machines at work which I was annoyed about as we hadn't set up policies yet. One install I set Chrome as default browser and rebooted. Logged back in and Edge had decided to set itself back as default.

We aslo have the period when MS were making it a lot more difficult to change the default browser.

Essentially everything they are doing for Edge is very similar to their anti trust in the late 90s and they really need to be hit again with another one.

Slack leaked hashed passwords from its servers for years

Re: Dónde está Paris?

Until they realised they had to pay for parts of it and all that chat history? Yeah you have to pay for that as well. So where I was it got abandoned :)

China allows robo taxis – without backup drivers – in parts of two major cities

Re: as an aside

Can only go that way when they are 100% accurate. Until then you might need to take control.

Besides. We all still like the design. Johnny Cabs.

Re: Shame

Mao "I'll do the killing myself. And get rid of these darn birds".

Shame

"China is all-in on electric and autonomous vehicles"

They also burn and mine the most coal anywhere in the world. When they pulled out of "talks" with the US over climate change it was no lose as they were lying all the time they were talking.

They have no battery tech, everything they have is stolen. What would be really interesting would be grabbing one of the cars and trying to work out who's tech they've stolen to build it.

As always this is just a "face" exercise for China. You'll get no true data back from it. The cars could end up being useless and you'll never know. They could end up going round running everyone over & not only would the world not be told, the Chinese people themselves would not be told.

Google hit with lawsuit for dropping free Workspace apps

Offer it at a loss

This is why something needs to be done by the big players. Offering services like this at a loss to draw people in. Wait a few years until they are so embedded they won't want to leave, then BAMMM, change the service to a paid for one. So those getting it free and having shaped their small company round it now have to fork out money they can't afford.

I had gsuit after I left a company that was in bed with it, I mean using it. Wanted to keep the knowledge heaven forbidden another company was foolish enough to buy into gsuite. I then discovered for only a couple of extra pounds a month I could get the business package, keep just one user and get unlimited drive space. I could use that drive space as backup storage. Cheaper that gdrive 2tb a year package. And cheaper than OneDrive 1tb package. Was only £11 a month. Did that for about a year or 2 until Google decided they were changing all packages. Everyone would have to decide what they needed and move. If I wanted to continue with unlimited drive space I'd have to move to an enterprise license, even for just one user.

Fuck that. I cancelled it. Funny thing was the past company was on the cheapest package per user to give the illusion it was cheaper than going to MS365 (it wasn't) with the changes in packages they will def have been forced onto the higher cost tier.

DuckDuckGo says Hell, Hell, No to those Microsoft trackers after web revolt

Re: DeadDoneGone

I was, for a while, trying to use their search while at work. After a few months I gave up as, sadly, the results back from a search were always piss poor and sometimes totally irrelevant.

Apple tells suppliers to use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing

Re: CHINA IS NOT GOING TO GO AWAY...

Sadly they believe everything Winnie the Pooh tells them, brainwashed so much they even had fits after Pelois (spelling?) landed in Taiwan.

The problem is its a culture of face, because she was allowed to land despite the bullshit Xi was saying, some ordinary citizens of China felt they had lost face. So then decided, for some very odd reasons, to go on China's own social media platforms and slap themselves. Crying and slapping themselves. All because they believed Xi so much, they were hoping for war.

Odd.

Would be nice if

Taiwan told Apple to "Get fucked"

Too little, too late: Intel's legacy is eroding

Doesn't help

that they caved into demands by Microsoft to make their newer chips only support Windows 10, while Windows 7 was still round. In attempt by Microsoft to force everyone to Windows 10.

UK Parliament bins its TikTok account over China surveillance fears

Re: "Chinese law allows Beijing to compel local companies to produce data"

So you're def a wumao.

Have fun with that. Unlike your precious CCP who won't allow differences of opinion, the free world actually allows it. Maybe join it one day, you might like it. Unless of course you're one of those wumaos who takes CCP money to say the shit you do & doesn't care as long as you're getting paid.

Re: "Chinese law allows Beijing to compel local companies to produce data"

Ooo, a wumau with your "Whatabout" come back. China HASN'T raise hundreds of millions out of absolute poverty. That is the bullshit Mao, I mean Xi wants you to believe.

These guys explain it better than I ever can. Guy on the left Winston lived in China for 15 years, Matt lived just over 10 if I remember right. Both speak and read Chinese. Both have Chinese wives and kids so a very good source of legit info. Both also love China and only got out as Xi started to turn into Mao. its not about the Chinese people, its about the CCP.

https://youtu.be/R2rehPGalDg

Re: "Chinese law allows Beijing to compel local companies to produce data"

The difference is you could call Biden a fuck whit if you wanted a not get arrested.

Call the fucking idiot Xi a fucking idiot or Winnie the Pooh and expect a knock on the door and a trip to prison. That is essentially the difference. Xi was picked because he was a "safe bet" & opening the world to China. Was all a lie and now he's just as bad as Mao.

Sage accused of misselling perpetual licenses it knew would soon be obsolete

Re: Reminds me of AutoCAD

And finding out who the bad actors are becomes more blurred if you've been into the cracking scene for years. Not as a cracker but someone who uses the key gens etc. Because you know all the key gens are fine and safe, yet every arsehole AV software flags them as being infected when they are not.

"Lets band together and flag any key gen software as being infected. That way we can "fight piracy" by lying to our user base. Fuck em they were gonna use a key gen. Yes I know they are only using it as we turned the activation servers off now & yes I know we're not losing money as its software we no longer make, but fuck them, we demand their money"

Arseholes.

Reminds me of AutoCAD

We have a work on an old laptop that is perfectly fine. We don't need its updates and its all safe. Yet the arseholes purposely disabled the activation servers so despite owning a license for it and a valid key, it can no longer be activated. We said "Fuck it, if you want to play that game we'll just use a fucking key gen you arseholes" and so we do. Nothing will ever change unless we all walk, which we won't. Its getting ridiculous now when you can buy a top of the range BMW with heated seats and heated steering wheel. Only to find they don't work unless you pay for the monthly subscription that activates them. AND both are on different subscriptions. So one for the steering wheel, one of the seats.

WhatsApp boss says no to AI filters policing encrypted chat

It not true AI

"The UK government is proposing that app builders add an automated AI-powered scanner in the pipeline"

The government as always doesn't know what its talking about. Most AI in business is marketing bullshit, designed to make the company money at the expense of the user, much like Microsoft's "AI" code writer. The the "AI" to scan everyone's chatter and decide what to flag up isn't something the "AI" is aware of, it won't say "That seems like illegal content but hidden to avoid my scans" no, it will be based on what it has been trained on. What's to stop someone training it poorly & how many times will it flag false positives. Too many for a human to then check so people will just be automatically accused by "The AI which is never wrong".

All that will happen is another message app will appear with end2end encryption back in with no scanning.

Martin Shkreli, out of prison for running a Ponzi scheme, now pushes Web3 thing

Shame

he didn't rot in prison.

He is a cunt of the highest order for this alone:

"He had raised the price of the anti-parasitic drug Daraprim (pyrimethamine) from $17.50 per tablet to $750 per tablet after acquiring the rights to the medication, and taken steps to prevent rival firms from making a generic version."

British intelligence recycles old argument for thwarting strong encryption: Think of the children!

"If you object...

...to our white paper then you must be a pedo."

This is exactly why they keep using this bullshit "Think of the kids" argument in the hope it silences people objecting.

Cunts.

Microsoft 365 patches for Windows 7 to end in 2023

One of the arguments may well be we still need an offline version and never pure cloud. As what happens in the future when all these documents need to be read by the distant future but Office 365 is long gone. This is one of my pet peeves of cloud based only software. Data preservation then becomes an arse.

SoftBank reportedly moves London IPO out of Arm's reach

Money issues

Doesn't this normally show a sign of money issues? Banging on about how investing in good British tech yet they allowed the sale back in 2016 to go ahead. All the shares were bought up by Japan. I made a very small profit but still a profit. Now, however, if they want to float again its normally a sign a company is using it to generate cash. The original ruling was if Japan owned it then for a time the HQ will have to stay in the UK. I assume that time is coming to an end and they may move out.

Good news: Twitter fell over. Bad news: It's working again

Yep

"Good news: Twitter fell over. Bad news: It's working again"

The Register uses it on a daily bases.

Tories spar over UK's delayed Online Safety Bill

Lets hope it

fucks off. Oh no, I said a bad word, does that mean I'll be arrested now under this shit law? On no, I did it again I called it a shit law.

Nadine is a fuck whit (ooo I did it there as well. The Register will have to start censoring). Several people, including MPs I believe, have pointed out to her, that the way she behaves on Tweeter, under her own new law, she'd be guilty herself.

"Fraudulent advertising will need to be tackled"

Thats YouTube dead then. The whole bill is a stupid fucking idea that is unworkable. All those big tech companies, that are mainly American, will pull out of the UK. If you don't like their practices, simply don't fucking use them.

I use Odysee as an alternative to YouTube as there is no censorship on it. And the dick parking fine company can't, falsely flag my video for removal on Odysee. However, YouTube is still easier to use, so when I can use adblock I use YouTube, but when I can't and my fav subbed content is only on YouTube I have to watch via that. My long winded point....the amount of scam adverts that come up before a video, the ones with the computer generated voice talking about a clearly bogus product, is shocking. I report them whenever I see them but fuck all is ever done. YouTube consistently blame AdSense for these, ignoring the fact they fucking own AdSense. It seems all they care about is profit. As long as that advert is paid for & they still get their cut everytime its played, they appear to not give a fuck.

But there is the question. Does the government now sue YouTube over this? Google (YouTube) has very deep pockets. They could also, to be spiteful say "It will be too costly for us to police this so we are pulling out of the UK market. The UK will no longer be allowed to visit YouTube.com".

And worse of all, we might be shut out of archive.org. a site that is so good and important, even very tight with money me, donated to it, granted it was only £5 but still.

China may be the future for Mercedes-Benz

Keep an eye out for

A Nercedes-Denz that a totally separate Chinese company will come out with that will, oddly, look exactly like a Mercedes-Benz.

When will these companies learn to not partner with Chinese companies while Winnie the Pooh is in charge.

Microsoft says staff layoffs not linked to recession fears

Doesn't help they are

a US company so with very little rights can just email you a few hours early to ask you to clean your desk as you're now redundant.

San Francisco cops want real-time access to private security cameras for surveillance

Do they not know how CCTV works?

Not all units are connected to the Internet and if you're like us who had ours cameras put in fucking years ago, then good job looking at some of our sites.

"There's the person we're looking for for"

Really? Are you sure? We're looking at the same camera and all I can see is a pixelated blob as our cameras are so piss poor. Good luck with making that ID stick in court.

Choosing a non-Windows OS on Lenovo Secured-core PCs is trickier than it should be

How

have they not been hit with a massive anti-trust suit again? Like back in the 2000 with IE which they lost. They are doing the same again with Edge and now this. Surely this is an anti-trust case screaming out.

I like Linux but don't use it but recommend it to people on a tight budget for laptops. Also recommended Lenovo as I like them despite the Chinese link (CCP will be in there somewhere now sadly) but no more. Will have to look elsewhere.

Very tempted by a Framework laptop. Microsoft are loosing control with Satnav incharge, especially with the buy now pay later debt creator they were going to bake into Edge (I assume that never happened as seen no word of it since)

Boris Johnson set to step down with tech legacy in tatters

Test and Trace

Jesus, I still don't know how the fuck they came to that figure just for an app. Considering one man in South Korea built his own, on his own time. I assume the cost was for all the "consultants" and they went out and bought aloud of Apple gear so they could go and code in Starbucks. All Starbucks drinks and meals were included in the fears.

Microsoft cloud exec accused of verbal attack on staff exits

Re: Sounds like a good boss.

Or gone in the next day and shot the place up. Which, sadly, has happened. More reason actions like this need to be stopped.

Very rude

"Keane leaves behind a business in rude health. "

Microsoft, AWS awarded Ukraine peace prize for cloudy services

Re: Considering China's involvement with this war

Plenty of evidence for it unless you are a Wumao as they deny it. I've seen a few Wumaos on here.

https://youtu.be/aTqNWzaUgFQ

https://youtu.be/MIM5mKdmZSQ

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Translation_Movement

https://www.businessinsider.com/great-translation-movement-twitter-account-blowing-up-russia-ukraine-2022-3

Why?

Considering China's involvement with this war, that was clear from the start especially highlighted with The Great Translation, yet Microsoft shouted how great it was that they'd open another Azure region in China. So why they got this award is anyone's guess.

Elon Musk considering 'drastic action' as Twitter takeover in 'jeopardy'

Re: Where is the ROI?

Not worth the price tag but it does have its amusements. I follow very very accounts. One notible is whs_carpet originally about the state of the carpets in WHSmith but now about all shops and the their funny sides. Like the discount price tags where only 1p is saved or nothing is saved. WHSmith discounted books from years ago that are now worthless (driving test ones come to mind) and then the historic side where people find old photos of beloved stores. Someone found a WHSmith that still had the cube logo round the back and so on. It's quite interesting.

And can help with research. I watch an Isle of Wight channel about old iow videos. One was put up for Queen Jubilee from 70s I think, unknown location. Decided it was a challenge to find it from shops in background. Asked on that tweeter account & the Sainsbury's archive account as I just couldn't find the place. Not long after asking someone said looked similar to their local shopping area & then the Sainsbury's archive account said they'd found it in their archive. Said what store it was and location :) turned out I couldn't find it as several of the buildings had been knocked down to building a shopping centre.

Meta accuses data scrapers of taking more than their share

Surely

Its up to Facecloth to protect the data from scrapping. If its available on the web then surely tough tits.

Calls for bans on Chinese CCTV makers Hikvision, Dahua expand

Good

Lets be clear its not the Chinese people that are the issue its the CCP. Due to what the CCP have access to no doubt they have access to the cameras. They are just hoping at some point they are installed in "sensitive areas". Its all about soft power for the CCP. Quite a lot of evidence for it on Twitter, YouTube and other social media. Just look up The Great Translation on Twitter for this.

Trouble is, I quite like their cameras. We had shit ones throughout our sites and unfortunately the cheapest setup when hkivision ones. We're also looking at a dedicated server setup for managing them which actually looked quite good and reliable. Just annoying all run by China, no doubt with access for the CCP.

Final thought is this has already been revealed with TikTok. Admitting that TikTok USA data is available to access and has been access by some Chinese employees. No doubt those employees will be mates of the CCP.

Get ready for the wumaos to come along.

Alibaba joins rivals in offering tool for those under pressure to reduce carbon emissions

Ironic

Considering China are one of the biggest coal burners. I assume the CCP won't be using that feature then :)

What to do about inherent security flaws in critical infrastructure?

Re: Money

We have a hybrid setup, part cloud, part onsite. They want to move a lot more to the cloud now. They were cloud before I started and assume it was assured it would "save money". Hybrid did (full cloud never will). One of the savings was flexible licensing with Office 365. Not using a license, remove it and you don't pay for it so you can just pay for ones being used.

Now we're tied in and can't get out, that is now changing, changing to the old setup that was in house, so not saving money anymore. We now have to say how many users we have and then pay for those licenses for the whole year.

Arseholes.

Money

And thats part of the problem. Arseholes above see an network admin sitting there all day "Doing nothing" so they then look to cut costs and IT is always the first to be poked. The amount of marketing emails we see come in that go to managers "You can save thousands with the cloudy" "cloudy cloud cloudy cloud, savings". They then fall for the bullshit, fork out money for a consultant who just wants to sell you shit or knows a mate who can sell you shit. They point at IT as they want rid so you can point out they are talking bollocks.

Eventually you're "made redundant" only to hear a few months later the new, cost effective system, had a massive breach and "Lessons have been learned".

Sick of it.

UK signs deal to share police biometric database with US border guards

They are more interested in banning abortion than guns.

China says it has photographed all of Mars from orbit

Re: They said they’d eradicated poverty (they haven’t)

I see the wumaos are out in force.

Take it with a pinch of salt

As it comes from the CCP. Its all about face for them. They said they'd eradicated poverty (they haven't) so again, take it with a pinch of salt.

TikTok: Yes, some staff in China can access US data

No doubt

those staff also work for the CCP.

The App Gap and supply chains: Purism CEO on what's ahead for the Librem 5 USA

Didn't see any mention

Of right to repair. Thats one issue they should address if its easy to repair the device. Do they provide parts and schematics?

Start using Modern Auth now for Exchange Online

Re: Hello trackers, now MS knows more accurately where you are

Amazon I think already do the GPS location. I was just at one of their lockers that wouldn't connect to the fucking phone over BLUETOOTH, cause I had the VPN connected.

Re: Will be a..

Because its states in its documentation that it understands and is aware of MFA so will work with an MFA account.

Will be a..

...fuck up.

Considering we still have some machines that used Office 2013 that UNDERSTANDS MFA, apparently. Yet, randomly, I'll have one fucking user where Outlook 2013 decides it doesn't understand MFA and will only accept the one time password setup.

Fix you're fucking MFA setup Microsoft before turning off traditional logins.

PowerShell pusher to log off from Microsoft: Write-Host "Bye bye, Jeffrey Snover"

Re: Don't ditch PowerShell

Or use PowerShell 7 which is open source and works on Linux also.

Chinese startup hires chip godfather and TSMC vet to break into DRAM biz

Oh dear

A CCP backed company. If they produce anything it will only stay in China as sadly, they don't invent much anymore and instead steal it. Whatever DRAM they'll come up with will have been stolen on the orders of the CCP from another company. Its why Huawei phones are so cheap as they've stolen most of their tech, are under the thumb of the CCP and have no R & D costs.

Wi-Fi hotspots and Windows on Arm broken by Microsoft's latest patches

And here's

The reason we don't what their automatic update shit system.

Adobe lowers 2022 forecast, blames Ukraine war, strong dollar

Blame

everything on the war. Instead of the fact people just don't want to pay monthly for software and would rather pay one off. And when they can't, look for alternatives that are just as good but don't require a monthly sub.

Microsoft readies Windows Autopatch to free admins from dealing with its fixes

No no no no no no no no

no no no!

People specifically wait to make sure the new "update" doesn't kill network printing for example (as it did at ours when that was out). Using autopatch means everyone, everywhere that ends up being forced to use it will be borked.