Posts by steviebuk

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.

Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI

Question is

has that engineer not watch Ex Machina.

I won't spoil it for those that haven't.

Microsoft brings tabs to File Explorer

Re: Tab? Yuck.

I was in high school when Tab came out in UK. Only cause it as was amazed it was clear coke/pepsi. But it never tasted nice. More like diet than anything. I came to my senses and stopped buying it.

Alibaba sued for selling a 3D printer that overheated, caught fire, and killed a man

As mentioned, lost face. As it appears he's of Chinese decent, the Chinese culture is all about face. Which is why in the Winter Olympics the ski slope was next to power stations. It appears to be an odd location to the West but for Xi and the CCP its about "face". It says "Look at what we have. We have all these big powerful, power stations".

Doubt this case will go anywhere as Alibaba is under the CCP thumb now. They'll either pay out to make the case go away or just ignore it.

Microsoft accidentally turned off hardware requirements for Windows 11

The TPM requirement

is enough that it will end Windows 11 and not many will purchase it and I fear, some older folks will be scammed by rogue engineers into buying it.

Makers of ad blockers and browser privacy extensions fear the end is near

Re: Does anyone need more justification

I dislike Chrome but we were forced to use it at my last place. Then only bit I started to like about it, because, sadly, it is very useful, is Google Keep for taking notes. If someone could integrate that properly into Firefox I'd go back to Firefox.

Amazon’s Kindle bookstore to quit China

Re: All too slow

Yep, especially with the chip factories. China doesn't, sadly, invent anything anymore just steals stuff.

Re: -> USA issues

At which point they probably say "So you are part of China then" :)

Its a shame as there are good Chinese people its just the CCP & Xi that are the dicks.

Re: -> USA issues

"What about er."

Funny thing with the "what about ers" are they assume everyone commenting is from the US so their "whataboutism" is always related to the US :o) gives it away that you're another wumao.

Re: All too slow

Ah a 50cent army member, a wumao. A quick search will find you're talking bolloks. The CCP haven't lifted millions out of poverty. Its their propaganda making you think they have. Not to mention in this bullshit attempt, they removed old Chinese culture from streets where you could sit outside a cafe and relax, watching the world go buy so they could bulldoze the place and put up high rise.

Just look up the amount of ghost cities in China its nuts. Their economy relies on their housing market which can't be seen to fail so apartment prices continue to rise. You can buy a flat in China, never live in it and then sell it on to the next sucker for a profit. Don't ever furnish it and try to sell it as you'll loose money, due to Chinese culture of not wanting other people's furniture. Costs more to get rid of it so they prefer to buy an empty flat.

There are plenty of videos showing poor Chinese people lining a street begging, something the CCP don't want people to see. Because there is no benefit system in China.

China would be a nice place without the CCP. Also don't forget Mao tried to eradicate the rich, past Chinese culture and even wanted to get rid of the language until Russia convinced him not to. Mao is also why there are a lack of birds in China.

All too slow

Azure announced a few months back it had opened new Azure points in China ignoring its CCP issues. An knob Elon has invested in China with his car factory and claimed how they are leading the way with electric cars. Totally ignoring the fact they are also a massive coal miner and still burn it.

New York to get first right-to-repair law for electronics

80s

Can't we go back to the 80s. My mums work friends husband came round to take a look at the TV in the backroom that had stopped working. He opened the back to take a look and there on the back case was the schematics for the TV. He traced what he needed to, soldered what needed soldering and now we had a working TV again.

The other day I pulled out our washing machine, cheap Chinese brand I believe. The filter door was jammed so I couldn't clean out the filter. Looked up on YouTube and thankfully someone had done videos on other brands which allowed me to work out how to partly strip it to get to the filter. No amount of searching was revealing a service manual. No, they just want you to land fill the washing machine and buy the latest. Eventually I managed to get my way to the door, unjam it and now its all fine again. Saved me having to pay an engineer who I couldn't afford or buying a new machine.

Re: Look forward to more clunky devices, but...

Not really. Look at Fairphone and Framework. Both look good but both repairable.

China’s top court calls for blockchain to record vast number of transactions

Re: Good luck with that.

Sounds like that's why they want it so they can controla and steal everything.

Australian digital driving licenses can be defaced in minutes

A country

That has banned the game RimWorld & wouldn't even save its own show Neighbours.

And to the UK government. Not everyone has a fucking smart phone or wants one. Our 70+ friend has no interest in the Internet or smartphone so you'll force a new digital license on him and he'll have no way of accessing it.