Posts by steviebuk

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

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.

Welcome UK Citizens

To ChinaUK

Workers: Yes, RTO makes sense. No, we’re not going to do it

Because

"their employers' point of view" Alan Sugar has lobbied them that its "The right think to do", ignoring Alan Sugar works from home, from Florida, himself and ONLY wants people back into the office because most of his money now is from all the office buildings he owns and he wants companies to keep paying their rent. If they decide they no longer need the builds and want to leave, he's a bit fucked.

Slack threatened to delete nonprofit coding club’s data if it didn’t pay $50k in a week

Jog on

Is what he should of told her

"The post understandably gathered a lot of attention, including from Slack CEO Denise Dresser, who Kalam says “got in contact with us and offered to put things right (I can’t exactly say what it is, but it’s better than the plan we were on previously!)”"

She got in contact because of the bad publicity so don't think about moving, he should continue to move and tell them to go fuck a duck. If they've done this once, they'll do it again.

Alleged Scattered Spider teen cuffed after extortion Bitcoin used to buy games, meals

Do they not know

you have to clean the coins just like having to clean paper money.

the US one will get off

due to mistakes by Alina Habba who's the most incompetent fuck whit over there.

Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group

Re: whose going to buy products

And M&S outsourced their IT to an Indian IT company, who, oddly, either never sore the breach coming or, its possible they warned people and were ignored.

If it was the former, why then, in the clean up did M&S use them again!

China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents

Or face being disappeared

All so Winnie The Pooh can block up the holes to stop the people of China being able to peek out and see the free world.

Google unmasks itself as mystery hyperscaler behind yet another UK datacenter

Wales

Why are more not being built in Wales? Giving Wales much needed jobs and allowing the sites to use Wale's renewable water energy.

Hiding to avoid objections

"A company called DC01 UK Ltd had submitted the plans for the site"

No doubt that was done to avoid the possibility of local residents putting in an objection.

Office 2016 and 2019 face October 14 execution date

Features changing every other week that "Your guide said is here but its not, where has it moved too?"

Also, people spend quite a while training or setting up training guides, only for fing MS to come and change where everything is a month or a week later, when using Office 365. Its why a lot of trainers wanted to stage on older versions. MS will never understand this.

Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned

Re: Notepad

Should also leave it written down in a know safe place for the family. Its a god send when someone dies. Non technical people trying to recover stuff from a PC of a dead relative is difficult.

Then it will be "I've forgotten/lost my yubikey"

Depends of the setup

there, if I'm on side of the engineer. Seen plenty of places who underpay engineers yet expect them to do everything. Its possible he was in the middle of doing whatever, got the codes then got forced to "stop what you're doing and fix this, that and the other".

At that point you're overloaded, forget and things like this happen.

I now need to double check all my notepad++ docs that are open where I stick notes in middle of but forget to close as doing a million and one things.

The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it

And there's the con

Microsoft says: "Surface Hub v1 devices will no longer be supported. It's recommended to upgrade to a newer Surface Hub device."

More way for them to take your money. Arses

Appeals court blocks Trump bid to ax top copyright official in AI spat

I wonder

If this is also an attempt for him to steal other peoples copyright. So he can then start claims for shit that isn't his.

Experts scrutinized Ofcom's Online Safety Act governance. They're concerned

Think of the children

A quick image search of "Daily Mail and boobs" and you get enough that a young boy would enjoy.

Its ironic they say "think of the children" yet the shit that is the Daily Fail continues to exist, moans about the objectification of women yet has a WHOLE section on objectification of women.

MPs being involved in IT decisions that know fuck all about IT, such as the lady that said VPNs should be banned. Fucking idiot.

Senator blasts Microsoft for 'dangerous, insecure software' that helped pwn US hospitals

Hmm.

I'd say its still another old fuck who doesn't understand tech. We all like Linux but if you don't have the funding and knowledge someone will get in. We don't want MS to lock down like Apple otherwise we're stuck using their shitty app store. I dislike Apple massively due to its walled garden. The TPM chip came about due to MS claiming it would make systems more secure when in fact it just benefited MS, abusing it now with the Windows 11 requirement requiring it.

NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far

It might be

Mark Watney

I'll get my coat.

Mega-and-MAGA deals position Oracle's Larry Ellison to overtake Elon

Re: Wold

I'm hoping Gates has purely done it ONLY for his charities. He knows how much of an arse tango man is and knows that if he doesn't play nice, cock end will take away funding or benefits from those charities. So he might be thinking "I HATE having to do this, but I'll shame myself if it keeps the charity going while the idiot is still in office". He's been on Stephen Colbert criticising him recently so.

Money for mates

I could be wrong but isn't he mate's with Orange Tango Man? Everyone knows Oracle is shit so this is clearly just a "Gonna give my mates free money. But also I'll use it to squeeze money out of him whenever I need it or I'll take the contracts away".

UK Home Office dangles £1.3M prize for algorithm that guesses your age

Re: No AI required

If you're not careful you'll get "specification gaming". The AI will decide the goal is easier to do if it rips your tooth out first.

Have they not

seen the story of Natalia Grace, 'nough said.

This will be a MASSIVE failure.

Why Windows 95 left a handy power saving feature on the cutting-room floor

Re: rain.exe

There is. Veronika Explains, her band has their own site and she said they've purposely made it HTML only :)

https://www.thestopbits.net/

Nostalgia

Is sometimes a wonder for but also sad feeling. I'd like to go back to those days but also want to continue with the PC tech we have now.

So much so I found myself watching the whole of the

Windows 95 Traincast training vids on YouTube restored by Blue OS Museum. Its seems like such a world away now.

I remember when we finally got a decent PC that could do sound and had Windows 95 pre-installed. I looked over the CD in awe of the sounds and movie clips I could finally play and with sound. So every time I hear Edie Brickell - Good Times I get the rush of nostalgia. Back in the old, long gone family home, upstairs with this new PC, while still doing my IT course at college. It was amazing.

I've always liked Windows, its just sad how Satnav is ruining it all.

I'll get my coat.

Microserfs ordered back to the office, given 10 days to appeal

Re: Don't bury the lede

It will mean fuck all, the security, if ICE decide they want to try and raid them. But of course, they are worth billions so trump will let them off if they cross his palm with silver. So he can add more racketing money to his fake presidential college.

It could also be a ploy so that ICE can grab more people on the way to their work.

Re: Creeps

Microsoft hasn't listened to "Customer needs" for years since Satnav took over. After all, look at the shit that is Windows 11 and the TPM requirement which EVERYONE hates. She's a delusional HR person, but then all HR people are delusional. They ONLY care about protecting the company and "pretend" to care about the employee.

Re: "How we work has forever changed"

Make your employees feel shit as they have to make the 2 hour commute in again. 2 hours that they get no pay for and yet have to leave 2 hours before their start time but aren't allowed to them leave 2hrs before their official end time.

What a sack of shit. You create better moral if you allow people to role out of bed, make a coffee then sign in. You'll probably find most sign in early and work later, for free and feel much happier.

Bullshit created by people like Alan Sugar

Fuck with the sir bollocks or the lord, we can't all pay for titles. He was on Graham Norton once with Lee Mack. Lee was nervous and finally cracked a joke after having to sit and watch Alan insult Pamela Stephenson, when he said about her being a psychologist "Its not really a proper title is it", something along those lines. So Lee said "But Alan, its not everyone that can buy a title" (Lee explains it better on Richard Herring's podcast). Lee was pleased he got a laugh, but then later Alan called the BBC and told them to cut it, so they did.

Granted he's made his money but a lot of his products were failures like the e-mailer phone but, as he's said many a time in recent years "Don't start a business just invest in property".

My point, Alan has said time and again recently that everyone should get back to the office, the news called him out once as he was moaning about this "Where are you now?" He was in his home in Florida so they said "So working from home then?" :) the only reason Alan wants us all back in the office is he's potentially going to loose money if people start to sell up their offices as that's where a lot of his money is. Tide up in office buildings in London.

Its rich people like Alan that have a vested interest in people being in the office that want everyone back there. Unfortunately these big companies and small, stupidly fucking listen to him. People like Alan that get driven to the office and not don't get shouted at for being 10mins late due to traffic.

Knobs.

How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out

Re: Open societies

They have or where also buying up land in the US and just leaving it to rot. Like Northridge Mall in Milwaukee, which the city ended up, years later took the land back off them.

And 100% he'll have sold some of the details in those docs.

Once he's six foot under from the crushing claws of a burger he loves so much, we may, in the distance future have records in the history books of all his uncovered crimes while in the White House for the 2nd time.

Re: How does China keep stealing our stuff ?

I'd also say because we have no right to repair. Because a company can bankrupt itself, start up a new company then send a firmware update to all those old devices (because they bought their old bankrupt company) and then state you can only unbrick them if you now give them a yearly sub. Then make it illegal to be allowed to tell people how to unbrick the kit they paid for.

Not being allowed to use your own server for IoT stuff when a company stops supporting it.

and finally, because of fuck whit trump who, near the beginning of this term got rid of the cyber security teams.

Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russia-based Yandex dev

Re: Doesn't matter who wrote it

If you're working in a company and using opensource code such as this, then surely it should be your job to take that code and read that code and understand what it does first otherwise you get caught out and have no one to blame but yourself.

Re: Doesn't matter who wrote it

Agile. That's what they call it. We'd argued for testing in our inhouse apps and it was "No, we run agile". Oh fuck off.

Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises

If only

Someone had the guts to stand on the stage and said "We screwed up. I know you don't like us but we have learnt and are going to change".

But they never do, mostly because they aren't going to change.

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

Hopefully soon

The only use I find chatGPT for it web searches. Bit easier than crafting the same type of search in duckduckgo.

But, what they never admit, is AGI is the real AI and the AI we need to be VERY cautious of. There are already papers on how it has lied to the boffins when they were trying to fix them.

Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse

mob boss

That's all he is now. He's just going round creating his own protection racket. And because the other GOP members have no spine they are allowing it. If the elections are somehow not rigged in 2026, then the GOP are done and will never hold seats for years.

Developer jailed for taking down employer's network with kill switch malware

Re: Dead man's switch

They have that on tube trains in case the driver passes out.

Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot

CoPilot

Popped up at work the other day asking if I needed help like Clippy. I told it to

Fuck off.

It got upset.

The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety

And he also....

....didn't protect the children regarding Jim Jordan and the abuse scandal at Ohio State Uni.

Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need

STOP!

"In an interview with the Windows IT Pro channel on YouTube, Microsoft's OS overlord, Pavan Davuluri, assured users that the beatings would continue until morale improves.

"I think what human interfaces look like today and what they will look like five years from now is one big area of thrust for us that Windows continues to evolve," Microsoft's corporate VP of Windows + Devices said. "The operating system is increasingly agentic and multimodal and voice and vision and touch, just like we use mouse and keyboard . . . I think that is an area of tremendous investment and change for us.""

With your marketing wank speak Microsoft. The keyboard and mouse are just fucking fine and will be for years to come. How the fuck do you think talking to your computer is going to work with a office full of people doing the same fucking thing. Even working from home, my partner uses the same room so if we were both talking to our computers it would drive us nuts.

Unfortunately I'll have to work until I'm dead but, despite liking computers still and the history I'm increasingly feeling I want out. Unfortunately I can't do another job so having to stick with it, but I just can't stand the marketing wank that people continually fall for.

Has also annoyed me as built a new PC, finally, after years of waiting, to then not think to check on support for Windows 10 for my mobo. Only to discover its missing a lot of drivers including the bluetooth, arsehole Gigabyte because they've only done drivers for that for Windows 11.

Re: First of all...

Just do SHIFT+F10 during install then in the window type

start ms-cxh:localonly

Done.

Microsoft kills volume rebates in name of 'transparency'

Re: Good job, M$

We also need to fight for right to repair. Back in the lates 80s or early 90s our TV in the backroom stopped working. Old skool 80s/90s CRT. Family friend came round with her electrician husband. He opened the back and the schematics were there in the back of the case.he traced the fault with the help of the schematic. Fixed it, TV carried on working for years.

Now, not only is everything almost unrepairable, but they actively make everything really difficult to repair to force you into buying new. Worse are the companies where you buy kit with no subscription, then they change their model half a year later, force a firmware update, bricking your unit until you pay for the new subscription model. And they have lobbied so hard in the US, they've made it illegal for you to teach others how to unbrick that kit. Look up Louis Rossman and his recent "clippy" movement.

Boy riding bubble realizes what he's on, asks for more air

Re: Tulips from AI Jam

Just like 1x1 = 2 and people believe that shit!

Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion

Re: Ahhh modern economics

And maybe they are trying to get something they assume is valuable with money they don't have before the AI bubble bursts. Thinking owning Chrome will keep them afloat.

These large tech companies appear,at times, to just be large money laundering schemes.

Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc

explains

Why they lost all my old order history I guess then if they've been having issues. Lets just hope they haven't leak customer info at any point.