Posts by steviebuk

Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025

Re: China!

Because China does = bad. Not the people, most in China are pleasant apart from the nationalist. But the CCP is bad. World War 2 happened a long time ago now, yet the CCP still teach their kids (its taught in schools) that the Japanese are bad and to hate them. Just look up the Uyghurs people and see the concentration camps they've been put in. Any Chinese company HAS to report to the CCP. So yes, its very well possible tp-link have been compromised specifically for the CCP.

Lets take Twitter for example (yes its shit but before the great cock called Elon owned it). Its been banned in China forever, does the US government shout "China, stop causing trouble. Unban Twitter" no. Because despite the CCP being cunts, its their right to ban it. But, when TikTok is threaten with a ban, TikTok that the CCP say they have no involvement with, the CCP oddly went mental over this. Could this possibly be because they use it as their syop app? Yes, it clearly is, considering the data it slurps. What better way to spy on other nations. Making a popular app that seems like any other social media app. Use that app to cause disinformation and infighting. That's the way you destroy a country, let them fight each other. Its currently working in America, the fact a large amount of idiots voted in a rapist and felon back into the Whitehouse.

I miss the days

where our TV in the back room in the house I grew up in broke. Family friends husband came over. Put the TV on the floor, opened its back. Inside the cover was the schematic printed on the case! He traced the fault, repaired it, TV continued to work for years. Now, they don't last as long and are made purposely difficult to repair or refusing to allow access to schematics. So that you bin it and buy their new latest one.

Sadly, companies have gotten away with this due to customers. If we all, collectively, said "Fuck off" and stopped buying, it wouldn't of happened.

Apple tried it with the Apple 2. Wozniak wanted it upgradable, Steve Jobs didn't. Wozniak won the arguement and lucky for Jobs he did. Apple kept afloat due to the Apple 2 sales because it was upgradable. Almost all of Steve Jobs personal ideas failed.

Now, because people who aren't tech savy just accept the shit and carrying on buying, companies know they can get away with it.

Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer

Frantone

Fran from franlabs on YouTube made the Frantone many years ago which apparently is really popular. But unforunately she said its not viable to hand make them anymore as she used to do. Maybe she could do kits instead and everyone put them together themselves. But I think even that's not viable for her as she mentioned, a while ago now, hand making the circuitboard was expensive.

http://www.frantone.com/

for anyone interested.

New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left

.pst are great for us data hoarders. I have personal ones still from as far back as 2006. Its interesting to look back and see what an idiot I was back then.

Re: Why?

New Outlook is just the web version. Both are shit.

Re: Steaming pile of turd

Yep. Its totally shit and I use a reg fix to remove the try new outlook button. However, have now seen they are going to start forcing it soon. With SatNav in charge at Microsoft, customer service and listening to your customers has really gone to shit.

I miss the days of an iso or msi install for office. Last one was 2016. At least then you could stay on it for years. Benefit was you could craft training that would be perfect for years and years.

Now if you attempt to do training or guides for 365, in about a month its all fucking changed. Really fucking annoying.

Nick Clegg steps down as Meta's top flack in favor of more Trump-friendly candidate

I really would

like to know what goes on in these peoples heads. We all work normal jobs, we try to help each other where we can, we help family members and friends. Someone knew from last place wants some basic CCTV cameras in and was looking for someone. I told her no, I'll do it and I don't charge, she's old of course so its what you do.

But then you have millionaires like this, that appear to have no morals. Do they not watch and see people suffer but appear to give no fucks?

Zuck takes a page from Musk: Meta dumps fact-checkers, loosens speech restrictions

Bend the knee

Another one with no morals. Just given in and bent the knee so he can hold onto his billions.

Trump is a fucking idiot but we can't say he stole an election, idiots just voted for him, sadly. All ignoring he gives no shits about them and wanted it purely to avoid prison.

DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury

Re: "his insurance will only cover the first of three required weeks" of six months

Most kit in the NHS can already run Windows 11, we already made sure of that when ordering new kit. Other departments still use XP for specific software but those machines AREN'T on the network so can't ever access the Internet.

Each Trust will just have to find the money to upgrade where needed but will be able to do the extended support for a while.

Honda upgrades robot brain into OS for future electric cars

No one wants it in cars

No one wants computers in cars. Means you have to take them to expensive dealers to fix.

I loved Asimo. Always looked cool. The Japanese culture of shame however, made a slightly amusing incident of Asimo when at one event it failed and fell over. They scrambled on to rush and cover it up like it was a dead body.

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

Re: Voting is for losers

So this is what the brainwashed look like. Its a difficult one, getting people like you to wake up.

You'll see how shit it gets with his next four years. All those jobs that will be lost, prices rising and just enriching himself. But you'll all just blame it on the "dems". Instead of your orange jesus.

John Deere boasts driverless fleet - who needs operators, anyway?

Re: As a farmer/rancher ...

Its controlled by GPS. Those units are expensive so here in the UK are regularly robbed. GPS fails, the thing will not stop.

Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

The US voters

are to blame. The ones that voted the orange idiot back in. They are starting to wake up and realise their fuck up. Once such voted was mentioned on a video recently. Her friend asked her why she had stupidly voted for Trump she said "Because he's going to get rid of Obama Care. But I didn't realise that meant getting rid of the Affordable Care Act" her friend had to point out that are one and the same. "Now I don't know if I'm going to be able to cope if they take that away from me".

This was the problem with the voters. They did no independant research, they believes his bullshit and now will pay the price. All he'll do for 4 years is play golf which making himself rich. He's never been interested in the role (people said it before who worked with him) and this time isn't any different. This time he did it to avoid jail. The more he plays golf, the more money he makes as the secret service have to pay for the accomodation at his hotels, so essentially the tax payers will be enriching Trump, again.

Trump being back in office has made America one big embarrassement.

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

They are actually going to find it will be the year of Linux and/or people moving over to the Mac. I hate Apple, they are just as bad with their lack of backwards compatibility but still, I still see lots of people moving over to their overpriced shit.

Re: How to wean Grandma off of Windows?

Linux Mint is very popular and a lot like Windows looks wise.

Re: I will upgrade when I can move the taskbar to the left

You can move it to the left. But what annoys me is you can't make the icons small.

Jog on

"We believe that Windows 11 is available at a time when the world needs it most"

Fuck off. Stop forcing the TPM requirement and more people might move to it. You've essentially put loads of kit in landfil. Yes, those devices can and should then run Linux, but the average user isn't going to know that or how to do it.

And NO ONE WANTS RECALL! And few want CoPilot. But you're issue is forcing yourself on people. If you made these options a choice, maybe people would move. But no, and you keep, regularly fucking up default settings so Edge becomes the default browser again. And recently, you haven't been testing updates fully so managed to break printing at work.

Windows 11 is god awful

Amazon worker – struck and shot in New Orleans terror attack – initially denied time off

Or

"The bullet remains in her limb while doctors work out the best course of action to remove it while she recovers at home." While doctors work out how many thousands they'll charge her.

Re: HR mixup my ass

Its Amazon. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59641784

Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid

Hopefully

This is the start of the bubble burst.

Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024

Did they include

They're anti-trust practice of every few updates resetting all defaults back to Microsoft so Edge becomes the default browser again? The Outlook addition that makes edge the default browser for opening links.

And so on with their shitty, shady practices. Its as if SatNav has never heard of the decades old Microsoft vs United States Government case.

Musk's lawyer asks SEC to quit pestering the shy and retiring billionaire

Re: Cry baby Musk

Now he's bought access to the Whitehouse, he'll try everything he can to dismantle the SEC.

American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy

Re: Two

And we've seen police turn off their cameras before. I also had Copilot in a meeting, make up stuff that it claimed I'd said when I hadn't. That is the most concerning part. That you'll have managers who'll ignore the flaws and go on the evidence from CoPilot despite being warned it makes stuff up.

China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse

Its high time

their "developing" status was removed, that they've been exploiting for benefits for years and years. If they lived in the UK, the CCP would be known as the benefit cheats next door.

Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies

Might be

DavesElectricStuff from YouTube. Many years ago he said he was involved with a UFO project that flew down the Thames :) was an advert for a company. Can't fully remember the details.

Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention

United States v. Microsoft Corp.

Do they forget their own history? 2001 where they lost and were about to be broken up?

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

True. All people care about now is going viral and hoping they can make money from it. The vast majority of influrences and YouTubers give no shits about what they are peddling, as long as they can make money with it. Its easy money for them than having to work a proper job when bullshit office politics, HR and managers.

Like one such couple here in the UK that I came across on YouTube, doing their "VLOG". I hate those but took a look, they were talking about their love of camping etc. All fine, nothing wrong with that, then it was "And we have this mobile solar panel. We can use it to charge everything and its amazing blah blah blah. Oh, the local camping store sent it to us for free to "review", we've not actually used it yet". But you've said it was amazing yet haven't actually used it, you've not flagged your video as a paid promotion (if you get given stuff for free, even if not being paid by the company, its still classed as paid advertising as they've given you content for you video). Its just awful these days.

Raspberry Pi 500 and monitor arrive in time for Christmas

Re: Keyboard layout

I think it might be but was too late to correct it, oh well.

Re: Keyboard layout

They also like to call the "pound" key (Hash) "Bang"

You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you

Re: "manual labor for sortation"

Garbage in, plastic pelts outs.

Re: Hmmm

There's a guy on YouTube, can't remember the name or have a link, that created a tracking device to sneak into plastic bottles here in the UK. He planted them in some recycling bins round the area to see what the council does with them. Discovering a lot of them where being shipped abroad to be "recycled".

Russia arrests one of its own – a cybercrime suspect on FBI's most wanted list

Re: @Jellied Eel

The amount of people on here that supports a convicted fellon and sex offender really is worrying. These are the same people, that probably would of liked Hitler.

Re: @Jellied Eel

"but wouldnt be prosecuted because of Bidens condition"

No, no, no, no, no. Its simple. Trump stole documents, Trump was asked "It might of been a mistake can you give us the documents back?" He said no, THAT is the difference. Biden took documents either intentionally or not when asked "We need those documents back that you took" he said "Oh yes, sorry" and gave them back. Trump didn't. Trump refused to give them back, THAT is the issue. The secrets he had and was able to potentially sell (he probably did).

Re: "It's a very bad move giving his son blanket immunity"

"Trump pardoned Kushner, Bannon, Flynn, other allies in first term"

Enough said.

Re: @Jellied Eel

The bent supreme court stated the President is now immune so Biden can get off that way.

Its a VERY good move pardoning his son because Trump has always abused his power, he abused the court system to avoid prison and was given special treatment throughout. Anyone else that attacked the judges as he did would of been in prison waiting trial.

Once the big orange idiot gets into office he WOULD have used Hunter Biden to be spiteful and just abused him all through the courts to break him and Joe Biden. I'm glad Joe has finally decided to play as dirty as the Republicans before he leaves. Its a pardon I'm glad he's used. No doubt when the big orange idiot gets in, he'll pardon the "J 6" unless, of course he lied about that also and won't. Much like when he was leaving office, he had enough time then to pardon them all but no, he saw them as his own pawns that he could play on/with and claim "If I get back into office they will be pardoned".

Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels

When will it happen

When will this AI, I mean LLM bubble burst! Can't come too soon so I can say "Told you".

Microsoft confirms there will be no U-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements

Greenwashing

We know they do. ChatGPT has caused their carbon emissions to increase by 20% and the TPM requirement will me lots of perfectly fine kit will be sent to the land fill.

Although I'll also be watching Ebay for folks not in the know who are selling off their "old kit" really cheaply.

Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online

Or "I have all this dirt on Google. As soon as I go prison, it WILL be released, maybe we could do a deal".

Re: Nothing clever...

We have 7 MAGA people who still think Trump is innocent and that he loves and respects them. Very funny.

Re: Nothing clever...

He saw the orange one committing crimes and getting away with it so probably thought he'd be able to do the same.

Re: Photos are still on Twitter

I can no longer read twitter without an account it seems, I killed mine when the orange man one and the big man child owner of twitter smirked.

Abstract, theoretical computing qualifications are turning teens off

Re: WYF!

True. Problem was, for me, in the late 80s when started high school we had a room full of BBC computers but it was 2 boys to one BBC. If you were with a dick, you never got a go. Only lasted about 2 years and they all got removed. Then in college in the 90s we got taught old languages like COBOL which are argued all the time I was there was pointless as no longer used. Only use it would of been for was being a consultant making lots where banks needed to move away from COBOL and there were no COBOL programmers left.

Telco engineer who spied on US employer for Beijing gets four years in the clink

Falun Gong spiritual movement

Falun Gong the spiritual movement thats actually a cult.

Another 'major cyber incident' at a UK hospital, outpatients asked to stay away

Re: IT incompetence in NHS

You've clearly never worked in NHS IT

Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs

does it count

If you self host bluesky?

Security? We've heard of it: How Microsoft plans to better defend Windows

Re: "Hotpatch ®"...

Last known good still around. Used it recently when fixing someones PC and it actually worked.

Britain Putin up stronger AI defences to counter growing cyber threats

No one takes blatent and clear propogranda seriously anymore either.

"The peace process" yes, that can happen with Putin fucking off out of a country that's not his.

Re: Access filtering

We do, well our company does but they just come in via other countries.

China has utterly pwned 'thousands and thousands' of devices at US telcos

Its fine, now with Trump in power he'll just give China the keys then blame Biden.