Posts by steviebuk 2874 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
Unless you use Microsoft 365 that appears to totally fall over if you put a space at the beginning of a password. On perm AD works fine with that, but once it gets to Microsoft 365, it freaks out won't let the user login to e-mail. All because of a pissing space at the beginning of the password.
Jesus fucking christ. I understand where they are coming from but it just pisses me off when they make these laws but don't understand how the pissing Internet works.
This is a rant.
So people will just use VPNs. Or people will be malicious and craft sites or e-mails with links in to such material. That's it, you've viewed it once, prison for you as the site or video auto plays with no option to stop it because, again, they've crafted it like those annoying pops up that stop you closing them.
The law just isn't fucking workable, unless of course, the person is already on a watch list.
There is no secure future anymore. With more and more companies wanting to replace us with AI.
I still don't know why people don't refuse to use self service tills. You do the work for Tesco, Sainsbury's etc, but get no discount for doing so and they save money in staff.
Until someone smashes them to bits because of the shitty weight system that is massively flawed
"Please put the item just scanned in your bag". "Please check the bagging area". "Are you using your own bag?"
Amazon are realising but won't stop with their Amazon automated supermarket. Learning that people are fucking lazy and will take something off the shelf, decide they don't want it so will dump it elsewhere. Which then confused the fuck out of their AI. "You took an item off the shelf. Check. You've taken it out of your basket so no longer want it. Check. But you haven't put it back where I expect it to be. What do I do now? Erm, oh, erm, ah, erm, I'm all confused!"
ARSE!
Ah yes. So I'm not the only one. I still believe backup tapes have their place.
I got interested in backups in the NHS when I saw their solution years ago. Then adopted it at home but not on tape as couldn't afford the setup.
Anyway.
Monday full backup
Tues to Thursday incremental backup
Friday full week 1 backup.
Rinse and repeat for 3 weeks.
Then on the 4th Friday of the month it becomes
Month 1 backup
Rinse and repeat for 3 months so you always have 3 months of offline backups that are stored in a fire proof safe either offsite, or onsite but in another fire zone. Which can end up being either another location in the same building or another location onsite but in a different building.
All on tape.
Worked well.
"There are no compelling reasons that I can see to do business with the Chinese, so long as they have the structure in place to reach in and manipulate or spy on their customers. Those who are charging ahead blindly and embracing the Chinese technology without regard to these concerns may find themselves in a disadvantage in dealing with us."
<satirequote>"But we don't mind loads of our other tech being made in China. Like Apple phones because it's not possible for the Chinese to sneak spy chips into those at all. Or gain access to the firmware to install a rootkit. No, that's not possible. We just must crush Huawei as we can't have competition because it will disadvantage our paid for friends, I mean international and local friends".</endsatirequote>
...LastPass but beware, it's auto fill has a VERY annoying issue with E-bay. You'll make a listing and fill in the description, only to be told there is script in it, that isn't allowed.
What are you banging on about? There is no script, I'm just trying to sell off my console retro collection. Then I look at the HTML code and sure enough, there's a big chunk of script.
Where did that come from?! LastPissingPass.
It's a known issue apparently and they say if you just whitelist the site, it doesn't auto fill in. But that doesn't work. I've had to turn off auto fill, but even that doesn't stop it injecting code into an e-bay listings description either. Annoying.
Other than that, appear useful.
...no one at the company ever thought to "whistleblow" in respect to "Excuse me. I'm your new finance director. Can I ask why only the CEO is allowed access to finances?. I also hear he is off to Indian. Surely he's a single point of failure and someone else needs access. Or at least keep them in a safe that only keep people have access to?" and potentially being told "That's the way he wants to run his company, just stop asking questions" should of raised massive flags to internal people.
Very odd and very much looks like a scam. And also will give more excuse for governments to not support crypto-currency without legislation.
..is why the Sony Pictures Hack happened. Cause they simply don't give a fuck.
Cocks.
I got offered free magnets from a very small online store, years ago that wasn't using HTTPS on their store page & I wanted to order from them due to being the only ones that sold the tiny powerful magnets to stick in models :)
Free magnets. Great.
Anyway. Others I've reported I've just been ignored but then seen them fix said issue a few days later. Another company replied back quite defensive who, it was clear, had been running unsecure for years from the previous owners. And local gov and other small companies use this site! They've fixed some of the reported issues but not the rest and then stopped replying to my e-mails. And the biggest one that was ignored was Twitter. I reported to them years ago, once signed in, if you went to reset your password, their code would sometimes push you to a http page instead of https. I reported it, was totally ignored so I disclosed the issue on YouTube. A tech and security journo picked the story up and they listened to him (I'd never heard of the guy, I just happened to come across his blog post one day) and he put in a mention that I'd reported it and been ignored.
I don't really bother much now.
Real world testing is all well and good but Sat Nav firing all the QAs and leaving it to the public will always be a mistake.
Despite still sticking with Windows 7 at home I like bits of Windows 10 that 7 misses out on. The ability to natively mount iso files instead of having to get a 3rd party tool. But search in Windows 10 is simply shit. A good test is install sysinternals tools onto the machine. Put the folder in the path area so you can run it wherever and so search should fucking pick it up. I do this on users machine. It never pissing does until I manually go to the directory and run Procmon or Procexp from there at least once (the main ones I install). Its really pissing annoying.
....this is going to be pointless anyway as everyone will start using VPNs. The question is, the AgeID is for UK only right? So will the sites redirect if you come from a different country? I would of thought so otherwise it will kill their business. Again, VPN will make it pointless.
The other question would be sites that just link to videos that are hosting on other sites not run by them. Will they be required to use AgeID? If so, will Google search also be forced to use AgeID when someone does a search for naughty pictures and sees all the thumbnails? If Google can claim "We don't need AgeID as we don't host the material" then all the other sites that just link will be able to do the same.
There was a guy on jury duty that I was on that said "Yeah he's guilty now lets go home. I want to leave early". He should really have been kicked out. Ignore the fact we did find the guy guilty but on the evidence that we took time to check & ignored the dick, choosing to decide someones future because you "want to get home early" is a cunt move.
"Herts paid £60,000 in compensation once Lang identified who was responsible.". Considering he was totally innocent and considering mud sticks, especially amongst idiots, he should of gotten a lot more. I know one such idiot who stated when I mentioned about a court case in the news where the person was found innocent "They aren't. There just wasn't enough evidence to prove their guilt. No smoke without fire, why was the case taken to court?"
According to her anyone that goes to court but is found innocent is actually still guilty, there just wasn't enough evidence to be found guilty.
Fucking idiot.
Don't hold your breath. Unless Trump has a hand in the illegal money making act he won't give a shit and will let you rot. You need to hope someone else gets in that see the sentence a tad harsh considering there are probably murders in the same prison doing less time. As Kevin Mitnick said about his time in the clink. Some of the murders and rapist couldn't understand how Kevin had was in their longer than they were going to be.
"while begging people to sign his clemency petition to US president Donald Trump."
..got to this bit "Ulbricht was also linked to six drug overdose deaths where the narcotics had been ordered from his website."
Not nice but if thats the case, surely Mark Zuckerberg is responsible for that girls suicide that was on the news the other day where it is alledge she got material from one of his sites. And sites & shops that sell booze and fags (cigarettes for our American cousins) are responsible for all the alcohol and tobacco deaths. None of those are doing life in prison.
...if I was an American in China right now. You'll likely disappear into a cell until the Huawei CFO is released. Get a new President and she'll probably get pardoned. Funny how so upset by Huawei they are for potential security on their devices yet still continue to allow Apple to build all their kit in China.
Fuckbook was a happy accident. I type too quick and on the phone its a nightmare when it has changed a word without me spotting it and despite having turned off autocorrect. Also, on Android, it constantly puts . when not required despite having turned that feature off as well. Both of Samsung S4 and S8. I still prefer physical keyboards on mobiles, I miss them.
And other times I'm supposed to be doing other things (the DIY) so before I get caught I just hit submit without checking.
I standby calling Facebook a cunt though.
...but even more evil than the Martin Lewis lawsuit that he's now dropped. With all the fake ads with his face on it. Facebook didn't seem to give a shit until he sued. Then suddenly did and now have agreed to donate 3 million (not much considering how much they have) to a scam charity with the CAB.
Fuckbook are cunts (I like that word but first time using it on here, so it must be serious).
...might have a point but who'd want to use their cloud solution anyway. But surely the DoD should have two providers for the days when AWS goes tits-up. And now we know they are using AWS, surely the terrorists will target AWS. Knowing they are with only one provider means they just need to take that provider offline to give the DoD a very bad headache.
It also explains all the odd issue with Office over the years. Don't get me wrong, I like Office and came to like the Ribbon after I watched a video with them exampling how to use it. But Mark Russinovich over the years, even while at Microsoft as always taken digs at Office :) so it must be badly coded then.
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