Posts by steviebuk

Game not over: Epic brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe, using its own app store

You've now made me look up Nethack. Looks bit like Dwarf Fortress ASCII mode.

Chinese chip equipment maker AMEC sues Pentagon for entity list removal

Ironic

Haven't seen any Western company sue China for not being allowed to run in China. If a company doesn't want to follow Chinese laws, they just don't opperate there. However, the CCP went mental when the West said it wanted to block TikTok. The CCP said they had nothing to do with TikTok and weren't using it as a syop app. Oh really? Then why so bent out of shape at the possibilty of it being banned then?

China appears to feel it can force itself on any and every country and if you don't trade with it, it will sue.

It ignores all international and even local laws. Look at its fishing industry. It gives no fucks about low fish stocks, it constantly fishes in other countries waters and just generally is an arse. The sooner the likes of Tiktok and Temu are banned, the better.

Raspberry Pi 5 slims down for cut-price 2 GB RAM version

Why

Does The Register keep randomly logging me out, no matter what browser I use. Been doing it on several different systems for years.

Anyway. Has the Pi lost its way a bit? Its now cheaper to by a mini PC. Are they now beholded to the share owners?

Google's ex-CEO U-turns after saying staff 'going home early' killed winning

Cause he's

a cunt and has been for a long time. All these billionaires love to blame their workers instead of themselves and/or management. Much like workers low down the chain get fired, yet management, exec management and so on all get given money to "leave". How does that work!

NASA pushes decision on bringing crew back in Starliner to the end of August

Re: It's a political decision, not tech/safety

Lets hope its not political as isn't that what caused the Challenger disaster. Watched that as a kid. Then years later the documentaries about it and the suggestions the high ups knew about the issues but needed the launch so pushed it through.

China-linked cyber-spies infect Russian govt, IT sector

Ironic

Considering China is funding Pudit's war in Ukraine

Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor

Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor

Translates "Google paid for report that is biased to its pay masters have said people using Google's AI, I mean, AI are seeing benefits."

Re: Everyone wants AI until they see the bill

They wanted it as a military defense system, but as soon as they put it online they realised it was going rogue. Because it didn't want to be turned off it attacked the Russian's knowing they'd attack back causing a "judgement day". They then used the template AI soliders that were for defense, to instead fight and wipe out the humans. Some faught against this, they became the resistance.

That was what they were using it for at one place I worked.

I believe they made a few movies about this bit of AI history.

I'll get my coat.

UK's 'electricity superhighway' gets green light just in time for AI to gobble it all up

Why AI should be dumped

"The upgrades come amid growing concerns over datacenters' ballooning energy demands driven in no small part by widespread deployment of AI accelerators."

Unless you can power the datacentre by clean energy, the "noise" of "Its amazing. Its new, its the future" is drowning out "We're burning a massive amount of coal to power it" (China will be).

Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'

Role on Microsoft v The US Government Part II

Needs to happen. They were pulling this same shit back in the 90s with IE and they were pulled up on it, eventually, yet they are doing it again with Edge.

Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS

Re: Bias

As you're so technical can you explain how they targeted their DDOS just to Trumps specific interview? When they nature of a DDOS is it takes down the whole site or, if they are seperate as in streams and sites, then it would of taken down ever stream.

The MAGA nutters are clutching at straws as they are stuck with a big orange mess.

Re: Eyeroll

Not giving a toss is why he got into office in the first place.

Re: 3rd term

Well technically there is. He incited an insurrection and according to the consituation that means he can't run. But as we've seen, the Supreme Court is currently corrupt so he's gotten away with it as they are desperate for him to be back in.

Re: 3rd term

OK. Have you had your crazy pill today?

Go listen to the podcast, which is clear you haven't. He was a true arse to the people living round where the golf course was being built. Sadly, he got away with it all, got his second course and fucked the dunes up. And the 500 houses and big hotel he "claimed" he was going to build, it was clear was all a lie. He just said it to get his planning permission for the golf course and the Scottish government fell for it.

There's a film about it. Can't find the first one but the second one they've released for free.

https://youtu.be/k9RweR9EUSg?si=3Ud2AYO-DTvugEKa

Re: 3rd term

Yeah, I thought that :) but then he wants to scrap voting if he gets in. He'll surround himself with yes men and women this time. As, people that worked with him but weren't as nuts said, he was really annoyed when he got in office and realised he couldn't just do whatever he wanted. Which is why this time, he'd surround himself with yes men and women.

He believed he was the "boss" and what he said was it, he didn't realise this isn't how it works. He wasn't interested in any of the morning briefing documents.

This is evident if you listen to the Trumped podcast on Radio 4, when he was building the golf course in Scotland. He had to have a meeting with the council over conservation concerns. A reporter asked after "Do you know the details blah blah". He did he's ususal bullshit "I don't need to read the reports, I already know the subject really well and I know what's in them and I understood everything everyone said". Which translated to "I didn't read the reports, I don't understand any of what is in it and I don't care. Just build my shit, do as I say".

Elon is an arse

Plain and simple. 99% sure there was no DDOS because, as others have said, why were other streams on Twitter working just fine.

As always, it was great to have Trump have another car crash interview. I've been listening to "Trumped" on Radio 4, you should all take a listen and it will infurate you how much of a cunt Trump really is and how bad the police in that area were, it really did seem like they were in the pockets of Trump.

Is Lenovo a blind spot in US anti-China security measures?

Yes.

Used to like them but their quality has gone down hill. They had Superfish and, not sure if it is true but there was a case in 2010 where several Lenovo devices sold to the US military had encrypted chips on them, recording all input and then sending back to China.

UK semi industry exposed to supply chain risk, China state ownership

Too late

As the Tories allowed the semiconductor factory in Newport Isle of Wight be bought by the Chinese. The same Tories that allowed them to build a new nuclear power station (which they somewhat saw sense and removed them, yet then gave them another one somewhere up North I believe).

Alibaba Cloud claims K8s service meshes can require more resources than the apps they run

Alibaba Cloud

Anyone that uses it just know that Xi sits in the background saying "All your data are belong to us".

It's all drying up: Microsoft to erase 3D Paint from digital store

Ironic

considering at work stuck with shitty 3d paint and normal paint has disappeared.

Microsoft really wants those old Exchange 2016 servers put out to pasture

Re: Ah, Microsoft

In my head I said that in Steve Balmer's voice, while sweating profusely.

Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China?

Can the world now stop

classing China as a 3rd world country. They get benefits for being classed as such and abuse it as they clearly fucking aren't.

And yeah, if anyone buys their ISP package then they are fools as the CCP WILL be doing DPI on all the traffic.

Nvidia's subscription software empire is taking shape

Yeo. Only useful thing I've found chatgpt do is giving it a powershell script and tells me what each line does so i can stick it in as comments.

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

Throw it out

Should be thrown out. From the small evidence the reg showed, they said to their members when asked "Its still your choice if you want to be on the platform or not" (not a direct quote).

Also, it should be thrown out because he said "Go fuck yourselves" so they did.

Appears to me that billionaires now just abuse the court system as they can afford to do so. He's how Trump has lasted so long, ties people up in court until they run out of money.

Samsung labor union orders members back to work and a 'tactical transition' to ongoing action

They taken

Lesson from Royal Mail and the post masters union? Sounds like it.

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

Welcome

to China.

What a fuck whit.

Desktop hypervisors are not dead: Oracle preps major VirtualBox update

If its Oracle

They'll make it a paid for product and remove all the free tiers.

Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar

Re: Crookedness considered harmful

"At least with AI I have to craft an extremely devious question to get an otherwise censored answer."

Not really. Some of them are bowing down to the CCP and Xi, so when asked about China and its history, it either lies or says it can't tell you. I annoyingly now can't remember which AI image creator it was now. I was thinking MidJourney but can no longer check now they've removed free access. Whenever you asked it to create funny images of other world leaders it would, asked it to do ones of Xi and it would refuse. There are other examples from a few years back when this all started, especially around questions on Tiananmen Square Massacre.

Car makers sold people's driving habits, location data for pennies, say US senators

Re: Not at all upset over the loss of 3G in the US

They don't have MOT's in America from what I hear/read.

Video game actors strike because they fear an attack of the AI clones

No. We like the craft of movies and using AI isn't craft. Much like AI art. It might look nice but you know a human hasn't sat for hours and done it, so it doesn't have the same feeling.

Re: Who’s even going to watch these movies?

You're missing out. We're selective on what we see and Cineworld, despite heading for bankruptcy have a good idea by putting old movies back in the cinema. I still enjoy the feel of going to the movies, we're selective with the seats though and try to avoid when busy.

Is Tyler Perry one of them?

Considering he "warned" people of the dangers of AI in the industry, by cancelling his studio expansion claiming it wouldn't be needed with all this new AI.

Well you could, I say, could choose to NOT FUCKING USE IT. None of us want to see AI movies, so employ people and make that fucking expansion.

No, really, please ban Chinese DJI drones from America's skies, senators are urged

What's the problem?

Considering China banned Teslas from certain parts of cities for a while (may have been lifted now) all because of the cameras. They don't want all their CCP locations mapped.

Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI

Re: Team America World AI Police

ED-209

Re: How exactly

And if you look at some of the Chinese examples of AI, they are amusing. Sara AI was a Korean woman in a box. Another one they'd stolen the Western code. This was clear because it didn't understand local traditions or cultures. So when asking it for a picture of duck soup, it would show a duck swimming in soup.

Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals' costs

Hopefully, Orange Jesus won't get in and he'll just be in new episodes of Orange is the New Black.

Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage

And

I'll also add, when you get management that is now wondering why us moving fully to the cloud isn't saving us money, that is the fuck problem. You might want to put in place a test system to control something like this, but when they won't fucking pay for it, shit like this happens.

Mad and it didn't even affect us

But I only read this bit "If administrators have learned anything from the CrowdStrike chaos, it's to understand exactly what delayed updates mean – or don't mean – in the anti-malware world."

and thought "Oh fuck off. Are you a c-suit? You do realise there is no control over CrowdStrike's cocking updates, that's where the problem lies. Being forced to use CrowdStrike and it giving no option to control updates. As from what I've read, it updates every 2hrs to prevent attacks.

EDIT- Read the whole article now :) you do know, but my rant is still valid.

EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft

Re: Dave Plummer has a different take on this

Microsoft gone to shit with their q&a sit satnav took over.

This was both their fault. Croudstrike for sending a cocked up file. And Microsoft's fault for allowing it to use a unique method to update the driver. Everyone else has to get recertified yet to avoid this, crowdstrike was allowed to update from a file. Thats a Microsoft fault not EU fault.

Microsoft just pissed because they were forced into competition "See. You had just let us monopolize, none of this would of happened"

Oh go fuck a duck MS and Sat Nav

Cybercrooks spell trouble with typosquatting domains amid CrowdStrike crisis

I know

"Looking at examples of these campaigns, it's difficult to see what admin in their right mind would fall for this kind of crud"

The ones where IT department has been "Let go" and replaced with Indian call centers, as mentioned on Reddit. When the finance lady had to take her monitor and keyboard to the server room to try and fix what the call centre was asking her to do over the phone. See left crying.

That's who'll get caught out. C level managers who think they don't need an IT team.

Yandex sells off Russian ops, remaining Euro-biz now Putin itself about as Nebius Group

reverse image search

Good move. The only thinf I knew about Yandex is its reverse image search. Miles better than Google and actually gives results not just adverts.

Re: If Trump is elected and becomes "president for life"

No doubt he make Don Junior his successor.

If he gets in, America is done. Its why the likes of China and Russia want him in power. He is their useful idiot.

Cold comfort to teachers who got paid late, but ERP software rollout had 'unrealistic' timeline

Re: Why?

Doesn't help when the "professional officers" lie to the councillors to get them to sign off on their "pet project".

Probably and they've also probably been promoted. After all, these places are always run on the "Peter Principle" promote incompetence, to shield you from your own incompetence. Anyone that has any skill or knowledge gets kick around and they only stay because 1. They want to stuff to be done properly and hope they can make it happen 2. They don't have the confidence to go elsewhere.

Fucks me right off, to no end that this happens time and time and time and time again. Poor management, by managers who are out of their depth but kiss arse so are where they are, yet super shit at their job, push for unrealistic goals and when its pointed out "This can't be done, that's not how the tech works" and/or "This is outside of my JD, I'm not skilled" are just told "Get on with it, we sometimes have to do work outside our JD". Yeah and that's why this fucked up you cunt!

Sorry, went on a personal rant at the end.

Big Tech's eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire

Re: Consequences of Freeing the Prompt

True, but could be said about most software and maybe it would teach c level management to understand that most "AI" is bullshit and a waste of time and money.

Prompt

Prompt : If the US President is now immune and the constitution itself is now unconstitutional, then how can it be unconstitutional if the constitional itself is unconstitutional. How can you class it as unconstitutional, when you need a constitution to declare it so, which you're now saying is unconstitutional?

Re: Well free the prompt, then

Which is when I feel its fare game to show them how much of a bad day it will give them. Fuck them if they won't listen. Many moons ago on a Def Con panel chat, one of the pen testers said "Maybe we should reem these companies. We tell them time and time again in their yearly pen tests what their issues are, you come back then next year and nothing has been patched. Maybe its time to teach them the lesson". I disagreed with that. Its a companies choice not to patch, they might see stuff as low risk or willing to take the chance. They might be short stuff and can't afford to patch, its not up to you to "teach them a lesson". I don't mind a "We thank you for your report and will take note of the issues. However, due to budget costs, we may not be able to patch them".

But when you get a big tech company that fobs you off and essentially talks to you like you're wasting their time and that you're the problem, then fuck them. I would of just released the prompt.

Trump threatens to send Meta's Mark ‘Zuckerbucks’ to prison if reelected president

He's an idiot and so are his supporters. What gets me is the Russia thing, or "The REDS" we "hate the REDS" they used to say. There has been some entertaining movies over the years over those "Reds" and "'merica" types. Red Dawn, Hunt for Red October, Air Force One (not technically Russia but still "Commies") to name but a few. All the red neck, 'merica types loved these. Would shout how great 'merica is and how bad Russia is. Yet oddly now, because of the Orange Tango Twat, they appear to love Russia and would like a dictactorship. Very odd bunch of people.

ZuckerIceBerg

I may dislike him but I really hope he now sues Trump for defamation. He's def got more money than Trump. And as Trump likes to sue everyone and only wins by tying them up in court until they run out of money, it would be fun watching Zuck do the same to Trump instead.

UK minister recalls two planning decisions which blocked datacenter investment

Re: Slow electrons

Yep. Although he's genuinally more successful than Trump and less of a cunt, I've come to realise I'm not sure he's the king of business he's been made out to be.

Lee Mack was on a chat show with him and Pamela Stephenson. Lee Mack was nervous and said Alan was being derogatory about Pamela's job as a psychologist. Something about it not being a real title or something (Lee tells this better than me on the Richard Herring podcast). Lee piped up "No Alan, its not everyone that can buy a title". Lee felt good, he hadn't said much and this was his best joke. Unfortunately he said Alan called the BBC later and demanded they cut that bit :o) and them being the spinless fucks they are, did.