* Posts by Potemkine!

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Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber

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Mushroom

... will come some day. It's sad to see such a great country as the US of A collapses in such a pitiful manner. It will take decades to fix all the things Adolf Trump is destroying if it will ever occur.

UK, US, Oz blast holes in LockBit's bulletproof hosting provider Zservers

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Putin has built a corrupt mafia state driven by greed and ruthlessness. So it's no surprise he has a big fan in the name of the Agent Orange.

I see Russian trolls are very active on this site.They must be afraid to have go on the front dying with their Norsk friends, so they must show to their supervisors how active they are.

DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims

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USAID dislocation won a lot of approval from Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, Nicaragua. Isn't that a proof it's a good thing when dictators beloved leaders around the World approve the move?

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Isn't being a racist a requirement to work for Heinrich Musk and Adolf Trump?

Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why

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Heil Tesla!

One day it will be mandatory to run in a Tesla - One folk, one leader, one Tesla!

In the meantime, if you want to show how proud you are to be a racist, a fascist, a xenophobic guy, buy one and let no doubt about it.

Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority,' says CEO

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Big Brother

Heil Palantir! Heil Tesla!

Welcome to the New Order! And now let's conquer the World. Canada, Greenland, Panama, Gaza... who's next?

US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs

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Re: Tariff = Tax

At a time, it was also unusual for a Republican to be a Russian puppet.

Times change.

Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

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Idiots took over

I wonder how long it will take to see the US democracy to totally collapse.

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Coffee/keyboard

Best joke of the day, thank you!

WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff

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Re: I convinced my boss that reading El Reg was work

And it is! I heard several times about security flaws first on El Reg, enabling me to be proactive on this.

White House attempts to 'explain' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em

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If we weren't waiting for Russia to attack the rest of Europe in 2028 with the support of the Orange Clown, it would be enjoyable to look at this fantastic show of BS happening in the US right now.

US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies

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Re: A child's understanding of the world

"The left" = whoever is not a fascist.

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Re: Eurofighters not F35

Or Rafale ^^

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Do not feed the russian troll

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I wonder if the US system is resilient enough to resist the autocratic will of the Orange Clown, or if it will become a dictatorship leading to a civil war.

It's more than time than all European countries understand the threat and stop to rely on the US for their defence because the Orange Clown will betray them, he's an agent of Putin Khuylo after all.

British Museum says ex-contractor 'shut down' IT systems, wreaked havoc

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The way he was fired may be an explanation (but not an excuse). When people are thrown in a bin like a piece of dirty paper, some don't react well.

China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC

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It may be the end of the AI bubble that drives US stocks.

Europe, UK weigh up how to respond to Trump's proposed tariffs. One WTF or two?

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Re: Prisoner's Dilemma!

This is an interesting experience: is the US system strong enough to avoid to turn to a dictatorship now that for the first time a president is not a defender of democracy?

Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025

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Re: It's an easy go to

DNFTT

UN's aviation agency confirms attack on recruitment database

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Re: ICAO takes the privacy and security of personal information extremely seriously

The one who believes he's immune to attacks is just complacent.

Means used by cybercrooks are so big, permeability between criminals and state actors so prevalent that the question is not if attackers will succeed to enter but how deep they will go in the systems.

Parker Solar Probe sends a "Still Alive" tone back to Earth

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Miles? It's still the middle age or what?

Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst

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Holmes

In your opinion,

For how long can two megalomaniac egocentric SOB stay together in the same room?

Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AI

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Re: It's not just Brits...

It reminds me the good old days of 'No Future'. Punk was right after all.

Europa Clipper heads to Jupiter: Can its icy moon support life?

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Re: Fascinating

I doubt we have enough knowledge about Ganymede to be affirmative about this. Sending Europa Clipper to burn into Jupiter atmosphere seems more reasonable.

We'll know more about Ganymede after the study to come by ESA's JUICE

FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again

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In the US? Muahahahahaha

So-called 'regulators' aren't here to stay in the way of business you know.

American Water rinsed in cyber attack, turns off app

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Re: It's 2024 ...

If those systems were properly airgapped, they would KNOW that they hadn't been compromised.

Complacency has no place in cybersecurity. Even with an airgap a network can be contamined. Maintenance is always required on a network and a device could bring the payload.

Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway'

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Terminator

If by AI he means Skynet, then he could be true.

Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers

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that may have considered Cisco to be a safe and dependable supplier.

ROTFL!

Ryanair faces GDPR turbulence over customer ID checks

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Re: I never fly Ryanair

RyanAir flies with Boeing, especially the 737 MAX. By itself it's a good reason not to go with RyanAir.

Europe blasts back into the heavy launch biz with first Ariane 6 flight

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Re: Congratulations

Do you remember what happened in 2019, 2020 and 2021? Do people really have the memory span of a goldfish?

IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says

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Re: song remains the same

I'm always amazed how beancounters always think in term of cost and never in term of incomes, and how they don't care to bleed incomes if they can save a few costs.

This is a good sign such companies are going to the grave, not without giving a lot of money to the C-suite and shareholders.

Objections to datacenter builds may be overruled now they are 'Critical National Infrastructure'

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So much efficient

Soylent green for everyone!

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The good ol' solution against this

Torches and pitchforks.

Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructure

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Re: focus on costs

Of course shareholders are the culprits. They want more and more dividends, even if it means slowly destroying the company. They only think at a short term view. When they will have extract all the money they can get, they'll move to a new company to do the same destructive work.

A company who makes profits should get a penalty for every worker made redundant.

Bank fines HPE's financial services arm in India

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I wonder if HP Financial services will be able to recover from such a fine.

Unity scraps hated runtime fees, hits devs with subscription hikes instead

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Just have to wait for ^^

23andMe settles class-action breach lawsuit for $30 million

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Laws are not meant to protect people, just the richer ones.

Apple owes billions in back taxes over Ireland state aid rule break

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Apple share price is currently down of -1.65% - Not really a black Tuesday for Apple. Maybe the markets already knew Apple cheated, that this tax break wasn't deserved and should be paid back.

+300% in five years. Is there any other investment that is as profitable?

Cisco's Smart Licensing Utility flaws suggest it's pretty dumb on security

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Fed up with Shitsco.

No surprise. I discovered that even if we pay a Cisco's partner to support an IPBX, this isn't enough, we have to pay Cisco even more if we want help if the problem is serious. The support we pay (a lot) is useless when we need it. This so-called partner also ask us to pay an extra of 6,000 € to update a certificate... something that took me half an hour to do when I found the correct procedure. This is an ecosystem of thieves.

The consequence? We'll do whatever possible to get rid of Cisco's IPBX. It's over-complicated to manage, it's expensive, and now we know that programming (hard coded credentials... WTF!) is shitty. The day we'll get rid of that pile of crap we'll make a party to celebrate.

Of course the Internet Archive’s digital lending broke the law, appeals court says

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antithetical to the public interest

Oh yes, spreading information and education for free is so antithetical to the public interest! /s

When an author dies, his/her work should enter the public domain, period.

White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown

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During this time in the Trolls farm...

the start of the SMO

Even Russian Trolls are not authorized to talk about the War Putin Khuylo is waging against Ukraine.

It's understandable, they are too afraid to be sent in jail where they will be deprived to have any contact with their family or being eliminated like Navalny was;

There are indeed Nazis involved in this war, and they are wearing the Russian uniform.

Mercury probe BepiColombo thrusters are acting up, but science marches on

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Re: 7 year "itch"

The spacecraft accelerates when it goes in the direction of the Sun because of gravity. A huge amount of energy is required to slow it down. Flybys can avoid to have to bring a lot of fuel instead of scientific instruments. NASA,'s Messenger took 5 years to be able to orbit Mercury

Check your IP cameras: There's a new Mirai botnet on the rise

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despite being well past their end of life

If it works, it's still alive.

Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats

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Saas: Stasi As A Service.

Those software violate so many laws of my socialist hellhole that I am protected from this Inquisition for now. Even if nobody expects it, of course.

Starliner's not-so-grand finale is a thump in the desert next week

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Re: IF it lands.....

What are you, a communist? /s

Feds, US states sue RealPage for building rent-hiking software for landlords

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Idiots are taking over

Trump voters live in an alternate reality. They are immune to facts - and common sense.

NASA will fly Boeing Starliner crew home with SpaceX, Calamity Capsule deemed too risky

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Re: Why continue?

I doubt NASA will ever dump Boeing. Boeing has too many protectors in the political sphere.

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As a result, Boeing share price raised by 1.27% on Friday. So for the markets it's a good news. Maybe they anticipated a crash of Starliner.

Telegram founder and CEO arrested in France

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"Liberty consists in being able to do anything that does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of every man has no bounds other than those that ensure to the other members of society the enjoyment of these same rights. These bounds may be determined only by Law."

Liberty isn't the right to do whatever you want.

Prior UK government planned £485M four-year budget for Palantir-based healthcare system

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Re: Going in the wrong direction

Heatlh Care in the US: you have no money? Then you aren't sick.