Posts by IceC0ld

Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway

Re: As evil as it gets

[quote]Google are actively facilitating criminality, have chosen to be part of a criminal enterprise.[/quote]

colour me surprised :o(

[quote]What happened to "Don't Be Evil".[/quote]

I'd like to take a stab at answering this

I have thought long, and hard, about all the scenarios, and how Google WERE the first amongst equals once

BUT, then they discovered that DO NO EVIL, doesn't pay the bills :o)

I hope this clears the matter up for you :o)

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher

Re: Stunt

started reading this post, and XKCD sprang to mind - SPECIFICALLY - https://xkcd.com/2347/

then finished reading, it, and went back through it again, feeling a bit out of it right now, as this seems to encapsulate EVERYTHING we ever heard about the pitfalls of AI from back in the day

back when the naysayers were dubbed Luddites,

but as I say, this spoke to me, and I am worried, not so much for ME, am old, retired now, not that long left here on Earth

but for everyone else, as always, money is speaking, and it is saying it will make money for the monied :o(

That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026

[quote] I hope that a few more centuries will be enough to make software engineering into a real kind of engineering. [/quote]

I WAS going to say Don't hold your breath, but the time scale involved seems to make that bit irrelevant :o)

but I do like the comparison to 'basic' engineering, and the fact it has been going around for so long, yet everyone sort of expected software to just BE :o)

maybe in our next iteration on this planet, we shall arrive at a more pleasing time for us all in the IT world :o)

Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner

Re: Why would you blame the cleaners?

[quote] Well, there was that time the cleaner used plug her vacuum cleaner into the UPS strip and the computers would go wonky for some reason. [/quote]

I worked NHS North Wales many years back, the 'job' was to 'upgrade' to Office 2003 :o)

most of the work comprised of people asking us not to lose their jokes :o)

but the server room on this installation had an issue, once a week, the servers went down, well, that is what they figured out when they dug into the logs

turned out the 'cleaner' was UNPLUGGING the server rack to plug in their vacuum cleaner, the fault was only truly discovered because one night, cleaner did not plug server back in :o)

the local team were ok, but kept busy, we, as contractors, and ME as an ex spark for almost 30 years before coming over to the dark side :o)

suggested swapping the plug / socket in the server room, for ones that had the ROUND earth pin, so normal 13A plugs would not fit

seemed to work, as no more outages, BUT we were never told what the logs showed :o)

BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them

here lies a brave man

not quite brave enough, OR, tbf, dumb enough, to post in their account name, but brave enough to call out the wife FFS :O

as for the thread direction, personally, I think AI in control of the AC is a marvellous idea, and yes, you may think I'm mad, but you should also realise, I am also, now, RETIRED :o)

BOFH: Nobody would be stupid enough to go live with the mirror system, surely

aye, just the one, as all the others only discover it once they are in a terminal decline :o)

did they set it all into AUTO, or just set HIM into an auto :o)

Re: Yay!

and Simon, NOT in a tunnel, we'll never hear the end of it :o)

AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios

do NOT launch, I want you to pull the plug, and power down

I can't do that Dave !

has anyone else played DEFCON - Everybody Dies

not a great deal of game play, 30 or 40 minutes positioning your anti missile systems, and your ICBM's

then another 30 or 40 minutes as the world goes to hell in a hand basket

each hit gives a commentary on how many died there, with a counter to add all your losses v all their losses

like I said, not much game play, but the article reads like the 'LLM's' were fed this amount of data :o)

it DID have a network option, but after a few goes most of us who were playing, moved to solo play to try and figure out a win scenario

needless to say, the only way to win is not to play won out :o)

Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

more a Fukushima HOT Spot tbh :o)

NO

please tell me you are not going down the Bambi Burger route :o)

just waiting for the settle down deer comments LOL

AI can predict your future salary based on your photo, boffins claim

SO glad I'm retired now :o)

scared to think that even though I am 6'3" and kind of fit, my looks may well have the companies asking for their money back LOL

British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases

one would have hoped that the ARMED forces, already HAD the option to take out anything that intruded over / around their bases

and I AM aware that even at Buck House, the only ones carrying weapons and ammo, are the police, as the services are not allowed to carry on the streets

but there has to come a point, where our national security interests are best served by stopping intrusions ASAP

what was the old saying ? better to ask for forgiveness, than to ask for permission :o)

we live in hope that when the inevitable day arrives, that the forces clear it away, clean and fast, and, ideally, no witnesses

as I can only imagine the storm the MSM would create from anything they perceive to be not good

Kids learn computer theory with wood, cardboard, and hot glue

Re: Inevitable

[quote] Refresh rate isn't great though and there's quite some lag on network games [/quote]

Ah yes, network lag when playing COMBAT MISSION :o)

played it for a few years, back when PBEM was a thing, and the lag was worse if you used 2nd class stamps LOL

still got the COMBAT MISSION discs too, just in case LOL

and, just in case the general age of the readership has dropped somewhat :O)

PBEM = Play By E Mail

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay

SO, who will build it, and not asking about GRU, although did they pick that name after watching MINIONS, when Gru miniaturized the moon ? :o)

asking about the labour, who will provide it, and how do they intend to power it, I do NOT imagine the obscenely wealthy would like to prance around up there and not let the peons back on Earth how they are getting on :o)

so will it be WIMPEY, taking their NAVVIES to places they have never been before ?

and even though even I can smell scam, it is always worth asking the odd ball questions, they WILL be prepared to field questions re finances and ROI, but the down and dirty on how much will they PAY the poor swine actually going to install it, and where will THEY stay whilst it is ongoing, doubtful they will be allowed into the hotel, I mean, it is costing upwards of $10 MILLION to stay there, would they want to share space with the peasants who built it ?

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

Re: Please allow me...

maybe cunt IS the word here, but out THERE, where we tread carefully, cnut is what we use, the use of cunt could well get past the defences of GROK, and even ole Elon Muskolini, creator of the Swastikar might well miss the point of the abuse :o) but they know what we mean when we throw out CNUT

Yes, criminals are using AI to vibe-code malware

so it's SHIELD

SHIELD stands for:

S – Separation of Duties:

H – Human in the Loop:

I – Input/Output Validation:

E – Enforce Security-Focused Helper Models:

L – Least Agency:

D – Defensive Technical Controls:

what do you say to that ?

I'd say someone REALLY wnated this to be called SHIELD :o)

BOFH: The Christmas spirit has run dry – time to show some chiller instinct

Re: 44 gallon drums

OK, I tend to want to try regional fare, lived, worked in Brazil, found Pinga, NO idea what it was, what was in it, but even brought a few bottles back with me :o)

but - Malört, a bitter liqueur with deep roots in Chicago

somehow, the final description has sort of put me off, maybe I'm getting fussy in me old age, or maybe I know the old drinking tube and associated appendages have only got so many gags left in them :o)

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau

there is a reason we went to metric, but still like to use imperial, and TIME< not XKCD, but Calvin and Hobbes to the recue

https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=JodI0q2A&id=1A6047F6882743DEBED7F438D0933700A2B565A5&thid=OIP.JodI0q2ApFSBgbaERhhKtwHaJg&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fi.redd.it%2fxofvlxqlce191.jpg&cdnurl=https%3a%2f%2fth.bing.com%2fth%2fid%2fR.268748d2ad80a4548181b68446184ab7%3frik%3dpWW1ogA3k9A49A%26pid%3dImgRaw%26r%3d0&exph=725&expw=565&q=calvin+and+hobbes+what+is+a+pecks&FORM=IRPRST&ck=68176CF83E8D00FFBE345EFFCAE982BD&selectedIndex=0&itb=0&idpp=overlayview&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0

sorry for the delay

but I am SO old that MY Subbuteo only had a few teams,

all RED

all BLUE

all WHITE

RED shirts- WHITE shorts

BLUE shirts - WHITE shorts

there WAS a few of the LIGHT BLUE available so the assorted Chester FC / Man City FC could play along too

IF Dukla Prague played in the above colours, then YES, I had Dukla Prague apparently :o)

for YOU, Brekkie

for ME, all this talk of pasties has me thinking about nipples, A LOT ;o)

I'm just a sad little degenerate

but I do have hobbies

that's things to do, not the raptor

used to play Subbuteo

the soccer game, again, not the raptor :o)

Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold

is there any corollary to AI spending, along the lines of Moores Law at all ?

as in the spending on AI doubles every year ?

seems like there should be something out there, as the numbers involved now are getting to be a bit silly :o)

70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture

Re: "after his family agreed to let him do so"

that there Dan Price paid ALL his workers at $70 000, there was laughter in the streets at his suicide mission, now, six years on, all is still thriving, people actually WANT to come into work, and get paid a proper wage for doing so - who knew :O <3

CEO who gave all his employees minimum $70,000 paycheck thriving six years later

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/lifestyle/ceo-who-gave-all-his-employees-minimum-70-000-paycheck-thriving-six-years-later-b2194735.html

Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage

SO, has enough tech nous to set up a script to alter THOUSANDS of passwords

does NOT know how to clear logs - FFS

BofH would be SO disappointed in this creature :O)

Google's AI is eating your email by default. Here's how to shut its mouth

looking more and more like Google have accepted that a fine, will just be pocket change to their bottom line :o(

even if it EVER reaches BILLIONS of $$$

they make enough to absorb that in a week or so, this is getting what they want, at a price they can easily afford :o(

Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service

not sure, but Windmills

BIG Fan :o)

BOFH: Recover a database from five years ago? It's as easy as flicking a switch

[quote] I think the injury register would prove that the server room is a dangerous area [/quote]

short n simple sentence, brings them all back, and now I am howling LOL :o)

‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’

[quote] “You'd think at this point we would have learned our lesson,” Holden told Who, Me?

Of course they hadn’t. [/quote]

I DO believe that this phrase could be used in a LOT of the "Who, ME" if not almost everywhere TBH :o)

AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle

Re: It just goes on and on...........

[quote] I wonder if any of the accountancy types who promised that "the cloud" would be a fantastic replacement for "on premises" data centres are available for comment?

....or Gartner? [/quote]

we can all wonder, but I will not be holding my breath :o)

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

From the BBC :o)

AWS is a US giant with a large global footprint, having positioned itself as the backbone of the internet.

It provides tools and computers which enable around a third of the internet to work, it offers storage space and database management, it saves firms from having to maintain their own costly set-ups, and it also connects traffic to those platforms.

That's how it sells its services: let us look after your business's computing needs for you.

But today something very mundane went very wrong: a common kind of outage known as a Domain Name System (DNS) error.

People who work in the tech industry will be rolling their eyes right now.

This common error can cause a lot of havoc.

"It's always DNS!" is something I hear a lot.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev1en9077ro

KuzuDB says so long and thanks for all the commits, marooning community

and, as always, there IS an XKCD just for this :o)

https://xkcd.com/2347/

Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers

VodaFone client for home, retired now, but work was also VodaFone

for me, lost interweb access

pull up CMD <3

ping to my router, all good

ping 8.8.8.8 fell over

tracert to 8.8.8.8 stopped at my router too, guessed there was an issue with VF themselves

did the classic, powered off router / fibre hub - restarted, waited

in their defence, it's the first time I have NOTICED they went off

Re: Oh my days

trying to work out how long 50p would last today :o)

and if you could actually get the coins in fast enough LOL

NASA bars Chinese citizens from its facilities, networks, even Zoom calls

see, simple answer to the question, not rocket science was it :o)

Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

wanted to UP vote this SO bad, but its on 42 ffs, what's a geeky nerd supposed to do LOL

appears that SOMEONE isn't of the HHGttG attuned variety, and 42 just went over there heads:o(

McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

Re: Sigh

ambient IQ has now gone into the BURN BANK LOL

T - omorrows

I - ssue

T - he

S - same

U - ser

P - roblems

Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI?

Re: Blind spot

I got it to the ElReg special of TITSUP as :-

T - rying

I - ntentionally

T - o

S - eriously

U - pset

P - eople

DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats

Re: KISS principle as applied to municipal water systems

SCADA should never have been internet connected

but it made things SO easy :o(

and people, if they are anything, are lazy

given the option of checking on services from home, or having to drive in and check it

the WFH option will always win out

maybe one way to help save the services IS to disconnect the systems once again, and this time, let people know why it is being done, and announce real disciplinary reprisals for those who attempt to re-connect

might just work ?

Another massive security snafu hits Microsoft, but don't expect it to stick

[quote] Microsoft warned it was aware of active attacks targeting on-premises SharePoint Server customers [/quote]

oh good, they ARE aware - phew

for a minute there, I thought this one may have escaped their all seeing eyes :o)

but seriously, we all use Windows, even if it's just to take the Michael out of it, but I, like countless others have a job supporting the swine

and the number of bugs around, it seems like they are looking at it as just another day, whereas we, are getting a little tired of it all

now, I realise that it is too late to implement secure coding for a product that is SO out there, but really, could they not even TRY to fix bugs 'properly'

and NO, I don't have a clue on that level, wouldn't recognise a bug if I caught one

STILL, W11 up soon, surely they will have all this malarky sorted by then :oP

German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk

could be worse

long time Father Ted fan here

what if ARSE - FECK - Women's Fecking Knickers had taken off, as it were :o)

C-suite sours on AI despite rising investment, survey finds

and C level droids are certainly expensive

and the more AI involved, the less meat sacks are required

possibly they HAVE seen the long term forecast, and it doesn't include them :o)

'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress

Re: Monkey

isn't this the play for the Richard Branson, and training

but sir, if we train them, they will just leave to go elsewhere

to which, the beardy one is supposed to have replied :- Yes, but if we DON'T train them, they will stay here :o)

BOFH: Rerouting responsibility via firewall configs

Re: ... or some cosmetically waxed neanderthals

yea - The team leader informs us that each person has their own specialty, though it looks like the skills of bum scratching and asking stupid questions may be over-represented.

that one hit home, memories of actually watching some monkeys in shirt n tie trying to re arrange an office, and 'accidently' starting a broadcast storm :o)

oh what fun LOL

Ransomware scum leak patient data after disrupting chemo treatments at Kettering

Re: Small change in law required.

as sound as that advice is, the data taken was close to a TERRA BYTE, that was for 3/4 of a million patients, just how much paper do you want them to hold ?

for the hospital, as I have posted previously, it isn't just the patient / treatment that is needed, you need to have a bed, the cleaning rota needs to be updated, the nursing staff will need access to records and be updated of all the patients treatments as they occur

we're at the stage now where they can, just, cripple along without IT, but only as a temp measure, and yes, we DID manage once, without computers, but that was pre computers, and we had cottage hospitals, and a smaller population, and tech hadn't advanced to allow so many operations as 'basic' your standard hospital D/B will be many TB's in size, possibly needing PB's of associated storage, and the staff to maintain it, as well as access it to analyse the data

so maybe we should take off the gloves, find just ONE of the gangs, and eliminate them, let it be known that there IS a step that is too far, and once you cross it, you are no longer needed on this world

maybe a tad excessive, maybe it needs to be enhanced

but either way, we are now FIRMLY entrenched with IT with all the pros and cons that go with it

and yes, the data should have been better protected, full encryption and MFA to even look at the file structures, let alone access a file

but we live here and now, and possibly the quickest way to curtail this intrusive work IS to eliminate

don't come back with the case of FOREIGN agents, you breach these walls, ALL bets are off.

We can do better we need to do better, and if it costs some scum there ability to process oxygen, so be it

Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box

I do believe you may have given Linux their best ever advert header LOL

Windows 11 has a list of specifications it requires, but the list for Linux is "electricity."

AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads

I read this, and I recalled when Outlook was still a baby, and you had the option for text based, or FULL HTML Emails :o)

I can see this as AI just wants the text based version, whereas WE, NEED the pretty pictures and all the fluff that goes with it

I mean, how boring going looking for all the bits for a PC when it's all the boring bits, just the facts maam :o)

doubtful anyone will run TWO sites, one for each, and I will imagine text only to be a tad cheaper to produce, let alone show

so are we looking at the interwebs heading BACK 20 years ....................

From Russia with chokehold: Putin says foreign IT firms still in Russia should be 'strangled'

be glad he said strangle :o)

as this IS MS Windows, and defenestration is SO popular over there :o)

What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer

Re: Doesn't need to be done

All those who've heard about the end of W10 and have a box that won't DOWNGRADE to 11 :o)

now there's a SLOWWWWW burn :o)