Posts by TimMaher

France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead

Re: "Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein"

Don’t mention 1864. OK?

Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers

Re: Burglars

Burglar3> Oi lads! I just heard that Joey, owns the Greasy Spoon, got nicked for having a toaster. It was connected to the internet or something. Bummer…

Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks

Re:- Support for signal

Well, it’s all those little flags being waved about. Not to mention Morse Code dits and dahs.

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

Next up... gender.

Just to protect the lovely ladies from the nasty stuff their men enjoy.

Especially if they live in Gilead.

Re: “ditch it”

But then it would be in a ditch, not a gutter or sewer.

Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo

Re: “bloke in a skirt”

Scottish?

'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge

Re: Echo

I have just seen the cat twice.

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

Re: using computers since 1979.

Snap.

Re: 1984

The Ministry of Truth would like a word, @Qwerty44.

Re: new file in /etc/

It’s the US @Bebu. So the dob should be “mmddyyyy”. So useful.

FTFY.

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

Re:- North Star.

Brilliant @mdubash but, couldn’t we swap that to Polar Star?

Sounds a bit more posh.

Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire

Re: intern..

… vibe coding using AI.

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Re: “Pluribus”

Now that was a really weird series!

Re: WASP rules?

How many WASPs does it take to change a lightbulb?

Two. One to mix the dry martinis and one to call the electrician.

I think that was in Mad Magazine. A generation ago.

Re: "South West German clocks”

A long time ago, I worked for Kienzle.

Nuff said.

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom

BFG 9000

I’m first to mention it.

I claim my beer!

Re: Triskelion

I thought that was in Cornwall?

Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters

Re:- “Super cj”

Sorry, no ice cream available.

Have a beer.——>

UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries

I don’t need an AI agent…

… to paint me a movie book.

I do need an expert system (AI?) to analyse my latest CT scan.

Please… CAN WE GET A GRIP! (Trumpish).

Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies

Re: “drones on the doorstep”

Do you live near Gatwick @Mickey?

AWS would rather blame its own engineers than its AI

Re: Three Laws of Robotics.

Thanks Isaac.

UK tech hit by double trouble: Fewer foreign techies amid skills squeeze

Re: “dicks in the hiring process”

Also AI.

Ex-Amazon UK boss lined up to chair Britain's competition watchdog

Re: Well-oiled door

Was he a friend of Jeffrey Epstein?

Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best

Re: SafeWay

Aren’t they now Morries?

Attacker gets into France's database listing all bank accounts, makes off with 1.2 million records

Re: Internet

Or maybe just the Wobbly Wobbly Web?

I’d hope so but I think you are probably right.

Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans

Re: 1/4d

Or farthing. Which he is, in terms of being a long way off from humanity.

Mine’s in the pocket, rather than down the back of the couch.

SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists

Re: Norwich

Two hundred thousand people and eight surnames.

PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions

Re:- bulk email

The AI agent will also have left BCC switched on by default.

Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame

Re: Tape transfers

That just reminded me.

In the 80s I wrote a BACS transfer program to shift transactions from Kienzle badged TI990 systems to be read by an ICL mainframe.

In macro assembler.

Re: I still use HDDs.

8 by 4TB in the Drobo.

4 by 3TB in the Mac (RAID 10).

2 by 1TB also in the Mac as system & image.

A few spares in external drive bays… just in case.

Don't believe the hyperscalers! AI can't cure the climate crisis

Re: Snickers

From the knickers.

Re: shoe

No! Follow the gourd!

I’ve got one in my pocket.

Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work

Re: “What’s next?”

Get shown the exit.

Palantir spent $25M on CEO flights so Alex Karp could do all the talking

Re: carp

Or “crap” as we call it.

Have a beer.

CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price

Re: Substitute 'magician' or 'priest' for AI.

@Tron… you have been ex-communicated.

Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors

Re: polka dots

Which will be the same colour of orange, to improve system integration.

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

Re: “Hamlet”

rm or not rm? That is the question.

Whether it is better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous backups,

or, by deleting, end them?

Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder

Re:- English and Welsh

And don’t forget Cornish, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Gaelic.

Re: No reflection

Could we expose him to daylight?

AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment

This is stupid.

All it needs is a conversion program/suite written by a team that understands networks.

Then it should be implemented by the local network admins to deal with the setup in their organisation.

Anything else is just bollocks.

Re:- vodka

Totally trust it. White Goose is pretty good.

British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain

Re: Zaks, Programming the 6502

I’m handing over their coat. It was at the back of the cupboard.

Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031

Re: FLAP-D?

I think it was supposed to be FLAP with smiley face at the end… =D.

They put in a - by mistake.

Re:- sunlit uplands

C’mon @LogicGate, you forgot the snark tags.

January blues return as Ivanti coughs up exploited EPMM zero-days

Re: Injection

And which dickhead executes the contents of a GET parameter? Or any other.

It’s data!

More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

OpenClaw

What is this supposed to actually do?

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

Re: mini-computers.

Yup.

TI990-10 running DX10.

Great macro assembler language.

Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

Re:- PiHole.

Out and about at the moment, quaffing delicious Duvel.

VPN to home. PiHole working fine.

VPN sometimes drops out but generally excellent.

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

Ice cream van.

Where is the fifth horseman?

Curse of AI to push up PC prices as memory and CPU shortages bite

Toast

Does this mean that my new, internet connected, app managed toaster will become more expensive?