Posts by stiine

BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime

Re: Plan Of Right Now

What names do you use on test users?

I used to use MChambers and JHolmes. I thought it was funny.

This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph

Speaking of speed

I wonder if there is a class for diggers at The Pike's Peak Hillclimb?

Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground

Re: We need a fixed sum to be paid for false positives.

Ah, a net benefit!

Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows

Re: And the hits

Well, it took long enough. Maybe they started with Aaron Aaronson

IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now

Re: "we’ve REACHED OUT to IBM to learn more"

I bet they didn't contact IBM, they probably only sent email to [e-mail] and are wating impatiently for a reply.

Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve

Re: Conflicted

As long as they don't make a habit of it.

Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out

compliance expectations

Does your company have compliance expectations? Do your regulatory agencies issue fines payable in Monopoly money?

I have to assume that some very large clients started excluding Microsoft domains, or someone bravely excluded some large CDNs and effectively lobotomised Copilot.

Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font

Sounds like the web version of The Impossible Quiz.

Microsoft makes Copilot harder to miss in Classic Outlook

Re: Switched back

That's just microsoft load balancing you to a server which doesn't acknoledge your access token. I have this problem as often as every 2 minutes on some days.

Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug

" OpenAI's accidental attack, "

Accidental? There's not a chance in hell it was 'accidental'.

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos

Re: Gone are the days

Aargh, I've been fighting to turn that 'feature' off for 40 fucking years. A recent update to Microsoft Teams Chat turned it back on recently, and I immediately opened settings and searched for the offending setting.

As an aside, how do i get all of the American English vulgarity into Android's dictionary? I'm a fucking adult and don't give two shits what parents of small children (or anyone else for that matter) think.

That reminds me of the line from Yellowbeard. "The head of her majesty's secret service, not to be read out loud" which gets read out loud.

Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours

Re: No Standing Forward of this point

If they put in a treadmill, you could run all the way...

outdoors?

I think that sentence needed another phrarse. Something like 'after landing' or 'before takeoff'.

America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks

Re: I don't care if the USA bans Chinese imports of anything

You're right, we should only permit export of munitions to Northern Ireland. Do you think they'd go after the docks first, or the power distribution network?

Never mind 'going rogue', it would be sufficient to make them simply slow down appreciably, or stop altogether.

Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires

Re: Meanwhile, in Cheshire.

Well, to be frank, they didn't detect the Vogons, did they?

Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory

Re: This "sounds" like a great antidote for nostalgia!

I don't have cassette nostalgia, but I do have AM radio nostalgia. Driving away from a station and having to adjust the dial every couple of mile at the edge of their broadcast area. Losing the signal when entering a valley, and having to sing or at least hum along until the siglal came back as I drove out the other side. Or having a decent , yet distant, rock station get overwhelmed by some bastards talking about Ole Miss football, Or Tulane football...aargh.

One of the best things about the digital era is being able to put a single song on repeat and listen to it all day long for a full work-week, without having to worry about making another copy.

LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in

In name only.

BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book

Re: "the sound of a large multifunction printer hitting a small white van from a great height"

But with practice?

Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com

Re: violence as a service???

Government, what would we do without it?

I know; most of us would die, including me, because I can't farm.

Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it

Re: Blind acceptance of "the normal"

Then you, like me, have never read them. Good on ya!

OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be

Re: So it's all OK, then?

Why do you think only the driver, by which I'm going to assume that you mean the person actually sitting in the drivers' seat, can cause a crash? You must not have a vehicle with On-Star or other telematics unit installed. I'd suggest that the difference between changing the throttle setting to idle is only a few bits away from turning the steering wheel to the right and accellerating.

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Re: Hugging Face

It reminds me of Half-Life. And that reminds me that I haven't watched Freeman's Mind in some time.

Re: One day in the near future

If I'm lucky, I won't even detect the flash becuase it will be too close.

Re: Skynet here we come!

Oh come on! Give the professional evil bastards some credit. They've been practicing and preparing and attempting to do this for longer than I've been alive.

AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert

Re: People paid for that?

So, you only throw £ coins at buskers?

UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years

Re: Just entertainers

Art, Sports, Cyber Affairs, and Media has a better acronym.

Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA

Re: It's not MIA - it's in the darned registry

Surely rotating a curved monitor would work, if your background image was a Falcon 9 launch image?

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

Re: AI is like alcohol!

I thought it was 'Fuck if I know!'

You must drink in a much more civilised pub.

Re: "because adults have learned critical thinking."

Nearly every type of human-derived evidence used by law enforcement (specifically, the U.S. FBI) have been proven to be garbage. The only thing* that law enforcement has that works, and they know it, is intimidation.

* - not exactly true since they can also just kill you and likely not be truly investigated or actually punished.

Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly

Re: a 2-week release schedule

But they're approaching Microsoft territory here...

NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage

I'd love to know what the original instructions were. Were they 'After restarting the ntp server compare the time on the server to the time on your company smartphone'... kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it.

I wonder what that technician's timesheet looked like... started at 10pm, stopped at 2am in 2020 for a total of -91250 hours, you owe us $3.65M, please report to the medical officer to relinquish 1/3 of your liver, 1 kidney, one lung, 20cm² of skin, and 4 toes.

The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web

Re: You knew the end was near

It still posts, but I don't read them so I can't comment on their readability or coherence.

Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices

Re: Validation and quality

I don't think they have their logging level set to show warnings...If they're logging at all.

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off

Re: Succession

Hopefully it will have the same attitude and vocabulary.

Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers

"Evidence from Australia shows children are much more likely to get around age checks by not being asked, giving false information, or even drawing on a mustache."

it is hard to fathom how not being asked can be defined as 'getting around'? Does the author of this statement need to apologise and then resign?

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

That's news?

Every admin does this once. The question is how long do you let it run once you know what its doing? Do you wait for a call on a different day, from corporate security in another office in another timezone? Did you really accept the defaults in HP OpenView and then let it try to discover every machine in a /8 network as quickly as possible?

EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope

Re: ... Meta underestimated the effect those features can have on users...

Ya think?

Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told

Re: "Orbital datacenter gold rush"

All it takes is the equivalent of a beach umbrella, and a 800U rack painted Vantablack.

If you think the sky was pretty 50 years ago, compare that to the sky between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago (I'll give you a hint, one of the words in this period's name is 'bombardment'.)

But I guess you want all of earth's cities razed as well as all of the wheat fields retuened to grassland?

Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space

OK, then what do you do?

So, you identify a satellite that emits radiation. How do you determine whose it is? Forget that since it will be the easiest part. Now what do you do to the nuclear power that launched the weapon into space. First of all, that used to cost serious money, but SpaceX changed that. Second, what in the hell do you intend to do to a nuclear power...that they can't do to you, but with added ICBMs (see icon).

EU 'Chat Control' snoopfest returns after vote to kill it falls short

Re: Chat Control.....

What you've missed is that they plan on scanning your input on your device as you enter it and before its encrypted for transmission.

New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead

Yep, it started way back when someone decided that --option should be used instead of -o.

GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely

Re: Intelligent and knowledgeable intern

You could delete it, but it won't have the same impact.

NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year

Yippee. Now I really want to go.

Or we could study Australians? Aren't they the same thing?

Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery

Re: Vim really isn’t that difficult

Nope. Once you figure out top/bottom/beginning/end/copy/paste/delete/undelete/quit without saving/exit and save, you never learn anything else...

Re: Forget about navigation keys...

More importantly, to exit without saving because all of those random 'get me the fuck out of here' keystrokes?

Re: How embarassing (level 2-2)

Gp will do it. Is there a single keystroke command that will do the same? I don't know, and I'm still use vim (in compatible mode in black-and-white) on a daily basis, and I don't care.

Re: Whenever anyone uses AI for code...

Care to share sum unanonymised results?