Posts by MrMerrymaker

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

Re: I told them it was a busted flush

It's all about you, is it?

Re: Quill Pen Utilisation Anyone?

Citation needed. Totally wrong analysis of anti whip system anti FPTP Burnham there. Sources for your post or are you just talking out of your arse?

Re: 'I am not a number'.

Your post is weirdly combative but would like to see the people you're replying to answer these fair questions.

"Presumably you only pay cash, file your tax return by post and never use the digital passport gates - not even when the queue is shorter?"

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

Re: Hiding behind morals

Like they need help

Hi to the one guy down voting anti Reform stuff. Aren't you lonely? Peace be upon you x

Plex appeal fades as Lifetime Pass jumps to $750

So what?

EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way

I use IronFox

It lacks an old Firefox bug where switching to another app - say to enter 2fa - causes Firefox to refresh the page when you return, making online payments difficult as the site wrongly interprets it as you asking for a new code

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

Xiaomi

That is all

Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

Re: Oh no!

An attempt at humour, one presumes?

Join the IWGB

They help fight shit like this in the UK.

Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers

Re: I want one

911 shouldn't work

The number is 999.

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online

Re: Look! Over there!

Hey Harry you sound like a bigot

Re: Look! Over there!

Just a post to say science has proven conspiracy beliefs are tied to low self esteem and other worse mental conditions.

Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years

Maybe they're changing

Lol I crack me up

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

Re: You cannot easily discriminate between…

I tend to buy my chocolate down the shop.

One wonders from where you produce your own Snickers?

Scandal isn't it? Our climate action groups should be obeyed on a grand scale

I am glad you agree: do not ignore climate action groups

Re: AI is the Messiah

Allah or AI?

Re: AI is the new god

Climate change is a real threat though

Mind you so is AI

Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos

Not seeing the problem

Females? Sold.

Nah, seriously.

It was wrong to prank this way as it subjected everyone involved including the prisoners to an unnecessary situation

Prisoners aren't performing monkeys

AI to make call center agents 'superheroes,' not unemployed, says industry CEO

Re: Gartner who

The UK law is shit at barring directors

They will be superheroes

When they lose their job

Cause superheroes don't get paid.

Ex-Googler nailed for stealing AI secrets for Chinese startups

As moral as Google itself

There.

UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now

Re: Having left the EU in a hissy fit

The Tories were worse.

One word: lettuce

Re: And....

Interesting neither of the downvoters had the intelligence to tell you why you are "wrong"

Re: Given how many MAGA "influencers" turned out to be on the Russian payroll

Two consistent downvoters are MAGA losers

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

Downvoted for the obvious reference

6G isn't even here yet but mobile industry wants triple the spectrum

Re: in before

One down voter believes in bullshit

Re: 5G?

Yep I can confirm my mobile download speeds are great compared to 4g

in before

Insane conspiracy losers think 6g is some kind of mind control vector or other shit

As if that level of government competence exists!

UK Covid-19 Inquiry finds early pandemic surveillance was weeks out of date

Re: Just to be clear

By nature yes a working vaccine is good

Re: Wasting my taxes

Wrong.

Re: Scamdemic

You're insane, conspiracy dude

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

Twitter unaccessible

Always a silver lining

Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica

Re: Humbug

Don't be facetious and show some respect.

The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta

Re: This might kill Windows outside the office

Keep dreaming

Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need

iOS?

UK Online Safety Act 'not up to scratch' on misinformation, warn MPs

Re: What is missinformation? What is truth?

Not really gonna take advice off someone who can't even spell Misinformation.

Re: Totalitarianism never ends well

You sound like a mentally ill conspiracy theorist

Good luck getting that law passed.

You've lost the plot there Mr coward

This post is certifiably bonkers.

It's been proven a lot of the sentenced were in fact racist by the standard definition.

It was racist riots by wannabe fascists.

I was there.

EU tells US scientists to dump Trump for a lab in Europe

You seem to do this yourself though mate.

Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone

Re: Easy solution

Easiest solution - don't bother with AI

You're a fucking proven bigot though mate

Nobody is silencing you

I'm not for example

Just calling it as I see it. You rampage around loving the right and you hate anyone not on the right, I've seen it zillions of times

Having far right beliefs makes you a bigot. You are free to talk however most of your talking just continues this unpalatable worldview.

It's your fault you're amongst people who disagree.

Emphasis on the Coward there. Your logic is faulty and you're moving the goalposts.

Rich people don't need government hand outs end of.

Three Brits charged over 'active shooter threats' swattings in US, Canada

20 years it says right there.

Re: Only in United States Of America

Would but your down voters have the courage to explain why.

Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025

Re: Eventually….

What, a 405 not allowed error?

Yeah I can't see this probe doing that.

the chances of hitting Trump .

So you're telling me there's a chance

Cook'd: Judge says Apple lied to court in Epic case, asks Feds to mull criminal charges

which are the goodies

Epic I guess in this limited context

I'm just glad it isn't "whoever wins we lose" - might be but yeah Apple is a monopoly of one IMO (I use a MacBook for work, and haven't rioted yet, but I'm so glad I'm not the one paying for the accessories)

How Amazon red-teamed Alexa+ to keep your kids from ordering 50 pizzas

hate to praise Amazon

So I won't but

Go, red team!

Apply logic.

AI Is so over hyped and doesn't really exist as I'm sure this place knows

So a company actually looking to make a home use of it more than just hype = I ain't bowing to any overlords just yet but I won't insult Amazon over this

Not when there's so many other things.

But yeah go red team.