Posts by Ahosewithnoname

Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025

Re: Sadly, I could foresee the current internet issues arising YEARS ago...

Complains the person posting as AC...

Re: free weather apps or your phone

Well, most of the weather apps I've used disseminate nothing but fake news, that's for sure

Re: I find it amusing

Netflix is more dangerous than X and FB? Ok

Re: It's an easy go to

The risk with that is the type of free speech that ends up being curtailed fits whatever the government of the day decides should be curtailed

1.7M potentially pwned after payment services provider takes a year to notice break-in

"Slim CD takes the confidentiality, privacy, and security of information in its possession very seriously........ upon discovery of this incident....." the company said in a letter to potentially affected individuals.

"However, priory to the discovery of the incident we didn't give a rat's ass about security" the company didn't say in a letter to potentially affected individuals.

Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

Re: the mast

Not in 50m they weren't

Does anyone with any knowledge of the "nameless tech company" think they'd be competent enough to find the right sea, never mind the right yacht..

Command senior chief busted for secretly setting up Wi-Fi on US Navy combat ship

Re: Should be given a medal

You don't think maybe that wasn't meant to be taken 100% seriously?

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

Re: Have they tried

"reinitialised the node" used to look good on the helpdesk tickets

Two years on, 1 in 4 apps still vulnerable to Log4Shell

Yes, it is of course Microsoft's fault.

Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970

Re: Priorities

"How long will it take to fix?"...

"10 minutes longer than it would have done if you'd not called me"

Was always a favourite one of mine

Re: Yearly tasks....

NetWare was truly a thing of wonder, but bulletproof it most certainly wasn't

95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers

I'm shocked!, shocked I say!

Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster

Of course, it's always the Tories fault....

Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change

Re: Dream job.

I think you meant excel365

Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem

Re: They already do

You're not going to get any thanks posting objective replies to anything Microsoft related around here

Don't worry, folks, here comes Chuck Schumer with some ideas about regulating AI

You lost me at "Thought Leader"

£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit

Re: -10%

It did, back in the time of the Roman armies..

The wrong guy: Backup outfit Spanning deleted my personal data, claims Cohesity field CTO

Re: this guy is a STORAGE EXEC

I'm sure Cohesity's EULAs are free of any of the awful practices he describes..

Audacity fork maintainer quits after alleged harassment by 4chan losers who took issue with 'Tenacity' name

I think the commentards on here have already made up their own minds

Facebook appeals ruling that it stole tech. So, Italian judge issues new judgment: Pay 10 times the original fine

Re: Why didn't Facebook just buy the company?

Think it was the fine that was increased, no mention of compensation..

'Massive game-changer for UK altnet industry': BT-owned UK comms backbone Openreach hikes prices on FTTP-linked leased line circuits

Good luck trying that in rural Staffordshire

HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink

Re: print-free-for-life plan was "an introductory offer,"

Vegan in "vegan feels the need to tell everyone they're a vegan" shocker

0ops. 1,OOO-plus parking fine refunds ordered after drivers typed 'O' instead of '0'

Re: good grief

Apart from France, where they use numbers, the Netherlands where they don't use anything, and I'm sure many more examples

Companies toiling away the most on LibreOffice code complain ecosystem is 'beyond utterly broken'

Re: It's quite clear where the money is:

And then the IT dept can spend all of its time fixing LibreOffice produced presentatons that look like they've been formatted by a small child when viewed in Powerpoint by anyone in Corporate World

Microsoft drops a seemingly innocuous Windows Insider build, teases the future

Stop press!

Technical preview build in "unstable and full of bugs" shocker.. You don't _have_ to install it you know

Microsoft boffin inadvertently highlights .NET image woes by running C# on Windows 3.11

Re: 'Facts' are historically situated

"We should just take criticism of white men like men and"

Sexist!

LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them

Re: "Maybe the current outage is a sign"

or a rotor, perhaps?

Beware the trainee with time on his hands and an Acorn manual on his desk

I didn't think you could put the 3.5" in upside down

I could throttle you right about now: US Navy to ditch touchscreens after kit blamed for collision

Re: Touch screens

Always been standard fitment in Audis and BMWs

Imagine an Upside Down world where a vastly inferior OS went on to dominate... Stranger Things have happened

Re: Once, in a fever dream it was working

Yes, because early 90's Linux was much much easier to configure....

HPE: Since y'all love cloud subs so much, we'll throw all our boxes into GreenLake by 2022

Re: “Everyone recognises that customers want technology delivered as a service,

An objective post about cloud in the comments section. Who'd have thought it..

Windows 10 May 2019 Update thwarted by obscure tech known as 'external storage'

H8rz gonna h8

Vendor in 'Unfinished beta software contains bugs' shocker..

RIP: Microsoft finally pulls plug on last XP survivor... POSReady 2009

Re: Rest. In. Peace.

If you work in tech and your productivity is really hampered by Win10's UI then I'd suspect said productivity wasn't that great in the first place.