Posts by IGotOut

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Hey Trump

....here is my answer.

Go fuck yourself, you narcissistic sack of shit.

Good, now hopefully Im barred from the USA.

Canada, still love you guys.

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Re: As usual

I'd suggest you actually read the article...

"House Armed Services Committee chair Mike Rogers (R-AL) and ranking Democrat Adam Smith (D-WA), responsible for much of the final version of the bill, have received significant contributions from defense contractors in recent years"

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

Ooooo

I've made some numbers up so far in the future that when it turns out to be bullshit, I'll be long gone.

I'll file this with jetpacks, flying cars, the 3 day working week, atomic powered flying saucers and world peace.

Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts

@buffer.

Go learn history, especially around the luddite movement.

Once you have gained an education, please report back.

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

And....

Cue Beast , Voice of "Truth" and others in....3....2....1...

Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level

Oh no

... parasitic scumbag billionaires are finding it harder to rip off hard working people's content.

Same it can only block, not delete their servers.

Like most sane people I'm against malware, but boy do I wish someone would infect and destroy OpenAI /Anthropics entire systems.

Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft’s agentic future

Re: having just asked CoPilot about me...

I'm a graphic designer based in my village. I've done work for Disney, Netflix and Sony.

A talent I never knew I had.

Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes

Re: If I understand correctly

Put a stone in your shoe. Gait is now amended. Same if you wore stilettos.

Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas

Re: Zava?

Zavvi, Zara and Strava.

Microsoft is the knock tat shop of the world.... except for price tag.

UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up

Re: Whose word must we take?

@LongJohnSilverski

Remind us again comrade, which country invaded Crimea?

Which country has flown armed drones over NATO countries? Which country has repeatedly threatened to attack NATO countries?

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception

"Any European politicians have bank accounts here in America, seize them. We don’t need Europe’s BS."

Any USA politicians with European assets, size them.

Guess who comes out worse?

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

Re: We don't like them, we don't trust them, and we don't believe them.

Big companies ARE the government.

Just look at the USA as a leading example (followed by much of the rest of the world)

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch

Re: Enterprises can't take them seriously...

Pfft...

I saw a job for printers that wanted 45 years experience. I'm sure it couldn't be a typo* as they would have spotted it.

* Anyone that's done printing knows no matter how stupid the design or wording, the customer is always right.

UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash

This started under the Tories.

They are all power crazy c***s

PRC spies Brickstormed their way into critical US networks and remained hidden for years

You're more of a Unit 731 type of pond life I believe.

We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares

Re: Just a pie on the sky thought

The "enemy" is China now. Russia is soooo last century.

Why did they stop?

Oh because people stopped caring.

Then again it's a perfect time to relive 1950s / 60s America. Racism, homophobia & xenophobia, combined with massive inequality, you just need a moon landing to distract the plebs.

So....

Will it be "Orangey on the moon" this time?

Server prices set to jump 15% as memory costs spike

Simple answer.

Hold onto what you have for as long as possible.

Once the bubble pops they will be desperate for sales.

If a few companies fold because no one buys their kit....oh dear, what's shame.

Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative

For more info on the vile piece of shit Peter Tiel , have a listen to this.

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/303_peter_thiel_is_the_real_antichrist_w_gil_duran

EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform

This is great news.

All we need is for Meta to remove theirs and it will be so much better.

China using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroad

Just for balance

"The report notes that China’s censorship regime still needs human content reviewers, because AI can’t yet interpret satire, keep up with evolving idioms, or understand all minority languages."

"The report notes that Meta's and YouTube's censorship regime still needs human content reviewers, because AI can’t yet interpret satire, keep up with evolving idioms, or understand all minority languages, but good luck trying to contact a human"

Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator

Let me just file this...

...in the drawer marked "Things That Never Happened".

It's a REALLY big drawer.

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

I really hope...

...the AI bubble pops, and these price gouging assholes watch their entire market collapse and lose billions of Dollars and come begging for us to buy their surplus kit. They are all at at, so I hope they all collapse.

MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers

MAGA

are tearing themselves apart.

They thought they were voting for someone that's stands up for them.

Now they are slowly realising that Trump and Co are in it for themselves

They are seeing that AI "will" take away their jobs.

The government is going against many Christian values, showing greed, corruption, indifference to the poor.

They are making their military commit war crimes.

It's popcorn time.

Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse

They do not care

The tech bros lobbing satellites into orbit do not give a flying fuck how it affects you. If they can make money, or win a virtual dick waving contest they will do it.

They have zero morales and anything that gets in their way needs to be eradicated.

Windows 11 still barely pulling ahead of 10 despite end-of-support push

Slight alteration to article required

"The challenge facing Windows 11 is that, other than the end of free support for many versions, there is no must-have feature to make enterprises break a hardware refresh cycle"

Should read

"The challenge facing Windows 11 is that, despite the end of free support for many versions, there are plenty of must not have features making enterprises not want to upgrade"

Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report

Nothing new

I apparently have two government ID's, both registers to the same email address.

One can't be used for tax purposes and I can't get the information reset for the other because, guess what, it only will accept my information for the useless account.

Re: Vast improvement

Two weeks?

It took 17 weeks for them to tell me they needed more information for a Child Benefit transfer....which of course had to be via post.

19 weeks later, still waiting.

Waymo chalks up another four-legged casualty on San Francisco streets

Come to the countryside

I've given up replacing / repairing my bumper.

Two muntjacs , pigeons (they really have a death wish), pheasants, rabbits and countless rodents.

Near misses are a weekly occurrence, because I work nights, cats are a real issue.

The worst time is spring when they are the equivalent of teenage boys in a Wetherspoons, no common sense, just desperate to get laid.

Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong – machines were already on Windows 11

What waste of money? Getting rid of out of support software to in support software?

Upgrading to comply with multiple legislation?

Keeping the systems running?

Europol nukes Cryptomixer laundering hub, seizing €25M in Bitcoin

Re: Wouldn't it make more sense to take it over

They may well have done. They've done it before they announced the shutting down when they believe they may have been found out.

London grid crunch delays new housing amid datacenter boom

Re: That takes away one of the major "advantages" AI datacenter proponents claim

Pretty sure the 40 or so people they will employ can just sleep on site

Going by how the new "Your party" is going, I wouldn't trust him to manage the power in my TV remote control.

Kensington and Chelsea confirms IT outage was a data breach after all

Historical Data.

They only took information from the Doomsday book to the day we shut the barn door.

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece

Re: $150M ?

They could do science stuff, but these days in Medieval USA, that seems pointless

OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI

A lie?

Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam

So as pointed out..

“Zava,” a retailer which “specializes in intelligent athletic apparel."

So who has a go first?

The clothing retailer, Zara, or the fitness tracking company Strava, who could be loosely classed as an "intelligent athletic" company

Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence

Before everyone blames the user.

This is 100% the fault of Google, advertising agencies and the clueless ass kissing press.

For close on 2 years all we've heard day in, day out is AI is amazing, AI will change the world, AI is empowering everyone, look what AI can do.

So if a non technical user is told by the one of the worlds largest tech companies, useless fucking "journalists" and endless commercials that vibe coding is everything you need to get the job done, don't blame the user when it goes wrong, blame the lying sacks of shit constantly pushing the narrative.

It's their fault.

UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server

Really?

"for many years, noted that WordPress can be onerous to configure"

No it's not.

It's pretty fucking simple. The issue is adding 500 plugins you probably don't need, with half of them not seen a update in 3 years and then not bothering to check what they actually do.

Dutch study finds teen cybercrime is mostly just a phase

So you know what we should do?

Build more gaols. Lock them up with hardened criminals so they can move onto different, more violent crimes.

None of this namby pampy "education" or "opportunities to reform" or "chances to change their ways"

Lock em up I say.

GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are

Re: Pricing per gram please

"They describe height in feet, weight in stone and pounds (and hence ounces), volume in pints (and also ounces, but different ones), and distances in miles. "

Nah, it's a generational thing.

I was bor and decimalisation came in so I'm

5"10, weigh 67kg, measure short distances in mm, cm and m, but drive miles to work, but I did used to run a 5k most mornings. Couldn't tell you the MPG of my car but I know the price of petrol by me is £134.9 a litre.

I drink pints in a pub, but do like the odd 500ml can of beer from time to time.

Then you could buy a litre, a 2 pint or 2 litre bottle of milk at the same time as buying your 500g of cheese to put on your 1/4lb burger.

Ask my kids and they'll tell you their height and weight i metric, They measure all distances and weights in metric and will do the mental gymnastics to convert long distances to Km

Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

Re: Well

Have you got shares in a "particle beam accelerator" company? You keep banging on about them like you gave a fucking clue what your on about, but you may of noticed all the down votes by people who DO know what they are talking about.

Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records

A Leopard 1 or 2 in the server is God tier BOFH

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

Ahh "the good old days"

First up in impressed they were so advanced using TCP/IP rather than IPX/SPX .

But boy do I remember those days. My first IT job was desktop support and what an utter mishmash of systems that was.

It was the "switch over" days, so the estate consisted of Novell servers running IPX/SPX, NT servers using TCP/IP and IPX, desktops running Win 3.11 and 95, Wyse terminals, 10base2, 10baseT and 100baseT, Token ring 16/4, Baystack switches, ShivaRas servers and not to mention Compaq desktops that would happily slice a finger off if you dared try to remove a network card.

Those couple of years probably taught me more about trouble shooting than the other 20 odd years, not just in IT, but life in general.

Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks

Re: Ratners

You may want to research a bit more on Råtner.

It was a complete witch hunt by the media and the established elite jewelry trade.

They all looked down on him as he was a genuine self made millionaire who completely obliterated every other high street jewellers out there. People knew their products were cheap tat, but they gave the illusion of being expensive, which is what most people were happy with.

US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for tomorrow's threats

Re: Another MAGA decision....

No silly, the C90 IS the armoured version, they just needed to give it a camo paint job and add a few 0's to the price tag.

Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a $30m heist a day later

In no way...

..does this sound a little suspicious. No sirrrreee

FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover

It's lucky it was so benign...

If it's a potty mouth tirade, then most people would go WTF? Then move on.

If it had alarms going then a convincing voice had said "China has just launched several hundred missiles bound for the USA. They are due to arrive in the next 26 minutes. Please take shelter and await further instructions" I'd say all hell would have broken lose.

Apple’s lousy AI didn’t stop it beating Samsung’s smartphone sales for the first time since 2011

You sure on that

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/