Posts by IGotOut

1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials

Re: IT, take notice

Add in the fact most mobiles use randomised MAC addresses all the time.

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

Terrible

Vivaldi Mobile.

Font sizes all over the place, depending if its a 1 or 2 column article. No idea why some are 1 column and others two

I can't see which articles I've read.

There's grey backgrounds, white backgrounds ,pink backgrounds, but no idea why.

Some articles have headings only.

Either side of the columns don't line up.

There are random blank areas.

.

It's a bloody mess. Change fine, but look at something like BBC news that is simple, but works.

Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors

Re: What the hell has happened to El. Reg?

It's a shitshow of bad UI design.

The articles are all over the place, I can't tell what I've previously visited and as for the one column , then two column, then back to one, sometimes white, sometimes grey backgrounds, font sizes that are all over the shop and some articles and leading text, some are just the title.

It's fucking horrible. It's so bad, even my local council has a better layout!

UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones

That reminds me....

...I must make sure when I do a bank robbery, that my car has the correct number plates and is up to date on tax and insurance.

Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

Ahh LinkedIn

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. "

DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to

Perfect....

For when I need to transmit a sequence of numbers.

More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook

Sigh...

"as NASA faced criticism that its flagship programs....demanded years of development and billion of dollars. "

Or one day of conflict in Iran

Just found this, not sure how accurate it is, but fucking hell!

https://militaryspend.org/us-iran-war

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

Re: Yup...

Both my girls are teenagers.

Yup...

...i helped my kids get around them.

Both my daughters are educated, level headed and are better at spotting bullshit on social media than most "adults". Besides I got up to way worse shit than they do now.

I'm in my 50s and stick two fingers up to society's oppression, conformity and mediocrity and I'm the happiest I've been in my life, a lesson learned far to late in life.

Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop

This...

...is what makes me happy.

When the tech Bros are ruining everything and destroying the planet, we have beautiful people making joyous items such as this.

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port

What????

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

Dear China...

...if you stopped your human rights abuses, you could be right up there in one of the best countries to live in.

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

That old one.

"and the agency's technical team were able to access the system across multiple browsers."

And when not on the internal LAN?

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

Re: I'm confused why...

Depends on which variant you look at

Wikipedia has London as their registered headquarters, as do most other sites.

Then you have:

Correspondence Address for all companies:

Canonical Group Limited,

3 More London Riverside

London

SE1 2AQ

United Kingdom

Canonical Group Limited

5 New Street Square,

London EC4A 3TW,

United Kingdom

Canonical UK Limited

5 New Street Square,

London EC4A 3TW,

United Kingdom

https://canonical.com/legal/companies

Then you have.

Company Information

Company Number 06870835

Company Name CANONICAL GROUP LIMITED

Address 5 New Street Square

5 New Street Square

London

EC4A 3TW

ENGLAND

Company Category Private Limited Company

Company Status Active

Origin Country United Kingdom

Incorporation Date 2009-04-06

I'm confused why...

....the only thing I can think of is it's registered in the UK. Unless it's a smokescreen for a different attack.

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

"like Apple - that all these AI lies would come true."

Apple out of all of the big tech companies are probably the least exposed to the AI bullshit. Note: LEAST, not free from.

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

I guess you never got past the first paragraph before commenting?

There is, of course, no air and no sound on the Moon, so a "Mach number" doesn't really make sense. But if there were air, the speed would be about Mach 7, seven times the speed of sound

Here we go again...

"there are no humans on or around the Moon, ".

Once again us earthlings only worry when it's us at risk.without the slightest concern for those that are actually affected.

I've heard the Clangers are frantically negotiating with the Selenites for asylum, as they fear their house are to shallow to survive a direct impact.

OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that

Usual ass kissing

"We will work with the entire ecosystem and the government to figure out trusted access"

That'll be Trumpistan , Russia and Israel then.

ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012

Re: More grift

and demanding the URL bar only be displayed in Trump Tacky Gold ™

I don't think I've ever seen one...

...or like most people that have seen one, took absolutely no notice.

I think a UK insurance company has one, but damned if I can remember which one (shows how memorable they are)

DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it

Re: DVLA are a nightmare to deal with

Been there, wrote the book. It's a fucking joke. It's no even "One Login" because to get anything done, you need that + whatever you tried to get into in the first place.

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs

Re: Coming to a workplace (very) near you soon.

Employers have been spying on their employees for a long time.

Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation

Got a pixel 7 pro...

...but that 2nd hand to replace my 2nd Huawei Pro 20. Wanted the Pro 40, but had to settle for an inferior phone instead due to political dick comparisons.

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'

Do they care about you?

Of course not.

But MSFT line go down.

That's all they actually care about.

Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises

What demand?

How many AI boosters go "Damn I was going to run this, but I can't find enough "AI" availablity. I wish there were just more GPUs so I could run this!"

EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online

Re: Will rooted phones be banned next?

"and I used to modify the advertising ID in the shared preferences of apps"

You can reset that quite easily on any Android device.

"The companies need to shut down the services to the EU."

Someone get him some crayons and explain why they won't do that. Hint: Money

Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative

Re: So...

Yup....

So...

...still full of rampant racist, sexist and homosexual views then, just with a more European centric bias.

Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm

Had to laugh

"a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle... "

Feel free to mention that Oracle also can't afford all it's promised infrastructure as well and is saddled with unsustainable debt.

Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects

"like the UK and Germany that have made massive 'investments' into 'renewables' have very high energy costs"

Let me educate you

"Why are electricity prices linked to gas?

The price of electricity is usually set by the price of gas-fired power plants in the UK, Italy and many other European markets.

This is due to the “marginal pricing” system used in most electricity markets globally.

......

As a result, whenever there is a spike in the cost of gas, electricity prices go up too."

The UK is aiming to break the link between gas and renewable energy.

You're welcome.

So to deliver value to the US taxpayer....

...he's going to use tax payer money for US companies to stop using already invested US money and get US oil, whilst simultaneously making oil more expensive for everyone because of US policy.

Got it.

Don't pay Vect a ransom – your data's likely already wiped out

Re: Education is painful

Bit like the "lessons will be learned" after every <insert scenario here> which a mouthpiece will spout out, only to repeat the same, but very slightly different, action next time.

Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet'

"We haven't canceled anything yet"

Well, except anything that celebrated black or female achievements in NASA.

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

A much more brutal policy we enforced...

...laptops were not allowed to be left out overnight (we'd had quite a few stolen over the years).

So one night, the IT team went into every room and picked up every laptop left out (think it was around 40 or 50) then handed them to security.

Imagine the panic as they wandered in the next morning to find there laptop missing and "demanding a replacement urgently!"

We just told them we couldn't issue a replacement until it had been correctly reported as stolen to security. Security took great joy in taking all the details, lecturing them how they shouldn't have left them out and warning them it is a disciplinary offence....before handing them their laptop back.

We did this every few months, eventually they got the message.

Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again

Re: So...

Again. How is it going to generate revenue?

So...

"That, he noted, took the form of a platform that wouldn't sell data to advertisers, didn't have an algorithm or ads - "

So how IS it going to make money? Even if it was completely non-profit, it will still need revenue for staffing, infrastructure etc.

ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds

Re: If it can function without him....

Because you need some one at the top to shout "AI". They then decimate the already overworked and demoralised staff, provide a shitier service and go "Look how good AI is", everyone loves it.

SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months

Re: Mid terms coming up…

Why?

Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space

Meta....

...looking at Musk's bullshit "promises" and going "we'll have some of that"

Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network

I wonder if the name is coincidence...

...given that The Prodigy's Firestarter just turned 30 .

Feel old now?

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop

Re: Remember the Intel v AMD wars

I'm old enough to remember when AMD made processors for Intel.

Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs

Well....

...you can buy them off the usual suspects for $100,000,000 each. Or just ask Ukraine if you can buy some battle proven ones for a fraction of that price.

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami

That reminds me...

It's Fredagstaco.

Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it

Or he went tappity tap and it said the average house in the 80s costing £80,000 is probably worth about £2million now, which I would totally believe, especially in London.

As an example, my parents bought their house in the 80s for £22,000 and us worth around £250,000 and that's in a crappy town in Worcestershire.

US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes

Re: Superfund Sites go nuclear

If anyone is in any doubt about the USA leaving toxic chemicals behind from their military bases, just as Greenland.

Using the password 'admin123' wasn't as bad as sharing it on Slack

Re: WHAT DECADE IS THIS?

Yeah, it it means it becomes

Password1

Password2

Password3

Etc

If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you

100% monitor to pc. Monitors have all kinds of connectivity, so given the crap you can do with a USB device (ID spoofing so the host thinks it's a keyboard) , it's possible that IT have locked down the USB ports on the PC, but this becomes another way in.

Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor

"I am strongly in favour of free speech, but I am not in favour of anonymity."

Excellent idea. You've just shut down a lot of insider information.

How many comments on here are "Anon because....reasons".

I personally wouldn't post a lot of what I have done, because some of it would reveal who I am and with the slightest digging would reveal my past employer and possibly my current one. As I've post multiple time with background knowledge of my previous and current employers work, I'd probably get fired.