Posts by IGotOut

Jeff Bezos wants to build a business park in space

Nice tax haven you have there...

.... shame we don't have the funds to keep that defunct satellite from smashing into the side of your office block.

If only we had some more tax payments from the 1%ers.

GCHQ director outlines plan to 'go after' links between ransomware crims and state actors

Reading between the lines.

"... have procured capabilities in a perfectly legitimate way globally and have won the trade battle because the products have been pretty good"

Is this a roundabout way of saying there was, as most suspected, no real threat from Huawei?

Google deliberately throttled ad load times to promote AMP, claims new court document

Here is how to really hurt google

... make them issue a full refund for all normal adverts served since 2015 and until this nasty bit of malware is removed from existence.

Facebook's greatest misses: The five nastiest bits from recent leaks

Figures.

"In September 2021 1.93 billion humans were counted as daily active users,"

I think humans is the wrong word, as 50% are most likely bot accounts.

Online harms don’t need dangerous legislation, they need a spot of naval action

Re: Addicts

Yup get in saying most politicians are corrupt assholes, only in it for the money and power, doing knee jerk reactive policies, while kissing their parties ass so hard it forms a vacuum seal, while you still can

Cleanup on aisle C: Tesco app back online after attack led to shopping app outages

Re: Non story - the press tried to big up to another fuel shortage..

Then there is Occado, Asda, Sainsburys, Iceland, Amazon, deliveroo, that "farm" one advertised on the telly and probably a dozen others.

Re: Deliveries

Depends when you got your license. Also you need to take an additional "license" if doing it as part of your job. I. E if you do the the odd run for your employer it's OK, but if your job is a van driver, you need the additional course.

Is this the Dail Mail?

Posting a random tweet from a random nobody who doesn't have a clue.

Still he has 5 followers, so I guess he's classed as an "influencer"

No swearing or off-brand comments: AWS touts auto-moderation messaging API

We see you tried to use...

.... ****.

Here are Amazon's Choice Sex Toys instead.

Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer – holding the web back for everyone

Oh no...

... there isn't a new feature added every 4 weeks.

Here's an idea, slow it down to Safari's 6 month cycle and get shit right and stop pissing people off with new "features" and "improved experiences" nobody asked for.

Google trims the cut its Play Store takes from digital subscriptions, ebooks, music streaming

Re: 3% pay costs for the other 97%

Because the free stuff is rammed full of ads. And who gets a big juicy cut of the revenue from the ads?

Research finds consumer-grade IoT devices showing up... on corporate networks

Re: News at 9....

My old network manager used to disconnect rouge kit and pop it in the security office without saying a thing....So much unclaimed kit.

If he was in a really bad mood, he'd pop it in the dishwasher.

Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser

Re: 50 years ago, when I was 11

"This is, of course, Irony if you don't understand what I am saying, otherwise it is Sarcasm and this post should be immediately deleted lest innocents learn"

What?

Re: Soon HTTP as well?

"How do I access my private NAS over a private, airgapped LAN?"

Well if it's "airgapped" you are completely unaffected by any and all updates, so keep using the old browser.

Not hard was it.

Re: So....

You do realise many other browsers dropped it some time ago, and my guess it's going to be Chromium that has dropped it, so see it dropped from plenty more soon.

Microsoft unveils Android apps for Windows 11 (for US users only)

Re: "Android apps for Windows 11"

Go and learn about the Linux Subsystem and how it's completely different to "developing Linux Programs"

Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government

Having worked with BT /Openreach....

....the database will be useless.

Multiple engineers have rocked up asking if I knew where the cables ran across the road as the documention hadn't been updated for decades.

This was typical across multiple towns.

Windows 11 Paint: Oh look – rounded corners. And it is prettier... but slightly worse

Re: Paint dot Net

I'd recommend Affinity of PDN. Different tools for different jobs.

Paint is for the quick and dirty. An in-between Snipping tool and a proper editing program

Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors

Re: eWaste

I'll tell Thailand they're part of China then, given my phone was made there (Sony). My TV seems to have been made in South Korea which I'm assuming is another renegade province...

And where did many of those components come from?

As soon as I see "Red" China, I know what sort of person is posting.

Microsoft admits to yet more printing problems in Windows as back-at-the-office folks asked for admin credentials

Re: Thankfully...

So the directors are ok then.

Re: Easy Alternative

The flip side, I could never get my Samsung printer to work on Linux, and going by all the forum posts, neither could anyone else. Yet in Windows, no problem at all

Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children

Really odd...

How this seems to be a modern issue.

I went to a school of 1600 pupils and never had to queue for more than a few minutes... even then we just chatted to our mates.

Oh yeah,back then there was common sense ideas such as staggered breaks and enough staff to serve.

What do you mean you gave the boss THAT version of the report? Oh, ****ing ****balls

I was well known for being brutally honest, so I had to have my line manager as a translator.

Me: I can either fix the *****ING problem, or I can waste everyone's e *****Ing time, telling ****s who dont have a *****Ing clue what I do for a job, some information that's serves no ******Ing purpose.

Line Manager: He's working on the issue as we speak and I'll keep you updated on progress.

Heart FM's borkfast show – a fine way to start your day

For those outside the UK

Heart is part of a conglomeration of "local" radio stations.

They general play the same bland, middle of the road sings, 80% of which are old classics (read the most overplayed records in history). Throw in some "wacky" presenters and you are good to go.

And when I say local, it's really a national radio company that just plays lip service with some local adverts and a couple of local news headlines.

Seriously, you couldn't get more dreary radio if you tried.

US Army slows ~$20bn project to put Microsoft's HoloLens VR headsets into the field

Re: "increase lethality"

War is not won in the Battlefield , but in the factories.

Electric car makers ready to jump into battery recycling amid stuttering supply chains

I like the idea of an electric future...

but parking anywhere between 50m and 500m from my house, I still have no idea how the **** I'm supposed to charge it.

And before people mention streetlights, they are about 25m apart, well, where there are street lights that is.

LAN traffic can be wirelessly sniffed from cables with $30 setup, says researcher

Re: Slowing the network down externally

It's so slow the link you be utterly unusable.

The tcp chatter trying to work out what's going on would drown this out instantly.

I'd think someone would notice a link running a 1 baud pretty quickly. Heck even a keep alive is more than that.

'Father of the Xbox' Seamus Blackley issues Twitter apology to AMD over last-minute switch to Intel CPUs

I wonder....

... if this late switch was part of the cause of the infamous ring of death.

Nine floors underground, Oracle's Israel data centre can 'withstand a rocket, a missile or even a car bomb'

Well...

... if you're going to backdoor a product, may as well be as close to the requester as possible.

User locked out of Microsoft account by MFA bug, complains of customer-hostile support

If you think Google are any better...

...think again.

Me: Can't login as it is saying account doesn't exist. If I try to recreate, it says account already in use.

G: You need to login and update your settings.

Me: Can't login as it is saying account doesn't exist.

G: Have you tried reset in the account

Me: Can't reset as it is saying account doesn't exist.

G: Try creating a new account with same credentials.

Me: Account already exists.

You know how this is going. It went through 4 teams of over 4 weeks "experts" before finally someone actually properly looked at the issue.

Oh did I mention this was a Paid for account?

Booting up: Footballers kick off GDPR case for 'misuse' of their performance data

Would these...

... be the same betting companies that sponsor their clubs and players.... I. E pay their wages?

England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data

Re: A Real Nazty Virus ......

Time to say my goodbyes.... Amanfrommars made sense.

The world is truly coming to an end.

Ahhh... Taking back control.

See the government is doing what they promised. Taking (some sort of) control back from the peasants and giving it back to those in power.

All is good again.

Every Little Helps: Former Tesco boss Dave Lewis to advise UK govt on supply chains

Here is an idea.

Tell the media to shut up about constantly banging on about shortages. If the brain deads stop panic buying, we'd be OK.

OMG there is a shortage of Kellogs cornflakes! Well, buy that other fucking brand right next to them.

99% of the "shortages" just mean you have to buy a different brand, or (insert deity) forbid, you don't buy that item this week

#firstworldproblems

How not to train your Dragon: What happens when you teach an AI game sex-abuse stories then blame players

But the computer dials you back. Did you learn nothing?

Gartner's Windows 11 adoption advice: Explore but don't rush

It's Gartner. Just means MS didn't put enough in the envelope.

Wow...

Another stunning piece by Gartner.

Cue a thousand directors telling every Windows admin on the planet "I personally think its not a good idea to roll out a brand new version of Windows just yet."

Then sits back bathing in his knowledge of IT.

Surrey County Council faces £700k additional SAP support fees as £30m Unit4 ERP set to miss go-live target

No problem.

Just raise the council tax.

Fixed.

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.

Sigh.

Facebook rendered spineless by buggy audit code that missed catastrophic network config error

Re: Out of band management?

"all have physically separate connectivity ( fibre or 4G dongle"

Oh you poor deluded fool.

Just wait until a digger slices between the trunk line of an exchange. Then you have a cascade fault, which means the alternative exchange, that your other carrier uses falls over. Then you realise your 4G is relying on the same fibre bachaul as has just been sliced.

It's OK you have a third link, but that alternative European link you have is now routing through another country, who just happens to have a big outage themselves.

If this sounds like fantasy, it's not. Had it happen..... Twice.

Brit builders merchant Travis Perkins opts for Oracle after ERP disaster with Infor

It's OK, it's cloud, so they will already be no doubt automatically paying for more licenses than they need.

User to chatbot: Help! My kid has COVID! Chatbot to user: Always wear a condom

Ii can't see the problem.

They look exactly like the correct answers you'd get on any forum or social media.

We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage

All their tools were down as well...

... How about a "I could of told you so".

That's why you have all your tools and documentation on a couple of laptops, that don't require online access.

Signed every techie over 40 years old.

My experience. Internal DNS went nuts and pretty took out the entire business. Luckily us telecoms guys had the ability jump on our kit, get going and let the server kids fix their fuck up.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally

Other sites down...

Look at many others and they will have "Log on with Facebook" Option.

The same thing that took down loads of sites just a few months ago.

"I suspect users are blaming their ISP for their lack of Facebook connectivity"

I'd say the "No Internet Connectivity" on all my devices is the real giveaway.

And as many will use Vigin for at least part of the back haul, it will affect other carriers as well.

Waymo, Cruise get green light from California's DMV for self-driving taxi services

It's reading articles like this....

... that make you think the luddites may of been onto something after all.

Re: "when the rain and fog aren’t too heavy"

"Well they're not going to be opening offices in London any time soon then."

Never underestimate the power of a brown envelope.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends

Re: Pointless

Then you would pay for most of the stuff on the Web.

We want content, but we don't want to pay for it.

And no, I don't know what the answer is.

If it's going to rain within the next 90 mins, this very British AI system can warn you

I've a similar method.

Look out window... Done.

Re: Don't need AI for this!

I love the Scottish phrase "Summer is the best day of the year".