Posts by Blackjack

Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software

People already have to deal with stuff being added to their digital shopping basket that they don't want, giving an AI your actual money to buy things? Yeah no.

Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet

Never let AI manage your money unless perhaps it is set to Scrooge mode and even then just never give it all your money.

Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence

[The Register asked Microsoft if this might be a step on the path toward the eventual sunsetting of the venerable Configuration Manager, but the company had nothing to say.]

Honesty I pity the people who has to deal with modern Windows problems on a regular basis, it honesty feels like Microsoft wants people to stop using Windows with how many crappy changes for the worst they make on the all the time.

Deploying to Amazon's cloud is a pain in the AWS younger devs won't tolerate

Counterpoint, most of all those alternatives still use Amazon Cloud.

So it doesn't matter to them, they still get the money.

Amazon complains that Perplexity's agentic shopping bot is a terrible customer

I can't believe I am agreeing with Amazon here but using a bot to make automatic purchases can end very badly. Is one thing to set alerts for when something goes on sale but bots won't read the fine print..

Win10 still clings to over 40% of devices weeks after Microsoft pulls support

No forced hardware upgrade if you are already using Windows 11, just forced AI that is hard to remove and or opt out.

Game on! Penguin levels up as Linux finally cracks 3% on Steam

If this keeps up it will be 10% in seven years.

Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons

“When SSLMate needs to access a customer's Google Cloud account, it impersonates the corresponding service account.”

I don't think any legit Cloud Service wouldn't have given him problems.

https://cloud.google.com/terms

Ehem "(b) Verification to use GWS Services. Customer must verify a Domain Email Address or a Domain Name to use GWS Services. If Customer does not have valid permission to use the Domain Email Address or does not own or control the Domain Name, then Google will have no obligation to provide Customer with GWS Services and may delete the Account without notice."

Microsoft, Alphabet throw more cash on the AI bonfire

Hey, how about all those hungry orphans? I know we could use them to test the AI for cents of the dollar!

Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market

First time in a long while that I agree with something this company says or does.

Students using ChatGPT beware: Real learning takes legwork, study finds

Students using ChatGPT beware, ChatGPT lies so your grades will suffer.

Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu

I use Ubuntu Pro because I have an old videocard, otherwise I would have gone full on LMDE to not deal with Ubuntu usual issues.

I do prefer flatpak over snap.

Developer puts Windows 7 on a crash diet, drops it to down to 69 MB

I wonder how much can you cut while still being able to play videogames? Because that's the sweet spot.

Microsoft Task Manager now tasking PCs with running multiple copies of itself

Honesty is like Microsoft actually wants people to stop using Windows at this point.

Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot

Hi, it looks like you want to be sued for corporate spying, do you want any help with that?

I honesty hope a big corporation either cancels their Microsoft contract or sues them from spying on everything they do.

AI is making Google and Meta even stronger and richer

One, AI is giving literally negative profits so far.

Two, a lot of people is having a negative reaction to not being able to opt out.

Three, all bubbles burst.

So how big will be the hole in these companies pockets when the AI bubble pops?

Ubuntu Unity hanging by a thread as wunderkind maintainer gets busy with life

The number of critical infrastructure Apps that depends on a single developer is insane. Not just fringe projects

This is Doom, running headless, on Ubuntu Arm… on a satellite

With a few tweaks it probably can run on Debian too.

Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

These facts did not mention Amazon Brain Drain or toxic work culture so change a few words and the same article could be used if the one to cause the outage was Google.

AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes

Not only spyware but also outright malware?

Amazon Ring users must love these web browsers!

X says passkey reset isn't about a security issue – it's to finally kill off twitter.com

Whwt happens if someone buys the twitter.com domain once it expires?

Automattic accuses rival WordPress outfit WP Engine of ‘false advertising, and deceptive business practices’

I am getting tired of both companies, any other alternatives out there?

Ex-CISA head thinks AI might fix code so fast we won't need security teams

No wonder he is no longer a CISA Chief, so far AI makes more mistakes that those it fixes.

Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection

But how much does the AI costs again?

Sora makes slurfect deepfakes of celebs spewing racial epithets

Re: Plausible Deniability

Sir, it was liive television in front of a crow of hundreds of people.

The real problem is, with these kind of people doing stuff like this for real, is like a picture of bear shitting in the woods, why wouldn't you believe it is true?

Like show me a fake crazy orange saying they love Hitler, then show me the real crazy orange praising Hannibal Lecter.

I would have a hard time telling one of them is fake, more so with so many people associated with the crazy orange being openly Nazis.

With some people, like the crazy orange, it is very difficult to find out what is true or not.

The same guy who wants a Peace Novel Price also wants to move military troops to every important US City just because he feels like it.

He goes from loving Russia to hating Russia.

Honesty with someone like that, almost anything is beliable.

AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession

Really? Then SELL SELL SELL! Cause most people hate AI so it can crash at any minute.

Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia

Honesty I would ask why, if I didn't know how easy is for people in power to end smelling their own farts.

Britain's Ministry of Justice just signed up to ChatGPT Enterprise

Why? Was the bribe that big?

You cannot use a chatbot for legal cases; they keep making stuff up as seen in articles in this same website

Apple faces £1.5B payout after losing UK App Store case

Also the Apple store does have malware so...

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/this-browser-claims-perfect-privacies-protection-but-it-acts-like-malware/

Windows Insiders get special anniversary desktop wallpaper

There are HD versions of certain classic Windows XP wallpaper if you know where to look.

High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses

This is pennies compared to crypto scams. Amazing there are idiots who think James Bond movies are a fool proof how to steal guide.

Or just do LBOS.

Leveraged Buy Outs are legal in the US, so go scam those yanks!

Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything

Liquid glass is pain in the ass, to the point Apple had to hurry up an update to tone it down.

Norks droning on about your dream job while pwning your PC

Plaintext email for life.

Ex-Uber CSO is gellin' like a felon with teen cyber crims, explains why they do it

[I still don't think I did anything wrong]

Hiding information from shareholders, hiding a crime, disguising money paid to criminals as a bounty reward.

The CEO should have been convicted too but yes you did commit a crime.

Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles

[Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' ]

Don't be a silly willy, in the US all the lobbying is legal otherwise you silly senators would all be in jail.

China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests

Test environments usually do not meet real world conditions.

In other words lets see how it works when everything is not set up to make the train run as fast as possible and actual real passengers are using the train in real life.

Also let's not even start with maintenance, a fast train that breaks all the time is not preferred to a slow trrain that doesn't break much.

Reddit to Perplexity: Get your filthy hands off our forums

I don't like modern Reddit but I wish most companies did sue AI companies for pirating and stealing.

New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process

I tend to disable hybernation anyway because it doesn't work well on Linux in my experience.

AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds

[AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more]

Fixing AI mistakes does take more time that just doing the work without AI. Any time saving done using AI comes at the cost of the work done by AI having at least 20% wrong data. And no this isn't school, you do not get a pass if 80% of something is right.

Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block

How much for the Offline Microsoft Office version anyway?

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

If I had a penny for every time a Smart Device borked, what the heck I would do with so many pennies?

Mobian makes Debian's latest 'Trixie' release pocket-sized

Anything Linux out there for tablets?

Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

—The Party's slogans, 1984 (book).

When people start to say "Trust me, everything is fine." is time to start to look outside for the forest fires.

Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough

Didn't Microsoft wanted to replace NTFS? Whatever happened with that?

China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world's biggest bit burglar

Pot, kettle, black.

Tribunal wonders if Microsoft has found a legal hero after pivot to copyright gambit

[Finding against could, however, end with Microsoft being on the hook for £270 million.]

If Microsoft loses they will dispute the amount and end paying way less than that.