Posts by Blackjack

Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security

So... Windows is coping more that just ads from Android it seems.

GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

Time to mirror to Github alternatives just in case.

AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine

They are worse.

Eat a small rock a day, is some of the advice they give.

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

So, people living in the UK have to pay if they watch anything live on their phone, even if is not stuff from the BBC?

Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer

So, remember how brick and mortal stores are dying cause online shopping?

This is like learning you got lung cancer and decide now is a great time to start smoking.

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

Anyone here not forced to do so uses Onedrive?

Genuinely curious.

Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work

Re: AI Slop Debugger

So.... basically the same as being a contractor for almost any videogame company?

The main reason I stopped learning coding was because I found about the work conditions. And if anything things have got worse in recent years.

I hope being an AI Slop Debugger pays well.

BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough

This was really tame by BOFH standards.

Was he making an instructional video on the side or something?

Everybody is WinRAR phishing, dropping RATs as fast as lightning

Re: Damn you for the earworm!

Well, the song was used in Kung Fu Panda...

Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted

I don't like systemd but I guess Microsoft current focus on AI down everyone thoats was finally enough for him?

He seemed perfectly fine lwith everything else Microsoft is doing.

Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source

Even if it may cause an economic crisis I can't wait for the AI Bubble to pop.

eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots

Obligatory I can't believe I am agreeing with big corporation eBay post here.

Windows 11, not AI, kick-started the PC upgrade cycle

Windows 11 just keeps getting worse.

Microsoft veteran explains the one weird trick that made Windows 95 restart faster

Windows 11 makes me miss Windows 95.

Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise

Re: You can do almost anything.......

Desktop or Tablet mode in the web browser let's you use most social media stuff.

You can do almost anything you do in a smartphone; save calls and texting with a tablet that costs less that a phone and has a bigger screen.

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

There is over a dozen good Notepad replacements, most are free or FOSS. Paint? You can make Windows 7 paint work on Windows 11.

Heck both old Notepad and old versions of Paint work fine on Wine.

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

I remember only being able to run Notepad in very old versions of Wine without problems, we have come a long way.

Any company running "Excel databases" dreads updating to modern versions of Office anyway.

Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version

Huh.

I wonder if there is some version of Windows 7 still getting updates?

Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades

Yet he is making them pay it anyway, all that Venezuela oil is for his ballroom after all. Unless he plans to make Greenland pay?

Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware

Re: Back to the Future

Counterpoint VMware will raise prices using the Ram shortage as an excuse despite not needing excuses to already price gouge before.

So buy now before both Ram and VM prices get even worse because they definitely will.

France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach

€1.75 by each person breach? What a bargain!

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay

https://simpleflying.com/pan-am-first-moon-flights-club-story/

Those were free by the way even if they never happened.

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

He might have a point but he said it like a complete arse.

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

Well if people are going to be stuck using the same hardware as long as possible that might reduce pollution you may think only nope as they are using more hardware that ever.... for AI that wears it down faster cause they need constant hardware upgrades not really for performance but to pump the stock.

India’s government denies it plans to demand smartphone source code

Sometimes a denial is s confirmation more so when a government does it.

Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech

If only they stopped taking Microsoft money and used Linux

Putinswap: France trades alleged ransomware crook for conflict researcher

Are we sure the cold war actually ended?

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Media Player Classic old versions, before the Home Cinema crap, should still work on Windows 10 and 11. You can add K-Lite Codec Pack Lite to that and it basically plays everything in Windows with no problems.

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind

I never thought I would say "Winter is coming" in a hopeful tone.

Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off

I already had disabled Gmail smart features but this was still informative, thank you.

AOSP on a diet plan as Google halves Android code drops

Google slowly killing the FOSS in Android keeps going.

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger

GNOME, from lighter that KDE to father of many forks cause using mainline GNOME has become worse and worse over the years.

Optimus Schmoptimus - Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot is already in mass production

Transformers toys sure have got expensier and uglier.

Brave refurbishes Rust adblocking engine for reduced memory footprint

Just use Browsh instead, may not be as low memory usage as Seamonkey but is not a pain to use.

www.brow.sh

Fake Windows BSODs check in at Europe's hotels to con staff into running malware

Weird, most people I know just reboot if they get a blue screen of death.

StockHistory function becomes StockMystery as Microsoft Excel bugs out

You have a guy hired to manually write them in Excel because copy pasta breaks things in Excel anyway.

No I am not joking there is people who actually do this.

There is a reason some people keeps a machine offline with the specific version of Excel they need so their "Database" doesn't break.

What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32

Amazing, Microsoft has made using modern Windows such a pain in the behind people are willing to try almost anything else.

Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks

Unfortunately these things will probably be overpriced, overheat and make people complain about the lack of monitors and mouse.

The whole "I liked the book until I had to do a school project about it" deal only applied to office work only the book wasn't that good to start with.

Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results

Just add invistext with random text copied from X, that's not poison, that's nuclear waste!

One criminal, 50 hacked organizations, and all because MFA wasn't turned on

Honesty why is so hard for companies to invest in good IT? One would think that after billions of anual loses thanks to terrible infosec they would learn.

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

Anyone still using Mozilla Thunderbird?

You can find it and Seamonkey (Lower resources Web Browser that Firefox but a pain to make useful) here:

hg-edge.mozilla.org

Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes

This should be illegal.

Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it

I am so glad I never bought a Smart TV, even if buying a Dumb TV is so hard nowadays.

Trump admin sends heart emoji to commercial spyware makers with lifted Predator sanctions

To catch and release a Predator.