Posts by Blackjack

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

What it will take for an OFF Switch to be an option? For Copilot to kill people?

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

So, what can be done to make kids' online safety more effective? Parents should take responsibility, a government response will be always late, outdated and mostly ineffective because technology keeps advancing faster that legislation.

Hey remember when Internet Cafes were a thing? Remember when several countries forced them to use kiid safe firewalls? People started to use early smartphones to use Internet and bringing their laptops to regulars Cafes that had free Wifi and all that firewall did was to help to kill what few Internet Cafes were left faster.

Take responsibility for your kids because leaving this to the government or their teachers will never be really effective.

Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better

I haven't used Windows 10 or 11 and I do not want to .

Never in a million years I imagined that Windows would self destruct like this and watching from outside it is darkly humorous.

Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?

Forced to use a corporate App that needs Internet Explorer to work.

Forced Mandate to use Copilot.

Windows Recall forcefully on at all times.

Windows 11 updates.

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

100 Minutes hours? Sounds something a Ceo would invent.

Really wish I was joking here.

Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it

Too much Wayland-only for my tastes, although it is probably fun to test how many things break with only Wayland and how much stuff is outright missing.

Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1

AI slop meanwhile gets blocked way less that actual humans.

Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models

There is a reason Microsoft had to put in their terms and conditions that their AI slop should be avoided for actual work.

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again

Pluto being a planet again would mean that old Magical School Bus videogame I have about space would be slighty less outdated.

But that being said, Science is supposed to march forwards, and, despite not liking the fact, Pluto is just too small to be a planet.

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

Want people to go back to use your crap? How about a kill Switch for Recall and AI uh?

Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005

If an E-mail App that turned all e-mails into plaintext was corporate mandate things would be different.

You can still copy and paste urls if needed after all.

GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain

Doesn't help that "UnhipHub" has their own AI slop so it is most likely having double the lag.

And a big part of this is because AI eating server resources.

Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages

If you sail the high seas you will have to face the risks.

Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges

Wow this was sloopy, using a functional e-mail address that autodeleted everything would have made harder to get sued.

Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’

And how is this different from a human losing your luggage or the airplane company somehow sending your luggage to a different airport?

Luggage getting displaced in airports is almost as old as airports.

The only difference is that now they can blame robots and or AI.

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database

If that was done by a human they would have got fired. Who is legally responsible for AI fuck ups?

Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis

Re: The free ride is nearly over for so-called AI.

Companies and governments wasting money in useless stuff is nothing new and Microsoft itself admits Copilot is useless for actual work.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/copilot_terms_of_service

So not only will you get AI nag on Windows but it will be nag asking you to subscribe to give them money? Wonderful news! If they paywall all AI crap then you can just not use it by not being subscribed.

UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team

Re: But why?

Maybe Microsoft offered some money a few years ago?

South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations

If AI was a person it would be fired for constantly making shit up. Instead because it is a tool governments and organization insist on using it.

Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now

So basically they are giving the users the choice BACK of picking if and when to update like in Windows 7? That's good now how a about a turn off button for Copilot?

Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave

Is kind of hilarious watching Microsoft slow self destruction and also a bit sad. I have fond memories of older versions of Windows, mostly from videogames and interactive encyclopedias.

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

Re: Superfund Sites go nuclear

A gas station alone has so much chemical waste on it you cannot use an abandoned gas station for anything else unless it is a parking lot or a car washing center.

That's why so many abandoned gas stations are just left abandoned.

I cannot even imagine how much harder it must be to clear an abandoned US military base since nine out of ten times they don't even bother with closed down gas stations.

Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges

Re: the identifications potentially prevented many more sex attacks against vulnerable children

A very unfun fact, most abuse done to children is done by people children know, not strangers. That's why when a children goes missing or is killed parents and relatives are the first suspects.

Cue arrests for having the wrong face and or being dark skinned to continue.

I don't wanna say that Nazis did that... but they did.

Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months

Is still using Satellites on a phone ridiculously expensive?

Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears

So, what do you use if you do not want Ubuntu as the base OS?

England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one

Re: Noble idea

Ban meetings and productivity will soar in the office. Meetings are outright explained in an anti nazi WWII manual as a way to make productivity go down.

Server-room lock was nothing but a crock

Why didn't they add a second lock that needs an actual key?

Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes

Does anyone uses Windows Server unless forced to? Microsoft was caught using Linux in their own servers after all.

IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google

Wanna bet some of that IPv6 traffic was AI crawlers?

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283

And how can be sure it didn't just copy and pasted coded ftom the training data?

Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban

An explainer using monkeys

youtube.com/watch?v=9_3u5CBH6Ao

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned

What are the best FOSS alternatives, even if you have to self host?

Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many

Re: Scrap the BSOD, read the sticker

I am loving it.

Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download

I guess I blocking would be kinda pointless?

Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks

This is why you should always use Excel offline no matter what Microsoft says.

Zombie Microsoft bugs rise from the dead, pave way for crims and ransomware scum

Looks like validation by unsecured SMS Microsoft Visual Basic will never die.

Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs

You can use Zoom on Linux

Yes you would still have toa update but it would be less of a pain.

France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead

This has happened before in other places only for them to mysteriously backtrack years later, usually after an alleged visit of Microsoft Bribe Team.

Hopefully this time it will stick.

Adobe finally patches PDF pest after months of abuse

Why are people still using PDF files?

BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them

One would think they would stop using glass for elevators at this point.

Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint

When a company is this blatant about hiding things you really should think if is still a good idea to invest on it.

Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working

At this point it is basically a drug addiction.

Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks

Plaintext email has no links to click or code to execute.

AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped

Re: Define efficiency

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/10/amazon_ai_coding_outages/

AI you say?