Posts by Hubert Cumberdale

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

Re: AI has its place

Yeah,

"Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted"

would probably be sufficient. Otherwise it's a bit tautological.

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

Re: No more Euro freeloaders!

Wow – every time I've seen your username recently, there's been a massive steaming pile of turd underneath it. You seem to have a direct pipe from the MAGA bullshit machine, down your throat, and out of your arse, without even stopping to digest anything on the way down (or is it perhaps the other way around?). You might want to get that looked at.

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

Re: Marketing

They could market it to me if I could use it to take out the drones flown way too close to people/houses/me by inconsiderate idiots. Tried throwing rocks, but I'm not a very good shot.

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

Indeed, it's not just you, which makes it all the more boring. Maybe you could show me on the doll where Microsoft touched you?

Variety? It's a very old and repetitive tune you're singing.

By "take a hint", from your past anti-MS ravings, I presume you mean "use something else". I wonder if it has ever occurred to you that some people's workflows are constrained by the choices of others, and that use cases outside your own exist?

The US in particular is far too hung up on so-called "bad" language. Words are just words, and there is nothing in the House Rules specifically indicating that posters should avoid swearing. Indeed, the rules themselves use the words "arsehole" and "wanker".

In any case, if you think this is what's going to warp the fragile little minds of children on the internet, you really have no idea about what else they'll be stumbling across on a day-to-day basis.

Thumbs down for language, maybe? Prudish cunt.

I honestly have no idea. This bug has been pissing me off so fucking hard because it fundamentally breaks several of my workflows. I've resorted to running a separate OneDrive sync in WSL for the missing shared folders. And that was not trivial. It kindasorta works though. Ish.

New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029

Re: Why not...

I have a very small pool of domains, so it's not hard for me to check. But even in a larger organisation, it should be fairly simple to schedule in a basic sanity check on the renewals processes. This could even be something as simple as sending an email to a designated person every time a certificate renews, with part of their job being to check that the list of domains renewed doesn't include anything dodgy. The carrying out of this brief task and its result could then be recorded somewhere to make sure it was being done and for there to be somewhere to point the finger if it wasn't and something bad happened.

Re: Why not...

"this will generate lots of manual work"

It really shouldn't. I have no idea when my certs renew or how long they're valid for: they renew automatically and cost me nothing. How long they're valid for is about as important to me on a practical level as the fine details of the wear-levelling scheme used by the firmware in my SSD.

Domain-level certification (e.g., from someone like Let's Encrypt) is all anyone really needs. Before you harp on about needing a "higher level of trust" blah blah – nobody normal even actually knows what you're talking about let alone cares. Maybe there's some ISO 9000000001 shit going on that means your certificate needs to be particularly shiny, but it's all money-making nonsense in the real world and you know it.

My apologies for agreeing with Apple. I don't like it either.

Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix

Bastards. I hate random folders cluttering up my root drive. It disturbs my sense of peace.

Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board

Re: Thin Entering Wedge

(Have to say, I'm actually slightly disappointed by the mildly positive reaction to this. I was gearing up to disagree with someone.)

Re: Thin Entering Wedge

"...will start scanning foreigners' social media for signs of antisemitism"

...and this is why you should stay completely off social media, only posting under pseudonyms on sites like this.

Here, I can feel free to say exactly what I think about Israel's blatant war crimes, such as torture, the ongoing murder of civilians, including children, and the state's general genocidal intentions. I strongly suspect that this would be interpreted as antisemitic by such a scan, and it probably will be seen as such by some on this forum. But Israel is not "the Jews"–such a conflation would be strongly resented by many Jewish people–it is a rogue state whose illegal actions continue to be excused by the US.

The international community should no more be supporting Israel's ongoing violations of human rights and international law than they should be condoning the 7 October attacks by Hamas. Just because a party has been wronged, it doesn't mean that they can do no wrong. The oppressed has now become the oppressor.

I look forward to downvotes and rabid comments from supporters of wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.

UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

Re: Minority Report

Given the well-known propensity for automated systems to include inherent bias, perhaps that should be Ethnic Minority Report.

AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast

Re: Twisty Guy

Or he could have simply recorded himself reading his own statement, allowing breaks in recording for his voice to recover.

Yeah, but anyone with any sense will have seen it as the cuntish move it clearly was.

Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users

Re: My 2 cents...

I make the Start Menu actually my own by using Open Shell.

OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts

Re: Not hurting the right people?

And Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia!

Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0

That's very discriminatory to the BDSM community. Some of us happily identify as gimps. Suggesting that it's derogatory is offensive.

Re: [citation needed]

You being an AC speaks volumes.

Re: [citation needed]

Ah, but IMP would be offensive to midgets.

CISA fires, now rehires and immediately benches security crew on full pay

Re: To paraphrase ...

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Harry has entered the chat.

Re: To paraphrase ...

What's Meghan Markle got to do with this? Isn't she too busy making mindful cakes to launch any attacks on anything?

SpaceX's 'Days Since Starship Exploded' counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now

Re: "Blowing up Starships can’t be cheap."

Penis.

Microsoft goes native with Copilot. Again

Re: users can ask questions about their PC, such as :

"Being a properly native app rather than a website running in a container means Copilot has more access to the operating system"

No. Nope. Noooooo. Not good. Nope. Nooooope. No.

Apple drags UK government to court over 'backdoor' order

Re: Communists...

"US President Donald Trump also recently compared the UK's treatment of Apple to the extensive state surveillance methods deployed by China – the two countries' foremost intelligence adversary."

Well, even a stopped clock...

Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time

Re: Nomenclature

"Except in five years time the US won't be full racist any more."

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Microsoft's updated Windows battery indicator rollout runs out of juice

Re: FFS.

Sounds similar to my issues. Maybe try this test: https://www.colorlitelens.com/color-blindness-test.html#Redgreen

Re: What's in a Name?

"why is the condition called red-green colour-blindness"

It's an unhelpful colloquialism. People with deuteranopia or protanopia would more accurately be called "green blind" and "red blind", respectively. It's not simply about distinguishing colours; it would be more accurate to say that those with certain forms of colourblindness have difficulty accurately perceiving specific ranges of colours, meaning that they can be mistaken for others. Interestingly, I have trouble telling blue from purple, despite being severely deuteranopic (green blind).

Re: FFS.

Eyeroll. Software won't make much difference to LEDs already soldered into devices.

Re: FFS.

Downvote for missing the point: you can read enough on the first page, which is shown, to get the gist.

In any case, do people not know about Sci-Hub? Try this.

^{Edit: I only just noticed that you're not just an AC, you're the AC. Surprised the system allowed that to happen.}

Re: FFS.

This is simply not true: perhaps you're getting confused with yellow/blue colourblindness. In both those with deuteranopia and those with protanopia, blue is very easy to distinguish from red, amber, or green. It may present problems for those with tritanopia (blue/yellow colourblindness), but they would likely already have been having trouble with red and green. Furthermore, tritanopia only affects less than 0.01% of people worldwide compared to around 5% who have the red/green forms.

Even if using red/blue were to cause problems for tritanopes, this would mean a change from 1 in 20 people having a problem to 1 in 10,000.

Re: FFS.

Curious about those who object to my discussion of evolution yet don't comment. Creationists?

Re: FFS.

Evolution is a form of design: genetic algorithms have been used in the design of CPUs for a long time. I guess what I perceive as stupid design is therefore probably just a way to minimise energy or some other cost while providing the minimum functionality necessary for ongoing survival of our DNA. A more complex/accurate system would probably be too evolutionarily expensive.

Interestingly, there is a (surprisingly old but not yet debunked) theory that colourblindness evolved as a positive adaptive strategy to enhance the ability of humans to detect camouflaged objects/creatures.

Re: FFS.

Interesting! Makes sense.

Re: FFS.

Well, I guess there's no pleasing some people.

Re: FFS.

"They are not green until combined in the eye of a non-colour deficient person."

Schrödinger's colour?

Re: FFS.

It's all about the cones. In honesty, human colour vision is stupidly designed. Nobody would come up with something so vague if they had to start from scratch. Still, it means we can ridiculously trick our eyes into believing that monitors and TVs can show the full spectrum to us when in fact they can only show three small bits of it in varying proportions!

Re: FFS.

Downvote? Seriously? It's not like I'm advocating for some obscure thing that will inconvenience the majority to the benefit of a tiny minority. It would make almost no difference to people with full colour vision.

Re: FFS.

The order can help, but when approaching from a distance at night, colour is also very useful...

FFS.

When will people stop using red and green to distinguish between two important things? A total of 8% of European Caucasian men (including me) are red–green colourblind. This is not a small number of people (and there are also smaller percentages of other groups). So many electronic gadgets I have seem to use something like amber and green to indicate charging status, and to my eyes, the two shades are all but indistinguishable. This can be incredibly frustrating, and in some cases potentially dangerous.* There does seem to have been some move towards red and blue, which is major progress (even if the blue can be a bit painfully bright), but red and green just seems to be the thoughtless default.

^{*Before you ask, no, traffic lights are not usually a problem because the "green" they use (at least in the UK) is actually almost white to my eyes and stands out notably from the red. The red and amber do usually look identical to me, but that's less of an issue.}

Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

I wonder if it will even be possible to stop people using Signal in any given country. If sideloaded, will it still prevent access based on IP addresses or something? I gather it's probably already banned in places like Iran (great role model there, well done), but I'm guessing people still use it.

Re: Control freaks

I'd be inclined to just write "fuck off" on that Post-it® (other insults are available).

Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud encryption for UK peeps

Re: Without an understanding

Nice way to avoid addressing the point.

Re: Without an understanding

"Apple's storage isn't in any way unusual other than it is ubiquitous."

You keep using that word...I do not think it means what you think it means.

Re: Without an understanding

"Successive UK govts have demonstrated they are more interested in accumulating and centralising power than in the rights of individuals."

Whereas Vance et al...?

The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t

Re: Android?

Where? How can we even tell these days? I reckon they're getting clever enough to pass the Voight-Kampff test.

Re: Give us our Advanced Data Protection features back on Apple devices and iCloud.

Good luck with that.

Re: Security Theatre at best

I was going to give a reasoned response to this, then I realised there was no point.