Posts by X5-332960073452

The only thing worse than being fired is scammers fooling you into thinking you're fired

Re: an email that appears to be a legal notice

All acronyms are initialisms, but not all initialisms are acronyms (AAAIBNAIAA)

China starts building world's largest fully steerable radio telescope

Re: Other use?

Is that Fried Rice or Foo Young?

Microsoft reboots Windows Recall, but users wish they could forget

Re: I’m sure I won’t have to endure it…

Not true, Win 11 24H2 can still be installed and an M$ account avoided.

Shift (Fn) F10, Command Prompt, OOBE\bypassnro

or

Setup with M$ account, create local, "I don't have the users sign info"

Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink at any price

Re: OOSU10?

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot]

"TurnOffWindowsCopilot"=dword:00000001

may work with HKLM, not tried it

Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money

Re: "we are literally going to the real demand"

"revenue of $65.6 billion and net income of $24.7 billion" - so only a 37.6% profit margin !!

Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive

M$ Idiots

Wonder if this has anything to do with Microsoft recently installing the Remote Desktop Connection software on all Win 10 and 11 versions, including Home, without notification, authorisation, etc.

Apple quietly admits 8GB isn't enough in 2024, M4 iMac to ship with 16GB as standard

And still £200 extra for 8GB of RAM or 256GB of SSD - where do they but such expensive chips?

$180 for an overpriced, dubious SSD drive? Maybe don't join the USB Club

Re: The quacking, walking duck.

TGTBT (too good to be true), I'd check with an interrogator, suspect it's really at lot smaller.

VMware fixes critical RCE, make-me-root bugs in vCenter - for the second time

Not for long !

VMware systems because they are so widely used across organizations

Microsoft teases latest Windows 10 build despite looming end

Re: Timebombs?

Want a bet on that?

Starlink was offered for free to those hit by Hurricane Helene. It is not entirely free

Re: Free, just provide credit card info

Learnt that one from Adobe

Rival browsers cry foul after Microsoft Edge slips through EU gatekeeper cracks

Re: I found a way to get rid of Edge

If (and that's a big IF) you want it back, try, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/download?form=MA13FJ

Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win

Re: Icera

31 January 2020 - UK leaves the EU - username does not check out

The end is in sight for Windows 10, but Microsoft keeps pushing out fixes

Shift F10 (a first screen), command prompt, oobe/bypassnro , I don't have network. local account created, decrypt HD

Windows 11 continues slog up the Windows 10 mountain

Re: Does W10 end of life mean I will finnaly stop getting Windows updates at inconvenient times?

To get GPE in Windows Home version, from an admin command prompt

FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F")

FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F")

The Windows Control Panel joins the ranks of the undead

Re: Functionality

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32]

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Call, text logs for 110M AT&T customers stolen from compromised cloud storage

Useless

From the article - "We asked AT&T if it had forgotten to enable MFA on its Snowflake account, and that question went unanswered."

Probably couldn't get a mobile number for the text

Bad one ------>

With users mostly happy to keep older kit, Macs just ain't selling like they used to

They only command high resale prices, as cost so much in the first place.

Re: Ventura doesn't support that hardware

Open Core Legacy Patcher - to the rescue !

Users rage as Microsoft announces retirement of Office 365 connectors within Teams

Re: Cloud bollocks

Still works for me, Office 2010 Pro Plus activated only a week ago.

If service pack 2 is installed, you need to

From an elevated command prompt

CD C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14

cscript ospp.vbs /act

Windows Notepad gets spell check. Only took 41 years

And who's stupid idea was it

to default to 'open content from the previous session', rather than 'new window' ?

Windows 11's Recall feature is on by default on Copilot+ PCs

Re: Turning things off

Edge - I change 84 settings that are in M$'s interest, not mine !

Recycling old copper wires could be worth billions for telcos

Re: Financially viable?

Octothorpe tag !!!!

Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP

Re: What's his definition of hostile -- ships at sea

Can't make a joke about that $25 being Zimbabwe dollars as they've just changed to the Zig.

What a rip off, (I guess $25 US dollars) a day, 14 day cruise = $350 (captive audience !!)

Really? A sarcasm detector? Wow. You shouldn't have

Re: Training Data: US sitcoms!!!

Wanted to create a backronym, SHELDON, but gave up.

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

Thank you, wonderful.

Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists

Re: Tesla will do this so much better

August 8th - of which year?

US Air Force secretary so confident in AI-controlled F-16s, he'll fly in one

Have they never watched the film - Stealth

Microsoft thinks bundles are great and customers love them

Followed the first link, found the 'relevant page' with two more clicks (buy now, then one time purchase).

What strange beauty is this? Microsoft commits to two more non-subscription Office editions

Re: Upgrade? Not me…

Activated Office 2010 Professional Plus perpetual just yesterday online.

Reminder: Infostealer malware is coming for your ChatGPT credentials

Re: How do the hackers steal the ChatGPT credentials?

I know a website you could ask.

SAP dangles juicy carrot to pull users on board with cloud-first vision

incentive package == blackmail in my eyes, trick them into the 'Cloud', ongoing income forever.

Microsoft confirms Windows Server 2025 is on the way

Re: "tops out at 6TB of physical memory"

The only module they price for 256GB are £3,959.99 each, so just £126,719.68 (32 x 256 = 8192) to fully populate (just £95,039.76 for 6GB)

Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe

1. Stick with the Apple offerings then.

2. You trust Apple that much !

3. Never noticed the 'Ad' above the actual app you want, name searched for exactly.

4 . As 1.

Don't deny others what you may not want.

Formal ban on ransomware payments? Asking orgs nicely to not cough up ain't working

Re: A simpler solution…

For info - 1 Pound sterling equals 1.08 Swiss Franc (4th Jan 24)

Windows 11 unable to escape the shadow of Windows 10

Re: RE: Start Menu

"4) Shutdown/Sleep via keyboard requires way more key-presses than it did in Windows 7"

Windows Key + X then tap U, then I , S , U or R for sIgn out, Sleep, shUt down, Restart.

"8) No "Computer" entry in there which I regularly used for Right Click > Manage to get into Computer Management for event logs etc."

Windows Key + X, G = computer manaGement

Samsung UK discloses year-long breach, leaked customer data

"forced into handing over their data or else functions and features on TVs and printers would be disabled"

Try using the scanner on an newer HP printer without creating an HP account.

Mid-contract telco price hikes must end, Ofcom told

Re: Got stung this year by Sky arseholes

Speed - speed tests mean nothing, just indications, it's the router synchronisation levels that matter

Price - ring Sky at any time (in contract or not), renegotiate prices (threaten to leave, speak to retentions), check new customer prices first, they generally match them.#

HTH

In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one

Re: Torn between two ideas

Opt In / Opt Out are supposed to have the same prominence and number of clicks, but guess what, very few website comply, and no action is taken against the sites that don't !

Where do people feel most at risk of being pwned? The pub

Re: More open WiFi Paranoia

Danger = To the profits of VPN providers (in this case Nord) .

As NASA struggles to open OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample can, probe heads off to next rock

Re: Why oh why did they let Apple design the fastenings?

Thank-you

Microsoft's 11-year itch: The uncelebrated anniversary of Windows 8

TIFKAM - was expecting this to crop up

Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range

Re: Camera

Yes, abuse issue by taking 'dodgy' photos (child abuse, animal cruelty), on your phone > your problem > law enforcement.

Think about vengeful ex's etc.

World checks it's not April 1 as Apple signals support for full US right-to-repair rule

This is the problem ....

"manufacturers only being obligated to support authorized repair channels"

So, they could not authorise anybody => must use Apple's repair system

X marks the bot: Musk thinks spammers won't pay $1 a year

So, the end of "Free Speech" then !!

Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11

Re: Certainly resisting at home

Shift + F10 is now disabled (22H2), user - fuckoff , password - microsoft, oops something went wrong, local account dialogue (all versions)

International Criminal Court hit in cyber-attack amid Russia war crimes probe

"strengthen its cyber security framework, including accelerating its use of cloud"

Oxymoron

BOFH: Zen and the art of battery replacement

Re: Interestingly

My favourite (not),

Portable electronic equipment - e.g. Laptop - drop it whilst carrying, not covered, knocked off table by cat, covered.

I know what you did next summer: Microsoft to kill off Xbox 360 Store

In and administrative PowerShell console,

Get-ProvisionedAppxPackage -Online | Where-Object { $_.PackageName -match "xbox" } | ForEach-Object { Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage -Online -AllUsers -PackageName $_.PackageName }

Replace xbox with phone, removes all Xbox and Phone Link crap.

To actually answering your question - NO

Ford SYNC 3 infotainment vulnerable to drive-by Wi-Fi hijacking

Have a look at - https://community.cyanlabs.net/c/ford/5

Great website for updating Ford software, several releases ahead of official channel.

https://cyanlabs.net/applications/syn3updater/ - is what I use to create USB sticks for updates.