Posts by deaglecat

M&S stops online orders as 'cyber incident' issues worsen

manual systems now in force

contactless failed wednesday... and also for girl in front.

so did monzo ... chip and pin... normally posts immediately. but came through 2 days later.

lot going on still....

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

but why now...

so this tells me...either that they cannot decrypt currently or that they cannot decrypt at the scale they now require.

I always assumed they could gain access to specific target devices....even by attacking the end device (attacking the device is easier than breaking the maths). iykyk.

or...just maybe, they now want to go trawling with a much wider net...rather than targetting just those individuals that they have reason to be interested in.

and ofc, anything the UK can do, it can also do as a favour to our allies.

we live in quite disturbing times.

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

Brand sentiment may be faltering.

This just a minor PR mis-step...maybe, but customer sentiment is key when selling products at premium prices based on brand value.

And these sort of issues are often symptoms of a wider/deeper problem.

UK may demand tech world tell it about upcoming security features

Re: UK exceptionalism strikes again

Thus was it ever so.

UK exceptionalism strikes again

The world is a bigger place than we seem to think.

... oh and Newsflash: we don't have an empire anymore.

Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop

Trades...

I (personally) will trade a little bit of work to get a popular Linux distro (Ubuntu, PoP, Fedora) working nicely, in preference to the constant battle to keep Microsoft from installing stuff I don't want.

That is all for me. Just less hassle now, on balance. Others may prefer to accept Windows "ease and familiarity" ... but on the back of that there is a lot of telemetry, clutter (O265, one drive, cortana, skype and (soon) copilot - none of which I intend to use).

Corporations start testing Windows 11 in bigger numbers. Good luck

I moved to Linux about 5 years ago. So glad I no longer have to deal with this stuff.

Once in about 3 months, I need to do something on Windows (e.g. itunes)... and if I dual boot into that ....it sometimes decides to overwrite the Grub bootloader to try and trap me again. Utterly abhorrent behaviour. Windows is actually pretty close to malware at this point.

Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

Stop the mandatory installs of feature upgrades and Microsoft products that I neither want or need... then we can talk.

Nope, Microsoft has become far more user hostile than it once was.

In the good old days, you owned your install (for better or worse)... now Microsoft think they know best, but under that banner there is all manner of shady re-installs of junk that I neither want or need.

I don't want onedrive, the microsoft store, office 365 upsells, Cortana, the pressure to have an online account (rather than local) or the battle to keep Microsoft from collecting telemetry.

Just give me Windows 7 again but with security patches.

Apple 'diverts' iPad components to iPhone 13 production, Euro sources not feeling pinch yet

Re: Makes sense

... and is out of stock until December. The basic £319 iPad is actually quite a bargain.

(hope Apple don't notice)

Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors

Looks tasty. But when I saw that Apple were charging an extra £19 nicker for a cleaning cloth then I started to wonder whether they were really being a tad greedy.

(will wait for the MBP reviews... not the obvious You-tube shills... but the real world ones).

Microsoft does and doesn't require VMs to meet hardware requirements for Windows 11

W11 is just too much hassle...

To be honest. I have just given up on all this stuff. It is a hot mess of their own making.

The strange hardware cut offs coupled with the Ads and the Telemetry. The unwanted feature upgrades and unwanted application installs.

Windows is no longer my daily driver... just too much hassle now.

Ubuntu and derivatives are now good enough... just work and Steam gives good games compatibility.

X86 or Arm? AWS now lets you choose both at once for Kubernetes

Wonder if this is the future of general purpose (not mobile) ARM computing i.e. cloud based service rather than physical/ownable traditional computers.

UK smacks Huawei with banhammer: Buying firm's 5G gear illegal from year's end, mobile networks ordered to rip out all next-gen kit by 2027

year end ? well, lets stock up now on Huawei gear and then slowly retire it over the next 7 years. Short term sales boom perhaps.

but in reality... this is naked US trade and foreign policy...implemented by proxy by their UK bitches... dressed up as security.

contemptible.

Smile? Not bloody likely: Day 6 of wobbly services and still no hint to UK online bank's customers about what's actually wrong

God I hope they haven't got a black hole in their accounts... like Wirecard. Or maybe a solvency issue.

The mind boggles. Still FSCS protected - I fear we may need that in the times ahead.