Posts by ElRegioLPL

So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans

Re: Of course someone from Google

You are a grown adult. Seek help

Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office

Yes but surely something like Teams is something you'd expect to have in the Office 365 suite?

I don't understand the issue here? If you're paying for the full Office subscription you are normally going to use Teams (included) over Slack (extra £)?

This is just Salesforce wanting a bigger piece of the pie for their money

Elon Musk hit with insider trading claims over his Dogecoin crypto-hype

Capitalism is the best economic system in de werld until the capitalists lose money

Unlike your iPhone, Apple's batterygate controversy refuses to die

A legal firm on the other hand who are billing for millions cannot pay their bills and get a nice new car with phone batteries

Let us be clear. The only winner here is the ambo chaser and not the individual users who will get about £1.20 each before admin fees.

HeadCrab bots pinch 1,000+ Redis servers to mine coins

I think expecting a server administrator who hasn't even set a password to disable a feature is wishful thinking...

Mailchimp 'fesses up to second digital burglary in five months

No idea how mailchimp remain the leader in this field. Their platform is too clunky and their prices... well. The less said the better, but there's a reason they got sold off for $12 billion.

Twitter starts auction to flip the bird, furniture, pizza ovens, gadgets galore

"For items HGP cannot hand carry to the loading area, customers will need to hire Juniors Source Corporation. Juniors is the only company allowed inside the Twitter facility."

What do we bet they've got a very special deal with Mr Musk

Up to 18,000 Amazon workers in firing line as it chops cost

Re: "job for life" died at the end of the 1980s, Amazon is no different!

Look at the timeline of Bezos stepping down and handing over to Jassy and it will make a bit more sense

Re: "job for life" died at the end of the 1980s, Amazon is no different!

I don't really think you can compare Amazon to a 'normal' company when we're talking about percentages given Amazon have/had about 1.5m employees. We are still talking about 75,000 people.

Salesforce's new hires are less productive, says CEO Benioff

The best way to get your new employees to improve is by publicly outing them all as being slow, inefficient & unproductive

I believe very recently someone else tried a similar tactic which resulted in 70% of their staff leaving and they're getting abused on their own platform, every day

Broadcom braced for full EU investigation into $61B VMware buyout

A little bit funny they expected a $61 billion (61,000,000,000 Yankee Doodle Dollars) purchase to go through with no issues at all, really

Europe's USB-C deadline: Lightning must be struck from iPhone by December, 2024

Re: EU market size.

December 2024 is enough time for them to get rid of their current stock. Remember they'll be selling it right up until the very last second by which point their overnight retail teams will have a good night ahead of them

Re: EU market size.

The irony of this being Apple won't want to waste time & money shipping a different type to the UK so we'll probably end up with it anyway. They're probably thinking the UK will get forced to be 'in line' by the EU to keep trading as well.

This is what happens when you try trading with someone 10000x more powerful than you... "we have all the cards" etc etc (poo emoji)

This is the best pay offer you'll get without more strikes, union tells BT workers

Wanting more money doesn't mean you are greedy. It just means you are realistic. These companies are making £1b+ in profits so why shouldnt the people who make everything work, every day get a bigger slice?

Inflation is increasing the price of everything and yet wages are staying the same, so how can the companies really justify it?

Rackspace rocked by ‘security incident’ that has taken out hosted Exchange services

Re: Business Continuity

Have you heard yourself?

There are numerous multi billion £ companies using cloud services. Even banks, such as Monzo who use AWS.

This isn't 1990 anymore mate

Re: It's all down

In a few days the headline would've been "Rackspace DDoS'd themselves with the mail queue"

"Rackspace has promised to update users every twelve hours."

That is a fucking disgrace for such a critical service

Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter, blames the accountants

You do know HTTPS is free on Cloudflare don't you?

Two signs in the comms cabinet said 'Do not unplug'. Guess what happened

I like that this story is from at least the last 12 years and not any time after 1930

Meta fined $275m after data-scraping fiasco leaked 533m Facebook users' profiles

Just the cost of doing business for these companies. This fine will just be to keep the EU happy which is why it's so low.

After all, this is the same country that repeatedly went to court to avoid collecting 13 billion in tax from Apple.

Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot

Re: Bank of mum and dad

Under EASA, after the training you get a Frozen ATPL which many airlines will hire you as a cadet on. After 1500 hours it becomes unfrozen

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

The American Dream continues with someone getting sacked for daring to question their boss: https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/1592198356579016704

Twitter CISO flies the coop

This is a very good shout. $1.3b a year interest on a loan for a company that barely makes a profit ... I think amongst those tax deductions will be bank share prices diving & some crazy people getting the sack. Probably get a nice pay off though so not quite the same if you or me lost the company we work for billions!

Sooner or later the banks could end up calling his loans in if he carries on alienating the staff and user base like this. In reality that's probably the best outcome for them given they can't sell the debt on at the minute.

Unlucky for some: Meta chops 13% of global workforce

There is a reason Bezos stepped down when he did...

Twitter layoffs were bad but Meta's mass ejections could take the cake

Re: The unkindest cuts

They will keep it over other parts over their own company as it helps them stay in control of the web ecosystem given it remains, by far, the most popular front end framework

Apple exec confirms iPhones will switch to USB-C because 'we have no choice'

Of course the Apple fan boy sites are spinning this as a really kind thing of Apple to do, and not the fact the EU law requires them

Cyber-snoops broke into US military contractor, stole data, hid for months

Re: If you want to minimize your chances of getting hacked...

The 'M$ ha ha' boys out in force again with their great advice of turn off all JS, cookies, don't use the internet.

Thank you for your wisdom.

Now back to the real world.

Microsoft warns of North Korean crew posing as LinkedIn recruiters

Imagine explaining that one to your boss

" I was looking for a new job on the work laptop and got tricked by a fake recruiter "

Sophos fixes critical firewall hole exploited by miscreants

Games, normal software, etc. You can excuse the bugs to an extent. But software designed to keep these people out and it's just let off with a CVE (or not in this case) and a bug fix.

Halfords slapped on wrist for breaching email marketing laws

Not only is £30k a disgrace, others will be looking to it now to factor it in.

Bear in mind the ICO's press release even mentioned the size of Halfords, it gives a good indicator as to the level of fines that everyone else will receive.

Left-wing campaign group throws weight behind BT strikes

The hypocrisy of you lot crying about ‘getting handed things on a plate’ when you are probably getting paid cash in hand, through dividends & a director’s loan is beautiful.

How dare the little people join a union!

For the record I’m in the private sector and this month paid more tax than I took home in my first job out of uni 4 years ago. But I still understand & live in the real world

Some of these comments are grim.

Berating people for wanting more money during a cost of living crisis when you all wouldn't think twice about asking for a pay rise yourself. You'd be hard pressed to even find a PHP Developer on less than £30k now. The median salary in the UK is £ 25,971. Electricity is going through the roof with potentially £5k of that £25k being spent on electric alone.

To say people go to food banks for 'free food' ? Fuck off and get a grip.

I have done a lot of work in that area and I will tell you now, you couldn't be further from the truth.

NSO Group CEO steps down, 100 employees let go too

Didn't all their staff get US blacklisted too? Imagine being let go from a job that's ended up getting you on a US embargo

Google, Apple squash exploitable browser bugs

The complexity of even a modern day web browser now is ridiculous. These things are inevitably, sadly

Digital Ocean dumps Mailchimp after attack leaked customer email addresses

Re: Crypto key

Mailchimp are anything but cheap

GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

“ Archived projects docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/projec… is a user activated state that signals intent. We're not sure yet but very likely the storage type used is orthogonal to that. Our current plan for object storage gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-… would keep the repos visible to everyone.”

What the fuck is orthogonal?

Speak english

Elon Musk needs more cash for Twitter buy after Tesla margin loan lapses

Re: Genuine question

You can, its called a hostile takeover

Meta to squeeze money from WhatsApp with Cloud API for businesses

No ones arsed

Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS. Only Microsoft needs to

Re: Even if they did...

You arent joking though

They are all lunatics, you wonder how they survive in the real world. Walk into a job interview telling the interviewer their hate for Microsoft or "Micro Dollar Sign oft, ha ha!"

AWS's Log4j patches blew holes in its own security

Let's not pretend the white hat didn't get paid well for this

Wiki community votes to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

"get almost nothing"

$130k. Nothing.

OK.

Linus Torvalds 'starting to get worried' as Linux kernel 5.17 rc6 lands

People management doesn't appear to be his forte

£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit

Re: Can confirm

Oh poor you.

Apple, Amazon fined to the tune of €200m for colluding over Beats headphones sales

Re: Competition

We live in a county that has a fairly good postal system and the government chose to use Amazon to deliver COVID tests. That tells you what side they are on.