Posts by vekkq

YouTube's AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos, calls them dangerous

In the EU, under EU's Digital Services Act, you can also inform your national consumer protection agency, which will check whether Youtube's moderation action was reasonable. If not reasonable, it will give Youtube the option to revert its action or be fined.

This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet

Users are used to crashes. Wake me up on a hack~

OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race

"AI arms race", "land of the free", that's just my humor!

Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

Re: Keeping it up is hard

wait until the sd card corrupts.

Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register

Re: So you can't code for your own device then ?

Microsoft would lose customers to Mac and Linux, if they locked up what can run on their system.

Android effectively only has iOS to content to and they love locking stuff up too. It needs more competition in the mobile market.

Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess

tl;dr when you fire the testing team

No more Blocktoberfest? German court throws book at ad blockers

Re: How would they enforce this?

Anything moving on the screen without being asked to do so is such a massive bother to me. Gotta nuke it all.

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

discussing minor details of history doesn't make someone a nazi.

hardly even worth researching what the details are about and whether wiegelt's claim is true or not.

the comments on the other hand state, that the author mawhrin seems to have a grudge for downplaying his country, poland, which may explain a part of his rage for the accusations.

https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/114699399505483796

The source you mean was probably this post: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/114682302951770021

It contains various accusations, but none are backed by the given links.

> Weigelt is understood to align himself with extremely right-wing politics.

What is the source of that?

Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users

The main Dark Reader extension exists under another ID. These extensions may be partially or fully stolen.

Critics blast Microsoft's limited reprieve for those stuck on Windows 10

Microsoft in 2015: "Windows 10 is the last version of Windows"

Me in 2025: clinging to their stupid promise.

Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find

Re: Big surprise

one way of saying managers are dumb.

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

web tech is too big to be maintained. raze it down, make something simpler.

Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent

Taking the miserability of western academic work combined with the working culture of Japan .. what could possibly go wrong

Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data

imagine being given a massive risky burden and not paid accordingly.

China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support

i've been getting my emotional support from strangers on the internet and fictional anime girls. cant be that hard for a hunk of metal metal.

Re: "provide emotional support"

what if you forget about your grand plan~

Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO

Last time I saw AWS and Azure price lists I assumed them to be a scam.

More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user

Re: Sound like it could be law enforcement to me

Somewhat of a bias to the programs we haven't heard of tbf

Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success'

Its insane to assume someone would be anywhere near the launch site during launch. Clearly, they lock this place up, as you legally have to, as a precaution measure.

they didn't show the crash, so they considered it a failure worth hiding.

GlobalFoundries commits $3B more to US fabs in Trump tariff flex

Can't wait for the next table flip to mess up current plans.

AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0

Could hypothetically work. If the US company comes nocking with a Cloud Act notice, the EU business can deny access to data on EU law grounds. Despite US ownership, the EU business cannot be threatened and harmed so easily by US gov orgs.

'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers

The GDPR is in effect since a decade too. Given the constant legal reminders that data can't be put anywhere near American companies, lastly Cloud act and Trump, European companies didn't move a centimeter.

Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor

listing country names like its trivial to contribute hacks to governments. quite theatrical this guy.

Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users

Re: What is it

This seems a lot like eugenics to me, using arbitrary reasons to have minorities cleansed out of the population. Alternatively, having a common state enemy helps an authoritarian regime to build unity - just like the Americans say: A president who starts a war will be reelected.

Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock

just raise the prices and expect to sell less. nothing else can be done about it.

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

what's the deal with retaliatory tariffs?

tariffs itself basically manifest like taxes for the own population. unless there is some reason to protect the own industry from superior foreign competition, it seems rather silly to use tariffs or counter tariffs. what am i missing?

China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms

Re: Duh, wut?

You may have missed the whole eu chat control and other police state level surveillance plans going on. some groups in the parliament keep pushing for this stuff.

data privacy works nicely, but germany isnt really pushing open-source. governmental bureaucracy heavily depends on microsoft still.

Re: Duh, wut?

Ironic. The EU thinks and plans to do exactly the same.

Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel

how big is the haskell malware, i wonder? cant compile a hello world under half a mb.

Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud

Re: Not uploading

They still give homework? That never made sense.

AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that

My doc hallucinated a diagnosis just yesterday. If he's right or wrong I'll know for sure in 6 weeks.

I'm already at a point were AI couldn't do much worse.

Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses

McKinsey is terrible advice. Vodafone should get rid of some more office space.

101 fun things to do with a locked Kindle e-reader

102. a locked Kindle also makes a good doorstopper

HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls

Re: Liars

that's a nice idea. although it fails at which it has to be proven a willful lie.

populists tend to belief in their crap, so what they are spouting may be false, but not a willful lie.

plappering out what a third party told them, feign responsibility and denying willfulness also gets around to tell false statements.

Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy

I'm still waiting for US companies to be expelled from European markets for as long as the cloud act is applicable.

Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI's insatiable thirst

Race to the energy bottom after AI bubble collapse

I'll just take the Chinese thingy and run it on a potato or something.

Even Windows 10 cannot escape the new Outlook

Re: I'm sorry, *what*?

They forcefully installed the new Outlook for the past half year whenever you started Windows Mail or Calendar and the second time you started Windows Mail it would quit and boot Outlook instead. You could not stop it. At best you could repeatedly uninstall Outlook.

Because of this, the rating in the Microsoft Store for the new Outlook plummeted to 2.2 of 5 . MS then edited the rating to 3.6, despite its chart still showing an overwhelming bar of 1 star ratings. Since then MS deleted the bad ratings.

Microsoft, business as usual.

I switched to a new E-Mail client and I'll be back to Linux by the end of the year.

Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032

it can take out one city. but unlike nukes, asteroids don't do targeting and there are a lot of empty spots.

i'd like to see some burning spam raining. probably smells good as well.

Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red

Re: Not fooling anyone

Can't blame a business person for thinking that a product with a price tag is better. Not like they had any other method to measure it than in money.

Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs

Americans not realizing this is a tax on them.

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

That is some aggressive kerning in the screenshot texts. Do people like reading it like that?

How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system

would be funny if the chinese government falls because of this.

just a bias in training data for those facial recognition systems. i'm sure they used first and foremost freely available data like prison mugshots, and asians are somewhat rare there.

Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix

Wouldn't be so hard to avoid name clashes, if you wouldn't just take words right from the dictionary.

To kill memory safety bugs in C code, try the TrapC fork

Odd take to make it to easily replace C but then require to rewrite every malloc.

Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30

I miss the times were you didn't need constant security updates because it was shipped sufficiently secure.