Posts by DarthKegRaider

Nvidia ain't done with x86 as it taps Intel Xeons to babysit GPUs

I wonder....

Does it meet Microsoft's minimum hardware requirements for Windows 11 yet?

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond

Re: More reason

Notepad Next? It seems pretty close.

Phew, I'm kind of glad I got addicted to SciTE years ago and is now one of the first things I install when reloading Windows machines.

I am not a fan of the Win11 default notepad now, why would I want to use it with Copilot 'enhancements'.

Bad apps bypass Windows security alerts for six years using newly unveiled trick

The way i get around it...

Of the places that have that annoying Defender feature that wants to stop me from running exe files. Open cmd.exe as admin and launch the filename.exe from there. No stupid popup. Yes I am a desktop admin, yet cannot reinstall apps or update drivers so am forced to use workarounds.

Brit teachers are getting AI sidekicks to help with marking and lesson plans

Instead of paying?

Why don't they employ more teachers to do the jobs better? 4B quid terribly spent yet again

Biden throws $1.7B at automakers to prepare fading factories for EV production

GM with another handout

I wonder how big their purse is since they happily accepted a big brown paper bag from Australia to keep operating?

UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled

Re: I, for one, welcome

Same brother.... Give me the 2nd hand market for laptops. They run Linux just fine for what I need. Have a free virtual beer on me.

Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs

Need to do that in Australia too...

But not for the cold, for the little pricks stealing cars of late. The 10 year old crims wouldn't be able to lift the big lead acid battery into my diesel ute! :)

Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed

Wow, i just got a pi02!!

I have been waiting since the announcement of the Pi02w until 3 days ago when mine finally arrived!! I wanted it for my Retroflag GPi case for smoother GBA and psx emulation, which it does nicely. I wonder how long the backlog will be with this board in real world years?

Charging your iPhone literally costs Apple millions as Batterygate saga slams shut

Re: Old Man Yells At Cloud!

I have a LOT of consumer electronic devices that are still functional, and some even older than the Apple fanboi club. My old Atari 2600 still works fine as a consumer device if that counts?

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

If more sites had DOOM Captcha then no one would complain!

I recall this little beauty from a few years back, I thought 'el Reg covered it. Maybe I was mistaken...

https://vivirenremoto.github.io/doomcaptcha/

Either way, I could continue to shoot the baddies without even bothering going to the actual website!

'Strictly limit' remote desktop – unless you like catching BianLian ransomware

Re: Passwords

Use Untangle (Arista now), with VPN to access your network. It is one extra step for your users, by opening the VPN first, then use RDP or whatever. Not overly expensive for small business.

RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94

I'm sure he'd approve that!

I know I'd want one!

Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak

Hardly Normal

The big department store HN used Go, which is a latitude company. That would be a big customer dataset

Journalist won't be prosecuted for pressing 'view source'

Don't have to be educated to be Governor it would seem

I heard about this last week whilst catching up on some security podcasts and found the case to be truly astonishing. Seriously, even kids at primary school would have hacked this page, but, not known what they were looking at. I actually think he may know better, but has reached the point of "Oh bollocks, too late to change direction now", much like the Coyote holding an A.C.M.E. sign.

How a malicious Android app could covertly turn the DSP in your MediaTek-powered phone into an eavesdropping bug

Re: Eavesdropping bug

Considering you can be talking to you friend/partner about something they/you want to purchase, then within a few hours their facebook/web-browsing adverts are suddenly showing what you were talking about. Without searching the internet previously!!! Now without sounding like I wear a tin-foil hat, it's almost like they record everything now, perhaps 'speech to text' converted, then upload the tiny files to their ML/AI advert-bot. You're not going to notice some text files in your monthly data plans.

All smartphones are bugs, but we keep using them....

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s: Impressively average, which is how corporate buyers like it

Preferred the T490s over these

We deployed 40 to our fleet not long ago. The lack of Eth on everything past the T480s is a bit of a pain, especially if you PXE build your fleet laptops. Not so bad if you still have some dongles laying around from the T480s, absolute pain in the ring if you can't find one. I'd rather have a port and not need it than not have a port and need one!

Also, we had a problem with the hard drive filling up after about 10 days or so. Turns out the qualcom modem driver logs were filling the %programdata% entry with "modem not found" messages every few seconds. That was fun, and undocumented on the Lenovo forums.

Good luck buying one though, we were quoted 16 weeks for delivery next order. So, went to a different manufacturer. YMMV however.