Posts by VoiceOfTruth

Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks

Re: When you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail

There are certain things which are built to run on MySQL (or MariaDB). e.g. WordPress.

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

Re: Name and Shame ?

Votes down are presumably from people who use open source, and want other people to pay for its development.

Re: Name and Shame ?

That old chestnut again - make the 'big' users pay.

If you use open source, you are a user too. Reach into your pocket.

Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress

Wayland

Bringing less than before and more problems.

Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK

Re: I Don't Think Anything Can Be Ruled Out Now

The UK has always had an authoritarian bent. 1984 was written about a future Britain.

Speech control

These people would control thought if it was possible.

Free speech in the UK = free to say what the government allows you to say.

This is not 'about the children'. That is just the pretext.

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

If only Linux had something like hier (7) on FreeBSD

FreeBSD is *much* better and tidier in this respect.

Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown

'Operators'

>> More operators are allowing machine learning systems to make real-time decisions

More *stupid* operators are allowing machine learning systems to make real-time decisions.

Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration

£20m

>> Kyle was speaking following a £20m UK government investment in the company.

Vin Tanner: That wouldn't even pay for my bullets.

Let's face it, we can't even get the signalling running reliably on the London Underground. I mean day in day out without there being a problem somewhere.

OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much

'Devs aren't nearly as won over'

Devs is a general term. It covers the whole spectrum from genius level programmers to Bob who downloads whatever he finds on the internet, includes or imports it into his 'app', and it runs. Yet Bob doesn't have the ability to read the code he slurped in.

And Bob's boss Burt, a non-developer, is no doubt impressed by the headline.

MPs brand NS&I's £3B IT overhaul a 'full-spectrum disaster'

Re: Business as usual

I see you have been downvoted for spilling truth beans.

The PAC is just there to pretend it is useful.

Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper

Scans of ID documents

Why do these need to be kept at all?

I might understand the need to 'prove' who I am when I become a customer (if that is required in Holland). But why keep the scan? If I am in person, that can be verified by the mark one eyeball of my documents and noted accordingly. If I am doing this online and send in a photo or a scan of my documents, that has no value - I can send in anything I happen to have access to.

By keeping all these scans, Odido has just subjected its customers to the latter. $badguy now has scans which no doubt they will use to impersonate Odido's customers. And it's Odido's customers who will have to spend time dealing with this.

Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs

Re: In other news

And you would be wrong again. Which would explain a lot.

The USA is not our friend.

Re: In other news

Perhaps you work for Fox 'News'.

What do you think the NSA does? Why does Google partner with the NSA?

Re: In other news

And I am right.

In other news

Gemini is used by the American regime to target the whole world.

Google is of course a NSA partner.

The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware

Re: Too much ideology makes Liam unproductive

I am sure you understand the thrust of my argument. Ford make forklifts. It would be odd if they used Komatsu forklifts in their factories.

Re: Too much ideology makes Liam unproductive

You make some reasonable points, but I don't agree with your conclusion.

I feel any company should use its own products, whether open source or closed. Sometimes there are not good open source alternatives or alternatives, particularly if interoperability is required. e.g. If you work with a customer that uses Photoshop and Illustrator, Gimp and Inkscape are not replacements. They are just not.

But email, by itself? That's 100% doable in open source, even at huge scale. Striving to do more is how MS migrated from FreeBSD to Windows. Sure, they had the money. But more than that, they had the intent. I think Liam's point is that seems to be lacking in certain OSS quarters.

Interoperability?

Does Suse use Teams to connect with customers? That would be a 'good' reason. While Teams is utterly horrible and far more complicated than Skype was, it is something of a 'standard' in the corporate world.

Scott McNealy also used the 'eat our own dogfood' edict. He visited a Sun data centre and found non-Sun equipment installed. It wasn't as though Sun didn't have suitable equipment to replace it.

There is a good point to be made, as b0llchit above suggests. If an open source company doesn't run on open source, why would I try to run my company on it?

Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China

Re: Why but it from Holland when you can steal it from next door?

That would hurt the USA more than it would hurt China.

American 'allies' need to understand something

America first = everyone else last.

The USA is not Europe's friend. We are already seeing it with the tariffs because the USA can't compete fairly. Even trade agreements made by the orange sex abuser with Canada are torn up just a while later.

Taiwan has already woken up to this. They won't beggar themselves to Make America Fatter.

Britain has no choice but to do as America tells it. Europe not so much.

Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care

Partly fuelled by removing competition

>> Cisco won $15.3 billion revenue for the quarter, a company record and a ten percent year-over-year jump.

Huawei was eating into Cisco's market. Cue the 'national security' blanket excuse. Rip and replace.

It's time Cisco was ripped and replaced from Europe (and the rest of the world too) for constant security 'vulnerabilities' including hardcoded credentials which were 'forgotten' but somehow made it in to production.

How long until the next forgotten backdoor/convenient bypass?

Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase

Re: Still?

>> what have they been doing for the last 7 years?

Kicking it down the road.

There are, as stated, open source alternatives. So people can be 'very concerned' all they like. But at this stage they need to look in the mirror.

Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks

Did they manage to boot out the American snoops?

Just wondering. If you use American equipment, you are a prime target for the American regime.

AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment

Some? Some?

>> some network engineers find 128-bit IPv6 addresses harder to work with than the dotted quads of IPv4.

sed s'/some/nearlyeveryone/'

IPv6 is also hard to type. Colons require the use of the shift key. No thanks to ever decided that was a good idea.

Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031

Some people are deluded

>> If the UK moves decisively to fix energy costs

Ha! The UK's lack of a coherent energy policy for the last 40 years is a good prediction that that won't happen.

In Europe wants to get away from being in the dirty grip of the American regime, they should avoid the UK for data centres anyway. The UK would grant access to the US regime as a sign of being a good little puppy.

European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend

I make an unbiased allegation here

It was American regime backed.

Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere

Re: Lutnick

The difference is this: The USA would destroy Taiwan to prevent it 'falling into communist hands'. China has no desire to destroy Taiwan.

Lutnick

He thinks he can just tell other countries to relocate their industries. Beggar those countries so the USA can be fat.

The threat to Taiwan is not from mainland China. It is from the USA.

Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks

At the same time...

Are telcos ignoring American backdoors and attacks? Is there a lot of noise about Salt Typhoon to deflect attention?

More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

Clueless Users

>> "It's like giving some random person access to your computer to help do tasks,"

Indeed. See it on the internet, download and install it, then point a finger afterwards: it shouldn't be allowed.

Their passwords are probably 'password1' or something like that. Or they follow GPS into a river.

Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite

What an indictment

The USA sanctions somebody for investigating crimes against humanity.

It tells the world a lot.

AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs

A whiff of hypocrisy

>> The artists using its services – well aware of AI's impact on the creative market and perhaps discomfitted by their complicity for using these tools – were not amused

Well...they were OK until it struck closer to home. I wonder if these same artists make use of AI in Photoshop. Next up we will read about 'authors' who complained about books being scanned by AI tools, then using AI themselves.

UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat

It so happens that a lot of asylum seekers are here thanks to the policies of this and past governments.

Before Gaddafi was overthrown by the West, very few asylum seekers came via Libya. Now it's a pipeline.

It makes me laugh when I hear Australians complaining about 'illegal immigrants'. They are all illegal immigrants - it was not their country when their ancestors invaded. It's a code word for 'not white'.

No. But we've heard a lot about Birmingham already.

The point is Birmingham is utterly incompetent. There is no doubt of that. I have made several posts over the years expressing exactly that view.

Selling things off is what the Tories are good at. Curiously the final beneficiaries of these sell offs seem to be Tories. As this article is about selling things off, it is pertinent to highlight that Tories like selling things off.

Personally, I would compulsorily purchase a lot of the playing fields from the private schools and sell them off. Then remove all tax breaks and charitable status from the same private schools.

It's run by the Tories, so it's right up their street.

Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer

Wait until Facewatch is hacked

>> Rajah had to submit a copy of his passport and head shot to Facewatch

Prove your innocence. It's disgusting. I hope there is way for Rajah to sue over this. He is not in the wrong.

Asia-based government spies quietly broke into critical networks across 37 countries

Vocabulary correction

>> an American military operation captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife

Kidnapped after an illegal invasion.

Palo Alto

>> Unit 42 spotted phishing campaigns targeting European governments

Hmmm. Does Palo Alto spot American campaigns target European governments? I thought not...

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

Re: Who watches the watchers?

>> https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/05/uk_courts_cloud/

Wait until the miscarriages of justice start. The hand wringing. Lessons must be learned. More AI will fix this. Blah blah blah.

UK's 'world-first' deepfake detection framework unlikely to stop the fakes, says expert

Nik Adams' blabber

Sounds like it was written by Copilot. Not an original thought there.

I'm more concerned about government ministers having connections with convicted child abusers.

Britain courts private cash to fund 'golden age' of nuclear-powered AI

First you have a need

Where are these factories waiting to open up here? I am curious which companies are just begging to open a factory here.

Britain has not had a coherent energy policy for about 40 years now. And it shows.

UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog

Re: Sir Brian Leveson recommends numerous uses of AI

He is the latest in a long line of bullshitters. Independent review my arse. He is part of the system.

'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP

Re: Reality bites

Do you have any actual verification of that? Maybe that's what the dumbos at the MOD think. Maybe that's what the dumbos at the MOD have been told.

Maybe, just a bit more than than maybe, the missiles supplied to the UK do not actually work as it says on the tin.

Re: Reality bites

>> there is no connection to the US. If the US wanted to stop the use of them, they could not do it

UK Trident missiles are entirely dependent on the USA for targeting.

I feel confident that Trump has already hinted at this in the 'backroom discussions' with Britain. It's more tariffs, or no missiles.

Re: Reality bites

By having people like ICE thugs smash down your door and disappearing you.

Re: Reality bites

>> the US has no right of veto under the sale terms

You have your head really deep in the sand. The USA can and would prevent the use of Trident. A written agreement with the USA is not worth the paper it is written on - ask Canada.

Re: Reality bites

>> Please point to the kill switches in FOSS.

Kill switches? None that I know of. But there are sanctions. US law prevents open source projects being shared with North Korea, for example.

People will say 'well that's North Korea'. Try telling that now to Canada.

UK watchdog to rule on £246M Post Office subsidy over Horizon scandal and IR35

It goes on and on

>> A statutory inquiry into the mass miscarriage of justice launched in 2021 and is ongoing.

These MFs just sit there polishing their arses. It is time to get rid of the existing statutory inquiry, and bring in something which is led by the plaintiffs. The judiciary are not very trustworthy.