My brain auto-translated that to "impotent cunt"
Posts by Sp1z
100 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Feb 2022
Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS
Report: Tech misconceptions plague the IT world
Windows: Insecure by design
Re: how much punishment are you willing to take?
I find that extremely unlikely that you were given free reign to blank the machine and install whatever you wanted in every job you've had. Apart from anything else that sounds like more of a security nightmare for the company than using Windows, and that's saying something.
If you tried that on my network you wouldn't have the job much longer.
'Little weirdo' shoulder surfer teaches UK cabinet minister a lesson in cybersecurity
Cops visit school of 'wrong person's child,' mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail
Switch to hit the fan as BT begins prep ahead of analog phone sunset
Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads
Google, DeepMind accused of 'stealing the internet' to create Bard AI chatbot
Fed up with slammed servers, IT replaced iTunes backups with a cow of a file
Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux
FTC sues VoIP provider over 'billions of illegal robocalls'
Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not
Is there anything tape can’t fix? This techie used it to defeat the Sun
When you try to hire a freelancer to write SQL and all you get is incorrect AI garbage
Parts of UK booted offline as Virgin Media suffers massive broadband outage
DNS?
> Cloudflare noted that VM's authoritative nameservers are also hosted on AS5089, which explains the nameserver/ website outage.
All of them? Idiots. DNS 101: Always have at least one nameserver on a different network, ASN if possible.
No it wouldn't have helped the connectivity issues to whatever DNS was point at, but it would have allowed them to at least drop the TTL and repoint their website to a status page or something.
Capita: Cyber-attack broke some of our IT systems
> I keep on getting bailiff threats for non TV license.
That surprises me, because last year I cancelled my TVL (avoiding using the L word in case I get it wrong and the AC above comes after me). Submitted the cancellation online, gave a reason that I don't watch any live services or any of the other crap they claim to have jurisdiction over. Think they had me print out and sign a form declaring the same and email back to them (edit: found below). They did send me one letter afterwards which I ignored but haven't heard anything from them since.
Maybe you need to fill this out: https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/telling-us-you-dont-need-a-tv-licence
It does say that's only valid for two years, but they're still getting ignored if they do start sending stuff again.
ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI
Journalist hurt by exploding USB bomb drive
Eufy security cams 'ignore cloud opt-out, store unique IDs' of anyone who walks by
BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it
Alarming: Tesla lawsuit claims collision monitoring system is faulty
Anyone want an International Space Station? Slightly used
Tough luck, Brits: Binance suspends UK deposits and withdrawals
Rebel without a clause: ISP promises broadband with no contract
UK consortium set to bid for £480 million NHS data platform
Find My Kids app is basically AirTags for your offspring
I've got an Apple Watch 2 on my wrist right now, as it is every day. It was first on the market in September 2016 and I purchased it in early 2017.
It still receives semi-regular updates and still functions perfectly for all I need it to do (activity monitor, music switching, notifications), and the battery still lasts well over a day, so I'm not sure where you are getting your information from.
Microsoft swears it's not coming for your data with scan for old Office versions
Re: Strange way to respect user privacy
Oh cool I'll just go and reinstall 2000 PCs with Linux over this weekend and suddenly have no industry-standard software applications for all of the employees to use, and no ability to centrally manage users, policies, restrictions etc. I'll then spend most of my time pissing about with randomly broken dependencies whenever I try and roll out out any updates, and look into my crystal ball every so often to determine when drivers for a perfectly usable device are going to stop working. Not to mention the man-hours, money and lost-productivity spent training the users and helpdesk.
I'm very pleased that you can do everything you need to do without Windows jake, but you are in a very small minority in the real world I'm afraid, however much you are about to protest it in your reply. Yes the world would be a better place if Linux was more mainstream, but it's nowhere near usable for anything larger than a small business and won't be for a long time.
WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage
User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway
Well that escalated quickly: India demos homebrew mobile OS
Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs
Bringing cakes into the office is killing your colleagues, says UK food watchdog boss
OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence
That NHS England patient data platform procurement, FDP, is live. And worth up to £480m
Russian meddling in 2016 US presidential election was weak sauce
Microsoft may be counting out $10 billion to inject into OpenAI
Re: The model would help users generate and edit their writing in emails and documents.
> [0] As an aside: if these inference engines are trained on general internet traffic, does that mean we can say goodbye to the differences between their/there/they're, or your/you're, or other homonyms?
As well as increased instances of the horrendously annoying "fr fr" (which I thought was a French language codepage), "bussin" (presumably discussion about public transport) and "no cap" (I only wear a hat on holiday so not sure how this is relevant to normal discussion).
Non-binary DDR5 is finally coming to save your wallet
With Mastodon, decentralization strikes back
TikTok confirms it tracked journalists' locations as part of leak investigation
Something’s not right here
They were using IP addresses? To track location?
I’ve just turned off my VPN and it says i’m in Rochester. I’m not. Turn off my WiFi as well and it says i’m in West London. I’m not.
I guess they might be able to tell if a journalist and a staffer were on the same WiFi network, or they *might* be geo-mapping SSIDs like Google did, but surely there isn’t anywhere near enough accuracy to pinpoint these interactions?
Could it possibly be that their app has GPS permission and they’re using that? In which case why would any journalist worth their salt have TikTok installed on a device they left switched on while they met up with a staffer to get a story about TikTok?
Doesn’t make sense.
LastPass admits attackers have a copy of customers’ password vaults
Re: Someone Else's Password
However, what they can also do with the email addresses from the database is use them to look up any records on older pwn lists and try those passwords. I'm sure some people will have used this new fangled password manager but somehow ended up with their normal password as the master.
Being one of the 1% sucks if you're a Rackspace user
"Rackspace has recovered all of the PST files on the compromised servers"
Er, I thought this was hosted Exchange? Why are they blathering on about PST files when Exchange stores its mailbox database as EDB files, and not certainly separately for each mailbox?
I'm glad I bit the bullet years ago and bought the MS Action Pack for £350 as I am happily running my own Exchange 2016 server at home instead of relying on someone else's "cloud" solution (yes I'm still in the license terms - no a linux email server doesn't suit my needs). If I cock it up and don't take backups or don't take security seriously enough, I've only got myself to blame.