Posts by Sp1z

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

Re: Good!

“For flock’s sake”?

MPs tell NHS to start packing Palantir's bags ahead of 2027 contract break

Deletion

I hope they've got a clause that says as soon as they've transferred to a new system, everything gets deleted from the Palantir system.

I doubt they'll delete it anyway because they're a bunch of cunts, but we should have something in writing.

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Re: Bah!

You're right. It should be put in the back with tthe passengers. Under some sort of flap so as not to automatically trigger it (which is one of the very lame reasons being presented).

Nice idea!

Re: Bah!

In civilised parts of the world, if you can't avoid crashing into the car in front if it does an emergency stop, you're a) driving too close, b) liable and c) a moron.

The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon

Re: Memory was never cheap.

I remember quite a few decades ago my dad paying £450 for a 16MB (yes mega, not giga) SIMM. Oof.

Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug

Re: Consultants = Rhinos

You can get a more accurate name if you remove o n s l t a

Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine

Re: So....

I was thinking the same. I bet this price has been arrived at to keep the total haul at the same value, whilst a large volume of the coke has mysteriously gone missing.

Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

I deleted my account years ago when they got hacked and spewed my email address everywhere. They of course denied it profusely, but seeing as it was linkedin@my domain they didn’t understand that I had proof. They ended up ignoring me, so I vowed never to have anything to do with the cesspool ever again.

Anyway it just seems like coke-fuelled egotistical twats posting AI generated slop from what I can tell, so no major loss.

GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks

Your domain is

GoneDaddy

Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes

Always anonymous. Pathetic.

If you're going to front up to me, don't be a pussy about it :)

…and render the entire machine totally unnavigable by any standard user.

Good one!

Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds

Re: mandated AI

And our primary elected official isn't a bigoted narcassistic pedophile, which also helps.

AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

Re: I am reminded of the Peter Principle

I don't know if you've seen Copileofshit try and produce a Powerpoint deck... I think middle management are with us for a while longer

Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027

When looking up the phrase “username checks out”, a screenshot of these two comments should immediately appear.

Touché sir/madam.

You can pry Classic Outlook from my cold, dead, arthritic hands.

Fight me.

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

Re: licence fee enforcement

"getting weekly threatograms"

You are not getting them weekly.

Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle

Does this “one-click privacy solution disable and get rid of Meta “AI”?

Of course it bloody doesn’t. With acknowledgement to DS999’s comments, this toggle should turn Meta AI off *and* stop anyone you communicate with from using it on messages/chats involving you.

Unfortunately there are still a handful of people I can’t convince to move to Signal :(

ICE knocks on ad tech’s data door to see what it knows about you

Re: America, you need to fix your problem

I don’t remember the bible saying it was ok to fuck kids?

Sorry, just picked up on the “Christian” part, which apparently means it’s totally acceptable.

Carry on.

EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images

Re: Oh No

Wow - you *clearly* haven't understood what's going on. And as always, the morons post AC

Tech support detective solved PC crime by looking in the carpark

Re: Garry Glitter effect

Why did everyone hear who it was? Doesn’t sound very professional.

Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it

Re: Get used to reality

"Recently, some X users noticed if they took a photograph that had been posted on the service and prompted Grok to remove the clothing from that photo, it would do so and POST THE RESULTS PUBLICALLY ON X."

Try again.

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome

Re: Why not just ditch Chrome?

Already done. I block Google, Meta and Tiktok ASNs from my router, and haven’t looked back.

I have no need for any of their services or spying.

Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger

Ooooh! Another comments section where the downvoters don’t actually speak out because they can’t give any evidence or credibility to the contrary.

Keep sucking on that orange schlong guys!

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

Re: Software for parachute jumps ?

"depends on Windwows software"

Ok sad little troll, where did it say it ran on "Windwows"?

Anyway we all know penguins can't fly.

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

Re: The answer?

Nonsense. Sounds like a skill issue to me

AI boffins teach office supplies to predict your next move

So while I'm working away at my desk and I go and reach for something whose location I know without looking, instead it won't be there and I'll ahve to interrupt my workflow to look for it "helpfully" somewhere else nearer to me.

Sounds like my mother coming over and "tidying" the kitchen, and me having to spend hours after she leaves put everything back in its place.

Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads

Re: For once Zuck's setup is almost honest ..

I block all Meta, Google, Twitter and TikTok IP addresses at my network border because of this shit.

UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X

Re: Irony

Lol what are you talking about? You're getting angry about something that hasn't happened.

Are you saying the the government HAS to stay on the shitpile that is Twatter? Because of something you invented?

Trump’s tariff‑shaped stick can’t beat reality on US chip fabbing

Anything and everything to distract from the Epstein files.

Dirty fucking pedo.

Make Windows 11 more useful and less annoying with these 11 Registry hacks

Re: It's easier than doing all that. [1]

Fair enough, and you're right about the lone developer, but tell that to all the people that think we should be rolling Linux desktops across corporates all over the world because "M$ sucks".

Until there's a viable replacement for central user management, security and audit policies, certificates, OS and application deployment etc, no SME or corporate is moving anywhere.

OpenAI plugs ShadowLeak bug in ChatGPT that let miscreants raid inboxes

Who the hell...

...is letting any "AI" software go through their email?

Clutter was bad enough.

Idiots

Google pushes emergency patch for Chrome 0-day – check your browser version now

Cause and Effect?

The fact that the article (https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/google_chrome_ai_browser/) was placed right next to this one on the front page totally made my day.

Internet mapping and research outfit Censys reveals state-based abuse, harassment

Re: How ironic!

Oh cool another one for my block_ips_by_asn.sh script:

AS398324

162.142.125.0/24

167.248.133.0/24

167.94.138.0/24

206.168.32.0/24

206.168.33.0/24

206.168.34.0/24

206.168.35.0/24

66.132.148.0/24

66.132.153.0/24

66.132.159.0/24

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

Or as the HR exec asked the CEO, if recent events are anything to go by

AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders

Arseholes

I set this jail up one month ago on a webserver that has ~30 websites on it. Adding to the regex on a daily basis.

cat ai-bots.conf

[Definition]

failregex = <HOST> -.*openai.com.*

<HOST> - - .*(POST|GET) .*(ChatGPT-User|AI-bot|ClaudeBot|Bard|googlebot|python-requests|curl|Go-http-client|GPTBot|anthropic-ai|PerplexityBot|Google-Extend|OAI-SearchBot|Bytespider|cohere-ai|AI2Bot|CCBot|Diffbot|omgili|TimpiBot|YouBot|FacebookBot|GoogleOther|ImagesiftBot|OmigiliBot|mj12bot|ZoominfoBot|SemrushBot).*

:/etc/fail2ban/filter.d# fail2ban-client status ai-bots

Status for the jail: ai-bots

|- Filter

| |- Currently failed: 0

| |- Total failed: 2529

| `- File list: /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log

`- Actions

|- Currently banned: 5559

|- Total banned: 7640

Don't cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms

Luckily for me...

...I don't give a flying fuck what is written on Twatter or Farcebook or ShitTok or any of these echo chambers so any "censorship" (read: we don't like the fact they won't publish hate speech and disinformation, and keep fact checking our stuff!) won't affect me.

However, if anyone seriously believes that the orange pedo has anyone else's interests at heart but his own in whatever nonsense he's spouting today, they should probably go and get their head checked and prefereably removed permanently.

No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

I've finished my phone call

... I'll just unresponsive up the phone.

No

that is all

Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

Re: Private or Work?

Exactly. I fired up a VPS in Amsterdam over the weekend and am tunnelling all my browsing through it. That box also then tunnels through a non-UK based VPN provider to a random country adding extra safety. Latency is only ~10-20ms more which is fine for web stuff.

"A clear play to capitalize on parents' newfound obsession with online safety"

If parents had any inkling about online safety in the first place or actually sat down for a second and educated their kids, this bill wouldn't be necessary.

Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling

Re: Cheep storage

USB* Flash Drives

*Universal Serial Bird

US science left out in the cold amid plans to retire Antarctic icebreaker

He can't aim for shit. Have you seen him play golf, getting caddys to basically walk over and put the ball in the hole for him.

Twat

AI is an over-confident pal that doesn't learn from mistakes

Not just over-confident

When using it to suggest code (yes I analyse anything it writes, not just copy/paste) it will sometimes get something pretty obviously wrong. Fine, we all know this and account for it (right?).

The thing that gets me is when I paste that sample back to it and tell it that it's wrong, it accuses ME of writing it and berates ME as to why that line/function/whatever isn't going to work.

You wrote it you POS, not me.

PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle

I assume by the one downvote (possibly more by the time I post this) that we have a bunch of pedo supporters here on El Reg, which is disappointing.

Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

Workaround - exactly.

Not solution.

How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

Re: wrong

Username checks out

Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long

Re: Why is AI needed for this?

*cough* all "AI" is machine-learning, nothing more *cough*

NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets

Habitable Bodies Observatory?

Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator!

Re: Land of the Free - to be shot

That's awfully high and mighty from someone that's too much of a pussy to reveal their username