* Posts by Danny 14

4301 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009

Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower

Danny 14

This is exactly the way you stop these so called AI, you pollute its training. Make the training so useless that the product fails too much and you have won the game. It wouldnt surprise me if rivals are doing this to each other.

250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them

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IPV6 is the future. just not the now. We moved our servers to ipv6 and itnisnt that hard, you juat need to get your head around "you dont nat your servers now" and get a decent firewall.

Rise of deepfake threats means biometric security measures won't be enough

Danny 14

Re: Baldur's Gate approach needed

DNA locks would work except you can end up with a Gattaca situation to fool it.

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Re: Biometric Security

It depends what biometric security you are using.

Iris is quite secure if you are using a proper scanner and not a camera. webcam anything is not. Fingerprint scanners arent either but true palm readers are.

Travel app Kayak offers Boeing 737 Max 9 filter after that door plug drama

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Re: Have they never heard of flanges

these are not just static plugs, they have full guide tracks, pins but are secured by bolts. They are mostly doors but without the ability to open, no mechanisms etc. The design of the door framing cannot be changed as this is the approved airframe.

The worry is if the natural vibration loosened the bolts allowing the door plug to "open"

Danny 14

Re: When a company

the why is down to type approval. The airframe was approved but there are various specifications. The door plug is a non opening door. It was fitted incorrectly.

Australia imposes cyber sanctions on Russian it says ransomwared health insurer

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Re: Linked to ten-million-record leak

agreed. Just block the whole of Russia. I doubt ma y hard working regular Russians will be affected as all the oligarchy do more harm in the first place.

Just let Russia do its own thing on its own.

ValueLicensing tries to smack down Microsoft defenses in license reselling spat

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Re: Its a great model

we have found the exact opposite. autopilot and intune for deployment, sure the gpo to intune policy was a little backward in respect to powerhell (sic) scripts but we are more flexible now. 2FA is much better with the online services now, we still have veeam backup and restore. Onedrive and sharepoint work seamlessly with our ipads and interactive screens too. Cost is about the same but flexibility and admin is easier.

New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law

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it isnt just the grid, substations wont cope. Especially when they need to cope with EVs and heat pumps.

Danny 14

Re: Think of the Grid!

oh they most certainly do. Parcel companies use them. We know thia because the 4 public charging points in our village have 4 vans almoat permanently plugged in. Because there are very few cottages that have parking outside the house, most of our village park in two little car parks. EV simply wouldnt work unless there was a massive charging station (larger than a motorway services) put in. These would be public points so would not be cheap at all.

Danny 14

Re: Think of the Grid!

i used to work at the national grid (as was) in Penwortham back in the 90s. The demand vs max load vs availability was quite close most of the time. Infrastructure has not changed even if generation sites have.

there is a reason power stations are all over the place. The grid would not be able to handle the demand even if availability matched.

New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over 'millions of articles' used to train ChatGPT

Danny 14

buy it, sack all the "journalists" and let the AI run the articles. continue slurping.

‘I needed antihistamine tablets every time I opened the computers’

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Re: These stories are crazy

quite often units are independent franchises. these tend to have little physical storage so it is quite common to have a small comms cabinet with vpn/firewall, network and server under the POS.

In a company we worked at, one guy left a leaving present of a full crab in his base unit.

we had a call that gis base unit wasnt working. The smell when we opened the base unit was indescribable.Cue a job for the apprentice.

Superuser mostly helped IT, until a BSOD saw him invent a farcical fix

Danny 14

Re: USB memory sticks

glue gun. Glue the mouse trapdoor (like the fluff trap roller was ever going to be cleaned). then glue gun the 110/240 psu switch so that the magic smoke doesnt come out of the PSUs every thirsday ICT lesson.

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i used recuva only a fortnight ago to recover student work. not backed up. we force onedrive use and have veeam immutable backups.

they still managed not to save their 365 document in the class teams or their own onedrive.

China bans export of rare earth processing kit

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Re: Always worth listening to the other side too..

the US have friends?

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Re: Oops!

rare earth extraction amd processing is very dirty business. lots of nasty chemicals and by products. that is the main reason other countries dont do it. There are plenty of viable reserves bit not the will to play with the stuff.

As for uranium, Australia has a lot of the stuff. More than anyone else in fact so the US wont have any issues procuring it.

Russian problems will come years down the line when the chinese come knocking for their loan repayments.

HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated'

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Re: Missed the target

wasnt always this way. we have a 4000n that is awesome. Still has parts, cheap to run, simple drivers and just works Its over 20 years old and still on its original laser and internals. The exit plastics warped in the sun and the 10Mb network card isnt original either (again, sun damage)

Fujitsu-backed FDK claims nickel zinc batteries ready for use in UPSes

Danny 14

ford batteries tend to be silver calcium so a bit different to recycle, they also need a higher voltage charging system too and can get a bit picky.

Tesla, Musk likely aware of Autopilot deficiencies behind Florida fatality, says judge

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Re: But then

"Sometimes a bus load of street fighter lawyers cannot save you from stupid comments on social media"

He got away with calling some poor guy a pedo because apparently it is a term of humour in South Africa.

There's no Huawei Chinese chipmakers can fill Nvidia's shoes... anytime soon

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Re: Taiwan occupation?

scorched earth

Chinese CPUs to feature in servers made by sanctioned Russian company

Danny 14

4 generations behind? Thats fine. That puts it in the early xeon range so dell x10 era's. very capable servers.

From vacuum tubes to qubits – is quantum computing destined to repeat history?

Danny 14

you can prise my quadruple blocks of /29 out of my code dead fingers.

If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon

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Re: I could have understood not mentioning it if it was a Starfighter

my old man was an RAF loadmaster and armorer, he had a few postings but got on with pilots who flew lightnings. Those were notorious for being cramped, very fast and thirsty, the pilots on intercept were often flying back on fumes and none of them wanted to ever eject due to the cramped cockpit shape. The pilots loved to fly them though and even with one engine failure they were still fast. They were known as flying coffins more for the lack of space.

BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year

Danny 14

I would think so, it is a 3G spec.

Danny 14

Re: So.......2G will be here for while and 3G will disappear almost immediately...

vending machines, parking machines, medical devices, printers. Loads of things have phone home 3G in them.

Danny 14

Re: I thought they already had.

It will be carnage up here in the lake district. You get 4G along major trunk roads (mostly) and it soon drops to 3G+ once you turn off the main roads.

Douglas Adams was right: Telephone sanitizers are terrible human beings

Danny 14

dont know what you mean, im running a 100mb connection at home using old telephone extensio wiring that just happened to go to the shed. 100mb is perfectly fine for a 40mb internet access point....

Under CISA pressure collab, Microsoft makes cloud security logs available for free

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Re: "a step in the right direction"

dont get me started on how shitbag azure logging is. even a lowly 2 node on prem cluster is a cost burden if you go with the default recommended windows admin center azure logging. The only other free option I knew of was WUFB logging (but not email alert).

id rather powershell the shit out it to a syalog server just to spite them.

LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions

Danny 14

Re: Wrong

no they arent. look at commercial digital panels. They are fairly cheap and have other nifty options for controlling them with RS232 (yikes!) and USB.

Danny 14

Re: Wrong

I wont be purchasing an LG then. Just as easy to get a dumb panel and add an external box. At least rhen you arent held to ransom by the tv.

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

Danny 14

Re: "Being able to switch provider easily is an important part of a competitive market,"

O2 Virgin are just as bad. I had a PAC from them and a full transfer. Im still getting billed for a non existant service on a non exiatant account. O2 were flummoxed the first month as "it shouldnt have happened as the computer says you have no products with us". No shit. So stop fucking charging me.

UK university gets £5M to strap lasers to CubeSats

Danny 14

Re: Finally..

or a 5MW laser. Toasty.

Let's have a chat about Java licensing, says unsolicited Oracle email

Danny 14

Re: What three words

I would treat it like all other sales stuff. Delete and ignore.

Danny 14

Re: Dracula is thirsty again

Best to take off and nuke Java from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.

Now that you've all tried it ... ChatGPT web traffic falls 10%

Danny 14

Re: " Now that you've all tried it ... "

I played with ELIZA too in the 80s. She called it harrassment though and I needed to leave the bar :(

Danny 14

Re: It will pick up soon enough

well chatgpt did tell me who the bofh was. Now the internet has been solved for me and I need it no longer.

Turning a computer off, then on again, never goes wrong. Right?

Danny 14

Re: Reminds me of an old (early '80s) AI koan ...

ive seenthis before when a windows service really needed a delayed start but also was dependent on another delayed start. Sort of the opposite of a race condition which i call the british queue, "you start first sir! No sir, I insist you start first!" etc.. in the end nothing starts and deriratives all grind to a halt.

India official fined after draining reservoir to recover phone

Danny 14

Re: At least he fished it out in the end....

its all water under the bridge now.

Indian telecoms leaps from 2G, to 4G, to 6G – on a single day

Danny 14

Re: I wonder

Its hard to find phones that dont come with dual sim. My ancient A51 does, the grandkids motorola cheapie from argos do too. esim are also a thing now on modern phones.

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Re: 6G may be

maybe they have fixed the covid problem that 5G caused?

I will get my coat...

EU antitrust team closer to full-blown Microsoft probe, say sources

Danny 14

Re: Same old Microsoft, same old games

the number of times I need to move it back to foxit is crazy. Each update Edge is suddenly opening PDFs. You get the little balloon "sorry, some of your default settings have reset to Edge" and you just know what has happened. I dont mind edge as a browser but I do mind the hijacking.

Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware

Danny 14

Re: Really?

if it was temu spurced then that 64gb stick started failing after the first 8gb was filled, so no worries.

Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson

Danny 14

Re: Unique keys

this i never understood. User or customers equal numbers. Various bits about a user or customer changes, address, status bit also name. it shouldnt matter if someone changed their name because surely you arent using name as a primary field or upn.

Oh wait, thats exactly what 365 does.

Another redesign on the cards for iPhone as EU rules call for removable batteries

Danny 14

Re: As luck would have it....

oh I imagine you will be able to buy third party ones quite quickly from amazon et al

My last samsung a51 was an EU model with dual sim. It still gets over the air updates in the uk, the last update was Monday this week.

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Re: UK specific model?er

not a scuba diver but a snorkeler and I use an aquapac bag for an old note3. this performs very well under water but I imagine the pressure will kill it before the bag gives way. It is certainly harder to use a couple of meters down so scuba diving would definitely render it useless.

Danny 14

Re: UK specific model?

My last phone was an EU spec phone because it came with dual sim, the UK model did not and the two were the same price. This was back before brexit though.

SSD missing from SAP datacenter turns up on eBay, sparking security investigation

Danny 14

Thats ok because they use self encrypting drives right? So a person with the drive cant use the data on it correct?

Users of 123 Reg caught out by catch-all redirect cut-off

Danny 14

yep, LE here too apart from the papercut server - that gets a proper cert because it is a pain going round to each printer and accepting the new thumbprint on LE every 75 days

Don't turn it off and on again: Expired Cisco cert cripples vEdge SD-WAN kit

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Re: Paying attention

its a great way of killing second hand kit. No support contract? No new ssl cert for you.