I trust you also have a sign saying 'beware of the leopard'?
Posts by Neil Barnes
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Rhysida ransomware gang: We attacked the British Library
Net privacy wars will be with us always. Let's set some rules
Monday 20th November 2023 08:44 GMT 
who it is that doesn't trust us – and why
Governments don't trust their electors - they might vote for the wrong party next time.
Search engines makers don't trust their users - they might not go to the page we've been paid to put at the top of the list.
Browser makers don't trust anyone - they might have the temerity to use a different browser.
OS makers don't trust anyone - how dare the user choose options other than those which we have, in our magnanimosity, selected for them?
Computer makers don't trust anyone - you want to run an OS that isn't the one that mandated all these clever security chips?
There's an old Yorkshire saying: they're all mad bar thee and me, and I'm not right sure about thee... The only half-way secure internet is one with hard encryption in transit. If you want to know who I talk to, use traffic analysis - but get a warrant first. But gentlemen do not read other people's mail.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output
Double Moon crater riddle solved? Spent Chinese rocket booster carrying mystery payload crash landed
Apple's quest for modem independence from Qualcomm is going nowhere fast
NASA's Psyche spacecraft beams back a 'Hello' from 10 million miles away
Friday 17th November 2023 21:30 GMT 
Nice to see science catching up with science fiction
As far as I can see, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle used this mechanism in the seventies in The Mote in God's Eye (and invented the mobile phone as computer at the same time!)
So one of these both for NASA and Niven (sadly too late for Pournelle) --->
Windows users can soon ditch Bing, Edge, other bundleware – but only in the EU
HP sued over use of forfeited 401(k) retirement contributions
South Korea opens the door for robots to roam among pedestrians
Wish you could sing like Charli XCX or possess any musical talent? YouTube AI might make that happen
How much to clean up a ransomware infection? For Rackspace, about $11M
Friday 17th November 2023 05:09 GMT 
will be and has been reduced by insurance payments
Which is all very well, because everybody knows insurance funds can afford it, right?
Costs to insurance funds directly affect each and every one of us, both in increased premium payments and decreased dividend payouts to shareholders - like yours and my pension companies. Assuming it's all ok because it's covered by insurance is fundamentally just kicking the can down the street. There has to be a better way...
Google Chrome coders really, truly, absolutely ready to cull third-party cookies from 2024
Wednesday 15th November 2023 06:14 GMT
Purpose of a browser?
Is there any use pretending that Chrome is anything more than a device for ensuring users can't avoid advertising, while simultaneously forcing the bulk of that advertising to use Google?
I've been blocking third-party cookies as long as Firefox allowed it... among other approaches.
Software is listening for the options you want it to offer, and it's about time
Wednesday 15th November 2023 15:09 GMT
Re: Not just Apple
The monitor I'm typing this on turns off when the computer it's attached to does. Only then it turns itself on to display a cheery little message about how it no longer has an input, so it's going to go to sleep, and then finally it goes to sleep.
I swear you can't do that sort of idiocy by accident.
Wednesday 15th November 2023 13:02 GMT
Re: Not just Apple
The more awkward something is to use, the more likely you are to throw it away and buy a new one. It might not be from the same company, but that doesn't matter because they get the customer churn from all the other companies being abandoned.
1) Invent something
2) Make it impossible to use
3) $$$
Rivian bricks infotainment systems in 'fat finger' fiasco
Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie
Fujitsu-backed FDK claims nickel zinc batteries ready for use in UPSes
Corduroy is coming to the metaverse with touchy-feely robotic sensors
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean AI's not after you
Want a Cybertruck? You're stuck with it for a year, says Tesla
Royal Mail cybersecurity still a bit of a mess, infosec bods claim
Monday 13th November 2023 08:35 GMT 
Unsurprised that RM can't sort out its security...
It still seems to find it impossible to liaise with its global partners such that letters posted first class in the UK in September have still not arrived at their destination in Germany.
Given that they're obviously concentrating so hard on their primary function, little unimportant things like security are going to be way down the 'to do' list.
UK signals legal changes to self-driving vehicle liabilities
Friday 10th November 2023 13:31 GMT
only the driver – be it the vehicle or person – is accountable
So... in the event that the automation does something which would result in disqualification for a fleshy meatsack driver, is it then forbidden to move until the ban is completed - six months, a year, ten years? Leaving the owner with an unusable and depreciating asset? And if the offence is punishable with prison, will there be a big HM Car Park to which the vehicle is escorted and left at His Majesty's Pleasure?
Surely the onus - and the risk - is upon the company developing the vehicle to make sure it doesn't misbehave in these ways.
Cruise patches robo-taxi software to not drag humans across the road anymore
Thursday 9th November 2023 07:34 GMT
Re: Missing a vital component
I was wondering if these autonomous vehicles did indeed have a big red stop button (two actually; one inside and one out) that would turn the computer off and stop the thing doing anything... I wouldn't want to do anything to a vehicle with a running engine - like sticking a jack under it to perhaps get someone out - and the problem is compounded when a computer might decide at any time to do something unexpected.
First rule as a first aid responder: make sure the situation is safe. With these cars I'm not sure that's possible without an external big red button.
India gives social media platforms 36 hours to remove deepfakes
FTC interrupts Copyright Office probe to flip out over potential AI fraud, abuse
Adobe sells fake AI-generated Israel-Hamas war images – then the news ran them as real
Wanted: Driver for rocket-powered Bloodhound Land Speed Record car
WeBroke WeWork, WePromise WeFix it: How subleasing giant hopes to survive bankruptcy
NASA gasping for ideas to extract oxygen from Moon dirt
Ireland to develop datacenter powered by fuel cells
Musk thinks X marks the spot for Grok AI engine based on social network
UK throws millions at scheme to heat homes with waste energy from datacenters
Monday 6th November 2023 10:57 GMT
Re: Assumptions
The hot water provided by my local heating distribution (Potsdam DE area) comes into the house with the pipes too hot to touch - 70 or 80C at a guess - and leaves most of the time not much cooler. I'm not sure how well the heat exchanger would work with lower temperatures - at present it can deliver hot water too hot to use unmixed with cold.
YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues
Monday 6th November 2023 10:22 GMT
Re: Nail, meet head!
Charge a sane rate (the $2.50/month seems reasonable) but:
- once charging, no adverts, ever
- no data gathering beyond 'users who follow this content also like this'
Or no adverts, but as The Eel points out: provide adverts which are relevant to the subject being watched. And let me skip them after a few seconds if I'm not interested. And never in the middle.
India's lunar landing made a mess on the Moon
FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges
In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one
Alien rock remains found not on but deep inside the Earth
Dirty dancing grabs the attention of China's cyberspace regulators
UK govt finds £225M for Isambard-AI supercomputer powered by Nvidia
Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting
Apple swipes left on the last Touch Bar Mac, replaces it with a pricier 14″ model
Tesla swerves liability in Autopilot death lawsuit
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