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JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry
Friday 2nd February 2024 15:06 GMT 
Re: As many comments in the Jetbrains discussion said - this smells like a marketing ploy
But those fine MBAs who have taken a CompSci course and think they understand enough about software and security and client relations [...]
Wait...What? A B-schooler taking a CS course?!? They'd get laughed out of the course by all the real nerds faster than they could trip over their own shoelaces. And B-school refugees do not like getting laughed at (plenty of examples IRL nowadays).
Biden will veto attempts to kill off SEC's security breach reporting rules
Thursday 1st February 2024 23:41 GMT
Re: Veto he should -- and must
When the tougher CISA rules are up and running, the SEC rule can be lifted.
While it would be bad for there to be two, essentially competing, sets of regulations, the more likely scenario (and the ones these Repo's are looking to create) is that the SEC rules be shit-canned, and no CISA rules be drafted to take their place.
Thursday 1st February 2024 17:34 GMT
Veto he should -- and must
Bitch and moan about "Grandpa Joe" all you want, but this is truly the right thing to do.
And shame on those fatass Republicons for even sponsoring such a piece of ... work.
Undoing any breach reporting requirement seems antithetical to the work a Senator ought to be doing; we asked Tillis's office to explain his reasoning, but didn't hear back.
And likely you won't. But if you were to hear back, and if somehow the good Senator were to by some miracle (or chemical inducement) to tell the truth, the statement might include something along the lines of, "Well, my handlers/sponsors/patrons/leash-holders don't like this because it exposes how shit their security practices are, and exposes the lie that the canned statement 'our customers' security is important to us' really is. After all, if our corporate owners -- er, donors were to actually have to invest in proper security, well, they might not have quite as profitable a quarter, and this would materially affect their bonuses, and we can't have that, now can we?"
LockBit shows no remorse for ransomware attack on children's hospital
Windows 10 users report app gremlins after Microsoft update
Cory Doctorow has a plan to wipe away the enshittification of tech
If you use AI to teach you how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself
Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion
US judge rejects spyware slinger NSO's attempt to bin Apple lawsuit
The rise and fall of the standard user interface
Wednesday 24th January 2024 19:12 GMT
Re: Got history completely wrong
The Alto had no standard menus, no menu bar, no pull-down menus, no window control buttons, no dialog boxes, no standard action buttons, no desktop icons, indeed no desktop: no graphical file management at all. Every Alto app looked differently and worked differently.
I dunno, Liam. My recollection of the Xerox 850 and 860 word processors include such things as menu bars, dropdown menus (not cascading menus or context menus), dialogs, and the clipboard. This was in '81. You may well be correct that "Alto" did not have these things, but the devices made by Xerox (at least, these two specific things) did support these keystones of CUA.
It is true that the 850 interface was somewhat different than the 860. These differences were largely due to styling, but the elements were there in both.
And blinding monochrome -- black and white only. Gad!
Wednesday 24th January 2024 17:55 GMT
Re: First time I have heard of the CUA for decades
So, then, WHY did Micros~1 *ABANDON* something NICE for a FLATSO 1.0-like appearance,,,??? (i.e. TIFKAM/Ape/Win-10-nic/1.1)
That's easy! By that time, Micros~1's marketing department (the tail that wags that dog) was slowly (or maybe not so slowly) being infiltrated by a crop pf new, young Millennial marketing bucks. One thing about Millenials (and Zots, too -- but I digress) is that they absolutely believe that anything created before they were born is of no importance1. And since anyone fresh out of school (especially Marketing school) knows everything, they felt free to redesign everything in their own image. Couple that with a corresponding crop of new, young Millennial dev bucks who couldn't spell 'skeuomorphic interface' with a crayon, much less implement one, and you have a perfect (shit)storm of indifference and incompetence resulting in FLATSO.
1 I've actually had Millennials and Zots tell me this to my face; you can't make this stuff up.
United Airlines’ patience with Boeing is maxed out after repeated safety issues
What Microsoft's latest email breach says about this IT security heavyweight
Wednesday 24th January 2024 19:33 GMT
Uhhh, wha'?
From the article:
Once, such a privacy breach might be enough to sink a software maker – or at the very least render its name synonymous with a cyber intrusion. But Microsoft seemingly remains immune.
Not really, Everyone on the face of the planet (some dolts in Congress notwithstanding) knows that Micros~1 is to security as fish is to bicycle.1 It's not that Micros~1 is immune, but rather that those that would react are so inured to their utter lack of security prowess, that this is just another case of "same shit, different day" for them.
1 Yeah, I know I used this in a recent previous post, but it fit here, too. Reuse is a thing, innit?
Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband
Tuesday 23rd January 2024 23:22 GMT
YAN "Deep-state conspiracy!"
Carr issued a dissenting statement regarding the FCC decision in 2023 and suggested that Musk's acquisition of Twitter had led to Biden giving "federal agencies a green light to go after him."
Get away from me with that bullshit. You know, for a political party who bitches, moans and wails about "entitlements", these fatasses do seem to have a highly honed sense of entitlement themselves. Basically, "If I want it, I'm entitled to it!"
Oh yes, and don't forget, "It's so unfair!"
HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies
Monday 22nd January 2024 22:03 GMT
Re: You can embed viruses into cartridges
This isn't about 3rd party ink cartridges and security at all, it's about locking you into the HP ecosystem and to be fair, at least he's being blatantly honest about it so you're not being misled.
In other words, he said the quiet part out loud.
How Republican is that?
Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation
How 'sleeper agent' AI assistants can sabotage your code without you realizing
Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion
Tuesday 16th January 2024 21:15 GMT
Re: Prudent
If the next flight succeeds NASA will start to push him hard to keep him to his promise of landing Astronauts on the moon before 2026 arrives.
Well, if "t'pineapple" is elected King <vomit />, NASA will be populated with a bunch of folks named "Bubba" and "Jim Bob", who couldn't spell "moon" if you gave them a crayon and a large sheet of wide-lined paper. So I don't think there will be much of a push.
The money that would go to such an endeavor wouldn't be there, either; having been diverted to building a mined, electrified Wall along the southern border vaguely resembling the Iron Curtain of the '70s and '80s.
Drivers: We'll take that plain dumb car over a flashy data-spilling internet one, thanks
Friday 12th January 2024 16:06 GMT
Re: ransomware
[...] I can see a market for devices to block that by plugging into the OBD port (or whatever) appearing and becoming commonplace.
Was thinking the same thing. I foresee a cute little cottage industry springing up: Vehicle FW "updates" that trap telemetry spews to the Mothership, and redirect them into /dev/nul. (Of course, they would acknowledge the messages in such a way so as to satisfy the underlying spyware....)
Elon Musk made 1 in 3 Trust and Safety staff ex-X employees, it emerges
Thursday 11th January 2024 22:48 GMT
Re: Yet....
Literally every plane callsign and its flight tracking information is public information, but Musk was not aware of that.
Oh, he's aware of it, alright. But like fatasses everywhere, he thinks that he's somehow special, and so his callsign and flight info is supposed to be treated differently and withheld from the hoi-polloi, because ... well, Elon.
One rule for thee, another for me!
Uncle Sam wants to make it clear that America's elections are very, very safe
After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients
Monday 8th January 2024 18:28 GMT
Are these entities so beholden to their bean counters that security means nothing?
Yes. Next question?
Well, that may not exactly be fair. The bean-counters themselves may actually give a toss about security. But they give a bigger toss about the cocaine-addled yuppie shareholders that hold their leashes. And those fucks only care about their next dividend payment, so....
Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor
SpaceX snaps back at US labor board's complaint, calling it 'unconstitutional'
Friday 5th January 2024 18:08 GMT 
Dear Elon (you ignorant slut):
Some points:
1) The NRLB has been regulating and enforcing the U.S. labor laws for well over a century. During that time, the courts have supported this function.
2) If you run a business in the U.S. that is required to follow said labor laws, the NRLB is the enforcement arm. Get over it.
3) Just because you don't like something, doesn't make it "unconstitutional".
4) The Gilded Age ended long before you were born. You would dearly love to be YAN Robber Baron, but you're too late. Again, get over it.
5) Your tRump-wannabee-ism is showing. Again. Some more.
SpaceX accused of firing employees critical of free speech fan Elon Musk
Thursday 4th January 2024 20:07 GMT
Re: Don't get this confused with free speech.
He's not a fan of "woke"... meaning punishing people in a performative way for having an unauthorised opinion, including taking away their livelihood.
Wait...what? Isn't firing a bunch of people for criticizing El Muskrat "punishing people in a performative way for having an unauthorised [sic] opinion, including taking away their livelihood"? You "freeze peach" absolutists really need to listen to yourselves, lest you continue to spout gibberish.
And yes, you have the right to spout gibberish. And it appears you rigorously practice that right.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
