Re: Social media?
yes, I avoid it like the plague. El reg and one other tech website is as social as it gets for me...
Posts by chivo243
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LA cops told to harvest social media handles from people they stop, suspect or not
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested
Tuesday 7th September 2021 13:21 GMT 
speak in code, duh
I had a friend back in college, he came from the South Side of Chicago, gang territory. I once visited him there, he took a phone call from a *friend* and the whole thing was in code... something like pig-latin with lots of St's and be and eb's. When I asked what it was about, he said the party is at so and so's house, but his parents shouldn't know he was going...
Component shortages: HPE pushes up some hardware prices and as if by magic, reports 'record' gross margin in Q3
A speech recognition app goes into a bar. Speak up if you’ve heard it already
Oh! A surprise tour of the data centre! You shouldn't have. No, you really shouldn't have
Can we talk about Kevin McCarthy promising revenge if Big Tech aids probe into January insurrection?
Thursday 2nd September 2021 10:40 GMT 
5 dead on the day
and what about the law enforcement officers that have pulled the pin and committed suicide since? 4 or 5 more? Does that not speak volumes? As a Merkin who left back in the late 90's, I thought the political scene was bad and toxic at that time. I won't be repatriating, and may even dump my citizenship, see American taxation of ex-pats for more info.
Ta!
The unit of measure for fatbergs is not hippopotami, even if the operator of an Australian sewer says so
Trial of Theranos boss Elizabeth Holmes begins: She plans to say her boyfriend and COO Balwani abused her
Leaked Guntrader firearms data file shared. Worst case scenario? Criminals plot UK gun owners' home addresses in Google Earth
Tuesday 31st August 2021 19:03 GMT
My father passed recently in the Colonies, leaving behind a small arsenal that my mother wanted nothing to do with, a friend of my father told us he could make all the guns go away. Or my mom could try to sell them individually, and his advice was to record the name, address, date of the transaction on paper, and both parties sign it. This was to protect my mother incase the firearms ultimately ended up being used in a crime. IT IS ALL ON PAPER!
I was flabbergasted by this at the time, how could guns be so freely traded and NOT tracked?
Now I'm at a loss
How to stop a content filter becoming a career-shortening network component
When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers
British naval food doesn't look half bad... so we're going to try it out for ourselves
Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick
Lost in IKEA? So, it seems, is Windows
Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain
Poly Network says it's got pretty much all of that $610m in stolen crypto-coins back
Hacking the computer with wirewraps and soldering irons: Just fix the issues as they come up, right?
A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge involving disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped
So the data centre's 'getting a little hot' – at 57°C, that's quite the understatement
Friday 20th August 2021 15:12 GMT 
A week without Aircon!
Back in May we had one of our ACs take a powder, and our service company couldn't source parts for it, nada, so they had to order a new one took 5 days for it to arrive, and 2 days to get it installed correctly. I put fans up on stands at the top of the doorways (3) to the server room, blew the hot air out, with windows open in the adjacent rooms letting cool air in along the floor. Worked OK until we had a warm day... The howling was deafening, from both me and the gear. I was screaming at facilities, they were screaming at the AC company about the SLA not being worth the paper it was printed on! The new unit went down 3 times in the next two weeks. Finally somebody who knew what they were doing was sent in, and solved the problem in about 5 minutes! Been solid ever since, touch wood!
Asahi Linux progress: Apple Silicon OS works – though it's 'rough around the edges' and has no GUI acceleration
Dallas cops lost 8TB of criminal case data during bungled migration, says the DA... four months later
Scalpel! Superglue! This mouse won't fix its own ball
I was offered $500k as a thank-you bounty for pilfering $600m from Poly Network, says crypto-thief
Sunday 15th August 2021 09:15 GMT
Re: Really, now?
"You are being conned. It is a Ponzi scheme and you can only exit it, if you can sucker in more people to join the scheme, and sell them your magic numbers."
If people value something, I say sell it to them. I have a Commodore Pet 2001 8-C restoration planned, it has no value to me, except the opportunity for the experience. If a collector wants to buy it off me, I'll sell and only charge them for my time. They are welcome to pay in crypto or cash or perhaps in some chickens, which will lay eggs, and later be eaten after the eggs grow into replacements or are consumed or sold.
Saturday 14th August 2021 12:37 GMT 
Really, now?
So many unknowns here, it's really impossible to know if this was really a joke\lark\prank for white hat purposes... Comments in previous articles relating to this story here on El Reg bring up a lot of good questions.
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2021/08/10/poly_networks_cryptocurrency_theft/
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2021/08/11/poly_network_funds_returned/
I'm dubious...
Fancy joining the SAS's secret hacker squad in Hereford as an electronics engineer for £33k?
BOFH: 'What's an NFT?' the Boss asks. In this case, 'not financially thoughtful'
Google staff who work from home might see pay cut under corporate policy – reports
Wednesday 11th August 2021 18:25 GMT
If anything
People who whore from home should get more money... They have to pay the ISP, maybe extra now due to extra bandwidth usage? They have to pay for the extra power that the employer isn't using at the office. They have to buy their own tea or coffee...
In the end less people commuting reduces accidents.... So, you will pay me to gamble I don't get into an prang on the way to work, either in my own conveyance or on public transport? See icon!
Retirement can't come soon enough!
WFT as it's closest to the middle finger of Linus!
Tick-tock, Facebook: Not a reference to that short vid horsepuckey but a literal open-source timekeeper
Looks like NSA now stands for Not Selecting Azure: US spy agency picks AWS over Microsoft
Wednesday 11th August 2021 18:06 GMT 
Just put it in the cloud
It will be found.... Recipe for disaster? Probably. Why would the gubbermint put their dirty laundry on the 'line' for everybody to have a hack at? Or is this just an expensive "Honeypot" Seems really fscking weird that most heavily funded org on the planet is looking for a commercial solution? Or am I missing one of the 7 layers in the burrito?
Without a trace: Baroness Dido Harding to step down as chair of NHS Improvement
Q: Post-lockdown, where would I like to go? A: As far away from my own head as possible
Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns
Friday 6th August 2021 19:01 GMT
Re: Every is now under suspicion
I don't think running macOS will be the problem, don't connect it with your AppleID, never, ever do that... It's that the iPhone is tied to the AppleID.
I am starting to feel as I've been maneuvered into a safe place that might not be so safe from another perspective.
Friday 6th August 2021 08:20 GMT 
I just scanned my phone
75% of photos on my phone are of switch panels, cables in ceilings, broken connectors etc. about 15 % is vacation photos, I saw on with my son and a friends daughter in the swimming pool. Should I be worried? Should I off load that pic to another non-apple storage?
What a slippery slope, I'm all for protecting children, where is the better way?
84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement
Wednesday 4th August 2021 18:55 GMT
Re: read this elsewhere...
I saw the original link again and had to do a double take... and revisit El Reg.
Tanks but no tanks! German fined for WWII weapons arsenal
https://apnews.com/article/oddities-europe-a3a9bfb2252ae575a539dd44729c49ab
Me thinks another site beat El Reg to the headline? Or has one of El Reg writers started moonlighting?
Undebug my heart: Using Cisco's IOS to take down capitalism – accidentally
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