* Posts by Alumoi

1186 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2016

SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up

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Re: Typical Americans

So, business as usual, right? If you can't beat them, shut them down. With extreme prejudice, if possible.

Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew

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Re: It's the Thin End of the Wedge

Let me rewrite your last sentence for you as again you are confusing this issue: If you put your name to your speech, then your employer and your government WILL take action against you if they disagree with the opinions you have expressed.

Bogus ChatGPT extension steals Facebook cookies

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So, if you don't use failbook and block it in your browser, you're safe. Right?

Microsoft to give more than microsecond's thought about your Windows 11 needs

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Of course, you can accept reverting everything to MS now or later. See, you have control.

How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers

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Re: Fahrenheit 451

Can I use thermite?

BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it

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Re: If they want to be consistent..

There's no hypocrisy here. Tiktok is spying for the wrong party, that's all.

Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly

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If the site has value, then people need to be prepared to accept the cost - in this case, being served adverts than paying a subscription.

Nope. If you want to make money from your site, make it subscription only. No ads, no tracking. Just a freaking subscription.

Oh, wait, nobody will pay for your crap site? Tough luck, try something else.

The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago this month

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Round corners!?!

Do I see round corners on this thing? Apple should sue! Oh, wait...

Tough luck, Brits: Binance suspends UK deposits and withdrawals

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Re: Well certainly putting the "bin" in binance then

Until they need to exchange their bitcoin to real money to buy a loaf of bread.

Here's a fun idea: Try to unlock and drive away in someone else's Tesla

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Re: You laugh

You know, in most countries, there are rules against canceling another human being.

Of course, spammers are not human beings but, still...

Bing AI feels like ChatGPT stuffed into a suit – not the future

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Re: "what makes search useful today"

I found that what makes search useful today is:

- never, ever be logged into the search engine

- search in a blank new tab/window with history, browsing data and cookies cleared (thank you Cookie Autodekete)

- no Google except when trying to narrow down something

- pihole and ublock to block all the crap the search engines think I might be interested in

- Bing for images

- DuckDuckgo or Startpage for normal search

- and last but not least, good old Eyeball Mark I to filter the results.

Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you

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Reading comprehension problem here

Am I the only one who read the following A spokesperson added: "This shift is not just about .... as "This shit is not.... and found it quite logical?

Rebel without a clause: ISP promises broadband with no contract

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Re: Well - I'm not impressed

A normal web site can't access all that juicy data the app will provide: who, when, where and to/with whom.

Thanks to generative AI, catching fraud science is going to be this much harder

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^^This post was bought to you by ChatGPT.

Welcome to Muskville: Where the workers never leave

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Does it matter?

Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West

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$1.3 billion worth

To whom?

Brit newspaper giant fills space with AI-assisted articles

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Because many people are illiterate? Hurray for the current education system!

Where are the women in cyber security? On the dark side, study suggests

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Re: Dark Side Demographics

Welcome to the internet where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents in disguise.

It never gets old!

Can we interest you in a $10 pocket calculator powered by Android 9?

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Re: it just doesn’t add up.

Oh, come on, if it can be rooted it's a nice tinker toy.

Thought you'd opted out of online tracking? Think again

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I did say about:config, right?

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pihole, uBlock, NoScript, Privacy Badger, Clean URLs and about:config.

Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed

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Re: Words

Yeah, we all know that the I in AI stands for Idiot. Like in IoT.

Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved

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Re: Care

It seems about right to be punished for not owing money to the bank.

If you deposit money in the bank you own the bank. If you borrow money from the bank the bank owns you Which one do you think the bank likes more?

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Yes, whatever ROM hasn't got mandated backdoors installed.

Microsoft begs you not to ditch Edge on Google's own Chrome download page

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Re: You install Chrome?

Of course. And, on Firefox, I have Cookie Autodelete which clears everything from the tab I just closed.

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Re: When a product is better, people will naturally switch to it

.... and that's why we have antitrust regulations which are designed in such way so they don't work,

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Re: Pot, kettle...

Yes.

Where have you been since the forced Win10 update?

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Re: You install Chrome?

You know you can disable almost every crap MS is adding to Chrome, right? If not right from settings then gpedit?

And no, I don't like Edge, I'm a Firefox man (via Netscape), but I have to use it as my government thinks Chrome is the next best thing after hot water.

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Re: You install Chrome?

I don't know, but on my system (with all the preload crap disabled) Edge is starting faster than Firefox. Sorry, can't try Chrome as my system is Google free.

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Re: You install Chrome?

You do know that Edge is Chrome sans Google tracking (but with MS tracking added). So your users and websites should integrate quite nice.

This won't hurt a bit: Amazon now a US healthcare provider

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Re: Amazon advertising

For a kidney I'd have expected at least the latest iPhone but YMMV.

Puri.sm puts out LapDock for its Librem 5 smartphone

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Re: And how much?

But you have to deal with Gnome.

A tip for content filter evaluators: erase the list of sites you tested, don't share them on 100 PCs

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Re: Other ways to justify access

With the centerfold in 3D?

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Re: A lot of El Reg Readers really are very old

MS/PC-DOS was an operating system, hence the name: disk operating system.

You know, the part that does the interface between programs and hardware? Well, that's an operating system. All the other are just windows dressing (or Mac).

Meta to add verification to Facebook and Insta under scheme that should avoid Twitter's Musk-stakes

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Avoiding impersonators

Yeah, sure, pull another one.

Let me translate the whole idea in plain English: YOU pay us to collect your VERIFIED personal information so WE can guarantee scammers.... erms, sorry, ad companies, that you are who you pretend to be.

Heads to roll at Lenovo amid 'severe downturn' in PC sales

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Re: One word...

And the solution: planned obsolence. Just like phones.

White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake

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Who do these people think they are?

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and such? Let them pay the fine, maybe even jail them!

/sarcasm, for those who don't get it.

VMware, Windows 11 shafted by Windows Server 2022

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...Secure Boot – a tool designed to keep malicious software from loading

So, which is the malware, Windows or VMware?

More victims of fake crypto investor scam speak to The Register

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Re: Complete this saying:

Cryptoed?

If it's not a verb already I'd say it's high time to make it so.

99 year old man says cryptocurrency is for idiots

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Re: Logic?

Taking people's money in exchange for a string of 1s and 0s not under their control? Why, it's pure genius.

It's even better than the stock exchange, those suckers are regulated.

Google lets a few Android devices into its Privacy Sandbox

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Re: Alternative approach

You don't get it, do you?

It's not about ads, it's about building a profile on you, a profile which could be used by anyone, anytime, for whatever reason they want.

Your innocent remark about something on ElReg? Not a problem, but would you care to bet it won't be a problem a couple of years from now?

Romance scam targets security researcher, hilarity ensues

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Re: I’m too boring, I never see these scams

You too? Did he also break into your house and install a webcam? I guess mine did as I don't connect a webcam to my desktop and the laptops are all taped over.

Pepsi Bottling Ventures says info-stealing malware swiped sensitive data

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Re: Prompt Action?

No, no, no. They took 9 days to sanitize their systems in case law enforcement was going to take a peek into their database.

Four top euro carriers will use phone numbers to target ads and annoy Google & Facebook

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Re: re. telcos just do not have my trust right now on this matter.

Shirley you mean if they don't officialy sell my data they will pretend they were victims of sophisticated cyber attacks perpetrated by state-sponsored bad actors....

Damn it, where's my bullshit bingo card when I need it?

Google's $100b bad day demo may be worth the price

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Re: In fairness

Throw in CEO, HR, marketing and you've nailed it.

Google's AI search bot Bard makes $120b error on day one

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Re: Top of hype reached, I'd say...

Because lies, damned lies, and statistics.

You can run Windows 11 on just 200MB of RAM – but should you?

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You can run Windows 11 on anything

if you really want.

But the most important question is: why would you run Windows 11 in the first place? OK, I can understand running Win7/10 for those impossible to avoid programs, but Windows 11? Really?

Take the morning off because Outlook has already

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Re: Oulook was called Lookout for a good reasons

About that, who would be fool enough to install a patch, any patch, from any vendor, in the first week after release?

You just wait for the beta testers to install it, watch the fallout in the forums and, if all seems OK(ish), you bite the bullet. If the forums go nuclear you just wait for the patching patch. Rinse and repeat.

WINE Windows translation layer has matured like a fine... you get the picture

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Re: Ribbon interface holdouts

16 years down the line, is there anyone who uses MS office on a regular basis who doesn't hate the ribbon interface?

Chinese surveillance balloon over US causes fearful gasbagging

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Re: Yet again - more proof that China needs to be obliterated in a nuclear armageddon

Next timpe use the sarcasm tag, many missed it.