Posts by Jamie Jones

Re: A trivially-preventable security flaw

Exactly. This wasn't a "bug", but a fundamental design flaw

I hope your reason for posting anonymously was not the vulture-red-badged author himself!

Re: "other mobile operating systems, such as GrapheneOS, may also face restrictions"

If IT companies maintained roads....

"We see that your car bonnet (hood) isn't welded shut. Allowing people access to their own cars is a security risk. You will not be allowed on these roads until you get a car with a properly sealed engine compartment"

WTF? Adding to that, I'd only use a device out of work hours if I was designated on call at the time, and being on call is something I ditched many years ago for my own sanity.

I'm quite happy to work late if there's a big problem, and I have nothing else on. And when I used to live 2 minutes from the datacentre, I didn't mind colleagues calling me to kick a server if I had the time.

But all this was conditional on if it was not a problem for me. No way would I agree to be tied to a work device like this. Is this mainly an American thing?

Re: Has he tried

"Super Heavy booster"?

He really needs to upgrade to the "Ludicrously Heavy Booster"

Re: I dont believe it...

Working for a while in a role that also involved email admin (for corporate users, not an ISP) I vowed never to rely on anyone else for email when i saw how badly the other staff dealt with issues (if there was a corruption or disk errror they'd just blindly zap the whole queue, and hope no-one notices, rather then fix the one corrupt message and/or do any salvage/notification to sender/recipient)

Re: I dont believe it...

100% this!

The thing that has made email unreliable is not the spam itself, but the braindead way some people deal with it.

Reject at source. DO NOT BLACKHOLE EMAIL. FFS, I share your pain... Having to prove to the recipient that the problem isn't my end, by sending them the transaction id the remote machine gave when accepting the email still doesn't convince many.

I've ranted about this before. Whoever ran the Swansea Council social services email about 15 years ago (it was a commercial third party whose name i forget now) should be criminally liable for the stuff they blackholed... Long story short, I was in contact with a social worker about someone, and important emails didn't get through. I did some testing, the word "penis" caused the email to be blackholed.

I even reported it to the company, starting clearly why this was an inappropriate block for this department. They refused to deal with me because i wasn't their customer, and the non-techie social worker didn't want to create waves.

Again, ditto on the junk folder bollocks. The only email address I use by someone else is gmail, and there were too many false positives. You couldn't even just switch the spam filter off, but there were ways around it (i can't remember offhand, but it was a rule something like "if email delivered to spam label, move it to inbox label"

Re: Uncapped billing is by design

About 12 years ago, as I had no landline at the time, I had a mifi contract with "Three" - a dedicated wifi box powered by 3G mobile. It was something like £15 a month for 15GB (I can't remember the figures exactly)

If you went over your 15GB, they then charged 100X that for remaining data until they sent you an alert / allowed you to get itself disabled automatically.

That alert took ages. If you were caught during a heavy download, you could get charged £10 - £20 just on the overused data costs.

Re: Bad Business Practice

I cancelled my direct debit with OVO when an error their side prompted an email that "as of next month, your direct debit will rise to £1,768 a month" over 2 years ago.

The charlatans still haven't sorted it out.

Re: Seeking a seat at the table

If Windows or Office had the potential to kill lots of innocent people, then I think most people would be pleased if MS made such a constraint.

As it is, you already have MANY products that say "This is not to be used for illegal purposes."

Despite what Trumpians say, killing innocent people is still against international law.

Even cuter that I didn't think I needed to surround that sentence in the tags

<Obviously they spread any operational costs, purchase costs, and engineering costs amongst all customers, but it's bloody frustrating none the less>

and

</Obviously they spread any operational costs, purchase costs, and engineering costs amongst all customers, but it's bloody frustrating none the less>

Re: Why wasn't the violent idiot fired immediately and the cops called?

Fair point.

I was about 21 and quite "young" and naive. Obviously I don't remember much about it, but it was a long rambling call where he ranted about all sorts of stupid shite, enough to make even the insecure little me laugh it off.

Still, when they told me to document it, I didn't have a problem with it, though maybe I should have been told the policy when I started.

As it was, there were actually many credible threats (not directly at me) but at others on the staff, including people coming to the offices and turning violent - all the interview rooms had alarms in them which when activated caused all the guys in the building to swarm in (though most often to the shock of a parent, and their mischievous toddlers who always seem to love pressing the button themselves)

So, it wasn't an environment of complacency - but .. this guy was a stark raving nutter, honest!

But yeah, point taken!

Re: Why wasn't the violent idiot fired immediately and the cops called?

Well, not in Wales. The only Uk targets outside NI & England were military bases.

But that's a nit-pic - I can't remember the details now, but it was a long ranting drunken call where he said all sorts of weird stuff.

Re: Why wasn't the violent idiot fired immediately and the cops called?

In about 1991 I was temping in the local council tax department in Swansea Council.

One time, I was amusingly telling a colleague about the nutter who phoned earlier that threatened to send his IRA mates to bomb the whole place. It was so laughable, I didn't think twice about it.

However, I was told that I *had* to report this higher up, and mark it on his account.

From that point on, any time his record was looked up, it would flash in red.

Re: intent

About 6 or 7 times now, I've come up with issues that aren't really my domain, involving languages, and protocols I'm not too knowledgeable about, and wasn't interested in learning.

Normally, I'd do the research, and spent time working the problem out, but as these were 2 things I wasn't interested in, I thought I'd test the hype, and give both chatGPT and the Google one a fair crack.

I did it without bias - I talked as I would if I was asking a human the same thing.

Both of them behaved similarly:

- Very helpful, very friendly.

- Overly nice (With both I had to tell them to be honest and blunt, as I asked for critique on some of my proposals, and felt they were being too kind in their responses)

- Forgetfulness - They'd forget some key detail we'd already discussed 10 minutes earlier. Suggesting it again, or rehashing old ideas.

- "Looping" - related the the forgetfulness - they'd offer a solution, didn't work, modified solution, didn't work, propose something different.. didn't work, then finally come back to their original solution, and despite pointing out "we'd already done that" and getting apologies for the oversight, they continued down that "looping" path.

In every situation, I ended up doing the work myself.

Also, the JavaScript heavy use of chatGPT make the browser unusable after about 30 minutes of back and fore conversation.

If it's only good for short and simple things, what's the point?

P.S. I feel guilty saying this about them, because they are both very nice :-) - ChatGPT even suggested I called him "chappy" when I said that "chatGPT" was too formal a name!!

Even ignoring the "Well, he may be a serial killer, but he likes cats" apologetic vibe your post is giving off, it's hard to tell if you're trolling, or if you are really so caught up in your alt-right (well, these days, that could just be considered "right") bubble you actually believe that bullshit.

Twitter toes Musks line. On the days he and Trump aren't having a playground spat, that would also be the Trump line.

Whilst Trumps Gestapo ignore court orders, and tramples on the constitution, whilst criticising Trump, ICE, or Israels genocide can get you deported, Musk calls everyone else a fascist for trying to hold him to account.

The fact that Musk and Trump are in the Epstein files, yet you complain about the UK not investigating unreported crimes is the height of cultish behaviour.

I don't think anyone here wants grooming rape gangs to go unpunished, whatever the colour of their skin (although you don't say it, you obviously mean just those with a darker complexion), though you're half right - the right wing media is completely silent when the perpetrators are white and English.

By the way, anonymous state cucking NPC (who does it for free), there's a hell of a lot of projection going on there!

I'd love to see twitter shut-down for all the propaganda, bullshit, and enticement to violence and terrorism, that it's lies provide to the hard-of-thinking alt-right numptys, probably just as strongly as those on the right want to shut down (or buy off) any media company that exposes your lies.

I'm not even going to mention your climate denial bullshit - that trope has sailed long ago.

Anyway, well done for standing up for your beliefs...... anonymously!