Posts by Necrohamster

Re: I personally feel sorry for the Russian people.

"The title of this comment is due to the fact that I travelled to St. Petersburg before the Crimea invasion, and found the Russians I met welcoming and helpful.

That they have had to endure their leadership trying to destroy Ukraine in an "It will all be over in 8 weeks" invasion and everything that has come since is not their fault.

If there is no one else on the ballot paper other than Putin (because all the other candidates have been blocked from standing or are in prison) there is not much they can do, even if they had the ability to read news that is not propaganda.."

I don't buy that. They're complicit in the war by their silence, just like Germans in WWII who pretended concentration camps didn't exist.

Russians don't protest against the war.

Russians don't call for Putin to be removed.

Russians don't show any empathy for the victims of their war.

And don't give me the old "Oh they're so oppressed, they can't protest. it's not a free society" excuse.

There are 145 million of them - they could bring about change if they wanted to, as people in many other countries have done. The problem is they don't want change.

Re: Free Software should be neutral

lol where do I start?

"The world is divided politically into two camps: (1) "the west" (broadly, the USA and its satellites/puppet states) and (2) BRICS (broadly, everybody else). People in "the west" mostly see only US propaganda and believe Russia, China, etc are "evil". People in Russia mostly see Russian propaganda - etc."

Uhhh no it's not. You speak of propaganda but you use the phrase "puppet states" and suggest that BRICS includes every country outside the (alleged) sphere of influence of the US. The reality is that BRICS is a sad attempt by Putin to develop his own trading circle with other like-minded leaders, now that the ruble's value collapsed.

The list of BRICS countries reads like a list of human rights abusers - Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. You're having a laugh.

"Free Software should rise above all this. Neither side is wholly "evil", both sides do bad stuff."

Ah, the "both sides" argument. Classic whataboutism deflection tactic. Bonus points for the "XYZ should be better than this" appeal.

"Where a developer lives should not matter as far as contributions to free software are concerned."

Yeah well...sanctions and compliance are of bigger importance than the world of free software. The great thing about open source is that they're free to fork and carry on.

Re: thank you linus

Hello my Russian friend.

What is your opinion on the "SMO" of the last 2.5 years and the resulting suffering inflicted by Russia on your neighbors in Ukraine?

Do you think that Russia was wrong to invade Crimea in 2014?

What is your contribution to stopping the war?

Re: History should be remembered...

"Enemy of my enemy" or "the lesser of two evils" would be more accurate descriptions.

Re: History should be remembered...

"For the record, I'm not Russian and have never been there..."

It shows.

Re: Ukraine is spying on your ring

Large columns of Russian troops and weapons are still heading in that direction, and it doesn't seem to have had the desired effect of drawing Russian units away from the south and east. [...] Russia stated it's objective is attrition, and Ukraine seems to have committed a lot of it's reserves to a pretty pointless PR stunt.

Thank you for your propaganda comrade. Please pick up your 100 ruble payment at the dead drop location.

Re: No new Euro models...

Safety standards are harmonised across EU countries so you can't find a country with a loophole and use it as a backdoor to get deathtraps into the zone.

If that thing's a "design classic" so is my Samsung fridge.

Re: First mover bonus no longer enough

Yeah I wouldn't be interested in taking any lessons from the US on how to sidestep emissions standards

Re: First mover bonus no longer enough

if I'm doing small miles every year my carbon footprint is way smaller if I buy an old Focus for £1,000-2000.

Where are the £1,000-2000 EVs? Oh yeah, that's right...they don't exist.

What price the future, eh?

What is it about EV ownership that brings out the smug twat in some people?

Re: A combination?

People need to stop buying Chinese goods as long as A and B exist.

You and every other Western consumer couldn't handle that because the cost of everything would triple even if we had the factories and labour force - which we don't.

Re: First mover bonus no longer enough

I get your point but I want to say facetiously that I'd take the bus rather than drive a Dacia.

If you live in a city and do say 5,000 miles/year, you'll never see a return on the outlay on an EV

Re: A combination?

Nope. The device I'm typing on was made in Greenock, Scotland in 9/6/96.

Hate to break it to you, but IBM in Greenock weren't moulding plastic and building keyboards onsite in 1996 or ever.

I worked for the competition (Compaq) in Erskine around that time and laptops came pre-built in containers from China (the OEM was Inventec as far as I recall).

The only work that was done locally to qualify as "Made in the UK" was the installation of hard disks and keyboards, and chucking them in a box

Re: A combination?

Where would the Reg comments section be without an abundance of lazy racism?

Oh crap, I forgot I implemented zero trust a while back so my users can't do a thing even if they had their Bitlocker keys

I guess they're going to be playing Candy Crush on their phones until next Tuesday or Wednesday

"Threat Hunter" ≠ spokesperson

Spokespersons don't issue official communications using words like "faulty" in a reply to someone else's tweet.

And given what a shitshow this has proven to be, I'd bet a crispy tenner that Crowdstrike wants to manage the situation using people who don't pour oil on the fire.

FireEye's still going. People have short memories.

Re: In other news

"...the quality assurance team on the other hand"

That's the problem with all this agile bollocks. Everything's rushed to production

Brody's just regurgitating something he saw in a company-wide email about the issue.

As a "threat hunter" he's not going to be in the loop with the dev team or tech support team, and he probably did more damage than good by referring to a "faulty" file.

Re: What, like this one you mean?

Nice article from 2020.

Re: Above board and not backdoored software

Not everything is a conspiracy by the FISA courts on behalf of the lizard people or George Soros

Re: Above board and not backdoored software

Here's the thing: nobody owes Kaspersky a right of reply, or an independent analysis of their software,

Anyway, remember VW DieselGate? The dodgy software only did dodgy things when specific conditions were met.

How could you be 100% certain that Kaspersky software doesn't do something similar?

Re: So he was a registered Republican

"His Family were also democrats if that is anything to go by.."

His father is a Libertarian, which is the only thing more useless than a Republican in my opinion.