Posts by sarusa

Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud

'engineer'

'engineer'

'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up

Bwahaha, right

This is pure Microslop - and if somehow you missed it, Github is Microslop. Enshittify everything with worst in class AI, inevitably suffer reliability going to hell and other systematic failures, then claim you're 'taking this all very srsly' and 'we feel your pain!' and 'we will do better from now on!' and of course all of that is a lie. Because the only thing they care about is AI, and everything else HAS to suffer for that.

Sure glad I got off the shitter for a better host (codeberg). There's no excuse to be on github any more unless you're stuck there because your employers are stupid.

Microsoft's dueling Copilot apps have combined into a single entity

You got your shite in my vomit! No, you got your vomit in my shite!

Great, put two of Microslop's worst in class products together and you get... super extra worst in class?

Well, there's still Grok but at least that's superior for generating terabytes of CSAM since that's what it was designed for.

Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister

It might even have been legit

Modi is quite the Trumpian tool (as in he is an angry, racist, malevolent jerk, not that he's the Orange Angry Toddler's tool) and could well have posted something nasty.

And then someone just doing their job who didn't know he's a powerful autocrat who they're supposed to look the other way for took it down. Whoops.

Well who knows. Facebook is just as evil as he is, so who knows who was more evil this time.

The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters

Well, sure, maybe kind of famous in the US, but...

I've dealt with Brinks employees before and they were total clowns.

As usual, being one of the best known just means you have the best schmoozing and most sociopathic execs who are (probably) buying potential and current customer company execs the most drugs and booze and whores, not that you're any good at what you're doing.

If you get knocked on the head and get all your devices stolen and have amnesia, Google will let you back in with a selfie

This was my immediate thought on learning of them. This is all entirely predictable and was predicted. But of course punters will go with whatever's easiest at this exact second.

Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots

A billion dollars?

Wow, that's a ton of generated CSAM.

Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email

'collaboration suite'

All 'collaboration suite's are bug infested piles of shite (also piles of shite even if you don't consider the bugs). This is just what's going to happen, and if you're going to embrace shite you should have plans to deal with having it smeared all over you.

C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

Only C, huh?

C++ programmers: 'Snort! Nice code, kiddies, but we do worse on the everyday. Okay, okay, here have a quid, go buy yourself some templates.'

Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams

Gee, I wonder why

It's because Slopya put literally all your eggs in one basket, AI. Their evil faceholes spout a lot of lies about how they care about reliability, customers, usability, etc. etc. by they demonstrably do not. All they care about is AI. And then they fumbled the basket with worst in class AI (okay shared with Grok), CoPilot and let that piece of shite write all their software and manage keeping Azure 'up'.

And since XBox *wasn't* AI, they didn't know what to do with it and just didn't even bother managing it with predictable results.

Companies that add more AI also add more people

Damage control

They finally realize they need some extra people to clean up the sodding mess that their AI made of everything. And whoops, you let go all the people who knew what they were doing.

OpenAI says 97.9 percent of its employees are now using agents

Golly Gee

And what a *coincidence* that OpenAI desperately wants you to switch to agents to constantly spend tokens without supervision that they can charge you for.

Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen

This has really been quite educational

We've always been told executives and C-levels are super smart and talented because this is a Meritocracy (TM) and that's how they got to the top, and of course they're always telling you how brilliant they are.

Well, first we had FElon destroying that myth. The more you found out about him (because he couldn't shut up or stop doing stupid things) the more you realized he was just a moron with a talent for investing his daddy's money based on what smart (if evil) people like Peter Thiel told him to and getting people to make things happen for him. Two extremely important skills for an exec. But technically and otherwise he's as dumb as a rock and emotionally he's an 11 yo edgelord screaming stuff about your mother on a Call of Duty voice chat. A far cry from his previous 'most brilliant man on Earth' facade.

And now, every single executive at every single one of these companies that just went in gung ho feet first for AI with zero concern for consequences or cost is exposed as completely incompetent. They leaped into this because they were on the email list run by the AI companies which told them 'hey this is the hot new trend this year!' and they believed it (and for some reason Desi execs seem to be on another dozen mailing lists pumping that garbage. ) But they're all dumbasses whose only talent is schmoozing. Of course they should all be fired for gross incompetence, but all the board members are also their fellow dumbasses precisely so none of them will ever get fired for being dumbasses. But at least it's all out in the open, there's no defending that 'Meritocracy' any more.

Windows 11 can now turn back the clock when updates go bad

Fecal Firehose Splashguard

So instead of fixing their completely broken software dev and QA process and maybe not just randomly releasing vibe coded (and vibe tested) shite, the answer is to install a splash-guard for their fire hose of fecal matter. Yep, this is totally on brand for Microslop.

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Gee I wonder how that happened?

So what are the chances that buggy python code was spit out by CoPilot? Pretty high, I'd guess, especially since they're claiming v2 was partly co-designed (lol) by CoPilot. And nobody on the team actually has any idea what's actually going on, physically, electrically, quantum-ly, or otherwise, but as long as Microslop is funding them who cares?

But pretty obvious now this is never gonna work. It was all completely hand wavey with only a single 'working' sample and everything was based on the python code finding indirect signals in the data, nowhere near what other qbit tech has demonstrated, which... oops. So basically they have vibe proof (in all senses of 'vibe') that it works. 'You just gotta beweeeeb!'

Windows 11 turns five, leaving some important lessons for Microsoft

The biggest thing to be learned

The biggest lesson any smart person would take from Windows 11 is that vibe coding suxass and makes your code flaky, fragile, bloated, and unmaintainable. It's just Windows 10 with half a decade of slop crapped out on top of it.

Of course this has happened with every single product they have. But also of course they won't learn this lesson, can't learn this lesson, as long as Slopya is in charge and every Microslop employee is rated mostly on how much stinking slop they can squat out on their customers' heads.

Re: Windows 7 was the last usable shell from MS

> I loved Win 7 but find Win 10 the most poorly designed, user hating OS I've ever used.

Then thank your stars you have never used Win 11, which makes Win 10 look like a glorious pinnacle of user friendly restraint in comparison.

Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors

Totally doomed

How exactly are they going to 'prove' that someone is a person in a way that can't be replicated by LLMs or cheap mechanical turks?

Microsoft's latest Windows bug belongs in the Recycle Bin

How is this even a thing? Recycle bin has worked fine for years.

All these things which have worked just fine for literally over a decade, like the media creation tool which also broke recently. There is absolutely no need to touch them. But then CoPilot goes 'oh hey i have a great idea' and just checks random code in and Microslop runs it by QA, which is also CoPilot, and CoPilot says 'sure that slop looks good' and Microslop ships it because that's what Slopya wants.

This is what full on vibe coding looks like, our glorious future.

Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace

Re: Two reasons

The huge reason for me is that the code the sloperators are checking in is abysmally bad in terms of fragility, security, the code base as a whole, and maintainability.

Good software engineers would bitch about this terrible crap if it came purely from humans too.

The problem, as usual, is other people

> Short circuiting that journey with AI tools makes folks for whom the journey is the reward feel cheated.

Yes, I have experimented with coding LLMs. Gotta keep up to date, it's interesting, and I have to know what the monkeys are using so I can discuss it with the right ooks and hoots. That's the personal thing you're talking about.

But the giant problem here is that those of us who care that things work, are secure, and are maintainable are now surrounded by monkeys who have been given dynamite by slack-jawed executive twits who know nothing about the technology. And the monkeys are flinging the lit dynamite mixed with their poo into the production codebases that we have to work with. This is far beyond personal choice.

Let me change the analogy: The monkeys are flooding our codebases with a firehose of poorly thought out crap that only works on the single use case they told Claude about and tested it on. They also had Claude write the unit tests, which are just laughably wrong and insufficient. And Claude (and the others) can do little apps / utilities, but not possibly keep track of a large / mature codebase - they don't have context windows / sliding attention windows anywhere near large enough to hold the details. They tend to get confused about 2 calls away and multi-threading is just ohmygawd. But hey, passed the unit test and my one use case, merge it into main!

Oh, but that's just bad process you say, it should be in a branch that gets properly reviewed and pulled into main... but the monkeys are spewing so much crap into the repository in an effort to seem productive that nobody can possibly keep up with code reviewing it. But all the herp derp managers see is checkins went way up! Wow, such issues 'resolved'! And since the AI said so and the AI is never wrong, we can just check this all into main.

Going back to your pre-git version control (rcs and cvs and svn represent!), this AI rush is like executives going 'version control is slowing us down too much, let's just all edit the codebase live in a network folder. We'll call it vibe version control!' And you get about the same results.

Of course your point was 'well, the devs will eventually whip this into shape, like they did with version control.' But this time the adoption is WAY ahead of the technology's maturity curve, because most execs are dumb and gullible (though transcendentally expert schmoozers) and everyone has told them they need to be using AI to make numbers go up. There absolutely are places where 'AI' is very useful - it's awesome for OCR, image upscaling, protein folding, math proofs... It's a tool which is great for certain uses. But in most organizations it's just incompetents eagerly applying their new chainsaw toys to open bottles, pick and place components, calibrate pressure transducers, and trim pubes. And at some point the non-subsidized cost of tokens and the new mountains of technical debt building up right now will come due. You only have to look at Microsoft, where absolutely every single thing they do has gotten noticeably worse in the last couple years, to see what it looks like right now when you vibe code everything today.

Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges

AI-related issues

> Microsoft is facing AI-related issues on multiple fronts. Disgruntled investors have flung a sueball at the company over its Copilot claims,

What's missing here is that EVERY SINGLE ONE of Microslop's issues at this moment is AI-related, with Slopya 100% committed to drowning every single one of the entire company's products in AI generated fecal matter. And that is literally all he and top management care about (they claim otherwise every couple months for PR purposes, but that is demonstrably a complete lie).

So of course security, reliability, usability, everything else goes down the tubes. 100% predictable and predicted.

XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway

Indeed (I worked on it with at least one product), so I decided to look it up, and in typical Microsoft (this was before Microslop) fashion there are at least six embedded versions of it (thanks Wiki):

- Windows XP for Embedded Systems - bog standard XP, with embedded only license

- Windows XP Embedded (XPe) - this is what you're probably thinking of, and most people think of. It's what I worked with. It's componentized XP so you can only include what you need. It was used in clocks, slot machines, cash registers, ATMs, arcade games, NAS, navigation systems (like TomTom), and yes, railroads.

- Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) - focused on cash registers, ATMs, gas pumps, etc.

- Windows Embedded Standard 2009 - Basically updated XPe with new stuff like .NET 3.5, WMP 11, IE7, etc.

- Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 - Similarly updated WEPOS.

- Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs - thin XP variant for dinosaur PCs (back to Pentium 1). Okay technically this is not embedded, but the hardware's close enough.

These were all eventually succeeded by Windows 7 versions and then Windows 10 versions. For obvious reasons of it being a flaky piece of shite there are no Windows 11 versions.

Could be worse?

Better than it running Windows 11 for sure.

Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

Why is this a surprise?

Azure is worst in class (like everything else Microslop does) and falls over left and right (that hooker joke is too tired). People use it because it's shitty but cheap (at first) and bundled with the rest of your Office shite. Not because it's any good. Why would you possibly expect that moving to it would *improve* things?

KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

Well, it's as good as anything else KPMG, Deloitte, etc. shit out

The only reason these worse than useless consulting companies exist is to tell the C-level mouthbreathers what they want to hear so they can wave the paper around. It's all bollocks, does it really matter if it's AI bollocks?

Microsoft has mostly repaired a flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet

Terribly Designed

> Darcy said that the SAM Bus is terribly designed. "There is no way to see the current value without scanning the bus," he said. "But scanning the bus kills the unit."

So you're saying... this is a Microslop product?

Very related, it's pretty funny that Copilot inadvertently exposed the problem by just randomly flailing around as usual.

GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections

Ahahaha

Microslop gonna slop. And sloperators gonna get slopped. This is great.

NHS prescribes half a million Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache

Oh dear

> after a pilot claimed the AI assistant could claw back 43 minutes a day from administrative work.

Well yes, if you don't care if the output is correct at all you can save a lot of time. Thank heavens the NHS does not!

Which is further made obvious by their picking worst in class AI Copilot* for this.

* Okay, it shares that throne with Grok

No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel

Worst in Class

Considering that Microslop is worst in class at everything you'd have to be a complete f@#$ing moron to allow agentic Copilot to do anything at all for you.

So I expect high uptake in corporations and governments.

Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

This seems like a bad idea

This seems counterproductive. Why are you shielding management from their complete f@#$ing stupidity?

If anything you should be tripling down on toxenmaxxing. Give those stupidass ignorant sociopaths what they wanted, which is $500M in AI bills in a month. That will surely make your shows better.

Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button

Polishing a Turd

This is the very definition of polishing a turd. After they've put lipstick on it, bejazzled it, stuck it in crotchless panties and waved it in your face... Yes, that's disgusting - this is Microslop Copilot, it is that disgusting and annoying and worse than useless.

Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience

Re: Totally accidental...

Nooo, that would be too competent for Microslop. The fix is to change your server name.

'Newfound commitment to quality'

It's 'nice' to see that Microslop's 'newfound commitment to quality' is turning out exactly as expected by anyone who has at least two functioning brain cells to rub together.

MICROSLOP-VIBES

GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'

Re: Unfortunately for us, GitHub is mandated by corporate policy

> Have Microsoft never heard of QA testing, or checking that stuff still works in a UAT environment before integrating whatever badly thought-out AI hallucination they have come up with today? People's businesses, jobs, and livelihoods depend on basic things like their git repositories behaving as expected.

All their QA is AI now too. And Slopya doesn't give one single f@#$ for your business, job, or livelihood. He knows you're stuck with Microslop because they've made a 'great deal' for flaky shite like Github / Office / Teams / Azure / etc. with your dumbass executives, so nyah nyah nyah.

(Seriously, I feel you, but they do NOT CARE. And never will as long AI is the only thing Slopya cares about.)

A Russian speaker and jailbroken Gemini went on a hacking spree and emptied at least one MAGA victim's crypto wallets

Ahahaha

Well, hardcore MAGAs are specifically raised to be gullible dumbasses who will always vote against their best interests and can be milked by anyone and everyone (buy Trumpcoin!1), so I think this is just fine, working as designed?

Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage

Bad VIBES Man

Given Google this was probably a totally automated AI decision. Or some dumbass support tech (#notallsupporttechs) deleted the wrong customer.

And then when you make a level 999 support call, The Chocolate Factory is all 'oh our AI wouldn't make a mistake' and takes an hour for anyone sentient to even notice.

Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami

Uh huh

'We need to lube the slides up more so our tsumani of shite can flow downhill and onto your heads faster'.

Notice every single 'problem' involves the word 'agentic'. Maybe Git itself is not the problem (it isn't), though the refs table sounds neat.

Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts

No Shite Sherlock

Anyone who knew anything about LLMs knew this 100% had to be the case. They bullshit. Period. They can not be trusted with anything you care about.

Thankfully, today's corporate hospitals don't actually care about their patients, so it's all good!

Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less

They're Lying Again

Here, let me rewrite that headline to be accurate:

"Execs, who are all sociopaths, secretly happy AI gives them an excuse to finally say they don't give a flying f@#$ about their human workers (and never have)"

Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf

Oh boy!

'25% faster'

Yeah, you made it complete dogshit, then you made it 25% faster than dogshit slow, so I guess it's up to dogpiss slow now? Way to go, Microslop.

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

Bueno

Yeah, you deserve everything you get. This IS your AI future, it is not a glitch they will solve or care to solve.

Google launches line of Android laptops festooned with Gemini AI

It's even worse - this is coming to your Android phone, too

Google I/O is coming right up and they're already trumpeting about how deeply AI will be integrated into the next versions of Android. Like agents ('robots') offering to do your shopping across multiple apps and lots of other 'helpful' things, 'improved' AI autofill, Gemini even more aggressive about offering to 'help' you... yes, baked into every bit of the system. It sounds even more annoying than Copilot, which is pretty amazing.

Soooo... I moved to iOS on phone a while ago because of Google aggressively enshittifying everything, and it's much better (once you turn off that Liquid Glass shite, everything has annoyances). Very little AI and you can turn it off. Might be time for that unless you are up for completely going to GrapheneOS. For now I still have Android on my tablets so will be watching this omnishambles with a front row seat.

GitLab promises a different kind of layoff as biz pivots toward AI

Re: God damn it

Oho, forgejo looks like what I need and being German open source is very reassuring. Thanks!

God damn it

I just moved to GitLab to get away from GitHub's relentless AI enshittifications.

Is there any place safe (for now)? Yes, I do just keep most of my git stuff on my own servers but there are things I need public repositories of with a little bit of interaction with other contributors.

Microsoft makes Copilot easier to summon, harder to ignore in Office

Time to opt out of Office365

If you're still using Office365 it's only getting worse from here. It can't possibly get better as long as AI Uber Alles is their corporate mission.

I bought a perpetual license from a key vendor for Office 2021 (I forget exactly which one) for $40. It's beautiful. It works fantastic, no monthly fee, NO AI EVER. It is safe from Microslop's relentless enshittification of everything.

Now apparently these keys are a bit shady, but it works, and f*ck Microslop. I'm only doing this because I need Excel to collaborate with outside engineers (and Libre isn't compatible enough) and then you made Office so shitty I couldn't stand to keep using it.

Of course, if your office is locked into Office 365 because your C***s made some shitty 'deal' with Microslop, then you just have to suck it up unless you have enough permission to run Shut Up Windows or RemoveWindowsAI.

1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials

Re: Well, honestly this seems plausible?

> Downvoted for the use of the word "literally".

I MEANT literally. They would /literally/ be throwing live kittens and puppies or toddlers (okay, having underpaid workers do it) into giant grinders if they could figure out a way to make enough money on it. That 'literally' is there to make it clear that they have no ethical or moral limits and would actually do so. Why would you think MBAs would not?

Well, honestly this seems plausible?

If you're working for some shitty corporate hellhole like Oracle, Microslop, SailPoint, Andersen Consulting, IBM, Boeing, Sage, Capco, Intel, Nvidia etc. etc. etc. who are MBA driven and actively hate their employees, why wouldn't you sell your work credentials? Why would you have any loyalty at all? The corporation certainly doesn't deserve it. All the above listed companies would literally grind live kittens and puppies into blood meal if they could make a decent profit off it. They would grind YOU into blood meal if they could make a profit off it. So why wouldn't you sell your creds for a good offer? It's what an MBA would do!

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

Re: You have no (almost) excuse to still be on Github

> Git was designed from the start as a distributed system. I'm probably missing something, but the whole idea of a centralized repository seems like missing the point entirely.

Yes, any git repository is the entire repository. So the one on my laptop is just as complete as the one on Github or Gitlab. But like @Richard 12 said, the one you point people at is 'the' repository.

And with Github/Gitlab it's also where you point to downloads, have the bug tracking, make announcements, etc. etc.

People are just not wired for complete decentralization, they want a place to go.

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

Re: OPT-IN

> Or opt-in to having your use of Copilot announced to the world, making keeping schtum about your little habit the default?

The biggest(?) problem here is that it was telling everyone you were a shitty vibe coder using Copilot *even if you weren't* - even if you hated everything it stands for. You are now, for eternity, 'on record' as being one of those chucklef@#$s even though you were completely innocent.