Posts by Tanaka

Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one

Copilot

Copilot is actually a good name for AI. If i want an empty seat, good for me. If I want a language processor to run tasks for me, my choice. I don't want submarine software leaving ripples I can't identify.

Windows 11 26H1 is coming ... for new processors only

Re: What will it break this time?

"enshittificate something"

Because we need Copilot in everything.

Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke

Once our entire department at BT Cellnet started adding 'Li' to megabytes and gigabytes, calling them giggliabytes and meggliabytes, until all the management followed suit. We were easily amused back then.

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

I have a powershell script that runs at random times during office hours that take a random namespace from my project, then asks github copilot cli to enumerate uses of that namespace in the solution.

It burns through credits at just the right pace to keep the meter readers happy,

Microserfs ordered back to the office, given 10 days to appeal

Re: Outside of the US...MS doesn't have enough office space

Probably everyone will be told to go to the Reading campus. Even those in Norfolk.

Salesforce sacrifices 4,000 support jobs on the altar of AI

Evri connects you from one chatbot to another.

I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA

Re: RTFM. Has failing to do so led you into trouble?

Im just impressed his company *had* documentation!

Two scrubs, one Starship: Third time lucky for SpaceX?

I prefer testing for failure as opposed to Boeing's approach.

China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday

Tibet

Wasn't Xi making a surprise visit to Tibet?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr19770x7lo

Microsoft continues Control Panel farewell tour

Re: Windows

For me:

https://www.startallback.com/

I'm a luddite. I like the old clock with a calendar and seconds built in.

End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs

"Free VPNs aren't much up to streaming"

Proton VPN Free handles it fine.

Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable

Re: More than once

That sounds like Halfords. And Kwik-Fit.

MS confidence in Windows 11: Pay us to host VMs for when your desktop inevitably dies

Apparently. Very confused by the presentation/tone of this article. Microsoft offer a service that if your work machine dies, you can be operational in minutes with any available web browser until you get your new hardware. But somehow this is couched as 'Win11 is pants'. (Which it is, but nothing to do with this.) I'd rather present this as 'Why does my boss keep buying Dell?'.

I started losing my digital privacy in 1974, aged 11

Re: Can't quite figure why this a problem?

Is it okay for my children to access my medical records without my permission, because genetic illnesses are a thing?

Medical records are one of the few things where retention should be mandatory, but access severely controlled.

Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live

Re: I remember when

The really big companies (Cisco, etc) who have a vast estate of software, use Licence Management systems to know what they own. (Such as Flexera One) because the number of servers/workstations vm/physical can change by the minute. The even bigger companies use similar software to keep track of the bank accounts they have (wealth management, such as Hazeltree), because when you have so many bank accounts in so many currencies, you'd need a staff just to keep an eye on the millions of transactions/day. Its not like a small office with 50 employees anymore, and the licensing paradigms no longer fit.

Britain's billion-pound F-35s not quite ready for, well, anything

Re: Maybe it's time we in Britain admit we're a bit crap at things nowadays

The engines for the drones that Israel uses are manufactured in Lichfield. (Elbit Systems' UAV Engines, Shenstone)

My brother worked there when one of the protesters fell through the roof and broke the break-room table.

Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

There *is* a workaround to that...

https://www.shanebart.com/power-automate-reset-sp-person-field/

Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules

Yeah. In my town the head of council sold himself the football club for buttons to tear down and build an old folks home on.

Then found out there was a covenant on the land to only allow football stadiums.

Then took the council to court to get the covenant removed.

( See: camrose scandal )

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 Start Menu updates

Re: Or.....

OpenShell and StartAllBack (To return Quick Launch) and I'm 99% back to where we used to be...

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

I have a Windows 10 PC. It has Adobe CS 6 because I once bought a license for it, and it does what I need. I have Steam, and some games. Teams for work reasons, and the Xbox App for my Game Pass Ultimate so I can game with my kid. I have no idea how to move this to a Linux box. I'm not buying a new pc anytime soon. So I guess I just switch off Updates.

Reclassification is making US tech job losses look worse than they are

Re: Waiting for AI

Or my partner. I need an AI that knows when to give me a mug of tea.

How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history

I remember when ipx/spx was bundled with Doom so that you could get networking up in DOS with a BNC terminated ring circuit. Mis-spent youth!

Google thinks AI can Google better than you can

DuckDuckGo finds it okay...

Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta

Well, in my case its to use xreal AR glasses as a portable 120" monitor to give my eyes a rest (myopia), and only certain chipsets support dp out. But mileage varies.

Although:

item/1005005802533086.html

On aliexpress gets you the ability to dp out AND charge your phone... for a fiver.

Or:

item/1005005429428796.html

Which lets you plug your phone straight into hdmi on a telly...

I mean, if you pay a few grand for a fondleslab, you shouldn't be quaking on a few quid for the right cables.

Microsoft introduces Places to make flexible working less fraught

Re: Just wondering

Friday? I wish the roads were empty.

There's always some pleb who managed to park their mobile shed in a tree on the A31 out of Bournemouth :(

By the time I get as far as 'a31 bo' in Google its suggesting at least 10 articles about today's crashes. Fridays are worse :(

Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets

I'm impressed...

The FBI needed a warrant for Google to look at files in the Google Cloud about Google exfiltrated from Google.

Would be funny if the lawyer tried to make a case that the files never left Google.

Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn't its problem to solve

Re: Well if Meta are going to get roasted for this one

Use Authy. It syncs between your devices.

Irony alert: Lawsuit alleging Chrome’s Incognito Mode isn’t will settle on unknown terms

Re: I'm shocked!

"If you don’t want Google Chrome"

And Google Chrome does not.

Google does.

Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge

Re: Bull

Or I could look at the Git Commit History:

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/commits/main/src/coreclr/gc/gc.cpp

That shows it excellently maintained.

Bull

Feel free to point out the 'rot' in C# 12. Your comment is about 20 years out of date. Its like people who advocate writing in raw sockets vs pipelines/channels, or who think they need to write their own threading because... reasons. There are some very smart guys (e.g. David Fowler, see "System.IO.Pipelines: High performance IO in .NET") who spend their days polishing code until it shines. They deserve better than asinine commentardry!

Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in future release

Re: Thin end of wedge.

Powershell isn't a browser language. All of MS DevOps runs on Powershell. Azure runs on Powershell. All those weird Task Scheduler bits n bobs run on Powershell. Powershell has execution policies that vbScript doesn't. I take a different logic path to you.

Lawyer's Microsoft email snafu goes from $1.75M lawsuit to Ctrl+Alt+Settle

A little confused...

... why he didn't transfer his work email over to another provider after a few days until the issue was resolved. Did he not own his own domain? Business continuity lesson here.