Posts by Sahmee

Uni staff fall back on Excel to work around mis-coded transactions in Oracle system

Re: Translation needed

Lose their bonuses? This is a university, not Wall Street. Senior managers don't get any kind of bonus pay regardless of their performance.

When red flags are just office decoration: Edinburgh Uni's Oracle IT disaster

Re: So easy

Spot on. It's madness that so many top positions in universities are current or recent academics with not even the most basic understanding of, or interest in, how large organisations function or what processes are involved in keeping them running.

Staff in the professional services side of the organisation need to work their way through a series of relevant roles, steadily accumulating experience and responsibility, whereas academic staff move up through a largely irrelevant academic career path centred on their area of academic expertise then make a relatively late jump across to leading the organisation.

This leaves you with knowledgeable and effective people mopping up disasters created by a panel of experts in baroque music, anti-corrosive coatings and animal husbandry dreaming up unnecessary initiatives.

Boffins find asking ChatGPT to repeat key words can expose its training data

Re: A special case?

Which makes you wonder how it knows which works are or aren't copyright, given that it doesn't actually know anything.

Atlassian predicts its on-prem products will grow faster than cloud

Depends on use case

While many of the old hands on here will grumble about "somebody else's computer" etc. whenever a cloud service is mentioned, for customers that are small and looking for a Jira/Confluence type product for the first time the entry cost for cloud is far more attractive than on-prem and will stay that way until they get pretty large.

For many orgs the cloud version of Jira does everything they need if they started out there. Migrating anything heavily-integrated from on-prem is going to be a pain, especially if it's been allowed to sprawl, and the supplier often can't do the heavy lifting in getting you there.

For Confluence I can't understand why anyone would want it on-prem, especially with its security history.

Colleges snub Turnitin's AI-writing detector over fears it'll wrongly accuse students

More TII fails

The main issue with Turnitin right now doesn't seem to be its hastily bunged out AI detector. It's the fact they've taken a giant dump on universities by making it impractical/impossible to do bulk uploads of coursework submissions into their tool, with very short notice, right at the start of the academic year. Talk about a customer satisfaction own goal.