Posts by Blade9983

You begged Microsoft to be reasonable. Instead it made Copilot reason-able with OpenAI GPT-o1

I know a certain penguin that will help remove all unwanted Microsoft features from your computer.

Cellebrite got into Trump shooter's Samsung device in just 40 minutes

COST.

These things cost more than most of the world have to spend on a shiny.

Privacy only for the wealthy is something we should be standing against.

Dangerous sandwiches delayed hardware installation

Re: Try to keep it culturaly correct please

Language evolves over time. Get over it.

I will accept rebuttals only in old english, latin, or proto indo-european.

AWS staffer shows off the workplace that used to be a prison

I've heard the visibility features of AWS described as a panopticon, but this is taking the metaphor a bit far.

'Return to Office' declared dead

I'm of the opinion that anyone who thinks that people who WFH don't do any work are taking their own personal experience of working from home and assuming that is the whole market.

If you need a manager to stand over you and bark orders, you may just be a bad employee.

Re: Management, management, management

Sounds like a bad manager failing in his duties.

Re: Stick

Then you're one lucky plumb.

Re: There it is

Why is the private sector afraid of the competition?

Can I hear a rail operator sobbing?

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

Re: Blackmail?

Why? He seems pretty bad at that too.

Reports from Tesla employees were that the best operating the company has done was when he was sleeping under a desk at the Xitter offices.

That Word! I do not think it means what you think it means.

Blackmail? What the advertisers are doing isn't blackmail.

noun

any payment extorted by intimidation, as by threats of injurious revelations or accusations.

the extortion of such payment:

He confessed rather than suffer the dishonour of blackmail.

Guys an idiot

From Joaquin Phoenix to Rowan Atkinson, we enjoyed your Musk movie casting calls

Re: Esteemed?

I think Musk wishes to become the Omnisiah of the Adeptus Mechanicus. He already surrounds himself with tech priests.

Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck

Re: One does wonder...

Par for the course I believe.

User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work

I think we've all had a boss that was qualified for that role at some point.

Will anybody save Linux on Itanium? Absolutely not

Re: like video games localization

I would agree with you. As would Valve.

If it runs on proton and it runs well I don't see why it matters. The Stallman's of the world probably don't like it. But video games are, for the most part, proprietary software.

CompSci academic thought tech support was useless – until he needed it

Re: Depends.

For some reason they get all flushed when one used the work toilet.

Unpatched NGINX ingress controller bugs can be abused to steal Kubernetes cluster secrets

Yeah DevSecOps is mashing together what used to be three then two independent teams onto a single team.

Theoretically it should be the same number of people in one team as the three previous.

But how many companies do we actually know that don't use it as a way to save money by firing a few people?

Clippy-like AI at forefront of Windows update previews

Re: @Filippo - Wait... autosaving NotePad?

Who's using notepad in this day and age?

Notepad++ was released 2003/11/24

Linux reaches the big five (point) oh

Here's to another 4!

So we will reach 7 by 2027?

Doom developer John Carmack thinks artificial general intelligence is doable by 2030

Everything sounds easy if you boil complexity down to a simple statement.

Cold fusion is easy all we need to do if figure out how to trigger a fusion even with minimal power input. And make that reaction controlled.

These are two problems he is very capable of solving as he has a long history of getting a lot out of not much.