Posts by Eye Know

Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra

And the IoT edition of 2021 also has 10 years.

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 has support until January 13, 2032.

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

Re: Who cares anymore....

100%, Microsoft need to change direction, customers are pissed off.

Oh sure

8GB will run Windows, but what if you want to run an application. 16GB is the bare minimum for Windows 11 and Office 365.

Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor

The weird wold of balance bikes

The weird wold of balance bikes will just absorb this. It's already full of terribly designed things that cost way too much money.

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

It's a drug.

MyPillow must decide whether to be firm or soft as ransomware crims demand pay

Seems like the kinda guy that uses his work email for personal stuff

This could get spicy.

Outlook has an image problem

Microsoft have an image problem

Outlook is very close to pushing people away, the issues in the last few months are really pissing off our clients.

ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower

El Reg used to be no-nonsense reporting, this reads like marketing targeted at management.

GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain

Re: The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built...

Your final thought was why I thought was meant by, they did this to themselves. Messy indeed.

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

Too little

Too late.

Microsoft left reliability behind long ago.

Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative

Re: Then there was this WTF disgusting insanity frrom Grok -

Yep, Grok is a small dick energy AI for lonely incel fantasists who blame anyone they can for their own disappointment in themselves. X is their support group.

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'

consumer business?

Nadella is massively out of touch with what consumers want, there were never any fans for them there. In business he clearly has stopped eating his own dog food or he would realise it isn't even dog food.

AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers

How do we do more with the same hardware?

Where I work Linux has replaced Windows where possible, so far, fewer issues.

Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder

Re: Americans do not understand irony

Some of its own citizens.

Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city

Driving doesn't scale

People like to walk to the shop.

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

Soon, oil prices will only go up for a while yet.

The honest answer is, people don't have the foggiest idea how to build an algorithm to answer email, however give them an AI agent they can explain stuff to and they will get it done the expensive way. Despite it being enormously wasteful of energy, water and land.

It's kinda like interpreted code vs complied code back in the day.

I've found some use cases at work

I've found some use cases at work, but nothing we would pay for, not with the hit or miss results we get.

GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center

You must work in sales.

Re: "simply do not understand phrases like "backward compatibility""

Perhaps they work in sales and don't have to deal with the consequences.

Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers

FFS

It's going to be the same old.. Get a huge discount if your use our service to find a deal bollox.

Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely

Re: Wrong vocabulary

Somehow you are saying that doesn't affect European imports to the USA.

Re: Bollocks

Still subject to "feature" updates and under the control of a government that has shown no adherence to the law.

OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years

Re: Wow, the comments...

Starting and ending your comment with insults while posting anonymously to avoid insults is very open of you.

We have already seen how AI is being used to manipulate the truth, degrade the quality of software and enshitify the Internet. The speed of improvement is not the issue, the end goals of billionaires and other American entities are the problem.

Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work

This shows

Their staff are not using it, just like everywhere else. People ask for all users to have licenses and 3 months later ask to reduce the license count to a handful.

Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt

Re: AI's just want to be bad

Or the bubble bursts and everyone scales back their expectations.

'Hey! I'm chatting here!' Fugazi answers doom NYC's AI bot

Re: Ok for businesses to take employees' tips

It's still vastly inefficient, even when you have very strict training. Computers get more inefficient the further you get from setting the logic for them to follow.

Help! Does anyone on the bus know Linux?

Much less distracting

Much less distracting than a Windows boot loop or that creepy BSOD with the inappropriate sad face.

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Re: In what crazy world....

They will tell you your opinion goes against the ethos of AI, it's for the LLM to decide. How else are we going to get Skynet?!

Pope warns flock to raise their faces, protect their voices in fightback against AI

A great exercise for anyone in IT

Run a LLM yourself, you'll learn very quickly just how inefficient they are at the basic tasks you give them.

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

GOOD

There is a big slowdown in interest from our clients, Microsoft pissed off a lot of people with their AI bloat in M365 forced on them like a cable TV company making you take a "bouquet" of channels.

Microsoft euthanizes ancient deployment toolkit

Re: Passwords in the clear

Reminds me of MS Recall in that respect.

Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on

Re: Wat will Grok take down ?

If Twitter was a UK company it would have been shut down years ago, they are not operating within the law.

Re: Wat will Grok take down ?

You need to spend some time offline, I don't mean in a car either, get some fresh air and feel the elements. Not everything you see online is true.

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

But why does it smell of piss?

The time is coming when I run out of US cloud services to dump, and I haven't really been trying, they just keep pissing on their own products.

Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work

AI

Billionaire opinion machine.

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

No slow down

Just like with .com, it didn't slow-down, it imploded, if there was a slow-down it lasted two weeks max.

Bastards are driving up RAM prices now too, the sooner this bubble bursts the better.

UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

The first I heard of this was a story about the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change releasing a paper on it, he clearly has some tech-sales people taking him out to dinner again. It failed the first time Tony, get the message.

Starmer is a fool for bringing back Blair and Mandelson. A fool for concentrating effort on everything but what's important to people. We have government by lobbyist and media, but somehow, they are in fact still much better than the Tory conspiracy theorists we had in the last "government".

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

Re: Single point of failure

Exactly. You can do the right thing, but it's gonna cost and require expensive skills or you can use as much effort as is affordable, just like everyone else.

Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu

The choice vs polish thing is true and a major stumbling block, at home I switched from Windows to Ubuntu at the beginning of the year and have stuck with it. One of the biggest headaches was working out which of the many ways to configure the system is active. The chopping and changing of audio system, and even windowing system over the years makes it very difficult to research an issue as last year's fix might configure something that is ignored, configurations are routinely overwritten too, leading to even more confusion and deeper research. Then you pop into a forum and get shouted at because you don't know the correct terms or that something has changed, so you don't do that again, you either give up, change the hardware you can't get working or keep searching.

However, after many rabbit holes I'm happier with the system I use today than I have been for years with Windows. One way Ubuntu could make things easier is to have an app that just lists which of the many ways to configure the system is active. I'm fully aware that someone reading this is foaming at the mouth shouting "write it yourself", well that's a whole different rabbit warren.

YouTube's AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos, calls them dangerous

I only use Windows for work

All my own stuff is on Linux, the best way to switch is to wait until you need a new PC and install Linux on it, if you find you need Windows you'll have to use the crappy old computer. It was a successful motivator for me in February this year and I have not gone back to the dark side.

Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block

I had not heard of it

I had not heard of it, but it sounds like half of the functionality of NextCloud AIO, there's your upgrade path for on-prem.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

365 Apps

We also saw 365 apps crashing across a number of client companies. Possibly due to integrations, still investigating but it appears to be getting better in the UK.

Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide

All those eggs

In one drug fuelled, fascist, basket case.

Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026

I'd not come across this before, it doesn't surprise me MS would replace it with something that's not feature complete.

Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so'

Re: This again?

Because Microsoft France said what Redmond have refused to say. It's not a revelation, just a confession.

Re: Neither can OVH

France is not the USA, it should not be judged by the same low standards as the Criminal in Chief.

Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged'

So...

This sounds like the plot from Batman Forever.

Little LLM on the RAM: Google's Gemma 270M hits the scene

GIGO

Garbage in, garbage out.

30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff

Azure

I think it goes higher, no human would change the name of a well known product like Office.