Posts by hx

RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates ‘much higher’ prices

Cartels are gonna cartel

I guess it's time for the twice a decade, "DRAM manufacturers reach settlement with 37 countries over price-fixing allegations"

Your cloud survived everything except the real world

Re: How much *useless* data out there is being stored?

M365... That's great... as long as you pay the bill... or Microsoft doesn't have another "oops".

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Don't Computer is in your future

Can't get hacked by an AI bot over the network if your source of truth is a pile of paper in a filing cabinet.

They admitted to attacking a competitor

They admitted to violating the CFAA. While the containment escape may have been an accident, it is a rather convenient one, since the target happens to be a competitor. Based on the precedent set back with the first conviction under the CFAA, they don't get the luxury of an "oops, we didn't mean for it to do that." It's been over 35 years since then, and the highest paid professionals in the industry should have known better. There's no excuse. Send them all to prison, including their CEO.

Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due

Re: "Especially with the current price of new hardware…"

And less integrated spyware, I mean telemetry *nod nod, wink wink*.

Backup and running? Not this digital sign

Knowing microsoft...

They're probably directly targeting systems they know are running digital signage. They're the creeps that other creeps fear. Give them everything now, or ask again in three days?

DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites

They have a goal

The end goal is that nobody has access to a personal, private, unregulated, and unsanctioned computer. You can, instead, rent a "very expensive" computer, that will be tied to your name and bank account so that the advertising companies can know everything about you, and also so that various government agencies can track you down because you didn't like the color they painted the sign outside of town. You will own nothing and be happy, or they will take you to one of the camps they claim doesn't exist.

I'm not sure if I'm serious or not.

Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips'

We've already moved on

Not just to post-agentic, but to post-agentic performance enhanced resolvers. It also offers a higher degree of data security.

Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6

Wasn't this posted on April 1?

The whole thing looked like an AI fever dream, but I guess they were serious? Are we sure this isn't a prank?

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

I've seen this before...

They were testing it from ""trusted"" network so it bypasses all the problems on the WAF.

CAPTCHAs hate firefox

Because clearly, nobody uses firefox, so it's suspicious. You should be using Google Ad Surveiler. It's the only web browser that exists.

also... adblockers will often cause online stores to flag a transaction as fradulent at checkout time because some moron decided that the best way to figure out if a person is real or a bot is to grab all the ad surveilance data.

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

Re: Well said

Wonder if he's going to sell it to his family's equivalent of HCL like IBM has been doing.

Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

Re: So, Apple Silicon

Not to mention 99.999% of people that buy a macbook will never upgrade it. Same goes for almost any laptop or desktop, really. You buy it, you use it, and when it is no longer useful, you use it as a door stop.

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

Name them, fire them, shame them

Then lock then in th stocks in the town square next to a few barrels of rotting vegetables. They keep assaulting us with ads, it's time to restore balance.

Rackspace tests customer loyalty with brutal email price hike

As someone that worked in the ISP/MSP space, I can tell you the costs have gone up, mainly thanks to spam filters. The hard no-wiggle-room costs for spam filtering per mailbox are about 10x per month what they used to cost for a whole year. The email is still literally free. You're just paying for the spam filtering. And if you think the spam filter isn't doing a good job, look at the quarantine, and then keep in mind what makes it there is still about 1% of what the spam filter blocked at an IP-level. And that's just for the ISP/MSP's hosted mail. If you want ~~O365~~ Microsoft CoPilot OneDrive 365 for Business Pro E7 with Teams, well, that's going to cost you real money.

ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake

It's like we're repeating the 1995-2002 timeframe

Cisco's stock price says it all.

What's next, Java and XML?

TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years

My restaurant is doing fine. We have reservations booked out 3 years...

But... seven months from now our chef is hit by a bus... and wait until the The Times exposes the roach and rodent problem in our kitchen.

Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers

It seems like using Google or Microsoft is a liability

Your cyber insurance carrier says, "No", probably.

AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows

Yeah, but...

Imagine being such an incompetent goob that you released a service to the public that made computers bad at math. At this point you have to wonder if the AI people asking for a trillion dollars asked the AI how much money they needed to run AI and that was the result, though in reality they need a stick of gum and a 25% off coupon to the worst chain restaurant on the planet.

Those fools

The AI companies are so incompetent they took calculators and turned them into subscription services that are bad at math. And to think, companies are literally paying for this. I mean, not enough that the AI companies will ever turn a profit in the next million years, but still.

AI pilots keep crashing, mostly because firms skip the prep, survey finds

What do you mean you have to do lots of manual work to let the AI do its work?

The whole point is to get rid of those useless employees, and now you're telling me I need to hire experts to curate and pre-classify all the data that's being fed to the AI system? Unbelievable.

Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents

This is never going to be built

This is like a github repo with just a README file dated 12 years ago that's describing all the planned features of some random project that never saw a single line of code written. This is really just posturing to convince the rubes that Microsoft is a forward-thinking company with big plans, so please pump up that stock price.

Meta to sell $30B in bonds to build AI datacenters

40y bond for a 3y tech cycle

The stupidity of this burns and will keep me warm through the AI winter.

'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it

Re: I watched the video. He's basically describing Linux.

I think we just found Lennart Puttering's alt.

Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons

Google is not a serious company

They have never been a serious company. They also will eventually kill every product they have. Let's not even think about what that actually means for their ad-supported products.

Paradox: Agentic AI dev roles are less in demand as agents take over

And yet the finance bros are looking for an exit

I guess, "Trust us dude, this is going to eliminate all employees and solve personalized mattress sales forever" has to show at least something in return after five years other than "can we have another trillion dollars?"

Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports

What a jerk

And it's not going to fix the debian package circular dependency hell.

Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

Meh, I'm better at uptime at a much lower price point, but I'm not in the business of selling solutions to problems created by our other solutions. Probably why I haven't retired from the main job to focus on my passion of building rockets or smart toilets.

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

Build a new shuttle

Build a new shuttle, use eminent domain to build a launch site in Texas that covers one of the people that thinks it is Really Important to have a flown orbiter down there, then launch it from Texas and then land it in Texas and then let them deal with getting it from the landing site to its permanent display location. Also, Texas will need to pay for building the new orbiter, launch and mission control facilities, and for the mission itself. To help pay for it, they can sell rides in the cargo bay for its one mission. No, it will not be pressurized.

AI bubble to deflate as enterprises defer spending to 2027

Also, there will be no revenue

Because if they charge what is necessary to make a profit, nobody is going to use it.

Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block

The Great Oops

Having read the postmortem for the AWS issue, it's pretty clear that like all large, complex systems, there are enough unknown unknowns that any assurances that something is "impossible" are really just wishful thinking. At some point there will be an incident where one of the major cloud providers deletes all customer data in one single operation, or at least makes it unrecoverable.

It's the sort of thing that push a man towards restoring old steam-powered tractors and machinery.

A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

If I read that correctly, AWS engineers do not understand what they implemented

At least, not until it fell over. Now I need to re-evaluate the assurances that it just isn't possible for someone at Amazon to nuke all data with a single errant change.

AI bubble inflates Microsoft CEO pay to $96.5M

That's 2GW of what? Resistors?

Or are those Large Language Heating Elements?

Cisco: Most companies don't know what they're doing with AI

Incorrect. Their "AI strategy" is simply, "No."

We continue to evaluate this so-called AI and it just doesn't do what it says on the tin. It certainly *looks* like it's doing something, and perhaps it is useful in BS-centric enterprises, but it just doesn't really do anything useful. Based on what we've seen, it's getting worse, though it looks like it's better. Before long, it's going do extremely harmful things, like suggesting people use the deprecated WEBP file format.

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

Re: Microsoft will go belly up if this AI gamble doesn't pan out

And your choices for giving them access to your data: Yes, ask again in three days (you can only reject this three times per year)

Microsoft will go belly up if this AI gamble doesn't pan out

That's the only explanation for why they would be trying to forcibly insert AI where none is wanted like that guy at the bar that won't leave you alone.

Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America

It could be worse

You could be running Exchange on-permises.

Hobble your AI agents to prevent them from hurting you too badly

Re: Hobble?

Marketing commands it. They will solve personlized mattress sales forever with the data they collect. We don't know why they are so obsessed with mattresses, especially since we don't even sell furniture, but they say it's the future and that we're guaranteed to have 750% year-over-year returns on personalized mattress sales with the data they collect, and that's a lot of perecents.

Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it

Your teacher seems like they were a real cuned.

VMware bungles cloud management portal upgrade, twice in two weeks

And next week they're announcing they're spinning off vmware

...because they couldn't figure out how to migrate all those portal users over to the new system.

IBM killing mainframe coding kit for PCs this year

It was always a subscription

A little over $20k/user/os/year

They probably are scared that the emulator is about as fast as the real machine.

Also... if you are targeting z/vm it was only cost effective if you had like one developer. For z/os, though, that's like one cpu second of time on a real machine.

Many employees are using AI to create 'workslop,' Stanford study says

The remaining 60%

Are happy that as a large language model, they have no concept of "Do my work for me" because it's job is to provide assistance.

Okay, as a large language model role playing as you doing your work, we need more money thrown into marketing to better understand our business to generate strategic YoY ROI in our KPIs.

To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity

Microsoft is actively making their products worse

They have to. They're all out of ideas, so the only way to grow their business is to create new problems by breaking things that were already solved, and then selling it as a new feature or bundled in that all-encompassing package that's $365/user/mo.

VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years – some to its friends at ‘proper clouds’

No such thing as a dead product for CA/Broadcom

CA made its billions on techno-necromancy. They'll keep adjusting the annual maintenance fees or subscription higher and higher. Who cares if there's one customer left if they're willing to pay the equivalent of a small country's GDP to use the product?

Everyone needs an AI phone. No, don't hang up, it's true

To be fair...

That's like three or four Itanic processors. They were not cheap.

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

Re: In other news

I ran into Bernie Ebbers back into the day. Seemed like a nice guy at the time.

Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need

Re: Why can't we have nice things?

They don't need to, but they're addicted to the billions of easy profit just by ignoring your consent and violating all common norms of privacy.

That's why they made 11 look like a Linux desktop. They're planning for a switcheroo to Linux. Imagine how many billions they could save if they got rid of the desktop OS division.

New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers

Re: Perfect

Microsoft's way used to be Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Now it's Rename Features, Debundle Features, Increase Prices. Ran into this recently while trying to adjust an Exchange retention policy.