Posts by cookiecutter 338 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Sep 2024
Meta should be banned in the uk full stop!
this is a firm that feeds beauty ads to teen girls when they detect they are depressed & have fed suicide and depression comment to teen girls. A firm that makes $16 billion/year from known fraudulent ads & whose CEO when he found out that instagram was actually damaging to teen girls said "why doesn't Apple get this shit?!"
I've deleted facebook and instagram. trying to get my friends onto Threema....
the CMA seems to be there to screw the consumer as much as possible. They seem to let enriching and anything through. Why were vodafone & 3 allowed to merge? why hasnt BT been forced to throw Openreach or Openreach forced to open up their last mile to competitors rather than forcing them to wait years to dig up roads?
Everything setup in this hell hole oss done to shovel as much money upwards as possible, to the detriment of everyone else.
Why is Government not buying purely british based or EU based cloud providers? Why are they throwing £billions yearly at US tech firms when that money would be used by sane people to build the UK tech industry back to where it should be?!
I guess that after destroying steel, manufacturing, ship building and even services, the UK aristocracy & Establishment can't stand the idea of britain leading in anything but money laundering for russian & middle eastern oligarchs
who think that everyone that owns a smart phone is simultaneously an idiot who doesn't know what they're doing AND technically savvy enough to be able to identify when an app is either fake, a scam, does what it says on the tin but also scans and scrapes your screen & keyboard.
The worst thing is that some of these guys screaming for the anyone and everyone aspect of app stores are the same idiots who will happily load up any and every extension into visual studio code because the name is vaguely similar or uses their personal machine for work & refuse to run anti virus on it because "it slows my machine down"
spot the developers....
there's a difference between trusting a vendor that creates containers 1/10th the size of the basic docker download, whoever it is & letting developers "move fast & break things" or let them run multiple versions of the same bae OS or K8s because "this library only works with that version of OS & that version of python & that version of the salt we threw over our shoulders in the hope it works before chucking everything in the JIRA backlog queue never to be seen again"
or letting them download public VSCode extensions randomly which have been shown to be exploits in disguise or libraries on github which have been shown to have backdoors.
If Devs want to be "fast moving rock stars" deploying code to production 1000 times a day then THEY should be the fuckers in the office at 4am because their shitty code or laptop with PLEX loaded on it ended up getting the company ransomwared
until your lazy developers download random shite from internet repositories or insist on never upgrading them & having 20 different versions of a container because THIS code only works with THIS library on THIS version of an container with THESE random chinese github libraries.
personally I would block all access to the internet for containerised applications and ONLY allow usage of minimised containers from a vendor like chainguard that are regularly updated automatically to stay CVE free & if it breaks the app, the Devs are to blame & if, as a manager on tge ITmanager said "they just threaten to leave if we insist on security checks"... i would say "off you fuck then!"
there's no responsibility in devops. they do everything they want because marketing has decided "move at the speed of the developer" & every twat thinks they work for google. more importantly they KNOW they can blame ITops & security for any breaches.
the fact that they continue to spout the "move fast and break things" bull mark "i know we literally killteenagers with our product but why doesnt apple get shit" zuckerburg said just shows what utter shite it is.
go to any tech show at excel & you'll see a plethora of firms that only exist to add guardrails to developers who shouldn't be allowed near a speak and spell
my argument has always been pro DC. YOU run that infrastructure & YOU know who to slap when the cleaner unplugs a server to plug in the hoover.
There is literally nothing you can do when microsoft hires minimum wage devops twats in some 3rd workd country who runs a script on the assumption that "no one will have any sql snapshots in production" & takes out the entirely of SQL for South America for 10 hours! Or when they let Chinese engineers troll around your Defense department Cloud for months (years) before someone mentions that it is probably a bad idea to do that
i've been railing against cloud for over a decade! you DON'T NEED IT! only devs like it because they're generally don't know how to turn on a server or understand you don't eat fibre cables
suddenly everyone is worried about sovereignty & realising that if Microsoft can tell Barclays Bank "we'll fix it when WE DECIDE to fix it"... you've got no chance!
the fact that i've heard people start saying "well it's Cloud, you've got to accept some downtime" is insane.
It's going to be hilarious when MS , Amazon & Google start randomly putting up costs to pay for that $750 Billion of GPU that no one is using, and I'm going to LAUGH if Oracle goes to the wall with their huge legal promises to pay for stuff while relying on non-legal promises to use it from OpenAI & the UK Government suddenly realises that it's Cloud First strategy of putting everything into US owned datacentres was probably a bad idea
and yet where are they actually practiced? how many places actually implement all 12 pillars?
Devoops got the nickname for a reason. the push to microservice everything or shovel it on the cloud serves no one but consultancies who advise taking perfectly good, secure environments & opening them up to the internet.
Now they're moving onto OT. it's ridiculous.
is stunning to me that every new technology seems to be increasing the attack surface for no other reason than cost which then results in having to spend more money on cybersecurity...
have LOCAL infrastructure teams that are fully staffed and NOT outsourced or offshored.
give them time to patch, learn, let up to date.
DON'T let devoops have any control of your infrastructure.
WHY is this sudden rush to plug OT into the IT infrastructure happening?! And then plugging them onto the internet? If it's expensive to send engineers to repair something that costs £1 million/hour outage WHY are you trying to save a few £100,000s on staffing costs?
even things like SD-WAN! Oh it's "better" than leaded line & physical cable? Why? is cheaper but your introducing a whole layer of softwareof developed by people who don't know what a network cape looks like, following the FRAGILE process of shovelling out any old crap as quickly as possible.
it's stunning & not surprising that as devops & cloud have increased, especially outsourcing ; as cybersecurity spend has increased & yet cyber attacks continue to increase .
These firms are absolute scum. They charge the tax payer for the job. Take tax payer cash. Most of them will be doing accountancy shenanigans to avoid paying corporation taxes.
They will overcharge the public sector body and will sue at the drop of a hat, plus give the most expensive option available and load up as many staff as possible, ironically most of them "business staff" rather than technical or those who can actually do the job.
Given the choice of the quick, cheap & totally suitable version or the expensive long complicated version, we all know which one they'll go for, including hardware & software where tehy get the biggest margin from the vendors!
THEN they'll offshore as much work as possible, thus taking away jobs from the domestic workforce & huge amounts of tax revenue from HMRC which pays for the projects in the first place.
The fact that crown commercial also facilitates this with suppliers allowed to provide staff at Onshore, NearShore & Offshore locations - if it's a Government contract EVERY employee engaged in that contract should be Onshore! I don't care if it's the Helpdesk, the people doing the work, the PMs, the service managers. EVERY single person engaged in it, regardless of whether it's DV, SC or not.
If the Government isn't dedicated to keeping as many high quality jobs in this country, who else will be?
I saw an advert pop up on my Reddit feed - those idiots in the Department of Business are still trying to get people to do cybersecurity and coding degrees! "Come on kids! Spend £60k on a coding degree or cybersecurity degree! Graduate to no jobs because we're shovelled them all offshore or we've been providing the outsourcers with literally 100,000s ov visas to destroy your wages. Then you'll be paying such high interest rates on your student loans that even while paying £100s/month repayments, your actual amount owed a still triple!"
This fucking country! Run by morons, headed by a sausage fingered moron who thinks taking a helicopter to a food bank is a good look & staffed by morons who can't look outside their own little silos as long as they don't have to take responsibility for anything & too short sighted to see that they are the GOVERNMENT & they'll get back more than 60% of any wages they pay for any on shore worker who'll spend it here; rather than offshore who'll take it all or a visa worker who'll send it home.
isn't part of the tender process.... you've fucked up multiple times before.... if you don't deliver this ON TIME ON BUDGET & 100% with the benefits that you said it would not do you pay back 100% of the payment made but you also don't get another public sector contract for 10 years?!!!
craptia, fushitsu, atos, wipro, tcs, infoshite, accenshite, kpmg, et al.....NONE of them would be getting repeat work!
how is it possible that you can say...heres a quote.. we'll do the job, then when you screw it up or don't deliver you get MORE money to fix your own screw ups?!
nothing the british state loves more than handing over tax payer money to companies that aren't british & cause the uk government to get LESS money. india, china, US, philippines? Want our jobs & want to beat our domestic firms into the ground & drive wages here for even the most technical positions into inevitable minimum wage? Don't stress about WHOSE in charge... the civil service will ensure that YOU win every contract, get every job, every visa, every company you want to buy & you can even offshore your profits to reduce your rates to zero!
don't worry about the plebs.... they're so brainwashed we'll just tell them it's "investment" in the same way we let foreign "investors" buy up all our housing, care homes, water companies, energy firms, NHS suppliers, steel works & we'll put such high charges on domestic firms that aren't big enough to compete & don't have Chinese government backing or silicon valley venture capital money to run at losses for years that they will inevitably go bankrupt too!
don't want to see your IT guys driving porsches anymore? don't worry... we've already fixed that!
ever since they started calling developers "rock stars" the world has gone mad. every product is falling to pieces, security has been totally destroyed & my ability to tazer any of these people has hit a brick wall.
within 5 years the US & UK will have zero domestic talent because we're the only countries dumb enough to make being educated as hard as possible & expensive as possible with the least possible pay while at the same time either sending £billions offshore to train the indians & chinese or shipping in cheap labour & outsourcing firms with literally millions of visas so that IT guys are finding it impossible to find work..
As I've told multiple people... don't come crying or running to me when your company or government department gets ransomwared because everyone who COULD have stopped it is now forced to stack shelves at tesco
as ever firms will carry on sending work offshore with international teams and 3rd party suppliers who never meet each other, fire staff randomly & pay so little the staff don't care *cough* TCS *cough*
a well integrated, well paid fully staffed team , whether it be IT, marketing, finance, the shop staff etc are relaxed, well paid & not over worked & far less likely to fall for this shit!
Personally I have zero sympathy for firms that have accelerated their outsourcing & offshoring while at the same time whining like little kids about "3rd party risk" & "lack of staff loyalty" . what will it take for firms to realise that the long term cost of well paid motivated staff is lower than £2 billion loss for JLR & £500 million odd for M&S!
facebook reportedly makes $16 BILLION from just fraudulent ads.
Amazon is on route to make $70 billion selling the top spots in its search results so the product you see is fake, over priced, wrong. That little delay in the search results coming back is the auction going on in the background.
the entire internet had become one giant fraud factory to enrich the US tech firms
is genuinely stunning how many people on internet forums including this one try and justify any of this. Musk fans & I guess russian troll factories are shitting themselves.
LITERALLY trying to justify creating CSAM & non consensual nudes. is it any wonder women are deciding not to have relationships with men these days?! I mean for fuck sake?! GROK is literally generating CSAM & the kind of pervy pictures that in the past perverts in long coats would have to sneak into peoples gardens & take through the curtains....
when 2 tenders created an app to scrape instagram, feed you posts based on your friends without the adverts or the suggested posts or any of the other stuff that meta forces on you.... it was taken down in under 12 hours.
An app that creates & shared CSAM as well as spreads fake news & is used HEAVILY by russian, chinese & iranian disinformation scum..... oh that's fine! that's ok.
this is an industry that is fighting tooth & nail to have California remove the words "if you market your chat bot to children, you have to prove that it doesn't cause them to harm themselves" - the BASIC of any product I would have thought especially one that has proven that the only thing out seems to be good at is getting kuds to kill themselves.
these firms don't care.
ice cream prices double when iis hot & water times 10 when the local accenture advised water company "mysteriously " has an issue with its supply..... i'm getting Enron vibes....
this fucking country!!! of I see predictive pricing in the supermarket, i'm cutting back everything to what my local corner shop can supply
and they'll give all the work to tcs, wipro or infosys. ship it all to india or south africa & STILL get compromised
give it a few years and they'll be crying that "well we don't have the skill set here so it will be too expensive to repatriate it"
fuckers never learn. shipped off manufacturing, services & now IT. The establishment won't be happy until we're all working minimum wage at tesco & every single actual tax paying job has gone!
why is everything in this country up for sale?! I mean jesus! Do we not want any manufacturing, any technology firm, any arms firm domestically owned?!
If someone speaks to a russian online... BOOM there we go! jail for you MoFo... want to sell our infrastructure or just inventive firms to anyone & everyone? yeah go ahead!
The aristocracy are desperate to take this country back to them & us underpaid plebs. I swear when they saw IT guys in the 90s/00s driving porches they exploded with anger & decided to fuck us all as nice stuff is for THEM!
Then when I say on an MOD post on linkedin that only a masochist would do this new military year out bullshit, the sheer levels of butt hurt from people who refuse to accept that the youf are fucked now & they STILL expect them to get up and walk into a machine gun to protect the assets of the wealthy....
shurely shome mishtake!
A british government actually put this country first rather than shovel billions to indian or US firms?
that will genuinely be a first... they're still shovel things to oracle cloud now as well, just to genuinely hand over as much of our data and sovereignty as they can
ai angers are a massive con.
we all know that ONE spreadsheet that no one knows how it works & that everyone in the finance department uses & somehow the entire company is dependent on... now multiply that out by this agent shite that screaming phone calls to helpdesk insisting on admin access for the agent & add the person who created it leaving & then by the multiple non human identities....
any firm that allows this madness deserves to be hacked.
and garnter "the multiverse will be the future" consulting can also fuck off!!! they've pushed this AI nonsense & have been pushing agents but are now trying to cover their own arses
exactly! none of these systems would have been hacked with highly paid highly trained highly motivated INTERNAL staff across the board of IT, advertising, marketing, call centres etc.
instead we have stated staff more like to click the link, understaffed It teams less likely to patch or be trained in the latest technologies. offshored staff who don't don't care, outsourced staff treated like shit & this whole "3rd party risk" bullshit!
EVERY ONE of these could have been avoided or recovered from much more quickly, but manglement MUST have their bonuses & "risk transfer".
now as AI agents are rolled out, watch attacks increase.
i've said it before... as 3rd line I earnt £55k in 2006, that job should be £92k today but is actually 45 or less! where is the rest of that money going? Management bonuses & "shareholder profit".
we're told there are 4 million cybersecurity vacancies, yet I can't see them! No infrastructure jobs, nothing.
UK governments of every colour hadnt spent 4 decades shoving €billions to US & Indian & Chinese firms... in fact ANYONE except UK firms, that they were happy as Larry to allow to be sold to anyone and everyone including actual enemies.. the chinese!
genuinely, we'll be fulfilling thatchers wish of being a nation of shopkeepers soon...as in, we will all be working in tesco stacking shelves with Masters Degrees
i remember BT being given £1.2 BILLION to increase access to the internet around the country. The SAME year they spent a billion odd on football rights...
this country is av giant ponzi scheme that launders money upwards from the normal tax payer to corporates & aristocracy.
it's embarrassing talking to engineers from other countries about the state of broadband & 5g in this country.
As ever a refusal to break up BT & Openreach is keeping us in the 90s. Add to that the competition commissions insane ability to think 3 mobile providers is better than 4 & gives consumers more choice. We're run by idiots, sychophants & boot lickers!
obviously advised by idiots in mckinsey or accenture or pwc- sell off all our infrastructure to anyone else, doesn't matter... it doesn't even have to work!
the fact that O2 doesn't work in my flat in london & I can walk up the hill to wimbledon & get literally nothing even though the phone displays 2 bar for EE & vodafone is stunningly shite but not unexpected in this technological he'll hole of a country.
while other EU countries run away with infrastructure & tech investment FAR ahead of this hell hole - literally didn't see one british startup at black hat. all the realky interesting stuff came from poland, netherlands & france! Even "Tech London" was dedicated to foreign firms offering to offshore everything.
WHY does virtually 100% of our telecoms depend on ONE company that took 6 months to move an internet line from the 5th floor in a data centre to the 6th floor?! WHY do we have such shite mobile firms who are going to start screaming about 6G very soon? Why does our entire broadband industry now base ours entire advertising on how "good" its WiFi router is? Or the stunning fact that you can have more than 1 person using the connection at the same time?
3rd party risk is seen as the major issue these days & i was at a talk where the ciso of a bank was going on about how 3rd parties lie, don't provide the services etc etc etc & when I ask ppl, well why not just bring it all back in house... you get a blank look.
As with manufacturers who shipped work to china & then were "shocked" that their designs were stolen & copies were being sold, i've got zero sympathy for any of these firms that get taken advantage of or hacked because they've shovelled jobs out or offshore.
after promising £billion in savings there frapita ended up COSTING them £1 billion & Oracle are STILL charging the council to try to fix the mess. at THAT point capita should have been banned from ANY public sector work forever & their managers arrested!
ditto with Fujitsu.
maybe crown commercial do stop being so lazy & instead of just palming everything off to repeatedly fraudulent or incompetent or foriegn suppliers that think project to project and there being no over arching thinking.... why not act like a service provider & contract or hire the staff yourself?!
Look at every job being advertised for govt contracts now.. MUST HAVE SC!! All of these useless outsourcers don't have their own staff, wait until they get a contract and then suddenly race round chasing for sc staff at the last minute! dumb arsery to the max
and WHY do the same firms keep winning contracts? the perm staff are just TUPED between providers & they supply no value.
it's literally a cash con with £billions of OUR cash sent offshore & to millionare/billionaire CEOs!
All we hear is whinging that gen z don't want to work & that people aren't lotal any more & yet all we see is even government facilitating this shit! Anyone who puts anything over 40% effort for an employer is mentally ill & these guys can rip off the tax payer, commit fraud, acs yet get more contracts!
why is fushitsu still getting work?! Ate your able to hire soldiers yet since capita fucked that national security issue up too?
WHO is getting the brown envelopes?
don't blame the contractors. look at yr rates being offered now. as you've said.. sub contracted to sub contract to sub contract.
an infrastructure architect is probably being charged out at 1100-1700/day by capita, who then pass out down the line to some shit indian firm whov will do it offshore out, if the job needs to be done on the uk is offering it at £400 inside ir35 or a 6 month ftc with 1 week notice, which is ironically the rate that they advertise the offshore cost at (i've seen the pricing documents on CC)
genuinely self inflicted by the crown commercial retards on this.
then you see jobs advertised that need ACTIVE SC, which means these idiots haven't actually done any planning & are hiring at the last minute to get people in, so you KNOW of some outsourcing wanker isn't willing to wait 1-2 months for SC, they've applied that level of shitty planning to the entire project.
zero fucking sympathy for any of the organisations involved. can't WAIT until a bank doing this offshoring or the cabinet office themselves get hacked & ransomwared via an offshore 3rd party and THEN they might understand why UK staff are more expensive
airbus- this COULD cause a very rare issue in the future, let's get fixed!!
boeing - we're told the average occurrence of this issue is once in 2 years so we'll leave it 2 years to fix the problem- HANG ON!! why did it only take 3 months for the next crash?! they said AVERAGE of two years!!
until the CEO of these firms is PERSONALLY liable for data breaches & we see those scum going to jail, this will keep happening!
I genuinely can't wait into a major CEO is scammed from a data breach at a company he's a customer of.
someone using your details can screw your financial life for years! yet these firms STILL don't take any of it seriously. Because the management knows that they're immune. A customer having to spend weeks dealing with various banks & mortgage firms trying to deal with financial fraud means nothing to them.
remember back to the 00s when stolen credit cards were used to access an FBI honeypot CSAM site & people went to jail, others kilked themselves because the police are too dumb to accept that credit card details could be stolen. Yet have ANY of these firms taken any of this seriously? They're spending more on checkbox cybersecurity but still ignoring it defunding the basics that could avoid any of this.
pathetic! Even when asked WHY I should care if a major tier 1 bank gets ransomed when they insist on shipping out work or bringing in 3rd parties with proven histories of shite work, the answer I got was "well l we have to go where the talent is" .
We NEED a large banking firm to go to the wall from a hack or a CEO scammed to bankruptcy before anyone takes any of this seriously
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