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CoreWeave may have built a house of (graphics) cards

This would be..

A company that's never built an AI Datacentre then...

Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies

Re: Drain the swamp

Actually was a REALLY 2 parter on the Behind the Bastards podcast. You can actually blame Robert Maxwell for this. He basically came up with the whole scientific publishing industry and it's what made him his money. Although apparently he would still cave to scientist requests. The scum in charge now don't.

Scientists do the work, mostly paid for by Governments and Universities.

have to hand over the publication for free to whatever journal

that paper is reviewed for free by other scientists

the publishers have a different journal for essentially every branch of science they can think of.

Every University and library around the world essentially has to buy subscriptions to every journal, whose prices go up and up , while paying bugger all to the scientists,

was a great wheeze during the Cold War when universities had buckets loads of money, but these days it needs to be stopped

Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness

Re: No Visible Effect????

this! everything becomes a check box exercise.

"oh why do Air traffic controllers only work X amounts of minutes" or "why do train drivers only work X amount of hours"

I remember all the crap after 9/11. Suddenly you can't take liquids on to planes. Regardless of the fact that it is impossible to make a bomb out of them without an entire chemistry set on the plane with you. And even if it WAS possible to mix 2 inert liquids out of a baby bottle to suddenly bring down a plane (it isn't), security at airports were just emptying the liquids into one giant bin!

Then you had the tanks at Heathrow, that only started work at 8am. Hours after flights had started. Or the fact that you were allowed to bring lighters on to planes after lobbying in the US by the tobacco industry that wanted smokers able to get off the plane and have a cigarette before having to go through security, even though there had been a guy that tried to set off the shoe bomb!

If a trader screams loudly enough at his boss about "not wanting to reboot his machine for patching", if he's bringing in £10 million/year, they''l make an exception for him. Or the story I heard from an old EDS engineer of the network firewall being changed so that the CEO at the time could watch the trailer of the new Star Wars movie (1999).

Re: Make the management legally liable

Maybe if the companies made the effort to treat employees better, didn't drive them to sickness etc. Paid overtime. Gave you the tools to actually do the job, I'd have a different attitude.

At no point in 30 years in the industry has doing 3 days in the office on the run or actually becoming ill or even saving £millions on the IT budget got me a pay rise, got the renewal when finance have decided that we have too many contractors or even got me the people that I need in a team to deliver on some random deadline.

I've seen guys made redundant on a 3 monthly basis because the CEO promised some insane returns.

How many times have you worked on a Helpdesk or sat next to one and seen someone come screaming across because THEY left something until the last minute and want to blame IT? How many people reading this have seen laptops not turned off for WEEKS because the user happens to not want to wait for boot time in the morning? How many times have you been shouted at because "the indian helpdesk are crap"..and saying this as someone who only gets shouted at ONCE by someone as I'm the guy willing to tell even senior directors ..."well go speak to the CFO who made the decision".

How many times have you had to explain to develepers..."No! No! you can't be an admin on that server and NO! I'm not going to turn off the firewalls because they are stoping your application from working?"

If companies don't want to pay for or have the kind of environments where people used to stay with a firm for 20-30 years, with the loyalty that comes with that, then why should the people who work for those firms reciprocate?

I can't count the number of times some fool has come up with a Spreadsheet or pipeline or ETL job etc that THEY are paid to work with every day, yet couldn't be arsed to learn how they work. And now it doesn't pump out a number automatically, suddenly I am the "unprofessional one" because I tell them that it's THEIR file and THEY should fix it.

IT are their own worst enemy...how many times have you heard "oh don't worry, IT will sort it". Or "IT have to do more with less?"

How many times have you tried to train users on basic security and "they're too busy" or " I've got a £million of deals to do in the morning, I can't wait for the time taken to log on?"

Bus drivers don't have to put up with the shit that IT people, especially Helpdesk have to.

So why should we reciprocate? If someone doesn't maintain their car, doesn't fix the brakes, doesn't clean the windscreen and then ends up wrapping themselves against a wall, why should anyone give them any sympathy?

Trust me, if I see a cybersecurity hole...EVERYONE will know about it. As soon as a Director knows about an issue, they become legally liable. And I've caught more than my fair share of them in my time. However, if a decision is made by a PM or Director or someone puts it on a Risk Register as an acceptable risk? then it's a THEM problem, not a ME problem.

Make the management legally liable

The whole industry is a genuine fuck up.

CEOs thinking in 3 month chunks & even IT guys who aren't interested in sitting down, going through the legacy issues to fix them but want the latest shiny on their CV.

Patch it. Carry on.

Not enough staff. Staff spread across the world. Agile, DevOps, STICK IT ALL IN THE CLOUD!!

Everything is a checkbox exercise. Wages are collapsing. You have morons who say "well ALL software has bugs & you can't guarantee a library isn't buggy ".....well simple write better software & don't use external libraries!

The whole industry from top to bottom is full of lazy arses & those that have been mentally broken from trying to do a good job.

CEOs are untouchable & those of us who actually TRY to do things the right way are the first one out the door.

Lloyds shipping their IT to India even though they had to previously bring it back due to security issues.

Users who have been molly coddled for decades. I don't care if you're "not technical". A man who uses a chain saw KNOWS how to use that chain saw & HE isn't going to cost a firm £100 million from clicking an incorrect email.

Purchasing & finance able to override the IT SME about what to buy. IT guys implementing the incorrect solution because, either they want it on the CV or they refuse to learn anything new.

How many projects have gone tits up because a PM was allowed to make fundamental technical decisions?!

Unless the CSuite is made legally liable & can't blame the IT department. Nothing will change.

I REALLY care about doing a good job but these days, even in public sector if I spotted files being encrypted at 445 on a Friday afternoon, I would quietly close my laptop & go home. Becsuse I know that wherever I'd be working, the stuff I wanted to buy to be able to recover would have been turned down & the overtime would be unpaid.

Britain's cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software

As someone whose been over riden by purchasing & finance several times, the buyers who sign the cheques have zero clue & THEY are never held to account because THEY won't be the ones in the office at 2am trying to fix this shit

Shock capitalism strikes again

We shouldn't have to lower our share price or dividends or take any responsibility for anything we do & we should be allowed to carry on lying to customers about the ability of our products to our customers.

Defender has nothing to do with "fulfilling a need", it's free. That's why people use it. It's shite too.

Since when in the entirety of human history has any publicly company done anything when not forced to buy government regulation. Volvo only prioritised safety because it wasn't an American company. We wouldn't need NCAAP if car manufacturers could be trusted. I'm old enough to remember the car industry pointing to volvo as the gold standard while at the same time refusing to implement electric windows that wouldn't strangle children.....oh but if people REALLY wanted it, they wouldn't buy cars without the safety features implemented.

37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions

Re: In six months...

I'll refer you to:

https://www.it-daily.net/en/it-management-en/cloud-computing-en/__trashed-2

How many times has Google deleted customer environments? the SQL outage in Azure was one of THEIR engineers not testing a script.

Re: Press X to Doubt

Cloud SLAs mean absolutely nothing. Not only are MS and Amazon suitably vague about how THEY calculate them, but if anyone does a Google and deletes your entire organisation, production and backups...who are you going to take to court? Especially if your idiot senior management are of the "It's cloud and it's triple redundant, we don't need backup"

MS lost SQL across the whole of South America a few years ago, imagine being a non $billion firm whose SQL servers are down for 10 hours while MS restore more important customers. At least onsite you can walk up to your staff and taser the fucker who unplugged the SAN for the vacuum cleaner.

Cloud crazies incoming....

If you're running a vaguely stable workload then you don't need Cloud. You can run all this stuff in your own DC. I priced up a UK Council and on prem was 1/3 the price compared to Azure & that was before MS's price rises and fuckwittery.

HPE will do you green lake, which means you can buy a load of kit, pay a baseline amount and then scale up into the existing hardware if you need it. I"m sure Dell and Lenovo will do something similar.

What really annoyed me was the consultants coming up with "we don't believe it will be cheaper" & "did you take into account power costs" & "you should go into the cloud as your sysadmins will be able to innovate" No!

Not everyone needs to be in the Cloud, not everyone needs to be splitting legacy apps into kubernetes and doing 100000000 software updates a day.

you can get 7 year support contracts. Govt departments can get Crown Hosting, which is insanely cheap DC space. When this AI crap dies it's inevitable death, there will be Datacentre space everywhere going cheap.

Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI

AI enthusiasts

AI grifters you mean

HMRC's Making Tax Digital scheme also made tax more expensive – by £300M

Hmrc are a nightmare

It's insane that possibly the most important department had the most incompetent mangement & seem to hire the dumbest consultancies. All of whom have ZERO experience of actually talking to their users or delivering a service that people ACTUALLY want.

What kind of genuine idiot thinks "our phone lines are overloaded. I know! Let's just close the help desk ".

The online stuff is OK but a lot of people just want to talk to someone! We're not tax experts.

I was owed £3500. My accountant put a refund request in. I waited. Nothing. I put a refund request in online. Nothing. I did it again. Nothing.

It wasn't until I actually spoke to someone, who was actually helpful & she chased down what was going on did I find out that they're was a years old debt hold on the account. Nothing from the online system had this. No markers, nothing. No emails. No texts. No "we can't give you a refund because of X". Literally nothing.

If it hadn't been for the ability to actually talk to someone who obviously could go talk to another department who had access to more details than are put online, I'd STILL be waiting for a refund.

British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

Mangement don't care

However sysadmins, I'd just check your domain admin groups this afternoon. See if anything has popped up that shouldn't be there. 3 day weekends & a 4 day week where staff will be on holiday is the prefect time to be encrypting away.

Who knows what one of your Devops morons might have installed from a random github library

Chinese carmaker Chery using DeepSeek-driven humanoid robots as showroom sales staff

Well that

Isn't creepy at all!

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

Testing? This is MICROSOFT!! Testing is for losers....

Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors

Re: This time

The British made an empire out of it

Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim

AI has cost peopel their jobs

CEOs are the dumbest breed on the planet and believe all the marketing hype.

AI is a photocopier - a bad one that gives you sheets with something totally different on there that what you put in. However, it's being sold as the new coming of Jesus. And CEOs are dumb arses who believe this stuff.

You have a whole layer of management that literally do nothing. Even in engineering firms, the first people to get the boot are the ACTUAL engineers while there is always money for more Project Managers and MBAs who do nothing but email each other and sit in meetings about meetings.

Customers hate chatbots, but they are rolled out.

AI hallucinates, makes stuff up, but none of this is known by the people who want to look clever & "with it". How many morons have been going to the press with their "We've rolled out AI and fired 1000 people" comments? When you have AI Agents doing SOC work, making medical decisions, etc AND you fire 80% of your staff, the human element is removed too, which removes your controls.

How long until we see someone die because an AI agent made some shit up, or missed something a human would have seen and we get the inevitable investigation and "our thoughts and prayers are with the family right now & we do apologise. no one could have seen this happening"

I mean can you imagine Fushitsu rolling out an AI version of Horizon?

BOFH: The Prints of Darkness pays a visit

Re: Sheer genius!!

I microwaved a couple of eggs last month..never again. Took me ages to clean that mess up

£136M government grant saves troubled Post Office from suboptimal IT

Re: The utter shittiness of English law

And somehow no matter the fuckup, the fraud, the sheer fuckwittery Fujitsu are still bidding for contracts. Capita, pwc, accenture, etc still get work. Fucking Mckinsey who were working for the Chinese firm jinghe at the same time as they were advising the government to sell scunthorpe British steel to them for £1 still get work...

This country is a giant fucking ponzi scheme shovelling money upwards to the rich while the rest of us get fucked. Even ir35 changes..who does it benefit? The big IT outsourcing firms who can now offer FTCs for peanuts to previously well paid contractors...

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions

Wank de jour

Now imagine that as we hit various gartner hype cycles or as I like to call them...wanks of the day...amazon or Google or microsoft decide to kill a cloud service because it's no longer profitable.

If anything you use is dependent on someone else's infrastructure, then you're massively open to the shit hitting the fan.

Sagemaker or azure ai "whatever they're calling it now" might be the thing they're pushing & the sales guys are convincing you to put everything into, but when that expensive hardware becomes not profitable enough and the next Wank comes along ; they WILL shut it down & both have been known to kill services.

Some bank software has been running since the 80s. Can you GENUINELY guarantee that the software you rolled out into the cloud this year will still be servicable in 5? 10? 20?

M&S stops online orders as 'cyber incident' issues worsen

Who runs their systems?

Wonder who they outsourced to or if they'd just laid ppl off...

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back

If your bot ignores robots.txt then sorry, you deserve everything you get!

Companies spend huge amounts of money training staff, creating, for example 3d models of humans to use in games & movies, pay the models etc then openai or perplexity come along and hit that site millions of times a day driving up their costs, DDOS their customers & stealing their data.

One of the reasons kids aren't allowed in my flat, apart from my lego collection is that I MIGHT have a bottle labelled water that's actually white spirit or a jar full of what looks like sweets that's actually washing up pods. All unlabelled. Now if someone DOES come into my place and eats one or drinks it, then that's their problem.

Robots.txt is the door. Ignore it & then the rule should be tough

Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users

And yet

The number of people I've argued with about not rolling out patches on day 1, even zero days.

And I still think that is inane that we not only allow software firms to roll out faulty shite but actually encourage it by setting up patching teams etc instead of insisting vendors actually do testing

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

Re: China

ha ha ha! If the EU truly wanted to secures its virtual borders, it would block all incoming access from China & ideally throw out all Chinese companies.

Can you name 1 product China has made, essentially EVER, that wasn't stolen from someone else's work, design or idea?

It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter

Re: General Ignorance does not help

Many people INSIDE IT are no more intelligent than an 8 ball either. We've all worked with them

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

Bankrupts all round

We need a large corporate to get ransomwared to stop this shite. I'm talking a teir 1 bank. With offshored staff. A large organisation whose newly redundancy staff aren't weak enough to go back for a 10% pay rise but will demand £1 million /day to fix the issue or just tell the board to do one...

CEOs, CFOs, etc are all psychopathic bullies & will only learn when their stock is worth £0 because they used AI for security or decided 1 guy in India could do the job of 20 UK/US based engineers with decades of expertise.

I'm even hoping it's MY bank Lloyds who've just shipped out a load of jobs offshore. I mean genuine months long outages due to completely avoidable fuckwittery from the board.

It's the ONLY way this kind of thing will stop for a generation

The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned

Are there any? Azure had the Chinese and Russians bouncing around for 6 months before anyone noticed. Google happily deletes customer data for shits & giggles it seems. I've not seen much on AWS but since there are 1000s of open AWS S3 buckets open on the Internet, I'm assuming they cover their backsides better than Microsoft or Google.

Why anyone thinks trusting your data & customers to a bunch of shysters who've consistently proven they don't care about their customers, don't do testing anymore, shipped expertise out to Indian firms who will tell you to reboot your Kubernetes setup as a fix is just nuts...

And the fact that in that last paragraph you don't know WHICH cloud provider I'm talking about speaks volumes

Re: "Oracle completely destroyed their reputation this time"

Loving the ONE obvious Oracle employee downvoting these comments

OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit

Ai bros are nuts

Their insistence that the singularity is here or nearly here And that anyone whose discovered by the Singularity to have tried to stop it happening will end up in some Hell created by it just proves that all these people are insane.

Saying that, if Altman & musk could destroy each other...it would be much appreciated

Tech CEO: Four-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity

No one has worked on a Friday for decades. In the City most of my Fridays were spent hungover hiding in a corner & we had one broker who'd spend her time sleeping in the disabled toilets.

Giving people Fridays would see zero reduction in overall productivity, as no one really did any work anyway.

Tech hiring stalls as AI hype, layoffs, tariffs, economic uncertainty, more collide

Bloody ridiculous

Just been on a cybersecurity webinar where they were bitching about 4.5 million shortage of experts and yet you see rates collapsing.

Idiot CEOs like that moron from JP Morgan are complaining that "no one wants to work anymore " & why would you bother? If I knew in my 20s what I know now, I'd never have done 1 bit of free overtime for any client or employer.

And then we'll hear that no one wants to go to university & they're all going bankrupt. Our illustrious traitorous CEO class offshored expertise for decades. Politicians let them..to provide "shareholder value". Now we see huge gaps in skillset. Whinging company owners whining that no one wants to buy their products abd no one wants to have kids.

You see the daughter of a Coutts bank family member actually called Money-Coutts whining that "Gen Z are lazy & she hustled when she was their age" but why would you bother? If you've seen your grandparents thrown to the wall by Thatcher, your parents lose jobs or get made redundant so their jobs can be sent overseas & you're out of uni with £50k debt, a degree & are having to fight for a job in Cafe Nero while knowing for a fact that IF you do get a degree related job, it will be offshored ASAP. No wonder they come in, do the minimum with their headphones on & bugger off home.

I know guys who've been out for over a year looking. 30% of job ads are supposed to be fake, with recruiters trying to hoover up CVs or firms trying to look like they're growing.

I've got zero sympathy for any firm that ends up hiring any north Korean fake applicant & gets their IP stolen or ransomwared becsuse it's their fuckwittery that has driven this.

I can guarantee you that if I get a call at 4.59 saying a major SaaS app has died, I'm not going to answer it & you're not going to get me doing that 9-6am, breakfast at macdonalds, new shirt from Lewis, then 9-5 shite again regardless of the emergency.

Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney

Re: Minor correction

DVD has a shit lifetime. I can get a 48 or 96 tape library with 4 drives in it for relatively peanuts in enterprise terms. Running at fibre speeds.

Backup to disk then disk to tape automatically without thinking. I can leave those tapes on a shelf for 50 years and I know they'll be mostly fine. I can look at a dvd and it will scratch.

Each tape holding 45TB compressed, that's 4.3PB for the hpe ones at around £60/tape. Cheaper if you're getting enterprise pricing

Tape is here for a long time

I keep on having to explain it to younger people in IT & the cloud first mob.

Tape is immutable, cheap, essentially unhackable.

If you've got your backups on a tape on a shelf in your office or offsite...no Russian or Chinese hacker can do anything with them. You could lose your entire environment, disk backup, SAN, everything & if you've got your tape as belt & braces...you'll be fine.

Yes it's slow, yes it's a pain in the arse, but when the shit hits the fan you'll be glad you've got it

EU may target US tech giants in tariff response

Re: Hmm

Explain to me like I'm 5....what's wrong with a country or trading block protecting its own workers and populations from the shite that China dumps onto African countries that can't protect themselves from this kind of fuckwittery. As to the American tech firms...you're talking about firms like Metà...a company where one major leader said that "child abuse, genocide fraud & fake news is a price worth paying for growth ". Or Amazon, a company that used its VC funding to drive local businesses bankrupt.

I personally LOVE the fact that we don't have the kind of high fructose corn syrup or chemicals in our food that the Americans have. That I have consumer protections of me personal data & that I can charge airlines for screwing up.

Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption

Cloud first is insane

When the Chinese and Russians were stomping around azure for SIX MONTHS before anyone found out. With random price rises & inevitable outsourcing & offshoring.

Cloud = hacked..it's as simple as that. Your SaaS provider that charges for SSO or doesn't tell you where the data is stored. Or can't guarantee backups because " we've got triple redundancy" to Google consistently deleting entire organisations setups.

Now the guys who've never stepped into a server room or DC are going to cry like little children but an on prem setup is cheaper, stable in pricing AND I know EXACTLY who to slap when it goes tits . I was able to price up an entire infrastructure for a local council with hardware, Hosting, licences, etc & over 3 years it's was 35% the cost of azure & that was BEFORE MSs price rises a couple of years back.

Microshit lost the SQL as a service for the whole of south America for 10 hours because one of their discount Dan engineers didn't bother testing an update script. Now imagine you're a 500 person or even 1000 person company hitting heads with MS support trying to get YOUR service up & running while they are prioritising larger customers.

And if the orange baboon insists on cloud providers giving access to US security services to UK/EU based customer data? Can you say MS/AWS/GCP won't let them? At least on prem I can tell any intelligence service to go fuck itself

Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data

Re: What do we get for our money

We'll pay them a fuckload and Peter Theil & his billionaire cronies will get access to all the data.

Better to spend the money and engage EU or UK firms. There's plenty of cloud providers & talent in Europe without needing to give the religious billionaire not Theil & his CIA Palantir investors money and access to our data..

We should be divesting from as much US tech as possible

VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software

I'm loving this!!

Worldwide corporates are being slapped like they've treated their customers for years and suddenly they're crying like little children!!!

It's a BEAUTIFUL sight to see the likes of Siemans and AT&T getting slapped

2 in 5 techies quit over inflexible workplace policies

Re: curious to see how they arrange it so that WFH boosts "a sense of community"

The organisation wouldn't be paying you if it wasn't main more money from you than it's paying. They're not doing us favours by giving us jobs and then working us into hospital...

The extra productivity gained from a relaxed employee at home whose not had to commute and CAN relax for a while rather than putting up with

"I know you're on lunch but...." Or

"I know you're busy but can you quickly just do this?"More than pays for time with the pets

Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'

It's why the only Google product I use is my nest thermostat, which I bought before they were bought by Google. I was looking at Wiz as a potential firm to investigate for clients in the future but they're being bought by Google it seems so that's a no go.

Everything Google touches turns to shit

Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'

AGAIN!!!

Fixed it...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-accidentally-nukes-customer-account-causes-two-weeks-of-downtime/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/20/google_cloud_network_outage/

Etc etc etc..

Anyone who put their data on Google is a moron

Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport

Re: Questions will doubtless be asked

This will be the phrase - minimum viable product that gets thrown around.

I BET you this is somewhere on a Risk Register as an acceptable risk, signed off by someone whose now left. Because you know.....there will never be a power outage this big around Heathrow as the electrical suppliers will obviously have prioritised customer service over immediate profits and "shareholder value"

Thats the problem with this Ponzi scheme of a country and the bullshit that firms like McKenzie, Accenture, Boston Consulting "advise you" about...it's FINE if you're ONE factory implementing this bullshit and the blast radius is small....but the genuine fuckwits who work in these firms, PLUS the 3 month thinking ahead of virtually every CEO go off and implement it everywhere so even something small breaking suddenly affects 100,000s of people...

But those people are just the "little people", who cares if their plans are fucked & their costs are massive or they miss life events because ONE CEO wanted a new house & couldn't be arsed to have a resilient power infrastructure.

Thats why I found VMWare putting up costs by 1000% on AT&T so funny...finally a corporate understood how us customers feel & of course they went crying like little children to the courts when "market forces" hit THEM!

Of course, there will be the "lesson learnt" meetings. More consultancy time spent to advise on how to avoid this in the future & plans drawn up so that it "never happens again". Until the next time Heathrow or BA or some other "unforeseen circumstance" happens and peoples lives are suddenly fucked again with minimum compensation. And of course as per ITIL, the risk register will have been updated with new "acceptable risks".

Genuinely fuck the lot of them

#freeluigi

AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites

Silicon valley destroying everything

These cultish lunatics think everything belongs to them and that they are the smartest people on the planet while at the same time destroying everyone else's work or stealing it

These morons think they're saving humanity & anyone who is anti AI is an enemy of humanity. Rich morons with too much time on their hands except to argue about the singularity & prepare for the AI God, while the rest of us have to put up with their shite!

IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M

Re: Tells you all you need to know...

you can seem £70k as a yoga teacher in london. £50k as a bus or train driver and at least £50k as the manager of a fadt food store

WHY bother doing a STEM degree? why bother going for a career in IT when you know you'll get 10 years max out of it before your job is offshored?

i honestly couldnt stand there and advise any kid to go to university or get a job in tech. do a plumbing course or electrician.

IT guys used to drive ferarris . now? nothing!

that's why i wear a Luigi hat around town!

Re: Obscene!

Yep! In the 70s your average CEO got 40X the average employee and now it's 400X.

Are they adding more value? Employee wages collapsing & being offshored & yet these morons whine like little kids "no one wants to work anymore " &"no one wants to put the effort in " along with the "no one has any loyalty " and "why isn't anyone doing free overtime anymore?"

employees have driven the 1000% odd improvements to productivity while we see service levels collapse, quality disappear.

i mean what differentiates IBM from the other million odd service companies out there who are all shit, actually slow down delivery & just sit there as a middle layer of shite that offshores all the jobs & shovels money upwards to C suite largesse lije this?

oh yes this is IBM, that life insured its staff without telling them & tgen were caught out complaining that not enough of their staff were dying & thry weren't making enough money from the insurance policies that year!!

AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing

Re: What's the next boondoggle?

I believe in fusion, imagine how far we'd be if the money burnt on openai was spent on that..France is at 22 minutes of power.

Listen to Ed Zitrons podcast on this stuff..the numbers are insane. You could literally fix worldwide poverty with the money openai is looking to burn over the next couple of years

What's the next boondoggle?

Why does anyone listen to firms like gartner? How much money has been wasted by firms on AI that they'll never use or break even on.

Gartners bloody hype cycle is the biggest joke..I was actually at a tech event the other week & they were talking about how AI is at the top of the hype cycle and then next sentence is how great AI is...

Utter madness! The isn't a killer app. Copilot is worse than useless. Videos on AI search trying to convince you that a 20 minute conversation with AI is somehow better than a single line search

And now on git there's an app called sidekick for mac which seems to be towards a locally run AI tool for free. So even that application isn't going to pay that $trillion odd they want to spend on nvidia hardware.

Bets on what the next gartner hype doodad will be?

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

Linkedin influencers deleting like crazy

As ever the tech press and normal press are so desperate for news they'll just pump out any old shite that the PR teams puke out to get a "story"

Watch the number of "THIS IS AWESOME!!!" Posts on linkedin being deleted.

Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

Re: Control freaks

The REALLY fucking stupid part of this of that as government for some stupid reason insists on using the cloud, as they put backdoors in these applications and storage ; their own data becomes essier to compromise.

The fuckwittery is stunning!

The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t

Literally lives

The problem is that as Jamal Khashoggi showed there are lives on the line. The CIA are going crazy because musk seems to have doxxxed a bunch of spies.

We know the police can essentially get into any phone they want, Pegasus showed that. However this kind of fuckwittery screams home office civil servant type.

Microsoft had Russia and China bouncing around azure for 6 months before they found out. The US telecoms industry had China in there for YEARS. The are plenty of anti Xi activists and anti Pootin in the UK.

What this stupidity has done is put the lives of journalists & anti prick activists in danger.

As I've posted on linkedin a couple of times over the last few days under my real name because I have zero filter is that the ONLY way this makes sense is if there's is someone in the home office on the take from Winnie the Pooh

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

And this ladies & gentlemen is why I took myself off the organ donors list & have stopped donating blood...in case it ends up going to a corporate shill like this