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New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

Re: I will fly on one

by people paid for by boeing & using technology that is decades out of date

Re: 777

one of my big problems with developers is that - for example on the 737MAX - they seemed to think it was ok for THEM to over-ride the pilots - the ACTUAL experts, you see this across the board in all software, which is why I don't trust self driving cars. Additionally, they should have refused to write anything that worked with a single sensor, baking in the requirement for 2 independent sensors into the code so Boeing didn't have the choice to offer it as a cost cutting option.

It stings that devs call themselves engineers when they do things like this, when a legally registered engineer would never do anything similar as they would be legally liable for it.

The 777 apparently has triple redundant electronics, but a single arc can take out all 3 circuits and the engine electronics are labelled CRITICAL, but then they plug into the central bus which is apparently labelled MEDIUM.

The 777 is well known for it's battery fire issues and the NASA register which allows pilots to report cases that weren't emergencies but could have been if they hadn't fixed them on the fly (no pun) is full of 777 anonymous reports. I haven't got it to hand but the podcast listed a pair of airlines, Sprint was one & I think the other one was Canadian, one runs mostly Boeing, the other Airbus and the difference in numbers of anonymous reports of , I think they are called Pre Cursor Events - is shocking.

I genuinely would refuse to board a Boeing if one popped up at the gate as a replacement.

Your Boeing to die

Still won't fly on one.

The flight deck is old

There is no safety culture

whistleblowers are still coming out

the "safe" 777 - they are still trying to blame the pilot, when in fact journalists researching the crash have had whistleblowers from the AIB and Boeing looking into it, the 777 has it's entertainment and air con on the same bus as the engine control systems.

On one podcast a retired air safety bod said that he was able to, without even trying, track 5 777's starting to taxi to the runway and then have to return to the terminal for repairs in the few hours he was looking. "Warning Bells Podcast" - available wherever you get your podcasts.

If it's Boeing I ain't going.

Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much

is there anything this shitty country wont sell off for a quick buck!!

India, China, Brazil, the EU working HARD to create domestic expertise in as many fields as possible. Its only the UK that seems to want to send everything away and train people from other countries to take work away from here and THEN WHINE that the kids won't fight to protectv the country!!

Any chinese spies reading - i'm looking for a job!

I literally have zero intention of ever being SC cleared again, the gov doesn't deserve the skill set. Give me a bank or hedge fund now & come another pandemic, I sure as hell won't be running round "for patriotic reasons" doing free work to set anything up!

Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle

Re: Courts should enforce all physical media rights for digital

i'm really tired of vendors like microsoft and sony et al going on about "it's digital, you don't own it & it can disappear whenever we want it to"

Zune - how many people lost £1000s on their libraries

Sony - we all know that

Apple - if you've got a big enough library you might not even notice a movie or song disappearing until you want to watch/listen to it

etc etc

Movies are £20 odd now digitally- for something that could literally disappear the next day.

I'm not holding my breath but if it does go to Supreme court, I hope MS fuck it for EVERY digital vendor & it not only rules on this but expands its remit for every digital product.

I'm tired of having to fight for what should be basic consumer rights.

Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze

just how the fuck?!!!

this fucking country!! if you're rich rich you can literally lie and kill people & still keep milking the cow.

when sky was whinging that only 6% of the youf would fight off this country was invaded, I was amazed it was that high!! I'd help any invading army unload their fucking boats & Ive said this on linkedin with my real name.

I'm 50 & seem jobs offshored, wages decimated, taxes for the wealthy cut & with schemes like the COVID VIP lane, the rich get away with literal murder! How any invading country would make britain any more corrupt, any more expensive or any more shit to live in as a pleb is beyond my to imagine!

I was speaking to a dude yesterday whose neice was in IT before the offshoring started. Retired in her 40s! now? if we can get s job that doesn't involve stacking shelves, even the most senior IT ppl will be working until we die!

fuck fushitsu & crapita & ALL the civil servant boot lickers who let these firms continue to operate

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

nothing that can't be fixed. how many officers are out there just because someone has said "this will take a decade!", "this is too hard" & a decade later they are still whinging "this will take a decade to do"

How do you solve a problem like Capita?

Re: Pay the market rate

technical wages in the civil service are a joke, even WITH the 28% pension! I need to pay rent NOW, not in 20 years time.

I've seen technical architects positions paying £45k which is less than the 3rd line Wintel position I had in 2006! PLUS trying to get through the joke of Civil Service hiring is a nightmare - so bad that I'm genuinely not going to apply for those jobs anymore.

we are seeing this happening; the NHS has its own internal recruiters now and internal agencies and internal "outsourcing firm"

Re: That would be good

it's not IR35 that's the problem per se.. the idea was a good one. you can't have "contractors" who leave a perm job on the friday & come back on the monday as a "contractor" and sit at the same desk for the next 20 years.

Whst happened was that suddenly the big 4 consultancies had a big stick to beat smaller better firms who were showing them up...a few stipid civil servants & politicians (stupidity & corruption going hand in hand) so cocaine boy makes public sector liable for ir35 screw ups & lazy fat civil servants decide to just palm it out to the big outsourcers who can afford to keep large numbers of staff benched between projects that shape better firms can't do & relied heavily on contract staff to ramp up and down.

Then you have Sunak supported by lazy greedy civil servants who extended the shit show that happened to public sector to the private sector & oh look!!!!!! suddenly infosys wipro tcs hcl etc are getting government contracts & sunaks share holdings are going up as are the share holdings of his father in law & his father in laws best mates.

Corruption all round

offshoring jokes

MAYBE if the government hadn't been using PWC, accenture etc & outsourced in the firstv place and didn't facilitate the offshoring of jobs by outsourcing firms; there would be plenty of technical staff available!!

As it is, self important Sir Humphrey types wangled themselves directorships and consultancy positions with the big outsourcing firms who "advised" them to outsource everything to shockingly-Them!

The government doesn't NEED to hire buckets of technical bods; it just needs the internal management capability to manage the projects and hire contractors directly to provide project work or hire BRITISH based SMEs of the type that a govt department would be their main customer & who would provide excellent customer service because they know they'll get canned for another british SME.

As itc stands the system is a circle jerk of fuckery...I worked as a contractor for a dept that had initially been an internal IT department - got outsourced to Crap Gemini, everyone being tuped over - then to another firm- then another firm - then a tower model - then back to a single supplier.

At each stage your experienced staff are demotivated more and more; there is no upward movement; no pay rises; outsourcing firms not interested in anything but offshoring what they can & making life shit for the experienced staff so they leave or retire.

Anyone who's worked for an outsourcing firm knows the only contact you have with it is via the service delivery manager whose only remit is to ensure you don't get training, don't get a pay rise & don't get too uppity. so of course you have massively overworked and under motivated staff.

I personally refuse to train offshore staff & regardless of what the idiot project managers or sdm have promised - no weekend work without double time. And DEFINITELY no providing support to senior management who don't want to deal with an indian service desk.... even if they HAVE seen me fixing a receptionists laptop even though i'm an architect.

Capita hears demand for pension scheme cleanup 'loud and clear' – but won't say yes

So? they weren't any complaints then.... WHY DIDN'T craptia do their due diligence? they saw £££££££ BID & fucked yup the project.

they probably fired a load of experienced staff, lost the inherent knowledge & sent all the work offshore

Re: Two options for Crapita

don't know why the down votes! I totally agree! civil debates don't give a shit when the disabled are fucked over or us plebs, even though the entire IT industry knew that Fujitsu had fucked the Horizon project, civil servants were still giving them contracts!

they're all too lazy to deal with british SMEs or hire contractors directly to run projects - they outsource to large firms like this that offshore the jobs or get unlimited visas to decimate It wages in this country.

ZERO sympathy for them on this.

Re: Two options for Crapita

WHY do civil servants allow these firms to continually bid for and win contractsto?! Capita have been fucking up for decades, Fushitsu is still allowed to bid! Accenture, TCS wipro, ATOS, Crap Gemini they ALL continually fuck up; they ALL ship jobs off to india or ship in cheap labour on dodgy visas and yet civil servants bend the knee and carry on pumping money in their direction!!!

I'm GLAD this has happened to civil service pensions as finally THEY feel the service the rest of us get!

WHY aren't ANY of these firms banned from the country?! And don't use thatv pathetic "is the law" excuse - it isn't! is laziness and brown envelopes and promises of directorships!

NONE of these firms should exist any more! NONE of them should be getting tax payer money and the politicians and civil servants that facilitated the destruction of the UK small business sector in IT in cahoots with the big outsourcers should be in jail!

Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU

the LAST people Id trust

to backup my stuff is MS

Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses spat

just wait

MS will figure out some way to expire certs to make it harder to resell licenses.

We're going to see more crap like this. Instead of spunking $100s of billions on AI crap, maybe they should have tried actually inventing something for the first time in their existence or fix their shitty insecure software or not trashed xbox.

instead watch products get even worse & costs go through the roof to pay for their capex

Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway

on prem is the only way

cloud was always for people with more money than sense.

do everything on prem & all these issues disappear.

no sympathy for anyone who uses gcp

AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing

consultancies!!! only idiots hire them

how the hell can these idiots stand up in public and still pretend to be "experts" in anything?

only a a of months ago we have "you won't become partner without using AI" followed by "STOP! STOP! IS BANKRUPTING US!!"

You have these fools putting out reports without checking, although KPMG have been grifting twats even before AI.

Mckinsey "Oh leave haiti to us! It'll be fine"

Gartner "Metaverse is the future!!"

also gartner in my case - "we kmow your on prem design is 66% cheaper than the azure estimate & that yr organisation has no money, but we still think you should go into the cloud!"

etc etc etc etc

Anonymous researcher drops 0-day 'exploitarium' repo

where there is devops & agile

there is shit flakey code

it disgusts me that developers call themselves engineers & people who type shite into a chatbot try to convince us they're "prompt engineers"

sorry but these ppl should be legally liable for putting this shite out, CVEs should not exist & the idea of the public doing QA for multi billion $ firms who fired their own qA departments is laughable.

A far as i'm concerned this dude & especially nightmare eclipse are doing gods work. Force these fuckrs to fix their product.

The fact that we've got to s position where developers don't test flight software the cab over ride the pilot, that we have multiple firewall vendors whose software is so badly written you can admin in from the internet and we're STILL getting developers leaving dev apios m no passwords acs access to internal production corporate networks and somehow see this as normal and "ITOps and securityz problem" is fucking crazy!

Developers should have zero access to production , in fact they should be forced to code using pen and paoer until they can prove they understand that putting passwords security keys into their code is bad.

We need to get back to the times when us syssdmins would slap down any dev who asked for more CPU ir RAM until they proved the code was right.

It ll started when someone started calling them rockstars- at that point security spend and exploits went through the roof... worse than toddlers! how the hell can an entire department of supposed adults need more guardrails and bubble wrap that a jumble gym full of 2 year olds?!

UK firm bombarded debt-ridden people with 5.5M texts

completely pointless watchdog

shock! £300k? As ever the plebs count for nothing & the govt watchdog can pretend it's doing something.

This guy needs to not only be jailed but EVERY asset from his house to his car to his kids rattles need to be confiscated and used to compensate people. He should literally come out of jail penniless and homeless!

It AMAZES me that there are people in jail for smoking weed, yet assholes like this get away with a slap on the wrist! Same with Barrowman.."oh you're running a fraudulent tax scheme that many ppl on there don't even know they're on, but you've done some clever shenanigans so you get to keep £100 million, don't worry about the people who killed themselves & while you're at it, here's £250 million for PPE we can't use"

this bloody country!! Why are UK mobile numbers allowed to be used over the internet? I'm tired of south african firms trying to sell me telecoms solutions for a uk number!

as ever it's the same - you can be fraudulent as you like, you can cause as many people to mill themselves as you like and you can get away with a fine or a public shaming and carry on...

fucking place!

Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms

shysters the lot of them!!

doom trolling it was called on a NY Times post.

When a silicon valley tech exec is talking, there's a 110% chance they're lying.

They want "regulation" to get they can control & say their regulated but doesn't actually do anything. In California these self same "Ai is so dangerous it needs to be regulated" grifters are spending $millions lobbying to stop the phrase "if you market chatbots to children, YOU have to prove they don't cause harm".

They want fake federal regulation so they can then turn around and say "we're regulated federally so you local ppl don't need to regulate us"; as they know states like California will spank them hard!!

As ever it's all performative bullshit

European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status

there are probably 1000s of firms trying to extract from the con job that is Cloud but are locked in with insane egress costs.

IMAGINE having to pay to access YOUR data!!

I assume MS & Amazon are laying bricks if the EU removes egress fees as they'll lose a TON of customers

Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software

just don't!!

if a supplier is vibe coding, why am I paying them?!

same with business consultants using AI to write reports?

why would I PAY a 3rd party probably double or triple what an internal mender of staff would cost if they are going to AI the job? Might as well bring it in house & mainly reduce my risk profile .

these people are a genuine fucking joke

Security boss thought MFA would be too much security

i no longer drive so i can't be bullied into going to places at short notice. since I, like many it ppl tend to be ppl pleasers Ive removed my ability to go to any site without notice regardless of severity.

fuck em

Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them

i won't hold my breath

The CMA firstly understanding what it's being presented with and ACTUALLY doing something good for the consumer or british SME rather than the megalith american firm would be a first

Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones

waymos get dumber with training, they're unable to stop for those well camouflaged things called US school buses with red flashing lights. Actually getting worse with extra training.

A human can make mistakes but THAT human can be directly punished. When a waymo inevitably kills someone in london; who is going to be punished? Waymo CEO? The shareholders?

Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks

not strategic for Broadcom as a whole. firms like Trafigura are obvious as they are huge, private & supply the kind of raw materials that Broadcom uses by the bucket load.

All the 20 year olds who've spent their entire 5 minutes in the industry doing nothing but vmware vsphere bitching about it here don't seem to realise that this is what companies do. why did MS buy Activision for insane amounts of money, only to fire most of the staff & destroy the IP? Same with lots of other firms they've bought? The corporate wide strategy might look crazy to someone looking at JUST one aspect of it, but broadcom have been doing this same playbook for decades so whether we like it or not, it MUST work for them...

concentrate on the top STRATEGIC customers, give them exactly what they want rather than whining 10000s of customers wanting things different colours or constant updates. You get better software that doesn't have screaming people wanting newsl this ilor new that plus if it fits into Larger group strategy that feeds into supplying chips, cards etc, then unimportant firms like Tesco, AT&T, Siemens can whine all they like but are disposable- something firms as arrogant as Tesco aren't used to.

they've literally said they're only interested in the top 600 customers & even tesco is a minnow to broadcom. it has zero strategic value to an international hardware manufacturer like Broadcom. They're just not interested. Tesco can bitch and whine all they like

Re: is this the beginning of the end for VMWARE

you don't understand the model they are using. they have openly said they're only interested in the top 600 customers and everyone else can screw themselves.

Strategic customers like Trafigura or others that Broadcom as a total business work with, supporting their hardware business. Even Tesco are minnows & don't really provide any sort of quality strategic relationship to broadcom.

I was chatting to a dude at a bank who said that since they use the whole suite of products anyway (nsx, aria, etc etc) the price rise wasn't THAT bad. it's everyone else who was happy with vCenter & vSphere & didn't need the rest of the stuff & are now being forced into buying the entire stack that saw the insane rises

civil servants should be fired!

the competition and marketing commission should have blocked this but of course having civil servants that ACTUALLY know what they're working on would be asking too much.

VMWare has been a fundamental technology for government and private sector for years & yet the idiots at the CMC just waved it through, much like the activision purchase by MS & allowing the ARM sale.

stunningly short sighted, dumb and not surprising when you find from Private Eye that the head of the gambling commission left on April, straight into a position as a lead consultant for a new lobbying firm for the... checks notes.... gambling industry.

It would be interesting to see which corrupt asshole has got the brown envelope from broadcom.

On the plus side apparently broadcom are having issues with consultants after having grabbed well known screw ups Computacenter to do the consultancy & they are irritating every vmware consultant in the country with their insane requirements...25 years of VMWARE hands on, design, migration, build etc & apparently I don't have enough experience in virtualisation

Every employee’s password was stored in a single Excel file

Re: Insta-Logins

still better than writing the patient notes on a clipboard and hanging it off the end of the bed

UK Treasury hunts CTO on salary that may not compute for top tech talent

Civil Service Jobs applications are a joke!

Even if you found the best CTO in the country who was able and willing to take the pay cut for patriotic purposes; by the time they've spent an entire day filling out the various application requirements and click send, to be reviewed by some random group of people with zero knowledge of the actual job, it will be a complete waste of time as they'll get blown out with a "didn't meet the requirements" email.

US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive

Re: Energy Prices

yes this REALLY annoys me. The Government could 1/2 my electricity bill if they weren't beholden to the establishment and firms like BP and Shell, while being "advised" by firms like Mckinsey, Accenshite, PWC and krappyMG.

Why am I, someone on a 100% renewable tariff still paying the equivalent of international gas prices for my electricity?

If the Government changed the law to allow renewable generators to sell into the UK market at prices directly associated with what it costs them to generate the electricity (about 1/3 gas) however, that might hurt the profits of BP, Shell, the banks who have all rolled back their support for not burning the planet and killing us all; then nothing will happen.

Balcony Solar is an awesome idea, as would be some actual joined up thinking in this ponzi scheme of a country and forcing solar on all new flat builds on the roof to reduce energy costs for everyone in the flats, but also even though my patio faces West with a house in the way, hanging the panels off the garden fence may work well.

The work being done on energy generating windows looks really interesting as does solid battery technology, which would mean you don't have to put explosive tesla batteries on the side of your house.

As ever, everyone seems to be stuck in their tunnel vision and doesn't think outside the box or in that usual internet way of "I don't like this or use this so no one else must either". It's genuinely impossible to have an intelligent conversation in this country.

I don't NEED balcony solar to provide me 100% of my electricity, I just need it to provide enough to maybe cover as much as possible to cover pay for itself over the lifetime of the panels and X% on top of that to make it worth doing. That X does NOT need to be 100% of my usage, would be nice, but doesn't NEED to be. Maybe if it covers the fridge, the appliances that I use as a baseline & then the grid covers my induction hob & washing machine - that is good enough and still sees savings.

Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting'

wasn't it an australian bank that fired the call centre staff for AI & had to hire them back?

who did the research?! I can tell you that if an AI bot turns up on hiring, I'm leaving.

AI is bloody awful & I think it's probably worth mentioning to the board that the only job that can REALLY be replaced by AI is CEO

AI is making Patch Tuesday (kinda) fun again

Bloody AGILE

MAYBE -- JUST MAYBE as an industry we could move away from giving developers the free reign to release faulty products as "business as usual"

How have we got into a position where it's seen as normal to get a faulty product and then have to put in your own staff & own infrastructure to roll out fixes for those products on a monthly basis, many of which may be faulty themselves?

I mean it's a good thing we're not building bridges - "Oh it's raining? That's fine - pour the concrete anyway, we'll fix it in 10 years time when the thing falls down"

Maybe if we stopped accepting products which can cost £100,000s / year that are full of bugs, some serious enough to actually close your company when you get ransomwared, we wouldn't need to spend so much money on cybersecurity.

Utterly ridiculous and I can guarantee someone will comment "well all software has bugs' & "well one of the libraries might be buggy' or "Developers need to move fast and break things" - well we saw how that worked out for the 737MAX & the Ford Pinto..

It hurts when developers insist they are called engineers - you're not! Engineers have pride in their products & the shite we see being pumped out as "normal, it's OK we'll patch it later" it just genuine madness

Kyndryl showers execs with shares while staff ponder redundancy packages

Queue the whining from the same ivory tower execs that "no one has loyalty anymore" & that "no one is sacrificing for the company"

All of these firms are useless. It isn't that Cloud has killed them, it's that they thought that they could carry on doing the same thing they've done for 40 years and not change or bother actually making an effort to provide good customer service.

There is literally zero difference between Kyndril, DXC, ATOS, Capita, Fujitsu, infosys, wipro, tcs, Cap Gemini, et al...they're all shit. They all treat their staff like shit. They all treat the customer like shit & all try to lock the customer into contracts.

I've worked for a public sector org where the staff were Tupe'd between Cap Gemini to ATOS, to DXC back to Cap Gemini ad infinitum. Each time you lose staff as they get annoyed & take their knowledge with them, the only thing that changes is the badge on the contract who each time are trying to save more and more money and give less and less service.

Personally I can't wait for more Marks and Spencers & JLC style events, ESPECIALLY in the big banks and large Govt Departments who are all addicted to these shysters as they "transfer risk". A few more £billion+ ransoware events & who knows, maybe the C-Suite or Government Procurement Services might actualy wake up

Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records

palantir is not magic; it's basically even more evil Salesforce.

For £9 milliom I could hire a couple of DBAs, build it on a nutanix hardware platform in a EU cloud, pay a Data engineer & data scientist for the insights part. Do the networking, infras, security myself , make it far more resilient than anything else out there, set it up so that it can easily be moved between clouds or even back on premises

and STILL pay full taxes, no offshoring, I could even hire 10 graduates for the experts to train m and bish bash bosh, 18 months bang! Give everyone £100k bonus and STILL have a couple of million left over to buy myself a yacht

the sheer stupid fuckery of civil servants really annoys meme. A UK native worker hired by govt is immediately 50% cheaper as they pay taxes here right back to the government. the fact that civil servants are too dumb to understand they are NOT a business really makes me angry

Totally predictable.

You could get a US firm setup by a known white supremicist that is highly suspect with staff offshored in India, going up against a British SME with 100% British staff based here who'll spend their money here & is too small to do the tax shenanigans the Silicon Valley firms do and Government Digital Services will ALWAYS go for the Americans.

No one hates British business and British people making any money than the civil service and Government purchasing.

Other Governments have a domestic first policy yet the UK Government seems to have a solid "We're not giving out ANYTHING if the headquarters and workers are based here"

There should be ZERO US/Indian/Canadian/etc firms supplying to UK Government and it's stunning that in the price cards you actually have : Onshore, Nearshore, Offshore pricing options...There should be ONE - Onshore & that should be that. No Offshoring for any Government Department, Council, NHS organisation, Police, etc.

When the Government doesn't give 2 shits about UK jobs, is it any surprise that private corporations don't either & go to "maximise profits" by offshoring to the cheapest 3rd world country they can find?

Sweepstakes on the next news story about some millionaire or bilionaire or some MBA going on about how "unproductive UK workers are" or "no one wants to join the army" or "no one has any loyalty and won't work weekends for free anymore" -

I'm skipping Tech London this year because they are crowing about "Stands from 130 Countries!!" totally oblivious ot the fact that there should only be stands from ONE country at an event called TECH LONDON & last year I spent so much time trying to explain this concept to confused looking civil servants from the Dept of Business who couldn't understand why I would never advise any A level student to do a STEM degree anymore that I had to actually drink myself to sleep that night.

The fuckwittery is stunning!

UK tax collector hands Capgemini £600M contact center deal, delays start of £2.4B CRM contract

Re: Lessons will be learned

Is that medical consultants or business consultants?

A medical consultant could earn 5 times that in the US or Australia.

A business consultant at £150k will be director level equivalent to the private sector and if outsourced to an Accenshite or Infocrap will be charged at £2500-2700/day!

Re: Lessons will be learned

because no one hates UK Firms and UK people making money like the UK Government!

None of these firms should be anywhere NEAR Government contracts.

The UK Government can't throw tax payer money at foreign firms fast enough. It's almost like they are allergic to UK Nationals having good jobs.

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

why is anyone shocked?!

these fools have spent $700 thousand million this year on capex alone and want to spend $1000 thousand million next year. based on shit harry potter fan fiction for a product that at best can tell people how to look themselves and offer to write the suicide note for them.

what did people THINK would happen?!

"oh we're going to carry on letting you cost us $13 for every $1 we make?"

I'm not upset at the AI Grift (i am); i'm just genuinely shocked that i'm not shocked that developers (a bunch of people who are surprised when you explain DNS to them & shouldn't be allowed near anything more complicated than an etch-a-sketch) are surprised that suddenly MS, OpenAI & anthropic are fucking them over now on cost.

i've been going on about how AI is a giant grift for 2 years now. i'm genuinely interested to find out who the company that spent $500 million on a month on anthropic are because i'm going to genuinely piss myself laughing at them but also the idea that business idiots are already jumping onto the next grift "quantum" & knowing that MBA fuck nuggets will play the exact same playbook to get other MBA fuck nugget business idiots to spend $millions on something that doesn't work

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

6G

i'm genuinely interested to see where this ahit is coming from? LIDAR did everything he says yet Waymos are getting dumber the more they are trained. there was a really interesting article which i can't find about waymo, school districts & the police working together to stop the cars from ignoring school bus red lights.

with all the extra training they implemented, the cars still didn't stop for the big yellow bus with flashing red lights... surely the easiest IF THEN statement you can create..yet they didn't. $millions on training & it didn't work.

the exact quote "when we give a human a ticket, 99% of them won't repeat the error. The Waymos actually ignored the lights more"

Agents will not do anything but kill people

Civil servants to protest outside Capita AGM over pension shambles

Re: very hard to have sympathy

i'm tired of that excuse. every time. "oh sorry we HAD to put in a fraudulent vip fast lane". "oh sorry we HAVE to vilify innocent people for 20 years".

we know politicos do what they're told, and we know that senior civil servants are all fishing for directorships hence the secret meetings with water company bosses.

if the bank of england can put in excellent tendering procedures, there's no reason other departments can't. setting up tendering in a way is 100% done by civil servants who would rather rehire capita or infosys or wipro than small or medium british firms.

I was chatting to a capita guy & he said "we could literally put in 500 blank pages with a cover page & a signature page.As long as the price is the lowest we'll win"

As to loan charge, yes Govt changed the law but it was civil servants that decided to back date it 20 years. it is civil servants that are chasing people to suicide & it's civil servants that let scheme operators not only get away with lying & keeping the money but ACTIVELY BLOCKING the attempt to mark the loans as no longer loans so that those same scheme operators can come after us for "loan repayments" even after paying tax we didn't owe under the threat of losing our homes

very hard to have sympathy

Yes capita are shit & no they shouldn't have got the job BUT id civil servants that foist capitalism & other shite outsourcers on the rest of us. it's civil servants that put the rules in that make it easy for these firms to beat better SMEs for tenders.

it's civil servants that make tendering for govt contracts such s nightmare that you have to have dedicated departments to do it & it's civil servants that do things like the loancharge & hmrc making thr decision to charge taxes on the "loans" but then blocking attempts to classify them legally as not loans just out of sheer vindictiveness....

so screw em!!! welcome to the real world

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami

Re: Heard and McDonald Islands

the british will roll over any time the wealthy are threatened

4 decades of uk govt bullshit

the US has ALWAYS fucked over the UK but for some reason the Uk government has a massive inferiority complex, coupled with civil servant cowardice - they just want to THROW money at US firms!

How many UK firms are allowed to be bought off? how many £thousands of millions handed to silicon valley?!

Maybe if the orange cry baby TACO monster doesnt like US firms paying taxes in the country that gives them seemingly unlimited ££££££ then maybe he'll be happier if the UK Govt does something for the first time in its life.....prioritise UK R&D and force Government purchasing into a UK first purchasing policy

kick microsoft google accenture wipro infosys et al off the cliffs of dover & instead of enriching american & indian billionaires, start spending some of that money here

Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date

about time!!

i hate passwords and hate mfa even more.

i've got nearly 40 mfa codes on my phone. hate it

with passkeys, nothing to remember & whatever device i'm on I can use, face, finger print or worse case scenario the laptop login password.

the only problem is microsoft getting ppl to scan QR codes but apart from that fuckery they're great.

the comments on here just show once again that techies don't understand normal human beings. the autistic might be able to remember 50 long complicated passwords but the rest of us don't particularly want to.

Password mangers on the browser are inherently insecure & after having to be up until 5am changing every password because Lastpass were dumb enough to let a developer use their personal laptop with a dodgy version of Plex on it, password mangers are just a pain. As well as having to pay for one.

Passkeys are easy for normal people who have a multitude of accounts, who usually use the same password for everything & don't particularly want to learn how to use docker to run a local password manager.

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks

Re: Brown Envelopes

"- it isn't within their gift to express opinions, or criticise policy, so they have to go along with whatever the ministers want, and always support decisions already made"

I HATE this from civil servants... yeah we had to OK the dumping of toxic chemicals in the school playground because we have to do what ministers tell us... yes we have to let michelle mone con the NHS out of £259 million because ministers told us to set up a VIP lane...

If I work for a company I take FULL responsibility to tell management if they are going to do something stupid... the "i'm not allowed to say anything" doesn't work in the real world.

After being unemployed for nearly a year because the Government and it's useless civil servants refuse to protect british jobs, even high skill ones & finally have got a consultancy gig. Apparently even with a mortgage & living in london I'm only allowed £350/month; even though IR35 saw me paying £350/DAY in taxes! This 1 month consulting gig will pay in taxes almost triple what i got in an entire year of UC!

and those taxes are used to palm off to Crapita a a swathe of cowards who ALWAYS come back with ..... "well I wanted to say letting those kids die in the privately run children's home of starvation was wrong but I'm not allowed"

PATHETIC!!!!