Posts by Bebu sa Ware

As memory prices squeeze enterprise buyers, Lenovo laughs all the way to the bank

"PC buyers may be wincing at memory price hikes"

Do Americans "wince" ?

The last few years would suggest that if they ever could, that capabilitly has been lost, rendering the entire population if not winceless then winless.

Microsoft lets users exile floating Copilot button after interface rage

Free UI Design Advice to MS

• 1. Place a Crappilot icon — the Musk poop emoji would be favourite — next to Trash.
• 2. Allow users to move the icon to Trash to disable & remove all AI from system.
• 3. Emptying Trash makes #2 irreversible and permanent.

The Windows UI has never been a thing of beauty but each successive iteration is increasingly like a dog's breakfast or Bedlam's shit covered walls.

I pity the poor sods that must use Windows and am grateful that I have never been subjected to that torture.

Workday wants AI to punch in instead of having to hire new recruits

"relies on organizations hiring people to create demand for its HR software"

Strange times… strange examples.

Probably baby steps to rebranding and market retargetting. Dorkway for your Headcount Reduction (HR) software.

"Need to reduce your hires ? Do it the Dorkway."

The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors

Incredible

I quickly perused the list of systems — unbelievable !

Even Pick System is on the list — I have no idea whether it was a an OS or some application — *many years* ago I worked for a few months on a site that was mostly SunOS and Netware but had one Pick box which literally no one knew anything about except it had something to do with the the rather large payroll — and was religiously (in the sense of blithe ignorance and blind faith) daily to tape.

Pretty large list of Unix systems - Pyramid OSx was missing but I imagine along with the hardware it has faded into the mists of mythology.

Multitasking MSDOS 4.0 which I only ever saw once running on a Taiwanese PC clone around the time of MSDOS 3.2 (1988?) is on the museum's list.

Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio

This is a parody, isn't it? ISN'T IT?!

Meta and Zuckerberg ? Or the whole nation ?

Don't suppose it matters… either way its a deadly serious parody. In fact lethal.

"Land of the Weird"

'Weird' works both ways as in 'outlandish' and the older 'destiny' (Wyrd) — Land of the manifestly outlandish destiny. I guess Whacko isn't just a place in Texas but a national ethos.

Apparently contagious, so best avoided in thought, word and act. If Musk wasn't already away with the pixies his residence in the LotW ensured he earnt a seat at the right hand of Oberon.

Did everyone catch the report of his rant on Xitter about the casting of Helen (doubling Helen's sister Clytemnestra) in Nolan's The Odyssey? Is he worried his missus might take a hint from Clytemnestra? Wouldn't blame her.

Meta employees are smarter than Meta contractors…

Probably means smart contractors avoid Meta like the plague.

As a corollary smart employees have likely always avoided Meta.

"how smart people use computers to accomplish tasks." Mostly by thinking,… and more thinking — the computer's part is usually not much more than an afterthought.

Thinking isn't a process people generally willingly engage in even in the rare cases of their possessing that capability so there is less than no possibily that any version of AI with which the most demented have managed to delude themselves, ever being capable of "thought."

Be honest ! There is not one mover·and·shaker in the whole AI tomfoolery that isn't patently doolally. Suckerbaby ain't no exception.

Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation

"the last words"

Hardly imagine it would be any more revelatory than "Oh fuck !"

Curiously enough I don't think "Oh no not again" would be high on the list of last words.

Still for the living, preserving the privacy of their tragedy ought to be respected.

Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right

"Demand to the left of me, protests to the right"

Wouldn't that be the other way around ?

Channelling Tennyson ?

"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them," …

"Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die."

Almost contemporary in its insanity.

Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings

Megalodon chums the waters ?

Unless I am a bit denser today than usual but given the big M is an extremely large but fortunately exinct bitey shark critter, wouldn't that be CHURNS rather than the palling up CHUMS ?

A Russian speaker and jailbroken Gemini went on a hacking spree and emptied at least one MAGA victim's crypto wallets

Re: The campaign targeted the QAnon and MAGA communities

Not as though they are real people. Sold their souls — given away in some cases — years ago; you can see it in — or is not see it? — in their vacant eyes… and in their mindless hatred of… well, pretty much everything really.

Compounding the felony of no soul with no brain… A “low-skilled” [Russian speaking] scumbag conned these specimens of America's finest out of their hard-earned. Tell me 't'ain't so.

Burnham backlash: UK Digital ID plans in peril if Manchester mayor succeeds Starmer

Re: Where's the Popcorn?

All the skulduggery and shenanigans of "House of Cards" (UK) with the incompetence and farce of "Yes [Prime]Minister."

Only funny if you don't have to live in the UK a complete embuggerance otherwise.

Re: Burnham would come to dunce inane

Love it !

The best I could come up with to a previous article was: Burnham would to Westminster come.

Nevertheless I imagine there is going to be blood on the field as there was when another "King of the North" made it as far south as Shrewsbury.

Techie claims Trump Mobile website was leaking thousands of people's data

11 stripes

I wonder which two of the original thirteen New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia the Eejit intends to eject.

Interestingly they added two stripes for Kentucky and Vermont and then went back to 13 in 1818. Prescient—50 stripes would be a "curious" sight to say the least… the cat's pajamas^† is the phrase that comes to mind.

_{† pyjamas in the King's English but the phrase is a US coinage. The word pajama is from Persian and Urdu.}

Trump Mobile Customers…

High value targets then? /s

Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice

"The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" — (for real)

According to Wikisource Carlo M. Cipolla (1922-2000) placed his text into the public domain in 1976 and confirmed in 1992.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/

I really hope Trump is not reading this - he'd likely go for it [Aquitaine] at the moment...

If he were to try and grab Eleanor's pussy it would be the second last thing he ever does - the last would be chomping on his own testicles.

The Duchess was a formidable bint by any standard.

Re: AI = American Idiots?

"Never travel faster than your guardian can fly"

Unless there is an ICC warrant pursuing you.

Re: AI = American Idiots?

means five out of ten believe in God and therefore angels — a God without angels is plausible and not unprecedented.

two out of ten do not believe in God but do believe in angels. — a cosmography with angels but lacking a God or Creator is a little doolally but I suspect also not unprecedented (at least in the US.)

Dispensing with (or a least ignoring) both would seem the more rational course but Hell this is America which hasn't exactly been at home to Mr Sanity for some considerable time.

Angels

"actual angels walk among us. Alan Davies adeptly skewered with ` Why would they walk?'"

I suppose some of those chaps involved in… an industrial or demarcation dispute let us say… at the very beginning, might not have much choice as there is plenty of evidence that their wings weren't very functional in the immediate aftermath.

I cannot imagine the harp playing lot walking about the streets of the US as they would be constantly mugged by the defrocked lot or the citizenry.

AI - America Implodes after reaching a critical dark mass of vacuity that consumes even the very vacuum itself.

where would all the dead pocket calculators go?

The underworld of the back of desk drawers would be favourite but that might just be an electronic limbo or purgatory awaiting the advent of the Silicon Saviour.

One thing is certain though—if you drop them in the cardboard e·waste recycling boxes found outside office supply shops, the calculators will end up in the inferno that will separate their base metals from the noble.

Re: Misinterpreting scripture

"This is quite easy to do if you don’t understand or ignore the historical and social context in which the scripture was written."

Sort of vindicates the pre·reformation church's attempts to keep the texts in Latin and discouraging vernacular translations.

Before Gutenberg and movable type, vernacular manuscript scriptures weren't going to be much of a problem. Even the Gutenberg Bible was the Latin Vulgate so even of the few of the polloi that could read fewer could read Latin but the printed Mentel (German) Bible was published about a decade later.

So a hop·skip·and·jump to our MAGA·sque credo (but Asimov's words) "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

And of course the "I did my own research." Really? You must be the epitomy of the totality of knowledge that can be expressed in words of three or less letters.

So you've never heard of teledildonics, then?

Pray tell me of this strange teledildonics of which you speak.

_{In future you will need to examine your child's new [Epstein?] doll for novel remote technology. Hell is Ken supposed to one of those? That big?}

Re: Christians

My working definition is that the christians were ones who stopped to listen when a passing itinerant said "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her"^† the rest continued pitching great lumps of rock at the poor woman.

The latter group probably evolved into the oxymoron, US Christian given as a group they persist in raining harm and missiles on the heads of the poor, the afflicted, the victims and the innocent generally.

Americans will believe just about any shit if it suits their purpose — no matter how ridiculous, rapacious or malignant the purpose or the belief.

I don't imagine any rational person would be surprised that half of these people enthusiastically worship at the altar of the demons Malanthropos and Genai. Really just the electronic evolution of Faust's tempter Mephistopheles although it is curious that one of the drivers of the enthusiasm the billionaire tech bros have shown for AI is the (delusion of) personal immortality that they believe AI potentially offers — very old school temptation that.

Remember: the Devil will never contradict you; Satan need do nothing; you unaided damn yourself.

_{† John 8:7 KJV}

Re: Christians

In the past, I've had success with prayers to Kali, sometimes augmented by garrotting a project manager.

You thug ! ;)

Those spared latest Meta job cuts forcibly reassigned to AI roles

Another turn around the corporate mulberry bush…

Flattening the hierarchy now… followed by the 360° nonsense?

Having the now leaderless rabble suddenly rush off in the opposite direction is likely to result in the coporate head firmly wedged up the the corporate bum.

Ah well, I suppose it's not called faecesbook without reason.

Microsoft says cu l8r to text message security

Re: My telco still supports pulse dialing, the DTMF option…

Where's this ? Ulan Bator (aka Ulaanbaatar, apparently) ?

I would have said "take care, there is Ebola about" but in most of those parts they went straight from pretty much nothing to cellular networks.

"Sometimes a telephone has no need to be anything but a telephone." — Pretty much all the time. SMS is the only thing GSM added that is useful as it removes the need to faff around with voice mail which is just a very poor reimplementation of an answering machine.

Once digital cameras were added to cell phones civilisation was doomed. Doomed… we're all doomed.^†

_{† Something different for a change. "Oh the pain, the pain."}

Re: BS

"Been in place in Oz for years. Either show ID or a personally addressed card posted out by the electoral office"

To clarify: providing ID is not required. Producing something printed with your name and address just expedites things at busy polling places.

I have only produced the AEC card once or twice in 50 years of elections.

Probably worth mentioning in this context that voting^† in all elections (and referenda) is obligatory — there are fines otherwise. Voter suppression isn't likely to fly under these conditions.

_{† Ok you really only have to turn up, have your name crossed off the roll and take the voting papers. What you do with those papers is your business.}

_{Icon? Well it would be wouldn't it?}

AI code accelerates production failures and spending, study finds

an agentic vulnerability remediation biz

An orthopedic practice for corporate footshots ?

Where there be muck, there be brass. Hap there be muck aplenty.

Re: stop laughing at the back

– Sorry sir. These "detailed specification" — they are written in ink composed from unicorn piss and rocking horse shit, aren't they sir ?

– Do shut up Greenbottle but as chance would have it you are not far wrong.

Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI

Evolution ?

Do no evil, now going full Oracle.

Think tank to UK government: You can't build the future on systems from the past

"the government seemingly fixated on headline-grabbing announcements"

A few of those legacy systems going belly·up might provide some "headline-grabbing announcements."

"ambitions for digital services and efficiency depend on 'modern, interoperable systems'."—Bit of a circular dependency there I suspect.

Governments pretty much everywhere are having Palantir wetties over the mirage of complete knowledge and control over… well everything. The "One Ring to rule them all" delusion. One overarching entity seamlessly integrating human and computer systems will usher in the new millennium for the masses (but will in reality "in the darkness bind them.")

SpaceX pitches itself as integrated interplanetary proto-monopolist in IPO filing

the Great Man's head in a jar

Which "Great Man" ? We seem to have veritable plague of "Great Men" or so they would have us believe—certainly we are plagued by self proclaimed greatness.

I am very much in favour of placing the heads of the whole boiling in Mason jars and plugging them into some solipsist AI hallucination inside which they might spend eternity ranting and raving.

“focus on extreme vertical integration”

For a rocket shop you would hope that would be the case.

Your basic rocket trip pretty much depends on its being vertically integrated until planned, staged disassembly—unexpectedly finding you are not vertically integrated is usually just before rapid unplanned disassembly.

"We have the benefit of being founded and led by Elon Musk, one of the great visionaries of our generation"

Fortunately not my generation. I would prefer the arguably equally dodgy Tim Leary ("brave neuronaut") to this arrogant, ketamine intoxicated Space Karen.

"concentrates voting control with Mr. Musk… This will limit or preclude your ability to influence corporate matters and the election of our directors.”

Not too different from buying a lottery ticket except wilth a lottery ticket you might win the big one (el Gordo)—with the SpaceX IPO your pension fund will likely piss your hard earned up the porcelain.

'Workforce rebalancing' comes for Kyndryl, and delivery teams are in the firing line

"the evolving ways our customers consume IBM's innovation"

Sounds very much like eating yesterday's porridge—cold. About as tempting I should think.

Re: Fun fact: "Kyndryl" is a conjunction of "kinship" and "tendril"

I would have imagined "kudzu" and "tendril"

Plex appeal fades as Lifetime Pass jumps to $750

how long is "lifetime" It's rarely your lifetime

Argument for Boomer Discounts ? :).

Based on observation "lifetime" is roughly 10 years ± a few years—certainly never the "three score and ten."

A lot of tech and associated software evolved so quickly that five years sends both to the knackery.

Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy

"tokenmaxxing"

Whenever I see the word "token" in this context I think of the small plastic tokens about the size of a sixpence that you used to put out with your empty milk bottles in order to pay for the next day's milk delivery. The tokens were neccessary to prevent the toe·rags half inching your (actual) coin.

"over the past 12 months … 375 customers have consumed more than 1 trillion tokens each" — Boggles the mind. That is a shitload of plastic these hyperactive token eating pacmen will to have to … well … shit. TPU — Turd Pushing Unit ?

I suppose most of the polloi today would find incredible the idea that milk came in a reused glass bottle and without today's preponderance of choices—"take it or leave it" was a very common option in those simpler days—or have the slightest clue as to the size of 6d coin (presumably ~5p in the UK.)

I just remembered there was a different (coloured) token for cream.

On the whole I am fairly convinced that today "leave it" is now the better option for pretty much everything.

I assume Pichai doubled the X in "tokenmaxxing" so Alphabet could trademark it. Given it is these tossers more likely a stroken·maxxing orgy ?

1 in 5 Brits think AI layoffs could trigger civil unrest

"could trigger civil unrest"

Seems to me that there is already a fair amount of "civil unrest" on offer. The ostensible reasons for that unrest aren't obviously AI related but the mindless deployment of AI technologies, the consequences for employment and the wider economy has raised the temperature of broader social discontent.

If the pace of AI induced dislocation is maintained, or speeds up then the next twelve months in the UK might well see another Winter of Discontent exceeding that of 1978–9.

Anthropic’s Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling

Selling the sizzle but buying the sausage ?

I wonder whether these AI hay burners are using a Theranos model and have been flogging the sizzle of AI to attract "investors" and customer (arguably equally gulliblie) while buying up existing sausage which might already be seasoned with AI (or not.)

Of course existing sausage customers will find their bags·of·mystery have become more expensive and more mysterious—being now composed less of free range pork and more of highway shambles; carrionwurst and roadkill kranski.

I suppose the Elizabeth Holmes suite in Hilton Federales will be vacant in a few years but I understand the management can always accommodate deserving cases.

Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage

Google took out Unisuper infrastructure in 2024

I guess Railway will be hitting the tracks out of that town too.

_{Admittedly Unisuper still use Google cloud but not now irredundantly. "Baldrick, we are not at home to Mr Cock·up and Gen. AI."}

Frustrated franchisee sues Pizza Hut over crappy kitchen AI

"another nail in Pizza Hut’s coffin"

In AU I thought they had already done a Norwegian Blue impression but I see their claws are still nailed to the perch.

This Chaac business seems to have taken the "Hut" out of the above subject; more a Domino's^† take·away and delivery business but here at least Domino's employs its own drivers so the Chaac model depending as it does on Doordash, is more in the dark kitchen line.

How hard could it be to fuck up a simple (in)comestible like pizza if all you do is take the orders, make the pizzas and hand them to a delivery service—extremely difficult ? No. Apparently a compete doddle if your pizza base is liberally coated in AI sauce.

In this town there are enough stand·alone pizza and Italian restaurants to facilitate avoiding these US chain pizza horrors—I actually prefer pides which are invariably available from our Turkish, Lebanese restaurants and kebab/yiros takeaways.

I am with Elizabeth David—who suffered the misfortune of living to see the first pizza joints in the UK—in believing that proliferation of gratuitous ingredients in this originally very simple dish was an anathema. The Ligurian recipe she collected in 1952, while including tomato, olives and anchovies, didn't use cheese.

_{† Bloody confusing when the nominative is the genitive form. Domino's's pizzas ?}

Shadow AI invades the workplace, up 4x in the last year

Good isn't it ?

Who would have imagined the blue eyed infans mirabilis that the C-suite, and their immediate minions, so eagerly clasped to their corporate bosom was in reality a diabolical serpent that has well and truly sunk its fangs into those same corporate tits ? Who ? Just about anyone with any sense.

Grafana Labs admits all its codebase are belong to someone who popped its GitHub account

Re: I wonder how that happened?

"Unicode is a security nightmare, due to human politics and human policies and procedures around adding glyphs/code points to the Unicode standard."

I would wonder whether adding a facility to the UI to highlight characters not in a specified character set eg ASCII might help eg 0penÇlaw although flashing red could be favourite.

I can imagine many closed source software providers might pay a "retainer" to a felonious party just to avoid the embarrassment of their not·so·high quality code base being exposed to a critical audience.

Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative

Re: Hardened mobile OS

"Obama did in fact get to use a Blackberry, but not until a bunch of NSA staff spent several months heavily modifying it for security"

The idea that the NSA had to spend months secretly^† removing their own backdoors from Obama's Blackberry is rather amusing.

_{† I understand Canada was a Five·Eyes partner at time or so the Canadians would liked to have believed. /s}

Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller

"root through dumpsters to find an old one [vape]. "

Around these parts fairly common street litter, unfortunately.

If this curse cannot be banned outright, at least some type of deposit·return system like the arrangements for softdrink aluminium can and glass bottle returns, might help keep this noxious garbage off the streets.

MAGA's Mace wants to make power bills great again, calls for datacenter moratorium

"Trump in high heels’ "

Definitely a picture that leave a persistent and extremely unpleasant after·image.

"She [Mace] and Trump have had an on-again/off-again relationship" — Best understood in context if you wished to retain your lunch.

I must admit that I am surprised that the polloi just about everywhere have cottoned on unusually quickly that these proposed AI bit barns are going to screw them royally in the energy price department.

The marginally deeper thinkers appear to have grasped the inescapable conclusion that the only feasible way the enormous quantities of extra energy required might be supplied in the foreseeable future^† is through a massive increase in fossil fuel use.

_{† Say ≤ 8 years.}

The class of 2026 has heard enough about AI, thanks

First Green Shoots of Common Sense ?

"The question is whether you will have shaped artificial intelligence"

No it isn't ! But if it were, the answer would be coffin shaped.

The actual question is more "have you got the stamina, fortitude, intelligence and sheer grit to remediated the foul cesspit of a world that shysters like yours truly are bequeathing your generation ? "

Windows Firewall stands between you and greasy delight

"greasy nirvana" ?

Bliss ? Oleaginous nepenthe would be more my hope after the misadventure of ingesting of one of these notorious incomestibles.

Windows boot partition runs out of space for Microsoft's May security update

"Windows is more akin to a supertanker"

An veritable Exxon Valdez I suppose.

"The more things change, the more they stay the same." — Vigorously stirring a maximally disordered system could hardly make it more chaotic.