Posts by Erythrite

'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress

Re: deja vu.

I retired from a large public university in 2018. I had a great working relationship with my boss, who was a professor.

The last few years, for every large meeting we had, he would set the first item on the agenda to be "Invevitable Futzing with Technology" with my name next to it and a time of about 5 minutes. I guess I could have been offended, but in the end I was a bit honoured.

The reason for the agenda is that the boffins would inevitably show up at the last minute with their arcane piece of technology (laptop, thumb drive with XXXfs etc.) that had the only copy of their presentation. Or the projector would be broken since last night when I tested it, or had to be swapped for a brighter/higher resolution/xxx one.

It was great. We all got a laugh. I got to save the day first thing. Eventually, many of the boffins started following instructions and getting their presentations in early or using Google Shites (tm) and updating them on the cloud in real time.

Good times...

Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI

Hey Siri, sell CSCO.

American science put on starvation diet

Re: Failed to learn lesson

Maybe the two down voters could explain their down votes?

Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus

Re: And yet Disney kill someone...

Florida man...

Google binning SMS MFA at last and replacing it with QR codes

Re: What about all the people who don't have smartphones?

"Specifically, instead of entering your number and receiving a 6-digit code, you’ll see a QR code being displayed which you need to scan with the camera app on your phone."

Yes, they force you to use the camera app, but hopefully not a Google app. These days, Google has the option of having me open YouTube, which I abhor.

My laptop has a fingerprint reader, so I can use that. The downside is that I don't regularly use my password, so I'm not sure I know it.

As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick

Re: Oh dear

Writing as a People's Republic of California Comrade, compared to the current crypto-fascists, Arnie was not as bad.

On the good side, he required that coal power plants being built intended to supply California power meet California standards. He did not do much for same-sex marriage (prop 8), but when he did officiate same-sex marriages.

There were many downsides. His father was a Nazi etc. However, Arnie did repudiate January 6.

Still, given a choice between only the current occupant and the Terminator, I would have hold my nose and choose the Terminator. Mercifully, the Terminator is not a US-born citizen, so that is not a possibility.

I did not vote for him for guv, and am glad he is not currently in politics. I'm no fan of the man and never expected to write anything nice about him. Don't ask me about DiFi unless you want a real rant.

Insiders say IBM's broader return-to-office plan hits older, more expensive staff hard

The floggings will continue until moral improves.