Posts by Rivalroger

Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up

Snowflake!

Won't it just melt away until it turns into an avalanche? Been waiting to make that daft observation ever since I have heard about them.

Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption

I expect an imminent tie up with a bunch of UK utilities

I am sure Thames Excrement will insist we all fit these so they can bill on a per shit basis.

Old-school rotary phone dials into online meetings, hangs up when you slam it down

Later vintage

I've long thought that there would be a market in bringing an old Brick mobile with modern 4/5G but you would have to sell it with stripy shirts and red braces.

Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI

cost

Sure, it would be great to pack out our DC with some sexy gpu toys, there might even be a demand but £££/€€€/$$$ (choose your underfunded institutional localtion) say no.

Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere

Shaking a Nadella by the shoulders

Perhaps they have tried and been ignored.

Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached

When I read about these insane pay packages

Yes, I know it isn't really a pay packet but ...

I am reminded of an immortal line in a Walter Matthau film - Hopscotch.

Two incomparables - Walter Matthau as Miles Kendig and Herbert Lom as Russian superspy Yaskov meet.

Yaskov offers to run Kendig as a spy. Kendig replies that "money is too expensive to earn that way". Musky pusky, Zuck et al would do well to consider that.

Oh yes. I fully think that he is reading this and will downvote it as ever when I speak disrespectfully of him. Feels good in a way.

Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke

Banks and sense of humour

No IT in this but once when driving through Bristol (western England for the non blightians) and there was a billboard from some financial services company that had the tag "Make your money work harder for you" Some enterprising Bristolian had spraypainted on it "What fucking money!"

I chuckled a good bit over that.

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all

What the hell is he wittering about?

So, his company (well Thiel's mainly) has scored some lucrative government contracts on both sides of an ocean. Given their belief in the primacy of the invisible hand of the market surely such contracts are socialism and therefore an aboninimation in the eyes of the Market Deity.

Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever

Oracle? Wot no SPARC?

I should have thought that they could have taken Sun's R&D to develop some super efficient chipset but then that wouldn't be Larry's way.

OpenAI's Atlas shrugs off inevitability of prompt injection, releases AI browser anyway

Re: Conclusions:

You missed

4. Don't install Atlas and if you have done remove it.

How malware vaccines could stop ransomware's rampage

Don't tell RFK Jr

Or he'll nix all the research!

Hyperscalers try to beat the heat with larger racks, more air flow

metric

55 cm?

UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders

Re: Fujitsu!!!??

s/pushished/punished/

My typing gets worse and worse as I get older and grumpier!

Fujitsu!!!??

Presumably this will publish fudged and false output and will then get the researcher pushished for committing plagiarism.

Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks

common rail vs jerk pump

It could be that their buses are very old and still use jerk pumps.

Blood-red bot stalks the burbs armed with . . . groceries

small shops

Around 40 years ago I briefly had a job driving taxis in Taunton in Somerset and one night, a call came in to go to the all night garage and buy a pack of rizlas for one of the local stoners who also worked as a bouncer in the one nightclub.

Now, he would use one of these red things.

Pigs will fly: Uber Eats to trial drone delivery

Will magpies break open jewellery deliveries from a large online retailer

I know that the rainforest destroying tat retailer is also thinking of using drones. Given Magpies purported penchant for shiny htings, will they (being corvids) learn to break into drones with a phallic looking arrow for a logo?

Enquiring minds want to know!

Russian fake-news network, led by an ex-Florida sheriff's deputy, storms back into action with 200+ new sites

ice cubes

Shirly you are referring to a "Whelk's chance in a supernova"

After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus

Re: The only question left being...

Galactic coordinate ZZ 9 Plural Z Alpha

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply

beep beep

“unexpected license in the bagging area"

I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA

Oooh. I managed to avoid that

I had lots of SUN boxes with mirrored disks but I never managed to add the wrong one back into disksuite or whatever they rebranded it before selling out to Uncle Larry.

US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B

Tom Lehrer again

His song about nuclear proliferation with the line “Whose next” can be adapted here.

My bet is Palantir.

Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two

tin foil hat

It is an unholy alliance of Satya Nadella, Larry Ellison and Arvin Krishna!

Icon to be completely clear - we need a sledge hammer one.

Not again! Microsoft blames config tweak for 365 outage in parts of North America

OK It won’t be BIND

but I bet it was DNS.

Uncle Sam eyes slice of Intel in return for CHIPS Act cash

Proper checks and balances

Other governments do take a stake in the businesses that operate in their country. Witness what happened to HBOS in 2008. However given the orange ones penchant for personal enrichment. I would, were I a US citizen, want guarantees that the Department of Business or whatever will be the shareholder rather than the President.

Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results

WD40 and heat!

I’m not sure the application of both would be wise. It burns quite well.

Apart from that, I applaud the principle.

Boy riding bubble realizes what he's on, asks for more air

sounds like a pin has been utilised

Bullshit artist admits he is peddling bullshit. He seems to be betting that his company will be the last one standing. I wonder.