Posts by Pascal Monett 19055 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Yeah, it's called SAP.
It's what they do. They get a team of "experts" you pay for and that team is a bunch of leeches whose only goal is to stay on for as long as possible. They promise the moon, and deliver a tiny asteroid which is targeted directly at the budget.
I ask for one successful SAP implementation to be proven wrong. Go ahead, find one.
Just one.
On the other hand, what the fuck are Macron's bodyguards doing using an exercise app ?
Can't they just time their run with their undoubtedly fancy and expensive watches, or is that too complicated for them ?
Because if that is the case, the President needs to find better bodyguards.
I am sincerely looking forward to this coming out.
I remember when I was giving training courses on Windows 1 0 for the European Commission in Luxembourg, OneDrive was explicitely forbidden. It was not even accessible in that abomination called the Ribbon.
I perfectly understand the decision : the European Commission had obviously no interest in posting internal documents on Microsoft servers hosted in the USA.
I totally applaud Switzerland's decision, especially since the CEO of Microsoft France was incapable of honestly claiming that the US Government could not access data hosted by Microsoft on European servers.
No European government body should use anything Microsoft, it's as simple as that. The transition is going to be painful, for sure, but it is necessary.
I don't care if you like Campbell's products or not, but how on Earth do you get to VP status in a company if you don't believe in its products ?
If you're a VP, you're supposed to uphold the company's values and demonstrate that in everything you say. If you're a floor worker canning the stuff, you can make your snarky remarks (far from your manager's ears), but if you're a VP, your duty is to represent the company and its values.
If you don't believe in them and are just there for the paycheck, you have nothing to do there and should resign with immediate effect.
So they used a 3rd-party provider for web analytics.
I'm sorry, don't they have AI ? Can't they train it on analyzing their own weblogs ?
What's the point of their AI if it can only be used to scrape Reddit posts and spit out whatever inane answers were posted elsewhere ?
It seems to me that they could very well scrape their own weblogs and "train" an internal ChatWLog to spit out the proper analytics.
Or is that too much to ask for ?
Intel is most definitely not in any way an academic institution.
This guy is, at the very least, a liar and has clearly breached his non-disclosure agreement.
TSMC is perfectly right to pursue the matter in court, even if it is too late. Not that Intel is in a position to profit from any knowledge illegally gained at this point in time.
Personally, I hope this guy gets what he deserves : a long stint in prison.
And we all know just how stable African heads of state are in their duration and the democratic quality of their decisions. What could possibly go wrong ?
On the other hand, I note that ICANN is, once again, throwing a monkey wrench in its own policies.
Funny that, I thought that a certain slice of PAI was gone. It would seem that ICANN needs to review its procedures and stick to them.
Well this report states specifically that More than 2,000 companies trust Gainsight’s applications and AI agents.
200 out of 2000 is 10%.
That sounds like more than a handful to me.
I'm guessing that Gartner's magic quadrant for 2026 is kind of going to forget Gainsight, if there's any justice to be had at Gartner (I know, I know, it's a long shot, but still).
"there have been rising cybersecurity risks and penetrations across many organizations as of late "
Oh, so your excuse is that, because other companies have been penetrated, it's not your fault.
Excuse me if I do not accept that as an excuse, especially from a company that is supposed to be dealing with emergency alert procedures.
So, Twitter is now the official communication arm of the US Government. Musk must be creaming his pants.
Whatever happened to official channels ? Like an announcement from the White House Spokesperson ?
Oh yeah, silly me, she's just there to defend whatever bullshit the orange shitgibbon has just flung out. This is actual technical news. Not in her job description.
You go ahead and sign deals to buy valuable real estate in Ney York, Paris and Dubai. Then go to your bank and explain that you only need $250 billion to pull it off.
See how well that goes (hint : it won't go well).
But because this is a oublicly traded company (that is continually losing money), somehow these deals generate enthusiasm on the stock market.
I thought those "golden boys" were supposed to be finance geniuses. To me, they're looking more and more like grifters who are just after feeding like vampires while something is going up and pulling out as soon as the deals start to sour, without taking any account of the total lack of backbone the company had to realize the deal in the first place.
Wall Street creates disasters, not money. In the best case scenario, when the economy is working, Wall Street is just leeching profits. It is most certainly not helping money flow.
And what exactly is that potential for the consumer ?
We already have the abomination that is Cortana - which users are apparently switching off in droves.
Our browsers are already doing their utmost to try and guess what URL we are typing and fill in automatically.
What is pseudo-AI going to bring the user ? A super Clippy that will write our emails automagically ?
Big deal. Why would the consumer pay for new hardware when what he's got already does the job fine ?
Try Everything from Voidtools.
Install it as a service. Once it has indexed your disks, it can find any file (including wildcards) in barely the time it takes you to type out your search criteria.
You know, like it should be on computers that are a million times more powerful today than when Apollo 13 launched.
Turn off Windows "indexing" - which is nothing but a time-waster and a resource hog, and you will be free of that kind of trouble. And your CPU will be free to do actual work stuff as well.
Pair it with Midnight Commander and say goodbye to Redmonds' complete inefficiency.
"We are linking the nation's most advanced facilities, data, and computing into one closed-loop system"
What could possibly go wrong ?
I'm sure Putin's band is going to insert itself in this wonderful arena and steal all the info they can. Discreetly, of course, no need for disruption here.
Just like the Manhatten Project, they will want the results, and will gleefully let the US foot the bill. There will be no need for Communist traitors this time.
Ah, what a wonderful world we are creating for ourselves . . .
Oh, you mean the dinner in a posh restaurant where, over the after-dessert sherry the ICO representative gently hints to the MoD representative that this situation is getting "politically delicate" and "something must be done".
To which the MoD representative answers "another sherry ?" . . .
Yes, I know Yes Minister by heart. They seem to follow the book on this.
I'll believe in it when can you create a clone of Salesforce that works in every way without tinkering its insides.
In the meantime, Vibe coding is only good for managers to "show" their developers what they want. And, when the developers come back with technical issues, the manager will point to the demo and say : I made it work in two hours, so I want the result tomorrow !
That person simply needs to ensure that what is written works every time for anyone who is using the product for the first time.
That's the rule.
You write documentation for someone who doesn't know the product.
Those who know don't need your doc and won't read it anyway.
Who are you to say that technology is "moving forward" ?
As far as I'm concerrned, this AI bullshit is going nowhere but backward.
But hey, you're the one with the big paycheck, so obviously you're the one who's right.
Right ?
I accept that you surf the wave of pseudo-AI stupidity that every marketing department is milking to the last drop at the moment, but to make me believe that your budget C3PO has anything ressembling AI when even today's pseudo AI requires a bitbarn of hundreds of racks installed (for stupid reasons) in the middle of a desert (aka Texas) is stretching my credulity beyond the breaking point.
Just call it Robot Butler V0.1 and be done with it.
If I'm not mistaken, haptic feedback dates back to before Y2K. IIRC, some one/company patented it for joysticks and demanded an outrageous price for licensing, so much that no company ever paid the cost (maybe it was just a normal price and the bastards didn't want to pay, I don't know the full story).
In any case, the person/company didn't have Disney's deep pockets or influence and the patent lapsed. Today, here is Borkzilla with a grand new opportunity to fuck up.
I have no doubt it will do its best, as usual.
Trump is only the (very) visible part of the iceberg.
The chipping away at the law and due process has been going on for a long time and, for me, its visibility started with Ajit Pai and his total disregard of established procedure.
Once that asshole demonstrated that law-abiding citizens actually have no recourse against criminals who don't give a damn, the floodgates were opened.
Now, we have the orange shitgibbon who is spreading the filth as far as he can and nobody can do anything about it.
Well, I have a few ideas, but I cannot expose them publicly.
In the end, it's the age-old question of who watches the watchers. Sometimes I think that a benevolent dictator is better than a failed democracy.
Well, I'm glad that we've finally gone from "the singularity is for tomorrow" to "probably not happening".
I'm guessing that, in five years, we'll be finally down to "fuck this, let's just use the statistical analysis tool as what it is : something that helps us analyze vast quantities of data.
Not some pseudo-intelligence of whatever kind.
are becoming a lot easier since companies are stupid enough to rely of The CloudTM's single point of failure.
Education is hard. For companies, it'll be measured in billions.
For CEOs, it's be measured in bonuses lost.
Now you can wonder why this stupidity continues . . .
Well fine then. How's about they staff cut the Board and all management, and find out how the company does after that ?
Why is it that layoffs always concern the people who actually do the job, and never the assholes who just file weekly reports ?
You want staff cuts ? Fire everybody. Then ask yourselves who you really need. The CEO with his expensive suit, or the grunt that toils away 12 to 7 and gets the job done ?
"agents will have their own email address, Teams account, an entry in enterprise directories (either Entra ID or Azure AD), and even a place on the org chart "
Will they be getting a salary as well ?
And who is going to set this up ? Borkzilla ? Automatically ?
That'll go well for sure.
I'm expecting most companies (the competent ones - there have to be some left) to entirely block this nonsense.
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