Posts by Pascal Monett

VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years – some to its friends at ‘proper clouds’

"Broadcom [..] expressed optimism"

Obviously. It doesn't have any other choice.

We'll see where its optimism is in three years.

OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill

Looks like the crux is going to happen

Happy investor reports and reality are apparently going to clash sooner than expected.

And reality always wins.

Big clouds scramble as EU Data Act brings new data transfer rules

"the big three platforms – AWS, Microsoft's Azure and Google Cloud"

All based in the US of A, which is fast becoming a mockery of democracy.

Get you EU data out of the grasp of the orange shitgibbons tiny hands and stop giving data to the US.

Yes, there will be a cost, but in the long term, it's indispensable.

Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated

"a distinguished VP analyst"

That was a very impressive title, until the words "at Gartner" were added . . .

Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league

Ah, security

The one thing that requires experience to actually ensure.

Manuals are nice, but not good enough.

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

Theocracy ?

More like idiocracy IMO.

No more waiting for lines: New Windows keyboard shortcuts output em and en dashes with ease

Great news

Now, to fully use the OS you paid for, you have to download yet another bolt-on tool.

What a mess.

AI code assistants make developers more efficient at creating security problems

Hold on there

Syntax errors ?

Aren't those things caught by the compiler ?

If you can't write syntaxically correct code, it won't compile, period. So if your developers are constantly blocked by syntax errors, fire them and hire ones who know how to write code. AI is not required here.

Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers

Blame the vendor

I don't understand companies that behave like that. I'm a freelance programming consultant. When one of my customers calls to complain about the behavior of one of my programs, I'm damn well going to find out what's going on and what I can do about it. If I do find out that the customer's network configuration is the basis of the problem, I'm not going to lay blame, I'll just explain the situation and what I can do to fix it.

In an entirely different domain, my shower has recently developed trouble in getting hot water. The best I could get was a tepid shower. I called the artisan who installed the equipement and asked him to come over and and fix the issue. He was there the next day and, following my explanations, had already pretty much figured out the problem. He had come with a replacement piece of equipment but, instead of just replacing the faulty piece, he audited the entire bathroom. From that, we found that the hot water balloon was making the water too hot which, in turn, was dilating the joint in the shower's temperature dial which, in the end, was rendered incapable of delivering the desired temperature. We agreed that, apart from replacing the faulty piece of equipment, he would also set the balloon to a lower temperature that would avoid creating problems in the future.

What I want to demonstrate here is that a true professional is going to do his best to ensure that the customer is satisfied when he leaves. It requires dedication and knowledge of all the areas in connection to the one you're called in to work on, but such a person is priceless.

Companies are not priceless. What does that say about where we're going ?

China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results

"They then used PowerShell"

It's absolutely amazing how Borkzilla continues to make things that allow Windows to get pwned.

One would imagine that, after almost 40 years on the job, Redmond would have a clue, but apparently, no.

No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others

The wake-up call is going to be painful

One day, the White House is going to have to realize that it cannot dictate orders to the entire world.

There's 8 billion people on this planet, and most of them don't give a flying fuck about what some orange shitgibbon wants from a country they will never even visit.

Nah, Putin doesn't need to ask.

The orange shitgibbon is doing very well on his own when it comes to destroying Democracy and the USA in general.

Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again

Thanks Trump !

But you've always had a soft spot for dictators, right ?

And Xi is one of your three best friends (next to Putin and Kim Jong Un).

Enterprises sticking with Windows 10 could shell out billions for continued support

How about they just stop paying ?

It's time to stop the treadmill. Win 11 doesn't bring anything innovative, shouldn't exist and its hardware requirements are a figment of Redmond's imagination.

No more support ? Then stop paying.

That'll get Nadella's attention quicker than anything.

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

"Copilot excels at the mundane while stumbling over the complex"

And yet it is still marketed as "AI".

If there was any intelligence in there, it would help with the complex stuff and tell you to write your own mails.

Sainsbury's eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition

Re: Records [..] will be immediately deleted if the software does not recognize their mug.

Exactly that.

How can it "recognize" if the previous record is erased ?

I smell a load of bull here.

Congressional panel throws cyber threat intel-sharing, funding a lifeline

"global head of government affairs at Google-owned cloud security firm Wiz"

Well, now you can't ignore who's actually running your country.

US puts $10M bounty on three Russians accused of attacking critical infrastructure

Thank goodness we got rid of Huawei

I mean, thank God we only have Cisco bugs to contend with . . .

Oh, and well done with the bounty on Russian citizens you'll never get your hands on. Very impressive.

IBM Cloud to end free human support, suggests customers use enhanced AI instead

"enhanced AI"

Enhanced with what ? More hallucinations ?

Ok, go for it. Full speed right into the wall. Because that's where you're going. Fire all humans and the secretaries you fuck at the end of the day, and see how long your company is going to survive on AI.

I dare you.

Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited

"I don't think that influenced my decision, though, right?"

Oh congratulations on pointing out exactly what motivated you.

My God this idiot is so stupid it's pathetic.

Good, Sound, Reason

Three words the orange shitgibbon doesn't understand.

Investors throw another $13B on the Anthropic cash bonfire

Re: Too big to fail?

I'm thinking there's soon going to be some shareholders somewhere who are going to raise a stink when they're presented with yet another bag of billions thrown to something that has no ROI.

This is one case where I will accept that the selfish cunts put a stop to the project.

GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months

"so I can meditate a 10-Day 'self course' "

Does that course include not touching the wrong butts ?

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

Re: [..] why Broadcom isn't automatically forced to honour the existing VMware contracts

Exactly that.

You buy a company, you buy its obligations.

Personally I'm surprised that it took this long for someone to drag Broadcom to court.

This should be a class-action issue.

Salesforce sacrifices 4,000 support jobs on the altar of AI

No, it's not just you.

He needs less heads ? Why doesn't he cut off his own ?

Apple iOS 26 set to dump 75M iPhones on the e-waste pile

"75 million iPhones"

Apple is the richest company on Earth.

They practically print their own money.

Why can't they show the right example and create a program to exchange old phones for an acceptable amount (don't know what that is) and sell a replacement for the usual your-first-born-child-and-a-leg and demonstrate some true ecological prowess in recycling their own stuff ?

Oh, I forgot.

Shareholders.

Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector

"create unforeseen risks"

Oh, you mean like the risk of a 1100% increase in yearly subscription costs ?

In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception

"security is often forgotten"

No. Security is ALWAYS forgotten. Because it gets in the way of selling product.

Until, oh shit, we've got to secure this thing because, otherwise, customers will complain. And if they complain, they might leave, so now security is important.

So, developers who warned us before, implement security on top of all the bullshit we made you do, because otherwise, you're fired.

Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity'

"simple and disposable and easy to change."

More importantly, code needs to be obvious.

And I'm not talking about clear to code wizards. I'm talking about the new hire in a company that is tasked with making a change to a business-critical application.

If the code has been written by the kind of C++ wizard who thought that his one-line incredible unreadable function was a good idea, guess again.

You're not coding to show your skills. You're coding to solve a problem and to ensure that the next guy understands what you did and why.

If you expect the next guy to be a code deity, you have nothing to do with business coding.

Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire

Keep it up, Borkzilla

The more your greed dictates your actions, the sooner companies will understand that managing their own servers is the best option in the long run.

So they have to over-provision the hardware ? That doesn't mean a surprise increase of 1100% in cost.

Hardware doesn't cost all that much, these days. One day, CTOs will wake up and stop listening to the siren chant. You're just helping them speed up the inevitable.

Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks

Re: It's called the internet

In the absolute, you're right.

Unfortunately, some organizations (NSA) and some countries (USA, China among others) do everything they can to hoover up every bit of data they can get their hands on, whether or not they have a court order authorizing them to do so.

So it is becoming useful, if not imperative, to control where the data flows in you own country.

UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout

"a secret review following the 2021 Afghan data breach"

Of course it had to be a secret review. After having publicly abandoned most of them to the Taliban for judgement by extreme prejudice, it wouldn't do to show that, on top of abandoning them, you also gave up their names through shoddy security.

Well done. They were "allies" as long as they were useful, after that they were nothing but cannon fodder.

The whole story of Afghanistan is one pile of shame on top of another.

Kilopixel creator kills livestream switch before woodblock display hits Crysis point

So, good bye kilopixel

When is the megapixel coming ?

Researcher who found McDonald's free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots

Pudu ?

More like Poodoo.

Uncle Sam doesn't want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China

Astounding

Look, I am not ignorant of the past. I am grateful for all the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy and drove back the Nazi fascists. Unfortunately, men of Eisenhower's caliber have apparently died out.

But hey, the USA has no right to dictate what companies in other sovereign states decide to do. This nonsense has to stop. The CIA is not entitled to rig elections in foreign countries (with the disastrous results that followed). The White House is not entitled to dictate what foreign companies decide to do.

The consequence is easily predictable. The USA is, currently, 340 million people. The world population is estimated at 8 billion.

Guess what matters most ?

The White House has less and less weight to throw around. The time of reckoning is approaching.

How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away

Brilliant article

That was a great read, and a refreshing take on Borkzilla's existence.

I have kept a copy for my files.

Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible

And the wheel turns again

We went from mainframe and terminals, to PCs, to PCs connected to (a) local server(s), and we are now at PCs connected to remote servers run by someone else.

So, given that we're already hearing about "local cloud", how long is it going to be before we're back to terminals connected to a local server ?

Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

You know what they say about "assume" . . .

Re: amusing phenomena

Nice euphemism.

Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban

Re: Good to see Vivaldi getting the attention it deserves

Sounds like something I'm going to have to look in to.

DOGE delayed deals, says Nutanix

"harder to do business with the US federal government"

Oh, the poor widdle company can't suck on the government funds tit like it used to. Ain't that a shame.

I'm sure a meeting with His Orangeness (with a great big envelope and a lot of arse-kissing) would solve the problem.

Five years – that's how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out

"unless you opt out"

No.

The default option should be "opt in", and anyone doing the contrary should be put in jail for five years.

Solo.io boss: I was wrong, I made mistakes – and that made me a better CEO

Whatever you think about Solo.io, you have to admit it takes guts to be a female CEO and it takes even more guts to freely admit that you made mistakes.

I'd like to see more male CEOs admit that, eh Léo Apotheker ?

If you thought China's Salt Typhoon was booted off critical networks, think again

"Active since at least 2019 [..] across 80 countries"

If this is proven, why don't you just cut China off ?

It's not like there are that many Chinese who like perusing English web sites . . .

AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war

Re: The real problem is

You forgot the sarcasm tag.

That said, the orange shitgibbon has indeed done a lot to push China into technological independance, so , well done ?

By the way, where will MAGA hats be made next, Arizona or Texas ?

Online property ad reveals looted Nazi war art, triggers police raid

"the search for ill-gotten Nazi-loot continues"

Go search in Swiss bank vaults. But arrive by surprise and don't ask for authorization.

I'm sure you'll find something . . .

Japan exploring whether AI could help inspect its nuclear power plants

"Japan exploring whether AI could help"

Quick answer : no, it won't.

Get your engineers on the job and avoid using a hallucinating bullshit generator.

Word to autosave new docs to the cloud before you can even hit Ctrl+S

Where are the legal breaks to stop this nonsense ?

Why is it that a company can unilaterally decide to redirect everythin to their own servers without user consent ?

Oh, sure, users consent because if they don't they can no longer use the product. In any other domain that's called blackmail.

So ?

Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10

Re: I am impressed by what SpaceX has achieved, despite him

Exactly.

I don't know who is in charge, but that person is obviously capable of keeping His Muskiness at arm's length (maybe suggesting another problem with X to keep him away) while doing real, actual Science (and work).

Well done to that wizard.

CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it

Just for reference, in my records I bought in 1992 4Mb of 70ns EDO RAM for what would have been, at the time, €154.36.

I'll leave the financial wizards to calculate the price per GB at the time and the equivalent price today.

Also, following my records, in 2014 I bought 16Gb of DDR3 1866Mhz CL9 for €167.95 (value at that time).

I'm sorry, but I think this indeed proves that RAM prices have dropped so far that it's a wonder people still make them.