Posts by Pascal Monett 19106 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
"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.
Not really.
It is precisely when The Powers That Be at Redmond decided that they were more intelligent than quality control.
Borkzilla has the money. It should rehire every quality control specialist on the planet and get them hammering the fuckups that this ever-growing pile of festering shit is ceaselessly creating.
The shareholders ? Who cares apart from them.
Hardware costs next to nothing these days. What is a no-brainer is buying a properly configured desktop case. Hell, even RAM doesn't cost all that much these days.
Who are these morons who think that The CloudTM is going to save them money ?
Don't they read El Reg ?
Ah. Probably not. You have to be smart to do that.
Suppliers have no right to "push" their customers into a slot that suits the supplier's Board better than it does the customers livelyhood.
You support a business-critical software for thousands of your customers ? You have THE DUTY to ensure that your customers get the results they need.
Your shareholders can go fuck themselves.
I applaud this move without reserve - and I am in no way concerned.
OpenSource is becoming the future of development and usage. Microsoft and Apple can fight it with all their cash reserves, there will come a time when businesses will find that OpenSource software is more stable and reliable than anything those two can promise, and doesn't come with Cloud tie-ins or adware that needs to be managed or stifled.
Yeah. I'll be dead before it happens but hey, I believe in fusion as well, so sue me.
So, when will customers revolt and tell Redmond that support is due until the last Windows 1 0 license is retired ?
Because why is it Borkzilla's privilege to decide when an OS version is to be retired ? People are using that thing. You have no right to arbitrarily decide to end it.
You have the power, you do not have the right.
And you have largely enough money to support Win 1 0 until its last user dies of old age.
Because Win 1 0 was supposed to be the last version.
Do you really think we forgot that ?
MIT authors Michael Siegel, Sander Zeijlemaker, alongside Safe Security's Vidit Baxi and Sharavanan Raajah.
These people have just completely trashed their professional reputation. They will forever be remembered for publishing a piece of AI-written filth.
They're going to have to work very hard to regain a veneer of competence in the industry.
Serves them right.
Hey, you can make 10,000 arrests.
What I'm interested in is how many of those arrested were convicted ?
Touting arrests as a success meter ignores the rest of the point of the procedure : taking the criminals off the streets. If your arrested end up back outside two days later, you've just wasted everyone's time, efforts and resources.
You might want to remind yourself that the Pope is quite wary of AI.
On the other hand, as rightly indicated in the article, the Christian faith specializes in creating fractures and factions that absolutely refuse to work with each other, so, one more, I guess ?
Or you could consider that you're retired, Pat, and go fishing instead of creating Yet Another Religious Controversy. But that is also a specialty of the Christian faith : you have seen the light,you know the path forward, you have been annointed by God to bring your version of His message to the masses.
Yeah sure. Go fishing, Pat.
It's the mentality of "I've done this before".
All I need to do is type in this command, Enter and - oh shit, I wasn't expecting that !
That is what happens when you don't have a test environment. You do everything in live and you do it fast because 1) pressure from Up High and 2) false pride in thinking that the quicker you are, the better your reputation. Except that going quickly has to mean skimping on checking your work and, unfortunately, you're never as good as you think you are so, mistakes happen.
The thing is, you don't have to.
The only reason you're saddled with this pile of crap is because Manglement is not capable of envisioning another solution - called Linux.
Today there is nothing Windows can do that Linux can't (not talking about gaming - and even that is starting to get close). As far as business is concerned, the only reason to go with Brokzilla is because Manglement is obsessed with the fancy Excel charts and Powerpoint presentations. And it will accept any "inconvenience" that happens because it can't think out of the box.
That's not an excuse for business resilience.
Nonsense.
I can pay everything I buy with my Visa. I haven't used cash since COVID.
What is this bullshit ? What new Big Brother scheme are they trying to push on us ?
Don't know and don't give a damn. I don't need it, I don't want it, and I won't use it.
Go fuck yourselves.
. . how you should fucking get back to managing your own systems with your own admins and stop depending on the pipe dream of someone else's server.
Yes, I'm an old curmudgeon nearing retirement. Call me boomer, I don't care. You deal with the fallout if you're so smart.
Yeah, of course. It only ever affects a "small number of users".
Hello ? If you were the user affected, would you care that you're the only one ?
I'm guessing not.
Let's agree to affect the CEO in every case and find out how quick this kind of issue would be solved.
"worries on the continent about dependency on closed and potentially insecure messaging platforms" and
"The French state is already running Matrix as the backbone of its secure instant messaging service"
On the one hand, I'm grateful that, apparently, our idiots-in-charge are not stupid enough to accidentally include a journalist in secure governmental communications (but I won't hold my breath on that - they can improve).
On the other hand, I can't help but remember the good ol' days of Lotus Notes R4, when the French government mandated Lotus to give a watered-down version of the 128-bit RSA key for French versions, so that "Grand Frère" could more easily look into whatever the hell was the big issue at the time (don't remember, it seems to me that Society/Civilization was never this scary before I hit 50).
In any case, it's nice to see that my own Government has finally accepted that strong encryption is preferable.
Maybe Playboy Macron should send a text to King WayTooLate in Buckingham Palace to enlighten him and get the British Parliament to shut the fuck about backdooring encryption ?
Nah. Won't happen.
Well there's your problem. Stop relying on someone else's server and bring back your expertise in-house and secure.
Oh, that would cost you too much ? Ain't that a shame. Too bad you didn't think about that when you shut down your own servers and fired your admins.
I wonder if you're going to go back to that really smart guy who pushed for using The CloudTM and ask him for his bonus back ?
Nah ? Didn't think so . . .
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