Posts by Steve Davies 3

Ofcom probes Meta over WhatsApp info it was legally required to provide

Re: Ofcom

You forgot to add...

Those post Ofcom director positions won't be offered if we actually do something for the plebs. We need to be seen to be doing something but nothing too bad for our future employers.

All those in agreement, wink...

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

Re: Answers on a postcard to,...

Noteslop V 99.99999

a snip at $19.99 per month

Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice'

Watch the Fox Spews hosts paper over his gaffs

No mention of him confusing Iceland for Greenland.

Then WTF was he talking about the 2020 election for? The people in that room are looking toward the future not ancient history...

Then his goons stopping California Governor Gavin Newsom from delivering a scheduled speech.

The man is a petulant toddler with a skin about 2 microns thick and is a clear and present danger to the world.

Re: Huang said AI was a five layer cake

With icing made of Bovine Excrement...

Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration

Re: You have to be really incompetent to bankrupt a ...

Casino...

Nuff Said.

Re: in the view of those CEOs

Who clearly seem to forget that without income us plebs won't be able to buy their AI riddled (aka slop) goods and services. All they they think about is the lovely reduction in costs while ignoring how the economy actually works. This is personified by the Orange Blob in the White House who claims that inflation does not exist and that foreign governments/companies pay his stupid tariffs...

We seem to be living in an age where almost every high paid CEO is another 'Gerald Ratner'.

FSCK the lot of them.

Rackspace tests customer loyalty with brutal email price hike

Plusnet is dropping their ISP email service

in favour of a paid one.

I opted out.

I expect a lot of similar actions from all the usual suspects (Vermin, NoTalk etc)

FSCK the lot of them especially if you use POP and pull all your emails from them, your storage use is pretty small. I know that everyone should be using IMAP but some of us like to use emails off-line.

Windows 11, not AI, kick-started the PC upgrade cycle

Just wait for Windows 12

and all that Gartner postulation will go down the sewer. with it supposedly being Subscription Only, users will lose what little control they have left of the bits of kit that run their businesses.

The [cough][cough] push for AI in everything (I'm waiting for an AI Solitaire) will IMHO backfire bigtime once people start seeing the crappiness of the results and the potential legal liability of them going forward. Linus had it spot on when he used the words 'AI Slop'.

Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight

Re: Trump is gone in 2.5 years,

The free world can't wait that long.

Putin will invade Finland or the Baltic States

China will take over Taiwan and possibly S. Korea.

The world economy will crash making the Wall St Crash of 1929 a mere side show.

The Yuan will replace the USD as the world reserve currency. The USA will no longer be a force in the world with mass unemployment and starvation. Only the top 1% with their private jets, islands and everything will come out on top. The 1930's dust bowl of the midwest will be 100 times worse because very few people have any savings.

Re: PM Carney

Is a far better Politician than Trumpf could ever be (And that's before his mind went do-lally). His years running the Bank of Canada and then the Bank of England gave him an insight into how the world works that Trump (and the rest of his idiots) could only have wet dreams about.

Trump is a megalomaniac straight out of the Hitler /Mussolini mould.

May I humbly suggest that you go back to watching Pox Spews, NewMax or any of the other purveyors of propaganda rather than commenting here.

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

Move along there. Nothing new to see

just another Microslop SNAFU.

Want this to stop? Just ditch windows. You know it makes sense.

Lawmakers urge FTC to probe Trump Mobile over 'deceptive' marketing

Anyone with even half a brain

would have seen that this was a scam right from day 1. The Trump clan is 'Grift Central' in the USA but some of the disciples will stump up loadsadosh for inferior phones with a gold coloured case.

Don't worry people, another Trump branded scam will be along soon.

Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red

re : AI will be helping in the UKs future growth

Yeah, growth of the great unemployed and then the great unemployable.

no mention of how all those out of work will survive when the government goes TITSUP thanks to Oracles licensing stranglehold on both Central and Local Government.

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

Re: Microsoft's response?

If MS really, really wanted it could engineer apps like Office to fail miserably when they detect wine running.

but so far, they don't and long may that remain. They (MS) seem to be hell bent on adding AI to everything even if it does not need it.

The more 'Donald Trump Fingers' that can be given to MS the better in my mind.

Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power

re : Texas

Isn't their a law in Texas (passed about the same time that Ted Cruz went to Cancun) that prohibits the 'weatherization' of renewable generators? It was passed at the behest (and hefty campaign $$$) of the oil and gas lobby.

If true, then it may not matter about the amount of power that TX can generate from renewables but their survivability when the next load of snow and ice descends on the state. Their grid may not survive...

Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told

Why no ban?

could if be that Elongated Muskrat has dirt on those in power?

Those old 'mob' tricks worked for a reason and SKUM is powerful enough to make a lot of people's lives a wreck without blinking.

He, like Trump simply does not care. Their whole Modus Operandii is Me, more money for me and Me and to hell with anyone else

Ask yourself why Trump is sending out begging emails... The emails are designed to drain your bank accounts.

Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades

and...

Trump and his pals will continue to suck the US dry like the vampires they are. Meanwhile millions will lose access to affordable healthcare, struggle to put food on the table and hold onto a job.

Yet Trumpo claims that the US is the 'hottest economy' on the planet.

More BS and Lies from the man who cheats at Golf.

Trump may hate renewables, but AI datacenters still fancy cheap solar

re: Nobody in their proper mind would be against...

since when has Trump and his bunch of sycophants been in their right minds?

Microsoft teases targeted Copilot removal for admins

Re: Admins do not care about Borkzilla's "substantial investments in AI"

Your options 1) and 3) are already happening on a large scale.

The surveillance on Steroids of W11 is giving businesses nightmares. Not only businesses but whole governments. Then along comes their attempt at AI aka CoPilot which is more AI Slop but it will get everywhere in windows. Even Solitaire might not escape because MS wants it everywhere as it grabs even more user information that they can process and sell to ad slingers.

For many end users in the Corporate world, 90% of their work can be done via a browser. Give them a different desktop OS and suddenly the flow of information to MS goes away. Things that should remain inside the business will remain. That's a win-win and a lose-lose for MS.

If you can ditch MS... do it now. It makes sense. STOP THE SLURP.

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

Re: Why would China upset the apple cart?

China holds so much US Debt that selling even 50% of it will cause a crash on Wall St that will dwarf the one of 1929. I mean, a crash that is 3-5 orders of magnitude higher. That crash will spread around the world. Mass unemployment, starvation and civil unrest.

That will in turn tank the already fragile Chinese Economy.

Yet some in the US Governemt are saying 'Bring it on'. They have their private islands and gold reserves ready to sit it out.

Re: Getting a Backbone

Tom Tillis is only speaking out because he's not standing for re-election in November. Like MTG, making that decision gives them the freedom to go after Drumpf and his henchmen.

The rest of the GOP on the Hill are spineless wimps who are afraid of their own shadows let alone 'The Donald', the defacto 'ruler of the world

As for the cost/shortage of silicon... The usual suspects will have all they need in order to build their AI DC's in the hope that they can charge us extortionate prices to read an email, browse the web, all the time sending every keystroke, mouse action to their LLM's so that they can send even more crappy, useless adverts our way. FSCK the lot of them.

CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

re: Coffee grinder

My grinder (used every few days) dates from 1978. It was a wedding present that the ex didn't want in the divorce. Simple, just an on/off switch and a motor. I grind 2-3 days worth of beans just to avoid the need to do it when still half asleep. I did that once and failed to put the lid on properly. no need to explain what happened.

Nothing to declare at border control except a Windows 7 certificate error

Brum Airport

As well as getting onto the M42 easily, you can let the train take the strain (like a few others)

At least using the train saves the stupidly expensive drop off charges.

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go

How hards can it be to...

Tell the claimants (in 99 different languages and dialects) to FSCK off?

Plus... you don't need no AI shit to do that job.

To the un(civil) servants who proposed this --->>> see ICON

Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results

Oh what a great idea

We need more people to poison these so called AI systems data. The more unreliable data they have to work with the better IMHO.

Hey virus/malware writers... Wanna get on our good sides? Pollute these AI datasets wherever you can. If you do, you can have a virtual one of these on me.

Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it

Re: Google TV

how long will Google keep that feature? If enough TV + Google owners do this, they'll send out a software update that removes this feature. After all, you can't have people NOT feeding data to Google now can you... (sic)

Safe CEO: AI is an assistant, not a replacement

using the word 'agentic'

I agree that it is nothing more than marketing BS.

I look at the claims for AI as it exists today and for the next 3-5 years is nothing more than a new name for Alternate Facts

Remember them from the US elections in 2020? BS, Lies and Conspiracy Theories all rolled up into one simple name.

To the people pushing Agentic systems/services ... See Icon.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

Re: forcing AI on everyone despite protestations

This is a great point

I'm old fashioned. I firmly believe that a computer system which does not deliver the same response to the same question, every time, is broken

If you don't get consistent results then how can you trust it at all? The answer is that you can't.

Do you really want you Self Driving Car to decide that going down a one-way street the wrong way is a good idea or that Traffic Lights are only advisory.

re: 62 percent of US adults say they interact with AI at least several times a week

What he does not say is if that interaction is visible or not.

Otherwise, it is pure BS of the finest kind.

What the marketing droids at companies like MS ignore is that the current implementation of AI is not Artificial in anyway shape or form.

The sooner the AI bubble bursts the better for humanity.

Banksy's Limitless limited by Windows Activation

Great Idea

A complete set of BSOD's over the years (from W3.1)

As long as MS keeps AI out of it, it would be a nice trip down memory lane.

We will be cruising at 35,000 feet and failing to update our Apache HTTP Server

re: Aircraft IFE systems are not connected directly to the airplane's avionics

Are you sure about that?

A certain manufacturer has been proven to cut costs anyway that they can. I would not put it past some cost cutting beancounter to make the decision to integrate systems to save a couple of bucks per plane.

How California built one of the world's biggest public-sector IT systems

Re: worse

The consultants who recommended this in the first place are long gone and living on their private islands in the pacific.

Leisure Suit Larry, best buds with Trump is coining it in from public sector projects that grow in size and cost as quickly as the Panto Beanstalk.

Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age

Re: air gap

Get the usual suspects to bid for a system only that their cloud must be able to run double air-gapped.

Watch them fall by the wayside.

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome

Re: I realised that Outlook had either hidden or ...

That's just one of the reasons why it is still called "Lookout".

Avoid it if you can.

SSL Santa greets London Victoria visitors with a borked update

Re: Roadside billboards

are not specific to the USA

Just drive on the A4 in (or preferably) out of London and there are huge video screens as you pass Hammersmith.

There are also some on the M25 near Heathrow.

That means that there are others.

The ones in Hammersmith are impossible to avoid as they are right in your view as you climb up onto the flyover.

They need to go. NOW.

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

The sooner 'Last Orders Please'

is called on the AI bubble the better place the world will be.

I wonder how long it will be before witnesses in court are asked something like...

"Was any part of the decision not to loan my client $100K despite having a perfect credit score and ample evidence of his ability to repay the loan was made by an AI system?"

If the answer is 'Yes' or even 'a part' that will be followed up with

"Please explain in detail the reasoning for the decision. What lending rules did my client break?"

Legal departments will be crapping themselves in the hope that their company does not have to answer this sort of question.

Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

re: requires a highly skilled programmer both of which are in short supply

Spot on.

I used to test candidates by asking about how they handled five different types of errors. One said and I quote, "I write code that does not have errors"

He completely missed the point. The code might not have errors but what happens if the inputs do? Or, the output system stops responding etc etc.

You don't need Linux to run free and open source software

And...

with apps like Firefox and Thunderbird you can move the data to other OS's intact. It is just a matter of backing up a directory tree, copying across and unpacking it.

I've done that multiple times for both. I started using FF when it reached V1.0 Thunderbird was a bit later.

Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here’s how to try it

Typical Lipstick on a pig

can't hide that there is pig behind it.

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

re: James Brown and the Stones

James Brown did play the same notes as used by the Rolling Stones. The difference is the order in which they were played. Watch the Morecombe and Wise Christmas show with Andre Preview... It is a hoot.

There are only a certain number of notes on the Scale. What differs is the order length and combination of them.

SCO, or its descendents would disagree with you on that

they cited errno.h as similarity between Unix and Linux.

The court case went on for years even after SCO went TITSUP their 'executor' kept filing motions. There are whole websites that documented the whole saga.

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

re: I'd run as fast as possible away from a career in tech.

with anything even remotely related to Microsoft.

That seems better does it not?

The code might be [cough][cough] finished

but how many new bugs will be introduced due to deficiencies in the AI model?

Don't hold your breath people.... This 4 year deadline will only result in the following:-

- new bugs and no one inside MS to properly test the code. Result? more Zero Day errors.

- increased license fees for the new 'Rusty' product (marketing will be wetting themselves over this)

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

re : Chromebooks "are the path toward the desktop."

Sorry... but no they are not.

IMHO, Chromebooks are just vehicle for Google to slurp your data and you are paying them for the privilege. IMHO, they are so stripped back like the Netbook of old that they are a technological dead end

All but one of my Linux systems run a GUI. The desktop is either XFCE or Cinnamon. They do the job that I want without fuss.

Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech

re: It took Trump...

I call that the TRUMP DIVIDEND.

BOFH: All through the house, not a creature was stirring except the homicidal vacuum cleaner

Great timing

a story about a robot hoover in a week when Roomba goes bust.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lr75lp239o

They've filed for Chapter 11.

AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans

Re: Comments are like gold dust

Back in the day when I was writing in Assembler for PDP-11's, and assorted Vaxen, the rule was comment every line and have a comment block every 20-30 lines. Being able to read what the code was doing in plain language is priceless. Even now, I comment almost as much. Old habits die hard.

This is news?

honestly... If you train your AI coder on examples from sites like SourceForge (and many more) the GIGO rules will apply.

I'm still coding for a few SME's and all of them have asked me about my use of AI in my work. I've told them clearly that I don't and won't use any AI tooling.

They are all happy with that. One 20 person company is migrating away from Office 365 over the Christmas/New Year break. The forcing of Copilot onto the users was the last straw.

Once everyone is happy with LibreOffice they want me to look at changing their backend servers to Linux.

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

Re: Heaven forbid...

Just like his teacher, Trump.

Just wait for all the contractors involved with his golden ballroom and his Trumpiant Arch to be forced into Chapter 11 or 7 because he decides that the work they did was not good enough and they won't get paid.

Grifers both of them.