Posts by Steve Davies 3

Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October

The US Economy under Trump V2.0 is in the crapper

How do I know this?

UPS is laying off workers before the Holiday Season (Thanksgiving and Christmas).

But.... The Dear Leader has said....

That the US Economy is the Hottest on Earth (economic heat not deg F)

and that he has eliminated inflation, Gas is $1.98 a gal and he has 17trillion on the shelf.

Someone is lying bigly.

Guess Who?

Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever

Re: Close partners

A close partner is someone you are currently screwing for everything they have... They are only close until the next target is identified.

Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit

no question that it will be the latter

AND

you will have to go to MS's local HQ, navigate an obstacle course that would cause Indiana Jones to think twice and finally pick a 9 tumbler lock on a filing cabinet that sports a label, 'Here Be Leopards'.

Big Brother MS wants your digital life one way or another. Resistance is futile.

Game on! Penguin levels up as Linux finally cracks 3% on Steam

re: Okay, this is just my experience with Ubuntu.

Doh!

Time to move to another distro then. SNAP is an even worse descendent of Systemd. The latter I can deal with but SNAP is just beyond the pale.

Ok, I'm not an Ubuntu user these days. I bailed about 10 years ago.

OpenAI spreads the imaginary wealth beyond Microsoft with $38B AWS deal

This will only decrease the time

until the AI Bubble goes Pop!

A lot of mega corps will see their stock price halve almost overnight.

Those that have not gone all in on AI will see the reverse.

AI Everywhere is just like fools gold. Nice and shiny until you dig deep.

England's local government shake-up promises to be a massive tech headache

The usual suspects

will be salivating at the prospect of £5M deals morphing into £50M.

The same thing is happening in Hampshire. My local council is about to be merged with a few others and be based in Basingstoke. Useless for us plebs but a gravy train for the likes of Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, IBM, Crapita etc.

There will NOT be a benefit to us tax payers unless you can call a double digit council tax increase a benefit...

YouTube's AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos, calls them dangerous

Oh, the irony

Google are removing posts with AI AND advertising on YT that their AI solution is so, so, so cool and good.

Time for a YT alternative that is not owned by the usual suspects (who kneel before Trump and lick his boots)

VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India

Re: Reform is just a more right-wing version of the Tories.

Just look at what Trumpenomics is doing to the USA. 40 million about to lose healthcare. 20+ million about to be unable to put food on the table (SNAP benefit recipients)

Farage is a Trump boot licker. Do we want the above to happen here? no, we don't.

So don't vote for the Farage team of failed Tories.

Re: All the same...

Move to an MVNO and get the same network but at a lower cost. You end up paying the evil phone networks less £££££\

Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit

Ahh the memories

of working with Boeing drawings (twice full size and zero dimensions) back in 1970 to make the cockpit of a South African Airways B747-200 Flight Simulator.

We would spread the drawings out on the floor of the 'Erection Shop' at Redifon Flight Simulation in Crawley and measure each part so that we could draw them up to be made.

such was the life of an apprentice back then.

9 in 10 Exchange servers in Germany still running out-of-support software

Re: How do you get through to business leaders?

That choosing Microsoft is :-

1) NOT the best choice

2) NOT the only choice

3) A way to get shafted (in the best possible way)

MS wants you to abandon 'on premises' for their cloud where they can slurp away to their hearts content. At least with 'on premises' you can firewall them out.

Sneaky Mermaid attack in Microsoft 365 Copilot steals data

You forgot to add

"We, Microsoft are the ONLY ones allowed to slurp your data. It is in the small (1pt, white on white) print on page 1001 of your EULA which you agreed to."

Everybody's warning about critical Windows Server WSUS bug exploits ... but Microsoft's mum

Re: "critical Windows Server WSUS bug exploits"

So,

Just another 24 hour period ending in DAY

That seems to be a bit better.

Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease

Or...

Bring back the iPhone SE (with TouchID)

Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall

A total waste of time and money

Dear Leader will ignore any court ruling (he has done this plenty of times since 20th Jan).

While I disagree with the $100K policy, there are better battles to fight.

Besides, he (trump) soon won't remember which day of the week it is.

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Lovely comment

And perfectly describes Dear Leader Trump's grifting. His [cough][cough] Gold watches are crap if the reviews are anything to go by. How could anyone design let alone sell a timepiece that loses more than a minute a day in the 2020's?

Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack

Re: Trump to scream again against those ugly and evil Europeans

look forward to 100% tariff increases on all imports from |Germany only to be retracted a few hours later.

Trump's mind is mush. Herr Goebbels Miller is running the show these days. Look at the debacle with the Italy PM in Egypt the other day.

The UK is bound to MS like an addict is to their dealer. Well done to the Germans for breaking the monopoly.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building

Re: Base on the Moon

They'll get Musk to do it for 110% of the NASA cost.

End of Windows 10 support is the perfect time for the Windows 11 installer to fail

MS and Quality

are a match made in Hell.

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

re : High gas prices

Yet the Doofus who is President was claiming that 'Gas will be below $2' pretty soon.

It can't be both.

The headline is all wrong (sort of)

His Excellency Donald J Trump, Supreme Commander of the World, in his infinite wisdom has ordered his DOE to ban words like 'Ciimate Change', 'green', and 'sustainable'.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5557324/trump-doe-ban-words-climate-change-science

With that ostrich head in the sand attitude, it is little wonder to me that the USA is burning more 'Beautiful Clean Coal' (coal is not clean)

The sooner Dozy Donald, is in a jail cell for the remainder of his miserable existence the better

UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project

Re: Number Plate Cloning

Doh... Change the registration number on your car... Then the 'little scrote' will have to find another suckers car to clone.

ICE plans to scour Facebook, TikTok, X, and even defunct Google+ for illegal immigration leads

Cue a new form of DOXING

Got a beef with a neighbour? Ok, then go on Social Media and tell the world that the neighbour is an illegal.

The USA is fast becoming a modern day Germany of the 1930's. Sad, so sad.

Pentagon decrees warfighters don't need 'frequent' cybersecurity training

re: Birthnames

JD Vance is his THIRD name. He's changed it twice..

Apple ices ICE agent tracker app under government heat

Re: come 2028

I see that you are assuming that there will be elections in both 2026 and 2028... Trump wants a 3rd term which is illegal and against the constitution but he's clearly (IMHO) working towards declaring Martial Law and banning all elections.

I want (and most of the world also wants) normality to return to the USA but while Trump and Goebbels V2.0 (Miller) are running the show, that will be impossible.

Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority

Re: It is all over Github as well

Doh! Stop using the cesspit that Github has become. Anything that they (MS) touch gets worse from day 1.

There are plenty of alternatives to Github.

UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check

Re: It will have to be one of the usual suspects.

who will :-

1) Charge triple the original contract

2) AND a lot more to actually make it work

3) Be 3-5 years late just because they can (brown envelopes included)

Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

Donald will just ignore it

like any other bit of news that disagrees with his truths which are in reality lies but he does not care. If it can't personally enrich him or his idiot sons then it is bad and needs to be eliminated.

Google reminds EU that Microsoft's cloudy licensing still stinks a year later

Microsoft Licensing

is just like Oracles... A huge great swamp. It is by design. No matter what you do to comply, a [cough][cough] licensing expert will always find out that you owe them LOADSAMONEY with interest.

Europe's largest city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more

Re: sell them something that doesn't fit their processes

That's where these moments of idiocy fall down.

It used to be that for SAP, you made your processes fit SAP not the other way around.

I wonder if this is just one of the causes of the Brum fiasco?

Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity

Re: All this power, what are we building with it?

Billionaires bank balances...

Avoid all social media platforms if you value your mental health

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

Don't even think that our secrets are safe

Trump/Thiel will know about them before our PM is briefed.

How many MOD/PE people have cushy jobs at Palantir already lined up?

AI can't be woke and regulators should be asleep, Senator Cruz says

Re: Senator Rafael Cruz

Will forever be known as

CANCUN Cruz.

That tells you everything that you need to know about the Podcast Host who pretends to be a US Senator.

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

In the future this fiasco will be used...

for training business grads on how to kill a company. It will go up there alongside Gerald Ratner in the stupidity tables.

If Broadcomm had done nothing then vmware would have a future and be profitable, but it is now a toxic brand (like Tesla is to a lot of people)

Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban

Re: You did have copyright holder's prior permission, didn't you?

As if MS cared one little bit about stinking copyright.

Cue a chorus of micro sized violins.

Trump tells Big Tech: Your power woes? Totally fixable

Re: Not the Big Bad Botched Bill?

When Trump promised to halve energy costs within 12 months on the election trail.

Yet they are rising faster than ever....

Fixable?

Oh yes... just build a stonking great Coal (or Oil) fired power station next to your bit barn.

That's the message from Renewable Energy Idiot Trump. Tear down those windmills MAGA. Then watch your power bills soar just when he promised to halve energy costs within 12 months.

Trumps drawer of broker promises just burst.

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

Re: Especially in the UK where a judge can set a precedent that holds for other users

And just watch Broadcomm run to the Dear Leader (Drumpf) and get him to raise the UK import tariff to 1500% as he has threatened to do.

Dear Leader is destroying the USA brick by brick in real time. There won't be another election in my lifetime. Dear Leader will soon pop his clogs. Just Dance Vance will take over until Don Jnr is appointed by SCOTUS.

The world should.... sorry MUST learn to do without anything from US companies.

Tesla Model Ys recalled Down Under for overly enthusiastic electric windows

Re: There used to be mechanical constraints

Which Elongated Muskrat deemed to be far too expensive and eliminated them.

He even got rid of the indicator stalk to save a few $$$.... He must have learned from Clive 'C5' Sinclair who was infamous for reducing component count to save costs.

FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam

Re: Please, America, elect fewer morons next time

Do you honestly think that Donald 'Daddy' Trump will allow elections to happen in 2026 and 2028?

The GQP/MAGA party just lost a safe seat in Iowa with a 25% (or thereabouts) swing to the Dems and in the process, destroying the GOP Super Majority in the Iowa House.

That, along with other losses and over performance by Dems in very red districts in FLA etc, may well mean Trump declaring War and cancelling all Elections from then on.

DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America

And....

Take 5-10 years to deliver even a prototype.

When... The Boffins in Kiev can make them out of commercial grade drones in hours. When they are single use, who cares about the rough edges?

UK unions want 'worker first' plan for AI as people fear for their jobs

Re: The real issue?

that's a problem for the next quarter after the bonus is banked AND retired to their French Chateau (or other nice place)

That seems a lot better.

Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so'

Re: Yes and No.

All that MS needs to do to make any pesky EU (or other sovereign nation) regulation, law or whatever go away is complain to Daddy Trump. The Orange Jesus has threatened any nation that hinders US companies from raping, pillaging and stealing info from their customers.

He'll threaten to invade and make them the 51st state OR impose 1000% tariffs on the nation... Remember that the US consumers are the ones that pay the tariffs.

Datacenters face rising thirst as Europe dries up

Sadly

That bit of common sense will be ignored.

The UK Bit Barn operators seem to want them within a Uber ride of the City of London and adjacent to the M25.

FSCK the lot of them and make them provide their own cooling water supply and not use our drinking water. There is plenty of 'dirty water' only a few metres down from the surface in the London Area thanks to the rise in the water table. They could use that but... it would need treating which costs money and they want us to pay for their clean water.

Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse

Re: I'd not be surprised if some shareholders decided to sue over this

And Trump will just give their names to ICE.... They have got to fill those 1000 new build concentration camps somehow. What better than people with money? The guards will soon be millionaires.

Where is the EAGM for the stockolders

to vote on this demand by Trump?

Queue sagebrush blowing down Penn Avenue, DC.

Trump says give and the company says 'Yessir.... No problem'.

My guess is that he'll soon be demanding a tithe from Apple, MS, Oracle and Tesla very soon. None of them would dare say no.

Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech

There is an easier option

JUst nationalise all his assets outside the USA.

Here, his Scottish Golf Courses will make a lot of money when sold off. For a so-called real estate man, it will hurt him hard where it hurts, in the wallet.

Re: Tariffs please!

Trump does not care about anybody else except himself AND how much he can grift from everyone else

There fixed it for you.

Trump's gold-plated smartphone can't seem to decide which design to copy

Re: Trump = Fraud

and

Trump == Grift... especially when it comes to getting the last $$$ from the MAGA faithful.