Posts by ecofeco

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

Re: Profits? We don't need no stinking net profits

As always.

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

NO

Shit -------------------------------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>

AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs

LOL

When the average YouTube shit-gobbling, bollocks production is your target model, yeah, it's easy to replicate.

The bigger problem is nobody cares. Nobody. Cares. When any clown with a webcam and microphone can get thousands of followers, nobody cares about production value.

This has been proven time after time over the last 60 years. People WANT slop. Those of us who don't are, sadly, and as always, the minority.

And it's the same with everything.

DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom

Re: Mass Dickensian destitution inbound?

Inbound? Where have you been for the last 50 years?

Re: Delusions With PowerPoint

,,,has spent years making it hostile to run anything smaller than a consultancy with friends in government.

That's the world over.

Perfect description.

Re: What's the joke about regexes ?

Prices rise no matter what.

Inflation is not caused by increased wages, it's caused by billion dollar mistakes and lots and lots of smaller, expensive mistakes. And of course, outright corporate greed.

Wages have not kept up with inflation for 50 years.

Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party

It's third party all the way down

When your outsource runs on an outsource that runs on another outsource that also has outsourced.

Not even joking.

I run a lot of blockers. The amount of 3rd party servers, JUST FOR ONE WEBSITE, is insane. Absolutely, staggeringly, insane. AND EVERYONE DOES THIS.

Of course it ends well! --------------------------------->>>>>>>

UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat

LOL, why? "Incentives".

Oh wait, I meant bribes, brown envelopes and backhanders.

Re: These large data platforms act like scams

They ARE scams.

This is not incompetence

This is theft. Plain and simple.

Cui bono? Is the ONLY question that should be asked.

OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks

Oh the fun is just beginning!

What until you see the future headlines!

This ain't nothing'!

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

Re: Who watches the watchers?

"Brazil", the movie.

UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law

Re: It would be fair to say…

Well played. Well played.

Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices

Re: You will own nothing and be happy...

Or, and hear me out, we do what we always did and use older stuff in better ways.

There's a reason it's called the bleeding edge. Because you WILL get cut.

I learned the hard way decades ago: one or two steps slightly behind is the best place to be. Except for security.

The crash...

...is going to be SPECTACULAR!

Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft

Re: Sigh...

The constant changes to Azue/Entra/iTune? The never ending patch failures? Ever changing license agreements and sudden obsolescence of hardware because M$ says so?

Nope! No costs there!

Morons. The lot.

Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug under attack

Again?

Seriously. Again?

Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights

Oh but they have read all the books.

The tech douche bros DELIBERATELY name their companies after evil characters. They think they are so, so damn clever.

Re: Bystanders captured events on video

You mad, fascist bro?

And the political system in the Uk is just as fucking corrupt as it is in America it seems.

LOL, why do you think the UK hitched its wagon to the USA and left the EU?

Re: The global AI Panopticon

As I've been saying: those data centers are NOT for powering AI, they are for collecting everyone personal data.

AI is NOT here to help anyone but the rich.

AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say

10 minutes

Ten effing minutes.

All you base ARE belong to us.

Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows

A sign of LOL wut?

No, just no.

M$ never has and never will take customers' wants seriously. Put down the kool-aid.

Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years

Electricity?

I hear China is doing things with solar panel, batteries and wind these days.

Just a thought.

DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire'

Re: Useless.

Are people so forgetful and vapid that they need an "AI assistant" for the equivalent of wiping their arse?

Yes. Yes they are. Was this a trick question?

US TikTok service restored after cloud 'that doesn't go down' went down

I would not be surprised.

Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users

Manufacturing consent

Isn't cheap!

McDonald's is not lovin' your bigmac, happymeal, and mcnuggets passwords

Insanity

Nobody, NOBODY should ever need a password to order a goddamn hamburger.

That everyone just accepts the absurdity of this situation is... insanity.

Now where are my Big Ass Fries?©®™

Microsoft's 'atypical' emergency Windows patches are becoming awfully typical

Re: Its a pity

Half day? Lucky you. Last year I was at a place that took them 6 months to upgrade from 10 to 11. With 5 of us working on it.

Why? Because of multiple obscure technicalities that would not allow half of the PCs to be upgraded that was buried in multiple locations in the OS. We finally traced it down to several files AND registry settings that were put there by the older SCCM system conflicting with Azure, InTune and Entra.

And that was after we eliminated the ones with outdated BIOS running TPM 1 and could never be updated. No BIOS update for them, ya know? Which still left several thousand we had to diagnose.

Why some and not others? We never did figure that out. Our best guess was update changes to SCCM, AD, InTune, Entra and Azure. Too many chefs in the kitchen.

The real jaw dropper came when the senior admins realized that they were also going to be desktop support in the future.

Becoming?

Where has every one been for the last 20 years?

Feeling taxed by layoffs, IRS turns to AI helpers

There it is

Now we know the real reason for the layoffs. Contracts to tech douche bros.

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

This. When I started, small on-site severs were the norm. Those that couldn't afford a server used beefed up PCs. And at the lowest, smallest end of the scale, just a regular PC for the mom and pop business.

That was in fact, the whole damn point of PCs. Freedom from the mainframe and timesharing.

Re: Businesses bought into the cloud thinking "Our server is their problem."

People have been saying it for years, hell for over a decade!

The cloud is just someone else's computer... that YOU do not control.

NS&I's IT car crash considers cutting legacy links to stop the bleeding

Re: A classic Systems Integrator approach to shafting clients

They don't "fall for it". They do it deliberately.

Besides the obvious backhanders and brown envelopes and favors, there is also the quid pro quo of conflict of interest stocks and retirement sinecures.

Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers

Re: anyone

This.

Thousands more Oregon residents learn their health data was stolen in TriZetto breach

Cognizant?

More like incongizant.

Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please

I had to scroll this far down.

Sat Nad declares Windows 11 has a billion users – just don't bother asking for details

Re: We have a billion users...

I had to scroll this far down.

Dow Chemical says AI is the element behind 4,500 job cuts

Re: Obvious reaction:

This.

Musk distracts from struggling car biz with fantastical promise to make 1 million humanoid robots a year

Cool

And will they also buy his cars?

Asking for a friend-bot.

Agents gone wild! Companies give untrustworthy bots keys to the kingdom

Re: Oh, crap

LOL, my what and what?

But yes, damn good advice for anyone who does!

As for the correction, yes, the idiots who deploy this clusterfuck will be boned, but the cascade affect will very bad as well for both customers and vendors/suppliers.

Oh, crap

If this is true and even half as prevalent as is being said, then it's game over for every company who has done this.

Their systems will be wrecked beyond repair. And the skeleton staffs they now employ will not be able to stop it.

It will be catastrophic.

Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out

Re: Ask

When did they ever embrace reason?

If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this

Re: Corpo-ration

30 days? Look at you mister richie rich!

Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues

Yet somehow in charge of things.

Pretty sure it's not nepo-fail-son-trustafarians. Nope. Not at all!

Re: Is there something in the water?

The water? No, just the kool-aid the overlords are drinking.

They want ever cheaper labor, hardware and software to support billion dollar highly complex operations.

It's Jenga at the pub, on a global scale.

ICE knocks on ad tech’s data door to see what it knows about you

Re: America, you need to fix your problem

Fascist numpty. Bugger off.

Gartner questions whether Salesforce AI buffet will stay all-you-can-eat forever

Re: This is why you need to walk away from these products and AI.

Look, those leaves won't count themselves and those phones won't polish themselves either!

The folks from the B Ark provide vital functions! VITAL!

Re: Samples

Not like. It's EXACTLY that.

The first hit...

... is always free.

SUCKERS!