Posts by ecofeco

Google's $100b bad day demo may be worth the price

Re: Old robots' tales

Feedback loop you say? Oh this will end well. /s

Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death

Because it is wrong, but unfortunately, legal.

And if you can't counter-sue, yer forked.

And that is how the game is played. What's even worse, the company may even have been just a stalking horse. Innovation and small companies are shut down all the time like this.

Just another reason why we can't have nice things.

Tech job bonfire rages on as Microsoft, GitLab and others join in

Re: Unions

In the U.S. they will be hired back as temps, through a body shop, and mistakenly called contractors and treated as bastard offspring, with all of the previous responsibilities and none of the privileges.

Ask me how I know this.

Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default

Re: Confused.

Sorry, how is not testing code before release now seen as acceptable?

Rhetorical question: it's not and never was.

I'll put it as politely as I can

Fuck the telemetry bullshit.

Amazon convinces FCC it can avoid space junk chaos

Sub-head says it all

We wanted cool stuff but got useless tat instead.

Now excuse me while I'm off to try and monetize steaming piles of fresh bollocks as the latest hipster trend. Someone's already cornered the market on stale bollocks so I have to rush!

IBM health benefits blackout leaves retirees footing the bill

Re: Makes me sick it does

No. Just... no.

Cloudflare engineer broke rules – and a customer's website – with traffic throttle

Yeah but....

What WAS the actual cause? What CAUSED the traffic spike?

Conversational AI tells us what we want to hear – a fib that the Web is reliable and friendly

Futurama!

Re: "....and guaranteed that ChatGPT ......

Did you like Clippy? This is Godhead Clippy.

Doomed indeed.

Re: GIGO++

Hyper-GIGO©®™

Google's AI search bot Bard makes $120b error on day one

Disinformation overload

If information overload equals pattern recognition, then what does disinformation overload equal?

Besides FB and Twitter.

MIT Press to trial open access journals, so long as someone else pays for it

Re: Ditch the share holders

Nailed it.

Also, just how much processing power does text take? Exactly. Little to none.

Visitor traffic can be an issue, but the Internet was INVENTED to do all of this and do it well using just basic tools.

So yeah, where IS the money going?

Dell planning job cuts as PC demand jumps off a cliff

However will they survive?!

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces financial results for its fiscal 2023 third quarter. Revenue was $24.7 billion, down 6%. Operating income was a record $1.8 billion, up 68%, representing 7.1% of revenue, and non-GAAP operating income was a record $2.4 billion, up 22%, representing 9.6% of revenue. Net income from continuing operations was $241 million, and non-GAAP net income was $1.7 billion. Diluted earnings per share was $0.33, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $2.30.

It's a tough life when you are only making $2 BILLION in net profits. Tough life I tell you. Sacrifices must be made!

Noticed that too, did you?

"Our sales are down but we'll keep the one month delivery times!"

They is be genie use's!

Still, better than the nightmare that is Lenovo.

That said, yes, all of the other reasons you listed as well.

Microsoft boffins contemplate equipping Excel with AI

Re: "Microsoft Boffins"?

Are you saying constantly moving control menus and adding extra clicks along with gambling on updates is not interesting or creative?

Oh this will end well

See title.

Google unleashes fightback against ChatGPT, a Bard by any other name

And all the world's probems were solved!

And everyone clapped!

Embarrassment as US cyber ambassador's Twitter account is hacked

Embarassing?

I guess. But pretty sure they do not run Twitter.

Now, who does run Twitter these days? Ahhh..... I think I see the problem.

Australian government doxxed citizens who criticized illegal 'Robodebt' scheme

Re: When

Yes and they are already doing so.

Never forget!

If you break it, it's your fault. If they break, it's still your fault.

No, you cannot safely run a network operations center from a corridor

Has your advice been ignored, leading to utterly predictable problems?

All the time.

I can't wait to retire.

Semiconductor world in for a rough ride as chip bubble bursts at the high end

Re: Boom and Bust Cycles

Exactly.

Enterprise IT giant layoffs happened because 'some CEOs got ahead of their skis'

Re: Not all of those postitions we IT.

Nailed it perfectly.

Re: interesting metaphor

Or a golden parachute while the skis go over the cliff.

Prepare to be shocked: Employees hate this One Weird Clause

Re: Modern Slavery

Did you forget the /s tag?

All of them

I've seen all of them.

Also, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is AGGRESSIVELY anti-worker and has been since the 1970s.

Even worse is the Business Roundtable.

Wind, solar power outstrip fossil fuel generation for EU

Re: "our energy costs will obviously fall rapidly"

Wiinner winner chicken dinner!

Re: Policy driven

I've worked in oil and gas. On the trading floors and in the C suites.

It's policy alright, but not the governments.

Microsoft warns some Azure usage notifications – including abnormalities – are broken

Re: Look, it's simple.

It's like this: If you broke it, it's your fault. If they break it, it's still your fault.

OpenText completes Micro Focus buy, CEO says bye to 8% of workforce

Re: Combined workforce?

"... cynical that way..."

Dang it.

Combined workforce?

I'm going to bet it was just the employees from Micro Focus.

But I'm just cynical way. /s

Everyone's doing it: PayPal sends 2,000 workers packing

Re: Cooling

You are not even exaggerating. They've done it many times in the last.

Re: I'm not sure

To quote:

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-01-30/column-how-big-tech-is-using-mass-layoffs-to-bring-workers-to-heel

“Controlling labor costs via periodic layoffs is like breathing for Silicon Valley: cyclical, necessary for life,” Malcolm Harris, author of the forthcoming book “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World,” told me. The layoffs, Harris says, have “very little to do with long- or even medium-term strategy except as it pertains to cultivating an insecure workforce.”

Oracle, Microsoft barely compete for a quarter of their US Federal contracts

No brainer

MS sucks but Oracle is the devil incarnate.

Oracle isn't saving anyone, anything.

Former Facebooker alleges Meta drained users' batteries to test apps

Yep.

Re: contract requires him to take the case to arbitration

Agreed.

Forced arbitration circumvents due process.

Voluntary arbitration still has a place, but forced arbitration is extra-legal and outright tyranny.

Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever

Re: Low specs have stagnated for over a decade

Yep. That's the bare minimum these days thanks to never ending software bloat.

Re: Planned obsolescence

Where have you been for the last 40 years?

Every word the truth. Like you, I also have the scars to prove it.

Re: This is all too often the refrain from non-Windows users.

One of the biggest reasons is often overlooked, for some reason: many executives' portfolios, and their companies', consist of MS stock.

Thousands of documented Microsoft failures are not gaslighting.

Irony, you haz it.

Sunk cost fallacy.

They've painted themselves into a corner. That's on them. We've seen many, many once former giants implode for this reason.

NetApp ditches 8% of staff as customers put away wallets

To quote:

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-01-30/column-how-big-tech-is-using-mass-layoffs-to-bring-workers-to-heel

“Controlling labor costs via periodic layoffs is like breathing for Silicon Valley: cyclical, necessary for life,” Malcolm Harris, author of the forthcoming book “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World,” told me. The layoffs, Harris says, have “very little to do with long- or even medium-term strategy except as it pertains to cultivating an insecure workforce.”

Re: Time to start your own business

They will need that luck, because 9 out of 10 new businesses fail the first year. That's 90%

Of the remaining 10%, almost half of those fail within the next five years. Half again fail within 10 years.

The lottery is almost a better investment. Personally I'd go with a well respected fund investment.... and the lottery.

Jokes aside, a part time side business is the safest route if you want to start a business.

Landlord favorite Twitter sued for allegedly not paying rent on Market Square HQ

SOP for the rich

There is an old saying, "Never do business with princes."

Why? They don't pay their bills.

OpenAI offers error-prone AI detector amid fears of a machine-stuffed future

Let the AI war begin!

Well that escalated quickly.

Microsoft to enterprises: Patch your Exchange servers

Re: Has anyone checked...

Patchy McPatchyface?

Patch?

That's a funny way to spell ditch.

WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

Re: Waffle

FACT