Re: know-it-alls that collate well but add nothing new and deplete resources
ChatGPT actually gives you the answer rather than telling you to "RTFM N00B" or "Go Google it" despite the first 10 links pointing back to that same article....
Posts by bpfh
1005 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jan 2011
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT
False negative stretched routine software installation into four days of frustration
NASA to tear the wings off plane in the name of sustainability
Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs
BOFH: Good news, everyone – we're in the sausage business
Raspberry Pi production rate rising to a million a month
US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation'
BOFH: Get me a new data file or your manager finds out exactly what you think of him
US watchdog grounds SpaceX Starship after that explosion
Thursday 27th April 2023 06:50 GMT
Re: I suspect
I suspect that the bottom of the rocket was damaged by that flying concrete, especially given the gas/ fuel streams that seemed to he coming from the lower edge of the first stage, but above the engine exhaust, and you can see a lot of debris flying up within seconds of ignition.
Remember that it only took one dropped socket to detonate a Minuteman rocket - different technology of course here, but having tons of concrete blasted randomly up and out is not going to do precision machinery any good!
Also I wonder if this was also behind any of the other launch failures ?
BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries
Friday 14th April 2023 11:23 GMT 
Ahh, the Orifice Manager
I had one like that. Was actually a lovely person once you knew the rules, brought her coffee and bagels, and helped her stick it to the coloured pencil department who kept ordering expensive pens only to leave them in every meeting room, or try to snaffle all the office supplies in September when the kids went back to school and some people declared open-day on the supply room where some people in the past had wandered off with 2 boxes of 2500 sheets of paper, all the note books and 200 quids worth of the aforementioned expensive pens...
Not a person to cross or your expenses would get lost for 2 months , which then earned people an ass reaming from the boss to the employee in question for not submitting the sheet before end of month...
Royal Mail wins worst April Fools' joke 2023
Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious
Thursday 30th March 2023 07:15 GMT
And here we go again.
Working for a mailing ESP, we have this recurring issue every 3 months or so where some links are classed malicious when accessed via one domain alias but clean for another.
Microsoft's Postmaster says it's not their responsibility as it's not deliverability but security.
Microsoft's security team says that link scanning is not their purview.
Microsoft enterprise support says they can't help because it's a problem with a recipient on a Microsoft product and not the sender.
Microsoft enterprise support tells the recipient that the sender needs to contact them.
Microsoft public support says that "hum this shouldn't happen, but we can't help you".
Reaching out to Microsoft malware and security contacts who are co-members of M3AWG never answer...
So, globally if you have a link that gets blacklisted, you are screwed and hope that MS realises their mistake after a week or three.
BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days
Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects
Friday 17th March 2023 07:58 GMT 
Off topic but...
Back in I think 1986 or 87 as a youngun, I remember looking at an estate agent near Nutmeg Wharf in London, and marvelling at the new dock lands penthouses at 800 000 to just a little over a million and thinking who on earth can afford that astronomical price?
Fast forward to Austin Powers and Dr. Evil asking for one meeeelion dollars and everyone burst out laughing.
Fast forward to today. 1.6 million, and think, yeah that will cover an office, office management and the payroll of 5 engineers for one year if we're careful...
Cancer patient sues hospital after ransomware gang leaks her nude medical photos
It's official: BlackLotus malware can bypass Secure Boot on Windows machines
Ukraine invasion blew up Russian cybercrime alliances
Friday 24th February 2023 10:45 GMT
Re: If Russia gives legal immunity to cybercriminals
The internet was designed for redundant connectivity if one node gets nuked, another node can take over down a different path... The above comments are more along the lines of voluntarily not accepting traffic - and I would not be surprised to see if Russia starts popping off tactical nukes that western ISP's and carriers will be asked (ordered) to suspend any peering with Russian networks or routing of Russian traffic...
Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default
Friday 24th February 2023 10:36 GMT
Re: Confused.
> “developers have been crying out for the ability to see what functions in their code are being used, and it’ll be really useful for them…"
Citation needed...
Now, if I had a need of telemetry in my app, I would go and add something to activate it. I would not expect this to phone home by default. I would not expect my app to contain much more logic than I coded into it, and would definitely object to having phone home features and non-core related functionality that I didn't explicitly put there or expect to be there, getting added in behind my back...
Apple: No more sneak-peek previews of iOS unless you pay for the privilege
Gartner: Oracle probes orgs for Java compliance after new licensing terms
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $12 USB Debug Probe
UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics
Microsoft's new AI BingBot berates users and can't get its facts straight
BOFH: Generating a report the Director can show the Board – THIS is what AI was made for
Friday 10th February 2023 12:09 GMT
Re: Basic Business B****cks
Oh that, we *could* do it, but it would breach our ISO certification in the upcoming audit, but we have a compliant way if you have 10 minutes for me to explain.
If not, you will need to go get the contingency plan from the archives in the downstairs fireproof airtight secure storage room... Of course your badge allows you get *in*...
Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name
JP Morgan must face suit from Ray-Ban maker after crooks drained $272m from accounts
Don't lock the datacenter door, said the boss. The builders need access and what could possibly go wrong?
Friday 23rd December 2022 17:51 GMT
Re: rebooting the system
Sounds like my wife has been making support calls. Thank you for your service. I'm hiding in the cellar. After a day of serving clients who just say they have a problem on $companyName (and not one of $companyName's 6 specific products) and cannot explain any part of their problem in a way to identify what product they have let alone where they are having problems, I get home and my wife is angry clicking her CRM tool, clicking the error message away faster than I can read it apart from the red exclamation mark. I have to admire her hand-eye coordination - it would put a pro gamer to shame....
Error was "you must fill in field xyz" which was clearly not filled. It's the first one on the form....
Friday 23rd December 2022 10:37 GMT
Re: rebooting the system
> but only the BOFH's methods would work at this point and most of them are illegal
But the bean counter was in a protected area, the opposite side of the campus behind a protected door, in a room with a UPS providing BIG CHUNKY AMPS to the whole building. I claim the poor guy's air-frying was caused by malicious misadventure your honour. No the cameras were offline for maintenance. My boss has all the paperwork about that renovation work and my reserves about the lack of security there.
Am I free to go?
It's time to retire 'edge' from our IT vocabulary
Need a video editor, FOSS fans? OpenShot and Kdenlive both refreshed
Boss installed software from behind the Iron Curtain, techies ended up Putin things back together
US Air Force chief software officer quits after launching Hellfire missile of a LinkedIn post at his former bosses
BOFH: We're an industry leader … in employing idiot managers
Elon Musk picks fight with Apple for slashing advertising spend on Twitter
Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole
Tuesday 8th November 2022 21:04 GMT
Re: Daft
“Because you left in 1991. Aka you dont live here. It was a decision about the UK for the people living in the UK. Does the UK vote in decisions made in the country you now reside?”
No but the decisions the UK made does have direct effects: I’m now considered an immigrant rather than just another European working here, I need to prove why I want to stay with my family rather than it being “just normal”. Different work laws, different family laws, different residency laws, none of these applied until 2 years ago - and the loss of my local election vote that is not extended to non-EU residents is the cherry on the not very nice cake.
I won’t say I’m a substandard citizen now, but there has been a lot of negative effects, and I have lost rights that it would have been nice to keep, which is why I said that I could not have my say in a decision that did - and still does - directly affect me, and will continue to do so until I bite the bullet and request nationality.
Monday 7th November 2022 21:23 GMT
Re: Daft
Moved out of UK in 1991, been in the beloved EU ever since. You should try it. A lot less daily newspapers blaring the strength of a (no longer existing) empire, and actual civic education in schools to teach you how the government and Europe is supposed to work. The closest think I got to that in the UK was 2 years of Religious Education in primary school. Said Primary (and the following community college) now are run by a some Anglicanish academy....
Most of the EU republics have direct voting for the president, upper and lower chambers of government, and even the EU governance is democratic (yep, really) - directly from the population or indirectly represented from your country's elected president or prime minister. No "hand of God" who names a prime minister from the House of Commons, and approves anyone in the House of Lords who is not already there because they are part of the church or because their family was friendly with the monarch 400 years ago, and capable of pulling strings behind the scenes... so yeah, the "unelected mandarins in Brussels" line made me laugh, especially when I look at how the PM and the Lords are named...
And no, I didn't vote for Brexit. It impacted me directly, but I was not allowed a say, along with about a million others.
So, ok, go make a good go of it. You got what you wanted, out of the EU, even if all the other promises have fallen over.
I'm quite happy in my beloved EU.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
