Posts by Eponymous Bastard 175 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Feb 2011
I wonder what this calamity tells us about Marks and Spencers' recruitment and training values?
Do they employ people who will click on any link in an email?
Do they employ a company to simulate phishing attacks to help to prevent this kind of clusterfuck?
The email I received today from Jayne Wall was poorly written; perhaps AI was avoided or perhaps Jayne is another poorly educated Oxbridge PPE graduate.
I expect some Sparks offers soon . . .
But there's no point in trying to argue with the anthropogenic climate change zealots because they are the disciples of a new religion championed by people like Gates and the "World" organisations who persist in travelling around the world thumping their bibles.
The Maldives are yet to be inundated despite prophecies of doom from the 1990s.
Ok, so where I work we bought 35+ Mac Pros 6 years ago.
They were the wine cooler ones - remember them?
They produced vast amounts of heat even at rest which meant that at maximum performance they produced some quite impressive heat; the air handling system (lame) struggled to keep the temp in the main teaching area - university - below 23°c.
Those machines were retired in the summer of '23 because they couldn't run Sonoma, ergo they were not going to receive further security updates which means they're unusable.
These were replaced with M2 Studios.
USB connectivity has proved to be a nightmare with these; mice go awol. Epson Scanners won't function properly but then work ok when the USB cable is removed and reconnected. The mouse fails again. WTF?
Only x2 USB ports which with x2 Eizo displays are required for calibration - another testicular ache with Mac OS.
Meanwhile 6 year old Dell Alienware PCs still work and will upgrade to W11.
Go figure why people still pay a premium for Macs.
BTW our Mac guy is awesome.
Western governments are in thrall to technocrats / dweebs who are selling them their big idea and it appears that Torvalds doesn't want to be excluded from this cabal.
I doubt any of them is an expert but most of them will tell you that "carbon is the enemy".
FFS they can't even tell the difference between soot and carbon dioxide, that "poison" that is plant food.
I'll get my Teflon® coat to protect me from all the excrement that the climate change muppets are gonna spray over me.
Yeah, the whole PD thing is less than transparent to people who think "it's just a USB C cable . . ." because they're not all equal and neither are the sockets viz the mac Studio with Thunderbolt on the rea and "standard" USB on the front; plus a lack of USB A which is still very popular.
I'm told that when colleagues perform poorly at simulated phishing attacks sent via email they are subjected to further simulations until they shape up. Some staff complain that they get so many emails and that they're busy. We're all busy and some of us bother to concentrate or actually get in a few minutes earlier each day and have a bit of extra quiet time to attend to any email backlog.
What the moaners fail to appreciate is that they are more than likely being subjected to similar attacks via SMS, telephone calls and emails in their personal life and that if they learn to be a bit more savvy at work it might actually save them quite a few quid and an awful lot of nightmares. Their employer might survive too.
Coat required because autumn's come early in South West England . . .
Possibly because the LGPS is nice; I know, I'm paying into one as a member of professional services staff at a University.
It is also possible that many local government employees were unable to find suitably well-remunerated employment in the private sector because they were fucking useless.
I wonder how deaf people manage.
If you walk around with noise cancelling ear buds / headphones in any environment then I think Darwinism will prove an effective solution to population growth but in particular if it targets the young, fertile and stupid.
I'm not sure I've even experienced the Swift noise yet and I have no interest in hearing it.
To paraphrase the comedy genius that is Harry Enfield . . .
Blair, Ellison - look like pricks, sounds like pricks - must be pricks.
Could have substituted that with the initialisms There We Are Now, or Can't Understand New Technology.
These pricks deny democracy with their own brand of tyranny. Ironically Edward Heath was disparaging about οι πoλλοι having much of a clue about anything too but he was pretty wet.
My father, who was a member of the Goldfish Club courtesy of a little incident in August 1942 over the Mediterranean, used to opine that we would go "the same way as the Romans".
He was wrong; at least the Romans had fun whilst enjoying unparalleled decadence.
"Amazing" was the word uttered by the self-checkout supervisor at my local Tesco this week when I presented them with the receipt to prove that I had "actually" paid for a bottle of vodka which required the security cap to be removed to avoid the potential embarrassment of the store's security guard from apprehending me as I left the store and the alarm sounded.
I was like well relieved innit.
As 3D printers become more advanced, reliable and easier to use it would be wonderful to think that more companies embrace the kind of thing that Edelkrone does with this
https://edelkrone.com/products/flextilt-head-3d
I expect there are other companies out there which offer download of stl files for printing but I've not come across any recently. Where I work a couple of us "design" replacement parts for things to keep them going. Things like battery covers, knobs and buttons etc. get broken or get lost and render equipment unusable without a little extruded piece of PLA!
Think of the great PR glow in which a company could bathe if it announced self-printable replacement parts.
I'll get my knitted trunks for a paddle.
Well let's hope the little cunt dies happy / soon.
He could do so much good with that kind of wonga - maybe he does in a Smashie & Nicey kinda way mate . . .
Then again look at Gates. He had the potential to be a great philanthropist but all he does is buy / encourage / promote misinformed climate change mumbo jumbo clickbait opportunities with the main stream media cunts who will happily fellate the fuck out of him in exchange for his stinking $$$. No better than that prick Musk firing fucking rockets all over the shop, digging fucking tunnels, smoking dope; dickhead.
I'll get my coat because it's fucking cold again here on the peninsula, but that's just the weather innit.
Can vouch for that!
Running really old Raspberry Pi 2s - they take SD card - yeah full size SD cards. These have run plugged into a variety of TV screens scattered around the building and have done for many years. They're powered off the USB port in the back of the TV and boot when the TV is turned on and get shutdown brutally when the TV gets turned off. This "system" has proved remarkably resilient. I was running it via a published Google Slides show but opted for creating a LAMP on a Pi3 last year and using a nice little Wordpress slideshow. I found Chromium struggled on the old Pis as it became more bloated and sometimes Google Slides screwed me. The Pis still use Midori; and BTW they're on an internal network and run in a not-for-profit business so their security is pretty robust.
The whole exercise has been a great learning experience for me. A NUC would definitely be overkill for basic jpg slides IMO.
During the shite era that was lockdown Teams fucked my previous Dell laptop. Every time I was forced into some hideous, pointless seemingly never ending "meeting" with colleagues and my former feckless line manager when the buzzword was "content" the poor machine suffered an asthma attack. My colleagues laughed every time as they could hear it struggling for breath. When it died I got a "newer" Dell which still hyperventilates when doing anything "collaborative" in Teams.
Teams is just another fucking tool to monitor our "performance".
Once upon a time there was just Outlook and endless streams of shite into which one was cc'd . . .
I'll get my aquascutum as it's wet here in the Duchy.
I wish I could work from home although I hated it during the fucking incarceration.
I share an office with a selfish cunt who speaks loudly to his wife on the 'phone almost every 30 minutes, and eats crisps with his mouth open.
Another eats stinky food at his desk, snorts phlegm and then coughs without covering his face and slurps every fucking drink.
I bought noise cancelling ear buds for work and enjoy Groove Salad but need stink cancelling nose buds.
I might have to retire early even though I'm only 60 and I won't get my state pension until 2029 . . . : (
BTW I am very aware of my own failings but I do buy coffee, biscuits and doughnuts for my colleagues because I can and hope that it somehow, maybe ameliorates my grumpiness.
I'll get my coat, the production of which produced absolutely 0% CO₂ of course.
The usual virtue signalling woke wank which the world media controlled by Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Musk twat, amongst countless other wealthy autocrats expect us to keep on believing.
I just hope the redemption is painful and slow when the ignorati realise they've been fooled and rebel; well one has to dream innit.
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