Well, if AI is anything like copilot that they've beaten into Strata Cloud Manager, no wonder their customers aren't using it - that tool is totally useless and never answered any of my questions well.
Posts by Mr. Flibble
128 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Aug 2011
Palo Alto CEO says AI isn’t great for business, yet
UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work
Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh
UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to a town near you
Boy riding bubble realizes what he's on, asks for more air
Hacker summer camp: What to expect from BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON
You've got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by deleting old emails
Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion
HPE finally closes Juniper deal, but offers no details on what happens next
VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks
The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge
Cisco Borgs all its management tools into a single Cloud Control console
Peep show: 40K IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser
As Europe eyes move from US hyperscalers, IONOS dismisses scaleability worries
Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results
Thursday 29th May 2025 12:18 GMT
Jailtime
So how long before the AI works out where you live, rings the local police and you end up in jail for hate speech.
....or, you tell the AI to kill itself, only to find out you were just talking to a crap human.... and they call the police and you up in jail.
What a retarded suggestion.
As usual, AI needs to be fixed, rather than "worked around".
Sergey needs to keep his stupid ideas to himself.
Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next
D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify
Friday 29th November 2024 13:34 GMT
Re: Router appliance
I've not used pfsense, but it's derivative, opnsense is pretty good for free too.
It's still nothing compared to Checkpoint or Palo Alto, but then I don't want to pay £10K + permanent subscription at home....
It's not the easiest to configure some of the more complicated settings, but the GUI is nice, and after a drive (or openbsd upgrade, not sure which) failure, the config restore process worked perfectly.
I did actually pay for a year of support at the beginningt, which is reasonably priced.
Red team hacker on how she 'breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy'
Green recycling goals? Pending EU directive could hammer used mobile market
Friday 20th September 2024 12:08 GMT
I'm sure the exporters in non-EU countries have plenty of other countries to which they could export the old phones.
This legislation been on the cards for years, so they have had more than enough time to find other markets.
It's not like there's a shortage of secondhand, affordable phones in the EU already.
Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all
EV sales hit speed bump as drivers unplug from the electric dream
Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec
DEF CON badge disagreement gets physical as firmware dev removed from event stage
Wednesday 14th August 2024 12:20 GMT
Re: Bad choices all around
That's the trouble with a lot of Hacker con badges, it all has to be done in <1 year, every year they change size and shape, and use different components, so every year there are different hardware and software problems to deal with.
Sometimes Neopixels are soldered on the wrong way round, sometimes aerials don't work well, etc etc, and then all that knowledge is dumped for a totally new design next time.
EMF this year tried to do a sort of backplane that will be the same for the next few years, so in theory parts can be upgraded - I just hope it doesn't turn out like the Intel overdrive socket fiasco.
It's all fun and interesting, and people usually want to play with new and shiny things, but I bet after the conference most of it just gets left in a drawer at home or becomes e-waste :(
Sadly I am guilty of this myself....
Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS
Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion... but what about Firefox?
Monday 12th February 2024 12:52 GMT
Re: Firefox just does not work on some web sites.
Sure, but if it's too much in the minority, then nobody will listen to them, and the bigger players will just badly implement standards or create their own crappy ones, unless there's some competition to stop them.
Microsoft tried with stupid tags, Google tries with their FLOC etc.
I know there's the W3C, but they shouldn't be the only voice.
Monday 12th February 2024 12:49 GMT
Re: Options.
Yes, that would be great, however, linking all this back in would be a bit of a nightmare I would expect.
I love Thunderbird, but there's loads of people that are frustrated with them not adding new features or fixing bugs quick enough, which seems to have spawned this: http://betterbird.eu/
Thunderbird is always complaining they don't have enough money to do what they want, which is sad. I do donate, but not as regularly as I'd like :(
Critical vulnerability in Mastodon is pounced upon by fast-acting admins
At last: The BBC Micro you always wanted, in Mastodon form
EU lawmakers scolded for concealing identities of privacy-busting content-scanning 'experts'
World checks it's not April 1 as Apple signals support for full US right-to-repair rule
Not call: Open source gurus urge you to dump Zoom
Thursday 17th August 2023 14:31 GMT 
Alternatives
Yes, there are some decent alternatives.
I self-host BBB and it is quite good, although it's easy to break as there are so many sub-systems, however the installer has got significantly better in the last couple of years.
Jitsi is way easier to set up, but personally I don't think it has quite the same level of features as BBB.
I should try Apache OpenMeetings again. It was a bit rough a couple of years ago, but i'm several versions behind now :/
Are any of them enterprise-grade? Not sure, but they are certainly worth a try, and I've never trusted Zoom.
If i have to use it, I run it in a sacrificial VM :(
80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office
Thursday 17th August 2023 13:52 GMT
Re: unpopular opinion: no, WFH and WFO are not the same.
I started a new job earlier this year, fully WFH, and it was a lot harder to get up to speed than if I was in the office.
It takes longer to find out if someone is free or not, and if they are really busy or just avoiding getting back to you about things.
We have daily dept and team meetings (takes 1-1.5h in total), which is useful, but not particularly efficient.
We only go in 1 day a month usually, for a big dept meeting, which is fine, but not enough.
During the last one someone in our group from the helpdesk said he would prefer it if we were in the office more often, which I agreed with and had to say it in front of everyone.
I was looking around the room to see if anyone was giving me evils, but there wasn't much reaction one way or the other.
I'm kinda making a rod for my own back as it takes me over an hour to get there, and I would have to pay for travel myself, but it feels so inefficient at the moment.
I'm sure it's fine for people that started before covid and knew most of their dept before lockdown etc, but I was doing a lot of thumb-twiddling during the first couple of months....
Framework starts taking orders for 16-inch repairable, upgradeable laptop
Tuesday 25th July 2023 13:05 GMT
I was looking at the 4-module version when I was after a laptop a few years ago, and it seemed a bit pointless to have a modular laptop that you'd have to fill with standard modules just to get it back to a decently-ported laptop.
I would like to support them though, it's a great idea, and more laptops should be built with repairability in mind like theirs.
California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots
LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions
Thursday 13th July 2023 20:53 GMT
Re: I bought an expensive OLED TV from LG...
I had to agree to bs ts & C's with my recent Sony TV.
I couldn't even use it without agreeing to Google's crap.
I can't use the iPlayer app unless I agree to some non-bbc ts & C's, why?
I'll agree to the BBC's iPlayer TS and C's directly, thank you very much.
I wish is just bought a dumb ilyama display instead ;(
UK smart meter rollout years late and less than two thirds complete
NHS England spends £8M to extend Microsoft deals by a month
Teen in court after '$600K swiped from DraftKings gamblers'
India bans open source messaging apps for security reasons. FOSS community says good luck
Friday 12th May 2023 13:35 GMT
Re: Why no WhatsApp ban?
"So although the message might be end to end encrypted they can identify who is talking to whom and their locations. "
Sometimes that is enough - in the early nineties in the UK, it was said that the police hardly ever needed wiretaps of (landline) phone calls, the mere fact that 1 person was talking to another person they knew was dodgy would be enough to put you and others you called under suspicion.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
