Can one enshittify pure shit? Let’s see…
Posts by Derezed
240 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jul 2012
VodafoneThree's a crowd – now comes the hard bit
Re: Quality of service
“Down south”
NIMBY is strong down here…as with railways, roads, hospitals, houses, reservoirs, solar farms…any kind of infrastructure…especially phone masts…are objected to and scrapped. I can barely get an FM signal where I am let alone a phone signal and I am very much down south.
SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans
British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

AI will fix all of this…probably. Or blockchain.
On a serious note, I remember a company I was consulting at firing their entire knowledgable IT department and offshoring it because “we’re not a tech company”.
M&S appear to have done the same in 2018.
How’s that all working out for them? Doesn’t matter for the senior management obviously…cost saving made, onto wrecking the next company.
Meh.
Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

Re: I'e already said this
Genuine thank you. Despite the Linux community simultaneously navel-gazing about why people don't adopt their chosen OS while shouting at anybody who asks a question below the level of complexity of "how do I get my electrons on my CPU to perform a Salsa in 4D space" (that kind of cognitive dissonance over decades takes commitment), I might have to give this a go. I will probably regret it, but I genuinely want Windows out of my personal life.
Re: I'e already said this
“And if people are letting games dictate their life, well, they are not serious people and nobody cares if they keep making poor choices in life.”
I’ll counter this with the fact that most people’s lives aren’t defined by their chosen PC OS.
The only reason I have Windows on my PC is gaming, because Linux doesn’t support games I want to play.
Give me a PC where I can play my steam library without Windows and I’ll change…until then this poor choice stays.
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers
Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze
Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back
Tech CEO: Four-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity
UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London
How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app
Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID
Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap
Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service
Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive
Bloke behind Helix Bitcoin launderette jailed for three years, hands over $400M

Dont understand how this is laundering
Doesn’t this just supply a matrix directory of criminals? Unless you are literally swapping a compromised wallet for a non compromised wallet for a fee. Presumably none of these swaps are logged in the transaction history of the coin? You would therefore need someone to hold compromised wallets (presumably organised criminals). Given those astronomical sums of money…incredible.
Dropbox to shed another 500 staff, CEO takes 'full responsibility'
US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt
Openreach reveals latest locations facing the copper chop
Kyndryl follows in IBM's footsteps with rolling layoffs likely affecting thousands
Public Wi-Fi operator investigating cyberattack at UK's busiest train stations
Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS
Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

Henry Bruce Stanley in Hackney. Very unlucky. If you were a police officer who had been told an there was a man with a shotgun wrapped in a bag who then turned to face you with said "shot gun", what would you do? Ironically he was a convicted armed robber too, not that they knew that apparently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Harry_Stanley
I think there is a degree of cherry picking here. If all you have is poor Henry and Jean Charles de Menezes (you also forgot Mark Duggan), then you're really not doing too well on convincing me that plod are a murderous force of thugs and rapists hell bent on killing, stamping and/or raping everyone they see. Most just want to keep the peace.
Here we go again with more AI crime prediction for policing
CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made
Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain

"I'm glad I'm not the only one who spotted that, when did a "presentation" become a "slidedeck"?! What a load of horse-doings!"
Maybe when presenting turned into someone reading a set of Microsoft PowerPoint slides to an audience (otherwise known as a slidedeck). This particular jargon doesn't bother me. It's like complaining about when did someone starting saying "I took the train" instead of "I travelled" (when people starting travelling by train).
Don't give a toss what they're called just the bollocks contained within them. I remember sitting in a room of 15 or so management consultancies at a large London borough and all they could talk about was how they didn't "just" want to do a powerpoint presentation. I had no idea what they were talking about...if you need to present an idea using pictures and words what else are you going to use? An overhead projector? Obsession with the means of communication as opposed to the content is the issue.
Julian Assange can appeal extradition to the US, London High Court rules

Re: Corruption all the way down
It's not true though is it? There's a difference between being a journalist and being a troll. What Assange did is what cybercriminals do...took a bunch of data and dumped it on the web and said "there you go...yous fucking well analyse it". As for Chelsea isn't she free now? According to Wikipedia, she dumped 482,832 army records online via wikileaks...all 482,832 were relevant? Fuck it! Information wants to be free so I can do what I want.
City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout
Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers
AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of surveyed executives

Re: Artifical Intelligence? More like Artificial Idiot!
Sadly they seem wise to this. I repeat “Human Now” but have been defeated by chat bots with no get out clause. It used to be stay silent until the system put you through to a human to find out what’s going on with the line…then they started venting people to dial tone. I had a battle of will with a chat bot that obstinately refused my human now request. I had to play its game.
Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first
Google will delete data collected from 'private' browsing
Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation
FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison
The UK Digital Information Bill: Brexit dividend or data disaster?
Re: Growth & innovation
To be fair Jeremy Corbyn does have a portion of the blame. If he wasn’t so unelectable the Tory scum might not have had such a large majority. A useful idiot to the end…glad his political career appears to be over. We can now get rid of the tories and replace them with something slightly less blue.