Posts by Derezed

VodafoneThree's a crowd – now comes the hard bit

Can one enshittify pure shit? Let’s see…

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

“SpaceX already failed at its last two attempts to do this when the pod doors never opened.”

Did they say please when they asked for them to be opened?

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

Re: Entropy

Jim Lahey, is that you risen from the grave?

UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans

Where’s yer tool?

HMS Sheffield called…can it have the kill switch for those French anti ship missiles now?

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

Re: Some of us have been saying this for years

War is the solution.

It reams out all those excited people (they are the first human waves).

You’re then left with the cynical, peace loving nihilist types. The Italian man from Catch 22.

Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze

Re: 4D chess?

I can imagine stormy not being too plussed at the site of any penis given the law of diminishing returns.

Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back

Re: US companies did this to us

It’s not bollocks.

Tech CEO: Four-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity

Re: Office vs making stuff

Little mesters. Reason I know this is because I googled little meisters and Sergei brin told me so.

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

Re: Thin end of the wedge

Pig cameras? I thought these were for monitoring humans. Careful, Liz will descend on the Cronx if she hears there are untapped pork markets.

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

Nothing Shrodinger about it: invasive by design.

Trapped. Check mate.

Enshitoscene in full effect.

Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

Re: OK

If the president can pardon literal insurrectionists he can pardon some snotty oiks out of grade school.

Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap

Re: Pump & Dump

It won’t be their fault; nothing ever is. It will be Mexicans, Canadians and/or transsexuals

Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

Re: Hey all you republicans

Socialism in the national interest? I’m sure I’ve heard that term before somewhere.

Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive

We must be holding the AI wrong.

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'

Enshitification encarnate

That is all

US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt

Re: Tanks and drones are obsolete

For this use case though, they demonstrated C4 vs the car door and the back end: the Cybertruck win that.

Re: No Circle in Hell...

Silicon hell clearly. Where do you think all the calculators go?

Openreach reveals latest locations facing the copper chop

Did i miss…

…the list of exchanges?

Kyndryl follows in IBM's footsteps with rolling layoffs likely affecting thousands

Re: People

What about drink? Girls?

Public Wi-Fi operator investigating cyberattack at UK's busiest train stations

Re: Efficient free market

What? NATS? What’s a scary about that?

Re: Wi-Fi

Not sure why this got downvoted. Main line stations in London have abysmal connectivity.

Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS

Re: Wait! What?

“When Musk started screaming how would you have answered?”

E) a poo emoji.

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

Re: Encryption

The IRA gave up because they were filled with government informers and shooting mothers in the back of the head and pushing them into unmarked graves was getting old. They still haven't said where those dead mothers are.

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.

I think tear gas is actually the answer.

Here we go again with more AI crime prediction for policing

, asked to develop Prometea, estimated the project would cost $100,000.

That’s unfair, for that money they can have a very rough initial draft estimating the cost of producing the first phase of the cost estimate. A bargain in any local councils’ books.

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

Shut down on start menu legitimate UI.

Start is where you start the task you want to accomplish…in this case shutting down.

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: The USA has achieved its aims

Shhh, they might be coming for you next

Re: May He Be Free

Or any self respecting journalist with an ounce of integrity.

Re: Corruption all the way down

@ Headley_Grange. JINX!

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

Sounds like it was too hard to configure / specify so got put off until go live…

Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers

…

Bears pose biggest threat to woods not stinking of shit.

Pope poses biggest risk to his personal belief in Catholicism.

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

Re: ... already facing staff shortages...

“That's going to come back and bite them on the arse...”

Can’t bite an arse that pulled out, ejaculated and cashed out. They don’t give a fuck about consequences, only money now.

Google will delete data collected from 'private' browsing

“How does Google differentiate between data collected from private browsing and other collected data”

IF Website == Porn

Vprivate = T

ELSE

Vprivate = F

ENDIF

Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation

Re: This thread ...

I think it’s mostly Russian troll farms debating about how corrupt western democracies are. I think they’ve all gone to their dachas for Easter and put themselves on automatic.

Re: PMSL

A nihilist. How original.

FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison

Re: So he sold shady investments to willing suckers

You should read more, he didn’t just con people he committed a massive fraud…no blurred lines.

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.

Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate-speech crusaders gets SLAPPed out of court

Re: Costs

Um…that’s X formally known as Twitter achully.

You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B

Re: I love when tech nods to cult shows like this

Spoiler alert: he went to jail