Posts by JWLong

Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one

Bezels, Who needs them?

Here's some of the fun stuff I get to work on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bO0vlrJEw0

So take your toys and go home now! /s

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

Heah Satya,

You don't like the term "Slop", fine with me I'll just call it what it is!.

SHIT.

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere

One of the most amazing things that I feel fortunate to have witnessed in my years was the mating of the old and new in the late 70’s where typesetters were using modern (8 bit) computers to compose type and send a digital signal to the appropriate Linotype for output.

The Star Readers which produced a punched paper tape that had to be manually inserted into a reader which would then activate solenoids on the appropriate keys of the Linotype to drop the mats, were being phased out. The individual computer terminals which the typesetters used, were networked to a mainframe that would sort the individual orders and had its output devices as a bank of 8 Linotypes.

To watch the keyboards of all 8 Linotypes whos keys were all moving as if some phantom typesetter was sitting in front of them was a real sight to see for me. I gained big respect for the Linotype Machinists who had to deal with front squirts and back squirts and cleaning mats and hanging pigs each shift.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/linotype-operators-library-of-congressscience-photo-library.html

Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance

Re: Hypoxia

>>Bravo Zulu<<

Your navy is showing.........

Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming

Re: MOP — My Oriface's Portaloo ?

>>.....How long before it becomes "anything but Oracle…" as though it wasn't already that for other completely distinct piles of crap previously dumped on customers......<<

It amazes me as to whom, between Orifaces and MicroShit(softTurdage), who can shit in their own kitchen the most!

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

Re: I'm not lazy,

Hence the name "Cloudfart", right.............

Try this one.

https://www.grainger.com/category/cleaning-and-janitorial/floor-cleaning-machines/vacuum-cleaners/upright-vacuums?sst=4&tv_optin=true&searchQuery=Sanitaire+Vacuum+Cleaners

Now, Grainger is a little more spendy but they do like to sell stuff. If you can't access them you got a browser problem or something else down the tube of lube called the "Net".

Or,....................

https://www.google.com/search?q=sanitaire+commercial+vacuum+SC684

It really ain't that hard and there is no AI involved.

I'm not lazy,

I clean my house once a week, like I learned to do it when I was a kid. That's what saturday morning was about before cartoon time on TV.

We had a Hoover, which today I wouldn't buy one because they are junk.

In my working days I was a "facility manager" or "building engineer", what ever name mis-management stuck on the description.

Want to know what is used by commercial properties by janitoral staff to vacuum. Here you go!

https://www.thinkvacuums.com/sanitaire-sc684f-commercial-upright-vacuum.html?

And repair parts are available at decent prices along with ease of repair and built like a brick shithouse compared to the junk consumer shit sold today.

BOFH: All through the house, not a creature was stirring except the homicidal vacuum cleaner

USA Option

On this side of the pond it's called a split level. It's a waste of space.

AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans

Machines are not intelligent!

That's what "AI" stands for...........

"Ain't Intelligent"

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

Live by the Apple...

The Apple is rotten, as hell!...........

Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text

Russians,

They ain't exactly the smartest onions in the soup pot!

But, they're good for a laugh.............

Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence

Re: What the Fark did you expect?

I wouldn't trust any of this shit any farther than I could throw an elephant.

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

Re: Not training related, but...

A verbal warming

I typed that in to see what auto-screwup would do and it maligned it all by itself.

Auto-screwup does some weird shit sometimes!

HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting

Memory

There is no shortage of memory in the market. It's everywhere, just the price has gone up. As long as you pay the price it's there.

This is called gouging and as long as the price is payed it will continue to be.

It's artificial bullshit to hit end of year bonus amounts, nothing more!

CodeRED emergency alert system CodeDEAD after INC ransomware attack

Maybe ,,...........

They should change their name to "Clown24".

Campbell's CISO canned after lawsuit alleges hour-long rant against staff and customers

Re: He's not wrong.

I, having done a bit of work for the canned food industry (Walla Walla, Wa.) can honestly tell you that you do not want to see the quality of the ingedients that go into canned foods.

Do you know that up to 30% of canned spinach is tree leaves (or other leaves)!?

I won't say about tomatoes, carrorts, or other common veggies (like potatoes)!

I've worked rendering plants that had better quality product in the door!

But, for some idiot working for a major name food company, going off like that is pretty fucking dumb!

He's probably working for ADM making animal food ingedients now, now that's the bottom of the barrel there!

Re: What would the Soup Dragon have to say?

"Sorry, BBC iPlayer isn’t available in your region."

Must be time to fire up some Bittorrent!.

Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers

Internet of Crap!

"Is Meta acting like a tobacco company denying cigarettes cause cancer, or an oil giant downplaying climate science?"

Meta is acting like corporate America does everywhere! And, the government is in bed with them.

Why, because of money!

The dumbing down of society is the de·sir·a·ble effect.

In America 50% of the population are overweight (FAT), 50% of the population is on a government stipend (FREE MONEY), 50% are on a goverment provided prescription (LUNEY TUNE PILL) and the government loves it.

Anti-Social websites and apps effecting kids, for shame!. They all know about it and have buried the facts intentionally as a means to gain control of the masses. If a few people (KIDS) kill themselves well thats expected and worth the gains to them.

They must know and control their servants and the internet is their way of doing that. There's one way of slowing down their ambitions of control and surveillance and that is to just turn it off, NOW!

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

Re: Reality is an illusion ...

I bought M$ stock in '86@¢0.06-0.10/share.

I accrued over 19K shares.

For the past 5 years I've been selling off because of asshole, money grubbing, cheap shit "directors".

"Encourage adoption", jamming it up people's asses because nobody wants it and are screaming in their faces about it.

Fucking blind leading the stupid is what they are.

Re: Micro- and Soft- Brain ?

"" "—Not now. Not ever. I would give up coffee† before then.

† perhaps not. :)""

I would never give up coffee, I would never start AI..........

And that you can take to the bank, if you can find one open with street access!

Re: Reality is an illusion ...

It's very difficult to see the truth when your head is up your ass!.

This is the only reason MicroShit hasn't figuired out that anyone with more than 2 brain cells, DOESN'T WANT THIS SHIT!

I swear to god that whole corporation is full of FUCK'N MORONS..............

Big Tech's control freak era is breaking itself apart

Re: As irrational as it sounds...

A very good example of this is the Mars candy company, still owned and operated by the Mars family.

Many a time their competition has tried a hostile take over and the family has the in house resourses to negate this action.

The one thing they have done to stop a take over was to drop the retail price of their product below that of the competition to the point that the asshat corporation trying the take over looses so much market share they almost go out of bussiness. This, at times has had a windfall for Mars as the offending company is driven to the brink of bankrupcy and Mars walks in and does a purchase agreement and then a cleanout of the asshole C-suits in charge.

The Mars family has known how to play hardball for a long time, and they do it very well!

Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase

For Sale

Get your's NOW!……

The U.S. Constitution.

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

"Weird Al" Yankovic

He said it best.......

"This song only has six words"

And remember folks...,.

"Don't eat the Yellow Snow"

Windows 11 26H1 is coming ... for new processors only

Re: MS clusterfuck....

That's not randomly!

Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… and likes what he sees

Re: Not quite ...

They're called box nails.

From day's of old.

Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'

Did the thermal invent produce smoke?

No, just hot air, as is expected from MS...............

Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons

AI rules thé world...,..

.....we just don't know what the rules are!

And, I'm pretty sure they aren't going to tell ús.

'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages

Microsoft

.....could fiuckup a wet dream!⁹

Colorado launches lawyers at Trump admin over space base relocation

Alabama

Where it's still legal to marry your first cousin!

I think Trump has family there.

The Trump family saying is "Play incest, it's the Family game".

I think I will send Donny case of KY Jelly.

IBM Cloud stops signing and seeking new customers for its VMware service

Re: It's IBM, let's pretend that "old" IBM did this, what would you think?

You poor fool, I have empathy for you.

The only thing Indian Business Machines

is capable of inventing today is brown matter that goes down a 4 inch sewer pipe!

Re: "VMware will lose 35 percent of the workloads it manages [in 3] years"

That's because it's all bullshit and,

Figures don't lie, but liars do figure!.

I trust corporate accounting about as far as I can throw a hand full of feathers or an elephant.

Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region in trouble again, with EC2 and container services impacted

Re: Is it just me ?

The thing is THEY DON'T KNOW if they are dependent on AWS.

My Kirby vacuum still works , I wonder what the problem is?

/s

The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse

AWS

Just read today AWS is kicking another 30,000 to the door!

Guess that big AI spend has to be paid for someway.

Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware

Non-Profit

" A non-profit is just an org that isn't allowed to post a profit, that doesn't mean it's a charity. "

I'm still wondering why the head organization that controls the NFL is listed as a "Non-Profit".............

A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

Re: Ouch

Otherwise known as a clusterfuck(literally!).

Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software

GooGle (YouTube)

Has managed to go from "Do No Evil", to being the "OutHouse of the Internet".

And, people still use it!

Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block

Microsoft never..............

...........misses an op·por·tu·ni·ty to shit in it's own kitchen.

Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

But, only if....................

Your running Win11 with the latest update that seems to have killed the loopback!

In '90s Microsoft, you either shipped code or shipped out

Re: Toe tags

Yeah, RIF by cost not value sucks.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Re: Too much in us-east-1

"I think "technical teams" is doing some heavy lifting there!"

Means the guy with the abacus is working on it!

The real insight behind measuring Copilot usage is Microsoft's desperation

New Math.....

1+1=0.0

"This post requires some letters", haven't seen that before.

'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident

The mid 90s were only 10 years ago.

I don't know, I'm only 12 years old....................

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Re: Maybe intentional

I've waiting for Micro$oft to break the host file for a while now.

Surprized they haven't, knowing of their shit they do!

Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards

Re: Password manager

"I am all for things that make like a bit easier."

Like a proof reader?.

OK OK OK........

I'm leaving,,....,..

(It's not often you get to poke the bear)..….

Feeling lonely? Microsoft Copilot can now listen to your every word, watch your screen

Is why when I received my latest laptop I physically disconnected the built-in microphone and camera.

USB plug-in mic and camera work just fine when needed

And this is why dear friends..,....

Is why when I received my latest laptop I physically disconnected the built-in microphone and camera.

USB plug-in mic and camera work just fine when needed

And this dear Friends......

Is why when I received my latest laptop I physically disconnected the built-in microphone and camera.

USB plug-in mic and camera work just fine when needed.

Microsoft seeding Washington schools with free AI to get kids and teachers hooked

Re: The Old Dope Peddler?

Yep, just like a good drug dealer, the first one is free.

This is what corporate America has made of the Internet.

Hookers and drugies, is anyone suprise by this, I think NOT!

Canada closes TikTok's offices but leaves using the app a matter of 'personal choice'

30%

30 percent of the internet could be shut down at no great loss. TikShit and company is a great example of wasted time , money, and effort!

I would pay money to see 90% of anti-social sites go dark!