Posts by spireite

Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations

Multiples? So it isn't unicode then

Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books

Did Boeing use your code for the MCAS system ?

Almost bookended, could've lost an appendix.

Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

Re: Redefinition of airliners

Not wanting to stay offtopic, but if you're flying out of Manchester on on Ryanair too - that's on you and nobody else.

Re: The mystery wrinkles

Why not? It appears to me that Boeing use vibe design......

Swiss government says give M365, and all SaaS, a miss as it lacks end-to-end encryption

Israel?

Reducing the attack area on their secrets of what areas they will attack next.

Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records

Their actual name is Bloody Risk....

Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks

In other words...... it's foul

Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant

That's just a Psion of the times.

Wrong password.....

Literally a case of fat fingers??

Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere

Re: Visual Studio 2013 fast rabbit vs 2026 slow dog

You're not wrong, it's glacial these days.

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

Re: OS / 2

Half?

Not a turd?

OS / 2

Would that be Oh s**t, but a lot more than twice?

Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown

They'll both employ Trump to promote them.

After all, nobody knows cloud like he does - it contains many recoverable versions of the Epstein files.

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

As a fully paid up geek, I came to the same conclusion when a substantial piece of hardware landed in my lap.

No amount of cajoling made 'the cloud' beneficial to me,. It only made my wallet beneficial to the cloud provider.

Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators

My server crashed.....

..... "sorry sir, it was powered by engines off a 737MAX"

Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide

Mac - no thanks....

I've worked in two places where they standardised on Mac and it ain't for me.

Maybe I worked too long in Windows (Since 3.x days), but I couldn't get along with it - muscle memory too strong.

To alleviate it, I downloaded keyboard remappers, and even the simplest things like lack of seperate minimise and maximise on its windows irked me substantially.

Couldn't fault the hardware, but the OS ain't my cuppa. For the same reason, I'm Android and not Apple.

In fact, it has reached a point that I ask if the use Macs or not in interviews. If they force a Mac, then I'll turn the role down.

Brits sitting on £1.6B gold mine of Windows 10 junk as support ends

Multithreaded ?

At least when you throw it, you can say fangs for the memory.

Speaking of which the you probably need an OS with a incy wincy system requirements.

UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest

Re: Built on lies.

I'm not sure he's useful to any of the insiders or the corps that want to get inside the government contracts.

Re: It won't be mandatory, but you'll increasingly be screwed without it

Presumably, you'd have been happy if she asked you to be her sugar-daddy ?

RubyGems maintainer quits after Ruby Central takes control of project

All change at the top......

A new Kaiser Chief

It's the final countdown: Windows 10 hits end of support in less than 30 days

Abandonment

I guess you're abandonment decision is Total ?

Commodore Amiga turns 40, headlines UK exhibition

Re: Atari ST

ST went down in flames then, as it will now....

SpaceX prepares itself for a tenth Starship flight test

Name change soon?

The last few attempts have been disappointing....

At what point do they rename to XSpace?

Oracle offers workaround to Windows boot issue in the cloud instead of fix

Rebuild a workaround?

Are they taking the mick?

Or do a diagnostic reboot, or a plain reboot.

These aren't workarounds either, how many times? It's just throwing spaghetti on the wall

What about when you patch your stuff? Do you live in fear of ever getting it back up?

Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

Re: Private or Work?

Since I just need to RDP to the other family memeber machine, I just use Tailscale for that

Figma debuts on Wall Street at $33 per share – then more than triples

If investors make significantly less than expected, then it'll prove to a Figma of the imagination.

Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling

Can they be used for internet transmission......

Musk Starling.....

or maybe to saving banking credentials

UK VPN demand soars after debut of Online Safety Act

Parents configure routers?

Really?

They can barely plug them in.

Besides that, The Dad will still want access.

First release candidate of systemd 258 is here

Risky here....

Not wanting to poke people here....

but wth does it really matter?

NatWest banks on AWS and Accenture for AI-driven customer overhaul

Re: I wouldn’t mind but ….

My wife has had all sorts of issues with HSBC.

She wanted to open a business account, and they said she had to go online to do it, except the computer said no for no apparent reason.

She then went into the local branch again, where they did - to their credit - set her up.

A little time later, when trying to send an international payment, the receiving bank wouldn't accept it because the receiving company name was longer than hat submitted.. Unbelievably, HSBCs shorter limit exists on the end-users form for submitting payments. Wife then walked into said branch, who confirmed this, then said they could submit on her behalf in the backend systems which had a bigger length support.

They then wanted to charge her 30 quid+ for doing this.

So yeah, they can't get the basics right.

Tata Consultancy enforces return-to-office mandate for all US staff, effective immediately

Re: I'm sure the C-suite will be in the office

C-section?

So if this is an underhand way of removing headcount, can we call it Caesarean?

Exodus

I imagine a few hires will be saying Ta-ta.

Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything

Trump Linux

Has he declare the best, greatest, tremendous software patch yet?

CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn

Security on a wing and a prayer apparently.

Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app

That reads like a poor online translation.

How could anyone be fooled by that ?

Looks like 1,300 Indeed and Glassdoor staffers will need their former employer's websites

Re: "We're going to have more agentic experience" ?

Yep, it is..... because it sounds impressive to them.

I prefer it to be called a fake experience.

Glassdoor supposedly don't do anything to reviews that jobbers leave.

I'll be checking for reviews on Glassdoor on..... Glassdoor.

*we need a popcorn icon

Re: No need in the future?

In my more recent experience, I've had more intelligence out of an AI bot than a real rep of recruitment agents.

There are some good recruiter people out there, but there are many that are utterly useless.

Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her

Crooked? That's why he should be removed.

Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess

Re: Horsey takes King Prawn

Both AI engines were really poor, they were langoustine in their failure.

Re: Let's hear it for...

Vietnamese developers?

Australian airline Qantas reveals data theft impacting six million customers

Code-share customers?

Back in 2019, I flew on Qantas through a Singapore Airlines ticket.

I assume, that as it was a code share, it was also a legal datashare and my details ended up in the Qantas system.

I will also assume that my system ticket has me somewhere on rows 1 through 6m in the customer table

AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all

ST:TNG

I always wondered when watching on release why Captain Picard never asked for a toupee from the replicator.

That said, if the Agentic AI hasn't improved in several 100 years, he'd probably end up with a barnet made of pubes.

There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth

No, what will happen is that that DJ Trump will promise to fix the situation, with Musk as his wingman.

Then, at the last second, Trump will depart the spaceship with strict directions to Musk to do the job.

In one of the other seats will be Toxic Barbie, who will stand on the moon telling the universe that the mission failed because Biden didn't finish his Coco Pops that morning.

Microsoft is about to retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure

In more than a good portion of corporates I've worked in who use Azure, it astonishes me how many leave the config to devs. It isn't always that devs don't know what they are doing, many do, many do not.

They don't want to go granular, they want the path of least resistance.

I've witnessed storage accounts that are fully open, storage accounts that are locked, but have all client data in them, then a client is given access - allowing that client to see all competing client data.

The mind is now over-boggled.

I often know more about upcoming changes like these than the CSPs we pay shedloads to. I probably am not alone in that regard.

Microsoft dangles extended Windows 10 support in exchange for Reward Points

I never lose bachups. ,i maintain a Lizst

Frozen foods supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech

What he says in blx.

Every shopper is guilty by default, unless proven otherwise with this.

False positives will be happening, guaranteed.

It's another store that I can avoid in future.

It reminds of the time my old Sainsburys had the scan receipt to exit. That stayed one year, and now they've ripped it all out.

Re: Hmm

The Iceland store in Staines went from 4 'manned' checkout, then took 2 out and replaced with 6 self-checkouts.....