I call it the Office Titanic Effect.
Posts by spireite
558 publicly visible posts • joined 15 May 2015
'Return to Office' declared dead

5 days a week? Yeah, right
I was contacted last month for a role in Sloane Square area of London.
5 days a week in office.
Post-covid, they'd claimed the IT function was massively less productive in terms of releases WFH, and felt WFO was the way forward. Apparently they've struggled to recruit.
No s*** Sherlock.
If you can't make it work then you are hiring the wrong people anyway irrespective of WFH or WFO and a lot of those are probably management level.
Hybrid is the way to go, and don't even try to convince me the 4 days in office, 1 day out is hybrid...
Okta data breach dilemma dwarfs earlier estimates


For the same reason that companies have gone from on-prem to cloud, attracted by the shine green pastures proclaiming.....
1. We're cheaper than on-prem
2. We'll manage all services for you
and the implied special promise....
3. You don't need to hire security admins/DBAs/etc....
and Bullys special prize.... (this seems apt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIOhWbLcVqg)
4. WE ARE SECURE
All of the above were to us whitebeards.... FALSE!!
I haven't seen one place I've worked at where cloud even came close to the on-prem and related costs - it literally has been magnitudes more expensive.
Everywhere I've been got rid of DBAs, Security admins, etc... then within 3 months realised they'd been sold a dummy, but already committed to a 'saver' aka 'reserved' plan of 2 years plus. At this point, they rehired the knowledge they'd lost and practically tripled the annual expense by the end of it.
Trio of major holes in ownCloud expose admin passwords, allow unauthenticated file mods

Containers that leak....
If I had a quid for every container that exposed creds.
I've seen it too many times, because people assumed that containers were a walled garden. Usually, I see it when creds are hardcoded in some config file/yaml somewhere.
They forgot it needs doors - ports - for most things to work, and thus your boxers are whipped down for some good penetration.
AWS plays with Fire TV Cube, turns it into a thin client for cloudy desktops

Re: only 15 years ?
I remember trialling Wyse kit.... way back in the day.
As with everyone at that time, that was an attempt to save tons of money to avoid buying much pricier desktops/laptops.
It rapidly became obvious that for the use case my company, it wasn't very..... Wyse... to pursue them
New Relic warns customers it's experienced a cyber … something
OpenAI pauses ChatGPT Plus sign-ups as it 'hits capacity'
Ubuntu for Arm64 laptops (plus RISC kit)
Bright spark techie knew the drill and used it to install a power line, but couldn't outsmart an odd electrician
AWS staffer shows off the workplace that used to be a prison
Google, Amazon among big names in tech axing jobs this week
Impatient LockBit says it's leaked 50GB of stolen Boeing files after ransom fails to land
Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking
Datacenter would spoil beautiful view ... of former industrial waste dump

No DC...
Then they can't state 'Iver big un'
I used to work for DX on the Ridgeway estate. I'd never say Iver was idyllic... It's got plenty of gypsy stes in the area - that's where Big Fat Gypsy was filmed I believe.
Maybe they should build on the gypsy sites. Locals wouldn't complain there I guess.
Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle
OpenAI tackles 'major outage' hitting ChatGPT APIs
Wipro: Get back to the office for three days a week or else
FAA is done with Starship's safety review, now it's over to the birds and turtles

Re: No doubt in my mind
Ordinarily, I'd agree but........
NASA probably want their other kit up, and since the Artemis candle is going nowhere fast.... they'll have far more weight through other senators to keep SpaceX out of the weeds.
After all, we know the BLM are far more pricey, whatever they say. Expenditure talks, and they should have cancelled Artemis rockets by now if they has sense......... but sense is an alien word (ho,ho) to NASA.


No doubt in my mind
I fully expect MuskX to sort the issues and get several iterations out the door to hit some part of 2025.
Whatever the situation, even excluding 2025 as the target, he'll get it up before Bezos' gig gets anything up into real orbit....
Icon , because SpaceX plume will be massive.
Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides revealed in Google antitrust battle
Revamped Raspberry Pi OS boasts Wayland desktop and improved imager tool
FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges


Boom..
This result surprised absolutely nobody, and if SBF ever thought he'd get off, he was deluded and detached from reality. It was only ever going to go one way.
.
No doubt the plea deals and testimony of his co-conspirators Wang and Ellison helped plunge the knife in a little deeper, but the result was going to be the same I think without them.
There will be others....
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Apple swipes left on the last Touch Bar Mac, replaces it with a pricier 14″ model
Blue Origin pulls sheets off cargo lunar lander prototype
Microsoft calls time on Windows Insider MVP program
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Regulator delays Adobe's $20B buy of Figma, derails deal deadline
CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon
Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

One of the 'selling points' of this debacle was that you'd know what you were burning energy wise and adjust your usage.
It's made no difference to me... if i'm cold i'll pop the gas heating on or a jumper. I'll burn the same leccy no matter what. It's hardly a time saver - takes all of 10s to photo both meters and 5 mins to submit my readings.
Same for my parents....
It is the classic solution that is looking for a problem IMO
Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe
First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe
Thousands of Teslas recalled over brake fluid bug
So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off

Re: Never forget, when you work for the compnay being bought...
Not wrong.
13 years ago, when my then employer was bought by the equivalent gorilla in their industry, we knew borrowed time became a theme.
Accounts gone inside a week, marketing soon after.
Us techies, who were pricier than the staff in the 'buyer' IT department, and with fantastic above standard benefits slowly ripped out. I clung on to the end because my severance would be worth waiting for...
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Look, boss – Nvidia's still cool with staff working from home

WFH - nope - come back....
Hybrid is the way to go... I know plenty of former colleagues who pulled out of job applications when the potential employer changed their minds to go full 'back to office'.
Nobody is scared of a couple of days a week on-prem, but nobody wants to be stuck under the armpits on the tube/nat rail 5 days a week.