* Posts by cje

15 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jul 2015

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside

cje

You are not wrong there! https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8y27dwgpo

DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims

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Did you ever notice that the wife of JD Vance aka the Vice President, is of Indian origin?!! But I guess that's ok because he's a Republican.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change

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Re: Recurrence

Romesh Ranganathan did a travel documentary to Rwanda. What struck me, and he also brought it up, was that there was NO litter. No matter where he went there was nothing on the ground.

I think it was once a month that they had national clean up Saturday. Everyone had to help out.

I live in the Netherlands, and it's just the same here like back home in the UK - shit everywhere!

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

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Re: > The LAST person who should be blamed is

If ClownStrike still even exists this time next week. There are going to be a lot of customers demanding compensation.

Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks

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Re: Ah, Joy

Here at an international company that makes printers & camera's, the place would collapse without Excel! Absolutely nothing modern at the company.

Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable

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Re: That was my thought, too.

What about the Russian neo-Nazi's, or are they "good guys"? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/pro-kremlin-neo-nazi-militia-inciting-torture-murder-ukrainian-prisoners

When you country is at war and at risk of being annihilated, then you can't be picky who fights for you.

Alexie Navalny once said in an interview, that he would listen to these groups also. His idea was that everyone has a voice and it's his job to listen and try to work with everyone.

IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week

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Oh dear! A place of work should not be like the way you manage it - you clearly don't understand the role of a manager. I've seen micromanagers (like yourself) in action, and you are usually too paranoid about what your employees are doing, instead of focusing on your own job.

How can you possibly run a team if there is no trust? Just because you can't see people in the office doesn't mean that they aren't working.

We work in an industry that is 24/7. For a lot of us IT professionals, 9 to 5 just does not cover the hours that we are called upon to work, from the office or at home. People like you just don't understand that.

And there is no place in work environment for bullying, narcissism, nepotism, etc, etc.... basically a lot of the negative traits that you are displaying in your post. People like you should be routed out and fired. Employees in every industry have put up with a lot of shit from people like you and it's time that changed.

Fujitsu pulls the plug on European client PC sales

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Re: Pity ...

They are the main supplier to Canon for clients & servers, and it's the worst hardware I've ever worked with. The brand new laptops are truly abysmal and their support is a waste of time.

Their support web site looks like it hasn't been updated in over a decade, and I think that shows how Fujitsu is going. Saying that, Canon isn't much better.

Microsofties still digesting pay freeze upset by Nadella's 'landmark year' memo

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Mushroom

Re: So, landmark year and, for thanks, pay freeze

Let's just launch the nukes then and get it over with!

For password protection, dump LastPass for open source Bitwarden

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The writting was on the wall for some time now

I switched from LastPass to Bitwarden years ago. You could see this coming after the take-over and service failures.

Also had the misfortune of working for two companies that used LP, and my fellow IT colleagues refused to see the problems with it. I didn't stay long with either company because their security practices were a joke and used such weak passwords they should have just left the front door open

Twitter CISO flies the coop

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Re: It has sailed!

Sounds like he's sunk it already!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/10/exodus-twitter-elon-musk-possible-bankruptcy

Congress finally passes $52b subsidies for chip fabs on US soil

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Just a few years ago....

Can't help but think back to Trump & the Foxconn CEO turning over a tiny patch of ground at an awkward press conference in Wisconsin!

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/25/foxconn_wisconsin_factory/

Google staff who work from home might see pay cut under corporate policy – reports

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Re: Guess you don't understand how wages work

Will all the Google executives who are moving to New Zealand be taking a pay cut?

Welkom in Nederland: Laid-back, chilled, and MONITORING everything

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Re: Not really surprised

My Dutch wife (who's a journalist) just read your comment - she thinks your talking out of your arse!

cje

Re: Not really surprised

Did you get out of the Randstad much?