* Posts by xyz123

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Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme

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No joking or exaggeration, but Fujitsu's plan here is to 'accidentally' intertwine itself with multiple UK ID systems, so they have to become the preferred bidder for future contracts related to ID.

This is the same shit they pulled with Chief. The code was ordered by the CEO/board and execs to be overly complicated to do even simple tasks, so no-one BUT Fujitsu had a hope in hell of supporting it.

FJ has also (internally) decided it would LOVE a database of 16-20yr olds so it can sell the data once its contracts in the UK finally shutdown.

They will have names, photos, addresses, date of birth and a host of other stuff to sell to scam organizations and foreign governments. Hell they already sell HMRC data to China from the Chief import/export system.

Garlic chicken without garlic? Critics think Amazon recipe book was cooked up by AI

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Garlic chicken without the garlic - It's just chicken.

Chicken Garlic - It's garlic without the chicken!

Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses

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Citrix, because who wouldn't want a 32GB Ryzen 7950x with a 4090RTX and 2TB PCI-E5.0 NVME to run applications slower than a 1998 Packard Bell PC with Windows NT ?

Any company STILL running anything citrix in 2024 deserves to crash and burn in the same way as anyone still using Novell Netware or a windows 3.1 server.

Broadcom boss Hock Tan acknowledges 'some unease' among VMware community

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basically VMWare is a dead product and a dead company. No free version, subscriptions not being renewed. the entire product line is being bricked, and comes to a screeching end with the end date of the longest enterprise customer.

Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server

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Re: Been there, done that.

I know one fruity phone company and one telecoms company AND a satelliet tv company that in 2024 STILL use thousands of unlicensed copies of windows.

They hide this by "secure" facilities where you need notice to inspect/enter. So all the staff "work from home" on that day....purely co-incidentally......

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Fun fact: Apple is so distructing of its OWN macs, that they use Windows Server and Linux only to run their backend stuff. Support staff are forced to use Macs (old ones to save money obviously), but MacOS is so insecure they cannot trust it with customer payment info etc.

Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4

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its not a one-time thing. I've had the popup at least EIGHT times. One of the popups didn't have any way to refuse the change. I had to use task manage to KILL the process to get rid of it.

Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage

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I can't work in the mornings til I've had my huff on the exhaust ......

Microsoft says AI alliances are needed to compete with Google

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Except google bard AND gemini are utter pieces of crap. Worse than a 1990s Eliza Chatbot. seriously.

It can't talk about breast cancer, because boobies.

Ask it about cancer, it goes off about zodiac nonsense and refuses to talk about the disease.

it can barely add two numbers together and for some reason thinks online gaming is "adult sexual content"

That and google has admitted Bard and Gemini will be bricked before the end of 2024....

Nissan to let 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis know their data was stolen in cyberattack

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Short version - Nissan execs sell customer data to scammers, claim its not their fault.

'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city

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In Unrelated news, something has been pushing skyscrapers over in Tokyo.

Fortunately the government has launched a chopper with a huge red laser pointer and have forced "whatever it is" to move away from the city.

Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit

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Reddit has been informed multiple times by various governments that having mostly (95%+) voluntary mods cannot continue if they IPO. Mods will need to become actual employees at at least minimum wage, with entitlement to health care, PTO etc.

Reddit has been hiding this info buried as deeply as they can in giant waffling IPO documents. Shares will launch at $31, but drop to around $10 within a week or two as regulators demand employee contracts, wages paid (taxes as well obviously).

IPO is going to be hilariously terrible and shareholders will be left with less than 1/3 of their initial investment.

remember Friendster/Myspace etc? Reddit is about to die out, and the contenders to replace are waiting in the wings.

They just haven't launched yet, because they didn't want Reddit to steal their unique selling points pre-IPO.

BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again

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BOfH is slacking. get HR to get expensive mechanical hot swappable keyboards. then remove the switch from under the e key.

EU users can't update 3rd party iOS apps if abroad too long

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VPN VPN, it's your friend,

For the Apple rules to bend.

Apple then just cannot see,

Where you are, from your IP.

Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google

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Google, Apple AND Amazon have all point-blank refused to allow gift card purchases to be permanently blocked on their systems.

Because Amazon makes over 1.5 BILLION a year pure profit, Google 433 million and Apple's scam profits are off the charts into the double digit billions.

They could easily add a tickbox "DO NOT ALLOW GIFT CARD PURCHASES" and make it so unticking the option starts a 7day countdown to re-enable, but they refused.

Anthropic unlocks Claude 3, claims it's better than ChatGPT and Gemini

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Utter crap.

Tried claude. It told me Catholicism is illegal and it couldn't discuss the Eucharist as it featured cannibalism and necromancy.

Asked it to scan a website for data, it said it couldn't scan websites, then proceeded to scan the website and get the results completely wrong.

For example it told me bitcoin was worth $1 each, but when I said "you're wrong" it came back with other randomized figures.

Hold up world, HP's all-in-one print subscription's about to land, and don't forget AI PCs

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Fun Fact: HP is 10s of BILLIONS in debt, but they've "restructured" the debt to hide it from the generally available company status reports. (it's hidden in shell companies and "affliliates" which used to be HP departments)

Company is collapsing fast, and is in fact poised to be split up into smaller units and sold to whoever-will-buy-it.

Printers are a dead end. Even the UK Government has ended its HP printer contract, (mainly due to the 'analysis' clauses..which means HP takes a copy of everything printed over the compulsory network/internet connection) and 1000s of printers won't be renewed as they're expensive, generally unused and pointless.

They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut

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used to have 2 OPs managers. one left for a better position, the one that remained was terrible.

FIRST meeting with the client company without the other Operations manager controlling her (client was a very large UK satellite broadcaster), she cracked a joke about the CEO banging his new celebrity wife and because he was so old, him crumbling into dust.

The meeting was chaired by the guys SON. 100 million pound contract terminated due to the 'disparagement' clause........

Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI

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No-one wants to use Google Cloud because they only JUST released Gemini, but internally it's being decommissioned in June 2027.

Their cloud infrastructure is in the process of being bricked. Constant malicious "errors"/outages etc are being used to drive customers away, reducing complaints as Cloud is being "deprecated" (internal used term) in December 2025. Some customers are even being offered cheap/free "contract paid off" if they want to go.

They have even stated in high-up meetings that Chrome is "a money drain" and they want rid of it. So Execs have started forcing unwanted changes such as limitations on ad-blocker extensions so the wind-down (again another internally used phrase for the end of chrome) will have a smaller userbase, and therefore less anger after the declaration they're switching to a chrome with security-updates only, , followed by final shutdown of all new versions.

Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot's promises? You'd better be

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Please remember this is Canada, where they have already executed 13,000 people for "being poor" whilst claiming they "chose to end their lives with dignity".

Canada is essentially a totalitarian regime now with quite-literal death camps if you are poor or elderly (they state you don't have sufficient quality of life, and so must be humanely destroyed).

Seriously..google for Canada MAiD. its frightening and horrific whats happened.

Avast shells out $17M to shoo away claims it peddled people's personal data

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Does anyone still use AVAST these days? Now owned by a shady AF chinese firm that is thoroughly and utterly conntrolled by the CCP in Bejing.

Avast installers are pre-bundled with extremely nasty malware that drops its own payloads AND opens doors to remotely contact botnet servers and download even more horrific stuff.

Basically you install ANY Avast version in 2024, you've just ended your entire networks security and given complete control of your PC to the chinese government.

Why would anyone do this?

Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared

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Its not an antitrust issue if you reserve $1trillion of that for bribes.

Big bribes. Bribes big enough to make a US senator gasp in shock before creaming his pants.

250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them

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Re: Future use??

Ignoring whole blocks is a MUCH faster process than trying to parse data that isn't going anywhere anyway.

Easier to just thow data away aimed at those addresses.

Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree

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Most of the fraud was committed BY MPs of both major parties. They gave contracts etc to "best buds".

The whole Tory / Labour and even US Republican/Democrat thing is a total farce. Behind the scenes off camera they're personal friends, go to each others weddings, birthdays etc.

System designed to make you THINK there's an election choice.

In its tantrum with Europe, Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta, still hasn't fixed them

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Re: I love Apple...

Tim Cook is NOT a "nice bloke" no-one that isn't forced into PR 'lovelyspeak' has a good word about him.

He's a selfish, egotistical other-people-blamer that will throw anyone under the bus if they 'displase' him. And displeased can be anything from failing to call him Mr Cook, to getting in his line of sight when he's yelling at another employee.

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Apple is ALSO planning to 'accidentally' cause third party app stores to crash the entire phone, requiring a hard reboot.

Then they will blame the store itself. Even though it's apples code checking for specific app IDs and crashing it maliciously.

Windows 11 24H2 is coming so we can all shut up about Windows 12 for another year

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The best answer is to make Windows 12 free. Everyone loves free stuff. People still on XP/7/8/10 will want to get the 'free stuff'.

Then charge subscription for co-pilot.

Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday

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Re: Tracking

Secret Dell employee narcs. paid to tattle on work colleagues office attendance.

Did you think some people came back 5 days a week because they ENJOYED it? oh naive person....

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Remote working is career limiting

But so is working for Dell, so I fail to see the threat

Blackbaud settles with FTC after that IT breach exposed millions of people's info

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Another day, another CEO selling their companies entire database for millions and getting away with it.

Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge

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Recent insider builds of windows 11 change the default browser to Edge and try to hide chrome's entire existence. Even to the point of removing Chrome's pin from the taskbar.

All purely 'accidental' of course......

Windows 3.11 trundles on as job site pleads for 'driver updates' on German trains

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Wait til you see which government departments are still using windows 3.11 to syncronize FAR more critical systems.

Standards-obsessed boss ignored one, and suffered all night for his sin

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I worked For a fruit-based phone maker. They used a mix of [Dirty flasher coats] and PCs to run their network.

High up manager comes in, decides to ethnically cleanse all (as he put it) "the windows filth" from the datacentre. For some reason he thought the PCs were there for people to 'play games' or something!

He unplugged various cables and manually removed the Twin PC servers.

Whole network including iCloud went down, as those PCs were being used to syncronize everything else, controlling load balancing, scheduling backups etc. They also ensured if you hadn't accessed your icloud data for a long time, it went to slower storage. (which is why if you haven't accessed stuff for a few months it can take a little bit to appear).

Whole system down, and the way he'd removed cables he'd damaged the motherboards, fibre connectors AND the ports (think angrily RIPPING them out).

Entire system was down for 1.5days until engineers could replace the PC motherboards and get everything up and running again.

IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security

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Re: Payroll PI

Grandson, I fought in WW1 and was wounded fighting in France.

When was this grandpa? 1917 and 1968 cause I can't stand Frenchmen.

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Re: Payroll PI

I appear to have amended and accidentally tripled all my buddies salaries and uploaded the test database over the top of the live version.....oopsie! silly me

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Congratulations Modern Solutions on your "win".

You now have ZERO researchers willing to tell you about vulnerabilities and as a bonus you made 10s of thousands of enemies, as well as alerting rogue actors in Russia/China/Iran etc that you DO NOT ABSOLUTELY EVER want anyone to tell you that you're vulnerable or even already under attack from a rogue state.

You is gonna get Pwned.

IBM overhauls rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points

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Re: Blue Points

Me: Boss I inventented an ACTUAL working FTL space engine. it also makes toast in the mornings AND solves your erection problems.

Boss: have some BluePoints.

Me: OK thats 5 points. only another 14,995 until I can afford that iPad stylus I've got my eye on.

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Re: Why why oh why

My wife's cat has this idea for a vastly improved network cabling system that removes ALL current drawbacks........

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This can actually be classified as Employer fraud.

Basically you implement a "reward" system that doesn't pay out immediately, but sets a goal of internal 'points' then when a large enough group gets near to a payout, you cancel the whole thing.

its very VERY illegal. it comes down to various employee rights as well as contract bait and switch.

Like the racism/sexism/ageism issues, its just another in the long line of thousands upon thousands of lawsuits IBM is fighting.

Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for reasons HR could not explain

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At least with IBM they're quite blatant (between manager emails) that the reason you're sacked is because you're 40+ years old or because one manager just found out you were an [N-Word].

So they have a reason, although they won't openly say thats why IBM sacks thousands of people every year. Racism and Age Discrimination.

Probably the reason IBM is facing lawsuits for more total money than the entirety of IBM is worth.....

Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster?

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Re: Errare humanum est,....

It wasn't a bug. FJ KNEW 100% the system was 'faulty' as designed. this allowed them to perform money laundering operations quickly and smoothly by adjusting values the Post Office held for particular accounts and payments.

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Fujitsu is running software for HMRC that (just like Horizon) they have full-access backdoors to. Basically Fujitsu employees can illegally view AND CHANGE anyones tax returns or tax refunds due whenever and why ever they want.

So you get a family member, just give them a £5000 tax refund. Too small to raise red flags, but then do it for someone else and repeat...taking your cut of course.

How governments become addicted to suppliers like Fujitsu

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Re: Don't forget NPfIT

FJ have been kicked out of france, germany etc. All those countries where they 'closed' their offices for financial reasons was they actually lost contracts because the software they made was incredibly poor, had backdoors that FJ could access etc.

They do this continually. They're now under investigation about backdoors into HMRC's tax system, where engineers can 'amend' how much tax someone owes.

Be honest. Would you pay off a ransomware crew?

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Re: There's two aspects to this...

Hamas pretended that hospital had been hit. they themselves blew up a large bomb in the car park and murdered 6 palestinians to strew their body parts around the hospital grounds so they could blame Israel.

over 1/2 the supposed "strikes" Israel is blamed for, turn out to be Hamas murdering their own people to stage fake "atrocities"

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One day even though it's illegal a ransomware group will target the wrong company, and they'll hire hitmen to murder the hackers and their entire families as a warning to others.

It's not legal in any sense, but its 100% going to happen. You don't make enemies of very very rich powerful shareholders without taking the life of your loved ones into your hands.

HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten

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HP business printers don't work if the internet goes down. Thats step 1

Step 2, you can't then stop them from updating, as firewall blocking = no internet = printer stops working

Step 3. The printer reports home how often it is used (i.e. how vital it is) and will brick itself with updates, forcing you into an expensive emergency call-out to repair. Or you could wait 3-5 business days for your business-vital printer to be fixed under your already paid warranty option!

ALSO how come HP printers used by UK government departments ALL send copies of internal documents to various outside IP Addresses? Surely HP wouldn't be stealing potentially confidential information they could use for profit would they?

Again if you block these IP addresses for outbound traffic, Blam! printer stops working with comms errors.

It's not all watching transparent TV from a voice-commanded bidet. CES has work stuff too

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Alexa, Clean Bidet.

OK, Voting Biden.

No, I said CLEAN Bidet

OK Ordering replacement Bidet

No! SHIT SHIT SHIT!

OK reversing pump and spraying bathroom with feces......

Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor

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First they came for a reasonable intuitive interface, and I said nothing

Then they came for control panel and I said nothing

Now they're coming for Wordpad, and I have no way to complain!

Infosec experts divided over 23andMe's 'victim-blaming' stance on data breach

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The maths doesn't even add up.

"hackers" broke into 14,000 accounts (logging into each one individually one by one they claim) and this 'magically' gave them a gigantic database file of 6,900,000 peoples accounts INCLUDING back-end data that can't even be accessed by users, such as database field tags, worknotes (can only be seen by 23andme staff) etc.

Their story is absolute utter bullshit that doesn't even stand up to an 8yrs maths class.

Like Equfax, the management have sold their entire database illegally (and in breach of their own T&Cs) to Russia and China.

The CEO and board etc all need to be audited because "those crazy hacker kids" have set them up offshore bank accounts containing 10s of millions of dollars in unexplained wealth....

Uncle Sam will pay for your big ideas to end AI voice-cloning fraud

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Re: The solution to the problem...

I agree. tortured to death slowly live on pay-per-view.

Press the RED button to use hot pincers! press the green button to vote for poisonous algae applied to the testicles. Press Yellow to select Injections of Syphilis to the anal sphincter!

All votes cost $1.99 for the first, and $0.99 for each additional.

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