Posts by Strahd Ivarius

Intel gets trapped in Elon’s reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions

Elon won't be able to understand how to operate it

Grok, on the other hand...

Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security

Service for customers?

This is Oracle!

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban

Re: It’s not hard if you want it

How do you know it is a real person and not an AI-generated one?

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

Re: Back in the late 90s/early 2000s

My best prank was to put for all actions on a colleague device military music from the Napoleonic era.

Since he was a huge fan of the wargames of that period, he was laughing at first, then spent more than 40 minutes accessing the configuration panel for reverting the sounds back to the standard ones, waiting after each action for a tune to play to its full length before being allowed to proceed to the next step...

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference

Ask Wally

The older I get, the more I discover I am not able to suffer fools who speak of "improving the user's experience" and then want to inflict AI on the users...

Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech

Re: End of satire?

The "social" firms are actively promoting deep fakes because it earns them more engagement from the users they addicted to their filth.

Nothing like "innocent dissemination"...

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

Copilot designed a version of MS SQL that for some reason crashes every 2nd Tuesday of the month.

Re: Think of the bloody children!

And all that you see is coming from documents real mathematicians published earlier, that the LLM is regurgitating without thinking and without understanding what it is sending to the requester, but providing only because statistically this is the likeliest answer (and not always the best)

Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI model – so built its own slop filtering system

Re: "at worst, it poisons critical decision making"

There is a typo, there...

It should read "at best, it poisons critical decision making".

The worst is yet to come...

Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth

Re: Linux Security Roundup for Week 11, 2026 Reveals Critical Fixes

"AI" (autonomous idiot) doesn't write all the code unsupervised at MS, it is writing only the part that requires emergency security fixes.

As long as any world-class outage affects first the USA, and the issue is solved before it reaches civilized countries, I don't care much...

Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you

Re: uh oh

So, 2-click that you'll do without thinking further?

Re: Vim

yes, EDLIN rules!

Re: This may not be all bad...

if it manages to take down all "AI" system with it, I'll be happy!

UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty

Re: Digital currency

politics as usual, then...

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

Re: Zebra

No cattle prod?

AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios

regexes?

here lies the crux of the issue, then...

If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?

for specific meanings of "unlimited", of course...

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

Re: Ah, the old "rm -rf *" command

if you had ever used it, you wouldn't have been in a position to remember anything...

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

Re: betes noires

the one depending on lubes?

Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree

Re: COMMUNISM!

Can we burn them at the stake soaked in Venezuelan oil?

Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates

Re: Misleading title

You are pushing everything by SCCM and fully blocking the Store?

Even the updates to built-in applications like Notepad AI?

Re: Unexpected power outage

The person in charge of power outages didn't go the full process to have it approved by 4 levels of executives as defined in Itil v9, hence the "unexpected"...

SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites

Re: I see the problem.

Can a Kessler event be classified as schumpetarian?

Re: Flying junk

And lot of entries for "Who, me" or "On call"

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

Re: NoWay

Yes, the human standard was only 1 new problem after the previous one was fixed.

Re: Hai A1 quailaitai.

This is why vibe coding is the best, it is without peer.

Re: OR

It is more like a "back to root", where if you want to do anything, you need to use the command-line and scripts (so, PowerShell)...

Not that I'd complain much, I started using computers 47 years ago, so I am feeling younger by the day.

Now, I just have to get rid of the graphical interface, and I'll be happy at work.

(at home I have already Linux, Windowz, macOS, Android, iPhone/iPad OS, and I forget a few others)

US TikTok service restored after cloud 'that doesn't go down' went down

Re: Where in the world?

They should have called it "Winter Storm of America", of course!

Sword of Damocles hangs over UK military’s Ajax as minister says back it or scrap it

Re: Send it to Ukraine

The secret technology is the British Tea Kettle (tm), vastly superior to the Russian or Ukrainian samovar

Re: Send it to Ukraine

If Xi keeps firing his top generals, it will end like the first Winter war...

Re: Putting lipstick on a pig

Remove the built-in tea kettle? Never!

Does the "no modification to Japanese design" forbids to translate signage from Japanese to Australian ?

'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour

Re: Sounds awful

This is a bug that will be solved in the next release.

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds

Re: An extension of the state

And then you have Trump, and big tech companies pay him instead of being paid...

Microsoft veteran explains the one weird trick that made Windows 95 restart faster

Keyboard not detected, press F1 to continue

Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive

If the issue is limited to Win11 23H2...

... then it is not an issue, since it is out of support.

Avoid all 2nd Tuesday of a month!

And the following Wednesday too!

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads

The only proper method to deal with it...

... is to indeed make a bot for searching illegal ads promoted through Meta's systems, and then reporting them through the simple method of fining Meta $1B per ad found, running the search every hour.

Any lawyer objection will be met by sending some SAS to nail the objector to the wall of its office.

Microsoft Intune changes to start biting unprepared admins

Re: It has some serious issues.

This means there is a shadow network, most likely on WhatsApp (Signal if you are lucky) that is completely unmanaged, if they rely on BYOD.

Like the one at the US Department of Defense, sorry War, using Signal?

Re: Intune

That would explain then the issues encountered when deploying non-MS Store application on iOS and Android...

Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on

Re: Which is worse?

All the surplus money will soon be sent to Donny's coffer...

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere

CSV file format?

Which one?

The one always using a comma or the MS one that will decide the separator based on your linguistic settings?

Re: Engineered to last

Is he related to Johnny?

Re: vi/emacs

Just to check, what is the exact version you are using?

We need to remove unorthodoxy before it spreads further!

Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age

Re: US has just denied visa to Breton because his stance on US "big tech"

They are not short-sighted, their horizon is the next quarterly financial report...

DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in

Re: Why not

The correct solution is to require a national identity card to make a booking!

Re: It's been a disgrace for years

Are you saying that in order make a booking to pass the exam to get your driving licence you need to register using your driving licence??????

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

Re: Accountants

They don’t take 7.5 million years though.

Indeed, it took about 14 billion years to get an AI that could answer the question.