Posts by LateAgain

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems

I asked copilot

"When will the UK azure systems reach capacity?"

And most of the reply came from the register, here. This story .

Cool.

Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits

That really sounds like it could be a quote from "The Producers" :-)

When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

Re: I bet some people

Now that sounds like a feature request.

Customised error message

If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue

Just get the insurance AI to cover you

Once the insurance company has agreed then they are the one's you quote as saying it's "all good"

NHS staff resist using Palantir software

"ideologically motivated,"

Isn't that pretty much the definition of having ethical concerns ?

Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care

Sorry - SQL IS the specification

So why on earth

"The group also claimed MySQL lacks features that should be standard in a modern database, including vector search, which is often used to support AI applications."

Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI

You are assuming that they use AI themselves.

I think they have a secretary for that.

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

Undo is usually control z.

Just saying you might want to remember that.

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

When the first AI "agent" hits 18 the world is going to be in trouble.

Assuming they didn't just ignore it, like any other child.

Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

Can we please have a *ing stable version

There's a "canary" version for anyone who actually wants the latest greatest release.

Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage'

Re: Microsoft support was not helpful.

Microsoft support have NO idea why any email is blocked.

The "reputation" database is someone else's department.

It was a mystery before.

Now it's probably all AI so no-one will know what did what.

Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'

I asked an AI search engine

"how can i remove copilot from windows 11"

And right at the end, in italics, is

"Note: Microsoft frequently updates Windows, so Copilot might reappear, requiring these steps to be repeated, or the use of specific removal scripts."

Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI

Re: So instead of contributing code to make adapters work...

Interesting idea.

I'm sure that it will happen eventually.

Open source project where what you feed into the AI is the open bit.

Re: Testing

It passed the test suite.

Then again I'm sure that Windows 11 updates also something.

Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions

Re: Why does this need AI?

Actually they already use speech to text according to the quote below.

The AI won't be for replacing that. So what is it for? Perhaps it's going to listen and compare with the verdict so the actual judgement stuff can be "simplified" ?

Court reporters spend most of their working hours in, (yep, you guessed it), court. They attend court sessions and need to listen carefully to everything that’s said. Their main role now is to supervise the recording made by technology but, as we all may have experienced, technology isn’t always reliable. Therefore they need to read the transcripts through to correct and edit any mistakes and produce a final copy after the court session. This amounts to an overall responsibility of ensuring that records exist and can be easily read and understood in the manner in which it was originally spoken.

- from https://www.allaboutlaw.co.uk/school-leaver-law-careers/becoming-a-lawyer/how-to-become-a-court-reporter

Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook

There are edge cases for it's use :-)

UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints

Re: Guide to redaction

And if the "secret" bits and in pencil.

Rubbing it out and making several photocopies will show different bits on each copy.

Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase

Last time I tried I had to tick a box on a webpage

I assume marketing wanted stats.

So any automated installation has to pull from your pre download copy.

Did oracle not notice the whole change to automatic testing, rapid development and many other buz words ?

VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files

Am I being naive ?

Surely if you actually remove old snap versions of something it actually deletes the storage ?

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

Re: Gods

Sound's like:

Answer by Fredric Brown, 1954

Personally I prefer the version by Asimov - The Last Question

Cyberattack on Poland's power grid could have turned deadly in winter cold

Re: It's 2026 ...

Don't be silly.

SCADA stuff can't get on the internet.

It's connected to a secure IoT gateway device, and that goes on the internet !

Sat Nad declares Windows 11 has a billion users – just don't bother asking for details

Re: We have a billion users...

there's a definition problem here.

The AIs running on a PC are not "users".

UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids

Is there a "most stupid government" contest running?

This generation of children broke through the over 18 age verification without even needing a VPN.

You seriously expect a over 16 rule to actually work ?

We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities

Well that's not going to work

Everybody knows you can have only one active Stargate per planet.

AI framework flaws put enterprise clouds at risk of takeover

There was actually a rule back in the day

"if you wanted it to be secure, then why did you put it on the internet?"

Dead batteries cough up lithium after a bath in CO₂ and water, boffins say

Re: lithium metal

Ah those were the days.

School chemistry labs had real chemicals.

Far too dangerous now.

Windows 11, not AI, kick-started the PC upgrade cycle

I noticed that M$ actually DO NOT support USB attached TPM modules.

Plan a gone.

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement

"the AI tools didn't learn."

Strangely in the terminator story where the terminator DID learn, it was because Connor got to the AI chip and flipped off the write protect.

(That bit was in the book but not the film)

England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion

Re: Poor service from providers

Flash back to the "life in the UK" test.

Outsourced back then, and they fulfilled the spec.

The spec which only specified the one browser. Guess what it looked like in anything apart from IE.

And guess how it coped with a proxy.

Re: Waste of time and money?

Punched cards. That's the way to go.

Re: Waste of time and money?

...do wonders for...

What was that again?

Eleven years after Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 server biz, profits are still elusive

Just keep making thinkpads

Old style. With connectors.

And sc*** the AI. I don't want my own machine spying on me.

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

Re: SPOF

Tell the Board it was their f'ing idea. Live with it.

ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

Is somebody missing the point ?

Permission is pointless.

If an AI can solve the captcha then it's a useless test.

Use it or lose it: AI may cause you to forget some skills

Flashback - NetWare

This was a frequent problem back when I ran NetWare servers.

There were so few problems that when one happened you could no longer remember what to do.

(Windows admins never had to deal with this)

'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress

Re: There is only one thing to be said to such manglers .....

and, to be honest, the librarian is usually the smartest one in the room.

UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs

Is this the copilot app that used to be known as "office" ??

Ukraine's techies a 'pillar of support' for national economy after Russian invasion

Didn't it used to be:

Darc (derestricted access route connection)

Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

Re: Don't forget Outlook Express.

The last version of lookout that I counted as an actual email client !

ReactOS emits release 0.4.15 – its first since 2021

Include network drivers for VMs please

Every time I've had a go it's been as a VM.

Lot's of people would test it out then. If only to see if it can run that one program that needs Windows.

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

Microsoft have had quantum computers for decades

As in: will it come back after this update reboot?

Schrödinger predated home computing that's why he used a cat in the thought experiment.

Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months

Not defending anyone but...

If the "Oracle Project sub-committee" only meets yearly then 10 months is really quite good :-)

Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

Let's just ignore the times when msrtc doesn't work

Been there.

The login defaults are different.

Certainly with trying RDP to azure connected machines mstsc didn't work and " Microsoft Remote Desktop" did.

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

What world do our politicians live in?

Tired techie botched preventative maintenance he soon learned wasn't needed

Repeat after me: NEVER break stuff on a Friday

Especially if it seems like "a good idea at the time"

Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact 'mitigated'

Re: Hardly a surprise

Fixing anything on a Friday is just asking for a problem.

But that only really applies to IT support.

Catch Java 22, available from Oracle for a limited time

Jython :-)

Write it in python. Compile it to Java byte code.

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

Premature posting?

Surely the "coffee keeps fuel cells going" should be for April fools?

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

Re: Total confusion

Windows Mail was, last I looked, treated as an active sync device.

So no old email. Forget keeping it all on your PC.

Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications

Re: That would be easy to eliminate

But then they wouldn't have all that lovely food for the Big Data machine