Posts by Ashto5

HMRC's Making Tax Digital scheme also made tax more expensive – by £300M

HMRC - His Majesties Royal Cluster****

Scary service

Making Tax Difficult

Enough said

‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix

UK could build its own infrastructure cloud based

We could do it in a year, if the finance was made available.

The skills in the UK are always under estimated.

Gov.uk cough up the money and get the civil servants out of the way and boom we would have it in a year.

Document the steps

Document the steps you took to move away in a nice simple blog.

Copy in the account manager.

UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans

UK has the ability to build its own

Just for godsake get the civil service out of the picture.

Ukraine built a force to hold back Putin

The US stopped them winning by saying they could not use the techie weapons to hit Russian forces like airbases

We can make weapons of mass destruction just as well as the rest

Trident ?? Didn’t it massively fail launch last time they tried ?

Better off owning it

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

LOTR

One fix to rule them all

One fix to bind them

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

HMG should already be doing this

The agreement where US companies promise with sugar on top to move our data to the US and really really really promise not to look at it.

Whoever signed that should hang their heads in shame.

EU data should be in the EU exclude Hungary

UK data should be in the UK

It really is that simple

Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough

Great fubar

It will be a great fubar, best fubar ever

No one has ever seen a fubar this awesome

D.Trump

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

Copilock

Is it only me that when I see the copilot logo

I see a vampire

Anyone else ?

GitHub supply chain attack spills secrets from 23,000 projects

Really ??

Someone never learn, a package is someone else’s code you are seriously putting your business at risk.

More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies

Awesome

These engineers were the real deal

Amazing work and I bet they sit there with a massive grin on their faces.

Well done guys

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

Don’t do it yet

Give it 2 or 3 years let the maelstrom settle then build the right thing the gov needs not business

The gov is not there to build these things but it does require some usage

Waste of money

Total waste

Enough said

DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project

FFS how many times

Councils do the same thing they have legal obligations .

One f ing system to rule them all.

Why are these donkeys still trying to run IT dept and development depts ?

So much money is spaffed up the wall by these people it should be looked at in a criminal court

Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen

Windows forms programming

Those were the days.

Drag and drop, event driven compiled and deployed .exe

Now I need constant access to NPM to keep all the additional stuff upto date and they still don’t perform as fast as those early RAD languages

I thought we would be on the same level now with web Development but alas we seem to have gone backwards

VB & Delphi giants in the history of computing

Microsoft 365 price rises are coming – pay up or opt out (if you can find the button)

Bing has it built in

I use bing when querying coding issues and frankly it has hit the target nearly every time.

It is getting better as well, I know no one on here wants to hear that but hey ho.

Thanks for the tip on not installing copilot with 365 I will be doing this.

Copilot is built into bing so why pay for it it’s free ?

London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds

Double payments

So the UK energy user will have to pay extra to fund these connections and maintenance and then the UK consumer will have to pay for the electricity plus the profits of the data center.

Wow business just cannot lose can it, if it goes pear shaped then the UK tax payer has to step in and pay.

Sort of a heads we win, tails you lose and oh by the way we are keeping the coin and leave your coat here as well before you leave.

White House asks millions of govt workers if they would be so kind as to fork right off

Dross left behind

Those that can will take the offer and then get another job, so double pay for a few months.

Those that cannot will stay and so the US gov will have more incompetent people than before

Winning !!!

Perhaps Mr T can redefine the word ?

Trump's tariff threats could bump PC prices by almost half

Seriously who cares

I mean if prices go up then people have a choice

Now let’s add some tariffs to social media

Then the fun would begin

America right now is propped up by its Tech companies once the world moves away then the American empire will collapse

Windows 11 24H2 rolls out to more devices – with a growing list of known issues

Fail fast

Not to sure this should apply to the machines OS

But hey o don’t run a mega corp

AI PCs: 'Something will have to give in 2025, and I think it's pricing'

HP elite book

£295 on eBay add the £60 for the additional memory up to 32gb

No other upgrade required for the next 10 years

AI I just use bing it does what I ask no charge

Now’s your chance to try Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall ... maybe

Gave me a chill when I first read about it

And my opinion has not changed

Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11

Never had a problem

In all the years since win 3.1 I have never had a problem withy he OS

It has always been some driver from a 3rd party

Not buying a new pc still run my old one no problemo

Sorry MS

The hunt is on for the scum who stole Britain's largest inflatable planetarium

Aliens

Oh snap!!

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Wow

How long before the price tag is long enough to wrap around the world

Ford CEO admits he drives a Chinese electric vehicle and doesn't want to give it up

Skunk

In the UK that is a strong version of cannabis

Perhaps ford are loving into the drug world coming off the fossil fuel drug

Tesla FSD faces yet another probe after fatal low-visibility crash

Camera only is bad ?

But we let millions of poorly sighted people drive on the roads every day

The question is

Are the cars causing more accidents than the human equivalents

That is where we need to be going

UK government's bank data sharing plan slammed as 'financial snoopers' charter'

Stupid proposal

If you were to commit benefit fraud

You certainly would not be paying your wage / I’ll gotten gains in to the bank

That would create an audit trail with red flags everywhere

Just go to a monied area of the UK go into Starbucks or Costa and watch who pays with card and who uses cash

The wealthy use cash as it is untraceable

NHS drops another billion on tech in the hope of finally going digital

NHS is massive

To try and get a single solution you get Birmingham council

Now add liability clauses and penalties and suddenly you get these suppliers running for the hills

We have masses of talent and we could spin up amazing teams in the UK to deliver this under the control of some exceptional managers

BUT

We will use the same failed suppliers yet again

Dell's all-in bet on AI pays off in latest earnings

Profit made

They already have raked in a small fortune

If it down turns they won’t really be that bothered

Just sack the grunts and pay the boss man more

Everyone’s happy

The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty

Age of Ultron

Scans the web

Analyses the data

Decides to kill of humanity

99% of the web is shockingly bad

Train anything on that and you get what you asked for

AI will take your job, only if your a middle manger who slings crap

Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain

It will get better

Never pick up software before service pack 2 is out

It’s an old adage but it is true

Management FOMO

Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project

Weird

I have been delivering software that meets the needs of the end user for the last 40+ years for at least since the mid 90’s I have been “agile”

Never missed a deadline , never failed to deliver

Agile is a mindset that just means get the job done

I personally go through the ceremonies of the client BUT then talk direct to the 3 amigos and work out exactly how we support each other and deliver

I love it

I could NEVER go back to the old waterfall techniques

Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta

About time

The dev world has needed this for an age.

Personally I want VS2022 to run on it & SSMS.

I would happily pay for the OS *if* it could run those

Simple connection to a monitor / tv

Laptops are a pain

For the record: You just ordered me to cause a very expensive outage

Missed a chance

He should have stood there and as the complaints / losses mounted

Asked how much money are you losing an hour right now ?

I will fix the issue for exactly 1 hours losses

The clock is ticking your move

And smugly smiled at Mr F-Bomb

Levi's and more affected in pants-dropping week of data breaches

Damn

All they had to do was return a http 501 status

China and the EU agree to consultations over EV anti-subsidy investigation

It’s the money stupid

With Germany and France producing the most cars in the EU at crazy prices

It is not surprising that the EU are whacking on tariffs

The cheapest EV that supports a family cost nearly £20k in the UK

A better car from China cost £10k

Same components bigger profit margin

It is just about the money

China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy

Dont Panic the Brits have you covered

Already the UK has issued pointy sticks to its armed forces.

These are multi purpose

1. Jab someone unpleasantly

2. Throw and shout “Fetch” to deal with these “dog of war”

3. We are developing robo catz these canines will chase them

4. Strongly worded letter as a weapon of last resort

Don’t panic and carry on

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout

Legal Liability

That would focus minds.

From the most basic grunt to the CEO they are all held financially responsible.

Snatch back pensions / bonus etc and if that does not cover it then you go after their assets homes / car / clothes off their backs.

Pretty sure they would be reading the small print then.

Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell

Add on ?

Sniper rifle

Assault rife

Grenade launcher

Anti tank rockets

These babies can do it all

What does it run on do we need more EV chargers ?

Let’s get this thing out there

Didn’t think of that

Man I did not think of that, the military will not want them unless the can run on bio diesel ?

Don't rent out that container ship yet: CIOs and biz buyers view AI PCs with some caution

Hype

Hype about hype

To try and push pc sales

Ponzi scheme

Zilog to end standalone sales of the legendary Z80 CPU

Amazing food tech just lasts

Look at the voyagers

Good engineered tech just does the job

Nice to be reminded of these great things

Now where is my phone as it needs to know where I am at all times and track my browsing

Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China

How will China survive?

They won’t ever like buy chips from another country that has Intel / Amd inside

They won’t pull it apart and follow the structures.

They won’t imitate and innovate.

Nope they are China they can only copy

USoA the 1980’s called and asked if this is a quick visit or if you are planning to stay awhile ?

China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027

Napoleon

Napoleon was quoted as saying

“Let China sleep for when it awakes the whole world will shake”

USA vs China

Gotta buy in a lot of popcorn for this match

75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively

Let’s hope it improves

So far I have had to rewrite much of what was offered by these tools.

They will get better I am sure but honestly right now I am not worried.

No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her

USA Free Market

The USA fought a war to be free from UK monarchy rule

They then instigated a whole system to LOCK its people down and install a new monarchy of money.

But tech are just the latest overlords and the final beauty is that the government is now $32 to in debt which can never be repaid.

As the USA collapses those money people will just head elsewhere.

Americans get your house in order get your country back.

It has taken a women from the EU to start the ball rolling.

Farewell .NET 7, support ends in May – we hardly knew you

Quick Turn Around

The world of.net moves at a very quick pace.

If anything it will make developers etc think about long term solutions.

All of my .net7 just compiled happily under .net8 much as I expected.

Stay on top and limit tech debt.

THAT is the job.

IAB Europe's ad consent popups pose privacy problem

Aliens

Best nuke it from space, it’s the only safe way

IBM lifts lid on latest bid to halt mainframe skill slips

Read between the lines

Mainframes are still very much required

BUT WE DONT WANT TO PAY REAL WAGES AS IT CUTS OUR PROFITS

So sack the expert and employee the newbie

Sums up IT in general