Posts by Ashto5

'Top three Balkans drug kingpins' arrested after cops crack their Sky ECC chats

Nationalise The Drugs

This will allow the farmers etc to continue to make a living and the governments to tax the sales.

Perhaps some of the big king pins would be able to use their skills to just sell them legally no more need for guns etc

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch flown to US for HPE fraud trial

Re: Negligence

But I did not say start a law suite did I ?

I just reread my post perhaps you could to ?

Negligence

Should the managers / execs from HP not be in court for criminal negligence ?

HP share holders lost money because of HP failure to do their purchasing properly.

The USA is just a country of lawyers trying to sue everyone and everything.

USA is a failing empire that is now just trying to grab as much money for its rich overlords and no longer cares about its citizens.

Shame

Python still has the strongest grip on developers

C#

That’s my 2p worth

I love it

Then it’s vanilla JavaScript

Have great day everyone

Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech

Total Sense

This makes total sense

Why would you not employ the people closest to the problem.

The consultant can just nip down to the beach and ask the boat people what they think of the new UI and the new feature to pre order boats and snacks for the trip

Google's AI chatbot Bard catches up to generating code

GIGO

When I ask for a page that will take in customer details and store them in a db with unit tests and db build scripts and that WORKS then I am screwed.

Otherwise IT consultant for hire to fix your AI output

Software Janitor

Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire

AI whatever

Seriously people AI will improve BUT it will take a person to untangle and debug the crap it produces at the beginning

When you try to hire a freelancer to write SQL and all you get is incorrect AI garbage

Gosh outsourcing just works

It is just so seemless

UK PM Sunak plans to allocate just £1bn to semiconductor industry

Yawn

How can these donkies still keep a straight face.

£50bn should be ring fences for critical projects and the money should be allocated by REAL SCIENTISTS get these turd polishers out of the way.

NASA tweaks Voyager 2's power supply to avoid another sensor shutdown

Amazing

Whenever I read about the team behind Voyager I & II I am just blown away with the amazing ness of those people.

Makes me look at my new shiny website and go “ what a pile of shit” will it make the end of the year.

CEO sorry after telling staff to 'leave pity city' over bonuses

Speaking the TRUTH

The company the CEO

They do not care about you

They care about themselves

Without the company YOU don’t have a wage never mind a bonus

Pity city is where you should start your job hunting

When you leave pity city it should be to a new job

Reminds me of the meme

Boss standing next to a Lamborghini says

“If you Work hard, next year I can get the upgrade”

Curiosity gets interplanetary software patch for better driving and more on Mars

Amazing

Every news item on the Mars rovers just smacks of quality people real engineers doing the job beautifully

Hats off to NASA

Elon Musk actually sits down and talks to 'government-funded media' the BBC

Passport was always checked

The delay is going out of the UK

We have always as to show our passports when leaving the uk

Delays are because the French have dropped the ball on purpose

Three quarters of UK tech pros are ready to leave their jobs

IR35 has destroyed the freelance market

Enough said

IBM demands $500,000 from boss after she jumps ship

Pay up

This is about bonuses

She has the money pay up get on with your life

Your making 7 figure money this is purely about ego

Pay up, move on live better life.

Tesla ordered to pay worker $3M-plus over racist treatment

Wow easy money

I feel sorry for anyone who goes through something like this but millions really ?

It does not seem right.

China aims to pair J-20 stealth fighter with 'loyal wingman' battle drone

Last paragraph is the best

RAF

Scrap a development because they want to focus on development.

Jeez

Hey Siri, use this ultrasound attack to disarm a smart-home system

Little voice in the back of your mind

That is fantastic piece of research now they just need to run their detection methodology over the 100 billion tictoks

Or

Switch the assistants off

In the battle between Microsoft and Google, LLM is the weapon too deadly to use

Generated by ChatGPT

“The answer is, accomplish the impossible: Congress needs to act on a bipartisan basis to establish regulation and oversight, because limiting research is the worst idea of all our options.”

This reads like it was generated with a glaring false / impossible proposition

“Congress needs to act on a bipartisan basis”

That is impossible so suggesting it merely locks the reader into the belief that something can be done.

So much new Tech just roll with it and adapt.

China sticks national security probe into America's Micron

Dept of the bleeding obvious

Wow really

British govt tech supplier Capita crippled by 'IT issue'

YES

Finally someone found a way to stop them

So you want to integrate OpenAI's bot. Here's how that worked for software security scanner Socket

Run before commit acceptance

Garbage in

Garbage out

Still holds true 50 years after it was coined

We had a package that only showed what it was really doing behind the scenes when the network went out and it started to report it could not reach the Russian server

It tried at random times but never more than once a day

Tricky little git

Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly

Never bought from an Ad

I cannot be the only person who has never bought from ad?

I am sure Google and FB must know this but they keep putting their rubbish in front of me

I use adblockers because of this

Alibaba to separate into six parts. Take that HP and IBM, with your puny two-way splits

Divide and conquer

Separates in to many headed hydra

There will be little chance to compete with it

UK seeks light-touch AI legislation as industry leaders call for LLM pause

Regulate ha ha ha

These donkeys couldn’t regulate themselves

What chance do they have with a program that can run anywhere in the cloud

Silly politicians

Try regulating the news paper FAILED

Try regulating social media FAILED

Have they cured crime NO

Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices

USA Justice

The best money can buy

Over 59% if the USA populous are lawyers.

Great Graph Database Debate: Abandoning the relational model is 'reinventing the wheel'

Small is beautiful

Small is beautiful and quick.

If the data is not needed TODAY then move it to an archive DB and let the good times roll.

Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites

American Taliban

Alive and doing well in many states in the USA.

Damn ….

'Brittle' Twitter suffers bad case of the Mondays: Links, pics, vids fail

Space X model

Seems that old Elon is treating Twitter like space X, test until failure then fix what needs to be fixed.

The build and test pipelines WILL be improved, this is just teething out the flaws.

Good luck to him.

Brittle

Well if your system is so BRITTLE

Perhaps you need to take it a little slower and fix the foundations.

To all the engineers who built this brittle structure, you should perhaps be a little embarrassed ?

It is not really the new guys fault, he bought a lame duck.

Should have left Twitter alone.

Outage-hit Twitter muddies violent speech policy

The screaming whah whah brigade

The screaming mob of all 12 people

Screaming at businesses to scare them off Twitter.

You can say anything on Twitter but maybe there should be away to hold someone responsible.

Still if the victim brigade continue to scream at advertisers then it will collapse.

New Feature

The new feature rolled out last week

Power down the servers when any hate speech text is detected.

Awesome feature.

Lawyers join forces to fight common enemy: The SEC and its probes into cyber-victims

USA Law

The best money can buy.

There are plenty of reasons why government tech is stuck in the Stone Age

Not the private sectors faults

If you are going to order something from the “private sector” it is usually a good thing to know what you are asking for.

Changing your mind half way through costs a lot, not doing your due diligence costs a lot, reusing the same useless bunch of wankers who charged you 3 times the original estimate

Well that falls squarely on the shoulders of the civil service.

You wanna save money then have a single version of local government systems you can then deploy a version for each council because they all do the same bloody thing.

Really?

Wow what have all those politicians in the intervening 40 years been doing?

From your post it sounds like Maggie nailed it and made all the MP’s superfluous.

WFH can get you 40% salary boost in UK and US tech jobs

How did these companies survive

With everyone tossing it off at home and not working how have these companies survived ?

OR

Is it managers trying to justify their jobs?

Twitter stiffed us on $2m bill, claim consultants in lawsuit

Is Twitter still a thing?

Has it not collapsed yet ?

Canadian owes bosses for 'time theft' after work-tracking app sinks tribunal bid

Thinking Time

I can often just walk away from my PC in order to clear my mind and that is when the solution to a problem will present itself.

How can you put something like that into a time sheet system, making a cup of tea allows your mind to relax.

Ex-GE engineer gets two years in prison after stealing turbine tech for China

2 Years ?

That does not seem like a real punishment it sounds like a green light to stealing.

Get caught do 2 years and a pat in the back from said government.

Get away with it and make millions and a pat in the back from said government.

It almost incentivises the action.

Cybercrooks are telling ChatGPT to create malicious code

All invention can be used for good or bad

People are the factor in all of this AI is neither good or bad.

If the AI can produce code that is truly usable rather than a broad outline then the security teams will have to step up.

So in a way a positive side from a negative.

Microsoft’s Nadella: Tech is in for a rough two years

50% Generated by AI

Hmm

Very dodgy figure.

I write code generators to solve some problems but I have never let AI do the code generation.

I think he maybe including the code lines given by a template when creating a new project.

I have not seen ANY AI created code, yes there is the little grey suggested code within VS but generally it is never what I need.

AI has its place but this constant push just reminds me of the VR hype.

Not worried for my day to day on this.

CES Worst in Show slams gummi gouging, money-wasting mugs, and other dubious kit

Literally flushing your money down the toilet

Lmfao

A device that tells you your toilet has piss in it :)

Gummies selling product don’t we have Herbal Life to take care of all of our vitamin issues

LOVED THIS ARTICLE

Microsoft said to be thinking of sinking $10m into self-driving truck startup

Goods will be delivered by Edge

All goods will be delivered by Edge and can be found in the downloads folder.

Double click fridge to see what virtual food you have.

Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data

Really?

I thought it would have been the default setting from day 1

As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave

Ocean warming

Cool that’s what the ocean. Weds right now a giant heater dropped in it.

MS may not have thought this through.

NASA may tap SpaceX to rescue ISS 'nauts in Soyuz leak

Is there a Twitter poll ?

Seriously we should have a Twitter poll

Should Elon use SpaceX to rescue astronauts ?

UP for yes

DOWN for no

Google, Mozilla to collaborate with Apple on fresh Webkit browser benchmark

Re: "Nobody intentionally builds a website that lags or stutters,"

When I design and build websites, I make the performance testing a top priority EVERY-TIME regardless of the “boss man” saying it is not necessary.

The result I can still go back and see some site still running the same code core.

Frameworks I try to avoid like the plague as you say a plague in all their houses.

Management of UK govt's £158b property estate held back by failed IT project

Splash the cash

MP’s and civil servants throw our money around like it’s snowing.

Define what you need to support for these properties

Name, address

Repairs based on a defined list e.g roof, damp, wood rot

Then have a list of accepted contractors to do repairs then offer a simple bidding platform for the work

Each day the property manager inputs work required, take away their ability to organise the work payment without going through the new system

Job done

Re: Staffing problems.

Or even IR35

FTX CTO and Alameda Research CEO admit fraud, pair 'cooperating' with Feds

Popcorn shortages

Popcorn shortages

We need to invest in popcorn ASAP

Corn will be like the new money that doesn’t require a bank

VC virtual corn could be the way forward anyone know somebody with time in their hands that could help build an exchange?