* Posts by Korev

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UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps

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> Please just release the docs, accept the ministerial resignation

They don't even need to do that, the current Government can just point fingers at the old lot

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

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Re: Downvote - really?

That's the cream of the crop

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Sounds like some light entertainment

Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies

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UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'

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Big Brother

And what about the recordings of the people the wearer captures? Surely they have the right not to have their data Zucked up into Meta

MoJ puts Prisoner Telephony Service replacement on hold yet again

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A shame that BT spun off Cellnet

AWS-hosted tech providers urge Middle East customers to fail over now

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The connected device platform EMQX, which ferries data from vehicle sensors to the manufacturer and customers, said its services in the region were interrupted by the outage as well. EMQX said it had a successful failover from the two availability zones that were hit to one that was still operational.

Credit where credit is due - it sounds like they have (had?) a well-architected system

Have an alcohol-free beer

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise

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WTF?

8GB - good luck!

Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US

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Re: Still to come....

I wonder what the egress charges are for influencers leaving Dubai

Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town

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Because you want your end users' browsers to view the map

AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions

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Re: Isnt this a little weird`

> [2] Even having two geographically (~100km) separated DCs may not be enough, because they're aligned north-south in tornado ally: it would just take one larger storm system...

As two AZs have been impacted[0] I'm surprised that the Iranians and their friends aren't going for the 3rd...

[0] Pun intended

Iran all but vanishes from the global internet amid US-Israel strikes

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Re: Another war for oil

> They'll be parachuting the 'crown prince' soon. He will be a good little dictator.

Isn't he just "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor" these days?

Scammers try to SIM-swap Dubai citizens hours after Iranian missile strikes

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Headmaster

> Iran responded by attacking US military bases, as well as firing missiles at other targets, including a UK Royal Air Force Station in Cyprus, and various sites in Dubai.

FTFY

Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here

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Re: Data integrity my behind!

Luckily there will be lots of cat videos to store

Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers

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Put a sock in it!

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

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I had to rearrange the cables for my gaming PC as I kept hitting the switch on the surge protector with my feet

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> That was not an easy feat because the server was a meter to the left of his chair.

Well maybe they should put a coin or two in the meter and the server would have stayed up. Or do you mean metre?

Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix

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No Medway!

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They should be Maidstone to give him one

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Re: HSE calculations were correct to within a few meters

That was a butaneable pun

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It sounds like Kent was pleased it was all Dover

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I'm pleased that Kent could escape and get back to his Folkstone

BOFH: Nobody would be stupid enough to go live with the mirror system, surely

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IT Angle

Now the Boss knows too much, will he have to be defenestrated too?

ServiceNow boasts its AI bot is resolving 90% of its own help desk tickets

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Terminator

The place I've worked which had the best service desk, was one that rated on customer satisfaction. It seems like this would be a much much better target than time to closure for this.

Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump

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Re: They all fall down

In the current market, if he farts then he'd still get 500 people applying...

AI models suck slightly less at math than they did last year

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They Orca do better

Euro allies aiming to rapidly build low-cost air defense weapons

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Re: Which Part Of "low cost" Don't I Understand??

Probably RAF politics: F35As can't ever be flown off a carrier, so their arch enemy can't use them on the carriers.

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What no AI?

I bet SAM Altman would be good at this stuff

West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot's imaginary football match

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Hang on, can't we asked ChatGPT?

Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs

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Did they use NorkVPN?

Palantir spent $25M on CEO flights so Alex Karp could do all the talking

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Re: Carbon Footprint

And meanwhile us plebs will continue removing the plastic bits from envelopes for recycling...

Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos

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Re: Hazing = abuse

I once did fire training where the guy giving the talk decided it was appropriate to show a video of the Bradford Football disaster. He kept on pointing out that a lot of people not in the immediate vicinity didn't bother to move and it didn't end well for them and as such you should get out ASAP.

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A shame they weren't using BSD, it has its own Jails

Europe's 5G Standalone stall risks falling behind US, Asia

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Re: Trump 1 - Europe 0…

"Bournemouth fruit"

A bit like Berry St Edmunds?

Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news

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> The Register reviewed a number of the records available online via a JSON file

Shouldn't the data have been stored in Feather files?

Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy

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Re: Time for this crazy AI hype to end?

Maybe they'd prefer GBeebies

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

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Re: dd

> When I used to name old HDDs, I always used to unplug the new discs and boot from a CD

Nuke, not name. At least I got the icon in the post right...

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That's Spar for the course these days...

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I'm afraid someone has already Somerfielded Safeway...

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Never Onestop the puns

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I'm pleased Tom Waitrose to the occasion

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Re: dd

When I used to name old HDDs, I always used to unplug the new discs and boot from a CD

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Ahhhh

website_backup.tar.gz

website_backup_old.tar.gz

website-backup_old2.tar.gz

website_backup4.tar.bz

website_backup4_dave.tar.bz

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Tom Asda be lucky it came up again so quickly

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

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WTF?

"He would tell anyone who listened that the next time he saw me, he would put a bullet in my face," Henry told On Call.

Henry felt this colleague was capable of violence, so he did not take the matter lightly.

Thankfully, soon after the suspension ended, his antagonist left the business and although the experience rattled Henry, he had no reason to ponder it for years after.

"Left the business" implies there was an element of choice about it. Why wasn't he fired and the matter reported to the Police?

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

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Re: The Cloud is just someone else's computer

I always loved his utterly ridiculous hardware purchases

I used to like PCPro, I cancelled my sub after the delivery charges to Switzerland got stupid though.

Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

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Maybe the domestic pigs die of boardom

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Re: Nuclear Powered Bacon!

That's a bit of a rasher statement Dr Freeman

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Muntjac deer are an invasive species in the UK, there's a very tasty way of dealing with the problem...

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Re: Nuclear Powered Bacon!

Do you rind?