Posts by Korev

Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'

Re: R

When I used to do a lot of R, I realised I was basically a HadleyTidyverse programmer as "Core R" was nowhere near as useful.

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch

> Once more into the, er, breach?

Superb by line -->

Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice

Re: A case of oops rather than UPS

That was a powerful joke

'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident

> The Reply-All email came from a lowly consultant, who was let go for his criticism of the exec who sent the mail.

Looks like the Exec couldn't handle the Fax

Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records

Exactly, as their pension services wing was impacted, a lot of people would have been affected through no fault of their own.

EU biometric border system launch hits inevitable teething problems

Re: Oh woe is me!

Don't forget that the EU is a union of 27 different countries, each of which chooses how and when to implement new systems like this. I suspect that it will go well in small tech-savvy places like Estonia, and will be a complete fiasco in others like France and Greece.

I recently travelled from Paris to London via Eurostar. Whilst leaving Paris, I showed my permanent Swiss residency card to the French border control officer and she (incorrectly) told me the Swiss ID wasn't valid there before stamping my passport. If the new fangled gates "know" the rules better than their staff then that's a good thing.

Re: suffers teeting problems

Superb -->

Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

Re: C'mon this could be fun...

This is Shergar to be good fun

Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb

Re: BOSE

What's in a Naim?

Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again

They should use MongoDB because it's Windscale

Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco

Re: Salesforce has to pay for “hundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers”

Fair Cop Guv

Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers

Re: Oh my days

Up until earlier this year the communal washing machine and tumble drier in this block of flats ran off 20 rappen coins in a meter like that. It was 100% reliable.

Our landlord replaced it with a card-based system that seems to die often and often won't read the cards...

Fujitsu pumps £280M into UK arm to keep lights on after Horizon scandal

Re: "Fujitsu pumps £280M into UK arm to keep lights on"

They probably doing AI

Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company

Looks like pulling the wrong network kit out cost him a packet

Re: Come on, peoples!

> And they should've, at the very least, documented it or have put it inside a basement far away with signs saying "Beware of the leopard".

That'd make it hard to spot

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

Re: Goodhart's law

I went onsite on Friday for no reason other than to be badged in. The rest of the team I'm working with all have ManFlu so were either off or working from home.

In the end I messaged a friend who works in the labs to have lunch so I could at least speak to one human at work!

UK techies' union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details

Re: Oh the irony ..

There's no need to be Po faced

Client defended engineer after oil baron-turned tech support entrepreneur lied about dodgy dealings

It was nice of you to Shell out for a pint

Maybe they needed to rig their financials

What the guy from oil and gas did was a bit crude

BOFH: Recover a database from five years ago? It's as easy as flicking a switch

> Still, we will probably have to set those clocks back...

Hopefully the BOFH won't get over-zealous and set the time and a half back

Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it

The same place had a bug report from a customer saying "If you see this then talk to 'Pete'".

The customer had a sense of humour and rang the switchboard and asked for him

I once worked somewhere that left the o out of a select count(*) statement - it somehow escaped testings and a customer found it...

ICE plans to scour Facebook, TikTok, X, and even defunct Google+ for illegal immigration leads

Re: Cue a new form of DOXING

I used to know someone in the UK who the animal rights people (incorrectly) decided did work on monkeys; they sent flyers to all his neighbours saying he was a paedophile and the end result was him having to move away...

Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast

Re: What a monstrous over-reaction!

I call Red Bull sh*t

UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home

Detective Constable Niall Thubron's key jamming earned him an entry on the College of Policing’s barred list of individuals barred from future employment in policing (subject to appeal).

Did he have Golden Handcuffs?

Their mistake was not arguing here with all the other Commentards, that way their keystrokes would have had many different keys.

Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads

Re: “There’s no opt out”

It's not too hard to avoid Facebook and Instagram; however, there's an assumption here that everybody uses Whatsapp and the people I know who don't use it miss out.

For example, all the cycling groups I'm in organise rides in WhatsApp, those who don't use it miss out.

Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks

Re: If the SKA is so sensitive...

They need to stop the pesky French from running their trains there too

Almost a Faraday Cage -->

Will they use a Mesh network?

US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew

Re: You can always rely on Trump for two things

Explains why he loves a TACO

Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory

> Raspberry Pi is no longer a Foundation - they are a profit making company that IPO'd last year.

What do you think they're Upton?

Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name

Re: GNU Avatar?

You've just reminded me that I've not heard a geek enthuse about Org-mode for a while. Is it still widely used?

Re: Share and Enjoy…

> Does Microsoft even have a complaints division

Now they like Linux, maybe /dev/null

Away from Oktoberfest, Munich's museums also serve science on tap

It's fantastic to see the return of the Geek's Guide, thank you

An Oktoberfest breakfast pint -->

Taliban impose tele-ban and take Afghanistan offline

Re: Rebranding exercise

He could really Prophet from this

Re: Rebranding exercise

Well someone Jahad to make that joke

Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe

Re: "horrified at the magnitude of risk I posed"

Sounds like they got Eggs Benedict on their face though...

Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find

Getting fired for that? That Tex the piss

US banking giant Citi pilots agentic AI with 5,000 staff

Re: Let's have a yabba-dabba-do time!

Love it!

SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC

Re: "a pair of European youths"

What about the people who don't know the difference between fewer and less?

Re: "a pair of European youths"

Lock them up in a Cell

Re: "a pair of European youths"

> Bring back the death penalty. The old punishments. I still have the manacles. I miss the screaming!

Ahh the SIMple punishments

Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil

Re: Weirdly ...

So you think it's at the top of the Hash table?

That's a Clanger

Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery

Re: Well Done

I wonder if they needed lemonaid after that

Nice try, sinners: Pope nixes idea of AI pontiff blessing netizens

Re: But

Is the Pope Catholic?

Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel

Re: Typical case of...

I won't hear a bad Word about them

I hope Val was able to Excel elsewhere

Workday U-turns on rehiring pledge as activist investors take $2B stake

This week, however, CEO Carl Eschenbach cast doubt on whether the company would rehire the number it cut in February.

They probably got as far as entering their CVs into Workday and got so fed up correcting it that they gave up