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Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching

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A friend ran a team in pharma production, she had a special mobile phone that was designed to not create sparks and was safe to use in environments with solvents. It made the old school Nokias look svelte!

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My first job in IT was in QA. The second product I worked on was the project from hell, but sales kept on pushing the unfinished and very unstable software. As a tester I knew how to make it crash very well, so sales had me design a demo that would actually complete that they could show to customers...

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A phoney story?

Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall

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Re: A concert hall in Uppsala

Swede should take a moment to appreciate that pun

Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager

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Re: Constant change is here to stay

You forgot the LaTex icon -->

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it

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Sounds like a Hughge mistake

Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working

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Exactly, firing people due to AI sounds better than firing lots of people to create the illusion of savings in the short term

Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions

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Re: Everything is a database if you hold it wrong.

I think he meant Excel

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job

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Re: $50 == (ish) £500 ... obviously this was calculated by an 'AI' !!!

The World's HR are now searching their organisations for "Anonymous Coward"

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Sounds like he got a cold, some would say Chile, welcome

UK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown

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Hexagons?

Why do they use hexagons and not say squares?

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Re: Note to one’s self

Cue many Frenchies angry with you for disparaging l'Hexagon

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Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era

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I don't care about the AI bollocks, can you just fix Confluence so if I enter two words into the search box I get results with both back

RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets

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Re: Cannon

>> Given the effective range of cannon fire (about 500m)

> That is a lot less than I expected!

And not forgetting that drone will probably be full of fuel and explosive

Investors are going nuclear to keep UK's AI datacenters fed

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Re: sorry, you got that wrong

> Reform is full of liars and hot air salesmen.

Can we use that hot air to drive a turbine ?

Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue

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Re: I miss numbers

And weren't the 100MHz chips called DX4s?

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Re: Buggritt

> That means I won't be ably to keep my EeePC901 up to date

I remember how they used to use the ridiculous picture of "EeePC girl" here all the time as a joke

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Shots fired – literally – over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis

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Re: Documents

You hit the target with that one

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online

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I fell out of love with Social Media when their prioritised "you may like" content over posts from my friends and family - the only reason why I joined them in the first place. The end result of this is that I deleted the apps and stopped going.

The only exception is LinkedIn which I loath because I more or less am compelled to use it as I'm looking for a new job as my current contract probably won't be extended.

PrismML debuts energy-sipping 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud

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Re: LLM Performance Measures

Still better than capacity being measured in GW ie how much damage to the planet their datacentre is doing

The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe

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They robbed the hot air

When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

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Not "Britishism", English!

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We should boot you off the board for that one

Netflix – yes, Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

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> Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi.

This Brit thought you were talking about something else...

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Gmail celebrates 22 years by finally letting users change their addresses

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Re: Still better than Apple

I managed it, my first was my old work email[0]. It took quite a few attempts to fully cleanse it...

[0] My first apple items were from my old work and we were told to use the work email.

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Before being cancelled once people have started to use it

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Re: off to the side

> Not as embarrassing as having the same name as, say, a BBC newsreader or a BBC Radio 1 DJ.

That's Scott funny

Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia’s kids social media ban

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Re: The real danger

When I said shoot I meant kick the ball at the goal, not fire at the keeper

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Re: The real danger

Sounds ballsy

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Re: If we banned calculus in schools …

Banning Calculus would have some limits though

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Re: The real danger

Can't we just get the kids into Aussie rules football so we never have to play them at real sports?

ServiceNow allegedly says salesman 'overachieved' and is not entitled to comp

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Re: ServiceNow have achieved the impossible

> They have made me feel sympathy for someone in sales.

SNOW joke

Memory-makers' shares are down. Some RAM prices have eased. Blaming Google is not a good idea

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Re: Not convinced

It might be like when the price of oil rises, the cost of petrol shoots up and then when the oil price drops petrol never seems to drop at the same rate...

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference

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"No, they're just rude to us and do nothing. They like to be left alone," the manager explained

Is one of them called Simon perchance?

And does the younger one have a poor complexion?

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

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All the stuff Ewen's company made, plus a network controller, ended up in a tower PC case. "I believe the CPU was a 486 DX2 66 MHz," he said.

I remember getting a DX2, I had people coming around to see it. Doom was seriously fast on that thing...

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"Oh, the noise was annoying me," replied one of the testing engineers. "So I opened the case and cut the wires."

I bet Ewen wasn't his greatest fan

Indian government probes CCTV espionage operation linked to Pakistan

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Re: What's wrong...

"I chose not to chose life, I chose something else"

Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech

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Re: "it was down-ranked"

I was about to make this exact point

Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city

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Because then they'd have to admit that open plan / hot desk hell holes weren't a great idea!

SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of AI-driven growth

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SAP would also change how it rewards employees, and interact with customers with a new focus on AI

Why would anyone believe anything about AI coming from SAP now? It's obvious that this will alter its staff's behaviour and not in a way that would always benefit the customer.

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

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Will Trump get the Mexicans to pay for a Firewall too

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> it'll take years to spool up the production capacity alone.

It'll cost a packet too

EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers

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Re: Big brother is watching and listening to your TV

If you have bought a "smart" TV in the past few years you will find that it is reporting back to the mothership on the programmes you watch, the content you stream and will use this information to "bring you relevant targeted adverts". Automatic Content Recognition [ACR] Viewing Information Services" [VIS] and voice recognition are enabled by default on Samsung TVs and you'll have to dig into the settings to disable these "features".

This is why my TV has never been plugged into my network.

The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope

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Re: 'Be scared' sells newspapers

But it was very obvious that something might happen. The RAF even deployed fighters to Akrotiri, but didn't appear to bother to put any anti-drone defences in...

We tested Intel's new chips for cash-strapped hardcore PC users and they're impressive

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The PC market is in the midst of an AI-fueled price crunch. Memory and storage can easily cost more than a CPU, and enthusiasts are having to make tough decisions on where to allocate their budgets.

And not forgetting the obscene cost of GPUs at the moment.

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When it comes to catastrophic space weather, the UK is holding a cocktail umbrella

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Re: Standard response

Just wondering if you live near RAF Akrotiri.

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Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo

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Re: The junior kept his job.

> Probably shouldn't have. Not so much for a foolish action but the outright disobedience of a clear instruction.

Yeah, the manager did well to keep a Lydia on it

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Re: Makes sense

well, both water and wires can have current

CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge

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Re: Problem Solving, the CERN way!

What are going Boson about?

Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor

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Re: Specificity

> Not everyone has a scale in their kitchen.

I don't know anyone who doesn't!